Josué Ortega Caro
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Josué Ortega Caro
@josueortc.bsky.social
Peruvian Computational Neuroscientist. Currently at @Yale. Working on applying machine learning for understanding learning and perception.
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@josueortc.bsky.social @wutsaiyale.bsky.social explored spatiotemporal cholinergic & calcium signalling dynamics across learning.
🎨Using dual-color imaging and multimodal transformers 🤖, he showed how cortical neuromodulation reshapes with experience and task demands.
October 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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IMO, the #1 personality trait for a successful scientist is perseverance and #2 is a deep (insatiable) curiosity (dopamine!) about the world. After that is luck/serendipity, decent intuition and way down the list is “good grades”, problem solving or some other measure of intellectual capability 1/2
August 16, 2025 at 10:57 AM
It didn’t help that the rejection came on my birthday…
July 23, 2025 at 10:27 PM
What was it doing with my face? 😂
April 17, 2025 at 3:20 AM