Ben James

Neuroscience post doc at Janelia interested in neural computation, stochastic processes, and avant-garde literature.

[Ben James @NeuroJames]

Oops, it’s actually 3 months out…

[Ben James @NeuroJames]

Stoked to have received a call that my preordered copy of The Beginnings arrived at the bookshop. The opposite of stoked to hear that the release date was moved back a month, so while my copy is physically in the store, I can’t read it for another month. @DeepVellum

[Ben James @NeuroJames]

Hey @astoundconnects - how about you stop sending me so much trash. I don’t want you.

[Ben James @NeuroJames]

@redfernsam9 @FoodPornPhotos Honey mustard is the superior dipping sauce. I will fight you on this.

[Tom Baden @NeuroFishh]

New preprint by the twitterless Tessa Herzog & colleagues: Individual cones of the vertebrate eye are exceptionally reliable and precise, but functionally heterogeneous as a population: https://t.co/aiwSwJu64S @TaYoshimatsu @neonsynapse @JosMoyaDaz1 BenJames

[Ben James @NeuroJames]

@redfernsam9 @radioreverb @INXS @DireStraits77 @whitestripesnet @YYYs @petshopboys @pilofficial I always thought ‘touch me I’m sick’ by Mudhoney would make a good valentines song

[Ben James @NeuroJames]

@The_Koya_Lab I wonder if that’s the same one we’d feed from our window like three years ago

[Ben James @NeuroJames]

@JohnathanPerk Isn’t this just textbook survivorship bias?

[Lorenzo Fontolan @lorifonto]

#postdoc and #phdposition available in my lab in Marseille @centuri_ls & @inmed_u1249 🎉🎉

If you are interested in building models of brain computations and developing data analysis tools with cool experimental collaborators, please apply!

More info:
https://t.co/6tc4MKMufo

[Ben James @NeuroJames]

I didn’t dislike ‘The Sot-Weed Factor’. I quite enjoyed ‘Giles Goat-Boy’. But ‘Chimera’ - particularly ‘Bellerophoniad’ - blew my fucking mind.

[Ben James @NeuroJames]

@patrickshafto Seems super interesting! I’m assuming you can attend just one workshop?

[Ben James @NeuroJames]

@The_Koya_Lab There was a squirrel we would feed from our office window in CRPC. I wonder if this is the same one!

[Ben James @NeuroJames]

I have never felt like such a poor excuse for a stringed instrument player as when I restring my banjo. Seriously, is there any specific reason why banjos use the loops? Why not have little circle things like guitar?

-Sincerely, my fat cannoli/sausage fingers.

[Ben James @NeuroJames]

@_ryanruby_ Maybe after 50 years they’ll award it the Pulitzer.

[Ben James @NeuroJames]

@ddillingworth I think I’ve read it twice now. But for me the read-til-I-die book is the Recognitions.

[Ben James @NeuroJames]

@klindt_david @jpillowtime @nanopharmNC It took being on a plane to be moved? Clearly you don’t love

[Ben James @NeuroJames]

@FultonWrites @Dalkey_Archive I have! The repetition and present participles make take a bit of getting used to, but after about 100 pages you settle in and it’s great.

[Ben James @NeuroJames]

Grammar people! When describing distance in virtual reality, would one use ‘further’ or ‘farther’? There is no physical distance in VR, but the distance is not really figurative either. Should it matter?

[Ben James @NeuroJames]

@KordingLab @johnowhitaker I don’t know, but any quantitative metrics of subjective state, ie. suffering or happiness have ‘utility monster’ problems.

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@NeuroFishh @KristinMBranson Don’t you give all your people iPads to use at posters?