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Eric
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🇨🇦 Interested in science and philosophy
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sbmost.bsky.social
My TEDx Talk on “Teaching and the Vanishing Art of Connection”
#EduSky #AcademicSky #EdTech #Education #Teaching #Learning #PsychSciSky #AcademicChatter
Beyond the “Pail”: Teaching and the Vanishing Art of Connection | Steven Most | TEDxUNSW Salon
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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December 18, 2024 at 3:12 AM
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visscherlab.bsky.social
As the Dec 15 deadline nears, a reminder that UAB's #Neuroengineering graduate program is a spectacular group of people, working on fascinating problems, and integrating engineering thinking with neuroscience understanding. Come join us! www.uab.edu/engineering/...
#Neuroscience #gradschool
Neuroengineering Ph.D. - School of Engineering
The UAB School of Engineering is a world-class institution of engineering education and research, consisting of 5 departments within a major research university.
www.uab.edu
December 10, 2024 at 5:49 AM
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learningaccelerators.com
Why do people remember certain things and forget others? A recently published review paper by researchers at Rice University sheds light on the relationship between factors that influence human memory.

A Thread 1/10

#cognition #memory #recall #neuroscience #research #EduSky
Woman slaps forehead in shock having realised she has forgotten something.
December 10, 2024 at 6:28 AM
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claeneuro.bsky.social
Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Understanding the molecular diversity of synapses

#Neuroscience
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Understanding the molecular diversity of synapses - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
The set of proteins present at synapses determines their heterogeneous functions and properties. In this Review, van Oostrum and Schuman describe the molecular mechanisms that contribute to the d...
www.nature.com
December 8, 2024 at 8:46 AM
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hugospiers.bsky.social
Opposite responses to reward with dopamine (up) and serotonin (down) in nucleus accumbens boost reinforcement learning. Impressive work in Nature:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Opponent control of reinforcement by striatal dopamine and serotonin - Nature
Nature - Opponent control of reinforcement by striatal dopamine and serotonin
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November 25, 2024 at 8:24 PM
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neurograce.bsky.social
ooo 👀
arxiv.org/abs/2409.02684
#compneuro #neuroskyence
Neural timescales from a computational perspective
Timescales of neural activity are diverse across and within brain areas, and experimental observations suggest that neural timescales reflect information in dynamic environments. However, these observ...
arxiv.org
November 25, 2024 at 9:27 PM
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sethabramson.bsky.social
There is a metaphor here somewhere
November 25, 2024 at 8:01 PM
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isaacostlund.bsky.social
We recently discovered that #marijuana (THC specifically) reduces GABA #neuron activity. This explains some of the rewarding effects of THC because the depression of GABA #neurons can lead to increased dopamine release, which can make us feel pretty good.

#science #EduSky

doi.org/10.3389/fnin...
A five progren green leaf. Very pretty! Waaait... Is that marijuana??
November 25, 2024 at 8:37 PM
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mpfneuro.bsky.social
Apply by Dec. 1st to our #Neuroscience #PhD program. You will be at the forefront of neuroscience research, benefiting from unique training opportunities and outstanding resources. Join our diverse and supportive community, where you will thrive! Visit mpfi.org/imprs to learn more and apply!
November 25, 2024 at 4:08 PM
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neuralkn0t.bsky.social
"5-MeO-DMT radically reorganises low-frequency flows of neural activity, causing them to become incoherent, heterogeneous, viscous, fleeting, nonrecurring, and to cease their typical travelling forwards and backwards across the cortex compared to resting state."

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Complex slow waves radically reorganise human brain dynamics under 5-MeO-DMT
5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT) is a psychedelic drug known for its uniquely profound effects on subjective experience, reliably eradicating the perception of time, space, and the self. H...
www.biorxiv.org
November 25, 2024 at 4:30 PM
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hakwan.bsky.social
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

"In visual working memory (VWM), distraction may come from the coding of distractors or other concurrently retained targets.... using fMRI pattern decoding, the human posterior parietal cortex is shown to orthogonalize the representations ..."
The human posterior parietal cortices orthogonalize the representation of different streams of information concurrently coded in visual working memory
How do humans maintain information in their visual working memory (VWM) in the presence of distractors? This study shows that the human occipitotemporal and posterior parietal cortices orthogonalize t...
journals.plos.org
November 25, 2024 at 1:54 AM
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gershbrain.bsky.social
@yangxiang.bsky.social, @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social, and I have a fun new paper on self-handicapping:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
We analyze this phenomenon in terms of rational signaling, showing how it depends on assumptions about whether observers are naive or sophisticated.
OSF
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November 24, 2024 at 8:09 PM
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kiswanson.medsky.social
Looking for medical professionals to follow? Here’s a number of lists of great people to follow

#medsky 🩺🧪
Round 1
go.bsky.app/Qg2TA9p
Round 2
go.bsky.app/9ziyYqt
Round 3
go.bsky.app/9WQtZh6
Round 4
go.bsky.app/HRaNhEt
Round 5
go.bsky.app/DvGjDh6
Round 6
go.bsky.app/TzRhec3
November 24, 2024 at 4:39 PM
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rodbraga.bsky.social
Happy to announce that our paper is now published in Science Advances!

science.org/doi/10.1126/...
November 23, 2024 at 5:35 PM
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denklab.bsky.social
This one is also for #PainResearch & @alexmsalmeida.bsky.social
November 23, 2024 at 2:39 PM
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niessner.bsky.social
Want to work on cutting-edge research in #AI?

