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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Can we please stop asking people giving recommendations to students to evaluate their skills on a scale where half the available options sit in the 'top 10%'? It is a pointless and unscientific exercise.

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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Really enjoying this insanely ahead of its time 303/808-based record from Indian composer Charanjit Singh released in 1982. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHEW...

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Charanjit Singh - Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat (Full Album)

YouTube video by Marco Antonio Pereira Esteves

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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

When Reviewer 2 asks what is the mechanism?

A screenshot from 'On the Silver Globe' featuring the quotation 'in the end, every reduction to physiology is a fascism of the soul.'

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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

A map of my music listening from the internet. I am grateful for suggestions to fill significant gaps.

A map of a users music listening by city of origin of bands. The users listening clusters around the US, Western Europe and Japan.

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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The fact that we can detect raspberries in interstellar space is honestly more surprising to me than their sugar content.

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Matt Smear @mattsmear.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Visualizing and Sonifying NeuroData (ViSoND) github.com/Smear-Lab/Vi... is a strategy for observing multiple data streams in video and sound www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... e.g., watch an animal move while you listen to their physiological signals (or vice versa)

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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Very happy to see this paper come out from Lucas Martins @d-lucas.bsky.social and Alexandre Laborde. They developed an awesome framework, built with .NET, for developing software to run demanding high-speed behavior and functional imaging experiments. dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IR9v... All sorts of cubing records have been broken already in the first weeks of 2026. Here is 9-year-old Teodor Zajder with the first ever sub-3 second official solve!

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Teodor Zajder 2.76 3x3 World Record

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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

A track I need to listen to every few weeks and that I think more people could appreciate. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkSn...

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Thighpaulsandra"The Angelica Declaration"

YouTube video by Zos Khem

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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq-k... still getting my head around the fact that this monumental album was allegedly recorded in a single take.

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Manuel Göttsching — E2-E4 (1981/Full album)

YouTube video by 12edit

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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

"These results show that spontaneous activity in the vertebrate brain is highly stereotyped at the level of functional cell assemblies and can be reliably captured through a common latent code." New work from Volker Bormuth Lab @sorbonne-universite.fr 🐟🧠

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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Watch 8-year-old Xuanyi Geng clutch the world record for Rubik's cube solving (average) with a 3.37 second solve. Planning: he is planning around 20-25 moves ahead here before he starts to solve. Motor control: he turns the cube faces at 12-13 turns per second. youtu.be/wKm5DfuJJdo?...

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Sub3.90 Milestone! 3.84 3x3 WR Avg Xuanyi Geng🇨🇳 | Rubik's Cube World Record | Beijing Winter 2026

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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

A list that has Stoner, Children of Time and The Age of Innocence makes me really curious to read all the rest.

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Adam Kampff prioritized spreading knowledge over publishing flashy papers in prestigious journals, but colleagues say his mark on neuroscience was undeniable. The researcher and educator passed away on 9 December. By Lauren Schneider www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...

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Remembering Adam Kampff, neuroscience educator and researcher

Kampff’s do-it-yourself approach inspired a generation of neuroscientists.

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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I wanted to pass on a website my son is working on: maths.orger.org. He was personally frustrated with maths in school, when he was asked to apply knowledge of things he was not yet able to prove to himself, and this inspired him to work on a curriculum where everything is justified in strict order.

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maths.orger.org – Home

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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

This is tough. Adam Kampff was one of the most brilliant people that I have had the privilege to know. He was a wonderful and generous friend and colleague, a remarkable teacher and a visionary who inspired hundreds of others. He was a shining example to us all, and we will miss him very much.

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Hagar Lavian @hlavian.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Very excited to share this thread on our recent paper! We show how Zebrafish integrate visual navigation signals in aligned topographic maps. Full thread below🧵

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Champalimaud Research @champalimaudr.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

🧠 Applications for the International Neuroscience Doctoral Programme (INDP) @champalimaudf.bsky.social open until 31 January 2026. ☀️ Join our vibrant and international research community in sunny Lisbon! 🔗 fchampalimaud.org/champalimaud...

