Soapbox time: the problem with metabolic efficiency arguments in neuroscience is that they often confuse energy efficiency with energy expenditure. Biological systems are optimized for energy efficiency, but that does NOT imply they are optimized for low energy expenditure 🧵 1/

Story: Many years ago, every few months over a period of 5+ years, I would head up to Cold Spring Harbor Labs to work on an Evolution textbook (see cshlpress.com/default.tpl?...).

With the gift-giving season upon us, how about an autographed book? You can order one (or more!) here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

check out our manuscript (led by Obinna Ukogu) on Design principles of cytotoxic T-cell response: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Hey #motorcontrol researchers! @jul-bouvier.bsky.social, LeMouel & I organize *Searching for principles in Motor Control* Paris Sept 23-24, 25 @sorbonne-universite.fr @institutducerveau.bsky.social @neuropsi.bsky.social: Submit Abstract for Posters by Aug 31! motorconference.sciencesconf.org?lang=en

I'm selecting papers for an upper-division undergraduate course on Systems Neuroscience, and want to have a paper that highlights the best of what's possible with modern genetic tools (particularly optogenetics, given the preceding lectures).

Does any one have any recommendations?

Neuroscience students asked us to teach a PRACTICAL course on experimental methods, and it is now on YouTube!

Please like and repost to help us get the word out!

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition
Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization
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Friends don't let friends make bad graphs repo has been updated!

Friends don't let friends use boxplot for binomial (bimodal) data. Is your box plot hiding something from you?

#DataVisualization

github.com/cxli233/Frie...

This study shows that spike sequences carry information beyond what rates and latency to first spike do:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

My reactions:

1) Cool to see this in humans.
2) Are people still surprised that spike times carry information beyond rates/first-spike latency?!?!?!

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Arxiv sharing reminder

pdf ❌
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Couldn't find one so made a quick physics of life list, enjoy! go.bsky.app/EA2VsDN

As my follower count creeps towards that of the old place, an unashamed plug for the FREE online textbook I wrote for #mathbio students. 'Introducing Mathematical Biology' is FREE, interactive, accessible and FREE. Please feel free to share with students. sheffield.pressbooks.pub/introducingm...

People often ask me for child development book recommendations. 📚

One of my very favorites, by Alison Gopnik, is called The Scientist in the Crib.

And the title couldn’t be more fitting.

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[stares back in songbird]