Eleonora Ambrad
@norambr.bsky.social
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👁 × 🧠 ×👂| postdoc @Rancz lab, INMED, Marseille
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Really interesting work by Bakhurin and colleagues challenging the reward prediction error hypothesis of dopamine:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I love this figure which both echoes and undermines the famous figure from Schultz et al. (1997).
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Does predictive coding work in SPACE or in TIME? Most neuroscientists assume TIME, i.e. neurons predict their future sensory inputs. We show that in visual cortex predictive coding actually works across SPACE, just like the original Rao+Ballard theory #neuroscience
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
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Aeon enables:

– Continuous Neuropixels recordings
– Behavioural tracking
– Modular, scalable design
– Multi-modal data pipelines
– Open-source hardware/software

A new tool for neuroscience → aeon.swc.ucl.ac.uk
Aeon — Aeon v0.0.15 documentation
aeon.swc.ucl.ac.uk
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This is one of the best ideas I've heard in ages.
Reddit post on r/technology about young people and AI: "I recently heard about a teacher who instead of trying to circumvent students using AI, which is impossible, she made assignments by going "ask ChatGPT to write a report on this subject, and then research how and why it's wrong".

Not only did the students discover that ChatGPT is extremely wrong a lot of the time, it also lead them to realise that they should not use it as a primary source".
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Super interview on the @ologies.bsky.social podcast with my fab colleague @abeba.bsky.social on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence 👏
open.spotify.com/episode/5w6D... - how often is it just a bunch of poorly paid humans in a trenchcoat?
Artificial Intelligence Ethicology (WILL A.I. CRASH OUT?) with Abeba Birhane
Ologies with Alie Ward · Episode
open.spotify.com
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After 5 amazing years @pilhoferlab.bsky.social I'm starting my lab @embl.org Grenoble this November embl.org/wollweber
We'll image Asgard archaea and many other strange microbes ( #archaeasky, #protistsonsky..) to understand eukaryogenesis
First job ad: #teamtomo scientist!🔬❄️ tinyurl.com/2rdu2ze6
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Terrific podcast relevant to our debates here about “What is an emotion?” But in the case of emotion, it’s turned up to 11 b/c (unlike “representation”), everyone alive has intuition and interest about the answers (including the public).

www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspir...
What do neuroscientists mean by the term representation?
A group of neuroscientists and philosophers discuss the use and misuse of the term “representation” across the cognitive sciences.
www.thetransmitter.org
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🗓️ Join us on June 9th to learn about Dr. Crystal Schiller’s research in the Impact of Ovarian Steroids on Brain Function and Mood in Women Across the Reproductive Lifespan. Register today: cornell.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Curious about past lectures? Visit us at: wbhi.ucsb.edu/events
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What could large-scale AI do for neuroscience? What barriers prevent us from pursuing an AlphaFold for the brain? What are the limits of scale, and where will we need more tailored solutions? Eva ​​Dyer and @tyrellturing.bsky.social ask nine neuroscientists to weigh in.

bit.ly/4iXjK3q
Accepting “bitter lesson” and embracing brain’s complexity
To gain insight into complex neural data, we must move toward a data-driven regime, employing large models trained on vast amounts of data. Experts weigh in.
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1) Some exciting science in turbulent times:

How do mice distinguish self-generated vs. object-generated looming stimuli? Our new study combines VR and neural recordings from superior colliculus (SC) 🧠🐭 to explore this question.

Check out our preprint doi.org/10.1101/2024... 🧵
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Asgard archaea are full of surprises, this time we found (tiny) microtubules (snapshots of microtubule evolution?!) - Check out our new paper on the cytoskeleton of Lokiarchaeum ossiferum: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Asgard archaea have actin - but what about microtubules? Where do they come from? 🧐 Our new paper www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... by @xujwet.bsky.social & @florianwollweber.bsky.social, in collaboration with the Schleper & Wieczorek labs, describes tiny Asgard microtubules! #TeamTomo #ArchaeaSky 1/6
Credit: Margot Riggi (@margotriggi.bsky.social), Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry (@mpibiochem.bsky.social)
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Our university @univ-amu.fr has launch an initiative to welcome scientists from the US🇺🇸 See details below 👇 DM me if interested to join @inmed.bsky.social