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The only thing I love more than neuroscience is... teaching neuroscience.
Here's a video series of my undergrad “Intro to Neuro” class. Adding new topics regularly. Check them out!
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Bing Wen Brunton
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Bing Wen Brunton
@bingbrunton
Scientist interested in all aspects of brain and behavior. Loves to talk math and data. Prof of Biology at University of Washington, Seattle.
- So… our kid asked “Why is the sky blue” knowing that they never get short answers about anything from @eigensteve and me. Great way to get out of trouble. And now we have colorful notes
- We were in dire need of a fresh group photo! Also heard last week that the Provost approved my promotion to Full Prof @UWBiology 😊 My immense gratitude to every group members, past and present; this one is for you all. (Thanks to @CT_Bergstrom for playing human photographer)
- Kid is fascinated exponents! Asks: Why is any number to the 0th power equal to 1? My best attempt at an intuitive answer: It must be so, for exp to be consistent with multiplication and division 😎 And... logic works on negative exponents too! Kid is not properly impressed.
- Hypnotized by movies of neural activity spreading across the brain? Try going with the FLOW! Our new paper on visualizing spatiotemporal coherent structures in widefield calcium imaging, by @NateLinden with @eigensteve, @SteinmetzNeuro, Tabuena, Moody royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…
00:00 - Our synapses are wondrous structures with many parts, and every single part is a molecular target of common (recreational) drugs. This video is a gateway topic between cellular & molecular neurobiology and systems neuroscience. Check it out! Link to full version 👇
00:00 - Seems a good time to announce that @gordonberman and I are working on a new book on Quantifying Natural Behavior, to be published by @mitpress, likely in 2024 😃 It will be an accessible introduction to modern perspectives and computational methods in ethology.I've been asked to recommend books on animal behavior. Unfortunately this is not so easy, as there are no satisfactory textbooks and most of what little we know is scattered in some old books. Here's a thread on some books I own (presented in chronological order).
- Tickled to see @tweetsatpreet’s paper on DRL for plume tracking on the cover of @NatMachIntell! Also with @RajeshPNRao @FlorisBreugel (Image is a watercolor by me 😊) nature.com/articles/s4225…
- Action-packed new video on the Action Potential!! Neurons send messages over long distances 🤟->🧠with action potentials, sustained without fail by pos and neg feedback. Bonus content: 2 ways to get there even faster, derived from the Cable Eq. youtube.com/watch?v=YcM7dU…
00:00 - I put up an academic bio on my website, then felt like it left too much unsaid. So here's an attempt to share a bit more of the story, including the wisest advice I ever received from a mentor. Plus! More watercolor glamour portraits of insects 😍. bingbrunton.com/bing
- Love to decode neural activity, but hate to label loads of data? A short 🧵 Well, fret no more! Our new preprint by @stevenmpeterson with @RajeshPNRao learns neural decoders w/o labels, by leveraging multiple simultaneously recorded data streams. 1/4 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
- I’ve been painting glamour portraits and wanted to share a few of my favorites 😍
- First priority in any new place: map out all the best ice cream spots 🍦 @eigensteve and I are in Pasadena for the year on sabbatical; the epsilons are under an ongoing ice cream bribery agreement. Feels good to be back 😎 ☀️🌴🍊
- Birds have an uncanny ability to move their heads independently of their bodies. How do they do this? As a first step in a new collaboration with @DavidPerkel, our preprint led by @KE_Stanchak and @cooperii elaborates on one intriguing hypothesis. 1/7
