Ann Kennedy
@antihebbiann.bsky.social
Theoretical neuroscientist interested in brain-body interactions and evolution of adaptive behavior. Associate Professor at Scripps Research Institute in San Diego.
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Ann Kennedy
@antihebbiann.bsky.social
· Dec 11
Interested in diffusion models, behavior forecasting, internal states, neuromechanical modeling, reservoir computing, joint neural/behavioral datasets? Missing the sunshine?
We have multiple fully funded postdoc positions, come join us!
We have multiple fully funded postdoc positions, come join us!
An important dining etiquette tip: no matter your head angle, the ears must always point up. Auriculomotor reflex?
December 7, 2025 at 10:53 PM
An important dining etiquette tip: no matter your head angle, the ears must always point up. Auriculomotor reflex?
en*K*ephalins act on Delta opioid receptors and *D*ynorphins act on Kappa opioid receptors, and this is how you know the pain field is full of psychopaths
November 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
en*K*ephalins act on Delta opioid receptors and *D*ynorphins act on Kappa opioid receptors, and this is how you know the pain field is full of psychopaths
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It's also just distracting because usually the image has some weirdness to it, and it doesn't tend to add explanatory value. So if you're just adding them for ambience or to represent a generic concept, just use a regular picture.
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:44 PM
It's also just distracting because usually the image has some weirdness to it, and it doesn't tend to add explanatory value. So if you're just adding them for ambience or to represent a generic concept, just use a regular picture.
Neighbor was a hospital admin and put my resume on the pile, got a HS summer job in a glial stem cell lab and was hooked.
Parents thought college was largely a scam and there was no $ in biology, but ok'd biomedical engineering. Fell in love with mathematical modeling of biology and that was that!
Parents thought college was largely a scam and there was no $ in biology, but ok'd biomedical engineering. Fell in love with mathematical modeling of biology and that was that!
November 28, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Neighbor was a hospital admin and put my resume on the pile, got a HS summer job in a glial stem cell lab and was hooked.
Parents thought college was largely a scam and there was no $ in biology, but ok'd biomedical engineering. Fell in love with mathematical modeling of biology and that was that!
Parents thought college was largely a scam and there was no $ in biology, but ok'd biomedical engineering. Fell in love with mathematical modeling of biology and that was that!
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Check out the newest Editors' (that would be me and Eunjoon Kim) Choice issue in Current Opinion in Neurobiology.
Superbly guest edited by Stephen Liberles and @zknight.bsky.social
>20 review articles on Interoception
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Superbly guest edited by Stephen Liberles and @zknight.bsky.social
>20 review articles on Interoception
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Current Opinion in Neurobiology | Interoception 2025 | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
Read the latest articles of Current Opinion in Neurobiology at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature
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November 25, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Check out the newest Editors' (that would be me and Eunjoon Kim) Choice issue in Current Opinion in Neurobiology.
Superbly guest edited by Stephen Liberles and @zknight.bsky.social
>20 review articles on Interoception
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Superbly guest edited by Stephen Liberles and @zknight.bsky.social
>20 review articles on Interoception
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
This Scripps place sounds like a pretty cool spot to work
I have a story today about interoception--a kind of sixth sense that delivers information from within our bodies to our brains. nyti.ms/4rfTDtn
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November 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
This Scripps place sounds like a pretty cool spot to work
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NIH extends the Oct-Nov deadlines to Dec 8, 2025 drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/n...
NIH extends the Oct-Nov deadlines to Dec 8, 2025
The NIH has issued a Notice (NOT-OD-26-012) which expands upon the prior warning (NOT-OD-26-005) about extending the current submission deadlines. It seems to be quite comprehensive. All grant appl…
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November 24, 2025 at 8:19 PM
NIH extends the Oct-Nov deadlines to Dec 8, 2025 drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/n...
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Tenure track position in motor control at Northeastern University
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Open Rank (Professor, Associate or Assistant) AI, Sensors, and Human Movement
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November 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Tenure track position in motor control at Northeastern University
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Hello New York! Giving a Swartz seminar at NYU today, come say hi!
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November 21, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Hello New York! Giving a Swartz seminar at NYU today, come say hi!
as.nyu.edu/departments/...
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Ive seen this work from Prof Liqun Luo’s presented a few times now and its stunning and heroic.
Nature research paper: Rewiring an olfactory circuit by altering cell-surface combinatorial code
go.nature.com/3MbCoZT
go.nature.com/3MbCoZT
Rewiring an olfactory circuit by altering cell-surface combinatorial code - Nature
In Drosophila, changing the expression of a small set of cell-surface proteins in just one type of olfactory neuron rewires its connections almost entirely to a new postsynaptic partner neuron type, altering the fly’s odour response and courtship behaviour.
go.nature.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Ive seen this work from Prof Liqun Luo’s presented a few times now and its stunning and heroic.
