nature.com/articles/s41467-0… The first animal model for bipolar disorder with human genetics validity has just been published. Psychiatry is a highly therapeutic specialty. Psychiatric disorders are inherently complex, polygenic, heterogeneous, and multifactorial. Despite that, the field has excellent therapeutics. The field continues to move forward rapidly. Ignore the skeptics. #MedTwitter #PsychTwitter

I'm hiring a postdoc to work with me on problems related to meta-learning and probabilistic representation learning in the brain. Perks: i) the amazing research community at @bcm_neurosci and @RiceNeuro. ii) Houston food is DELICIOUS (and cheap) jobs.bcm.edu/job/Postdoctora…

Akap11 mutations greatly increase risk for #bipolar disorder and #schizophrenia. Not much was known about this gene when we started. Here’s what we learned! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… Thanks to Morgan Sheng, @ajgrange, Yang Ge, Borislav Dejanovic & crew @broadinstitute

札幌くらいの人口規模だと、文化的なイベント類は東京ほど豊富ではないけど、なんだかんだそれなりには来るし、来たやつは東京ほど混まなくて快適だし、これはこれでいいと思う。 それはさておき、最近夏がクソ暑いので、札幌に遷都してもいいんじゃねえか感はある。新幹線も来るよ。遅れるけど。

Our @CurrentBiology paper about proprioceptive neurons in crawling fruit fly larvae is out today! Movie shows real-time 3D data collected at 10 volumes per second using #SCAPEmicroscopy (color denotes depth). Collab with Wes Grueber @ZuckermanBrain eurekalert.org/e/9254

Meet Elizabeth on Humans of HBI: “As scientists, we should be driven by a desire to truly understand the biology – whether or not the answer is as we had hoped.” brain.harvard.edu/hbi_humans… @harvardmed @BostonChildrens @maxwellheiman @HarvardGSAS