Ben Pedigo

I don't think Pike Place visitors are ready to cede this space.

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We just hit 1 million Fremont Bridge bike trips so far this year #SEAbikes #Seattle

Very happy our work on a weird new nanoscale morphological feature is out in @science.org. A massive effort involving different high resolution microscopy techniques, multiple institutes, & years of work to convince ourselves DENDRITIC NARROWINGS EXIST #neuroskyence 🧪 doi.org/10.1126/scia...

We have a new #1 Link 🚊 ridership day! On Friday, June 19, Link light rail saw about 280,000 riders, amid the USA 🇺🇸 v Australia 🇦🇺 World Cup ⚽️ match and Mariners ⚾️ home game day. 2️⃣8️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣

ORDINANCE PASSES UNANIMOUSLY SHARED STREETS ARE LEGAL IN THE CITY OF SEATTLE THIS HAS BEEN MY DREAM FOR YEARS AND NOW IT IS HAPPENING IF YOU COME HOME FROM EUROPE WISHING WE COULD HAVE WHAT THEY HAVE THEN WHY NOT DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT SOMETIMES YOU WILL SUCCEED

Great turnout for Bring Your Own Chair at Pike Place today 🪑 Thanks to everyone who showed up, grabbed lunch, and helped demonstrate what a more people-first Pike Place can look like. More space for people. More reasons to stay. Let’s keep it going.

🧵 New preprint led by @bingbrunton.bsky.social, @elliottabe.bsky.social, @lawrencehu.bsky.social We gave a worm brain control of a fly body and it walked What did we learn? Nothing, other than deep reinforcement learning is effective We call it the digital sphinx www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I tracked every keyword in 22 years of Cosyne abstracts to map how computational neuroscience evolved — from Bayesian brains to neural manifolds to LLMs — and where it's heading next.

When a fly lands on your arm, how does your nervous system decide where to swat? By reconstructing tactile axons in a Drosophila connectome, we found a leg somatotopic map and downstream circuits that sample the map to initiate targeted grooming Led by Leila Elabbady, PhD doi.org/10.64898/202...

A central somatotopic map of the fly leg supports spatially targeted grooming https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.27.708590v1

From @bdpedigo.bsky.social: a super efficient, highly reliable, and very generalizable method for mesh structure classification, applied here to spine detection across basically every synapse onto a cell in the MICRoNS dataset.

⏳ Less than 72 hours left to apply for our postbaccalaureate internship program! 🧠📈 Please share with promising grads in your network! Review our eligibility criteria and open positions: https://bit.ly/3N41tGK

I will be co-teaching a summer course at Allen Institute on connectomics education please apply. Travel support, new connectomics data sets and learning directly from the scientists who built these datasets. Details here: alleninstitute.org/events/incor...

TODAY at #SfN25 - join us for a nanosymposium exploring insights from the from the Machine Intelligence From Cortical Networks (MICrONS) Project. 📅 Saturday, November 15 🕐 1:00–2:45pm 📍 SDCC Room 30

Don't miss our first talks at #SfN25! Join us at #SfN25 for a nanosymposium exploring insights from the from the Machine Intelligence From Cortical Networks (MICrONS) Project. 📅 Saturday, November 15 🕐 1:00–2:45pm 📍 SDCC Room 30

Great to see the MICrONS data out, congratulations to the huge team who created this amazing data! If you have a scientific question about the data, there are resources available (including annotation and proofreading work) to help you! Submit a request to VORTEX: www.microns-explorer.org/vortex

The mind is like a symphony - it works better when the activity is synchronized. Growing evidence suggests that inhibitory neurons work together to "gain control." Learn more in this excellent review by Katie Moisse in @thetransmitter.bsky.social. 🔗 www.thetransmitter.org/connectome/i...

How does the brain work? Scientists are closer to the answer with the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date. 🧵 🧠📈

Mayor Harrell today on Pike Place: "I have a vision for our connected waterfront and Pike Place Market as one of the greatest pedestrian experiences in the country – where market patrons, visitors from out of town, and downtown residents do not have to worry about vehicle traffic." 1/2

Deadline to apply for the Summer Workshop on the Dynamic Brain is Feb. 1! The 2025 Summer Workshop on the Dynamic Brain is an intensive, project-based residential course for graduate and postdoc researchers interested in developing their computation skills. alleninstitute.org/events/summe... 🧠📈

Last day to apply!

alleninstitute.org/careers/inte... Internships and Postbac opportunities open at the Allen Institute, applications close January 7th 2025. Great opportunity for anyone interested in life sciences research or science-support careers. Spread the word!

The Kebschull and @rezakalhor.bsky.social labs are recruiting a joint postdoc for an exciting project at the interface of phylodynamics and neuroscience. Come join us at JHU BME. Spread the word, and contact us if you are interested. #hiring 🧪🧠. More on www.kebschull-lab.org and below.

By popular demand @sngreenways.bsky.social is on BlueSky! Follow for the latest on making Seattle a great place to walk, bike, roll, and live.

Render of a spiny neuron in mouse visual cortex from www.microns-explorer.org

This is a map of Seattle's streetcar network in 1941. Same hills.