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Am I right that this paper just shows that 1) chicks have a basic preference for round shapes, 2) this preference disappears when a stress-evoking sound is being played in the background? 1/4

What irritates me a lot in Cobbs' biography of Crick is that every time any appaling views of him are mentioned, we are spoon-fed an assurance that it was TYPICAL OF THE ERA, this paragraph being probably the most absurd case.

Join us on the first edition of our Walking Book Club in Heidelberg! We meet on Saturday, Jan 31st at 11 AM to talk about The Party, a book by Tessa Hadley, @ powerful story about attention, power and sisterhood!

Oh, I have been to so many of those lectures. (To Rest Our Minds and Bodies by Harriet Armstrong).

VERY HARD TO PROVE AND YET WE MARCH ON

Yes, contrary to what many people would tell you, the whole is simpler than its parts. (biography of American chemist Willard Gibbs by Muriel Rukeyser, published by @mcnallyeditions.com)

My thoughts exactly (from McEwan's Atonement).

We are super happy to present our first Open Lab preprint! We look critically at the concept of "naturalistic behaviour" and point out that "naturalistic" doesn't always mean "better"!

The first slide of every predictive coding talk:

Me neither, me neither. (Muriel Spark, A far cry from Kensington).

Wishing you all beautiful things in the days and year to come.

I'm working on a piece on dealing with complexity in neuroscience. And hence my question: do you feel overwhelmed with the complexity of the system you study? And - if so - what is your personal remedy for that feeling?

Modern systems neuroscience logic in a nutshell.

THESIS DEFENDED.

We finished the first Cambridge Open Lab workshop yesterday. It is super nice to see the project I have once started at Nencki to develop and spread!

How come I didn't know that before.

I have finally written a piece on the topic I was obsessed with for the last few months - the inconceivable story of my grandma, the untruth of family tales and the relationship between memory and reality! brainsbooks.substack.com/p/memory-and...

Memory and causalityWhy family stories don't matter (in the way we think they do)brainsbooks.substack.com