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bejamz.bsky.social

Postdoc neuroscience fellow at IoN/UCL using squiggly electrical recordings to understand epilepsy 🧠; rat lover🐀; escaped medic 🩺; Wittgenstein hobbyist

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Happy head direction cell day y’all! On this day, 41 years ago, Jim Ranck recorded the first “HD cell” in his Brooklyn lab in 1984. Jim shared the news with the world at SFN that year, showing a video of the cell’s firing on a TV he somehow acquired and brought to his poster… (1/3)

submitted 42 days ago • 4 comments

We're hiring! 🧠 We're looking for a postdoc to perform neuropixels recordings in mouse models of neurological disorders as part of a larger team that's testing out novel gene therapies here at UCL. Super exciting project, come join the team! tinyurl.com/2ykfy2um #neuroskyence #neurojobs

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

⚠️ New preprint ! « Social determinants of cognitive aging trajectories across 39 countries » Some people in their 80s have cognitive abilities similar to many 30-year-olds, others are severely diminished.  How comes?  www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... A short 🧵👇 1/7

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

Stimulating talk by @fabiorod.bsky.social on Fri at our Crick/UCL Neuro Talk series on citizen-driven science and our responsibilities to ethical and community-led engagement! Something we should all be taking seriously and perhaps even trying to work into our grants... @karolinafarrell.bsky.social

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

Hot off the press from the Lignani lab: check out our #NewPaper mini-perspective on using brain #organoids and #assembloids as a model of status epilepticus! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #neuroskyence #neuroscience

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

Hi all! I've finally made the trek over to BlueSky. The #neuroskyence community is already thriving and I'm looking forward to being a part of it! I'm a postdoc in epilepsy at UCL, and in my past lives worked in spatial navigation/head direction cells in rats and studied medicine. #academicsky

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