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Arkarup Banerjee @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social · 8d

Looks really interesting. Congrats!

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Matt Lovett-Barron @mlovettbarron.bsky.social · 8d

Our latest study on the neurobiology of collective behavior is now posted as a preprint, led by UCSD PhD student Jo-Hsien Yu @anitajhyu.bsky.social @ucsandiego.bsky.social @danionella.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Arkarup Banerjee @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social · 19d

Thanks Anne for sharing! This seems like a fantastic resource 👇🏽

annechurchland.bsky.social @annechurchland.bsky.social · 19d

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Searchable database of tangible benefits that federally-funded research gave us.

A crowd-sourced site. Health and Well-being. National Security. Prosperity.

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Ari Benjamin @aribenjamin.bsky.social · 20d

Do you plot transcriptomic data, coloring each cell by its cell type? ~ Don't use a default colormap! ~

Instead, use colormaps that capture biological meaning. If two cell types are very similar, their colors should be similar too. Read on 🧵

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Arkarup Banerjee @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social · 24d

Congrats Felix @mollfw.bsky.social and team. Really interesting behavioral study setting the stage for subsequent neurobiological investigations! 👇🏽

Felix W. Moll @mollfw.bsky.social · 27d

New paper on precise tool use learning in carrion crows @currentbiology.bsky.social. We show that—like New Caledonian crows—expert carrion crows pay close attention to the working end of their tool, suggesting tool integration into their peripersonal space. 🧵 & vids! 👇

www.cell.com/current-biol...

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Arkarup Banerjee @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social · Sep 5

Congrats Herbert! Very interesting.

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Kishore Kuchibhotla @kishoreneuro.bsky.social · Sep 4

🚨 We’re hiring a postdoc! 🚨

Excited for our new NiCE grant with @lauerlab.bsky.social @batwoman123.bsky.social 🎉We use a comparative approach, two-photon imaging & optogenetics to identify why bats🦇 and deer mice resist noise but lab mice don't.

If you're interested, please DM or e-mail me!

The Kavli Foundation @kavlifoundation.org · Sep 2

The Kavli Foundation & #NSF announce four new NiCE grants to study how brains adapt to a changing world - linking genes, cells, behavior, and ecosystems.

From bees to bats to jellyfish, check out the 2025 awardees. Learn more here: http://bit.ly/4fYz8vK

#KavliNeuro #Neuroscience

Kavli and NSF Announce New Grant Awards to Advance Neurobiology in…

An initiative to explore how nervous systems function and evolve in dynamic natural environments

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Arkarup Banerjee @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social · Aug 13

Nice thread! I also use AI for coding on a regular basis. It increases efficiency only if you are already an expert. On the other hand, unlike grad students, it never gets tired and is always polite!

Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · Aug 12

Not sure how many scientists here have tried Claude Code or similar command line coding assistants. I had a complicated family property tax problem that was best solved by a brute force Monte Carlo simulation approach, so I spent a few days coding up and analyzing a model with Claude Code.

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Society for the Neural Control of Movement @ncmsociety.bsky.social · Aug 6

Do you know an outstanding early career researcher in the NCM Community? Nominate them for the Early Career Award!

Deadline for nominations is Sept 8 and more details can be found on the website - ncm-society.org/awards/

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Arkarup Banerjee @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social · Jul 31

Congrats Drew. Well deserved!

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Arkarup Banerjee @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social · Jul 22

Congrats Petr! Glad to see this out. I will read it carefully.

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Petr Znamenskiy @petrznam.bsky.social · Jul 21

1/ Mapping synaptic connectivity between individual neurons is extremely laborious. We developed BRISC, a new method that makes it possible to map inputs onto 100s of neurons in the same animal in a matter of weeks! Led by Alex Becalick and @antblot.bsky.social. 🧵

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Barcoded Rabies In Situ Connectomics for high-throughput reconstruction of neural circuits

Sequencing of oligonucleotide barcodes holds promise as a high-throughput approach for reconstructing synaptic connectivity at scale. Rabies viruses can act as a vehicle for barcode transmission, than...

www.biorxiv.org

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Arkarup Banerjee @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social · Jul 20

Silly typo.. *appealing

Arkarup Banerjee @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social · Jul 20

Very interesting thread! I really like “Principles of Neural Design” by Sterling and Laughlin. It doesn’t shy away from biological details but presents it in a form that is appearing to engineers and physicists.

