Over the weekend, I had an idea: what if, instead of the objects appearing to sit horizontally in front of you, I modified them to appear vertically? Here are four test attempts.
Shaked Palgi
@shakedpa.bsky.social
PhD student, studying the neuroscience of navigation in the real world 🦇🏝️🗺️🧭🧠⚡ I once got stuck on an island in the middle of the ocean.
This is a real photo from 1913. It hasn’t been colorized. It was made using a technique called the Autochrome Lumière which captured true color using microscopic dyed starch grains as color filters, decades before color film existed. Pretty incredible, no? More below 👇
Our comp collaborators: The new package is ready - it's better and faster! Me, after spending a day reconfiguring everything: Welp, you forgot to implement a basic feature so I cannot use it
When the theta sweeps story came out, we were all "but what's the function?" Well here it is! Beautiful work by Abraham and the team
Abraham Zelalem Vollan@azvollan.bsky.social · 2mo agoNow in Science: How does the brain’s navigation system allocate its limited representational resources during behavior? We found that grid cells sweep toward locations of interest, providing a potential mechanism for allocating spatial attention in the cognitive map.🧵 science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#ICN2026 was fun. Also, I suspect that the fact that the clicker didn't work made my talk more memorable😅 (Many people who had nothing to do with it came to apologize😂)
International Society for Neuroethology@neuroethology.org · 2mo agoThird speaker is @shakedpa.bsky.social who presents their research on #Neuroethology on an island: from #spatialcoding to #ecology 🏝🦇🧠 #cognitivemap #navigation #neuroscience Congratulations, Shaked! 🎉🤩
Having a great time @neuroethology.org this year, and I am extremely honoured to have been awarded the Young Investigator award! Let me know if you think I did justice to locomotion of aquatic and terrestrial newts, and check out our new preprint of my postdoc work with @matosches.bsky.social!
International Society for Neuroethology@neuroethology.org · 2mo agoSecond comes @andrewmatheson.bsky.social with his talk on "Cell type plasticity supports behavioural adaptation at the water-to-land interface" 🦎🧠 #behaviour #sensorysystem #olfaction Congratulations, Andrew! 🎊👏
Alpha rhythm determines speech perception rate? And speeding it up makes unintelligibly fast speech comprehensible? This is nuts! www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Of the two sports events of today, one is the "greatest outdoors show on earth" with a prize money of more than a million dollars, and the other is the football world cup #still_not_in_banff
Our work on goal-directed theta sweeps is out! We found two different types of theta sweeps in the rat hippocampus. During random foraging, left-right alternating sweeps dominated (Vollan, 25). However, during memory-guided navigation sweeps pointing to hidden goal locations emerged with learning.
Americans (apparently including Canadians) will do anything to avoid the metric system
Our departmental Systems Neuroscience Journal Club ended its 15th(!) year. So, we decided to award those who presented more than 5 times with the "friend of the Journal Club" award, which this year goes to: Pritish Patil @iampritishpatil.bsky.social Michael Sokoletsky @msokoletsky.bsky.social
Our piece on language-like properties in animal vocal behavior is available today. Check it out! This is an incredibly difficult and thorny topic which is nonetheless of supreme importance and interest imco (in my current opinion)
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Max's PhD is the gift that keeps on giving
Maximilian E. Kirschhock@crowbrain.bsky.social · 7mo agoOur new paper comparing #crows and #monkeys on their cognitive strategies solving a numerical task has been accepted and published in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social last week! Very excited to see this project through 🤩 Check out the thread below 👇
1/7 🧠 My journey into development begins with this work and question: how does the brain's spatial navigation system develop? We found that the neural networks for spatial navigation (tori and rings) are preconfigured and only later anchor gradually to the world with experience! 🧵
Edvard I Moser@edvardmoser.bsky.social · 7mo agoIs spatial navigation innate 🧠? Using #NeuroPixels we show that the #torus 🍩 underlying the #GridCell map exists already on day 10 in rats — before pups open eyes and ears and before they start upright walking. 🧵1:4 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Nocturnal bull ants use a time-compensated lunar compass for navigation. The 🌛🧭 gets calibrated by the skyline. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @currentbiology.bsky.social
Nocturnal ants navigate using a time-compensated lunar compass
Diurnal animals commonly navigate using a sun compass, compensating for the sun’s movement to maintain accurate headings during migration or homing.1,…
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Just submitted abstracts to 3 conferences, as if everything is normal (everything is not normal)
This is a cool photo of crescent Venus. And the Moon, too. Image credit: Iván Éder
Friendly advice to all the computational neuroscientists in the audience: If it's impossible to install your amazing new package, nobody will use it except you
After the Human Single-Neuron meeting which was really fun, it's time for SfN! And this year, I *am* looking for a post-doc 😯
As usual, jetlag is my secret productivity enhancer. This time I don't have any paper back from revision or anything, so I finished a popular science article I was offered to write 🫠
I have to say that as an archeology and animal navigation geek, this really is the coolest collaborative project I've heard about in a while!
SFB 1372@sfb1372.bsky.social · 11mo agoThe really cool cross-disciplinary project where our SFB research fellow Pauline Fleischmann @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social is involved in has now 2 #postdoc positions advertised!
Doing our yearly localization-system inspection at the bat tunnel, 10 m above ground. This time joined by @crowbrain.bsky.social who got his crane license recently
I am excited to share my PhD work on head-direction cells recorded in the wild, now published in @science.org, where we recorded neurons in bats flying outdoors on an island. doi.org/10.1126/sci... With @ray-neuro.bsky.social, Shir Maimon, Liora Las, Nachum Ulanovsky and many others
As a primatologist, Jane Goodall was a huge inspiration to me. I admired the way she describes chimpanzee behavior with such detail and empathy, and she’s inspired so many people and advocated for chimpanzee conservation and welfare. However, I'm dismayed at what her narrative leaves out (1/10)
