Why is github.com/calebweinreb... not in the top five tools used in systems neuroscience? #Kilosort, #DeepLabCut, #Suite2p, #CaImAn are crucial because they work flawlessly. #SNUB ...also just works and has delivered more insights into my data in less time than any of these others combined.

Abstract suggesting that some protists can use symbiosis for magnetoreception. Promising direction, seeing as there have been zero magnetoreceptors discovered outside bacteria... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

a cartoon coyote is riding a skateboard with a magnet attached to it

Alt: Literal data about how magnetoreception works

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I never feel like I have something about science I'm comfortable posting. But I just realized I have too many gardening thoughts to just keep to myself. So... Why do I never see grapevines in urban LA landscapes?

#SfN25 's hottest club is Poster X8 Tuesday Morning. This club has everything: mice hunting robotic bait, quantitative behavior modeling, chronic superior colliculus Neuropixel data, and GLM encoding/decoding, not to mention the cheap new DAQ EVERYONE's been rumbling about. See you there!

1/ Late to the game to publicize my paper with @healeylab.bsky.social ocial: Parsing social context in auditory forebrain of male zebra finches (PLOS ONE, March 19, 2025). We also developed a low-cost microdrive for long-term neural recording in freely behaving finches.