Shahab Bakhtiari @shahabbakht.bsky.social · Jul 16

For trainees entering computational neuroscience or NeuroAI from an engineering background, where do you direct them to learn some neuroscience these days? Books, courses, ...?

And no... I'm not interested in scaring them off with Kandel!

🧠🤖, 🧠📈

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Aatish Bhatia @aatishb.bsky.social · Jul 18

If you're into math and music, you'll probably love this in-depth video by my friend Henry! www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCsl... And it features an interactive about dissonance that I put together years ago: aatishb.com/dissonance/

The Physics Of Dissonance

YouTube video by minutephysics

www.youtube.com

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Arkarup Banerjee @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social · Jul 18

Really enjoyed this summer’s lab trip to fire island, NY!

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Arkarup Banerjee @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social · Jul 17

Couldn’t agree more! Evolutionary perspective is a guiding principle for most projects in our lab.👇🏽

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · Jul 16

To identify fundamental neuroscientific principles that generalize across species, systems and circuits, neuroscientists must embrace an evolutionary perspective, argue Karl Farrow and @katjareinhard.bsky.social.

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...

Systems and circuit neuroscience need an evolutionary perspective

To identify fundamental neuroscientific principles that generalize across species, neuroscientists must frame their research through an evolutionary lens.

www.thetransmitter.org

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Alfons López Tena @alfonslopeztena.bsky.social · Jul 2

Mechanisms and control of a novel vocalization: The Alston singing mouse song is a whistle that depends on the inflation of the ventral pouch –an enlarged intralaryngeal air sac– laryngeal airflow, and cricothyroid muscle action
By ⁦ @evolbrain.bsky.social et al.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Arkarup Banerjee @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social · Jul 2

Congratulations Ish! Well-deserved.

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Saikat Ray @ray-neuro.bsky.social · Jun 28

Come visit Calcutta in the last week of August and see some amazing neuroscientists talk about the neural basis of behaviour at @behaviour2025.bsky.social

With @neuroetho.bsky.social @danielavallentin.bsky.social @selmaan.bsky.social @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social and Michael Brecht!

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Arkarup Banerjee @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social · Jun 26

Next-generation of barcoded projection mapping techniques: MAPseq2 and POINTseq! Congratulations @justuskebschull.bsky.social and team.

Justus Kebschull @justuskebschull.bsky.social · Jun 26

Excited to share the first 2(!) preprints from the Kebschull Lab. The amazing @hyopilkim.bsky.social developed MAPseq2 & POINTseq and used them to map the dopaminergic cells of VTA and SNc. tl;dr MAPseq2=10x cheaper, 4x better; POINTseq=easy cell type specific barcoding; DA neurons=very cool.

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Arkarup Banerjee @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social · Jun 24

You are most welcome to stop by!

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Arkarup Banerjee @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social · Jun 23

Excellent news and congratulations, Dan!

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Arkarup Banerjee @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social · Jun 20

Delighted to receive the McKnight Scholar Award! Great to see many friends and colleagues on this year's list.

It's a real privilege to be able to pursue an academic life probing nature's mysteries—huge thanks to my lab members and @cshlnews.bsky.social for making it all possible.

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory @cshlnews.bsky.social · Jun 20

CSHL Assistant Professor Arkarup Banerjee has been named a 2025 McKnight Scholar, one of neuroscience’s most prestigious early-career honors.
www.cshl.edu/arkarup-bane...

Arkarup Banerjee named 2025 McKnight Scholar | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Assistant Professor Arkarup Banerjee has been named a 2025 McKnight Scholar. Awarded by the McKnight Foundation, the scholarship provides early-career neuroscienti...

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Arkarup Banerjee @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social · Jun 16

Lovely!

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