Dr. Jan Zimmermann
@janzimmermann.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Neuroscience at UMN. Circuit enthusiast, organic or silicon(e). Opinions all mine.
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Utterly brilliant writing by Cory and so rare to see any critical thought so well expressed.
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AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow
AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots
www.theguardian.com
January 18, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Utterly brilliant writing by Cory and so rare to see any critical thought so well expressed.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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People really lack critical thinking skills in this country
January 18, 2026 at 4:27 PM
People really lack critical thinking skills in this country
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Holy hell, what an obituary
Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Holy hell, what an obituary
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I am very thankful that my wonderful colleague Karen Bales (baleslab.bsky.social ) has signed on to direct our center moving forward. She's been a breath of fresh air and incredibly effective in the 2 years that she's been the interim in the role.
www.ucdavis.edu/news/karen-b...
www.ucdavis.edu/news/karen-b...
Karen Bales Appointed Director of the California National Primate Research Center
University of California, Davis, Chancellor Gary S. May has named Professor Karen Bales as director of the California National Primate Research Center, or CNPRC, effective Jan. 1, 2026.
www.ucdavis.edu
January 13, 2026 at 8:42 PM
I am very thankful that my wonderful colleague Karen Bales (baleslab.bsky.social ) has signed on to direct our center moving forward. She's been a breath of fresh air and incredibly effective in the 2 years that she's been the interim in the role.
www.ucdavis.edu/news/karen-b...
www.ucdavis.edu/news/karen-b...
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New preprint: visual attention may follow decisions more than it shapes them.
We identify behavioral signatures inconsistent with models in which attention affects value, instead pointing to a substantial post-decisional component.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
We identify behavioral signatures inconsistent with models in which attention affects value, instead pointing to a substantial post-decisional component.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Behavioral Signatures of Post-Decisional Attention in Preferential Choice
Attention plays a key role in decision-making by directing limited cognitive resources to relevant information. It has been proposed that attention also biases the decision process, due to a multiplic...
www.biorxiv.org
January 12, 2026 at 11:41 PM
New preprint: visual attention may follow decisions more than it shapes them.
We identify behavioral signatures inconsistent with models in which attention affects value, instead pointing to a substantial post-decisional component.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
We identify behavioral signatures inconsistent with models in which attention affects value, instead pointing to a substantial post-decisional component.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes.”
“Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated.”
- From Anne Frank’s diary, describing the activities of the Nazis.
“Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated.”
- From Anne Frank’s diary, describing the activities of the Nazis.
January 12, 2026 at 7:15 PM
“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes.”
“Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated.”
- From Anne Frank’s diary, describing the activities of the Nazis.
“Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated.”
- From Anne Frank’s diary, describing the activities of the Nazis.
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Have you tried #OCTRON yet?
Here's a speedy run-through of the pipeline, showing how you go from annotating animals, to training a model, and visualising predictions in new videos. Everything you need to track your favourite species! 💪
Here's a speedy run-through of the pipeline, showing how you go from annotating animals, to training a model, and visualising predictions in new videos. Everything you need to track your favourite species! 💪
January 6, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Have you tried #OCTRON yet?
Here's a speedy run-through of the pipeline, showing how you go from annotating animals, to training a model, and visualising predictions in new videos. Everything you need to track your favourite species! 💪
Here's a speedy run-through of the pipeline, showing how you go from annotating animals, to training a model, and visualising predictions in new videos. Everything you need to track your favourite species! 💪
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On NIH, rightwing thinktanks, and the future of science.
I wrote up something about the Mike Lauer IFP interview and what he seems to miss about science politics.
Science today is deeply tied up with democracy, politics, and the law. We must all work together. 🧪
I wrote up something about the Mike Lauer IFP interview and what he seems to miss about science politics.
Science today is deeply tied up with democracy, politics, and the law. We must all work together. 🧪
Yesterday an interview was posted with Mike Lauer about the state of science.
It's good in many ways, but there are some serious problems.
I will write more later. But for now: I agree with Lauer...
Yesterday an interview was posted with Mike Lauer about the state of science.
It's good in many ways, but there are some serious problems.