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IMP @impvienna.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Scientists around former IMP group leader David Keays (@lmumuenchen.bsky.social show that #pigeons detect magnetic fields through their inner ear. Their discovery was now published in the journal @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... More: www.imp.ac.at/news/article...

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A global screen for magnetically induced neuronal activity in the pigeon brain

How animals detect the Earth’s magnetic field remains a mystery in sensory biology. Despite extensive behavioral evidence, the neural circuitry and molecular mechanisms responsible for magnetic sensin...

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Javan Okendo @javanokendo.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

🎉 Excited to share our new preprint presenting a complete de novo assembly of the zebrafish genome; a major advance for zebrafish genomics and research! 🧬 Full paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @zebrafishrock.bsky.social @izfs.bsky.social @zfinmod.bsky.social @modelzebrafish.bsky.social

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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

I’m honored to be named a 2025 @simonsfoundation.org Pivot Fellow! This support will allow me to build expertise in dynamical systems and control theory with mentorship from Guillaume Hennequin (@GJEHennequin on X). www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/11/13/s...

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Simons Foundation Announces Fourth Class of Pivot Fellows

The Simons Foundation is pleased to announce the fourth class of its Pivot Fellowship.

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Champalimaud Research @champalimaudr.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

🧠In this essay Carlos Ribeiro and Albino J. Oliveira-Maia, @champalimaudf.bsky.social, explore the brain-body interactions. 🤝Their collaboration bridges fundamental and clinical science, reminding us that progress comes from a joint effort between the two. 👉 www.fchampalimaud.org/news/how-sci...

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Juan Gallego @juangallego.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

🚨Big news!🚨 The lab is relocating to Lisbon, joining a great team of experimental and theoretical neuroscientists, and the Neurotechnology Warehouse, a new initiative to bridge basic and translational research. I'll be sharing postdoc openings soon. Come join us in this new incarnation of the lab!

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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

The effect of time of day on exam pass rate in this study is quite dramatic. Consider that Edexcel runs some UK international exams as early as 7:30 a.m., which is even outside the range plotted in this study!

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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Does anyone have recommendations for neuroscience books or other non-fiction available on Audible? I enjoyed listening to Elusive Cures (read by the author @nicolecrust.bsky.social) and Innate (from @wiringthebrain.bsky.social), and I was wondering what other good audiobooks are out there?

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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

I'm enjoying revisiting Marina Herlop's 2022 Pripyat LP. Here is the gorgeous opening track Abans Abans with a video featuring snails, stalactites and alpacas and her unique approach to vocals and piano. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3_t...

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Marina Herlop - abans abans

YouTube video by Marina Herlop

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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

RIP Brian Wilson (1942-2025), one of the greatest innovators who helped build popular music into an enduring art form, and a kind and humble person. www.youtube.com/watch?v=S22a...

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Surf's Up

YouTube video by The Beach Boys - Topic

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Gonzalo de Polavieja @polavieja.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

It took us many years to improve idtracker.ai in both accuracy and tracking time. Here it is.

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idtracker.ai — idtrackerai 6.0.3 documentation

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Markus Meister @mameister4.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

If you're planning a course with mathematical methods content, or use such methods in your own work, please take a look at "Mathematics in Biology", by Meister, Lee, and Portugues, published at MIT Press. 1/2 @portugueslab.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026204940...

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Mathematics in Biology

Biology has turned into a quantitative science. The core problems in the life sciences today involve complex systems that require mathematical expression, ye...

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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Greatly deserved! Congratulations!

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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 21/05/2025

Unforgettable trip to Lisbon! Packed with amazing food, wine, science, art, sightseeing, and a healthy dose of exercise! Huge thanks to my hosts @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social at Champalimaud and Razmik Panossian at the Gulbenkian Foundation for the warm welcome.

