Daniel Ferris @Ferris_vball@qoto.org

@cian @NicoleCRust I feel this deep in my soul. I think almost all of the "circuit" work that has been done using BRAIN initiative funded technology has just been an engine for producing Cell and Nature papers with tiny data figures and has generated virtually no new insight into how the brain works.

In her #JEB100 ECR Spotlight Janneke Schwaner talks about her journey working with carnivorous plants, kangaroo rats and guineafowl, and how the life of ECRs could be made easier
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/12/jeb246261/319906

Read her full research here
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-abstract/226/12/jeb245199/319907

#biomechanics #zoology #biology #science

Our paper on cognitive modelling of road user interaction, by combining a bunch of different psychological theories into one model, is just out in PNAS Nexus ✨🎉🍾

https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/2/6/pgad163/7202259

It amazes me when I see neurotechnological solutions that allow fundamental questions to be answered in a completely new way.

Here is a recent Neuron paper:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37321221/

An extract:
"...novel approaches, including long-term underwater neural recording in freely swimming fish, to examine a substantially more complex (and realistic) version of the reafference cancellation problem in the active electrosensory system. Our data and modeling suggest that the cerebellum-like circuitry of the ELL [electrosensory lobe] achieves reafference cancellation by combining motor-related signals with environmental information derived from spatially distributed electrosensory input, providing insight into the longstanding question of how forward models are implemented by cerebellar circuitry."

#neuroscience #motorcontrol #neurophysiology @neuroscience

The bacteria in your gut help to move more than just your bowels– they can actually improve your motivation to exercise! Read more in this week's post, written by Andrew Nguyen.

https://pennneuroknow.com/2023/06/13/mighty-microbes-the-gut-brain-axis-and-the-motivation-to-exercise/

#sciComm #gut #brain #neuroscience #bacteria #exercise

Grad students and postdocs, come present your neuroscience research at @HHMIJanelia
from Nov 5-10 (before SfN, we're near DC!) All model organisms welcome, all ideas/work welcome 🐭🐟🪰🪱🐦🐒

Apply by July 12 here: https://www.janelia.org/you-janelia/conferences/junior-scientist-workshop-on-mechanistic-cognitive-neuroscience-2

(fully funded: travel + housing + meals covered by HHMI!)

Academic journals have become a racket that discredits research. This is a scandal that will have terrible long-term consequences. https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-06-04/a-researcher-who-publishes-a-study-every-two-days-reveals-the-darker-side-of-science.html

Apologies - reposting my #introduction after I moved to neuromatch.social


I’m a cognitive neuroscientist based in Ferrara, Italy. My scientific interest is related to the #neurobehavioral mechanisms that enable the integration of #perception and #action. I seek to understand how the sensorimotor processes involved in voluntary movement execution support perceptual discrimination of biological movement and guide motor coordination among multiple individuals.

As a side note, I love books (the real, paper ones and heavy ones too!) and also passionate about the #History of #Neuroscience #Neurophysiology #Psychology

Starting a list of all the amazing early career researchers that have made the wise decision to join us on this worthy platform (but mighta also take an exposure hit for that). Let's all boost and follow!

Let me start with two:

@WorldImagining

@kinleyid

Please add two more (maybe yourself and 1 other?)

The news is out; big news for me. I am thrilled to have been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society:

https://royalsociety.org/news/2023/05/new-fellows-2023/

I have MANY people to thank, which I begin to do here in the #JohnsFreezer blog, including some of my journey with them:

https://whatsinjohnsfreezer.com/2023/05/10/thank-you/

In her #JEB100 Review, Mimi Koehl discusses the physical laws and ecological interactions that determine how morphology affects biomechanical performance and how this can in turn influence the evolution of biological form & function
#biomechanics #biology
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/Suppl_1/jeb245442/297322

You Belong Here!

https://fb.watch/k6mjLruHou/?mibextid=NnVzG8

A chatGPT-busting program says that a paragraph I wrote in 2001 was generated by ChatGPT.

Time-traveling neuroscientist? Proof that we are living in a simulation?

It looks like all NeuroImage editors have resigned over Elsevier's unwillingness to lower their APC. They're working with MIT Press to make a new journal called Imaging Neuroscience with an APC as low as possible, hopefully less than half of what Elsevier currently charges.

Honestly, good for them.

Full announcement here: https://imaging-neuroscience.org/

#OpenAccess #OpenScience #APC #RELX #Elsevier #AcademicChatter