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Hour-long voltage imaging in behaving mice! Capitalizing on the high photostability and brightness of mBaoJin, we developed eFRET GEVIs, named ElectraOFF, which extends reliable single spike detection at cellular resolution beyond one hour biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Nature research paper: A multidimensional distributional map of future reward in dopamine neurons go.nature.com/3FGA8XN

NEW: Oxford physicists have achieved the most accurate quantum logic operation ever, with an error rate of just 0.000015% (1 in 6.7 million). To put the result in perspective: you’re more likely to be struck by lightning than see one of these qubits mess up. Read more ⬇️

A man with a severe speech disability is able to speak expressively and sing using a brain implant that translates his neural activity into words almost instantly. go.nature.com/4mXv8yM

«One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions» — Grace Hopper

Swiss army knife of microscopes for biology?

BREAKING: MIT just completed the first brain scan study of ChatGPT users & the results are terrifying. Turns out, AI isn't making us more productive. It's making us cognitively bankrupt. Here's what 4 months of data revealed: (hint: we've been measuring productivity all wrong)

Homeowner - n., a person who, upon hearing mysterious noises, prays they are actual ghosts rather than a problem to spend money on

Scientists have plenty of other examples

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When you're feeling sad, remember this vertebrae C6 and how happy he is to literally support you every day.

Beautiful first human layer-fmri from 11.7T

Some photos make me wish X had a ♥️♥️ button

A theory of self-supervised learning in cortex and the properties of cortical layers

The thalamocortical structural connectivity shown in this Nat Neuro paper by Valerie Sydnor and Ted Satterthwaite 🔗 nature.com/articles/s4159… Looks remarkably similar to a tract-to-region connectome of the thalamocortical pathway. Fascinating work!

The MPI for Biological Cybernetics (Tuebingen, Germany) is hiring junior group leaders

Sometimes low tech solutions are the most beautiful

A real friend will never leave you behind

Fun fact. Tigers appear orange to humans, but green to their prey like deer, boars and other ungulates. These animals are dichromats or red-green blind. This provide a powerful natural camouflage for tigers against their prey.