Adam J CalhounVerified account

@neuroecology

I can't imagine smells. Neuroscience of behavior, punctuation art+science. Superhero:

NYC/Princeton
Joined July 2012

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    Visualizing punctuation in novels - how different authors structure their writing (eg, how Billy Faulkner never met a punctuation mark he didn't like)

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    If it is the standard, then Goff cannot eat anything since he thinks everything is conscious, event potatoes

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  3. nothing like gifting sentience to electronics and creating a parasitic mutualism to exploit a new niche in an informational ecology evolution is beautiful

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  4. The future is sidewalk robots slowly driving themselves along sidewalks to create virtual traffic jams seen only by our AI overlords

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  5. Did you know that has >150,000 high-quality illustrations for you to download?

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  6. Blog posts seem to fit quest for a 'transcribed talk'

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  7. Does this mean I unwittingly worked on similar problems? That I am limited in the ideas I have? That the questions that interested me are still interesting?

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  8. I'm (finally) writing up blog posts about all my past papers (something my website has promised for years). Looking back on past projects, it is amazing to me how many ideas and questions from back in grad school have popped up in my later research

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  10. 'As Michel de Montaigne infamously wrote in the 16th century, “Man is certainly insane; he can’t make a worm, and yet he makes gods by the dozens.” But who would want a worm when you could have a god?'

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  12. color vision is surprisingly under-represented in vision research, but this is a good example where it can reveal important functional roles of the nervous system!

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  13. Zebrafish retina is organized to hunt prey The distribution of cells that respond to UV light is biased toward the front of the animal (cells that respond to other light looks different) Prey field contains higher % of cells that respond to bright spots

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  14. it's pretty fun being able to understand, at a neuron-by-neuron level, how behaviors are created

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  15. In dark, tunicates (a small animal with only 177 neurons!) will swim upward. When it's light, they don't distinguish between up and down. How do they switch between these contextual behaviors? 👇how antennal cells and photoreceptors interact

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  18. A good thing about nyc: 7 day a week garbage trucks! A bad thing about nyc: 24 hours/day worth of garbage trucks

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  20. Looks like the meeting program has been posted online!

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    Expert programmers have fine-tuned cortical representations of source code

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