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Guillaume Dalle @gdalle.bsky.social · 11d

JuliaCon Local Paris starts tomorrow 🤩 Which part of our amazing program are you most excited about?
#JuliaLang @juliacon.bsky.social @julialang.org

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Ryan Senne (he/him) @ryguy.io · Jun 10

Huge thanks to my advisors and collaborators @briandepasquale.bsky.social , @okaysteve.bsky.social, and the bluesky-less Ben Scott and Cristina Delgado-Sallent

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Ryan Senne (he/him) @ryguy.io · Jun 10

Using a state-dependent framework via an HMM, we extend the vanilla Drift-Diffusion Model (DDM) to capture trial-by-trial changes in decisions strategy. With this model we find mice actively explore the speed-accuracy tradeoff, and they can achieve accuracy as high as ~85% in a TAFC task.

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Ryan Senne (he/him) @ryguy.io · Jun 10

🚨PREPRINT ALERT🚨

"A State–Dependent Drift Diffusion Model Reveals Mice Actively Explore A Speed–Accuracy Continuum During Decision-Making" is now available on biorxiv! Check it out below 👇

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

In this work we find that mice are not just static mindless decision makers.

A State-Dependent Drift Diffusion Model Reveals Mice Actively Explore A Speed–Accuracy Continuum During Decision-Making

Understanding how animals shift between different decision-making strategies is critical for bridging normative models with naturalistic behavior. While drift diffusion models (DDMs) provide a powerfu...

www.biorxiv.org

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · May 25

They would've found something to weaponize regardless. One of the most admirable things about science is its commitment to self-criticism. The fact that bad actors may capitalize on our legitimate concerns should never stop us from being honest and reflective about what we do.

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · Apr 23

In our latest edition of “This paper changed my life,” @liddelowsa.bsky.social explains how two papers from Ben Barres’ lab completely changed the way the field studies astrocytes and enabled everything discovered in glia research since.

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/this-paper-c...

This paper changed my life: Shane Liddelow on two papers that upended astrocyte research

A game-changing cell culture method developed in Ben Barres’ lab completely transformed the way we study astrocytes and helped me build a career studying their reactive substates.

www.thetransmitter.org

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Air-Moving Device @airmovingdevice.bsky.social · Mar 23

DOGE/Musk preferentially cancelled grants and contracts to recipients in counties that voted for Harris in 2024.

Among cancellations with election data available, 92.9% and 86.1% cancelled grants and contracts went to Harris counties, representing 96.6% and 92.4% of total dollar amounts.

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Steve Ramirez @okaysteve.bsky.social · Mar 17

our "untangling the mind" tour has begun! #NationalGeographic

come explore the foundations of thoughts, emotions, and memories - all the things that make you, you - through the lens of modern neuroscience 🧠

by learning and working together, we have the power to make an era of discovery flourish🔬

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AntonioFR @antferrui.bsky.social · Mar 17

Excited to share our latest story! We found disentangled memory representations in the hippocampus that generalized across time and environments, despite the seemingly random drift and remapping of single cells. This code enabled the transfer of prior knowledge to solve new tasks

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Steve Ramirez @okaysteve.bsky.social · Mar 13

in our new lab work, we find that:

natural forgetting & induced amnesia share common impaired neural dynamics

this work was funded by multiple #NIH grants that supported students, postdocs, & the science, all with the goal of healing disorders of memory & the brain

www.cell.com/cell-reports...

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Iain Couzin @icouzin.bsky.social · Feb 28

Coverage of our recent locust paper in @science.org by DW www.dw.com/en/scientist...

Scientists crack the code for why locusts swarm – DW – 02/27/2025

Virtual reality platform uncovers the collective behavior of swarming locusts. Their research could help secure agricultural lands and food supply.

www.dw.com

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · Feb 10

Get in dorks, we're going protesting!

STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025
WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL

Because science is for everyone!

Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org

#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · Feb 10

BREAKING: 22 states sue NIH over Trump administration's new 15% cap on overhead for federal research grants. Suit filed federal court in Boston contends lifesaving research 'will grind to a halt' under the policy. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

storage.courtlistener.com

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Angeline J. Dukes, PhD @heydrdukes.bsky.social · Feb 2

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth! ✨

They’ll never be able to take away the impact and contributions of Black scientists, no matter how hard they try.

So each week this month, I’ll be highlighting a few #BlackInNeuro scientists for you to learn about, celebrate their work, & follow 👩🏾‍🔬👨🏽‍🔬

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👻Sewall Fright🎃 @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · Jan 22

Boy, it’s a good thing science isn’t political

Jane Liebschutz, MD MPH (she/her) @liebschutz.bsky.social · Jan 22

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

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Amy Feldman @amyfeldman7.bsky.social · Jan 22

If you’ve been directly impacted by a pause or cancellation of an NIH study session, we @forbes.com would like to talk to you

Jane Liebschutz, MD MPH (she/her) @liebschutz.bsky.social · Jan 22

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

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Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · Jan 22

My NIH study section that was to meet tomorrow was one of those canceled. This represents many months of work by the applicants and by the NIH staff and reviewers. Devastating is the correct word.

Jane Liebschutz, MD MPH (she/her) @liebschutz.bsky.social · Jan 22

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · Jan 23

It’s such a weird coincidence that Trump’s executive orders are mapping so closely onto Project 2025, something that Trump said he had nothing to do with & the media dutifully accepted as fact.

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · Jan 23

Wadman and Kaiser are on it, over at ScienceInsider at the glam mag

Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring

Researchers facing

www.science.org

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Jane Liebschutz, MD MPH (she/her) @liebschutz.bsky.social · Jan 22

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

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make my jay, pvnc. @jaythenerdkid.bsky.social · Jan 21

lots of folks saying things like, "the government won't be able to revoke your passport for no reason, that's against the law!"

I help people fight unlawful government decisions for a living. please believe me when I say that the government routinely breaks the law and they mostly get away with it.