Venki Murthy @neurovenki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Please read this piece from the wonderful student-run newspaper @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social at my college. We should all be angry and willing to do something, however small. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...thecrimson.comWe Need To Talk About Sexual Violence on Campus | The Harvard CrimsonI am so proud of Jane Doe for having the strength to file a lawsuit. But I also think of the many survivors who couldn’t. That includes me. 020
Venki Murthy @neurovenki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026May be, maybe, the #USMNT is actually entering a new generation of special talent. Wow, these kids!!! Excited for the future! 030
Venki Murthy @neurovenki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026So, this #USMNT, even with a relatively inexperienced roster, CAN indeed play well (technically and intensely). Why were they faffing about in the first half against Mexico then? 020
Venki Murthy @neurovenki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The passing accuracy from #USMNT is worse than random at the moment. Really needs some sort of a reboot. 020
Venki Murthy @neurovenki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Poor play from the #USMNT so far and poor traffic on this site. Hope both improve! 030
Venki Murthy @neurovenki.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Kurt Rosenwinkel, Ben Wendel, Ben Street and Jeff Ballard - wow! (Victor's Places has amazing performances)youtu.beKURT ROSENWINKEL Quartet feat | Ben Wendel | Ben Street | Jeff BallardYouTube video by Victor’s Places 000
Venki Murthy @neurovenki.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Straight from The Saint of Bright Doors. @vajra.me 110
Venki Murthy @neurovenki.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Unequivocal improvement of outfield players for #USMNT over the past decade, but ridiculous regression of goalkeepers. 000
Venki Murthy @neurovenki.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Anderson and Bellingham the only two #England players up to snuff. And this was at home as well. 000
Venki Murthy @neurovenki.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Oyarzabal is ridiculously good as a (super)sub, wow! #Spain #England 000
Reposted by Venki MurthyVenki Murthy @neurovenki.bsky.social · 22/03/2025The Wind Shifts, by Wallace Stevens (back in 1917, yet feels so modern!). 0259
Venki Murthy @neurovenki.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Signal boost to our tenure track faculty search in "AI in Life Sciences". Broadly construed, so PLEASE apply!!mcb.harvard.eduTenure-Track Professor in Life Science and AI - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular BiologyThe Life Sciences Departments in Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences seek to recruit a tenure-track professor whose research is at the interface of AI and life sciences, […] 1108
Reposted by Venki MurthyHarvard_MCB @harvardmcb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Nick Bellono Named 2026 Schmidt Sciences Polymath 🔬 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @nbellono.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @schmidtsciences.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social @harvard.edumcb.harvard.eduNick Bellono Named 2026 Schmidt Sciences Polymath - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular BiologyMCB Professor Nicholas Bellono has been named a 2026 Schmidt Sciences Polymath, receiving up to $2.5 million over five years to pursue an ambitious new research direction exploring […] 094
Venki Murthy @neurovenki.bsky.social · 19/09/2026How this not a coaching issue from Arteta? If a strategy hasn't worked for 60 minutes and you are 3 goals down, you just keep doing the same thing? Sigh. #Arsenal 000
Venki Murthy @neurovenki.bsky.social · 18/09/2026#Arsenal, can you start working to bring Kevin Schade on board this Winter transfer window? He has been amazing for #Brentford today. #EPL 010
Reposted by Venki MurthyNamnezia 🥑 @namnezia.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This is an example that we created to encourage other scientists to describe other research wins. We’re still developing the course templates, etc. docs.google.com/document/d/1...docs.google.comResearch WinsResearch Wins Narratives It is not an exaggeration to say that every novel therapy that has been developed to treat various conditions and improve human health has been made possible due to federally... 021
Venki Murthy @neurovenki.bsky.social · 16/09/2026How does Ruben Amorim still have a job managing a top club in Europe? Milan looks ridiculously poorer than in recent years (and Benfica running then ragged right now). #UEL #EuropaLeague 000
