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Fantastic opportunity to work on computational or theoretical neuroscience in the great UW neuroscience community!

Cool paper! The topology of the world shapes the topology of population neural activity. nature.com/articles/s4159…

We are hiring! Two tenure-track positions with the focus in neuroscience! Please RT!

Big congratulations to Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences faculty member Darya Zabelina on being named one of Association for Psychological Science's rising stars!

Are glia responsible for critical dynamics in neural networks? Phys. Rev. E 101, 022303 (2020) - Dynamic regulation of resource transport induces criticality in interdependent networks of excitable units journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/1…

NIH-funded postdoc position available in our lab! We really want someone who loves the computational AND experimental facets of very high-dimensional neural systems. APPLY NOW: uasys.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UASYS/jo…

Woody Shew Woodrow Shew University of Arkansas just got the record of most questions... Now moving to Ginestra Bianconi Ginestra Bianconi Queen Mary University of London on using "simplex" to model "complex" . Live on facebook: facebook.com/12188794632117…

Remember Churchland's paper on quenched variability at stimulus onset? Apparently the opposite happens in olfactory bulb. See our recent paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.isci…

SUPER excited to share that B-SOiD is finally out in Nature Communications! Alex 徐瀚 developed a technique to extract behaviors and subactions from post estimation data. Fly, rodent, primate - it all works and has a user interface even I can understand nature.com/articles/s4146…

Always, always plot your data and look at it.

Physicist, Non-Profits Test Air Purifiers to Promote Health and Learning youtu.be/A7B7t4DUMOA via YouTube

Very proud of Jingwen's primary PhD work! Collapse of complexity of brain and body activity due to excessive inhibition and MeCP2 disruption pnas.org/content/118/43…

Just wrapped up a super exciting visit to Wash U! Gave an in-person talk for the first time in a long while and had some great discussions of ongoing work on criticality. Thanks to @kbhengen, Larry Snyder, Ralf Wessel, and a bunch of bright students and post docs!

How do motor neural circuits and behavior falter with too much inhibition and with disrupted expression of MeCP2? link.growkudos.com/1gb2dctjbwg

Ever wonder what neuronal avalanches and criticality have to do with behavior? We've got one answer to that question in our recent eLife paper: Scale-free behavioral dynamics directly linked with scale-free cortical dynamics doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…

There seems to be a paper per day reporting a neural subspace for encoding [fill in the blank with your favorite brain function]. Ever wonder how the brain might find these subspaces without an ideal observer? Our recent paper offers a solution: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/arti…

Many brain functions live on low-dimensional manifolds. Criticality optimizes some brain functions. Is criticality low-dimensional? Yes! Low-dimensional criticality embedded in high-dimensional awake brain dynamics science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Q: Why did so many early tests of criticality in awake animals come up negative? A: Insufficient temporal coarse-graining hides evidence for criticality. Low-dimensional criticality embedded in high-dimensional awake brain dynamics science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Is criticality a unified set-point of brain function? biorxiv.org/content/10.110… We review the past 20 years of experiments that suggest "yes" and perform a meta-analysis that reconciles many studies that seemed to disagree.

Very proud of this systematic review of all the experimental evidence for criticality in the brain. Wrote it with Keith Hengen (hengenlab.org). More than 300 papers in the past 2 decades! cell.com/neuron/fulltex…