Super interesting opportunity to find principles. An exciting result is fig 7 of egger 2020 where they show that despite much longer axonal path lengths in mammals the slower AP velocities in birds lead to nearly identical distribution of synaptic delays (for HVC neurons)

Another from this week is Gilles Laurent explaining that that a single optic lobe the the cuttlefish they study has the same number of neurons as a mouse brain…

I didn’t realize he was in prison :( I hope he can appeal

And that has made all the df/dt

The end of bifurcation erasure

Weirdly ~15 years ago @gregegansf.bsky.social wrote a novel where one of the characters (working in the same building at MIT where @jmrko.bsky.social was a postdoc) solves the zebra finch connectome only to have their funding cut by congress… luckily we are in an ever so slightly different timeline