Drew Schreiner

No way to avoid this, says only profession where this regularly happens

specialization never went out of fashion in birdsong

In other exciting news, @mattgeramita.bsky.social’s @natneuro.nature.com + Eric Yttri paper exploring the neural circuits underlying hesitation just dropped today! 🧠🎤

To summarize the findings, please see my musical abstract (with apologies to Peter Frampton 🎶)

www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪

Tail of the striatum:

The future is not in the training set.

A vigorous negative finding

Subsecond dopamine transients in the striatum of mice are neither required nor sufficient for specifying the vigor of ongoing forelimb movements

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

Relatable Corvid

and add a jam band category

a boxer is talking to another boxer in a boxing ring . Alt: a boxer is talking to another boxer and says I must break you

Dostoevsky's editor looking for a place to add a paragraph

Figure 4, a barplot showing c57 mouse preference for types of music....

I Knew Fig. 4 Was Trouble

Frontiers | Taylor Swift versus Mozart: music preferences of C57BL/6J mice IntroductionMusic has become an established complementary element of modern medicine, demonstrating beneficial effects towards various diseases such as demen...

Has neuroscience gone too far?

Two pages from Brothers Karamazov without a single paragraph break. Who knows if this paragraph will ever end???

Dostoevsky out here unbothered, focused, flourishing, not a paragraph break in sight

a boxer is talking to another boxer in a boxing ring . Alt: a boxer is talking to another boxer and says I must break you

Dostoevsky's editor looking for a place to add a paragraph

Figure 4, a barplot showing c57 mouse preference for types of music....

I Knew Fig. 4 Was Trouble

Frontiers | Taylor Swift versus Mozart: music preferences of C57BL/6J mice IntroductionMusic has become an established complementary element of modern medicine, demonstrating beneficial effects towards various diseases such as demen...

Has neuroscience gone too far?

This is a nicely detailed explanation! But when people express frustration with low-D dynamics, I think it is exactly what you say this paper disproves: the notion that variance explained is a proxy for the important parts of neural computation

0/10 Thanks for the interest in our preprint. Some takes say it negates or fully supports the “manifold hypothesis”, neither quite right. Our results show that if you only focus on the manifold capturing most of task-related variance, you could miss important dynamics that actually drive behavior.

excited to embark on a new era @nsb-mbl.bsky.social w directors Lauren O'Connell (Stanford) + Bruce Carlson (WashU), new 6-week format for graduate students, postdocs & investigators. learn state-of-the-art methods & approach towards neural systems of behavior. deadline Feb 2. tinyurl.com/57476k4v

The next step is they save your responses across years so they can build a distribution and weight your ratings accordingly

🧪🧠 A reminder to come join us in beautiful Park city for the 50th anniversary of the winter learning and memory meeting! Stellar program: parkcitywinterconf.org/conference-p...

a poster witu the title of my zoom talk today, a synaptic locus of song learning

Honored to give a zoom talk today, 1-2pm CST "at" UW-Madison Psych! You should be able to join via the below link if you're interested in hearing about my work isolating a corticostriatal locus of birdsong learning
bit.ly/3VOJrcy
@mohebial.bsky.social

Neuroscientist and “do you know this podcast by Andrew Huberman?”

Yeah, I was surprised to see them - a few stubborn trees (some Japanese maples and bald cypress) still had leaves but otherwise it's looking quite wintry

Hah, but the snow looks lovely! I do miss getting some real snow accumulation

a pink and white chrysanthemum flower

a red and yellow chrysanthemum flower

a pink chrysanthemum flower

a white chrysanthemum flower

Chrysanthemums still going off at Duke gardens

Subcellular Information Processing in Mechanosensory Non‐Spiking Interneurons We measured membrane potential and Ca2+ responses to airflow from different angles in cricket mechanosensory local non-spiking interneurons (LNIs). LNIs exhibited spatially heterogeneous patterns of ...

Textbook neurons are usually spiking. However, there exist plenty of non-spiking neurons whose information transmission is less understood. Shirahata et al. studied Ca-dynamics of non-spiking mechanosensory neurons in crickets that are sensitive to air flow.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

a bluesky thread where someone complains about having to write prompts for an AI music program, followed by a comment from someone that reads "Hi, rat here. Has anybody invented an infinite dopamine button?"

Next LLM is just hooked up to an electrode in the medial forebrain bundle

Hi, rat here. Has anybody invented an infinite dopamine button?