Beyond excited to share the first preprint from my lab! We teamed up with the bioinformatic legends Yuri Wolf, Kira Makarova, and Eugene Koonin to explore DUF3800, an enigmatic domain associated with numerous phage defense systems. See preprint here www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6....
November 4, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Beyond excited to share the first preprint from my lab! We teamed up with the bioinformatic legends Yuri Wolf, Kira Makarova, and Eugene Koonin to explore DUF3800, an enigmatic domain associated with numerous phage defense systems. See preprint here www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6....
Read the full preprint here: https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/76e55fbe85697afbaae16b839498dc00797dec30.pdf
November 4, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Read the full preprint here: https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/76e55fbe85697afbaae16b839498dc00797dec30.pdf
Seeing can cause forgetting! Check out @akulsatish.bsky.social 's preprint showing that difficult perceptual discriminations induce an amnesic shadow, a collab with Justin Hulbert. @charan-neuro.bsky.social @mariamaly.bsky.social @ptoncompmemlab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
November 4, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Seeing can cause forgetting! Check out @akulsatish.bsky.social 's preprint showing that difficult perceptual discriminations induce an amnesic shadow, a collab with Justin Hulbert. @charan-neuro.bsky.social @mariamaly.bsky.social @ptoncompmemlab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
The three-banded panther worm has a brain structure all its own, according to a 2026 preprint. The finding hints that brains could have evolved centralization before regionalization. #neuroskyence
By @sarahdeweerdt.bsky.social
www.thetransmitter.org/neuros-ark/t...
By @sarahdeweerdt.bsky.social
www.thetransmitter.org/neuros-ark/t...
The three-banded panther worm rewrites brain evolution
The animal has a brain structure all its own, according to a preprint. The finding hints that brains evolved centralization before regionalization.
www.thetransmitter.org
November 4, 2026 at 4:30 PM
The three-banded panther worm has a brain structure all its own, according to a 2026 preprint. The finding hints that brains could have evolved centralization before regionalization. #neuroskyence
By @sarahdeweerdt.bsky.social
www.thetransmitter.org/neuros-ark/t...
By @sarahdeweerdt.bsky.social
www.thetransmitter.org/neuros-ark/t...
So happy to share this preprint! Learnt a lot working with @memorycontrol.bsky.social and Justin Hulbert 🙏
Seeing can cause forgetting! Check out @akulsatish.bsky.social 's preprint showing that difficult perceptual discriminations induce an amnesic shadow, a collab with Justin Hulbert. @charan-neuro.bsky.social @mariamaly.bsky.social @ptoncompmemlab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
November 4, 2026 at 6:57 PM
So happy to share this preprint! Learnt a lot working with @memorycontrol.bsky.social and Justin Hulbert 🙏
🦠 New preprint! How does Pseudomonas aeruginosa turn its quorum sensing OFF?
Let @calebmallery.bsky.social newest work show you how!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Let @calebmallery.bsky.social newest work show you how!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
November 4, 2026 at 2:02 PM
🦠 New preprint! How does Pseudomonas aeruginosa turn its quorum sensing OFF?
Let @calebmallery.bsky.social newest work show you how!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Let @calebmallery.bsky.social newest work show you how!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Thrilled to share a mini digest I wrote with the @preprintclub.bsky.social @neoviral.bsky.social highlighting an exciting new preprint from @chrysothemisbrown.bsky.social @yuripritykin.bsky.social. You can access the preprint here - www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
November 4, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Thrilled to share a mini digest I wrote with the @preprintclub.bsky.social @neoviral.bsky.social highlighting an exciting new preprint from @chrysothemisbrown.bsky.social @yuripritykin.bsky.social. You can access the preprint here - www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
New preprint from the lab!
Dissociable norepinephrine and dopamine representations during strategic decision-making and reward learning:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Comparing competitive vs reward-guided tasks, we found NE and DA jointly support adaptive behaviours across distinct timescales!
Dissociable norepinephrine and dopamine representations during strategic decision-making and reward learning:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Comparing competitive vs reward-guided tasks, we found NE and DA jointly support adaptive behaviours across distinct timescales!
www.biorxiv.org
November 3, 2026 at 10:58 AM
New preprint from the lab!
Dissociable norepinephrine and dopamine representations during strategic decision-making and reward learning:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Comparing competitive vs reward-guided tasks, we found NE and DA jointly support adaptive behaviours across distinct timescales!
Dissociable norepinephrine and dopamine representations during strategic decision-making and reward learning:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Comparing competitive vs reward-guided tasks, we found NE and DA jointly support adaptive behaviours across distinct timescales!
Where do parties place their election posters, and why? 🗳️
❗️New preprint with @klingelt.bsky.social: we walked every street of Berlin Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg during the 2025 German election and photographed every poster.
6,800+ photos, 10,000+ posters. 🧵
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
❗️New preprint with @klingelt.bsky.social: we walked every street of Berlin Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg during the 2025 German election and photographed every poster.