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Communications Biology @commsbio.nature.com · 15/05/2025

A review emphasizes the advantages of using zebrafish in research, outlines key differences in experimental approaches, and offers guidelines for designing studies in a way that enhances experimental rigor and reproducibility. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

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Zebrafishology, study design guidelines for rigorous and reproducible data using zebrafish - Communications Biology

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Benjamin Judkewitz @benjulab.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Introducing warpfield, an open source Python library for GPU-accelerated non-rigid 3D registration. Warps and aligns gigavoxel volumes within seconds (not hours). For 3D microscopy, region-to-region and cell-to-cell matching. A collaboration with @mh123.bsky.social 🚀 github.com/danionella/w...

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

High-resolution phenotypic screen in zebrafish identifies novel regulators of CNS axon diameter growth www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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Corinna Gebehart @corinnagebehart.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

The latest paper from the Chiappe lab is out!! Congrats @merterginkaya.bsky.social and everyone involved - now you definitely have to come visit Lisbon so we can celebrate!🥳 @champalimaudr.bsky.social

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Manuel Irimia @mirimiam.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

🐠 New pre-print from the lab! 🐠 Neural microexons fine-tune protein function - but how do they impact arousal states and underlying neuronal signaling pathways? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Check out our latest pre-print by @tahneema.bsky.social et al, @upf.edu @crg.eu. 🧵👇 1/9

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Neural microexons modulate arousal states via cAMP signalling in zebrafish

Arousal states, often dysregulated in neurodevelopmental disorders, shape how organisms perceive and respond to their environment. Here, we show that srrm3, a master regulator of neural microexons, is...

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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CamI... This Kobaryo DJ set is all you need this weekend.

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MEGATON KICK '25 Clip【Kobaryo】

YouTube video by HARDCORE TANO*C

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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Am I the only person who keeps getting caught out by journals putting a 'download whole issue' button exactly where I expect 'download paper' to be

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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

It is hard to imagine a more prescient compilation than 1992's Artificial Intelligence, not just in terms of the careers of the contributing artists, but how the featured sounds have permeated popular culture over the last 30 years.

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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

A beautifully curated resource for zebrafish research enabled by NIH funding.

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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I've rewritten this 5 times now, but... 1) Charles Mingus 2) Wu Tang Clan 3) Bjork 4) Bob Dylan 5) Orbital 6) Nina Simone

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Cell Press @cellpress.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Trained language model finds repetitive behaviors and special interests are more indicative of an autism diagnosis than a lack of social skills. www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-86… @mila-quebec.bsky.social @Danilo Bzdo

Clinical assessment is the gold standard for autism diagnosis, and by using amply pre-trained language models paired with a suitable interpretability strategy, thenative analysis of clinical intuition itself is now possible, guided by detailed observational text reports from clinicians. This interpretable language model framework identified repetitive and stereotyped behaviors as being empirically more relevant for autism diagnosis than social signs in the reports, motivating the possible revision of existing diagnostic instruments.

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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Guinness WR is claiming a new record for the most digits of pi recalled in one minute at 280 (www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-record...). Congratulations - however, it might need an update, as here is a video of Owen reciting 350: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL-j... @guinnessworldrecords.com

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Most decimal places of Pi recalled in one minute

This record is for the most digits of Pi recalled in one minute. This record is to be attempted by an individual. This record is measured by the numbers of Pi recited in the timeframe. For the purpose...

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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

In light of the attack on protections for children with disabilities, I share this chart I made of the amount of attention given to this topic (which should be a winning one for any party) by 2020 presidential candidates.

Chart showing amount of 2020 campaign materials devoted to disability rights. Sanders, Warren, Buttigieg and Klobuchar are far ahead of all candidates, with Trump and Biden at 0.

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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

This database of 'woke' grants compiled by Ted Cruz is spectacularly dumb. www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-....

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Cruz-Led Investigation Uncovers $2 Billion in Woke DEI Grants at NSF, Releases Full Database

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