Simone Papa
@simonepapa.bsky.social
Neurobiology - Sapienza University | EMBL
Interests in:
- Visual Systems Neuroscience;
- Neurophysiology and functional neuroanatomy of the Visuomotor System;
- Computational Neuroscience (Modelling & Artificial Neural Networks).
Interests in:
- Visual Systems Neuroscience;
- Neurophysiology and functional neuroanatomy of the Visuomotor System;
- Computational Neuroscience (Modelling & Artificial Neural Networks).
Researchers mapped the genetic architecture of the corpus callosum using an AI tool that detects it across MRI types. Studying 50k people, they identified genes shaping its size and links to neuropsychiatric disorders (by Anna Sara Liberati)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 26, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Researchers mapped the genetic architecture of the corpus callosum using an AI tool that detects it across MRI types. Studying 50k people, they identified genes shaping its size and links to neuropsychiatric disorders (by Anna Sara Liberati)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New work shows that temporarily silencing the amblyopic #retina can reopen visual pathways in adults.
Restoration depends on T-type calcium channel–driven bursting, offering a potential therapy that avoids blocking the stronger eye (by Eveline Ruehlin).
neurosciencenews.com/vision-resto...
Restoration depends on T-type calcium channel–driven bursting, offering a potential therapy that avoids blocking the stronger eye (by Eveline Ruehlin).
neurosciencenews.com/vision-resto...
November 26, 2025 at 10:24 AM
New work shows that temporarily silencing the amblyopic #retina can reopen visual pathways in adults.
Restoration depends on T-type calcium channel–driven bursting, offering a potential therapy that avoids blocking the stronger eye (by Eveline Ruehlin).
neurosciencenews.com/vision-resto...
Restoration depends on T-type calcium channel–driven bursting, offering a potential therapy that avoids blocking the stronger eye (by Eveline Ruehlin).
neurosciencenews.com/vision-resto...
I attended a talk on how dopamine prediction-error mechanisms mirror the way modern algorithms learn, anticipate, and shape our desires.
We explored the links between reward, addiction, daily habits, and AI-from chocolate to notifications and emerging algorithmic “bubbles”.
#BrAIns #Dopamine
We explored the links between reward, addiction, daily habits, and AI-from chocolate to notifications and emerging algorithmic “bubbles”.
#BrAIns #Dopamine
November 25, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Stunning work from the Lichtman Lab & Google Connectomics: a true 3D EM reconstruction of a single cortical neuron, with every yellow dot marking a synapse.
AI tools trace thousands of spines, revealing the micro-architecture of cortical computation. One cell, an entire universe (Nicolas Hubacz)
AI tools trace thousands of spines, revealing the micro-architecture of cortical computation. One cell, an entire universe (Nicolas Hubacz)
November 25, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Stunning work from the Lichtman Lab & Google Connectomics: a true 3D EM reconstruction of a single cortical neuron, with every yellow dot marking a synapse.
AI tools trace thousands of spines, revealing the micro-architecture of cortical computation. One cell, an entire universe (Nicolas Hubacz)
AI tools trace thousands of spines, revealing the micro-architecture of cortical computation. One cell, an entire universe (Nicolas Hubacz)
Science communication is getting easier.
Francois El-Dahe used NotebookLM to generate an infographic from their paper on microglia in zebrafish brain repair, no edits, just minutes of work.
For those of us who aren’t designers, AI finally lets ideas take visual form.
#SciComm #AItools
Francois El-Dahe used NotebookLM to generate an infographic from their paper on microglia in zebrafish brain repair, no edits, just minutes of work.
For those of us who aren’t designers, AI finally lets ideas take visual form.
#SciComm #AItools
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Mind and body form one system. As Gabor Maté shows, emotional stress shapes our physiology, from PTSD-linked illness to the systemic burdens that raise autoimmune risk.
Trauma lives in the body,and understanding this is key to somatic, science-based healing. #trauma
www.instagram.com/p/DO3e75kAZxD/
Trauma lives in the body,and understanding this is key to somatic, science-based healing. #trauma
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Trauma + Somatics on Instagram: "The mind and the body are one inseparable system.
Dr. Gabor Maté explains that our emotions, nervous system, and immune system are all part of a single, integrated ne...
The Trauma and Somatics (T+S) Practitioner Certificate Program teaches you to work directly with the physiological imprints of trauma, including those shaped by systemic pressures. Join our next cohor...
