Arkarup Banerjee
@arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Neuroscientist. Loves explaining. Bibliophile. Amateur singer. Eternal optimist. Writes the occasional paper. Lab website - www.arkabanerjeelab.com
This year's Neural Mechanisms of Acoustic Communication (NMAC) GRC is looking great! Fantastic lineup already. More talks will be selected based on abstracts. Please apply. 👇 #bioacoustics #neuroskyence
We are excited to announce that registration is open for the 2026 Neural Mechanisms of Acoustic Communication Gordon Research Conference. The preliminary program is now live: www.grc.org/neural-mecha...
We invite everyone to apply! See you @ Sunday River, Maine, May 31-June 5, 2026.
We invite everyone to apply! See you @ Sunday River, Maine, May 31-June 5, 2026.
January 27, 2026 at 8:24 PM
This year's Neural Mechanisms of Acoustic Communication (NMAC) GRC is looking great! Fantastic lineup already. More talks will be selected based on abstracts. Please apply. 👇 #bioacoustics #neuroskyence
Very clever use of unnatural playback stimuli to reveal the hierarchical logic of acoustic production in nightingales! Congratulations @danielavallentin.bsky.social and team.
Nightingales are masters of imitation! New research shows: During territorial contests, a male matches a rival’s song in real time by tracking and imitating both, pitch and syllable duration. This shows a remarkable precision in hearing and vocal control.
🔗More: www.bi.mpg.de/news/2026-01-vallentin
🔗More: www.bi.mpg.de/news/2026-01-vallentin
January 13, 2026 at 3:54 AM
Very clever use of unnatural playback stimuli to reveal the hierarchical logic of acoustic production in nightingales! Congratulations @danielavallentin.bsky.social and team.
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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...
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.
www.thetransmitter.org
December 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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...
By Lauren Schneider
www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...
Seriously, who comes up with these idiotic tests?
Also, wait, is there anyone who doesn’t put water on toothbrush before paste?
Also, wait, is there anyone who doesn’t put water on toothbrush before paste?
December 23, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Seriously, who comes up with these idiotic tests?
Also, wait, is there anyone who doesn’t put water on toothbrush before paste?
Also, wait, is there anyone who doesn’t put water on toothbrush before paste?
AGI may arrive soon --- not because machines are getting smarter but because the bar set by humans keeps dropping!
Elon Musk Predicts AGI by 2026 (He Predicted AGI by 2025 Last Year) gizmodo.com/elon-musk-pr...
Elon Musk Predicts AGI by 2026 (He Predicted AGI by 2025 Last Year)
The robot uprising has been postponed.
gizmodo.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
AGI may arrive soon --- not because machines are getting smarter but because the bar set by humans keeps dropping!
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Adam Kampff’s passion for understanding and explaining the world was unmatched. Living by example and not ever compromising on his dreams, Adam was uncanny in making people realize they can learn and understand anything and everything. Keep his dream alive!
In his own words: tinyurl.com/ye29csw3
In his own words: tinyurl.com/ye29csw3
December 15, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Adam Kampff’s passion for understanding and explaining the world was unmatched. Living by example and not ever compromising on his dreams, Adam was uncanny in making people realize they can learn and understand anything and everything. Keep his dream alive!
In his own words: tinyurl.com/ye29csw3
In his own words: tinyurl.com/ye29csw3
Reposted by Arkarup Banerjee
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.
Last 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!
December 9, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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.
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The final version of the clonal raider ant reference brain is now out OA in @currentbiology.bsky.social:
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
December 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The final version of the clonal raider ant reference brain is now out OA in @currentbiology.bsky.social:
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Thank you for having me on BrainInspired, Paul @braininspired.bsky.social! It was such an honor to be on my favorite show—a rare place where we can leisurely talk about manifolds, latent circuits, power laws, and other esoteric ideas, and still be taken seriously in knowing they are all real.
Are manifolds real?
Are latent circuits real?
Tatiana @engeltatiana.bsky.social uses one, infers the other, and says yes to both.
Also, how timescales are different and the same across the entire brain...
braininspired.co/podcast/226/
Are latent circuits real?
Tatiana @engeltatiana.bsky.social uses one, infers the other, and says yes to both.
