Adithya Narayan

Understudies by Greg Egan Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

In a future where the rich kids are being raised with a digital Cyrano beside them to sweet-talk their way into the best jobs, four friends train together for a battle to prove that other kinds of minds might still have the edge.

My new story “Understudies” in Clarkesworld.

Awesome, the effect is super strong! Do you know if there's an explanation for why we see this?

Woah, so strong! And like someone pointed out, I can see the brightness changes just by saccading up/down (even without the motion). Is there an explanation for why we see this?

Neuronal signatures of successful one-shot memory in mid-level visual cortex High-capacity, one-shot visual recognition memory challenges theories of learning and neural coding because it requires rapid, robust, and durable representations. Most studies have focused on the hip...

New preprint! How can you remember an image you saw once, even after seeing thousands of them? We find a role for humble mid-level visual cortex in high-capacity, one-shot learning. doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.22.677855 🧵🧪1/

Super cool work!

Mirror manifolds: partially overlapping neural subspaces for speaking and listening https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.20.677504v1

Great article - I remember reading in Newton's biography that he stuck a blunt-end knitting needle between his eyeball and the bone so he could press the back of his eyeball and see colours.

He clearly didn't have any students at that point in his career 🙂

Haha what an anecdote! Are you really committed to science if you're not willing to stick a needle in your eye...

This was inspired by Eero Simoncelli's lecture at a fantastic summer school on computational vision at cold spring harbor.

History of color science: predicting biology from behavior An example of the (un)reasonable effectiveness of behavioral research in neuroscience

I wrote a post about how cool it is that scientists in the 1800s figured out that our color vision must arise from three types of cells just using clever behavioral experiments (a century before we recorded from the cones in the eye!)
adiatelic.substack.com/p/history-of...
#neuroskyence #SciComm 🧪

The rod:cone ratio in mice is 33:1, in humans (outside the foveola) is 15:1, but is 1:7 in the 13-lined ground squirrel (13LGS). How is this dramatic shift in the rod:cone ratio achieved?/2

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Point Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Point

www.smbc-comics.com/comic/point

Phew!

Ooh great paper! Wonder why (rat) mPFC here doesn't contain irrelevant stimulus info ('early selection') but (monkey) PFC in the Mante-Sussillo style task has both ('late selection'). Reminds me of this reply by Flesch et al, discussing differences in irrelevant stimulus info in fMRI vs monkey PFC.

Awesome work from the Runyan lab!

These look beautiful!

Wow super cool Catrina!

on hearing any scientific explanation or theory put forward, "But sir, what experiment could disprove your hypothesis"; or, on hearing a scientific experiment described, "But sir, what hypothesis does your experiment disprove?"

John Platt - Strong Inference 1964 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Community Voices: Government funding cuts threaten education of future scientists Funding for science directly supports the education of Ph.D. students like myself and indirectly supports the education of undergraduate students at universities across the nation. On Feb. 7, the gove...

Inspired by @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social, I wrote an opinion piece about the importance of science funding in my education for my hometown newspaper. www.bakersfield.com/opinion/comm...

Super proud of this work and as I finish up my #PhD studies I am actively looking for a #postdoc position.

I am interested in studying learning and value-based decision making and how cortical and subcortical areas contribute to complex behavior

tinyurl.com/LesionsOfM1

#neuroskyence

Computation-through-Dynamics Benchmark: Simulated datasets and quality metrics for dynamical models of neural activity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.07.637062v1

🙋🏾‍♂️

Home - Letters to a Pre-Scientist The Pen Pal Program Inspiring Students To Explore a Future in STEM Letters to a Pre-Scientist connects students to STEM professionals through snail mail to broaden students ’ awareness of ...

This looks great! A similar initiative that’s also wonderful: prescientist.org

(Also was extra curious because I first read it as sky-pea-scientist)

Separating cognitive and motor processes in the behaving mouse Nature Neuroscience - Using a novel method for isolating cognitive and motor neural dynamics, the authors show that dynamics often attributed to cognitive processes were corrupted by movements and...

Really proud and excited to share the final version of our paper, co-led by the Bluesky-less Munib Hasnain!!

We asked whether cognitive and motor neural dynamics can be isolated from one another, or whether they’re driven by common neural mechanisms 1/n

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

Volitional modulation of optically recorded calcium signals during neuroprosthetic learning - Nature Neuroscience In this paper, Clancy and colleagues introduce an optically driven brain machine interface (BMI) based on the processing of optical calcium signals recorded using two-photon microscopy. When applied t...

I randomly came across this book at the library and was pleasantly surprised to find out that the author is also a systems/computational neuroscientist, and I've actually read one of their papers! www.nature.com/articles/nn....

And Albert Schweitzer's reverence for life: "I am life which wills to live, in the midst of life which wills to live".

Also, the story of Tinsley, the world checkers champion, beating the program Chinook by looking almost sixty moves into the future.

Learned a bunch of interesting things, like how Pythagoras might've died because he refused to step on a field of beans (which he thought contained human souls) when running away from his pursuers. (related: philosophynow.org/issues/78/Th...)

Playing with reality by Kelly Clancy

Just finished 'Playing with Reality' by @kellybclancy.bsky.social. Loved it! I picked it up because I thought it was about the history of games, which it is... but it's also so much more than that. Touches upon game theory, minimax, RL, economics, auctions, evolution, Simcity, and more.

It's finally out!

Visual experience orthogonalizes visual cortical responses

Training in a visual task changes V1 tuning curves in odd ways. This effect is explained by a simple convex transformation. It orthogonalizes the population, making it easier to decode.

10.1016/j.celrep.2025.115235

YouTube video by Artem Kirsanov How Your Brain Organizes Information

I knew there had to be someone making beautiful neuroscience videos!

youtu.be/9qOaII_PzGY

Awesome new paper from our groups led by the amazing Dr. Emily Oby!