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Roberto Toro

@r3rt0.bsky.social

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Into brain development and evolution (+open science, generative art, genomics, music, 🇨🇱...). If you have questions about mechanical morphogenesis, I have more! https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6671-858X

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epithelial mechanics fan club @epimechfc.bsky.social · 2d

1/ 🐣⚒️ To study mechanics, we need to apply prescribed forces - how can we do that in living tissues? I am @eigenp.bsky.social and in this thread I'll highlight our new approach for applying tension on epithelial tissues in vivo!

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and last but not least!

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The 2nd CogBases Workshop is this 4 & 5 Nov at Institut Pasteur!
We'll discuss the latest in open science methods for analysing brain imaging data. Registration free, but mandatory
neuroanatomy.github.io/cogbases-2025/
@k4tj4.bsky.social @cmaumet.bsky.social @bthirion.bsky.social @demw.bsky.social

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Jonathan Basile @jonothingeb.bsky.social · 7d

Our conference on Dialectical Biology, the Marxist tradition represented by the work of Richard Lewontin, is this weekend! Join us Friday to Sunday, online or in Toronto, register here: ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/diale...

Help spread the word if you can!

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Eric Turkheimer @ent3c.bsky.social · 6d

Haven't posted much lately-- busy. One of my Substack projects is republishing my chapters from the Kendler and Parnas series on the philosophy of psychiatry. The books are expensive and hard to find. This is, "The Hard Question in Psychiatric Nosology." /1 @awaisaftab.bsky.social

Roberto Toro @r3rt0.bsky.social · 6d

the right one looks wider! (by two observers)

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Ana Martínez Gómez @brainbyana.bsky.social · 12d

🚨 New in J. Comp. Neurology: "Larger Fish Have Larger Brains With More Neurons Across but Not Within Cohorts Raised in Different Growth Conditions" 🐟🧠

DOI: doi.org/10.1002/cne....

#Neuroscience #BrainEvolution #ComparativeNeurobiology #Fish #Plasticity

Larger Fish Have Larger Brains With More Neurons Across but Not Within Cohorts Raised in Different Growth Conditions

Teles et al. propose a model of brain evolution that explains how come fish with larger bodies have larger brains with more neurons across cohorts raised in different growth conditions, while individ....

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Bryan White, MS Bio, MPH 🧬 @crvscience.com · 10d

Homie got 229 pairs of chromosomes

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

This tiny butterfly has the most chromosomes of any animal on Earth

Scientists have confirmed that the Atlas blue butterfly carries the most chromosomes of any animal, with 229 pairs. Unlike duplication, its chromosomes split apart, reshaping its genome in surprising ...

www.sciencedaily.com

Roberto Toro @r3rt0.bsky.social · 10d

up for it! Paris could also be a possibility <3

Roberto Toro @r3rt0.bsky.social · 10d

it'd be cool to see a small conference on an evodevo perspective on psychiatry and neurodevelopment!

Roberto Toro @r3rt0.bsky.social · 10d

Congratulations Armin 🚀!
Great to have you have you closer 🌟

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Armin Raznahan @bogglerapture.bsky.social · 11d

Some news …! 🤗

So excited to get started next year, and very grateful for the opportunity.

Looking forward to connecting with friends and colleagues - old and new.

Watch this space for posting on fully funded positions as the new lab starts up !

Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford @oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social · 12d

🔊We are delighted to announce the appointment of Armin Raznahan as the new WA Handley Professor of Psychiatry.

Professor Raznahan is a child & adolescent psychiatrist, joining us from the US National Institute of Mental Health Intramural Research Program.

More: www.psych.ox.ac.uk/news/armin-r...

An image of Professor Armin Raznahan, Incoming WA Handley Professor of Psychiatry, with a quote from him saying: "Returning to the UK to work and learn with the remarkable community at Oxford is a real privilege. There is such a unique landscape of opportunity across the university and local NHS Trusts to both advance our understanding of the developing human brain and make a difference in the way we care for youth experiencing mental health difficulties."

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Signe Johansen @signesjohansen.bsky.social · 12d

“Wow! Fantastic! Real fame at last! Fancy being in a Gary Larson cartoon!”

Amidst so many wonderful tributes to Jane Goodall, I thought I’d share this delightful detail for anyone else who grew up admiring her, and Gary Larson’s Far Side brilliantly bonkers cartoons

www.salon.com/2025/10/01/j...

“Well, well - another blonde hair…Conducting a little more ‘research’ with that Jane Goodall tramp?’

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Varun Warrier @vw1234.bsky.social · 13d

It is now clear that more people are being diagnosed as autistic in their teens and as adults than in childhood. A prevailing theory is that those diagnosed later have "milder" form of autism, and later diagnosis entirely due to social factors.

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Imaging Neuroscience @handle.invalid · 13d

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Joshua A. Karpf, Christopher D. Kroenke, et al:

Characterization of normative fetal rhesus macaque brain development with magnetic resonance imaging

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 19d

The brain is incredibly densely connected. Human cerebral cortex may have as many as *one trillion* connections.

Most of those cortical connections are recurrent, inside each area. What do they do?

New paper from me in Annual Reviews: 🧪 🧠📈 1/

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Active Filtering: A Predictive Function of Recurrent Circuits of Sensory Cortex | Annual Reviews

Our brains encode many features of the sensory world into memories: We can sing along with songs we have heard before, interpret spoken and written language composed of words we have learned, and reco...

www.annualreviews.org

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 20d

HHMI adopts Plan U journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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Pascal Mamassian @mamassian.bsky.social · 20d

A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue.

The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea.

From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt:
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...

An array of 9 purple discs on a blue background. Figure from Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt.

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 23d

“Many scholars from historically overexploited countries (often referred to as the global south) expected that exposing the problem would trigger change. Four years on, I see it clearly: the scientific system was never designed for equity,” writes Dolors Armenteras in Nature. #Academicsky 🧪

Equity in science is a beautiful lie — and I’m done pretending

Science isn’t really moving towards equity; institutions are just perfecting the appearance of equity. We need to build an alternative system.

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Sasha Gusev @sashagusevposts.bsky.social · 24d

Massive sibling regression study finds that human traits are largely environmentally driven (average heritability = 0.3)

Within-family heritability estimates for behavioural and disease phenotypes from 500,000 sibling pairs of diverse ancestries

Quantification of the direct effect of genetic variation on human behavioural traits is important for understanding between-individual variation in socio-economic and health outcomes but estimates of ...

www.medrxiv.org

Roberto Toro @r3rt0.bsky.social · 25d

postdoc organoids?