Adithya Rajagopalan

I do however agree with the general themes the author is pointing to regarding the differences between American and British TV.

Sure, We Gained Our Independence, But We Lost The Ability To Make Anything As Good As ‘Taskmaster’ | Defector The Fourth of July is always there to remind us that we aren’t the country we fancy ourselves being, but this year’s national try-not-to-blow-your-hand-off munitions festival was even grimmer given th...

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While I agree that @taskmaster.tv is indeed close to "the absolute zenith of humanity's artistic development". I would like to refer the author and anyone who follows my bluesky to @dropout.tv's incredible @gamechangershow.bsky.social.

I am delighted to announce registration and abstract submission is open for "The Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025" to be held at the Edgbaston Park Hotel, University of Birmingham, UK on 3-5th November 2025. uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanis...

Do register for what is going to be a very exciting conference!

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Zoning out could be beneficial—and may actually help us learn faster Actions that may seem unproductive – like aimlessly wandering around a city or exploring a new mall – could play an important role in how our brains learn, according research from HHMI’s Janelia...

🧠Zoning out could be beneficial—and may actually help us learn faster.

🥼New research led by @zhong-lin.bsky.social @marius10p.bsky.social @computingnature.bsky.social

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Rat-mon y Cajal, our lab mascot, is a pro at our task because he went to kindergarten first. His nemesis, Le Chat GPT, just copied off everyone else’s homework.

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Compositional pretraining improves computational efficiency and matches animal behaviour on complex tasks - Nature Machine Intelligence Hocker et al. demonstrate a method for training recurrent neural networks, which they call ‘kindergarten curriculum learning’, involving pretraining on simple cognitive tasks to improve learning effic...

David Hocker’s paper about compositional pretraining for RNNs that efficiently produces animal-like behaviors! Modeling cognitive tasks in RNNs requires thinking about latent abilities that animals bring to an experiment. Funded by NIH/CRCNS. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

During Q&A, whenever someone asks a question about our "mice."

Started off this morning emailing my Senators and Congressman about the NIH and the potential damage being done by unnecessary disruptions.

They need to hear from us loud and clear. Constituents matter to them as one of the primary purposes of a politician is to get re-elected (and its their job).

Looking forward to this!

The whiplash that I feel traveling between India and US is hard to explain. When I’m in one place, I blend into life there, it doesn’t feel alien. Family/childhood memories in one place. Career/folks that I love in another. Each time I travel, it’s an opportunity to question my identity.

Anybody from the Hindustan Times here? An article written by Ishita Singh Rajput has fabricated a quote that I never provided for this article. I was not approached for it and have no comments.

I know they will drag their feet in issuing a correction 😒

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One nation, one subscription: A good first step A version of this piece was originally written at the request of Nature India. Due to various points of friction, both on content and on remuneration, I withdrew the piece. (They informed me that t…

My thoughts on the "one nation, one subscription" plan.

I started writing this at the request of Nature India but withdrew when they said they wanted it for free, despite Springer-Nature being one of the richest and most profitable publishers.
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I'm struck by how grad students in psych and neuro programs aren't generally expected to know basic facts about animal learning. For the psychologists, it has an odor of behaviorism, and for the neuroscientists it has an odor of psychology. Yet it's so fundamental (in my view).

Neuronal circuit mechanisms of competitive interaction between action-based and coincidence learning Parallel and interfering neuronal circuits are responsible for operant and classical learning.

It was nice to take a break from project-related OFC/amygdala papers & read a fun fly study from the Parnas lab this morning: www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Exciting to see potentially distinct pathways for cue- & action- outcome learning in the fly, drawing parallels between the MB & striatum.

Oh this is true! Thank you!! I had forgotten this series. Definitely enjoyed it when I read it.

Thinking further, Charlize Theron's character, Andromache of Scythia, from The Old Guard comes to mind. Haven't read the graphic novels the movie is based on though.

Hoping for a clear hole in my memory and/or literary knowledge to be filled.

Question for all you blueskyers (is that the equivalent of tweeps?). Can someone point me to a book that has a brooding non-male protagonist. Brooding heros tend to be my favorite to read about - think Batman or Edmond Dantes - but thinking about it, I'm wondering if only men are written this way.

Estrogenic control of reward prediction errors and reinforcement learning Gonadal hormones act throughout the brain[1][1], and neuropsychiatric disorders vary in symptom severity over the reproductive cycle, pregnancy, and perimenopause[2][2]–[4][3]. Yet how hormones influe...

Excited to be here in this quest for simpler times!

Here’s where you can find what I’ve been working on the last five years: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Sharing this wonderful collaboration led by @yashsmehta.bsky.social and @janfunkey.bsky.social seems like a great way to introduce myself to bluesky. So check it out! It was a pleasure to work with this amazing team of scientists!