Loving the science at spont2026.umin.ne.jp in beautiful Atami, Japan. What a thrill to gather with those studying spontaneous activity in development with co-organizers @glb-lab.bsky.social Christian Lohman and Konichi Ohki.

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Very happy to see that neural heterogeneity is getting more attention. It's a great time to be studying this.

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If you thought "everything is everywhere" in the brain: inactivations reveal a clear distinction of labor. Sensory areas sense, colliculus promotes eligible actions (!), and prefrontal cortex integrates. The role of superior colliculus in a logistic decision www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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I am excited to announce that I will start the Brain Origins Lab at the Crick in March 2027! Using acoels as a model system, the lab will study how animal brains evolve, and how innovations in brain organisation enable new computational abilities and the evolution of complex behaviour.

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"The goal of academic training is not to solve problems as efficiently and quickly as possible, but to develop skills for identifying and dealing with novel problems, which have never been solved before." openletter.earth/open-letter-... @olivia.science

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