Reposted by Venki MurthyJeremiah Cohen @jeremiahycohen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Happy to share the version of record of our locus coeruleus paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Prior thread on some of our discoveries in this study: bsky.app/profile/jere...nature.comTopographic structure and function of locus coeruleus noradrenaline neurons - NatureDorsal and ventral noradrenergic neurons in the locus coeruleus form topographic subpopulations whose projection patterns and activity encode choice switching, reward-prediction errors and disregard o... 813452
Reposted by Venki MurthyMen in Blazers Media Network @meninblazers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026A Celebration of Black Arsenal, with Femi Koleoso, is out NOW ⬇️ mibcourage.co/4xUbtVxmibcourage.coBlack Arsenal: Ezra Collective's Femi Koleoso on Identity, Henry, Vieira & the GunnersEnjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. 081
Venki Murthy @neurovenki.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Loving the new Interpol album This Mirror Weighs a Ton (nice sad-dad-band break from my jazz focus!). Current favorite track is Iron City.youtu.beIron CityYouTube video by Interpol - Topic 010
Venki Murthy @neurovenki.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Faculty Job Alert 📣! The Life Sciences Departments in Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences seek to recruit a tenure-track professor whose research is at the interface of AI and life sciences, from methodological developments to AI-enabled discovery. Please spread the word!academicpositions.harvard.eduTenure-Track Professor in Life Science and AIThe Life Sciences Departments in Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences seek to recruit a tenure-track professor whose research is at the interface of AI and life sciences, from methodological developme... 02122
Reposted by Venki MurthyHumanists International @humanists.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Humanism is a progressive non-theistic belief system that emphasizes human worth, human potential and human responsibility. If you think you might be a humanist and want to connect with the international humanist movement, sign up to our newsletter: humanists.international/sign-up-for-... 042
Venki Murthy @neurovenki.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Resuscitation, by Sara Daniele Rivera @saradan4.bsky.social, from her 2024 collection The Blue Mimes on @graywolfpress.bsky.social. #poetry 021
Venki Murthy @neurovenki.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Haha, two more ineffectual dribbling specialists (Tel, Kudus) coming on for Spurs and their best player (Bentancur) subbed out. Everton goal incoming. 010
Reposted by Venki MurthyJieyu Zheng @jieyusz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026🤫for rodents it’s likely, but for humans perhaps not. Human patients born with missing cortex are usually bound to bed and die at young age. 162
Venki Murthy @neurovenki.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Am I a curmudgeon for enjoying Wrexham get this beatdown from West Ham? #EFL 050
Reposted by Venki MurthyMayank Mehta @mayankmehta.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Prestigious, fully funded, 3 yearlong postdoctoral fellowship ($90,000/year salary plus benefits) in neural computation and NeuroAI is available starting October 2027. The Candidate must have a very strong CV, including empirical publications. See our lab's page for our research directions. 076
Reposted by Venki MurthyAndrew Straw @andrewstraw.bsky.social · 04/09/2026We are hiring! Come join us in the Straw Lab at the @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social . Seeking a scientist to work on the neural and computational mechanisms of visual navigation in honey bees. uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005... 18063
Venki Murthy @neurovenki.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Intrusive Sonnet, a poem by @jessicagoodfellow.bsky.social in the Sep 26 issue of @thebaffler.com magazine. #poetry 040
Reposted by Venki MurthyJulijana Gjorgjieva @gjorjulijana.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Supper happy to see this published. In short, we show how dendrites and inhibition allow neural circuits to learn new representations while protecting representations that are already stored in the network. See below for a detailed post by @cmiehl.bsky.social: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.com 18523
Venki Murthy @neurovenki.bsky.social · 21/08/2026New preprint! Taking inspiration from ML where train-test split is critical to show that an agent is generalizing rather than just memorizing, we did some experiments that suggest mice have an inductive bias towards generalization. Led by an amazing graduate student Ningjing Xia. See what you think!biorxiv.orgAn inductive bias for generalization in mouse olfactory learningAnimals must generalize from limited experience, yet behavioral experiments in the laboratory setting rarely assess whether or how rapidly they generalize. This contrasts with machine learning systems... 1337
