Daniel Dorman, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience @ Hope College | Computational Neuroscience, Basal Ganglia, & Decision Making | Passionate about teaching & mentoring undergrads | Advocate for justice & antiracism in STEM & society | he/him | JHU IRACDA Alum
- All the videos of our #NeuroAI symposium at @fieldsinstitute.bsky.social are now online! 📺 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
- 🧠 Excited to share the full program of our #NeuroAI workshop at the @fieldsinstitute.bsky.social (next Monday & Tuesday) 📍 Toronto + Online: fields.utoronto.ca/activities/2... 🎙️ Talks by VanRullen, @neurograce.bsky.social, Eliasmith, Pitkow, Kanai, Thompson & more.
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- Had to vertically concatenate my SfN app screenshot this year, nbd. Come check out the innovative & rigorous human neuroscience that all the neurosmiths & collaborators are doing. #sfn2025 #SfN25
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- 1 To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised! 🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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- This powerful message: “I did the research and found out I was wrong.” I’m not going to say much more except please take the time to watch. Then send it around to family and friends, no matter their political persuasion. Part I
- It'ssssss PREPRINT THURSDAY! (Sadly not a thing). Approximately an era ago, I spent a *lot* of time discussing the assumptions that underpin the field of #ComputationalPskychiatry with the brilliant @jonroiser.bsky.social and @olijrobinson.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...
- I did this before in German but I guess today is a good day to compile English resources on why AI isn‘t actually intelligent and also a real danger: 🧵
- this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely
- "Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels." arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
- 🚀 We are excited to share that bombcell is now available in Python! 🐍 Automatically sort your units into good/MUA/noise/non-somatic using quality metrics and interpretable & adjustable classification thresholds. pip install and play around with our toy dataset: 🔗 github.com/Julie-Fabre/...
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- this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
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- 🎉BIN is turning 5️⃣—and going in-person for Black In Neuro Conference 2025 in Washington, DC 🧠✨ 🗓️ It's time to save the date: September 10-12, 2025 Let’s celebrate 5 years of community, connection, and Black excellence in neuroscience! More details to come soon!! 🤗
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- Our paper is out in Nature. By examining various inputs to the motor cortex during learning, we found that thalamic inputs learn to activate the cortical neurons encoding the movement being learned. Tour de force by Assaf in collab with Felix and Marcus. Congrats! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- SaveNSF is a coalition of concerned scientists and allies who are working to save funding for scientific grants through the NSF. The mission is to support and advocate for the continuation of vital research and innovation. Join: www.savensf.com
- New opportunity for Bay Area undergrads to gain computational neuroscience exposure and training! I’m teaming up with @neuronush.bsky.social to offer this to students in our communities 💕🧠🧪 Please share with any students who might be interested! Tiny.cc/ucsfcompneuro
- This time-lapse captures 17 hours of axonal growth from a chicken dorsal root ganglion explant, visualized through the actin cytoskeleton using live confocal imaging. I just submitted this video to the Nikon Small World in Motion competition. Today is the last day to upload yours! 😉 🧪
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- A putative neural correlate of mood! One big (scandalous?) idea, simple analyses, and the STRONGEST brain/behavior correlation I've EVER seen (which is shocking, given that it's mood). Work with: You-Ping Yang, @catrinahacker.bsky.social and Veit Stuphorn. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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- Following public false claims on autism causation and attacks on science, INSAR has released a statement that people are “born with autism” www.autism-insar.org/page/insarst.... Autism as innate and lifelong is the focus my new free paper (long thread incoming): www.frontiersin.org/journals/int...
- @drstevenkapp.bsky.social has timely new paper (w/ 600+ sources) on autism as a lifelong neurodivergence underpinned by sensory+ differences prior to & if applicable even after meeting criteria. It deconstructs "autistic regression” & challenges outgrowing autism: www.frontiersin.org/journals/int...
- We are excited to announce our new Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience (SCENE)! This program will unite experts in experimental and computational #neuroscience approaches to investigate how the brain represents sensorimotor interactions. www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/04/24/s... #science
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- In today's episode of the Night Science Podcast we talk with Martin Schwartz from Yale about the importance of stupidity in science: while learning science makes you feel smart, true scientific discovery often involves feeling stupid, because it means venturing into the unknown.
- New Night Science Podcast episode! Martin Schwartz from Yale talks with us about the importance of stupidity in scientific research, how the ego can obstruct creativity, and how resilience, self-discovery, and "passionate indifference" – are key in science. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
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- Our new paper is out in Science. What is the synaptic plasticity rule in the brain, we asked. It turns out there are multiple, even within individual neurons. Congrats Jake! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- It's never about the science. It's always about having a legal basis for your fear and hatred of other people.
- My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"? Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...
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- How does our brain predict the future? Our review of predictive processing + research program is now on arXiv arxiv.org/abs/2504.09614 50+ neuroscientists distributed across the world worked together to create this unique community project.
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