Bence Ölveczky

Great opportunity!

RIP to one of the all-time greats... Jack DeJohnette has passed away at age 83. The legendary drummer is pictured here at the September 24, 1965 recording session for Jackie McLean's "Jacknife," which marked his first appearance on a Blue Note record.

Very cool. Congrats!

A true Hero.

The @nytimes has been climbing this mountain for a while...congrats on getting there, everyone.

Breaking Silence, Former University President Claudine Gay Blasts Harvard’s ‘Compliance’ With White House Demands

"'The number of $500 million is completely arbitrary and it will solve nothing,' [Claudine] Gay said. 'There is no justification.'"

SAY IT AGAIN DEAN GAY. #Harvard

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Human intelligence is overrated and not a useful yardstick for AI - a polemic. markusmeister.com/2025/09/15/w...

Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

Kill the poor? Wow. This is getting really dark really fast.

In April, the AAUP & our Harvard chapter sued the Trump admin for demanding that Harvard censor speech & restructure core operations or else face $8.7 billion in funding cuts.

We hope this decision clarifies to Harvard’s administration that bargaining w/ tyrannical authoritarians is unacceptable.

Thanks Niko for spearheading this!!

We won!!

“Defendants used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities … Their actions have jeopardized decades of research and the welfare of all those who could stand to benefit from that research.”

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

This is great, Daniel!

..democracy often erodes slowly at first... But with each concession, autocrats become bolder, defenses grow weaker, and reversal becomes harder. Responses that, early on, can feel pragmatic—waiting it out, remaining silent, cutting a deal—only embolden autocrats, leading to the demise of democracy.

A randomized trial of for eye care by ophthalmologists with A.I. vs ophthalmologists without A.I. demonstrated much higher accuracy in diagnosis (92 vs 74%) and many other improved outcomes @NatureMedicine
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Differential kinematic coding in sensorimotor striatum across behavioral domains reflects different contributions to movement - Nature Neuroscience Hardcastle and Marshall et al. show that striatal function is domain specific, required for task-related but not spontaneously expressed movements. This functional distinction is reflected in starkly ...

Differential kinematic coding in sensorimotor striatum across behavioral domains reflects different contributions to movement

@kiahhardcastle.bsky.social @olveczky.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Thanks Nancy!

Wrote a eulogy for the yellow letters in my office window. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

What do neuroscience labs and the streets of New York City have in common? They are both commonly home to rats, a feature this research team is leveraging to study rat social cognition in the wild.

By @martajhill.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/social-cogni...

And now for an update on my office window. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Opinion | He Was the Face and Voice of Gaza. Israel Assassinated Him.

An excellent but devastating piece on the Israeli assassination of the brave and beloved Gazan journalist Anas Al-Sharif:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/o...
This is on us in the US: our government could stop this with a single phone call.
Call your reps to demand an end to US military support of Israel

Assistant Professor - Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Neuroscience - Department of Neuroscience University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

Come join our new Department of Neuroscience @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05041

Happening right here in Boston.

Same same, but different.. 😊

Dog’s reaction to feeling the baby’s kick for the first time.. 😊

Possible clue into movement disorders like Parkinson’s, others — Harvard Gazette Rodent study suggests different signaling “languages” in parts of brain for learned skills, natural behaviors.

Also, check out this cool write-up in Harvard Gazette on this work!
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Proud to be associated with this work led by Kiah Hardcastle and Jesse Marshall. It parses the role of the basal ganglia in the control of learned and innate behaviors, showing that they are essential for one but not the other. Then digs deeper to find the neural basis for this difference. Congrats!