Venki Murthy @neurovenki.bsky.social · 21/08/2026This work is now published in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social! Thanks to co-authors H McCalmon, G Cai, C Tsibouris, @noehamou.bsky.social, J Hoskins, F Pashakhanloo, @sueyeonchung.bsky.social and V Kapoor.cell.comSparse input representations explain odor discrimination in complex, concentration-varying mixturesDetecting a target odor against complex backgrounds requires separating signal from interference. McCalmon et al. show that discrimination performance depends on target odor concentration but not back... 0309
Reposted by Venki MurthyStephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Remember how power bricks used to be bigger, heavier, hotter, and less powerful than power modern power supplies? The SNES power supply can provide 8.5W and this much smaller GaN USB-PD can supply 65W, at greater efficiency. Well, the same thing is probably going to happen to grid transformers. 🧵 1153870
Reposted by Venki MurthyUM-MIND - Institute for Neuroscience Discovery @um-mind.bsky.social · 18/08/2026UM-MIND is hiring! We are recruiting several tenure-track neuroscience faculty members, preferably at the Assistant Professor level, to join our institute at the University of Maryland School of Medicine here in Baltimore, MD. Learn more here: umb.taleo.net/careersectio... @medschool.umaryland.eduumb.taleo.netAssistant Professor, University of Maryland – Medicine Institute for Neuroscience Discovery (UM-MIND)Click the link provided to see the complete job description. 01113
Reposted by Venki MurthyTony Zador @tonyzador.bsky.social · 14/08/2026How do you build a brain from a genome? We know a lot about the mechanisms and molecules Here we revisit the algorithmic problem: What kinds of programs can specify a brain within the genome’s information budget and the finite time available for development? stankerstjens.github.io/could-a-comp...stankerstjens.github.ioCould a computer scientist build a brain?How does a brain wire itself, starting from a single cell, using only the information encoded in a genome? We pose this as an engineering problem. 54516
Venki Murthy @neurovenki.bsky.social · 14/08/2026View of Boccadasse beach in Genoa from the apartment we were staying in recently. "an old mariners' village", says Wikipedia. Incredibly lovely. 270
Reposted by Venki MurthyRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 13/08/2026Size and Lifespan xkcd.com/3283/ 312532267
Venki Murthy @neurovenki.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Some Carl Sandburg, from his 1963 collection Honey and Salt. Love is a Deep and a Dark and Lonely. #poetry 010
Venki Murthy @neurovenki.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Saw this iridescent insect dead on our floor. Image search says it could be a blue mud dauber. What say you, entomology friends? 240
Venki Murthy @neurovenki.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Midsummer, by Arthur Sze. "I smell eucalyptus where there is no eucalyptus and locate summer in rain." #poetry 010
Reposted by Venki MurthyVictoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 04/08/2026'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups) 7866632395
Reposted by Venki MurthyJohn Glover @jtglover.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Hard to be an old book lately, I tell you what. #sonnet 12910
Venki Murthy @neurovenki.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Wow!!! "To investigate how these seemingly conflicting demands are resolved, we have carried out volume electron microscopy based reconstructions of the head direction circuits in the central complex of four species of bees and ants."biorxiv.orgDeep conservation of head direction circuits in bees, ants and fliesTo navigate, animal brains must continuously estimate the body's heading in space and compare it with internal goals to guide movement. In the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster a neural circuit in the... 0154
Reposted by Venki MurthyJane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 29/07/2026docs.google.com/document/d/1...docs.google.comWriting Center alumni open letterSign the open letter here. View further comments from Writing Center tutors and alumni here. To President Alan Garber, Dean Hopi Hoekstra, Dean David Deming, and Dean Amanda Claybaugh: As current ... 1234
Venki Murthy @neurovenki.bsky.social · 29/07/2026This paper from Shadmehr and colleagues looks amazing. "Thus, the climbing fibers solved the credit assignment problem by providing the gradient of a loss function with respect to the output of their individual P-cells."biorxiv.orgClimbing fibers encode the gradient of a loss function for the cerebellumNeurons in the brain are often many synapses away from motoneurons, yet if a movement results in error, each distant neuron needs a teacher that considers its specific contribution to production of th... 032