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Daniel Pollak

@danielpollak.bsky.social

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Neuroscience PhD at Caltech studying natural behavior

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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 · 06/06/2026

Update: the vine has grown and is now providing shade to my front door. Also pictured: milkweed for monarch butterflies (bottom left), my fig tree (left), my curry tree (middle left), and assorted succulents (bottom right)

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

Espaliering this vine has been an exercise in utter ignorance. And guess what? It's come back each Spring. So there's no technical or knowledge barrier keeping you from free food, shade, and aesthetics. See the current state of my vine: I cut it down to the nubs. I have no idea what I'm doing.

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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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