6,800+ photos, 10,000+ posters. 🧵
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
November 5, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Where do parties place their election posters, and why? 🗳️
❗️New preprint with @klingelt.bsky.social: we walked every street of Berlin Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg during the 2025 German election and photographed every poster.
6,800+ photos, 10,000+ posters. 🧵
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
❗️New preprint with @klingelt.bsky.social: we walked every street of Berlin Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg during the 2025 German election and photographed every poster.
6,800+ photos, 10,000+ posters. 🧵
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
New preprint alert! 🫧🔬🧬
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org
November 3, 2026 at 4:09 PM
New preprint alert! 🫧🔬🧬
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Preprint in AnArxiv?
November 2, 2026 at 11:39 PM
Preprint in AnArxiv?
New preprint from the lab! While your brain 🧠accumulates evidence toward a decision, something is watching the decision process in real time. Is that “something” a separate process with its own circuit? Our new bioRxiv paper tackles exactly that. 1/6 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
November 5, 2026 at 3:56 AM
New preprint from the lab! While your brain 🧠accumulates evidence toward a decision, something is watching the decision process in real time. Is that “something” a separate process with its own circuit? Our new bioRxiv paper tackles exactly that. 1/6 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
New preprint! Baby cries are extremely evocative, prompting specific caregiving responses from parents but aversion in others. How does the maternal brain derive meaning from cries to guide behavior? If you saw our 2023 preprint, this update adds a ton of new data: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Maternal experience unmasks temporal integration for vocalization processing
New parents become highly responsive to infant cries in parallel with auditory cortical plasticity enhancing representations of these calls. To promote caretaking behavior, increased cortical activity...
www.biorxiv.org
November 5, 2026 at 5:07 PM
New preprint! Baby cries are extremely evocative, prompting specific caregiving responses from parents but aversion in others. How does the maternal brain derive meaning from cries to guide behavior? If you saw our 2023 preprint, this update adds a ton of new data: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
New preprint 🧬 Methanogen genomes carry an overlooked source of genetic variation: tandem repeats, at densities >30× the prokaryotic average, on par with the Borg elements where I first saw them. Led by PhD student @sebastianhaiss.bsky.social at ETH Zürich.
doi.org/10.64898/2026.10.30.763056
doi.org/10.64898/2026.10.30.763056
November 4, 2026 at 5:57 AM
New preprint 🧬 Methanogen genomes carry an overlooked source of genetic variation: tandem repeats, at densities >30× the prokaryotic average, on par with the Borg elements where I first saw them. Led by PhD student @sebastianhaiss.bsky.social at ETH Zürich.
doi.org/10.64898/2026.10.30.763056
doi.org/10.64898/2026.10.30.763056
New preprint from the lab, SUPER excited about this one.
We identify "A domain-general basal ganglia mechanism for inhibitory control during language comprehension" via intracranial recordings, neural decoding, and deep-brain stimulation in humans.
More in 🧵 below
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
We identify "A domain-general basal ganglia mechanism for inhibitory control during language comprehension" via intracranial recordings, neural decoding, and deep-brain stimulation in humans.
More in 🧵 below
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org
November 3, 2026 at 7:00 PM
New preprint from the lab, SUPER excited about this one.
We identify "A domain-general basal ganglia mechanism for inhibitory control during language comprehension" via intracranial recordings, neural decoding, and deep-brain stimulation in humans.
More in 🧵 below
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
We identify "A domain-general basal ganglia mechanism for inhibitory control during language comprehension" via intracranial recordings, neural decoding, and deep-brain stimulation in humans.
More in 🧵 below
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
1/ New preprint on validating viral tools for targeting inhibitory neurons in macaque cortex, co-first authored by Maria Medalla and Pierre Boucher, with colleagues at the Allen Institute, UT Austin and from a large collaborative effort at BU.
November 3, 2026 at 11:27 PM
1/ New preprint on validating viral tools for targeting inhibitory neurons in macaque cortex, co-first authored by Maria Medalla and Pierre Boucher, with colleagues at the Allen Institute, UT Austin and from a large collaborative effort at BU.
I am at @cshlmeetings.bsky.social for the 2026 Biological Data Science meeting! #cshldata26 #methodsmatter
Poster: nalzok.github.io/assets/pdf/p...
Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Poster: nalzok.github.io/assets/pdf/p...
Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
November 5, 2026 at 2:25 AM
I am at @cshlmeetings.bsky.social for the 2026 Biological Data Science meeting! #cshldata26 #methodsmatter
Poster: nalzok.github.io/assets/pdf/p...
Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Poster: nalzok.github.io/assets/pdf/p...
Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
I forgot to mention - all data & code were made available with the preprint as well as two code-free visualization tools - details and links in posts below!
