Tomorrow, 9AM PST, for our regular meeting for the OpenScope community project on predictive processing, we will discuss an update to our Figure 2 on the publication on arXiv. Meeting link and agenda : allenneuraldynamics.github.io/openscope-co...
Open to all!
LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!!
Mission: record hippocampal place cells in zero gravity
Crew: 3 rats with electrode arrays
Vehicle: Space Shuttle Columbia
Status: data now publicly available on DANDI, 28 years later
The ratstronauts' mission is finally complete. 🐀🚀 h/t NASA
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"Private money cannot replace public funding of science"
Thank you @naomioreskes.bsky.social
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Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers.
The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇
🎥 A recording of the talk is available now at www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtaf...
Join us for next week's entry in the NITMB Seminar Series with Venkatesh Gopal, Professor and Chair of the Department of Physics at Elmhurst University, on Friday, March 6th!
Mine in this week’s @newyorker.com
In a particularly plainspoken manner, the Epstein files highlight issues that women in academe have mostly discussed in whisper networks: Who is unsafe to be alone with? Which advisers are to be avoided? Whose connections may come with a price?
A Yale University computer-science professor, who once encouraged Epsteinto hire a “v small goodlooking blonde” undergraduate, described the exchange as wholly unremarkable. “This is how men behave,” David Gelernter, the professor, wrote in an email this month to a Yale dean
Through it all, Epstein’s favored professors reinforced what many women in academe see as a calcified, hierarchical network of mostly men, whose casual sexism, entitlement, and clubbiness have effectively established a ruling class of academics.
Still hyping my own new work :)
The boys’ club: How Epstein’s influence shaped the exclusion of women in STEM ctmirror.org/2026/02/23/t...
This Week in The Journal #JNeurosci | Neuron Ensembles May Promote Thalamocortical Activity; Sleep Supports Generalizing Information from Experiences
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/46/8/etwij4682026
Our new paper is now out showing how time perception in animals is linked to their ecology. Using data from 237 species we show temporal perception is faster in species that fly and pursuit predators www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌐
Its official! Excited to share this and grateful to the amazing team that came together to see this project through!
NYU's Center for Neural Science is seeking a faculty candidate that would be jointly appointed with our Tandon School of Engineering. We are looking for post-doc applicants with neuroengineering or computational backgrounds.
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the more things change the more they stay the same
new paper from me :)
New preprint out 🎉
What happens to the hippocampal “place code” when an animal is actively engaged in a task?
The answer surprised us (and might surprise you too!).
Let's dive in ⬇️
Link:
"Hippocampal trace coding dominates and disrupts place coding" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Also I def missed this preprint— I did a very thorough search on the use of the metric prior to using it but then once my paper was underway I was definitely no longer checking! Would have definitely cited this if I had known!
Oo thanks!! Adding to my list
But yes calcium imaging was def begging for a method like morans i! Out of curiosity where did you run into it? I found it in a geography textbook lol
Haha yeah tbh i posted the preprint before it was under review bc i had such a hard time getting it not desk rejected lolol. Journals alternated between the methodology is too novel and this study isn’t novel because the clustering is “minor” not like visual cortex or something.
I find this a little funny actually because a number of places I submitted it said the technique was too novel-- if I had known about your manuscript after the first few submissions I could have pointed at it to say actually, it's established :)
ah fair, I did miss the use of it in this paper although I had already submitted my moran's i manuscript (albeit not where it eventually got published) by the time this one came out :) so I guess we introduced in parallel!
Join us on Friday, February 27th for the next entry in the NITMB Seminar Series with Lee E. Miller, Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience at Northwestern University, on 'Development of a universal, biomimetic Brain-Computer Interface: Are we decoding from a tortured manifold?'
what conferences are folks looking forward to this summer/fall? I'm going to iNav but potentially interested in adding one more since I'm sadly skipping cosyne this year :(
I would love to have discussed this more but was going for a compact manuscript-- perhaps in edits/revisions :)
Yes, I agree. But a lot of folks have also said that the type of coding you mention is some type of transformed (or not) space code (see for ex this review by o'keefe: journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.... ). I obv don't agree, but it is a predominant view in the field.
Yes, I think this is really a semantic question -- the main point is can you override the place code with something else? and the answer is yes. that's true whether we want to define the conditioned response or exploring as a task (or not) :)
