Pritish Patil

I am excited to share my PhD work on head-direction cells recorded in the wild, now published in @science.org, where we recorded neurons in bats flying outdoors on an island.

doi.org/10.1126/sci...

With @ray-neuro.bsky.social, Shir Maimon, Liora Las, Nachum Ulanovsky and many others

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High-entropy nanomaterials by candlelight - Nature Chemistry High-entropy materials offer an exciting realm of possibilities for material discovery and application; however, their nanoscale synthesis is limited by the need for specialized equipment. Now, a simple synthetic strategy employing wax candles enables production of these compositionally complex nanomaterials.

Sometimes the lamppost you’re looking under is a candle — and it still gets you Nature Chemistry.

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Excited to share our latest paper - now out in @science.org - we showed how oxytocin modulates maternally-directed behavior in young mice (P15).

Loved reading this today!

Can you do a PhD in self-supervised learning without an academic advisor?

It is true, the world can truly be explained by physics.

How tariffs are calculated in 2025 is detailed balance.

The trade in the world follows balance. The total amount of trade by a country with the rest of the world over long terms is balance.

Do you have trouble understanding the difference between balance and detailed balance in statistical physics? Here's a real world example:

Hollywood loves making movies about making movies.

AI folks? We make AIs that help describe other AIs. Or help you talk to an AI through an API.

Sorry to hear what you've been going through Mark, it's tough times.

Glad to hear it's on the positive side of things now. Hope to keep seeing the amazing science coming from your lab.

How does the brain work in natural scenarios, in multi-animal societies of wild animals? 🧠 🧪 🦇

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fmov d29, x0
fmul s31, s29, s30
fmul s31, s31, s29
fmov s0, 1.5e+0
fsub s31, s0, s31
fmul s31, s31, s29
fmul s30, s31, s30
fmul s30, s30, s31
fsub s0, s0, s30
fmul s0, s0, s31
add sp, sp, 16
ret

Func(float):
sub sp, sp, #16
fmov s30, 5.0e-1
fmul s30, s0, s30
str s0, [sp, 12]
ldr x0, [sp, 12]
mov x1, 23007
movk x1, 0x5f37, lsl 16
sub x0, x1, x0, asr 1
lsr w0, w0, 0

Can a neuroscientist understand a microcontroller?
OR
Do we have a brain decompiler?
OR
Seeing the following instructions (arm64) being executed, can you figure out the algorithm being implemented? Input a float, output a float. How can you try to understand it?

#Marr3Levels

Glad you liked it! I'm still 3/4th in. Excited for how it ends :)

If you see someone using the variable name "ii" as the iterator in a for loop, chances are, their first programing language was MATLAB. I find this amusing.

I'm reading "How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying" right now, and it's funny and far from depressing.

Congratulations!! 🎉🎉

High-speed 3D random access two-photon imaging at ≥ 300 kHz – with SPARCLS: opg.optica.org/optica/fullt...

By the outstanding @carolineberlage.bsky.social and team, including @urslucasboehm.bsky.social, @andrewplested.bsky.social et al.

Many people have asked me what's the deal with "SIO" in our Addgene vectors (www.addgene.org/Ofer_Yizhar/) - we use these in most of our Cre-dependent AAVs - so here's a brief explanation of how it works.

It should all be neurovoxels really.

What do sonogenetics and magnetogenetics look like?

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