New work from the Aronov lab is online! Marissa Applegate (grad student extraordinaire, not on twitter) builds an innovative apparatus for studying the natural behavior of food-caching birds in the lab, and models their flexible use of memory in different situations

I made a cake inspired by Marissa Applegate & Dmitriy Aronov's preprint. Let the Great Science Bake-Off begin!! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

How do birds remember thousands of spots where they hide food for the winter? New research on brain cells that turn on in specific locations a step toward seeing what memories look like in our brains. Hannah Payne, Aronov lab. Science Magazine: bit.ly/3B7tdQm

First Aronov lab paper is out!! Twitter summary here: x.com/hannahpaynephd…, paper linked below

Yesterday dr. ashley juavinett and I were watching tv and I heard her emphatically whisper "FINALLY" and I looked over and she was reading a paper on her phone called "neural representations of space in the hippocampus of a food-caching bird"

Collaboration with Scott Taylor Individual variation in spatial cognition in chickadees is associated with differences in genes involved in hippocampus development and function. Led by Carrie Branch Georgy Semenov Ben Sonnenberg (he/him) Angela Pitera Eli Bridge cell.com/current-biolog…

🐒🧠📈 New preprint with co-first author Gabe Stine, Eric Trautmann, Ariel Zylberberg, Daniel Wolpert, and Michael Shadlen. We probe and resolve the longstanding question of whether or not LIP activity reflects decision computations on single trials. Tl;dr: They do. tinyurl.com/yt95pdav 🧵

Another edition of #LabCakes! Erica Wegner, Steph Hale, @SelmaanChettih, and Dmitriy Aronov describe the importance of proper diet (esp. vitamin A!) for a healthy happy chickadee colony. Congrats all 🎉🐣🐥🦅 Cannoli cake w/ brown butter frosting, team effort with Isabel Low

Honored and delighted to be awarded the DP2! The Gadagkar Lab will study female songbirds as a model for how we evaluate the actions of others. Interested postdocs, get in touch! NIH Common Fund #NIHHighRisk Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute Columbia University

I'm co-founding Basis Research Institute (basis.ai) with Zenna Tavares and Eli Bingham!! As Zenna said, more details soon... but check out this interview with Zenna and Basis research scientist Sam Witty!

Looking forward to this!

Wondering what the hippocampus is doing during one-shot cache memory formation and retrieval? In case you missed it, Selmaan Chettih, Emily Mackevicius, Steph, and Dmitriy have now published the answer in Cell free link to paper: authors.elsevier.com/c/1ir1ML7PXqQ4q