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Laura Grima @lauragrima.bsky.social · 23h

Plus, there's now a related conference organized by some wonderful people @unibirmingham.bsky.social in the UK, including @brainapps.bsky.social, @markdhumphries.bsky.social, and others. (Registration for this conference is still open until the 20th October!) uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanis...

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Laura Grima @lauragrima.bsky.social · 23h

A little backstory on this one: sometime during the pandemic @hannah-haberkern.bsky.social and I were chatting in the servery at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social about how to encourage interactions between people working on foraging (+ neuroscience) across different species and perspectives... 1/n

Laura Grima @lauragrima.bsky.social · 1d

Pleased to have this review out in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social. In it we discuss various aspects of the intersection between foraging behaviors and neuroscience, and offer some future directions: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Foraging as an ethological framework for neuroscience

The study of foraging is central to a renewed interest in naturalistic behavior in neuroscience. Applying a foraging framework grounded in behavioral …

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Hannah Haberkern @hannah-haberkern.bsky.social · 1d

Years ago @lauragrima.bsky.social talked about what a pity it is when scientists who work on #foraging miss out on fruitful interactions because they work with different animals. Together with collegues we started a virtual seminar series, which grew into a conference and now a review!

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Adithya Rajagopalan @adiraj95.bsky.social · 1d

Also want to thank the many people (Janelia foraging conference attendees, future of foraging seminar organizers, and other colleagues) who gave us some great feedback along the way!

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Adithya Rajagopalan @adiraj95.bsky.social · 1d

Inspired by discussions at several recent foraging-related seminar series and conferences, our review in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social explores an expanded role for foraging as a framework in neuroscience and discusses future directions for the field. Do check it out.

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Adithya Rajagopalan @adiraj95.bsky.social · Jul 9

I do however agree with the general themes the author is pointing to regarding the differences between American and British TV.

Adithya Rajagopalan @adiraj95.bsky.social · Jul 9

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While I agree that @taskmaster.tv is indeed close to "the absolute zenith of humanity's artistic development". I would like to refer the author and anyone who follows my bluesky to @dropout.tv's incredible @gamechangershow.bsky.social.

Sure, We Gained Our Independence, But We Lost The Ability To Make Anything As Good As ‘Taskmaster’ | Defector

The Fourth of July is always there to remind us that we aren’t the country we fancy ourselves being, but this year’s national try-not-to-blow-your-hand-off munitions festival was even grimmer given th...

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Matthew Apps @brainapps.bsky.social · Jul 4

I am delighted to announce registration and abstract submission is open for "The Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025" to be held at the Edgbaston Park Hotel, University of Birmingham, UK on 3-5th November 2025. uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanis...

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Adithya Rajagopalan @adiraj95.bsky.social · Jul 2

Do register for what is going to be a very exciting conference!

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Laura Grima @lauragrima.bsky.social · Jun 30

Super excited to announce a follow-up to the Janelia 'mechanistic basis of foraging' conference - this time held in Birmingham, UK! Join us from the 3rd - 5th November to discuss all things foraging: uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanis...

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Janelia Research Campus @hhmijanelia.bsky.social · Jun 24

🧠Zoning out could be beneficial—and may actually help us learn faster.

🥼New research led by @zhong-lin.bsky.social @marius10p.bsky.social @computingnature.bsky.social

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Zoning out could be beneficial—and may actually help us learn faster

Actions that may seem unproductive – like aimlessly wandering around a city or exploring a new mall – could play an important role in how our brains learn, according research from HHMI’s Janelia...

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Constantinople lab @constantinoplelab.bsky.social · Jun 19

Rat-mon y Cajal, our lab mascot, is a pro at our task because he went to kindergarten first. His nemesis, Le Chat GPT, just copied off everyone else’s homework.

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Constantinople lab @constantinoplelab.bsky.social · May 21

David Hocker’s paper about compositional pretraining for RNNs that efficiently produces animal-like behaviors! Modeling cognitive tasks in RNNs requires thinking about latent abilities that animals bring to an experiment. Funded by NIH/CRCNS. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Compositional pretraining improves computational efficiency and matches animal behaviour on complex tasks - Nature Machine Intelligence

Hocker et al. demonstrate a method for training recurrent neural networks, which they call ‘kindergarten curriculum learning’, involving pretraining on simple cognitive tasks to improve learning effic...

