Beyond grateful to share two co-first author papers that came out in @Nature!! With @AmitVinograd, we provide causal evidence for a line attractor in the mammalian brain! And with @MengyuLiu96, we show that line attractors might be a common mechanism for emotions beyond anger!

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@BellLabs @svoboda314 @FellerMarla @yusterafa @FritjofHelmchen So we can trace an intellectual thread from John's work to the line attractor concept that has become popular in systems neuroscience for interpreting low-dimensional structure in large-scale recordings of neural activity.

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This work wouldn't have happened without the amazing support of our mentors @scott_linderman, @Antihebbiann and of course David Anderson!

All this work really builds on our initial study in @CellCellPress and lays out groundwork to understand the neural computations and dynamics underlying emotions! https://t.co/SVMfNzQYBz

We're finding evidence that attractors rely on mechanisms including neuromodulation, something we dissected in detail in this third study in @CellCellPress with @GeorgeMountou! https://t.co/gCEWNoXORw

In our second study with @MengyuLiu96, we show that line attractors control sexual arousal and can be dynamically modulated by hormones, opening up new mechanisms to think about attractors! https://t.co/za0Ct8gXqs

Check out @AmitVinograd's thread for an awesome recap of the first study. It required us to combine experiments and theory in new ways with closed loop modeling and perturbation, to truly reveal that line attractors are intrinsic to the hypothalamus! https://t.co/VL8IyotjTT

(1/n) Thrilled to announce our (me + @neuronair ) Nature paper is out! We uncovered causal evidence of a line attractor in the brain—a neural mechanism encoding emotional states like aggression. Machine learning (AI) helped us map it! 🚀🧠 #Neuroscience #AI @NeuroscienceNews

Extremely thankful to @scott_linderman, @Antihebbiann, @SuryaGanguli, Mark Schnitzer and David Anderson for believing in me and pushing me in grad school! And my amazing collaborators @AmitVinograd, @MengyuLiu96, @GeorgeMountou and @TomomiKarigo for teaching me so much!

I'm both shocked and honoured to be one of the few grad students to ever receive the Gruber International Research Award from @SfNtweets! We travel the world as immigrants for science, and it means so much to have that journey recognized. Feeling truly grateful to my mentors!

Thrilled to share our latest in @CellCellPress led by @GeorgeMountou! We use his cool new CRISPR tools to reveal that the aggression encoding VMHvl line attractor uses neuropeptides! Part of our awesome collab with @scott_linderman and @AmitVinograd! https://t.co/gCEWNoXORw

Come on down to hear about dynamical systems x social behavior 🔥🔥 at 5:15 if you're @CosyneMeeting workshop organized by @KrisTorpJensen, @marineschimel and @davindi09!! Thrilled to talk alongside @chethan, @scott_linderman, @anqiwu_angela, @theiStone and M Dowling & C Savin!!

Can't believe it's finally out! Check out @Antihebbiann's thread for a detailed breakdown of our paper! It's improved so much while in review!!

So excited to share my 1st first author paper with David Anderson & @Antihebbiann, with help from @TomomiKarigo, @scott_linderman, @SuryaGanguli & Mark Schnitzer in @CellCellPress!! We found an approx. line attractor that correlates with aggressiveness! https://t.co/SVMfNzQYBz

My somewhat cynical take on bullies in academia is that they’re a feature, not a bug. I touched on this with an earlier tweet, but the qualities we commonly associate with “top scientist” in academia are extremely present in the kinds of people who bully others.

Had a fabulous time organizing Chen DataSAI and teaching alongside @Antihebbiann Xuan @lpachter Tara @chethan @chris_versteeg @evadyer @mehdiazabou @JonathanCKao Brandon & @neuronair It wouldn’t have been possible without them 🥰 Stay tuned for next year 😃🧠🤓

That’s a wrap: group shot from the final day of the inaugural Data Science and AI for Neuroscience summer school, hosted by the Chen Institute for Neuroscience @Caltech Thanks to @SaberaTalukder @neuronair @lpachter @PietroPerona @yisongyue @ChenInstitute and David Anderson

For the last day (😭) of @CaltechN DataSAI Summer School we have the superb @JonathanCKao & Brandon walking through RNNs & dynamical systems! Featuring the not planned last day uniform @GeelingC Yue & @JieyuZheng3 🤓🧠 Thanks @lpachter @yisongyue @neuronair ++ for a great time!