I will write more later. But for now: I agree with Lauer’s c...
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January 11, 2026 at 5:43 PM
On NIH, rightwing thinktanks, and the future of science.
I wrote up something about the Mike Lauer IFP interview and what he seems to miss about science politics.
Science today is deeply tied up with democracy, politics, and the law. We must all work together. 🧪
I wrote up something about the Mike Lauer IFP interview and what he seems to miss about science politics.
Science today is deeply tied up with democracy, politics, and the law. We must all work together. 🧪
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For decades, imaging has forced the same trade-off:
Set a frame rate → sacrifice resolution or field of view to go fast.
We break that rule
Using an EVENT-BASED CAMERA, we record neural activity without frames. Signals are captured only where and when they occur:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Set a frame rate → sacrifice resolution or field of view to go fast.
We break that rule
Using an EVENT-BASED CAMERA, we record neural activity without frames. Signals are captured only where and when they occur:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Ultrafast Frame-Free Imaging of Neural Activity with Event Cameras
Frame-based fluorescence imaging has long defined how neural activity is optically measured. This approach requires acquiring all pixels within an image, regardless of whether they carry meaningful ne...
www.biorxiv.org
January 10, 2026 at 1:41 PM
For decades, imaging has forced the same trade-off:
Set a frame rate → sacrifice resolution or field of view to go fast.
We break that rule
Using an EVENT-BASED CAMERA, we record neural activity without frames. Signals are captured only where and when they occur:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Set a frame rate → sacrifice resolution or field of view to go fast.
We break that rule
Using an EVENT-BASED CAMERA, we record neural activity without frames. Signals are captured only where and when they occur:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Even when they start dragging us away to the camps can we really blame those who don’t want to be next? So easy to sneer at the good Germans of 1940, not so easy to decide not to be one now.
January 10, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Even when they start dragging us away to the camps can we really blame those who don’t want to be next? So easy to sneer at the good Germans of 1940, not so easy to decide not to be one now.
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A new MRI protocol can scan the human brain and its venous network in under 7 minutes at 0.35 mm iso. resolution, marking it as a potential tool for diagnosing cerebrovascular diseases and monitoring neurodegeneration.
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January 9, 2026 at 8:33 PM
A new MRI protocol can scan the human brain and its venous network in under 7 minutes at 0.35 mm iso. resolution, marking it as a potential tool for diagnosing cerebrovascular diseases and monitoring neurodegeneration.
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My new gig is PI of the CANN group at Trinity College Dublin and University of Oxford (50/50). Funded by the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, we'll be recruiting postdocs, PhDs and an RA in Dublin and Oxford soon. So exciting! @oxcin.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @tcdscss.bsky.social
January 8, 2026 at 8:19 PM
My new gig is PI of the CANN group at Trinity College Dublin and University of Oxford (50/50). Funded by the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, we'll be recruiting postdocs, PhDs and an RA in Dublin and Oxford soon. So exciting! @oxcin.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @tcdscss.bsky.social
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Who said that philosophical skepticism has no real world impacts. Pragmatism rekt
United Airlines Flight Diverted After Passenger Claims 'This Is a Simulation'
A United Airlines flight was diverted to Omaha after a disruptive passenger claimed "This is a simulation" and interfered with the crew.
www.travelpulse.com
January 5, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Who said that philosophical skepticism has no real world impacts. Pragmatism rekt
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New preprint. We show that in addition to reward prediction errors (RPEs), dorsal striatal dopamine signals encode sensory prediction errors (SPEs), the difference between sensory prior & observed stimulus. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Dorsal striatal dopamine integrates sensory and reward prediction errors to guide perceptual decisions
Perceptual decisions are shaped by expectations about sensory stimuli and rewards, learned through sensory and reward prediction errors. Dopamine is known to convey reward prediction errors that shape...
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January 5, 2026 at 10:49 AM
New preprint. We show that in addition to reward prediction errors (RPEs), dorsal striatal dopamine signals encode sensory prediction errors (SPEs), the difference between sensory prior & observed stimulus. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
In mice indeed
IN MICE
December 31, 2025 at 11:21 PM
In mice indeed
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Interested in the latest advances in neuroscience (neural dynamics and internal models) and how they can be leveraged to build smarter, adaptive AI?