Also, how timescales are different and the same across the entire brain...
braininspired.co/podcast/226/
December 5, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Thank you for having me on BrainInspired, Paul @braininspired.bsky.social! It was such an honor to be on my favorite show—a rare place where we can leisurely talk about manifolds, latent circuits, power laws, and other esoteric ideas, and still be taken seriously in knowing they are all real.
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Ever see a mouse stand on its hind legs and belt out a song?@xmikezheng20.bsky.social, @cliffscience.bsky.social, and @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social track this behavior in Alston’s singing mice. See what it might say about the origins of communication. cshl.edu/singing-mice-speak-volumes/
Singing mice speak volumes | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
All mice squeak, but only some sing. Scotinomys teguina, aka Alston’s singing mice, hail from the cloud forests of Costa Rica. More than 2,000 miles north, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) neurosc...
cshl.edu
December 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Ever see a mouse stand on its hind legs and belt out a song?@xmikezheng20.bsky.social, @cliffscience.bsky.social, and @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social track this behavior in Alston’s singing mice. See what it might say about the origins of communication. cshl.edu/singing-mice-speak-volumes/
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Join us for Fall 2026. In our group, you can run studies from human behavior and neuroimaging, to large-scale NHP ephys, and join them up with a robust computational foundation. Bonus: you can help build the reading list.
The Sensorimotor Superlab with @gribblelab.org and @andpru.bsky.social is a unique place to work and learn. We are now accepting MSc and PhD applications for Fall 2026. Join our awesome team at Western University... For application instructions see diedrichsenlab.org and gribblelab.org/join.html!
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December 2, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Join us for Fall 2026. In our group, you can run studies from human behavior and neuroimaging, to large-scale NHP ephys, and join them up with a robust computational foundation. Bonus: you can help build the reading list.
Good point and certainly helps! Instead of a linear progression from left to right which is clearly erroneous, now all I see is a gaussian with humans having the highest complexity, which is still erroneous! #EvolutionIsHard
New post by me on #MITPressReader @mitpress.bsky.social
On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial
the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’).
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu...
On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial
the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’).
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu...
December 1, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Good point and certainly helps! Instead of a linear progression from left to right which is clearly erroneous, now all I see is a gaussian with humans having the highest complexity, which is still erroneous! #EvolutionIsHard
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(If you have no idea what we're talking about, you should read the paper anyways. And also you should join us at @braincoustics.bsky.social seminars)
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The next Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics seminar is happening in 2 weeks!
Join us to learn all about the neuroscience and ecology of acoustic communication in mice from @cliffscience.bsky.social and @leo-perrier.bsky.social
🗓️ October 23rd @ 10:00 EST
✅ Register here: braincoustics.com
Join us to learn all about the neuroscience and ecology of acoustic communication in mice from @cliffscience.bsky.social and @leo-perrier.bsky.social
🗓️ October 23rd @ 10:00 EST
✅ Register here: braincoustics.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
(If you have no idea what we're talking about, you should read the paper anyways. And also you should join us at @braincoustics.bsky.social seminars)
bsky.app/profile/brai...
bsky.app/profile/brai...
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How do you build a brain that lets mice sing? 🎤🐭
If you enjoyed @cliffscience.bsky.social's talk @braincoustics.bsky.social on this work, now you can read it in @currentbiology.bsky.social!
(w / 1st author @xmikezheng20.bsky.social, @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social group)
#prattle 💬
#neurosky
If you enjoyed @cliffscience.bsky.social's talk @braincoustics.bsky.social on this work, now you can read it in @currentbiology.bsky.social!
(w / 1st author @xmikezheng20.bsky.social, @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social group)
#prattle 💬
#neurosky
Great @currentbiology.bsky.social study by @xmikezheng20.bsky.social @cliffscience.bsky.social @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social 🧪🧠🐭🎶
Vocal repertoire expansion in singing mice by co-opting a conserved midbrain circuit node
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Vocal repertoire expansion in singing mice by co-opting a conserved midbrain circuit node
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Vocal repertoire expansion in singing mice by co-opting a conserved midbrain circuit node
Zheng and Harpole et al. show that singing mice produce two major vocal modes: ancestral
USVs and novel songs that follow a linearly decelerating rhythm. Although acoustically
distinct, songs and USVs...
www.cell.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
How do you build a brain that lets mice sing? 🎤🐭
If you enjoyed @cliffscience.bsky.social's talk @braincoustics.bsky.social on this work, now you can read it in @currentbiology.bsky.social!
