Venki Murthy
@neurovenki.bsky.social
Neuroscience Professor at Harvard University. Personal account and posts here. Research group website: https://vnmurthylab.org.
Looking up after a lovely dinner a couple of nights ago in Harvard Sq, this lighted tree caught my eye. Weird color distortion and pixel bloom made the view more interesting!
November 12, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Looking up after a lovely dinner a couple of nights ago in Harvard Sq, this lighted tree caught my eye. Weird color distortion and pixel bloom made the view more interesting!
Got this gem (1956 edition!) from Minotavros Books in Whitby, ON!
November 11, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Got this gem (1956 edition!) from Minotavros Books in Whitby, ON!
Asymmetric fall foliage. (Divinity Ave, Cambridge MA).
November 5, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Asymmetric fall foliage. (Divinity Ave, Cambridge MA).
Ah yet, the table looks like below - so perhaps you are focusing on the wrong variables?
October 22, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Ah yet, the table looks like below - so perhaps you are focusing on the wrong variables?
Meanwhile, a newspaper of record (venerated for well over a century by the elite and the middlebrow) declaims thus:
October 18, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Meanwhile, a newspaper of record (venerated for well over a century by the elite and the middlebrow) declaims thus:
Relieved to know that I can still make a decent pizza from scratch at home :-)
October 2, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Relieved to know that I can still make a decent pizza from scratch at home :-)
Woke up to find this gorgeous gem of a poem in my inbox! A Bookshelf, by Hua Xi @huaxi.bsky.social, in Poem-a-Day at poets.org. #poetry
"One year, I came home
and all the leaves fell off my father.
After that,
he was winter."
"One year, I came home
and all the leaves fell off my father.
After that,
he was winter."
October 1, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Woke up to find this gorgeous gem of a poem in my inbox! A Bookshelf, by Hua Xi @huaxi.bsky.social, in Poem-a-Day at poets.org. #poetry
"One year, I came home
and all the leaves fell off my father.
After that,
he was winter."
"One year, I came home
and all the leaves fell off my father.
After that,
he was winter."
This project, in part, inspired the development of @deeplabcut.bsky.social (you’ll find the below images in that paper!). Moving forward, we are excited to uncover the neural circuits and computation underlying this behavior.
September 1, 2025 at 7:08 PM
This project, in part, inspired the development of @deeplabcut.bsky.social (you’ll find the below images in that paper!). Moving forward, we are excited to uncover the neural circuits and computation underlying this behavior.
We watched mice follow scent trails drawn on an “endless” treadmill. By manipulating trail geometry/statistics, perturbing mouse nose & brain, and modeling behavior with a Bayesian framework, we show that mice use predictive (rather than reactive) strategies.
September 1, 2025 at 7:07 PM
We watched mice follow scent trails drawn on an “endless” treadmill. By manipulating trail geometry/statistics, perturbing mouse nose & brain, and modeling behavior with a Bayesian framework, we show that mice use predictive (rather than reactive) strategies.
Santa Fe and SFI are magical - lucky to have visited there a few summers in the past, upon invitation from Chuck Stevens when he was still alive. The casual majesty of the landscape and history is amazing. Here's a scene from a hike nearby (Bandelier, I think) almost 9 years ago!
August 29, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Santa Fe and SFI are magical - lucky to have visited there a few summers in the past, upon invitation from Chuck Stevens when he was still alive. The casual majesty of the landscape and history is amazing. Here's a scene from a hike nearby (Bandelier, I think) almost 9 years ago!
The coming colors of autumn - a study in thresholded nonlinearities!
August 29, 2025 at 2:19 PM
The coming colors of autumn - a study in thresholded nonlinearities!
I think you're right - this was him/her (very poor rez, sorry!) perched just before taking flight!
August 22, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I think you're right - this was him/her (very poor rez, sorry!) perched just before taking flight!
A gorgeous bird of prey above the Northwest Building at Harvard earlier today. My Pixel9a didn't do it any justice (sigh), but any guesses from the silhouette what bird it might have been?
August 22, 2025 at 2:30 AM
A gorgeous bird of prey above the Northwest Building at Harvard earlier today. My Pixel9a didn't do it any justice (sigh), but any guesses from the silhouette what bird it might have been?
Returning to reading more #poetry after a bit of a dry period. Roethke has always appealed to me. Second Shadow by Theodore Roethke (mid 1900s, I think).
August 16, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Returning to reading more #poetry after a bit of a dry period. Roethke has always appealed to me. Second Shadow by Theodore Roethke (mid 1900s, I think).
The always photogenic Kohn Hall (KITP in Santa Barbara).
August 8, 2025 at 7:51 PM
The always photogenic Kohn Hall (KITP in Santa Barbara).
Posting poetry has seemed too lightweight - but of course it's not. Anyway, here's something not too heavy - Street Food, after all. By Daniel Halpern, from #Poetry magazine, May 2025 issue.
July 30, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Posting poetry has seemed too lightweight - but of course it's not. Anyway, here's something not too heavy - Street Food, after all. By Daniel Halpern, from #Poetry magazine, May 2025 issue.
A thin sliver of land clamped between sea and sky. Sunset in Santa Barbara.
July 23, 2025 at 4:02 AM
A thin sliver of land clamped between sea and sky. Sunset in Santa Barbara.
I asked an LLM (through Harvard's AI Sandbox, to be transparent) to write a bit about race and meritocracy in the style of TCW. Not sure if I should laugh or cry.
July 9, 2025 at 5:04 AM
I asked an LLM (through Harvard's AI Sandbox, to be transparent) to write a bit about race and meritocracy in the style of TCW. Not sure if I should laugh or cry.
A couple of days in Vermont by a lake and a mountain. The land in the US is so spectacular in so many places, and what a shame for us to be heading into a metaphorical abyss.
July 6, 2025 at 12:08 AM
A couple of days in Vermont by a lake and a mountain. The land in the US is so spectacular in so many places, and what a shame for us to be heading into a metaphorical abyss.
In Frankfurt for a couple of days in transit playing bumbling tourist, and stumbled upon Haus Wertheym, which claims to be oldest historical restaurant in Frankfurt (1479).
June 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
In Frankfurt for a couple of days in transit playing bumbling tourist, and stumbled upon Haus Wertheym, which claims to be oldest historical restaurant in Frankfurt (1479).