Vivek Kumar

Quantitative Approaches to Behavior and Virtual Reality - CAJAL […]

You have until March 3rd to apply for the Cajal summer school on Quantitative Approaches to Behavior and VR at Champalimaud! Come surf and track animals with us 🏄🪰🐟🚶
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New R package for statistical genetics from the Munger Lab.

Simplifying Systems Genetics with QTLretrievR: An R Package for Molecular QTL Identification https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.16.706200v1

That is highly useful feedback. Looking into it.

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Thank you!

OpenAI Launches Prism, A Free GPT-5.2 Workspace For Scientific Writing And Collaboration OpenAI has launched Prism, a free AI-native workspace designed to modernize how scientists write and collaborate on research. The company frames Prism as an attempt to reduce the day-to-day overhead t...

OpenAI has launched Prism, a free LaTeX-native workspace powered by GPT-5.2 that unifies drafting, citations, and real-time collaboration. #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence opendatascience.com/openai-launc...

Wonderful talk by @ritastrack.bsky.social on the publishing process at Nature Biomedical Engineering @JAX

Couple of things to emphasize. Editors at NBME are incredibly dedicated and carefully vet every paper. Once it goes for review, they are looking to publish, reviewer praise matters to editors!

Learning the signatures of the human grasp using a scalable tactile glove - Nature Tactile patterns obtained from a scalable sensor-embedded glove and deep convolutional neural networks help to explain how the human hand can identify and grasp individual objects and estimate their w...

Can anyone recommend the best available tactile glove systems currently? We are looking for something like the below at a reasonable price ;-)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#neuroskyence
#VisionScience
#PsychSciSky
#compneurosky

@stephanierossit.bsky.social

I laughed out loud when I saw

“AI use statement
The author used Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.5 for research purposes and for editorial feedback after the drafting process.”

#neuroskyence

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour WATCH: Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen Aliya Rahman describes being detained by ICE

This is incredibly powerful testimony.

Ms. Rahman is very tough and clear and was treated horribly.

Warning: I can't watch it without tears of rage.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrcW...

News from central Jersey: I'm running to represent New Jersey's 12th Congressional District.

By entering the fray, I hope to bring ideas of repairing our frayed republic. Not only to defend it in 2026, but to build something stronger, for generations to come!

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Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

Excited to return to Lisbon this June for the epic 3-week Cajal course on Quantitative Approaches to Behavior and VR! 🐀🐟🪰🏃‍♀️🎥🖥📈🧪

Applications are open through Feb 13! Come join us.
cajal-training.org/on-site/quan...

Magic Johnson was the grand marshal of the Rose Parade today, and as someone who remembers his November 1991 HIV announcement: if you had told anybody that day that he would be alive and healthy 34+ years later, I don't think they would have believed you. Medicine and research—they work.

One of the biggest moments of my career:
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!

The devastation I feel about this attack on science in particular is hard to cope with. It’s like watching my dad die all over again. I would do anything to spare someone a death via pancreatic cancer.

​He waited 40 minutes for a ticket from Maine State Police, then spent 2 months in a Texas immigration facility​ Maine immigrant released on bond by Texas immigration judge Lucas and Laura Segóbia say they spent tens of thousands of dollars to get Lucas released on bond months after a trooper called Border Patrol at a traffic stop.

He waited 40 minutes for a ticket from Maine State Police, then spent 2 months in a Texas immigration facility

ICYMI — “I identified myself as a U.S. citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. ICE Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out… this experience violated the very principles I fought to defend.”

🚨 We are recruiting a full-time Research Programmer to push forward several exciting machine learning projects in the lab!

Work on computational behavior and joint neural/behavior models. Start date flexible, can be a pre-grad-school position or longer term.

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My teen, who had dreamt of being an astrophysicist, just told me he wants to go to law school because, “Science isn’t going to be a priority in the US in the future…I don’t want a job where I’ll be constantly worried my funding will be taken away.”

Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?

To be fair, this is a kid who's seen both parents have federal grants terminated this year - hopefully the average young person isn't quite as discouraged (though our current reality warrants it), and even more hopefully we'll rebuild American democracy and science so they won't have reason to be.

One of my students who was very interested in biomedical research and wanted to apply to grad school decided to take the LSAT and apply to law school. The main driver was the uncertainty & turmoil of federally funded research. It’s the first law school recommendation I have written in my career.

The full making-of recorded with {camcorder} in #RStats 📹 🧵4/5

Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."

Group picture of JAX SSP alums standing with their arms raised behind a large blue ABRCMS sign.

Group picture of Sarah Wojiski, Ph.D., director of education and external programs, and Brent Berwin, Ph.D., director of courses and conferences, from The Jackson Laboratory, with Lilian Kabeche, Ph.D., from Yale University.

Group picture of the leadership team for the Cell Biology category at ABRCMS: Tracy Johnson, Ph.D., from UCLA, Gustavo Arrizabalaga, Ph.D., from University of Buffalo, and Brent Berwin, Ph.D., from The Jackson Laboratory.

Group picture of JAX SSP alums at a long wooden table.

Thanks for connecting at #ABRCMS2025!

Didn’t attend? Explore our programs 👇
🔸 Summer Student Program: www.jax.org/ssp
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👏 Congrats to all the @jacksonlab.bsky.social SSP alums who presented their research!

Launching the Genesis Mission By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.

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Science will be much more efficient without scientists.

Universities are being destroyed because we don't NEED them anymore.

Instead, all existing data will be fed to AI "agents" who will mine them to "test new hypotheses" and "generate scientific breakthroughs". 🤨🤢🤮

#academicsky #edusky 🟦🧠

Low, backlit mountains mirrored in a lake at sunset

Eagle Lake, Acadia NP, last night around 4pm

Portrait of Dr. Rita Colwell with short silver-gray hair, smiling warmly at the camera. She is wearing round glasses, pearl earrings, a pearl necklace, a white blouse, and a dark blazer. Her arms are confidently crossed, and she stands against a plain medium-gray studio background.

Microbiologist Dr. Rita Colwell was born #OTD in 1934. She is recognized for her study of global infectious disease spread through water sources. Her research on cholera helped save 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 lives.

She was the first female director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), 1998-2004. #WomenInSTEM

I'll be giving a talk at UCSD Psychiatry today at noon. Please drop by.