Catrina Hacker @Catrina_Hacker@qoto.org

🚨 The Penn Neuroscience Public Lecture, Neuro SciFi, is happening this Thursday, December 8th 6-8p! We have three exciting TED-style talks by Philadelphia-based neuroscience professors lined up.

👽🧠 Join us for a journey through neuroscience that's so amazing you might think it's science fiction.

🔗 Whether you choose to join in-person (highly recommended so you can join us for a reception) or online, please register at this link: tinyurl.com/PLS-NeuroSciFi

Looking forward to seeing you all there!

#neuroscience #neuro #sciComm #scienceCommunication #public #lecture #philadelphia #science #brain #scienceFiction

Who are you when you're split in two? When it comes to your brain, two halves do not make a whole. Learn about how the two halves of your brain communicate and what happens when you cut your brain in half in this week’s article by Barnes Jannuzi.

https://pennneuroknow.com/2022/12/06/when-you-add-two-halves-do-you-get-a-whole/

#neuroscience #sciComm #brain #science #blog

I think the definition of "long-term" memory is typically ill-posed: the timescale by itself is mostly irrelevant, because memories we call "long-term" may have vastly different timescales. Instead, the critical wedge is between "active" and "inactive" memory. A memory is active if it affects ongoing behavior. Some memories are "persistent" in the sense that they can become inactive and then reactivate. Persistence places stronger constraints on biological mechanisms than duration. Thoughts?

I think it's about time for me to make a #introductionpost

My name is Simon Bohn, I'm a PhD candidate in @NicoleCRust 's lab where I study how we remember what we've seen. I'm particularly interested in how we generalize across visual memories.

Outside of science, I love taking pictures with antique cameras, growing #orchids and trying to bake the perfect loaf of bread

Time for an #introduction .

I am a systems and computational neuroscientist who leads an auditory research lab at the University of Pennsylvania: http://www.med.upenn.edu/hearing . The goal of our research is to identify the neuronal mechanisms for sound perception and learning. We work with mice and humans to map the brain circuits for making sense of sounds. 🐁 🧠 🔬 🎤 🦠 🤯

I am a dedicated mentor, who strives to create a balanced and equitable culture in my lab and academic community. 1/3

Announcing Auditory SPLASH 2023!

Please save the date and spread the word!

What: Auditory SPLASH, a one-day in person meeting designed to bring together East Coast auditory neuroscience researchers and trainees

Organizers: Justin Yao, Todd Mowery, Yale Cohen, Michael Beauchamp and Maria Geffen

Location: University of Pennsylvania; Jordan Law Auditorium in Smilow

Dates: April 22, 2023

#Introduction

👋 I am a #neuroscience #PhD student at UPenn, working with @annaschapiro and Brett Foster studying how our #memory changes over time and during #sleep 🧐😴🧠

Outside of lab, I love playing soccer and printmaking (current project is screen-printing images of my brain on any fabric I can find!)

Excited to get started here with an #introduction!

I'm currently a PhD candidate in the Neuroscience Graduate Group (NGG) at the University of Pennsylvania. My work sits at the intersection of systems and computational neuroscience, exploring how environmental volatility affects decision-making behavior and its neural correlates.

In addition to collecting and exploring data, I love #writing, #sciencecommunication, and #teaching. Finding ways to build a common understanding of concepts brings me so much joy.

Outside of work, I love #hiking, #biking, #yoga, and absolutely anything involving my dog, Moe.

I'm looking forward to engaging on here!

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A big mystery in brain research is what are the neural mechanisms that drive individual differences in higher order cognitive processes. Here we present a new theoretical and experimental framework, in collaboration with @SussilloDavid, Valerio Mante, Mikio Aoi, and Jonathan Pillow.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.28.518207v1

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Although there are no pain sensors on the brain, we’ve all experienced a headache. So what exactly is a headache and where is that pain coming from? Writer Marissa Maroni answers these questions and more in this week’s post: “What is a headache?”

https://pennneuroknow.com/2022/11/29/what-is-a-headache/

#neuroscience #sciComm #science #blog

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The Penn Neuroscience Public Lecture committee is excited to announce our fall public lecture: NeuroSciFi. Join us on Thursday, December 8th from 6-8p for a fun evening of TED-style neuroscience talks as three Philadelphia-based neuroscientists talk about some things the brain does that are so amazing you might think it's science fiction.

For those of you in Philadelphia, please join us in person! For those who can’t be in Philadelphia or are more comfortable online, we will be live-streaming the event on Crowdcast. Register at the link below to get the link or put your name on the list to attend in-person.
https://tinyurl.com/PLS-NeuroSciFi

We’re looking forward to seeing you all there!

#neuroscience #neuro #sciComm #scienceCommunication #public #lecture #philadelphia #science #brain

Excited for an #introduction 👋!

📝 We are Penn NeuroKnow, a #neuroscience blog run by PhD students in the University of Pennsylvania’s Neuroscience Graduate Group.

👩‍🔬 👨‍🔬 Our goal is to share our love of neuroscience with you all. Each post breaks down a different topic in neuroscience, ranging from general neuroscience knowledge to summaries of exciting new studies that are changing how we think about the brain.

🧠 Recent topics have included why we get the hiccups, how the octopus controls its arms, and how neuroscientists are starting to realize that what they thought was noise might not actually be so noisy.

⏰ We’ll be sharing links to our latest posts with short summaries every Tuesday when they go live. We’re looking forward to sharing our posts and engaging with the community here!

https://pennneuroknow.com/

#sciComm #scienceCommunication #writing #blog #neuro #PhDStudent

Defining brain functions is a top-4 challenge for brain research. Conversations with my co-author @amygdaloid have made me realize why. Among the big topics, I suspect that it's the most underappreciated.

Why does it matter? We summarize it here (share link):
https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1g7ZrbotpyLNK

What math do neuroscientists need to know?

A highlight of #SFN2022 was Ella Batty's answer to this question. She showed off an incredible math for neuroscientists course she has developed at Harvard with open materials (https://ebatty.github.io/MathToolsforNeuroscience/) and discussed her amazing work with Neuromatch Academy (https://compneuro.neuromatch.io/)

Her SFN slides are here: https://osf.io/s94b2

#Neuroscience #GradSchool #Math

The face of CPR doll "Resuscitation Annie" is based off a death mask of a woman who drowned in Paris in the 1880s. The pathologist on duty became entranced by the girl with the enigmatic half-smile, and so he commissioned a plaster cast made of her face. She became known as "L'Inconnue de la Seine,” or “The Unknown Woman of the Seine.”

In 1955, a toymaker named Asmund Laerdal created what we now know as the CPR doll and based the face off this mask. #histmed #MedMastodon #histodons

Everyone has had the #hiccups, but have you ever thought about why we get them? This week Sophie Liebergall dives into the neuroscience behind several behaviors, like the hiccups, that we may have inherited from our distant ancestors. Read to learn about these interesting behaviors at the intersection of #neuroscience and #evolution.

https://pennneuroknow.com/2022/11/15/why-do-we-get-the-hiccups/

#scienceCommunication

Reminder that my deep learning course at the University of Geneva is entirely available on-line. 1000+ slides, ~20h of screen-casts.

Full of examples in PyTorch

https://fleuret.org/dlc/

So excited to be a part of this new #neuromatch
-inspired endeavor to teach #climate science to students *all* over the world 🌎🌍🌏

The planning is ongoing --- get involved here! 👉 https://sites.google.com/climatematch.io/academy/about

#ClimateChange #ClimateScience #GlobalInclusivity #onlinelearning