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Daniel Pollak @danielpollak.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Such few people are fighting scientific fraud. I'm surprised how compelling Dr. David's work is when made into YouTube videos. This guy's grinding papers and posting on PubPeer left and right and then finds the time to do this?? Incredible stuff. youtu.be/3R6VsFNdqdE?...

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Identifying Image Fraud in a Nature Neuroscience Paper

YouTube video by Sholto David

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Daniel Pollak @danielpollak.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Was privileged to go to two consecutive conferences: @cogcompneuro.bsky.social in NYC and @neuroethology.org's International Congress for Neuroethology in Vancouver, where I presented this poster (no preprint yet, coming soon) and this extended abstract: openreview.net/pdf?id=oixbv...

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Daniel Pollak @danielpollak.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Why is github.com/calebweinreb... not in the top five tools used in systems neuroscience? #Kilosort, #DeepLabCut, #Suite2p, #CaImAn are crucial because they work flawlessly. #SNUB ...also just works and has delivered more insights into my data in less time than any of these others combined.

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GitHub - calebweinreb/SNUB

Contribute to calebweinreb/SNUB development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Daniel Pollak @danielpollak.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Abstract suggesting that some protists can use symbiosis for magnetoreception. Promising direction, seeing as there have been zero magnetoreceptors discovered outside bacteria... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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a cartoon coyote is riding a skateboard with a magnet attached to it

Alt: Literal data about how magnetoreception works

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Daniel Pollak @danielpollak.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I never feel like I have something about science I'm comfortable posting. But I just realized I have too many gardening thoughts to just keep to myself. So... Why do I never see grapevines in urban LA landscapes?

Grape vine growing up a trellis over a doorway.

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Daniel Pollak @danielpollak.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

#SfN25 's hottest club is Poster X8 Tuesday Morning. This club has everything: mice hunting robotic bait, quantitative behavior modeling, chronic superior colliculus Neuropixel data, and GLM encoding/decoding, not to mention the cheap new DAQ EVERYONE's been rumbling about. See you there!

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Daniel Pollak @danielpollak.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

1/ Late to the game to publicize my paper with @healeylab.bsky.social ocial: Parsing social context in auditory forebrain of male zebra finches (PLOS ONE, March 19, 2025). We also developed a low-cost microdrive for long-term neural recording in freely behaving finches.

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