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November 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Mind and body form one system. As Gabor Maté shows, emotional stress shapes our physiology, from PTSD-linked illness to the systemic burdens that raise autoimmune risk.
Trauma lives in the body,and understanding this is key to somatic, science-based healing. #trauma
www.instagram.com/p/DO3e75kAZxD/
Trauma lives in the body,and understanding this is key to somatic, science-based healing. #trauma
www.instagram.com/p/DO3e75kAZxD/
Joined “Brain Rot, Digital Infodemia Consumes Attention”: a look at how the brain struggles with fragmented info while AI systems exploit attention.
A dive into how constant connectivity reshapes creativity, knowledge, and free thought. Attention, dopamine overload and memory effects.
#BrainJuice
A dive into how constant connectivity reshapes creativity, knowledge, and free thought. Attention, dopamine overload and memory effects.
#BrainJuice
November 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Joined “Brain Rot, Digital Infodemia Consumes Attention”: a look at how the brain struggles with fragmented info while AI systems exploit attention.
A dive into how constant connectivity reshapes creativity, knowledge, and free thought. Attention, dopamine overload and memory effects.
#BrainJuice
A dive into how constant connectivity reshapes creativity, knowledge, and free thought. Attention, dopamine overload and memory effects.
#BrainJuice
New research shows your brain doesn’t respond the same way throughout the day. Neural excitability and learning capacity follow daily rhythms shaped by adenosine, creating “windows” when the brain is most primed to adapt.
neurosciencenews.com/synaptic-pla...
#daily #neuroscience #adapt
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#daily #neuroscience #adapt
Brain Learning Power Peaks at Specific Times of Day - Neuroscience News
A new study reveals that the brain’s responsiveness and capacity for learning shift with the time of day, governed by molecules like adenosine that link metabolism, sleep, and neural signaling.
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November 16, 2025 at 4:05 PM
New research shows your brain doesn’t respond the same way throughout the day. Neural excitability and learning capacity follow daily rhythms shaped by adenosine, creating “windows” when the brain is most primed to adapt.
neurosciencenews.com/synaptic-pla...
#daily #neuroscience #adapt
neurosciencenews.com/synaptic-pla...
#daily #neuroscience #adapt
#AI is shifting from chatbots to systems that act. Autonomous agents, edge models, multimodal AI, scientific FMs, generative robotics, and new hardware will remake every industry.
The question is no longer what AI can say, but what it will build, fix, and discover next (Aaron Lax)
The question is no longer what AI can say, but what it will build, fix, and discover next (Aaron Lax)
November 14, 2025 at 9:51 PM
#AI is shifting from chatbots to systems that act. Autonomous agents, edge models, multimodal AI, scientific FMs, generative robotics, and new hardware will remake every industry.
The question is no longer what AI can say, but what it will build, fix, and discover next (Aaron Lax)
The question is no longer what AI can say, but what it will build, fix, and discover next (Aaron Lax)
A rare neuron type that dies under chronic stress turns out to control brain blood flow and neural activity. Losing these cells sharply reduces circulation, suggesting stress may play a direct role in dementia-related brain changes.
neurosciencenews.com/stress-demen...
#dementia #stress #neuro
neurosciencenews.com/stress-demen...
#dementia #stress #neuro
Stress Undermines Brain Circulation, Increases Dementia Risk - Neuroscience News
Researchers found that a rare class of neurons—type-one nNOS neurons—plays a central role in regulating brain blood flow and coordinating neural activity in mice.
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November 14, 2025 at 9:49 PM
A rare neuron type that dies under chronic stress turns out to control brain blood flow and neural activity. Losing these cells sharply reduces circulation, suggesting stress may play a direct role in dementia-related brain changes.
neurosciencenews.com/stress-demen...
#dementia #stress #neuro
neurosciencenews.com/stress-demen...
#dementia #stress #neuro
A 2016 study created #bio-hybrid intelligence by guiding turtles with human EEG via a brain-computer interface, linking thought to instinct without implants.
Now applied to pigeons, rats, and robots, it explores co-adaptive human-machine systems and the future of bio-cognitive control (Aaron Lax)
Now applied to pigeons, rats, and robots, it explores co-adaptive human-machine systems and the future of bio-cognitive control (Aaron Lax)
November 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
A 2016 study created #bio-hybrid intelligence by guiding turtles with human EEG via a brain-computer interface, linking thought to instinct without implants.