➡️ My first real solo piece 🖤🫶 @natneuro.nature.com
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➡️ My first real solo piece 🖤🫶 @natneuro.nature.com
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Leveraging insights from neuroscience to build adaptive artificial intelligence
Nature Neuroscience - Adaptive intelligence envisions AI that, like animals, learns online, generalizes and adapts quickly. This Perspective reviews biological foundations, progress in AI and...
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December 31, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Interested in the latest advances in neuroscience (neural dynamics and internal models) and how they can be leveraged to build smarter, adaptive AI?
➡️ My first real solo piece 🖤🫶 @natneuro.nature.com
rdcu.be/eWVmA
➡️ My first real solo piece 🖤🫶 @natneuro.nature.com
rdcu.be/eWVmA
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For 2026, I dare the human & rodent behavioral & cognitive neuroscience communities to find one NHP paper relevant to your research & cite it regularly next year when writing up your manuscripts. If you already cite one, find another one and double up. #Neuroskyence bsky.app/profile/vinc...
I definitely didn’t just scrape the web to get the h-index and total citation count as of 12/30/2025 for 319 living and dead nonhuman primate researchers to get a sense of publication metrics by rank on tenure-track.
December 30, 2025 at 10:21 PM
For 2026, I dare the human & rodent behavioral & cognitive neuroscience communities to find one NHP paper relevant to your research & cite it regularly next year when writing up your manuscripts. If you already cite one, find another one and double up. #Neuroskyence bsky.app/profile/vinc...
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A free, open-access library of high-quality organism illustrations for science communication
A free, open-access library of high-quality organism illustrations for science communication
We create vector graphics of model organisms and emerging biological research organisms to enhance our publications. We’re sharing these editable graphics under a CC0 license for other scientists to...
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December 29, 2025 at 6:03 PM
A free, open-access library of high-quality organism illustrations for science communication
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Hi everyone,
If you like @scikit-learn.org, how about upvoting my request to add it to the LinuxFoundation insight board:
github.com/linuxfoundat...
Thanks 🧡💙
If you like @scikit-learn.org, how about upvoting my request to add it to the LinuxFoundation insight board:
github.com/linuxfoundat...
Thanks 🧡💙
Add scikit-learn · linuxfoundation insights · Discussion #1506
We'd like to request enrolling scikit-learn into LFX Insights. The GitHub org is https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn. Scikit-learn is the most used machine learning library: download numbe...
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December 28, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Hi everyone,
If you like @scikit-learn.org, how about upvoting my request to add it to the LinuxFoundation insight board:
github.com/linuxfoundat...
Thanks 🧡💙
If you like @scikit-learn.org, how about upvoting my request to add it to the LinuxFoundation insight board:
github.com/linuxfoundat...
Thanks 🧡💙
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Unfortunately this study, while heroic in many ways, does not take into account cardiac, respiration and other vasomotor effects, all of which have spatial signatures. Nor is there an electrophysiological measure of neural activity. Be careful before throwing the baby out with the bath water.
December 28, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Unfortunately this study, while heroic in many ways, does not take into account cardiac, respiration and other vasomotor effects, all of which have spatial signatures. Nor is there an electrophysiological measure of neural activity. Be careful before throwing the baby out with the bath water.
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My whole life we’ve been told that The US is simply too big to have high speed rail
December 26, 2025 at 10:01 PM
My whole life we’ve been told that The US is simply too big to have high speed rail
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Excuse me while I grab a Coke, (which I like more than Pepsi b/c my NAc is more active when I drink it) & fill out the STAI in order to activate my salience network.
December 27, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Excuse me while I grab a Coke, (which I like more than Pepsi b/c my NAc is more active when I drink it) & fill out the STAI in order to activate my salience network.
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Did I sleep in too late & miss out on the announcement that rs-fMRI networks can be reliably used to infer cognitive functions and psychiatric diagnoses?
December 27, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Did I sleep in too late & miss out on the announcement that rs-fMRI networks can be reliably used to infer cognitive functions and psychiatric diagnoses?