Beautiful collection of tessellated materials found in nature:
tessellated-materials.mpikg.mpg.de/collection
tessellated-materials.mpikg.mpg.de/collection
HU
tessellated-materials.mpikg.mpg.de
November 21, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Beautiful collection of tessellated materials found in nature:
tessellated-materials.mpikg.mpg.de/collection
tessellated-materials.mpikg.mpg.de/collection
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🔔 NEW PREPRINT FROM THE LAB ‼️
We introduce a new ML model, LoRAX, for predicting olfactory responses from chemical features, a tricky problem that benefits from progress in ML for biochem. We combine LoRA fine-tuning with protein and chemical foundation models, www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We introduce a new ML model, LoRAX, for predicting olfactory responses from chemical features, a tricky problem that benefits from progress in ML for biochem. We combine LoRA fine-tuning with protein and chemical foundation models, www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Low rank adaptation of chemical foundation models generate effective odorant representations
Featurizing odorants to enable robust prediction of their properties is difficult due to the complex activation patterns that odorants evoke in the olfactory system. Structurally similar odorants can ...
www.biorxiv.org
November 20, 2025 at 1:38 PM
🔔 NEW PREPRINT FROM THE LAB ‼️
We introduce a new ML model, LoRAX, for predicting olfactory responses from chemical features, a tricky problem that benefits from progress in ML for biochem. We combine LoRA fine-tuning with protein and chemical foundation models, www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We introduce a new ML model, LoRAX, for predicting olfactory responses from chemical features, a tricky problem that benefits from progress in ML for biochem. We combine LoRA fine-tuning with protein and chemical foundation models, www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Re-upping this - Neuropeeps! We have a TT Job in my wonderful department at Brandeis! First consideration to applications received by Dec 15 (but why wait?)
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Assistant Professor in Biology and Neuroscience Program - Waltham, Massachusetts (US) job with Brandeis University | 12848464
The Department of Biology and the Program in Neuroscience at Brandeis University invite applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor positio...
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November 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Re-upping this - Neuropeeps! We have a TT Job in my wonderful department at Brandeis! First consideration to applications received by Dec 15 (but why wait?)
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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We’re thrilled to announce that Dr. Xin Jin has been named the 2026 Peter Gruss Young Investigator. Her pioneering work developing high-throughput in vivo screening strategies is unraveling the genetic mechanisms of neurodevelopmental disorders. buff.ly/RI9emVa
November 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
We’re thrilled to announce that Dr. Xin Jin has been named the 2026 Peter Gruss Young Investigator. Her pioneering work developing high-throughput in vivo screening strategies is unraveling the genetic mechanisms of neurodevelopmental disorders. buff.ly/RI9emVa
#sfn2025 three fun posters from us today: theory work by @rgast.bsky.social on the effects of neural heterogeneity on computation, a hippocampus+feeding collab with @liye-tsri.bsky.social , and LLMs for pose interpretation in rehabilitation data with @peabody124.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
#sfn2025 three fun posters from us today: theory work by @rgast.bsky.social on the effects of neural heterogeneity on computation, a hippocampus+feeding collab with @liye-tsri.bsky.social , and LLMs for pose interpretation in rehabilitation data with @peabody124.bsky.social
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At #SfN and want to hear about how BiomechGPT can provide a language interface to your biomechanics data? Checkout poster happening now at YY4 with Ruize Yang and @antihebbiann.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 10:21 PM
At #SfN and want to hear about how BiomechGPT can provide a language interface to your biomechanics data? Checkout poster happening now at YY4 with Ruize Yang and @antihebbiann.bsky.social
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Personal apologies to everyone who came to “sunny” San Diego for #SfN2025.🌧️😱
November 15, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Personal apologies to everyone who came to “sunny” San Diego for #SfN2025.🌧️😱
Driving home from lab, stopped at light, glanced at odometer.
111111 miles on 11/11!
111111 miles on 11/11!
November 12, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Driving home from lab, stopped at light, glanced at odometer.
111111 miles on 11/11!
111111 miles on 11/11!
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SfN 2025 Art of Neuroscience
Full list of Exhibitors
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November 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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A loss of trust in information is just as bad as a loss of trustworthy information.
I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.
November 9, 2025 at 2:40 PM
A loss of trust in information is just as bad as a loss of trustworthy information.
Nothing beats the tiny ceremony of clicking and dragging a project from the "my papers in progress" folder to the "my papers finished" folder
November 8, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Nothing beats the tiny ceremony of clicking and dragging a project from the "my papers in progress" folder to the "my papers finished" folder
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That image is from 1961 and an idealization. Here is an actual trajectory of fixational eye movements. The dots are 2 ms apart. If a midget ganglion cell, with single-cone receptive field, fires at 100 Hz, then every spike reports about a different cone. How can we ever read anything?
November 7, 2025 at 6:23 PM
That image is from 1961 and an idealization. Here is an actual trajectory of fixational eye movements. The dots are 2 ms apart. If a midget ganglion cell, with single-cone receptive field, fires at 100 Hz, then every spike reports about a different cone. How can we ever read anything?
These are great!
This October I’m drawing 1 molecule a day inspired by proteins in pdb @rcsbpdb.bsky.social
Day 20/31
Prompt RIVALS
Pdb: 8V27 & 8G6S
Two rival histone modifications on a nucleosome. Ubiquitination of H2BK120 activates genes while H2AK119 represses them.
Next: BLAST
Suggestions?
Day 20/31
Prompt RIVALS
Pdb: 8V27 & 8G6S
Two rival histone modifications on a nucleosome. Ubiquitination of H2BK120 activates genes while H2AK119 represses them.
Next: BLAST
Suggestions?
November 2, 2025 at 4:28 PM
These are great!