Jag Kanwal

Neuroscientist Naturalist Neuroethologist: Where does the cosmos come from? Why did life originate? How do brains really work?

[Jag Kanwal @jkanwal1]

@FitFusion__ Placement of backpack straps on leg.

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Zebrafish implanted with tumor cells could help oncologists quickly personalize cancer treatments | Science | AAAS https://t.co/eHtDc005tg

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No surprise there.

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@KatrinVogt3 Really interesting paper and clean result. I particularly like the simple model and its explanation. Congratulations!

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Rats laugh when tickled. It’s nature’s way of making novelty and play, and therefore learning, pleasurable and communicating this need and emotion within a social context.

Tickled rats reveal brain structure that controls laughter | Science | AAAS https://t.co/x7TtCc32Dh

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@Talking_Bat @NatureComms @fgarciaro92 Very interesting and impressive work! Congratulations!👍🏼

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Some think fish don’t have a mind either, and then there is the question of a bat knowing what it is like to be a bat.

[Lars Chittka @LChittka]

And ... it's out! After immaculate conception and a 5 year gestation period, this baby was finally born last night. According to Amazon, it weighs 1.35 pounds. Father and baby are healthy and happy.🙂

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Star Wars in the making.

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Boston Dynamics shows of their robots latest skills

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Every scientist is a human being approaching the scientific endeavor in their own way.

[Nature Neuroscience @NatureNeuro]

A remembrance of Chuck Stevens from @TonyZador

https://t.co/fIHqpr3P7W

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#SFN22

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Very interesting talk and clever experiments on the idling brain by Prof. Inokuchi at #SfN22.

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@ItsNeuronal @TrackingActions @SuryaGanguli Good point!

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Underwater action!

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#ClimateAction is needed to prevent habitat loss and provide ecologically viable bridges to maintain continuity and diversity in social calls among geographically distributed populations of #bats.

[Frontiers - Ecology & Evolution @FrontEcolEvol]

New Research: Geographic Variation in Social Vocalizations of the Great Himalayan Leaf-Nosed Bat, Hipposideros armiger: Acoustic Overflow Across Population Boundaries: Bat populations employ rich vocal repertoires for social communication in… https://t.co/hwZpMN9Fhr #Ecology

[Jag Kanwal @jkanwal1]

Excellent and timely review. Studies on echolocation have promoted a broader effort to understand signal processing by the auditory and other sensory systems using naturalistic stimuli.

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Awesome findings! How an action decision is broadcasted to sensory cortex. Wonder why.

[Surya Ganguli @SuryaGanguli]

1/ Our new @Nature paper "Emergent reliability in sensory cortical coding and inter-area communication" lead by talented @EbrahimiSadegh in another fun collab w/ Mark Schnitzer & team
Paper: https://t.co/jPA2Xiz4ge
Free: https://t.co/go3FdVcALQ
News: https://t.co/epEQXHQ9Lv
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[Jag Kanwal @jkanwal1]

“There is something really special about having a learning environment that’s exactly tailored to what you need to learn”

[Quanta Magazine @QuantaMagazine]

Homeschooling shaped Lillian Pierce’s relationship to her work. “There were no grades, there were no tests. There was just a deep, joyful attitude of: We’re alive, let’s learn.” https://t.co/2gWysxjM0k

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Insect brains function within fascinating inter-species relationships, capitalizing on #brain and behavioral #plasticity on an evolutionary scale.

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Indeed! His work was truly a source of inspiration, showing pioneering research could be done at low cost by observing the antics of a common and lowly creature.

[Cori Bargmann @betenoire1]

The ideas in “Sociobiology” (by way of Time magazine, in 1975) were electrifying to this ninth-grader.

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@partha_mitra Stately structure on the outside, but prison-like on the inside - seems to reflect well what it means to be a billionaire.