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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Sorry to anybody who was trying to use megabouts.ai in the last couple of weeks. We had a problem with the web hosting, but it is all fixed now and back online!

megabouts.ai

Welcome to Megabouts’ documentation! — Megabouts 0.1.2 documentation

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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Fish wondering why they don't get any credit.

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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Super cool and a nice application of light field imaging!

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

Also the implied suggestion that, for admission to your programme, students need to be in the top 10% of students admitted to other programmes, seems a bit arrogant.

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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

Microtonal rock with weird masks. This looks right up my alley - thanks for the recommendation!

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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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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I am sceptical of an argument that relies so much, as in this article, on polemic against the opposing argument. In the words of Terence McKenna, "if the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed".

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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

We hope that others in the community will find this to be useful resource!

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

3) It allows you to easily build applications with rich GUIs (currently through WPF). Here is the fairly complex GUI Lucas uses to run light-sheet experiments in behaving zebrafish larvae.

Sardine based GUI for a light-sheet microscope.

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

2) It has been designed to build complex systems where the dependencies between individual modules are kept to a minimum, so the while system doesn't fail due to slow response or failure of one component, which can be very useful for elaborate, custom-built systems.

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

Why might you choose to use this framework? This is evaluated in the paper in some detail, but some strengths of the framework are 1) it has extremely low overhead, in terms of system resources.

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

Having developed this for some experimental set-ups in our lab, they have put in a lot of effort to make Sardine usable by others, and we are pleased to share the code here. github.com/orger-lab/sa... github.com/orger-lab/sa...

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GitHub - orger-lab/sardine: A framework for building data acquisition systems

A framework for building data acquisition systems. Contribute to orger-lab/sardine development by creating an account on GitHub.

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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

YouTube video by P̳̿͟͞r̳̿͟͞o̳̿͟͞x̳̿͟͞i̳̿͟͞m̳̿͟͞a̳̿͟͞

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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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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

No offense intended! Obviously in this case there should have been better communication regarding what the book was about from the publisher!

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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

I remember reading this edition, which is a great example of what happens when no one involved in creating the cover art had actually read the book.

Cover art for John Wynham's The Chrysalids depicting an alien that has nothing to do with the book.

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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

Interestingly, all of the top 100 average results are held by competitors 12 and under!

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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

YouTube video by CubeRoot

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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

It is still very much a work in progress, but I know he would be extremely happy to get feedback on any of it (especially suggestions for better proofs). Please feel free to pass it to anyone who might find it useful or interesting.

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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.

maths.orger.org

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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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

You are not wrong that it is true that if z(ab)=z(a)z(b) is true in binary, your condition will hold in any base - there are just occasional examples where it doesn't hold in the other direction.

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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Thanks, that looks interesting, though I am not sure if they are equivalent. E.g. 100010010 and 10010001 do not meet the condition of Z being multiplicative in binary, but do meet the condition of your problem in base 3 (product has only ones and zeros. (examples in base 10 might be very long)

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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

I don't know if there is a simpler answer.

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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

If every number in this set is unique (for your case 3,5,6,8,10,11}) the sum will only have zeros and ones. If any number is repeated, you will usually have a digit >1. However there will be some exceptions if the number of repeats is 0 or 1 MOD n, where n is your base.

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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

OK. Well, in that case, I would offer this imperfect answer. Replace the two numbers you have with sets representing the positions of the ones. For your example 11010*100001 this would be {2,4,5} and {1,6}. Consider all the numbers you get from adding pairs of numbers taken from the two sets.

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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

I am interested to see your answer! I can't think of a rule that deals in a simple way with carried digits.

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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Does your answer depend on the base being ten, or does it apply for any base >2?

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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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