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Yesterday, I was attacked in the NYC subway. At 5:50 pm on February 14th, while performing at 34th St Herald Square station, a woman wearing a mustard jacket, red scarf, and gloves assaulted me by smashing the back of my head with my metal water bottle.

@mohebial Try play with grounding. I think it may the transistor. If not grounded properly, it generates big sink current. Not sure if it helped me when I tried it. Don't remember if I decided toss all licking period data.

Random specific question. I'm using a capacitive touch sensor (MPR121) for lick detection in head-fixed mice. Sometimes when the mouse licks on the spout, I get weird electrical artifacts on my npx probe recordings. Has anyone else experienced something similar? Thoughts?

Recently, I came across the web-based, interactive, & #opensource Optical Simulation tool #OPTICO 🔬 that allows students to virtually play around with mirrors, lenses, etc. 🚀 - Teachers & workshop leaders should try it out #openscience #openeducation 👉 optico.app/en/start-en/

The Peters Lab is looking for a postdoc - taking applications for one more week (until Aug 21) Join us at @OxfordDPAG to investigate how the cortex-basal ganglia-thalamus circuit works. Lab website: peters-lab.org Apply here: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…

@PingpingION @pgolshani congrats!

Excited to share our preprint, the work I’ve done in Golshani lab @pgolshani. Using UCLA Miniscope, I explored NAc neural representation of social interaction and identified representational deficit in Cntnap2 KO mice. More exciting results are coming! Stay tuned.

space cat is the best!

looks like a giant tetrode eib lolol 😂

Check out this almost unbelievable time-lapse of wildfire smoke consuming the World Trade Center and the New York City skyline. Those vulnerable to poor air quality, including seniors and young children, should limit time outdoors if possible. More: AirNow.gov

There are disturbing parallels between the way Chinese scientists are being treated today and the way Japanese-Americans were treated during WWII. Let’s learn from history, not repeat it. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Drag Your GAN: Interactive Point-based Manipulation on the Generative Image Manifold paper page: huggingface.co/papers/2305.10…

A lot of folks are building semantic search engines on top of pre-trained word embeddings. Fine-tuning pre-existing embeddings can be finicky. A simple trick is to learn a matrix that multiplies the pretrained embeddings: inflate some dims, collapse others github.com/openai/openai-…

Elsevier is losing editors

Possibly unpopular opinion: most science grad programs aren't set up to train students for non-academic paths. We should have more training programs for students who are interested in science but ultimately don't want to become scientists (in the sense of running their own labs).

My speech at the celebration of An's life.

This knowledge could have important implications for developing new treatments for psychiatric disorders such as addiction and depression.

By incorporating these different methods into a single experimental paradigm, we can gain a more comprehensive understanding of how dopamine modulates motivated behavior through its interactions with specific neural circuits and the mechanisms by which these interactions occur.

Question to chatGPT: you are a systems neuroscienctist. you are an expert in dopamine field. please define the next important question to be studied in the field. Then, design a set of experiments in mice to study the raised question.