(w / 1st author @xmikezheng20.bsky.social, @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social group)
#prattle 💬
#neurosky
If you enjoyed @cliffscience.bsky.social's talk @braincoustics.bsky.social on this work, now you can read it in @currentbiology.bsky.social!
(w / 1st author @xmikezheng20.bsky.social, @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social group)
#prattle 💬
#neurosky
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I am recruiting graduate students for the experimental side of my lab @mcgill.ca for admission in Fall 2026!
Get in touch if you're interested in how brain circuits implement distributed computation, including dopamine-based distributed RL and probabilistic representations.
Get in touch if you're interested in how brain circuits implement distributed computation, including dopamine-based distributed RL and probabilistic representations.
November 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I am recruiting graduate students for the experimental side of my lab @mcgill.ca for admission in Fall 2026!
Get in touch if you're interested in how brain circuits implement distributed computation, including dopamine-based distributed RL and probabilistic representations.
Get in touch if you're interested in how brain circuits implement distributed computation, including dopamine-based distributed RL and probabilistic representations.
As a longtime fan of cool papers in @currentbiology.bsky.social, I am really thrilled to see this out!
This study sets the stage for understanding the origins of novel (vocal) behaviors.
Big shout out to the main architects of this work @xmikezheng20.bsky.social and @cliffscience.bsky.social
This study sets the stage for understanding the origins of novel (vocal) behaviors.
Big shout out to the main architects of this work @xmikezheng20.bsky.social and @cliffscience.bsky.social
Great @currentbiology.bsky.social study by @xmikezheng20.bsky.social @cliffscience.bsky.social @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social 🧪🧠🐭🎶
Vocal repertoire expansion in singing mice by co-opting a conserved midbrain circuit node
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Vocal repertoire expansion in singing mice by co-opting a conserved midbrain circuit node
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Vocal repertoire expansion in singing mice by co-opting a conserved midbrain circuit node
Zheng and Harpole et al. show that singing mice produce two major vocal modes: ancestral
USVs and novel songs that follow a linearly decelerating rhythm. Although acoustically
distinct, songs and USVs...
www.cell.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:42 PM
As a longtime fan of cool papers in @currentbiology.bsky.social, I am really thrilled to see this out!
This study sets the stage for understanding the origins of novel (vocal) behaviors.
Big shout out to the main architects of this work @xmikezheng20.bsky.social and @cliffscience.bsky.social
This study sets the stage for understanding the origins of novel (vocal) behaviors.
Big shout out to the main architects of this work @xmikezheng20.bsky.social and @cliffscience.bsky.social
Reposted by Arkarup Banerjee
If you are at #SfN2025, don't miss Huihui's poster tomorrow (Sunday) morning at MM6 (PSTR095.13)! He has developed methods for barcoded connectomics across many vertebrates, from frogs to NHPs, and is comparing the single-cell anatomy of the song systems of zebra finches and parrots!
November 15, 2025 at 10:32 PM
If you are at #SfN2025, don't miss Huihui's poster tomorrow (Sunday) morning at MM6 (PSTR095.13)! He has developed methods for barcoded connectomics across many vertebrates, from frogs to NHPs, and is comparing the single-cell anatomy of the song systems of zebra finches and parrots!
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Excited to share that I received #Sfn2025 ‘s Professional Trainee Development Award!
Check out my poster M9 “Dopamine dynamics in the nucleus accumbens during maternal behavior in postpartum and virgin CBA/CaJ mice” tonight at the Early Career Development Session, 6:45–8:45 p.m.
Check out my poster M9 “Dopamine dynamics in the nucleus accumbens during maternal behavior in postpartum and virgin CBA/CaJ mice” tonight at the Early Career Development Session, 6:45–8:45 p.m.
November 15, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Excited to share that I received #Sfn2025 ‘s Professional Trainee Development Award!
Check out my poster M9 “Dopamine dynamics in the nucleus accumbens during maternal behavior in postpartum and virgin CBA/CaJ mice” tonight at the Early Career Development Session, 6:45–8:45 p.m.
