A map of my music listening from the internet. I am grateful for suggestions to fill significant gaps.
Michael Orger
@daniobrain.bsky.social
Neuroscience Group Leader at Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown. Zebrafish behavior and brain-wide imaging. Also some Danionella and Devario. Might post about music and Rubik's cubes.
The fact that we can detect raspberries in interstellar space is honestly more surprising to me than their sugar content.
arxiv.org/abs/2604.23903 (Thanks to @memming.bsky.social for leading the writing of this opinion piece!)
Integrative neurocybernetic modeling in the era of large-scale neuroscience
Large-scale neuroscience is generating rich datasets across animals, brain areas and behavioral contexts, yet our modeling efforts remains fragmented across isolated experiments. We argue that underst...
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Visualizing and Sonifying NeuroData (ViSoND) github.com/Smear-Lab/Vi... is a strategy for observing multiple data streams in video and sound www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... e.g., watch an animal move while you listen to their physiological signals (or vice versa)
Very happy to see this paper come out from Lucas Martins @d-lucas.bsky.social and Alexandre Laborde. They developed an awesome framework, built with .NET, for developing software to run demanding high-speed behavior and functional imaging experiments. dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IR9v... All sorts of cubing records have been broken already in the first weeks of 2026. Here is 9-year-old Teodor Zajder with the first ever sub-3 second official solve!
Teodor Zajder 2.76 3x3 World Record
YouTube video by P̳̿͟͞r̳̿͟͞o̳̿͟͞x̳̿͟͞i̳̿͟͞m̳̿͟͞a̳̿͟͞
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A track I need to listen to every few weeks and that I think more people could appreciate. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkSn...
Thighpaulsandra"The Angelica Declaration"
YouTube video by Zos Khem
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq-k... still getting my head around the fact that this monumental album was allegedly recorded in a single take.
Manuel Göttsching — E2-E4 (1981/Full album)
YouTube video by 12edit
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"These results show that spontaneous activity in the vertebrate brain is highly stereotyped at the level of functional cell assemblies and can be reliably captured through a common latent code." New work from Volker Bormuth Lab @sorbonne-universite.fr 🐟🧠
bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 7mo agoCross-individual translation of spontaneous zebrafish brain activity through a shared latent representation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.09.698719v1
Watch 8-year-old Xuanyi Geng clutch the world record for Rubik's cube solving (average) with a 3.37 second solve. Planning: he is planning around 20-25 moves ahead here before he starts to solve. Motor control: he turns the cube faces at 12-13 turns per second. youtu.be/wKm5DfuJJdo?...
Sub3.90 Milestone! 3.84 3x3 WR Avg Xuanyi Geng🇨🇳 | Rubik's Cube World Record | Beijing Winter 2026
YouTube video by CubeRoot
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A list that has Stoner, Children of Time and The Age of Innocence makes me really curious to read all the rest.
Barry Petchesky@barryp.bsky.social · 7mo ago‘Children of Time’ whips, if you like sci-fi at all you should read it. defector.com/the-best-thi...
Adam Kampff prioritized spreading knowledge over publishing flashy papers in prestigious journals, but colleagues say his mark on neuroscience was undeniable. The researcher and educator passed away on 9 December. By Lauren Schneider www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...
Remembering Adam Kampff, neuroscience educator and researcher
Kampff’s do-it-yourself approach inspired a generation of neuroscientists.
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I wanted to pass on a website my son is working on: maths.orger.org. He was personally frustrated with maths in school, when he was asked to apply knowledge of things he was not yet able to prove to himself, and this inspired him to work on a curriculum where everything is justified in strict order.
maths.orger.org – Home
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This is tough. Adam Kampff was one of the most brilliant people that I have had the privilege to know. He was a wonderful and generous friend and colleague, a remarkable teacher and a visionary who inspired hundreds of others. He was a shining example to us all, and we will miss him very much.
Rui Costa@ruimcosta.bsky.social · 8mo agoLast night Adam Kampff, the glue, the light, the catalyst, the builder, the smile, left us. He and his work transformed the lives of many labs, scientists, students. He inspired and was generous to his last transformation, working tirelessly to set up a foundation to continue the work.Thank you!