Now applied to pigeons, rats, and robots, it explores co-adaptive human-machine systems and the future of bio-cognitive control (Aaron Lax)
Now applied to pigeons, rats, and robots, it explores co-adaptive human-machine systems and the future of bio-cognitive control (Aaron Lax)
A first-gen Ph.D. student shares how, growing up with parents denied higher education during China’s Cultural Revolution, she discovered research only at 20.
Despite initial fears of being behind, she closed the gap, a journey to be proud of.
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#CelebrateFirstGen
Despite initial fears of being behind, she closed the gap, a journey to be proud of.
scim.ag/4oVYFsZ
#CelebrateFirstGen
From homeless to Ph.D.: How I found my way into research
“For much of my scientific training I feared I was behind my peers,” this grad student writes
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November 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
A first-gen Ph.D. student shares how, growing up with parents denied higher education during China’s Cultural Revolution, she discovered research only at 20.
Despite initial fears of being behind, she closed the gap, a journey to be proud of.
scim.ag/4oVYFsZ
#CelebrateFirstGen
Despite initial fears of being behind, she closed the gap, a journey to be proud of.
scim.ag/4oVYFsZ
#CelebrateFirstGen
MIT researchers developed miBrains, 3D human brain tissue models integrating all major brain cell types.
Grown from donors’ stem cells, gene-editable, and scalable, they help study brain biology and diseases like Alzheimer’s in ways previous models couldn’t.
#miBrains #Alzheimer’s #Cells
Grown from donors’ stem cells, gene-editable, and scalable, they help study brain biology and diseases like Alzheimer’s in ways previous models couldn’t.
#miBrains #Alzheimer’s #Cells
November 11, 2025 at 1:59 PM
MIT researchers developed miBrains, 3D human brain tissue models integrating all major brain cell types.
Grown from donors’ stem cells, gene-editable, and scalable, they help study brain biology and diseases like Alzheimer’s in ways previous models couldn’t.
#miBrains #Alzheimer’s #Cells
Grown from donors’ stem cells, gene-editable, and scalable, they help study brain biology and diseases like Alzheimer’s in ways previous models couldn’t.
#miBrains #Alzheimer’s #Cells
James Watson, a renowned molecular biologist and one of the Nobel Prize winners for discovering the structure of DNA, died Thursday after a brief illness, according to a statement from his former employer. cnn.it/47LZuNU
#DNA #JamesWatson #Biology
#DNA #JamesWatson #Biology
James Watson, famous geneticist and Nobel Prize co-winner in the structure of DNA, dies at 97 | CNN
James Watson, a renowned molecular biologist and one of the Nobel Prize winners for discovering the structure of DNA, died Thursday after a brief illness, according to a statement from his former empl...
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November 7, 2025 at 9:25 PM
James Watson, a renowned molecular biologist and one of the Nobel Prize winners for discovering the structure of DNA, died Thursday after a brief illness, according to a statement from his former employer. cnn.it/47LZuNU
#DNA #JamesWatson #Biology
#DNA #JamesWatson #Biology
Today we honor Marie Skłodowska Curie, born #OnThisDay 1867: the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only person awarded Nobels in two different scientific fields. A true pioneer in science and a lasting inspiration (TheNobelPrize)
#MarieCurie #NobelPrize #WomenInScience
#MarieCurie #NobelPrize #WomenInScience
November 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Today we honor Marie Skłodowska Curie, born #OnThisDay 1867: the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only person awarded Nobels in two different scientific fields. A true pioneer in science and a lasting inspiration (TheNobelPrize)
#MarieCurie #NobelPrize #WomenInScience
#MarieCurie #NobelPrize #WomenInScience
Just attended the second talk in a series on whether a neuroscientist could truly understand a microprocessor 🧠💻
Diving deeper into brain–chip connectomics and how this comparison reveals the limits and biases of our scientific approach.
Insightful and thought-provoking.
#microprocessor #brain
Diving deeper into brain–chip connectomics and how this comparison reveals the limits and biases of our scientific approach.
Insightful and thought-provoking.
#microprocessor #brain
November 6, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Just attended the second talk in a series on whether a neuroscientist could truly understand a microprocessor 🧠💻
Diving deeper into brain–chip connectomics and how this comparison reveals the limits and biases of our scientific approach.
Insightful and thought-provoking.
#microprocessor #brain
Diving deeper into brain–chip connectomics and how this comparison reveals the limits and biases of our scientific approach.
Insightful and thought-provoking.
