1/9 Share Time. Here is an 11 year old review from a paper that Ashok Litwin-Kumar and I submitted during his PhD. The result was a soft reject - but one of the reviewers gave perhaps the funniest review ever! I will post choice excerpts below. 2/9 "I like this study. It is a thoughtful work that examines correlations in spiking activity between neurons, across time scales. That said let me murder this manuscript, in the hope that it will be greatly improved on rebirth. For it is certainly in need of improvement."

Today I am starting a short reading course focusing on some of my favorite, classic papers in theoretical neuroscience. I thought I would tweet my reviews. Up first: Dynamics of Encoding in a Population of Neurons by Bruce Knight (1972). rupress.org/jgp/article-pd… Knight shows how variability in the response across the populations helps a (uncoupled) population of spiking neurons (with "forgetfulness") faithfully encode a dynamic stimulus.