Excited to share our largest spatial transcriptomics study to date! We profiled the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in human 🧠 from 119 brain donors to investigate major depressive disorder (MDD) and bipolar disorder (BD) across biological sex.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
November 3, 2026 at 11:38 AM
I forgot to mention - all data & code were made available with the preprint as well as two code-free visualization tools - details and links in posts below!
November 3, 2026 at 5:25 AM
📢 New preprint out: RAGing Against Misogyny!
Misogyny is often implicit, and LLMs struggle to explain it. Can external knowledge help? We test Wikipedia, slang dictionaries, and feminist literature to find out.
📄 arxiv.org/pdf/2610.35094
Misogyny is often implicit, and LLMs struggle to explain it. Can external knowledge help? We test Wikipedia, slang dictionaries, and feminist literature to find out.
📄 arxiv.org/pdf/2610.35094
November 5, 2026 at 2:50 PM
📢 New preprint out: RAGing Against Misogyny!
Misogyny is often implicit, and LLMs struggle to explain it. Can external knowledge help? We test Wikipedia, slang dictionaries, and feminist literature to find out.
📄 arxiv.org/pdf/2610.35094
Misogyny is often implicit, and LLMs struggle to explain it. Can external knowledge help? We test Wikipedia, slang dictionaries, and feminist literature to find out.
📄 arxiv.org/pdf/2610.35094
Our newest preprint!!!
Current evidence suggests nutrients may not tell the whole story in modern food environments, but most food composition databases lack processing information. Can an ML classifier fill the gap from nutrients alone? We tested it on Finland's national database, Fineli
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
NOVA Through Two Lenses: From Nutrients to Food Processing Classification in Finland’s National Food Database
Ultra-processed food (UPF) intake has been linked to adverse health outcomes. However, NOVA processing groups are hard to assign consistently, and many national food composition databases do not inclu...
www.medrxiv.org
November 3, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Our newest preprint!!!
IdeaTaste: Do #LLMs Share the #Research Taste of Human #Researchers? (New preprint; via @arxiv.bsky.social)
arxiv.org/abs/2611.03424
arxiv.org/abs/2611.03424
November 4, 2026 at 5:17 PM
IdeaTaste: Do #LLMs Share the #Research Taste of Human #Researchers? (New preprint; via @arxiv.bsky.social)
arxiv.org/abs/2611.03424
arxiv.org/abs/2611.03424
✍️ New preprint from the @minclab.bsky.social
📃 The Endoplasmic Reticulum as a Cytoplasmic Anchor for Microtubule-Driven Aster Centration
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
📃 The Endoplasmic Reticulum as a Cytoplasmic Anchor for Microtubule-Driven Aster Centration
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
November 4, 2026 at 3:43 PM
✍️ New preprint from the @minclab.bsky.social
📃 The Endoplasmic Reticulum as a Cytoplasmic Anchor for Microtubule-Driven Aster Centration
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
📃 The Endoplasmic Reticulum as a Cytoplasmic Anchor for Microtubule-Driven Aster Centration
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
We nowadays think of parties targeting their messages mainly through digital channels. But what about the analog realm?
Check out @christinagahn.bsky.social and my preprint analyzing where parties placed their campaign posters in central Berlin during the 2025 election. Comments are most welcome!
Check out @christinagahn.bsky.social and my preprint analyzing where parties placed their campaign posters in central Berlin during the 2025 election. Comments are most welcome!
Where do parties place their election posters, and why? 🗳️
❗️New preprint with @klingelt.bsky.social: we walked every street of Berlin Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg during the 2025 German election and photographed every poster.
6,800+ photos, 10,000+ posters. 🧵
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
❗️New preprint with @klingelt.bsky.social: we walked every street of Berlin Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg during the 2025 German election and photographed every poster.
6,800+ photos, 10,000+ posters. 🧵
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
November 5, 2026 at 3:28 PM
We nowadays think of parties targeting their messages mainly through digital channels. But what about the analog realm?
Check out @christinagahn.bsky.social and my preprint analyzing where parties placed their campaign posters in central Berlin during the 2025 election. Comments are most welcome!
Check out @christinagahn.bsky.social and my preprint analyzing where parties placed their campaign posters in central Berlin during the 2025 election. Comments are most welcome!
We posted an update to our preprint from April, where we showed that the TIR domain of TLR4 is an NAD-processing enzyme:
Together with the Hornung lab, we now show that the TIR catalytic activity is essential for TLR4 signaling in human cells
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Together with the Hornung lab, we now show that the TIR catalytic activity is essential for TLR4 signaling in human cells
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org
November 3, 2026 at 9:09 AM
We posted an update to our preprint from April, where we showed that the TIR domain of TLR4 is an NAD-processing enzyme:
Together with the Hornung lab, we now show that the TIR catalytic activity is essential for TLR4 signaling in human cells
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Together with the Hornung lab, we now show that the TIR catalytic activity is essential for TLR4 signaling in human cells
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...