Very excited to share this thread on our recent paper! We show how Zebrafish integrate visual navigation signals in aligned topographic maps. Full thread below🧵
Portugues Lab@portugueslab.bsky.social · 8mo ago(1/n) We are excited to share our new paper in Nature Communications, by Hagar Lavian (@hlavian.bsky.social) and team, revealing how the zebrafish brain integrates visual navigation signals! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧠 Applications for the International Neuroscience Doctoral Programme (INDP) @champalimaudf.bsky.social open until 31 January 2026. ☀️ Join our vibrant and international research community in sunny Lisbon! 🔗 fchampalimaud.org/champalimaud...
Scientists around former IMP group leader David Keays (@lmumuenchen.bsky.social show that #pigeons detect magnetic fields through their inner ear. Their discovery was now published in the journal @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... More: www.imp.ac.at/news/article...
A global screen for magnetically induced neuronal activity in the pigeon brain
How animals detect the Earth’s magnetic field remains a mystery in sensory biology. Despite extensive behavioral evidence, the neural circuitry and molecular mechanisms responsible for magnetic sensin...
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🎉 Excited to share our new preprint presenting a complete de novo assembly of the zebrafish genome; a major advance for zebrafish genomics and research! 🧬 Full paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @zebrafishrock.bsky.social @izfs.bsky.social @zfinmod.bsky.social @modelzebrafish.bsky.social
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I’m honored to be named a 2025 @simonsfoundation.org Pivot Fellow! This support will allow me to build expertise in dynamical systems and control theory with mentorship from Guillaume Hennequin (@GJEHennequin on X). www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/11/13/s...
Simons Foundation Announces Fourth Class of Pivot Fellows
The Simons Foundation is pleased to announce the fourth class of its Pivot Fellowship.
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🧠In this essay Carlos Ribeiro and Albino J. Oliveira-Maia, @champalimaudf.bsky.social, explore the brain-body interactions. 🤝Their collaboration bridges fundamental and clinical science, reminding us that progress comes from a joint effort between the two. 👉 www.fchampalimaud.org/news/how-sci...
🚨Big news!🚨 The lab is relocating to Lisbon, joining a great team of experimental and theoretical neuroscientists, and the Neurotechnology Warehouse, a new initiative to bridge basic and translational research. I'll be sharing postdoc openings soon. Come join us in this new incarnation of the lab!
Champalimaud Research@champalimaudr.bsky.social · 10mo ago🧠🎼 What does it take to restore movement? Neuroscientist and engineer, @juangallego.bsky.social, joins the new Centre for Restorative Neurotechnology at the Champalimaud Foundation. 🔗 Find out more in this interview: www.fchampalimaud.org/news/juan-al...
The effect of time of day on exam pass rate in this study is quite dramatic. Consider that Edexcel runs some UK international exams as early as 7:30 a.m., which is even outside the range plotted in this study!
Tessmar-Raible Labs@tessmarraiblelabs.bsky.social · 11mo agoTiming matters! Kristin Tessmar-Raible @univie.ac.at @awi.de @ercgrantees.bsky.social on Austrian TV #ORF2 today to contextualise new research from Carmelo Vicario and team (Univ. of Messina) on the timing of exams. on.orf.at/video/142925... Check out the paper here: doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...
Does anyone have recommendations for neuroscience books or other non-fiction available on Audible? I enjoyed listening to Elusive Cures (read by the author @nicolecrust.bsky.social) and Innate (from @wiringthebrain.bsky.social), and I was wondering what other good audiobooks are out there?
I'm enjoying revisiting Marina Herlop's 2022 Pripyat LP. Here is the gorgeous opening track Abans Abans with a video featuring snails, stalactites and alpacas and her unique approach to vocals and piano. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3_t...
Marina Herlop - abans abans
YouTube video by Marina Herlop
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RIP Brian Wilson (1942-2025), one of the greatest innovators who helped build popular music into an enduring art form, and a kind and humble person. www.youtube.com/watch?v=S22a...
Surf's Up
YouTube video by The Beach Boys - Topic
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It took us many years to improve idtracker.ai in both accuracy and tracking time. Here it is.
idtracker.ai — idtrackerai 6.0.3 documentation
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BehavEcolPapers@behavecolpapers.bsky.social · last yr.New idtracker.ai: rethinking multi-#animal tracking as a representation learning problem to increase accuracy and reduce tracking times bioRxivpreprint
If you're planning a course with mathematical methods content, or use such methods in your own work, please take a look at "Mathematics in Biology", by Meister, Lee, and Portugues, published at MIT Press. 1/2 @portugueslab.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026204940...
Mathematics in Biology
Biology has turned into a quantitative science. The core problems in the life sciences today involve complex systems that require mathematical expression, ye...
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