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What's going on in computational neuroscience nowadays? (part 1)

A month ago I came back from Cosyne, the annual Computational and Systems Neuroscience conference.

It’s the largest conference in the field1 and had 1366 attendees this year in Lisbon. Having been on the move between university, a master’...

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Hive minds: What they're really like (part 3/3)

Whenever we see a system that can make good decisions—whether animal, computer, or giant cloud of bees—it feels like there must be some centralized control. (See discussion in Part 1: hive minds in pop culture, here).

But in a carefully co...

5 months ago
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Hive minds: Less peaceful than we think? (part 2/3)

Warning, this post contains very graphic descriptions of bee reproduction.


Some animals don’t need to die to reproduce.

This is true for geese, as far as I know. Every spring during grad school, I would watch the geese along the C...

6 months ago
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Live chat with Tommy Blanchard: On optimism and pessimism in neuroscience

I did a live chat with Tommy Blanchard of Cognitive Wonderland last week—thanks very much to those who tuned in (including my mom) and hope it was fun!

Here’s the entire chat, also available as an audio recording. We talk about what we’re...

6 months ago
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Hive minds: Lessons from the Bee People (part 1/3)

Cover image source, Muhammad Mahdi Karim.

Introducing the Bee People

Here we find that some people really love some bugs.

1. Tom Seeley (ft. E. O. Wilson, the ant man)

Tom Seeley is a professor of biology at Cornell. His life’s...

6 months ago
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    PhD in neuroscience, degrees in philosophy and computer science, postdoctoral training at Harvard. I write about science and philosophy of mind. Occasional science fiction author.

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