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Tatiana Engel @engeltatiana.bsky.social · 22h

A study led by Cina Aghamohammadi is now out in ‪@natcomms.nature.com‬! We developed a mathematical framework for partitioning spiking variability, which revealed that spiking irregularity is nearly invariant for each neuron and decreases along the cortical hierarchy.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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CL @cllantz.bsky.social · 3d

Ah it made it! Glad you like it, thanks for helping me design!

CL @cllantz.bsky.social · 3d

They decided on 'Cheerleaders.' It would appear that committees may not be the best decision makers.

Front of a brick house with skeletons posed in the front yard with orange pom-poms as cheerleaders.

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CL @cllantz.bsky.social · 3d

Amazing! Congratulations Kurt!

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CL @cllantz.bsky.social · 3d

Someone has to do the work while all the lazy govt workers are at home.

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CL @cllantz.bsky.social · 3d

Today we plan the annual skeleton display, and there sure are a lot of opinions in the room.

7 skeletons sit on a couch around a coffee table in a variety of positions.

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CL @cllantz.bsky.social · 4d

Sure 🤷‍♀️

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CL @cllantz.bsky.social · 4d

Hot dog*

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Ologies with Alie Ward @ologies.bsky.social · 4d

#HauntedHydrology aka SPOOKY LAKES is up w/ *the* Geo @geodesaurus.bsky.social.

Mudbank bones, river wrecks, salty seas, pink ponds, poison dust devils, steamy streams, a stump that controls the weather, goo lagoons, and droughts shivering your spine.

IT'S HERE:
www.alieward.com/ologies/haun...

Haunted Hydrology (SPOOKY LAKES) with Geo Rutherford — alie ward

Mudbank bones. River wrecks. Salty seas. Pink ponds. Poison dust devils. Steamy streams.. It’s Haunted Hydrology with your favorite Spooky Lakes ambassador, the artist and author Geo Rutherford who is...

www.alieward.com

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CL @cllantz.bsky.social · 4d

Don't sleep on the State Fair exhibit at the Renwick.

Foreground is a ceramic hotdog with relish and mustard, background is a blue and white ceramic that holds a lot of corn dogs

Large quilt made of winning ribbons from new Mexico state fair

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Janelia Research Campus @hhmijanelia.bsky.social · 6d

🪰 A team of researchers has unveiled the complete connectome of a male fruit fly central nervous system—a seamless map of all the neurons in the brain and nerve cord of a single male fruit fly and the millions of connections between them.
🔗 https://hhmi.news/4o3EJnk

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 9d

Engrams Formed in Virtual Reality Exhibit Reduced Familiarity Upon Retrieval: Electrophysiological Correlates of Source Memory Retrieval Indicate Modality-Dependent Differences in Recognition Memory
doi.org/10.1111/ejn....
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Engrams Formed in Virtual Reality Exhibit Reduced Familiarity Upon Retrieval: Electrophysiological Correlates of Source Memory Retrieval Indicate Modality‐Dependent Differences in Recognition Memory

The study examines whether the retrieval of virtual reality (VR)-engrams is more profoundly based on recollection than on familiarity compared to PC-engrams, and whether the encoding modality functio...

doi.org

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 9d

Pre-stimulus beta power mediates explicit and implicit perceptual biases in distinct cortical areas
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Pre-stimulus beta power mediates explicit and implicit perceptual biases in distinct cortical areas - Communications Psychology

Two EEG studies in healthy human adults suggest that choice history and stimulus probability-induced biases in somatosensory perception are reflected in distinct prestimulus beta power modulations across distinct cortical regions.

www.nature.com

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CL @cllantz.bsky.social · 10d

Dr. Mario themed quilt.

Take me back to playing Dr. Mario late nights in grad school.

Quilt hanging on a clothes line, quilt has red, blue and yellow pills on a green checkerboard background

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Ya'el Courtney, PhD @scienceyael.bsky.social · 11d

🚨 Psychedelics in pregnancy - can a single dose reach the embryo and matter? Yes. In mice they hit embryonic CSF within minutes, activate choroid plexus→CSF axis, & shift cortical development with adult behavioral signatures. @lehtinenlab.bsky.social Preprint:

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Gestational psychedelic exposure disrupts brain development and offspring behavior in mice

Despite increasing non-medical use and clinical investigation of psychedelics, the consequences of prenatal exposure remain unknown. In mice, maternal lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD; 0.3 mg/kg) cross...

www.biorxiv.org

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CL @cllantz.bsky.social · 11d

Submissions close soon!

The Kavli Foundation @kavlifoundation.org · 12d

Calling all BRAIN tool, tech, and theory developers! The BRAIN Initiative Alliance is hosting the BIA Toolmakers Showcase at #SfN25.

If you have a tool or technology ready to share with the #neuroscience community, apply to be a featured toolmaker by this Friday: bit.ly/3W4GeWv

#studyBRAIN

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Dana Foundation @danafoundation.bsky.social · 19d

(1/2) The Dana Foundation has launched a rapid response bridge funding opportunity for work impacted by recent shifts in federal funding. We encourage scholars, practitioners, and teams doing work that falls within the Foundation's mission area of neuroscience and society to apply. #neurosky

Promotional image for the Dana Foundation featuring details of the Neuroscience & Society Bridge Funding Program with a deadline of October 10. Contact email provided as RapidResponse@dana.org.

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 11d

Cool Postdoc opportunity alert! UNC SPIRE (Seeding Postdoctoral Innovators in Research & Education)-it provides scholars with both high quality research training & the opportunity to develop research based teaching skills that will inspire students across the sciences 1/n
spire.unc.edu/program-info/

About Seeding Postdoctoral Innovators in Research & Education (SPIRE)

SPIRE’s Mission:

1) To provide scholars with both high quality research training and the opportunity to develop research based teaching skills that will inspire students across the sciences

2) To promote effective teaching and research partnerships between research intensive institutions and partner institutions with a large population of underrepresented students

The four major components of the SPIRE Postdoctoral Fellowship Program include:

Research
Teaching
Professional Development
Additional Opportunities

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CL @cllantz.bsky.social · 11d

Out of office message set. Godspeed everyone.

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CL @cllantz.bsky.social · 20d

Well my flight still hasn't left Chicago but we did sit on the tarmac for 2 hours and I learned how to English paper piece. Behold my first little bit in all its glory

White and green checkerboard English paper pieces flower roset thing. I don't know what it's called I've never done this before..

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CL @cllantz.bsky.social · 21d

Still good but not even the same though! Thomas was the life blood of strike anywhere and Inquisition and a really solid human.

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CL @cllantz.bsky.social · 21d

Let's be fair Inquisition was a stellar band too.

CL @cllantz.bsky.social · 21d

Revisiting albums from the early aughts, and Chorus of One by Strike Anywhere is still a banger.

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CL @cllantz.bsky.social · 21d

She's too good

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