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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.

doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

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Carlos Brody @carlosbrody.bsky.social · 19d

What happens in your brain when you make up your mind?

Postdoc (soon faculty at U. of Utah) @thomas-zhihao-luo.bsky.social and ex-grad student (now Shanahan Fellow at Allen Institute) @timkimd.bsky.social have some answers in this new paper out in Nature!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Constantinople lab @constantinoplelab.bsky.social · 29d

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Constantinople lab @constantinoplelab.bsky.social · Sep 2

Rats vs. Chats, round 1: bomb safety

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Constantinople lab @constantinoplelab.bsky.social · Aug 28

It is real! Sadly not in NYC, but in Capitol Hill, Seattle. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Rat...

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Constantinople lab @constantinoplelab.bsky.social · Aug 28

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Erin Rich @erinlrich.bsky.social · Aug 7

Happy to have some good science news - our new study with @aqperkins.bsky.social is out in @plosbiology.org!

dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Orbitofrontal cortex computes gaze-dependent comparisons between attributes rather than integrated values

When choosing between options with multiple attributes, the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) is thought to integrate across those attributes, aiding in value comparisons. This study shows in monkeys that OF...

dx.plos.org

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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.

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · Jun 11

Scientists based in New York - do you want to help raise awareness about attacks on science & science funding? We are organizing low-effort outreach events in the city. Some amazing NYUers did a test run in Washington Square Park already.

Sign up for more info here! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Standing Up for Science in NYC

This form is for organizing the fight against attacks on science and science funding through "Ask-A-Scientist" and other outreach events around NYC. Find and contribute to plans here: https://docs.goo...

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Constantinople lab @constantinoplelab.bsky.social · Jun 10

Rat-mon is a pro at our task because he went to kindergarten first.

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Mark Andermann @markandermann.bsky.social · Jun 2

Wild!

Stephen, Praneel and their team use fluorescence lifetime imaging and various manipulations to show that, in male mice, both mating drive and hypothalamic tonic dopamine release drop after a successful mating and gradually recover over the next week, paralleling the recovery in sperm count.

Praneel Sunkavalli @praneelsunkavalli.bsky.social · Jun 2

I am excited to share our preprint on how hypothalamic dopamine neurons govern slow changes in motivation over days! Below are our findings:

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

Slow-Timescale Regulation of Dopamine Release and Mating Drive over Days

The rise and fall of motivational states may take place over timescales as long as many days. We used mouse mating behavior to model how the brain orchestrates slow-timescale changes in motivation. Ma...

www.biorxiv.org

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David Pfau @davidpfau.com · May 28

The war on science in the US is already having an effect on private sector research like AlphaFold. Bears repeating but the private sector builds on top of things created by academic research for the public good. This hurts everyone.

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Constantinople lab @constantinoplelab.bsky.social · May 28

Common reviewer comment: "Why do they have so many rats?"

Because it's NYC b*tch.

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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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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...

www.nature.com

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The Viking (Gunnar Blohm) @gunnarblohm.bsky.social · May 20

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...

www.nature.com

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · Apr 12

This is such a mistake - these alternative ways of testing aren't good enough "models" to evaluate new drugs. People will suffer and die because of this.

I never thought that I wouldn't be able rely on the US FDA for safety and effectiveness. What a sad era ...

Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · Apr 11

FDA plans to phase out animal testing requirement for drug testing and replace it with “AI-based computational models of toxicity” and organoid toxicity testing www.fda.gov/news-events/...

FDA Announces Plan to Phase Out Animal Testing Requirement for Monoclonal Antibodies and Other Drugs

FDA Plans to Phase Out Animal Testing Requirement

www.fda.gov

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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · Mar 6

Groundbreaking work by Dr. Soohyun Lee from the National Institute of Mental Health at NIH
The brilliant young scientist faces termination.
Science like this leads to discoveries that can revolutionize how we understand the brain.
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#neuroscience #neuroskyence

Brain-wide presynaptic networks of functionally distinct cortical neurons - Nature

Behavioural-state-dependent pyramidal neurons have a distinct pattern of long-range glutamatergic inputs, with a larger proportion of thalamic versus motor cortex inputs compared with non-behavio...

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Nathaniel Daw @nathanieldaw.bsky.social · Feb 5

hello world. we have an opening for a strong theory postdoc to work in my lab on a exciting collaboration with Josh Berke and Loren Frank labs modeling and analyzing data on rat hipp-pfc-bg-da involvement in spatial maze foraging, replay, value etc. apply here: www.princeton.edu/acad-positio...

Application for Postdoctoral Research Associate

www.princeton.edu

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · Jan 22

SHARE WIDELY.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.

With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.

You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.

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Erin Rich @erinlrich.bsky.social · Jan 2

It's official, the Rich lab is now part of the Center for Neural Science at NYU! I'm thrilled to be joining CNS! At the same time, I'll miss my amazing colleagues at Sinai (even though we're not going far).

Here's to new adventures in the new year!🥂

as.nyu.edu

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Justin Blau @justinblau.bsky.social · Dec 4

We are hiring at NYU! An Assistant Professor position between the Department of Biology and the Center for Neural Science.

apply.interfolio.com/160048

Deadline Jan 8th

Please re-post / re-Sky / re-Blue...just tell people

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cosynemeeting.bsky.social @cosynemeeting.bsky.social · Dec 2

The Undergrad Travel Grant Program (deadline: Dec 6th) provides an opportunity for undergrads to learn more about comp systems neuro. It’s especially suited for students considering neuro graduate study!

Apply here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

More info:
www.cosyne.org/travel-grants

Cosyne 2025 Undergraduate Travel Grant Program

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Eero Simoncelli @eerosim.bsky.social · Nov 26

The Center for Neural Science at NYU is aiming to add another computational neuroscientist to our community: apply.interfolio.com/157767
Come join us!
Deadline 31 Dec 2024

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