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Scott Sterrett

@sterrett-sc.bsky.social
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computational neuroscience and natural behaviors | postdoc at Allen Institute | alum UW & JHU | he/him

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Janelia Conferences @janeliaconf.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Apply by May 7 for two early-career #neuro workshops at Janelia! Featuring joint sessions to foster collaboration between theory & experiment. 🧠 🤝 Theoretical Neuroscience→ janelia.news/THE26 Mechanistic Cognitive Neuroscience→ janelia.news/CNW26 @ratecoding.bsky.social @jvoigts.bsky.social
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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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John Tuthill @tuthill.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Do flies feel pain? Spooky new preprint from our lab on the cells and circuits that mediate nociceptive behaviors in adult Drosophila, led by graduate student (and newly minted PhD!) @jonesjes.bsky.social. 🪰⚡👻🎃 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Sex-reversal in birds (genetically male/female but appear female/male) is surprisingly common. Best detail: A genetically male bird called a laughing kookaburra had recently laid an egg. (1/2) By @phiejacobs.bsky.social on @science.org
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‘Sex reversal’ is surprisingly common in birds, new study suggests
Survey of five Australian avians finds numerous discordant individuals, including a genetically male bird that had laid an egg
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Rich Pang @rkp-science.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
How do we get more neuroscience out of our behavioral data? Excited to share new work with C.A.Baker, M.Murthy and @jpillowtime.bsky.social, where we use natural behavior data to extend predictions from neural recordings about population codes for dynamic social stimuli: tinyurl.com/2d3wwfyf
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Inferring neural population codes for Drosophila acoustic communication | PNAS
Social communication between animals is often mediated by sequences of acoustic signals, sometimes spanning long timescales. How auditory neural ci...
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UW Neurobiology & Biophysics @uw-nbio.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Congratulations to Adrienne Fairhall, Prof. of Neurobiology and Biophysics, Adjunct Prof. of Applied Mathematics, and Adjunct Prof. of Physics, who has just been elected to the National Academy of Sciences! 🍾 🎉
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Gregory Kohn @kohngregory.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Wrote a short note about resurrecting a moribund theory in animal behavior — approach-withdrawal theory — by merging it with enactivist perspectives on organization and behavior. Could this merger result in a general theory of basal behavioral abilities? gregorykohn.substack.com/p/can-we-dev...
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Can we develop a general theory of behavior?
Part 1: Can Enaction save Approach-Withdrawal Theory?
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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
How many types of causation should we consider in neuroscience? youtu.be/sVyFttbuOLQ?... - here's the recording of the Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon from last Friday, with thanks to @pessoabrain.bsky.social for organising and Peter Tse and Henry Potter for joining the discussion!
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How many types of causation should we consider in neuroscience? Beyond Mechanism/Extending Causation
YouTube video by Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon
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Gregory Kohn @kohngregory.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
The media circus on the slightly modified wolf mixed with the nonsensical hype of de-extinction only highlights the need to greatly shift how we talk about genes and genetic "information" in popular discourse. Oyama's groundbreaking book and Lewontin's prescient forward should be a starting point.
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
The earliest studies on necessary and sufficient neural populations were performed on simple invertebrate circuits. @neurograce.bsky.social asks: Does this logic still serve us as we tackle more sophisticated outputs? #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...
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Claims of necessity, sufficiency don’t work well for studies of complex systems
Early studies on necessary and sufficient neural populations were done on simple invertebrate circuits. Does this logic work for complex outputs?
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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Beyond Mechanism—Extending Our Concepts of Causation in Neuroscience onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... - really pleased that this paper with Henry Potter is now published in the European Journal of Neuroscience 😊
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Beyond Mechanism—Extending Our Concepts of Causation in Neuroscience
The search for neural mechanisms of behaviour often relies on a synchronic, driving view of causation, where neural activity drives more neural activity, which eventually drives behaviour. The real c...
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Many neuroscience students are steeped in an experiment-first style of thinking that leads to “random walk science.” Let’s not forget how theory can guide experiments towards deeper insights, writes @gershbrain.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/theoretical-...
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Breaking the barrier between theorists and experimentalists
Many neuroscience students are steeped in an experiment-first style of thinking. Let’s not forget how theory can guide experiments.
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Meet 10 neuroscientists bringing model diversity back with the funky animals they study. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social, @avaskham.bsky.social, @claudia-lopez.bsky.social, @shaena.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...
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The non-model organism “renaissance” has arrived
Meet 10 neuroscientists bringing model diversity back with the funky animals they study.
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Scott Sterrett @sterrett-sc.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
one of the unexpected perks of studying olfaction is the occasional crossovers with perfumers. a delightful night of smells, sounds, and sights from Fischersund
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Saskia de Vries @sejdevries.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Applications are open for our Summer Workshop in the Dynamic Brain!! This is a two week computational neuroscience course for grad students and postdocs. Check it out!! alleninstitute.org/events/summe...
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Summer Workshop on the Dynamic Brain 2025
The Summer Workshop on the Dynamic Brain is an intensive, project-based residential course with a focus on the neurobiology of sensory processing, coding, and neural population dynamics.
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Matt Smear @mattsmear.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Sniffing helps animals identify smells and connect them to places and events, but noses can’t sense time or place. How do brains connect odors with internal models of the world? Our preprint suggests that the olfactory bulb participates in this connection. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Tobias Ackels @tobiasackels.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Check out our new review in PLoS Biology on how dynamic odour information can help mammals to navigate through their environment. Led by the fantastic Anantu Sunil & Olivia Pedroncini, this also marks my first last author publication from the University of Bonn! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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How do mammals convert dynamic odor information into neural maps for landscape navigation?
Odors contain complex spatiotemporal information that guide animal behavior, but how this information is processed is not fully understood. This Essay discusses recent advances in mammalian olfactory ...
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Scott Sterrett @sterrett-sc.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Seattle! a new multisensory exhibit at the Nordic museum inspired by the plants of Iceland, with a lecture from @neurovenki.bsky.social on Dec 5th nordicmuseum.org/events/dr-ve... @uw-nbio.bsky.social
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Neuroscience-related posts on Bluesky surged last week following an influx of users—including many neuroscientists. Chart by @callimcflurry.bsky.social.
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Ida Momennejad @neuroai.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Just to offer a different PoV: this would benefit progress in the same direction, but IMO we need new math for life/natural intelligence to get us out of copying ML into neuroAI, e.g. claiming an engineering tool as THE way the brain works etc. Breakthrough Theoretical advances need broader search.
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Scott Sterrett @sterrett-sc.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
hi #neuroskyence 👋 i've been mostly lurking here for a few months as i'm writing my thesis but wanted to take a moment to say i'm looking forward to rebuilding a supportive and engaged community here :) ok, back to writing!
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