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Nice podcast on aphantasia and mental imagery open.spotify.com/episode/0G1V...

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My friends are dying. People are dying of #LongCovid and #MECFS while society keeps ignoring their existence. Rest in peace, Faraz. Sorry we failed you.

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Our newest paper on the fascinating biology DRG neurons. @eLife: Axon-specific microtubule regulation drives asymmetric regeneration of sensory neuron axons doi.org/10.7554/eLif... Tour de force by Catarina Costa @i3suporto.bsky.social et al

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🔬 Researchers from the Shroff Lab & collaborators have developed a new method to simultaneously image the 3D orientation & position of biomolecules, giving scientists a new view into how structures are arranged inside cells. 🔗 www.janelia.org/news/new-ima...

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Many neuroscience students are steeped in an experiment-first style of thinking that leads to “random walk science.” Let’s not forget how theory can guide experiments towards deeper insights, writes @gershbrain.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/theoretical-...

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Why is the human brain so difficult to understand? We asked 4 neuroscientists. alleninstitute.org/news/why-is-...

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So excited for this PTEN sensor! A really important first-in-class sensor that lets us explore cell signalling in vivo.

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I could not be more thrilled to announce the Nature Methods @naturemethods.bsky.social Method of the Year is Spatial Proteomics! Please see our editorial as a roadmap to the fantastic content in this special issue! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Doomscrolling in a night bus by Pergolesi's Stabat Mater is an experience youtu.be/6hPt-KMX2Go?...

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How fast is your brain aging? Another noninvasive means of quantifying besides an organ clock, this one using MRI and A.I., and aligns with cognitively normal (CN) or extent of cognitively impaired (CI) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Ketogenic Diet Enhances Cognitive-Behavioral Function and Hippocampal Neurogenesis While Attenuating Amyloid Pathology in Tg-SwDI Mice https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.19.639138v1

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A theory of cortical responses #KarlFriston #corticalresponses : royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Predictive coding: a more cognitive process than we thought?: www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

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Seeing a Bayesian ghost: Sensorimotor activation leads to an illusory social perception www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

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Helpful or creepy? A proposed AI assistant would track what you're looking at and then comment on it - using your own voice - into your ear arxiv.org/pdf/2502.02370 An AI angel on your shoulder...

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Super interesting idea that each neuron is trying to control its inputs open.spotify.com/episode/1ZoX...

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How centuries of isolation shaped Greenlanders’ unique genetics www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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📌 Social Media and References: #INPST #DHPSP #CRBIOTECH and #ExplorDHT 🔗 linkedin.com/pulse/social...

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Large language models that replace human participants can harmfully misportray and flatten identity groups Angelina Wang, Jamie Morgenstern, John P. Dickerson www.nature.com/articles/s42...

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Part 2 of our interview with Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social on #SimplifyingComplexity is out now. Apple: buff.ly/3VTjG9I Spotify: buff.ly/3WaR9MA ⚛️🧪 #Complex #Complexity #ComplexSystems #ComplexityScience

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Today @nature.com on how pancreatic cancer can hijack our nervous system and how denervation may be therapeutic www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The beginning of a week of narrating my new book SUPER AGERS: An Evidence-Based Approach to Longevity. First time as a reader, learning every stomach rumble (fancy medical term borborygmi) is picked up! simonandschuster.com/books/Super-...

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Trends in Cognitive Sciences Ignoring the cerebellum is hindering progress in neuroscience www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

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Really interesting preprint: blocking the nose reduces the brain response to sugar taste, suggesting that sweetness also relies on smell www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... But is that new? I thought it was known that much of taste sensation is actually smell

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🖥️ A new version of #Cellpose – the popular tool developed by @computingnature.bsky.social & @marius10p.bsky.social that maps the boundaries of diverse cells in microscopy images – now works on less-than-perfect pictures that are noisy, blurry, or undersampled. 🔗 www.janelia.org/news/newest-...

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Dissociating distinct cortical networks associated with subregions of the human medial temporal lobe using precision neuroimaging: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Chica 🐈‍⬛ and Gangster 🐹 being curious about each other

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🧠By tracking the activity of thousands of neurons over days & weeks during learning, Janelia researchers led by the Spruston Lab have systematically detailed, step by step, how cognitive maps form in the brain’s hippocampus – a region responsible for learning and memory. 🗺️ 🔗 hhmi.news/4hXIp7r

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The word GET is totally off base for NIH funding. Institutions don’t get NIH dollars—they earn them. Grants are fierce competitions where only the best ideas push science forward. My last two grants ranked in the top 1% & 2%, outcompeting 98%. Like a VC pitch—except we’re curing diseases.

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Actin and clathrin-coated pits are reassuringly found along the plasma membrane on the 3D-SIM stacks #realtimemicroscopy

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The #nucleus contains the info of a #cell, but it does much more than that !! Since the nucleus is big, acts as the main intracellular obstacle, and during #CellMigration can get 'trapped'/stuck until the cell pushes it FWD. #scicomm @focalplane.bsky.social @cellcommlab.bsky.social #Skyscience

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💥 Quick thread on some stunning actin filament swirls🌪️ spotted under platinum replica EM, often forming nest-like structures around caveolae🏐 #ActinAesthetics #ElectronMicroscopy

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I found this to be an informative and provocative read - what happened to cognitive science? Authors argue, based on bibliometric and scientometric analysis, that cognitive science as a discipline is basically dead. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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After a long journey, Segment Anything for Microscopy is now published in Nature Methods! We significantly improve SAM for interactive and automatic segmentation in light and electron microscopy and build a user-friendly tool. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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We are hearing today that NIH is restarting issuing grant awards — that is, for awards already approved by council, or renewals that normally happen as matter of course, money will start going out. Caution, though, before we interpret this as a win... 1/ 🧪

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Opioid receptors/peptides across the amygdala 🐭🧠🧬

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👀🧠 Fear can be unlearned A new study found that the brain’s visual system helps suppress instinctive fear by rewiring how signals are processed. Once learned, fear responses stay reduced even without visual input. 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #SciComm 🧪 #Fear #Brain

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A thalamic hub-and-spoke network enables visual perception during action by coordinating visuomotor dynamics 🧪🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Science Whale song shows language-like statistical structure www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Published version, here: van Rooij, I., Guest, O., et al. Reclaiming AI as a Theoretical Tool for Cognitive Science. Comput Brain Behav 7, 616–636 (2024). doi.org/10.1007/s421...

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Bayesian modelling captures inter-individual differences in social belief computations in the putamen and insula www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Storytelling may be more important than ever for biomedicine's future, given current challenges. Here's a master at that erictopol.substack.com/p/emily-silv... #Medsky

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Dissection of retrosplenial cortex inputs: ubiquitous drive from anterior thalamus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.06.636939v1

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