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Ben Pedigo

@bdpedigo.bsky.social
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Connectomics, neuroscience, data science, open science | Scientist @AllenInstitute | Formerly @ JHU BME, UW, MSFTResearch | 🚲 🐦 🏔

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Tony Kelly @tonykellyeu.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Very happy our work on a weird new nanoscale morphological feature is out in @science.org. A massive effort involving different high resolution microscopy techniques, multiple institutes, & years of work to convince ourselves DENDRITIC NARROWINGS EXIST #neuroskyence 🧪 doi.org/10.1126/scia...
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Dendritic shaft constrictions shape synaptic integration in neurons
For nearly 150 years, textbooks have described dendritic morphology as optimized for efficient synaptic voltage transfer from spines to the soma, implemented as a tubular design respecting Rall’s 3/2…
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The Urbanist @theurbanist.org · 23/06/2026
We have a new #1 Link 🚊 ridership day! On Friday, June 19, Link light rail saw about 280,000 riders, amid the USA 🇺🇸 v Australia 🇦🇺 World Cup ⚽️ match and Mariners ⚾️ home game day. 2️⃣8️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
ORDINANCE PASSES UNANIMOUSLY SHARED STREETS ARE LEGAL IN THE CITY OF SEATTLE THIS HAS BEEN MY DREAM FOR YEARS AND NOW IT IS HAPPENING IF YOU COME HOME FROM EUROPE WISHING WE COULD HAVE WHAT THEY HAVE THEN WHY NOT DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT SOMETIMES YOU WILL SUCCEED
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Seattle Streets Alliance @streetsalliance.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Great turnout for Bring Your Own Chair at Pike Place today 🪑 Thanks to everyone who showed up, grabbed lunch, and helped demonstrate what a more people-first Pike Place can look like. More space for people. More reasons to stay. Let’s keep it going.
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John Tuthill @tuthill.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
🧵 New preprint led by @bingbrunton.bsky.social, @elliottabe.bsky.social, @lawrencehu.bsky.social We gave a worm brain control of a fly body and it walked What did we learn? Nothing, other than deep reinforcement learning is effective We call it the digital sphinx www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Renato Duarte @rcfduarte.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I tracked every keyword in 22 years of Cosyne abstracts to map how computational neuroscience evolved — from Bayesian brains to neural manifolds to LLMs — and where it's heading next.
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22 years of Brain Science: what CoSyNe tells us about the evolution of Neuroscience
Tracking the intellectual DNA of Computational and Systems Neuroscience through its flagship meeting
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John Tuthill @tuthill.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
When a fly lands on your arm, how does your nervous system decide where to swat? By reconstructing tactile axons in a Drosophila connectome, we found a leg somatotopic map and downstream circuits that sample the map to initiate targeted grooming Led by Leila Elabbady, PhD doi.org/10.64898/202...
fly circuit diagram
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
A central somatotopic map of the fly leg supports spatially targeted grooming www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Casey Schneider-Mizell @csdashm.com · 20/02/2026
From @bdpedigo.bsky.social: a super efficient, highly reliable, and very generalizable method for mesh structure classification, applied here to spine detection across basically every synapse onto a cell in the MICRoNS dataset.
Mesh analysis pipeline showing feature extraction and spine classification.
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allen institute @alleninstitute.org · 09/01/2026
⏳ Less than 72 hours left to apply for our postbaccalaureate internship program! 🧠📈 Please share with promising grads in your network! Review our eligibility criteria and open positions: bit.ly/3N41tGK
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Divya Sitaraman @dsitaraman.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
I will be co-teaching a summer course at Allen Institute on connectomics education please apply. Travel support, new connectomics data sets and learning directly from the scientists who built these datasets. Details here: alleninstitute.org/events/incor...
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Incorporating open connectomics data into teaching neuroscience
Learn to analyze open neuroscience data and introduce dry lab modules into your existing classes at the Incorporating Open Connectomics data into...
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allen institute @alleninstitute.org · 15/11/2025
TODAY at #SfN25 - join us for a nanosymposium exploring insights from the from the Machine Intelligence From Cortical Networks (MICrONS) Project. 📅 Saturday, November 15 🕐 1:00–2:45pm 📍 SDCC Room 30
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allen institute @alleninstitute.org · 12/11/2025
Don't miss our first talks at #SfN25! Join us at #SfN25 for a nanosymposium exploring insights from the from the Machine Intelligence From Cortical Networks (MICrONS) Project. 📅 Saturday, November 15 🕐 1:00–2:45pm 📍 SDCC Room 30
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Ben Pedigo @bdpedigo.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Great to see the MICrONS data out, congratulations to the huge team who created this amazing data! If you have a scientific question about the data, there are resources available (including annotation and proofreading work) to help you! Submit a request to VORTEX: www.microns-explorer.org/vortex
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Virtual Observatory of the Cortex - U24 — MICrONS Explorer
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allen institute @alleninstitute.org · 10/04/2025
The mind is like a symphony - it works better when the activity is synchronized. Growing evidence suggests that inhibitory neurons work together to "gain control." Learn more in this excellent review by Katie Moisse in @thetransmitter.bsky.social. 🔗 www.thetransmitter.org/connectome/i...
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allen institute @alleninstitute.org · 09/04/2025
How does the brain work? Scientists are closer to the answer with the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date. 🧵 🧠📈
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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Mayor Harrell today on Pike Place: "I have a vision for our connected waterfront and Pike Place Market as one of the greatest pedestrian experiences in the country – where market patrons, visitors from out of town, and downtown residents do not have to worry about vehicle traffic." 1/2
car pushing through a crowd of people for no good reason at pike place
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allen institute @alleninstitute.org · 10/01/2025
Deadline to apply for the Summer Workshop on the Dynamic Brain is Feb. 1! The 2025 Summer Workshop on the Dynamic Brain is an intensive, project-based residential course for graduate and postdoc researchers interested in developing their computation skills. alleninstitute.org/events/summe... 🧠📈
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Summer Workshop on the Dynamic Brain 2025
The Summer Workshop on the Dynamic Brain is an intensive, project-based residential course with a focus on the neurobiology of sensory processing, coding, and neural population dynamics.
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Ben Pedigo @bdpedigo.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Last day to apply!
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Ben Pedigo @bdpedigo.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
alleninstitute.org/careers/inte... Internships and Postbac opportunities open at the Allen Institute, applications close January 7th 2025. Great opportunity for anyone interested in life sciences research or science-support careers. Spread the word!
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Internship & Postbaccalaureate Programs
Students and early-career professionals in lab research, biology, neuroscience, immunology, and others should apply for our internships and fellowships.
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Justus Kebschull @justuskebschull.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
The Kebschull and @rezakalhor.bsky.social labs are recruiting a joint postdoc for an exciting project at the interface of phylodynamics and neuroscience. Come join us at JHU BME. Spread the word, and contact us if you are interested. #hiring 🧪🧠. More on www.kebschull-lab.org and below.
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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
By popular demand @sngreenways.bsky.social is on BlueSky! Follow for the latest on making Seattle a great place to walk, bike, roll, and live.
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Ben Pedigo @bdpedigo.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Render of a spiny neuron in mouse visual cortex from www.microns-explorer.org
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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
This is a map of Seattle's streetcar network in 1941. Same hills.
a crapload of streetcar lines
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