Check out my poster M9 “Dopamine dynamics in the nucleus accumbens during maternal behavior in postpartum and virgin CBA/CaJ mice” tonight at the Early Career Development Session, 6:45–8:45 p.m.
Reposted by Arkarup Banerjee
Do flies feel pain?
Spooky new preprint from our lab on the cells and circuits that mediate nociceptive behaviors in adult Drosophila, led by graduate student (and newly minted PhD!) @jonesjes.bsky.social.
🪰⚡👻🎃
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Spooky new preprint from our lab on the cells and circuits that mediate nociceptive behaviors in adult Drosophila, led by graduate student (and newly minted PhD!) @jonesjes.bsky.social.
🪰⚡👻🎃
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 29, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Do flies feel pain?
Spooky new preprint from our lab on the cells and circuits that mediate nociceptive behaviors in adult Drosophila, led by graduate student (and newly minted PhD!) @jonesjes.bsky.social.
🪰⚡👻🎃
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Spooky new preprint from our lab on the cells and circuits that mediate nociceptive behaviors in adult Drosophila, led by graduate student (and newly minted PhD!) @jonesjes.bsky.social.
🪰⚡👻🎃
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Arkarup Banerjee
The Tschida Lab is recruiting a new PhD student this cycle! We have ongoing projects related to (1) neural circuits that regulate vocal communication across behavioral contexts and/or development and (2) motor control of different vocalization types. Please RT! Strong neuro background a plus.
October 20, 2025 at 6:38 PM
The Tschida Lab is recruiting a new PhD student this cycle! We have ongoing projects related to (1) neural circuits that regulate vocal communication across behavioral contexts and/or development and (2) motor control of different vocalization types. Please RT! Strong neuro background a plus.
Reposted by Arkarup Banerjee
One week until this fantastic seminar with speakers @cliffscience.bsky.social and @leo-perrier.bsky.social
Register here for the link!
braincoustics.com
#bioacoustics
#neuroskyence
Register here for the link!
braincoustics.com
#bioacoustics
#neuroskyence
The next Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics seminar is happening in 2 weeks!
Join us to learn all about the neuroscience and ecology of acoustic communication in mice from @cliffscience.bsky.social and @leo-perrier.bsky.social
🗓️ October 23rd @ 10:00 EST
✅ Register here: braincoustics.com
Join us to learn all about the neuroscience and ecology of acoustic communication in mice from @cliffscience.bsky.social and @leo-perrier.bsky.social
🗓️ October 23rd @ 10:00 EST
✅ Register here: braincoustics.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:20 PM
One week until this fantastic seminar with speakers @cliffscience.bsky.social and @leo-perrier.bsky.social
Register here for the link!
braincoustics.com
#bioacoustics
#neuroskyence
Register here for the link!
braincoustics.com
#bioacoustics
#neuroskyence
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Our latest study on the neurobiology of collective behavior is now posted as a preprint, led by UCSD PhD student Jo-Hsien Yu @anitajhyu.bsky.social @ucsandiego.bsky.social @danionella.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 30, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Our latest study on the neurobiology of collective behavior is now posted as a preprint, led by UCSD PhD student Jo-Hsien Yu @anitajhyu.bsky.social @ucsandiego.bsky.social @danionella.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Thanks Anne for sharing! This seems like a fantastic resource 👇🏽
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September 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Thanks Anne for sharing! This seems like a fantastic resource 👇🏽
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Do you plot transcriptomic data, coloring each cell by its cell type? ~ Don't use a default colormap! ~
Instead, use colormaps that capture biological meaning. If two cell types are very similar, their colors should be similar too. Read on 🧵
🧬💻
Instead, use colormaps that capture biological meaning. If two cell types are very similar, their colors should be similar too. Read on 🧵
🧬💻
September 18, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Do you plot transcriptomic data, coloring each cell by its cell type? ~ Don't use a default colormap! ~
Instead, use colormaps that capture biological meaning. If two cell types are very similar, their colors should be similar too. Read on 🧵
🧬💻
Instead, use colormaps that capture biological meaning. If two cell types are very similar, their colors should be similar too. Read on 🧵
🧬💻