Arnav Kaushik

if you told me this morning that phoebe bridgers will sign my inhaler in champaign illnois that very night, i wouldn’t have believed it, yet here we are—

the most important thing that has ever happened to me while attending uiuc for grad school is acquiring the tickets to see the phoebe bridgers pop up show in champaign

Here is my most recent project: sci-bot.ru Unlike Sci-Hub and Sci-Net, where I have written all the code manually be hand, this one is pure AI generated - I decided to do this as a kind of experiment. LOVE the result! AI is 50x speedup in code writing, however creating the project is still a lot of work (human input is still needed for architectural decisions, debugging complex functionality and precise instructions) Sci-Bot is connected to Sci-Hub database so it can read research articles and generate answers grounded in science. To pay for generated tokens, Sci-Bot supports two funding models: the first one is standard pay-as-your-go and the second one is legacy from Sci-Hub: it is donation based. Anyone can donate: from these donations, the project will automatically calculate budget for upcoming month, and derive how much AI-generated answers it can serve to users for free.

id make the elephant feel welcomed

the paradox of academia is that each academic knows everything about something but all academics together know nothing about anything

me when im trying to ask other labs for their protocols

Pinch me, I can't believe someone wrote about lab notebooks. Unbelievably cool

“Evolution is not really like an inventor; it acts more like a tinkerer. . . . It takes parts that have existed long before, and it recombines, reinvents, and reshapes.”— Karthik Shekhar, biologist at UC Berkeley quantamagazine.org/how-the-bird-e…

Join the discussion with Elly Nedivi, Josiah Boivin and #JNeurosci Reviewing Editor Serena Dudek on May 26, 12PM EDT Register now: neuronline.sfn.org/scientific-res… Catch up on the webinar topic ⬇️

Functional imaging of nine distinct neuronal populations under a miniscope in freely behaving animals elifesciences.org/articles/11027…

Important editorial @Nature on the new "AI-scientist" papers "AI scientists can and should empower human researchers. They cannot and should not replace them." nature.com/articles/d4158…

Motherhood induces transcriptional changes in the brain that endure beyond short-term hormonal shifts go.nature.com/4v09H3o

my kitty helps me make slides for lab meeting (she does not like my staining)

@moraleDmaestro What does a Ph.D. stand for? Quick—

NOBODY SHOULD BE CALLED DOCTORS EXCEPT MEDICAL DOCTORS!!!!!!

@DaniBeckman @moraleDmaestro on point!

@moraleDmaestro Most of the real doctors don't give a shit about this discussion. I have two doctorate degrees and couldn't care less about being called Dr. It is usually the ones that never dedicated their lives enough to earn it that seems to be bother by other's sucess.

Here is my favourite genres of biology paper: “We found a fundamental mechanism by which cells do something we did not realise they could do.” The latest is that mammalian cells can directly pass damaged pieces of their genome to neighbouring cells, where that DNA can persist, function, and alter phenotype. But sure, biology is “basically understood” Some more examples >>

Cool! Dopamine drives persistent remodelling of the maternal brain nature.com/articles/s4158…

Microglia replacement halts the progression of microgliopathy in mice and humans by Wu et al. Cell therapy for the brain, but not replacing neurons. Replace the mutant microglia, slowing disease progressing. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Decision-related signals appeared as early as the primary somatosensory cortex in mice navigating virtual reality, pointing to bidirectional feedback loops rather than a strictly bottom-up brain hierarchy. @uofigrainger @PNASNews doi.org/hbz78p medicalxpress.com/news/2026-05-e…

Nature research paper: Developmental gene expression patterns driving species-specific cortical features go.nature.com/4uKj0Ei