To celebrate PI-day, I post my favorite website of all time: The Tau Manifesto.

https://www.tauday.com/tau-manifesto

Whether the hippocampus is involved in unrewarded learning has been a controversial question. A new preprint finds that it may be critical for passively learning information.

By Natalia Mesa

https://www.thetransmitter.org/memory/hippocampus-builds-reputation-as-general-purpose-statistical-learning-machine/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=org-social&utm_campaign=20260309-news-hippocampus-builds-rep-general-purpose-statistical-learning-machine

Judith Fan is the recipient of the 2026 Lila R. Gleitman Prize. Dr. Fan is an Assistant Professor of Psychology (and, by courtesy, Education & Computer Science) at Stanford University. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology at Princeton University in 2016, following an A.B. in Neurobiology and Statistics at Harvard College.

Congratulations!

https://cognitivesciencesociety.org/gleitman-prize/

#cogsci

Mark Dombroski's lab is hiring at all levels: students, postdocs, staff scientists.
At the University of Colorado at Boulder – dream location for nature and mountain enthusiasts.

https://dombrovski-lab.org/team

#neuroscience #Drosophila

Me. I'm a mad scientist.

(Paul Noth cartoons)

The type of wholesome science that I think we can all use in complex times: the physics of elephant whiskers. Unlike mice, elephants don’t whisk. The physics of their whiskers suggests they amplify touch.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adx8981