We have several 𝐏𝐡𝐃 & 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐃𝐨𝐜 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 in our Visual Computing & AI Lab in Munich!

Topics have a strong focus on GenAI, including 3DGs, NeRFs, Diffusion Models, LLMs, etc.

Share & apply :)

application.vc.in.tum.de
November 21, 2024 at 1:21 PM
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lauraruis.bsky.social
How do LLMs learn to reason from data? Are they ~retrieving the answers from parametric knowledge🦜? In our new preprint, we look at the pretraining data and find evidence against this:

Procedural knowledge in pretraining drives LLM reasoning ⚙️🔢

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November 20, 2024 at 4:35 PM
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fatusn.bsky.social
🧪 Grad students and postdocs, this is your #AcademicAuntie reminding you that now more than ever, organizing locally and building community with each other will be crucial for solidarity, support, and labor protections. A piece from colleagues with actionable recs: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Recommendations for empowering early career researchers to improve research culture and practice
Around the world, early-career researchers are working to improve research culture and practice by addressing systemic challenges. This consensus statement provides expert guidance for individuals inv...
journals.plos.org
November 20, 2024 at 4:33 PM
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reginaroyan.bsky.social
🚨 Attention #MedSky and #Epidemiology friends! 🚨
We are looking for a PhD Junior Faculty or Post-Doc to join the Departments of Neurology and Emergency Medicine at the University of Michigan! Come work with me and please share with your networks!

medschool.umich.edu/departments/...
Neurology Faculty Recruitment | University of Michigan Medical School
medschool.umich.edu
November 19, 2024 at 8:35 PM
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joscelinrocha.com
I'm excited to be using @rfortherestofus.com again with a new group of trainees learning R! 🖥️✨ The intro course is free and a perfect starting point, with plenty of paid options for deeper dives. Highly recommend checking it out: rfortherestofus.com/courses/gett... 🚀

#LearnR #DataScience #Rstats
Getting Started with R
A free course to help you get started with R. Learn to get R and RStudio set up, how to import data, and how to examine your data in R.
rfortherestofus.com
November 20, 2024 at 6:28 PM
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labwilhelm.bsky.social
Ever wondered how fasting is benefiting the adaptive immune response? In @Nature we show that #ketogenesis promotes the function of #tcell in severe respiratory viral infections by providing #ketonebodies BHB as carbon source. Final edited version: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Impaired ketogenesis ties metabolism to T cell dysfunction in COVID-19 - Nature
The ketone body β-hydroxybutyrate can be used as an alternative carbon source by T cells to maintain their function during severe respiratory viral infections, including infection with&...
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November 19, 2024 at 11:33 AM
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m-b-petersen.bsky.social
A mapping of how Bluesky is becoming the new Scientific Twitter

mikeyoungacademy.dk/bluesky-is-e...
Bluesky is emerging as the new platform for science - Mike Young Academy
Scientific Twitter is about to find its true successor. And it is not X. This, our latest release, shows that the Bluesky network of scientists is growing — and growing.
mikeyoungacademy.dk
November 20, 2024 at 5:28 AM
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taylorwwebb.bsky.social
Excited to announce that I'll be starting a lab at the University of Montreal (psychology) and Mila (Montreal Institute of Learning Algorithms) starting summer 2025. More info to come soon, but I'll be recruiting at the Masters and PhD levels. Please share / get in touch if you're interested!
November 19, 2024 at 4:51 PM
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pieterdorrestein.bsky.social
Ok a third bleetorial or skeetorial of another preprint. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... in this case Nina, our exposome expert, Kine, our expert pharmacist, Corinna, the MS/MS guru, wanted to identify medication exposures from untargeted metabolomics data. Why? - aren’t there good medical records?
Empirically establishing drug exposure records directly from untargeted metabolomics data
Despite extensive efforts, extracting information on medication exposure from clinical records remains challenging. To complement this approach, we developed the tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) based...
www.biorxiv.org
November 20, 2024 at 3:18 AM
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adamgrieve.bsky.social
Can I ask you to share a PhD advert at Bristol Uni please? Rhomboid proteases play a role in neurons that is essential for life- but it is not characterised. Got a student interested in cell biology, electrophysiology and neurobiology? Send them our way! tinyurl.com/56f24f7c
November 15, 2024 at 5:55 PM