congrads @LauraGrimaNeuro and all the whole team for this review on Foraging as an ethological framework for neuroscience , timely and important topic . Check it out : cell.com/trends/neurosc…

I had the pleasure of writing a profile of a scientist I greatly admired and whose work continues to inspire me: Dale Purves (purveslab.net):

aeon.co/essays/dale-pu…

Enough birdsong tweets, let's talk marmosets 🙊

Now in @NatureComms by @ThiagoTVarella (@LifeofBehavior lab), "Active sampling as an information seeking strategy in primate vocal interactions"

nature.com/articles/s4200…

Are contact calls somehow like electric fish pulses?

1/3

Babies are communicating as soon as they are born, and these abilities are developing in the nine months before birth.

My detailed account of how this happens...
aeon.co/essays/how-fet…

@behaviOrganisms & I worked on this piece, off and on, for 5 years! Glad that it's finally out into the world. It's about the importance of the individual organism in the development and evolution of brains. It's about Time.
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S01…

We also discuss mistakes folks often make (and I have certainly made) when it comes to thinking about how development and evolution work together.

I'm still mildly annoyed that it was desk-rejected by at least 4 journals (and, of course, with no meaningful explanation) but happy that it got constructive, thoughtful and rapid reviews at sciencedirect.com/journal/neuros…

Translational illusions: Current Biology cell.com/current-biolog…

Read this awhile back. I think it's an awesome book. This is my attempt at a distillation.

Hey yall - my lab is hiring !

We're looking for a research tech to work on the neurobiology of multitasking in Drosophila !

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please RT

job ad: uwhires.admin.washington.edu/eng/candidates…

Model Systems in Biology by @georg_striedter looks good, like a gut check! Just got it yesterday. On the "to read" shortlist.

My 3-year experiment in signing all my manuscript reviews is over. I finally came across some studies where revealing my identity hampered expressing my critique. That is, I doubted that the authors would take well what I had to say.

"When the history of life on earth is viewed as a history of cell division, all of life becomes a single cell lineage."

Thought-provoking paper by Chris Fields and @drmichaellevin that explores the implications of this statement.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

I wanted to keep my twitter acct focused on "science" but this was too incredible not to share.

What Do You Fear the Most? ‘That I’m Not Who I Should Be.’ nytimes.com/2022/06/07/opi…

This is worth checking out if you're a PI. I wish had this doc when I was starting out.
A group approach to growing as a principal investigator cell.com/current-biolog…

See also civiclaboratory.nl/clear-lab-book/ (Thanks to @ColumboAhmed for the pointer)

Can someone point me to a study that shows that human infants/toddlers use imitation as part of their vocal learning strategy? I'd be much obliged.

#vocallearning

Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience Lecturer Position at Princeton
princeton.edu/acad-positions…

Systems & Quantitative Neuroscience Lecturer Position at Princeton
princeton.edu/acad-positions…

Was thinking about my past work and how I got into neural oscillations for one rewarding phase of my career. My memory chain quickly brought me to this great paper by the late Peter Lakatos. It had a big influence on me.
journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.11…

Many thanks to @jonasobleser for his obituary highlighting Peter's many accomplishments.
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