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Dr. Jan Zimmermann @janzimmermann.bsky.social · 5h

That maybe true but calling the offspring punk is severely offensive.

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Juan Gallego @juangallego.bsky.social · 9h

Show time!

Champalimaud Research @champalimaudr.bsky.social · 11h

🚀 The Champalimaud Research Symposium 2025 (#CRSy25) kicked off today in Lisbon under the theme “#NeuroCybernetics at Scale”, exploring #intelligence and the future of brain–AI research!

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Dr. Jan Zimmermann @janzimmermann.bsky.social · 21h

Happy there are more people helping with this point ;)

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 23h

Neuroscientists might be forgiven for thinking that they can suction their way back to trust. They have rarely faced opposition to their science. But they should look harder at histories of (say) evolutionary biology vs creationism, climate science vs fossil fuels, vaccines vs hesitancy.

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Dr. Jan Zimmermann @janzimmermann.bsky.social · 22h

But is real food endorsed by Huber bro ?

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Dr. Jan Zimmermann @janzimmermann.bsky.social · 1d

That makes perfect sense. I was just worried that you figured out the readout part and I’m somehow not getting that from your work which could very well be true albeit slightly embarrassing for me ;)

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Dr. Jan Zimmermann @janzimmermann.bsky.social · 1d

I listen / I browse and I vote.

Dr. Jan Zimmermann @janzimmermann.bsky.social · 1d

1. What led to the large spread could potentially be more important. Could be true advancements there misunderstood by the gray bearded men

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Dr. Jan Zimmermann @janzimmermann.bsky.social · 2d

I’m much more concerned about your fingers and joints given that keyboard

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Dr. Jan Zimmermann @janzimmermann.bsky.social · 2d

I have to admit that I do not understand how the concept of neuroAI solves any of that as suggested by your comment.

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Dr. Jan Zimmermann @janzimmermann.bsky.social · 2d

Sarah Stern @sarahstern.bsky.social · 2d

Today, after two years, I can finally remove the yellow ribbon from my profile. A huge sense of relief with an almost unbearable sadness for everything in between.
שהחינו וקימנו והגיענו לזמן הזה

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Armin Lak @laklab.bsky.social · 3d

All-optical experiments are great but @neurorussell.bsky.social found that opsin desensitization due to cross-talk between the imaging laser and the opsin causes major issues. These can be ameleorated with long inter-stimulus intervals & short imaging doses. All here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Desensitization of opsin responses during all-optical interrogation depends on imaging parameters

Significance The combination of two-photon calcium imaging and two-photon optogenetic stimulation, termed all-optical interrogation, provides spatial and temporal precision when recording and manipula...

www.biorxiv.org

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Anne Carpenter @drannecarpenter.bsky.social · 5d

15 years in the making, we confirmed that mitochondria - the powerhouse of the cell - have an unusual localization in patients who experience psychosis (including schizophrenia and bipolar disorders). You’ll never guess what kind of patient cells we used to make this discovery… 🧵

mitochondria from bipolar patients are closer to the nucleus in these images; control patients' are spread out further

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Dr. Jan Zimmermann @janzimmermann.bsky.social · 6d

❤️❤️❤️

The Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk · 6d

We're now recruiting early career group leaders at the Crick to lead ambitious research programmes and explore bold scientific questions.

Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research.

Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

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emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 7d

@maxhodak.bsky.social’s first public talk on consciousness!!

this is very high level in a product sense, but lays out what we’re really going for at science corp, and some of the extremely interesting problems that have nerd sniped us all.

🧪, 🧠📈, 🧠🤖

youtu.be/DI6Hu-DhQwE

Towards Consciousness Engineering

YouTube video by Consciousness Club Tokyo

youtu.be

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Alicia Izquierdo @aliciaizquierdo.bsky.social · 7d

🎇 Excited to finally share JL Romero Sosa’s publication! Results are from single-cell imaging in different subregions of rat frontal cortex during ✨de novo learning. Spoiler: everything is not everywhere all at once www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Neural coding of choice and outcome are modulated by uncertainty in orbitofrontal but not secondary motor cortex - Nature Communications

Neural mechanisms underlying flexible learning and decision-making are not fully understood. Using single-cell calcium imaging, authors here found that neurons in orbitofrontal and secondary motor cortex exhibit complementary roles in reward learning, with neurons in the former exerting a sustained role in conditions of uncertainty.

www.nature.com

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Dr. Jan Zimmermann @janzimmermann.bsky.social · 7d

Nope I would have panicked ;)

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Juan Gallego @juangallego.bsky.social · 8d

🚨Big news!🚨
The lab is relocating to Lisbon, joining a great team of experimental and theoretical neuroscientists, and the Neurotechnology Warehouse, a new initiative to bridge basic and translational research.

I'll be sharing postdoc openings soon. Come join us in this new incarnation of the lab!

Champalimaud Research @champalimaudr.bsky.social · 9d

🧠🎼 What does it take to restore movement? Neuroscientist and engineer, @juangallego.bsky.social, joins the new Centre for Restorative Neurotechnology at the Champalimaud Foundation.

🔗 Find out more in this interview: www.fchampalimaud.org/news/juan-al...

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Rob Benson 🇬🇧 🇺🇦🦋 @robnellie.bsky.social · 10d

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Dr. Jan Zimmermann @janzimmermann.bsky.social · 11d

Yup.

AZ Faust @azfaust.bsky.social · 12d

8. Nothing about what is happening in the US is new to anyone from outside of Western Europe/NA/Australia. If anything, it's a bit funny how familiar it all is?

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Mark Laubach @marklaubach.bsky.social · 12d

I'm recruiting a PhD student to study how enkephalins affect cognitive processing in the rodent frontal cortex. The project uses pharmacology, multi-electrode recordings, and fiber photometry, and is funded by NIDA. Please share with trainees applying this cycle. Thanks!

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Dr. Jan Zimmermann @janzimmermann.bsky.social · 12d

Had not been fine and will not be fine. “Wrong life cannot be lived rightly”

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Dr. Jan Zimmermann @janzimmermann.bsky.social · 13d

She caused irreparable damage to NHP research in the eu and USA despite any knowledge of the work. AR meaning animal rights groups here. She was also so extremely against gene editing that she would argue against the interests of developing countries continuously. The list goes on.

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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 13d

The neural control & computation lab is recruiting!

If you're interested in using large-scale neural population recordings to study how the brain learns to produce complex and flexible behaviours, please get in touch.

www.ncclab.ca

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Dr. Jan Zimmermann @janzimmermann.bsky.social · 14d

“Wrong life cannot be lived rightly” everything else is ignorance

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