🚨 student job alert 🚨 Excited to post my first ad for the lab looking for a Research Specialist Penn Arts & Sciences ( RA or Lab manager open to both profiles). Neuro of flexible behaviors, play in the lab, wild rodents in Panama! Please share! RT tinyurl.com/Nachos and

A message of solidarity from Lebanese 🇱🇧 singer Carine Bassili to Israel 🇮🇱 and the Jewish people, singing “October Rain” in Arabic. Worth listening and sharing This is the first time a song in Arabic has been dedicated to Israel as a gift of solidarity. Bassili decided to

Underestimated females: A new study by Vallentin Lab reveals the influence of females on song learning in zebra finches. Vocal feedback from females can activate a neural circuit in the brain of young males while they are learning their song, increasing its accuracy. Read

What are the brain’s “real” tuning curves? Our new preprint "SIMPL: Scalable and hassle-free optimisation of neural representations from behaviour” argues that existing techniques for latent variable discovery are lacking. We suggest a much simpl-er way to do things. 1/21🧵

very cool idea to reveal the "true" neural representation!

Our(Yoram Burak,Rava Azeredo da Silveira) work on mathematical principles underlying place maps in Hippocampus is out Neuron! We unify various experimental findings under one model that holds across species, dimensionalities & spatial scale. Link: cell.com/neuron/fulltex… 🧵👇

The seemingly diverse and random statistics of place cell firing fields in large and small environments; in 1d, 2d, and 3d; in bats and rodents are explained by a remarkably simple mathematical model. With निश्चल and Rava Azeredo da Silveira: doi.org/10.1016/j.neur… ELSC Brain

Online now: Universal statistics of hippocampal place fields across species and dimensionalities dlvr.it/TJ95mV

Very cool new book from Nachum Ulanovsky on "Natural Neuroscience" at The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social. Looking forward to checking it out! weizmann.ac.il/brain-sciences…

Excited about Natural Neuroscience, a new book by Nachum Ulanovsky! A must-read on why studying the brain in natural, real-world contexts is essential for understanding how the brain generates behavior. Highly recommended! The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/9780262044998/…

Meet our 2025 finalist: "Can We Talk to the Animals? Scientists Decode Nightingale’s Complex Songs" by Daniela Vallentin and Jan Clemens from Germany. Join us for the selection of the winner jeremycollerfoundation.org/events/coller-….

🚀We are excited to share that bombcell is now available in Python! 🐍 Automatically sort your units into good/MUA/noise/non-somatic using quality metrics and adjustable classification thresholds. pip install and play around with our toy dataset: 🔗 github.com/Julie-Fabre/bo…

My lab was totally destroyed tonight by an Iranian missile. Nobody was hurt. Flies, plasmids, cells, equipment - all gone. Heart breaking. If during the course of the past 16 years, you have received something from my lab - please keep them safe.

The new issue is out👉cell.com/cell/current ⁠ On the cover, Eliav et al. reveal that hippocampal replays in bats flying in very large, naturalistic environments were highly fragmented and short, depicting trajectories covering only a small portion of the environment size.