Matthew Davenport

Biomedical engineer and behavioral neuroscientist in training. Honestly just trying to figure out why no one laughs at my jokes.

[Matthew Davenport @mattisabrat]

@SLJ1FemmeForte @cedricboeckx @erichjarvis @genomeark Great question! I do think E2 treated females would have a hard time finding a mate. More behaviors than song appear masculinized. @choe_h used to show a video of one trying to court another female, presenting nesting material etc.

[Matthew Davenport @mattisabrat]

Returned Twitter to shout our new preprint on zebra finch sexual dimorphism into the void https://t.co/pYzdA9SxU3 @erichjarvis

[jordan @JordanUhl]

"CLEAN" COAL DOESN'T EXIST
"CLEAN" COAL DOESN'T EXIST
"CLEAN" COAL DOESN'T EXIST
"CLEAN" COAL DOESN'T EXIST
"CLEAN" COAL DOESN'T EXIST
"CLEAN" COAL DOESN'T EXIST
"CLEAN" COAL DOESN'T EXIST
"CLEAN" COAL DOESN'T EXIST
"CLEAN" COAL DOESN'T EXIST
"CLEAN" COAL DOESN'T EXIST

[Matthew Davenport @mattisabrat]

@rosscoVilla LPT: Save money by using the bidet for both

[Jason Shepherd @JasonSynaptic]

Woah, overwhelmed with all the positive responses to our paper! Thanks #Scicomm. Just wanted to highlight the Budnik lab's paper on fly Arc (https://t.co/5oGhfxc8Xn) and the really well written preview by Tomonaga (https://t.co/3pOMa4SaXj)

[Marina Picciotto @MarinaP63]

In the NYC area? Check out an amazing Ramón y Cajal show at NYU that opened today https://t.co/lKccp4j4ya

@SloanPublic The @SloanFoundation-supported exhibition "The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal," opens today at NYU's Grey Art Gallery @NYUGrey

[Samuel Péan @SamuelPEAN]

This collective behavior simulator made by @DirkBrockmann and based on @icouzin and colleagues model is just AWESOME!!!
You can play with it here 🙌 > https://t.co/u8TvPb1VnT (HT @emilyfobert)

[Jason Sheltzer @JSheltzer]

Wow: thanks to commensal infection with staph bacteria, most people have pre-existing antibodies against commonly-studied Cas9 proteins. This may cause a significant hurdle to using CRISPR in the clinic. https://t.co/vBnzht4Wbt

[Megan Carey @meganinlisbon]

Structure of the Zebrafish Locomotor Repertoire Revealed with Unsupervised Behavioral Clustering by @daniobrain and colleagues @Neuro_CF @ChampalimaudF in @CurrentBiology https://t.co/8jOn4TRrsR…

[bioRxiv @biorxivpreprint]

Acoustically Targeted Chemogenetics for Noninvasive Control of Neural Circuits https://t.co/z06CsgqaiU #bioRxiv

[Ed Boyden @eboyden3]

Expansion microscopy boosts the yield of multiplexed in situ hybridization (i.e., MERFISH), with an order-of-magnitude increase in packing density of assessed RNAs. From Xiaowei Zhuang and colleagues. https://t.co/VRnNhl8WDg

[Cori Bargmann @betenoire1]

Until .@nature steps up, here's a link to Ben Barres's article on sex and gender in science. At the symposium in January he noted bemusedly that this was his most influential paper ever. https://t.co/uBwOxIexQk https://t.co/4wf5gzSXZE

[Matthew Davenport @mattisabrat]

@bassKMB @donttrythis I taught my 4 year old nephew how to build with LEGOs today. Together we made a crocodile and a two car locomotive. It took roughly half as much time and involved over and order of magnitude fewer pieces, but we had a blast. Also 10/10

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

What we could do with $1.5 trillion:
-Make college tuition-free
-Provide universal preschool
-Repair our crumbling infrastructure
-Fund CHIP for 107 years
-Rebuild Puerto Rico

What Republicans did:
-Give tax breaks to the wealthy and corporations
https://t.co/cpuyrTkhQI

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

In @ScienceTM: new cell culture methods could help researchers understand the role of microglia in neurodegenerative disease https://t.co/0r308mRMZM

[Bill McKibben @billmckibben]

Huge new Finnish study finds planet could run on 100% renewable energy by 2050 and for less money than we pay now.

Or, we could burn up the earth

https://t.co/x5EnKlgTfg

[Matthew Davenport @mattisabrat]

I literally just finished subcloning almost a dozen GCaMP6f based constructs... ***heads into lab early to start remaking them*** #science #Neuroscience #gradschool https://t.co/deiFeMIc8O

[karel svoboda @svoboda314]

A bit more unpacking:
jGCaMP7s - sensitive detection of activity
jGCaMP7f - more sensitive replacement for GCaMP6f
jGCaMP7b - higher baseline fluorescence, for imaging small structures (neurites)
jGCaMP7c - very low baseline fluorescence, for side-field imaging https://t.co/LAmY8ZaAuv

[Matthew Davenport @mattisabrat]

Exciting new approach to decode neural representations of movement without requiring simultaneous recordings of behavior and neural activity. Inspired by the WW2 Enigma code-breakers https://t.co/GQwVhlm8It #brains #behavior #science #cryptography

[Rockefeller University @RockefellerUniv]

A new study from @pollyp1 identifies a protein that could help control mosquitoes that spread diseases like Zika and dengue. #VosshallLab https://t.co/OQqlrcsOLt

[Matthew Davenport @mattisabrat]

The image-forming mirror in the eye of the scallop https://t.co/fDP9VL4r7N