Science of the day: tracking animal movement isn't trivial. I recently switched from @DeepLabCut to an 8-camera setup by @optitrack - and I'm impressed by its precision.
Side science: 2 LEDs on the mouse head also do the job www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#Neuroscience #Motion #neuroskyence

Science of the day: to find the synaptic gain between two neurons, I use a method developed by Lidor Spivak (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35641587/) to de-convolve the auto-correlation from the cross-correlation.
Side science: what is you go to method?
#Neuroscience #Connectivity #neuroskyence

Science of the day: The three essential components for groundbreaking neuroscience: inspiration, perspective, and a well-stocked bottom shelf.
Side science: The optimal book-to-whisky ratio is still under review.
#Neuroscience #neuroskyence #whisky #hawking

Science of the day: Some spikes are just more positive than others, at least waveform-wise.
Side science: interested in these positive units (Punits), check out this work by Shirly Someck www.nature.com/articles/s42...
#Neuroscience #neuroskyence #punits #PositiveVibes

Science of the day: Head direction neurons usually need a decoder to reveal heading. With these raster plots, the heading is clear from the neurons' spiking activity
Side science: although compared to an internal compass, the HD system isn’t tied to magnetic north
#Neuroscience #neuroskyence #spikes

Science of the day: the activity of thalamic neuronal population during slow wave sleep. Here, dozens of neurons synchronize their firing activity in a Delta rhythm
Side science: Shana Tova to you all! I hope this year will be a year of science and peace
#Neuroscience #neuroskyence #ShanaTova

Science of the day: the distance between shanks of this silicone probe, used for electrophysiological recordings from the brain, is 0.125 mm. For scale, a hair at the bottom of the image
Side science: my go to probe is the diagnostic biochips 8 shanks, 128 channels.
#Neuroscience #neuroskyence

Science of the day: 10 neuroscientists require 3 weeks to finish a bucket full of caramel and cheddar popcorn (thanks @hhmi.org)
Side science: the lab is divided between those who prefer the caramel ones and those who know nothing.
#Neuroscience #popcorn #neuroskyence

Science of the day: the 4 ingredients of an in house optogenetic device: LED, fiber, 61 and 68 optical adhesives.
Side science: although I was taught this technique by Eran Stark, I consider Shirly Someck to be the uncontested master builder
#Neuroscience #optogenetics