Laureline Logiaco @LaurelineLogiaco@qoto.org
Theoretical neuroscientist trying to connect with other scientists, listen and learn.
Joined Nov 2022
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Despite all their hype in AI, we found that Transformers do not outperform #Cellpose for cellular segmentation tasks: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.06.587952v1
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Junior Scientist Workshop on Theoretical Neuroscience at #HHMIJanelia
November 17 - 22, 2024
Are you a postdoc doing neuroscience? Have you not yet had an occasion to be invited to an external seminar? Do you want an opportunity to come to MIT to present your research and explain why it is exciting? Please apply!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xY3KhPOnvqvasUXZuIiWL8v_zUeHa1tJy0qUy-PnpS4/edit
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I'm a neuroscientist and group leader of the Flexibility in Circuits and Behaviour lab at SISSA, Italy. My lab studies how innate behaviours can be flexibly adjusted to contextual information, and how this correlates with changes in visual and behavioural encoding. We're a systems neuro lab with a neuroethological angle, and aim to identify general principles of how essential, very fast and stereotyped behaviours/circuits can be flexibly and quickly modulated. 🐁
www.reinhardlab.org
The mastodon community seems to have grown, so I'm giving it another try and hope for many stimulating inputs and discussions! 🧠😊
At #BernsteinConference2023 & interested in motor control? Visit poster III C06 (Thu, 12:30).
Sunny Duan, Ila Fiete & I will present a model that instantiates hypotheses about how different learning mechanisms in M1, cerebellum & integrative cortex help tackle challenging control tasks
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The conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN) is starting now and you can live stream it on youtube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2Wm...
#neuroscience #psychology #AI #cognitivescience
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New* preprint from the lab! 🎉
Synaptic mechanisms for associative learning in the cerebellar nuclei https://biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.28.514163v2
These findings raise the intriguing possibility that plasticity within the cerebellar nuclei (and not just the cortex!) has the capacity to support well-timed sensorimotor learning.
Nice collaboration with Robin Broersen, Chris De Zeeuw et al. 🇳🇱🤝🇵🇹
@NicoleCRust @vineettiruvadi It seems to me that such definitions become tricky when the best description/model of a system may involve a very large number of variables (e.g. for the light switch, should the state of all the electrons at different times be considered variables?). Wouldn't changing the spatiotemporal description scale of the model drastically impact the conclusions about causality in this framework?
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Pressing the gas pedal causes the car to move forward
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Beautiful work from Hidehiko Inagaki's team @mpfneuro
led by Shouvik, showing that cell-type specific synaptic plasticity is required for learning a motor timing task. Manipulating synaptic plasticity in vivo, specially with cell-type precision, is such a powerful approach.
@elduvelle_neuro Computational (but experiment-loving), mammals, motor, cognitive, control, network dynamics.
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Welcome to all! ❤️🐀
Potential new followers: can we try something out?
- if you're a #Neuroscientist (of any status, yes, undergraduate students can be neuroscientists), could you answer with your neuro 'categories': Experimentalist, Computational, Philosopher, Fly, Human, Rodent, Whale, Tetrodes, Calcium imaging, fMRI, EEG, etc. This is so that I (and possibly others) can put you in a List! I'll share my lists once they have grown enough 😀
- if you're not a Neuroscientist, this account will probably not follow you, but you are totally free to follow it, and also to tell us about you and any questions you might have about neuroscience!
- if you want to learn about neuroscience, I will try to post beginner-level explanations with the hashtag #NeuroForNewbies. Just an experiment...
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Check out our new paper, led by Chris Angeloni, that links efficient coding to auditory perception:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-40477-6
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Hi all! I'm a neuroscience postdoc studying information seeking and curiosity *in mice* in Richard Axel's lab at Columbia. I'll be on the academic job market this fall(!!!). Excited to be here.
@neurojojo@c.im We have the same one ;-)
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Our paper "Prior movement of one arm facilitates motor adaptation in the other" is out @ #JNeurosci.
We show that the direction of a prior movement of the other arm is an effective cue to allow adaptation to interfering force fields. The brain seems to use kinematic information in learned sequences involving different body parts to adjust movements of the same sequence.
Also our data is pretty.
#motorlearning #motorcontrol #motoradaptation @sensorymotor @neuroscience
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We’re looking for African researchers keen to represent their community on our editorial board.
Does this sound like you? Apply to join our Board of Reviewing Editors! https://elifesciences.org/inside-elife/5b024d5b/elife-latest-applications-open-for-new-reviewing-editors-in-africa?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic
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Where are you on the political scale? Please boost wildly!* 😃
(*) Yes I mean Wildly not just widely
Long rant about twitter
@elduvelle @NicoleCRust @matrig
So, first, I'd like to clarify one thing - I do very much care about the people that are being attacked on twitter. What I meant is that I understand why these people may feel more pressure to leave. I very much care about them not feeling excluded, and participating to building an inclusive community the primary reason why I joined - and advertized for - Mastodon.
The reason why I've linked wikipedia articles above about shadow banning and political censorship on twitter is to show that, from what I was able to gather, it is frankly unclear whether this type of influence has really increased under Musk. Not that I believe him, but it's interesting to note that Musk has actually promised more transparency. Actually, part of his popularity on the right comes from capitalizing on the idea that previously twitter was specifically shadow-banning right-leaning people because their owners used to be left-leaning. In my views, this shows that it'd be good if media were funded by a - smartly regulated - independent government agency, but people in this country would probably fear that political manipulation could actually increase in this model.
I respect and agree with your statement about not wanting to engage with people that do not argue in good faith and that do not listen to you in first place. In parallel to this however, I am not as confident as you are that twitter does not currently host some more reasonable people - whose views I may still strongly disagree with - and who may be at a higher risk of radicalization if it looks like we all the media is segregated by political belief.
A smaller point in this debate is how twitter will evolve (there will be a new CEO; the blue check thing is dying). The question - and I concede that I do not have a clear-cut answer here - is whether leaving the platform and making it some sort of a new fox news is really going to help in the bigger context of a growing extreme-right and political polarization all over the world.
Theoretical neuroscientist trying to connect with other scientists, listen and learn.
Joined Nov 2022