#microprocessor #brain
🌐 What Can Be Built with the Right Network
When great minds connect, ideas turn into impact.
At #SingularitySystems, building where intellect meets innovation, where the impossible becomes inevitable.
The future belongs to those who build it together (Aaron Lax)
#Innovation #AI #Leadership
When great minds connect, ideas turn into impact.
At #SingularitySystems, building where intellect meets innovation, where the impossible becomes inevitable.
The future belongs to those who build it together (Aaron Lax)
#Innovation #AI #Leadership
November 5, 2025 at 9:47 AM
🌐 What Can Be Built with the Right Network
When great minds connect, ideas turn into impact.
At #SingularitySystems, building where intellect meets innovation, where the impossible becomes inevitable.
The future belongs to those who build it together (Aaron Lax)
#Innovation #AI #Leadership
When great minds connect, ideas turn into impact.
At #SingularitySystems, building where intellect meets innovation, where the impossible becomes inevitable.
The future belongs to those who build it together (Aaron Lax)
#Innovation #AI #Leadership
🧠 Your Brain Is Plastic, every thought and action rewires it
Change isn’t impossible, it’s biological. 🌱Music, travel, laughter, sleep, and connection all shape new neural pathways,turning growth into a daily habit.
Image Credit - tjpower (ig)
#Neuroplasticity #BrainHealth #Mindset #MentalWellness
Change isn’t impossible, it’s biological. 🌱Music, travel, laughter, sleep, and connection all shape new neural pathways,turning growth into a daily habit.
Image Credit - tjpower (ig)
#Neuroplasticity #BrainHealth #Mindset #MentalWellness
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 AM
🧠 Your Brain Is Plastic, every thought and action rewires it
Change isn’t impossible, it’s biological. 🌱Music, travel, laughter, sleep, and connection all shape new neural pathways,turning growth into a daily habit.
Image Credit - tjpower (ig)
#Neuroplasticity #BrainHealth #Mindset #MentalWellness
Change isn’t impossible, it’s biological. 🌱Music, travel, laughter, sleep, and connection all shape new neural pathways,turning growth into a daily habit.
Image Credit - tjpower (ig)
#Neuroplasticity #BrainHealth #Mindset #MentalWellness
🌍 Data Science - The Silent Engine Behind the Modern World (PikuDataIQ)
From your fitness app to Google Maps and Netflix, it’s not magic, it’s data science quietly shaping daily life. 📊
Blending math, ML & human logic, it turns data into decisions that power industries and cities⚙️
#DataScience #AI
From your fitness app to Google Maps and Netflix, it’s not magic, it’s data science quietly shaping daily life. 📊
Blending math, ML & human logic, it turns data into decisions that power industries and cities⚙️
#DataScience #AI
November 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
🌍 Data Science - The Silent Engine Behind the Modern World (PikuDataIQ)
From your fitness app to Google Maps and Netflix, it’s not magic, it’s data science quietly shaping daily life. 📊
Blending math, ML & human logic, it turns data into decisions that power industries and cities⚙️
#DataScience #AI
From your fitness app to Google Maps and Netflix, it’s not magic, it’s data science quietly shaping daily life. 📊
Blending math, ML & human logic, it turns data into decisions that power industries and cities⚙️
#DataScience #AI
🐝 Using a cognitive bias paradigm, researchers in Science reveal positive affective contagion, a key element of empathy, in bumble bees.
Even insects can share emotional states, tracing the roots of social cognition deep in evolution. 🌿
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#Neuroscience #Behavior
Even insects can share emotional states, tracing the roots of social cognition deep in evolution. 🌿
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#Neuroscience #Behavior
Positive affective contagion in bumble bees
Affective contagion, a core component of empathy, has been widely characterized in social vertebrates but its existence in any invertebrate is unknown. Using a cognitive bias paradigm we demonstrate p...
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November 4, 2025 at 3:36 PM
🐝 Using a cognitive bias paradigm, researchers in Science reveal positive affective contagion, a key element of empathy, in bumble bees.
Even insects can share emotional states, tracing the roots of social cognition deep in evolution. 🌿
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#Neuroscience #Behavior
Even insects can share emotional states, tracing the roots of social cognition deep in evolution. 🌿
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#Neuroscience #Behavior
🧠 Cognition as the real competitive edge.
A McKinsey article calls for shifting from technical to cognitive governance, embedding human mental models, bias awareness & ethics into #AI adoption (Eveline Ruehlin)
www.mckinsey.com/capabilities...
