I accept the challenge from Nicolas Meirhaeghe to post the covers of 7 books I love: no explanations, no reviews—just the covers.

Day 3- Books I like!

Day 4 books I like!

Day 5!

Day 6!

Day 7! Thanks Nicolas Meirhaeghe for the fun opportunity!

Is your low-d representation a cream puff or a burrito? Eric-Shea Brown explains why it matters 😛 #cosyne19

Sometimes we need highly repeatable neural activity (like going down a waterslide), but we also need flexibility to try new strategies. During exploration, neural activity is less constrained, meaning it is more variable and more vulnerable to perturbations. #cosyne19 Becket Ebitz

A successful diversity luncheon—we discussed how #cosyne19 could be improved with double-blind review and data collection on diversity factors such as gender and race on submitted abstracts, among other suggestions!

New study from our group getting at this simple question: how does success/failure change neural activity on the next trial? Jing shows that reinforcement directly affects neural variability along behaviorally relevant dimensions to implement an exploration-exploitation strategy

Conversation s with mr excitement who has good numbers: 3am: "Stochastic dynamical systems are an important way to study the brain" 8am (next morning): "Can we make money sleeping in the airport?"

“If sexual harassment, misconduct, and retaliation are the firing squads that assassinate individual careers, then implicit bias is the lead in the water that poisons the entire town.” #BiasAwareness #MeTooSTEM #WomenInScience #SAIDinSTEM hellobio.com/blog/gender-bi…

Exciting to talk to Anne Churchland yesterday! Her advice for getting good psychophysics data? Create a friendly competition between lab members. 👩‍🔬👩‍🔬👩‍🔬

Working on a lecture for fellow grad students: "Microcontrollers for Neuroscience (and fun!)". Here is the 'Hello, World' of microprocessors!

A proud moment... my first PhD student's first, first-author paper out today in @sciencemagazine -- Hierarchical reasoning by neural circuits in the frontal cortex -- Congratulations Morteza Sarafyazd! science.sciencemag.org/content/364/64…

How neurons perform Bayesian inference? Congrats to hansemsohn Devika Narain Nicolas Meirhaeghe for a fantastic collaboration providing a beautiful potential explanation in terms of the geometry of cortical latent dynamics in-vivo and for validating it in-silico cell.com/neuron/fulltex…