Dan Levenstein
@dlevenstein
Neuroscientist, in theory. Studying navigation and sleep in 🧠s and 💻s. Incoming Assistant Professor at Yale Neuroscience, Wu Tsai Institute.
Thrilled to announce I'll be starting my own neuro-theory lab, as an Assistant Professor at @YaleNeuro @WuTsaiYale this Fall! My group will study offline learning in the sleeping brain: how neural activity self-organizes during sleep and the computations it performs. 🧵
En route to @CNSorg #CNS2025! ✈️ Talking Wednesdsy at the workshop on NeuroAI, and looking for postdocs - if you’re interested in studying sleep, navigation, or offline learning using a neuroAI approach, come say hi!
Does anyone else find it perpetually annoying that what most folks would consider neural "computation" is Marr's "algorithmic" level, while his *computational* level is really just "what's the goal of this thing anyway?" AKA function.
I know there exists a Far Side comic with a farmer teaching cows about physics, and the caption is something like "imagine a spherical cow". It seems to be impossible to find on the internet. Does anyone happen to have or know where I can find an image of this comic? 😂
Sequential predictive learning may explain how hippocampal replay emerges and supports offline memory processing. @dlevenstein, from @Mila_Quebec / @mcgillu and an SWC ENSS winner, discusses new insights into hippocampal function. Read the Q&A: sainsburywellcome.org/web/qa/replayi…
Regardless what happens next, a generation of scientists are learning that the US government is not a reliable institution to have a contract with.
Many folks wrongly assume education is a ship that runs itself. It can’t work if teachers aren’t fully funded, if their students aren’t invested in learning, if their parents aren’t invested in them. “People are destroyed for lack of knowledge.” We can’t let that be our fate.