#GenAI #Bias #Cognitive #Ethics #FutureOfWork
A McKinsey article calls for shifting from technical to cognitive governance, embedding human mental models, bias awareness & ethics into #AI adoption (Eveline Ruehlin)
www.mckinsey.com/capabilities...
#GenAI #Bias #Cognitive #Ethics #FutureOfWork
November 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM
🧠 Cognition as the real competitive edge.
A McKinsey article calls for shifting from technical to cognitive governance, embedding human mental models, bias awareness & ethics into #AI adoption (Eveline Ruehlin)
www.mckinsey.com/capabilities...
#GenAI #Bias #Cognitive #Ethics #FutureOfWork
A McKinsey article calls for shifting from technical to cognitive governance, embedding human mental models, bias awareness & ethics into #AI adoption (Eveline Ruehlin)
www.mckinsey.com/capabilities...
#GenAI #Bias #Cognitive #Ethics #FutureOfWork
Mind and body speak the same language: every emotion becomes chemistry and sensation. Chronic stress keeps the body in alarm, fatigue, tension, pain (Jyoti Gupta).
The body isn’t failing; it’s communicating. Listening with breath, presence, and compassion restores healing🌿💫 #MindBodyConnection
The body isn’t failing; it’s communicating. Listening with breath, presence, and compassion restores healing🌿💫 #MindBodyConnection
November 3, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Mind and body speak the same language: every emotion becomes chemistry and sensation. Chronic stress keeps the body in alarm, fatigue, tension, pain (Jyoti Gupta).
The body isn’t failing; it’s communicating. Listening with breath, presence, and compassion restores healing🌿💫 #MindBodyConnection
The body isn’t failing; it’s communicating. Listening with breath, presence, and compassion restores healing🌿💫 #MindBodyConnection
Does passion drive satisfaction amid precarity?
In Italy 82 % of #PhD students report being at least moderately satisfied, but only 68 % feel fulfilled by their work. Common concerns include low pay, mental-health issues, and uncertain career prospects.
Read more: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
In Italy 82 % of #PhD students report being at least moderately satisfied, but only 68 % feel fulfilled by their work. Common concerns include low pay, mental-health issues, and uncertain career prospects.
Read more: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Are these the happiest PhD students in the world?
Brazil, Australia and Italy have the highest satisfaction scores in Nature’s global 2025 PhD survey — but are these nations really the best places to do a doctorate?
www.nature.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Does passion drive satisfaction amid precarity?
In Italy 82 % of #PhD students report being at least moderately satisfied, but only 68 % feel fulfilled by their work. Common concerns include low pay, mental-health issues, and uncertain career prospects.
Read more: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
In Italy 82 % of #PhD students report being at least moderately satisfied, but only 68 % feel fulfilled by their work. Common concerns include low pay, mental-health issues, and uncertain career prospects.
Read more: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Reposted by Simone Papa
For anyone who didn’t click through yesterday’s video link - here is where I am on the really BIG piece - just finished the 12th 10x10 square and hung it in place - digital mockup on the right. For anyone attending SfN in San Diego come by my booth AON2 to see in person 🥰 #NeuroArt #SciArt #FiberArt
October 16, 2025 at 1:35 PM
For anyone who didn’t click through yesterday’s video link - here is where I am on the really BIG piece - just finished the 12th 10x10 square and hung it in place - digital mockup on the right. For anyone attending SfN in San Diego come by my booth AON2 to see in person 🥰 #NeuroArt #SciArt #FiberArt
🧠🍹 Took part in "Spremuta di Cervelli" on “Could a neuroscientist understand a microprocessor?” 🤖
We discussed how current neuroscience tools, may reveal patterns without fully explaining how complex systems like the brain, or even a processor, truly work.
#Neuroscience #AI #ScienceCommunication
We discussed how current neuroscience tools, may reveal patterns without fully explaining how complex systems like the brain, or even a processor, truly work.
#Neuroscience #AI #ScienceCommunication
November 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
🧠🍹 Took part in "Spremuta di Cervelli" on “Could a neuroscientist understand a microprocessor?” 🤖
We discussed how current neuroscience tools, may reveal patterns without fully explaining how complex systems like the brain, or even a processor, truly work.
#Neuroscience #AI #ScienceCommunication
We discussed how current neuroscience tools, may reveal patterns without fully explaining how complex systems like the brain, or even a processor, truly work.
#Neuroscience #AI #ScienceCommunication