oh and birdsong is the shit

my boy erich jarvis, the official mascot and cheerleader of the birdsong research community, just got a shout out in the new york times. i listened to his talk at the society for neuroscience meeting in san diego this past october, and he's really helping to merge the disciplines of molecular and systems neurobiology, a marriage that most of the field is reluctant to condone but, in my eyes, will ultimately prove fruitful in understanding how complex representations are learned, stored, and recruited in brain.