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Constantinople lab @constantinoplelab.bsky.social · May 22

During Q&A, whenever someone asks a question about our "mice."

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Jan 23

Started off this morning emailing my Senators and Congressman about the NIH and the potential damage being done by unnecessary disruptions.

They need to hear from us loud and clear. Constituents matter to them as one of the primary purposes of a politician is to get re-elected (and its their job).

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Laura Grima @lauragrima.bsky.social · Jan 23

Looking forward to this!

Sainsbury Wellcome Centre @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social · Jan 23

Join us on 30 Jan for the first Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series talk of 2025.

With @lauragrima.bsky.social (@hhmijanelia.bsky.social)

‘Dynamics of learning in many option foraging’

Find out more & register: www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/events/e...

Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series. 'Dynamics of many option foraging', Dr Laura Grima, 30th January 12pm, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre.

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Rejji Kuruvilla @rkuruvi1.bsky.social · Jan 3

The whiplash that I feel traveling between India and US is hard to explain. When I’m in one place, I blend into life there, it doesn’t feel alien. Family/childhood memories in one place. Career/folks that I love in another. Each time I travel, it’s an opportunity to question my identity.

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Shruti Muralidhar @polybiotique.bsky.social · Dec 17

Anybody from the Hindustan Times here? An article written by Ishita Singh Rajput has fabricated a quote that I never provided for this article. I was not approached for it and have no comments.

I know they will drag their feet in issuing a correction 😒

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Rahul Siddharthan @rsidd120.bsky.social · Dec 12

My thoughts on the "one nation, one subscription" plan.

I started writing this at the request of Nature India but withdrew when they said they wanted it for free, despite Springer-Nature being one of the richest and most profitable publishers.
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One nation, one subscription: A good first step

A version of this piece was originally written at the request of Nature India. Due to various points of friction, both on content and on remuneration, I withdrew the piece. (They informed me that t…

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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · Dec 13

I'm struck by how grad students in psych and neuro programs aren't generally expected to know basic facts about animal learning. For the psychologists, it has an odor of behaviorism, and for the neuroscientists it has an odor of psychology. Yet it's so fundamental (in my view).

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Adithya Rajagopalan @adiraj95.bsky.social · Dec 12

It was nice to take a break from project-related OFC/amygdala papers & read a fun fly study from the Parnas lab this morning: www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Exciting to see potentially distinct pathways for cue- & action- outcome learning in the fly, drawing parallels between the MB & striatum.

Neuronal circuit mechanisms of competitive interaction between action-based and coincidence learning

Parallel and interfering neuronal circuits are responsible for operant and classical learning.

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Adithya Rajagopalan @adiraj95.bsky.social · Dec 5

Oh this is true! Thank you!! I had forgotten this series. Definitely enjoyed it when I read it.

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Adithya Rajagopalan @adiraj95.bsky.social · Dec 5

Thinking further, Charlize Theron's character, Andromache of Scythia, from The Old Guard comes to mind. Haven't read the graphic novels the movie is based on though.

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Adithya Rajagopalan @adiraj95.bsky.social · Dec 5

Hoping for a clear hole in my memory and/or literary knowledge to be filled.

Adithya Rajagopalan @adiraj95.bsky.social · Dec 5

Question for all you blueskyers (is that the equivalent of tweeps?). Can someone point me to a book that has a brooding non-male protagonist. Brooding heros tend to be my favorite to read about - think Batman or Edmond Dantes - but thinking about it, I'm wondering if only men are written this way.

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Carla Golden @goldenneurons.bsky.social · Nov 15

Excited to be here in this quest for simpler times!

Here’s where you can find what I’ve been working on the last five years: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Estrogenic control of reward prediction errors and reinforcement learning

Gonadal hormones act throughout the brain[1][1], and neuropsychiatric disorders vary in symptom severity over the reproductive cycle, pregnancy, and perimenopause[2][2]–[4][3]. Yet how hormones influe...

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