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nicolecrust.bsky.social
Mood & Memory researcher with a computational bent. Science advocate. Frequent shifter of time zones. Professor (UPenn Psychology). Book: Elusive Cures (June 10, 2025). https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691243054/elusive-cures
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Nachum Ulanovsky's book "“Natural Neuroscience” on taking a more ecological approach to neuroscience came out! Nachum is one of the world leaders in studying the brain using bats, and his studies are always incredibly interesting and original. mitpress.mit.edu/978026204499...

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THIS IS ONE NEURON! Jaw dropping. It distributes a particular neurotransmitter (norepinephrine) across the mouse brain; it’s a locus coeruleus neuron. @jeremiahycohen.bsky.social and colleagues at the @alleninstitute.bsky.social are using new biotech to see things never seen before.

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How does our brain predict the future? Our review of predictive processing + research program is now on arXiv arxiv.org/abs/2504.09614 50+ neuroscientists distributed across the world worked together to create this unique community project.

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Excited to share a preprint from work with @rewaniw.bsky.social and Serra Favila, where we show that visual cortex responses during memory retrieval are spatially tuned to the locations of objects previously seen only once It's an early draft — feedback is welcome! See 🧵 for more #neuroskyence 1/7

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MIT following Harvard's lead here

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Thanks to all who contributed to the special issue of Cerebral Cortex honoring my career academic.oup.com/cercor/issue...

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Please join our webinar today and help write about the importance of science for @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social!

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That's a wrap for Penn Psych 2025 PhD admissions. I'm thrilled for a terrific incoming class. What! A! Year! I'm serving as Director of Grad Studies, and I did not anticipate how the confluence of that & current events would shine such a light on the need to advocate for trainees. /1

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Yay Harvard!!!!!!! Well done! Other universities should do the same. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...

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Listened to this talk last night at work, and i found myself nodding in agreement with a lot of @nicolecrust.bsky.social’s talk but then getting my mind absolutely blown by @tolchinsky.bsky.social’s points wrt

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Planting a seed ... During this period of uncertainty wrt federal funding, how about contributing to the effort to "zoom out" and unpack how all the scientific puzzle pieces fit together? (Cost: $0 - $neg). Maybe like this: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... (Could also be a perspective). /1

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This is such a mistake - these alternative ways of testing aren't good enough "models" to evaluate new drugs. People will suffer and die because of this. I never thought that I wouldn't be able rely on the US FDA for safety and effectiveness. What a sad era ...

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A review of Conversations in Critical Psychiatry in the journal Cognitive Neuropsychiatry www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... "an engaging and accessible account of the state of the art, through the words of some of the leading figures involved in mapping the psychiatric territory."

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NB: "This observation aligns entirely with the ’no free lunch’ theorem, which asserts that there is no universally superior algorithm or approach for solving optimization problems; rather, the effectiveness of a method depends on the specific problem at hand." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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