Laureline Logiaco @LaurelineLogiaco@qoto.org
Theoretical neuroscientist trying to connect with other scientists, listen and learn.
Joined Nov 2022
@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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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.
@matrig @elduvelle @NicoleCRust
You must have heard first hand how much I hate the man starting in 2016 - and Musk did not even look as bad then 😉. And, at the time, we were surrounded by Musk fans, so it made for 'interesting' discussions 😝 .
@matrig @elduvelle @NicoleCRust
I don't think the phrasing of 'supporting Musk' is very useful, unless you want to think of any use of any privately owned company as a specific support of their main investor (ever used Amazon? Does that make you a Bezos die-hard?). Maybe you're able to, but in the current world I don't see how to practically live & make an impact without using privately-owned companies whose profits can go to people I (strongly) disagree with. I would prefer a society where single individuals would not have as much economical power as you know, but just boycotting them does not seem to be a practically useful strategy.
To me the question specific to twitter is: is isolation from people you disagree with the best answer? The assumption in this platform is that leaving will 'shrink' the population of people with opposite views. As for me, I'm afraid that segregation can lead to further radicalization. I think we've both seen the consequences of creating a social dynamics where a group of people is only surrounded by a certain demographics and a certain ideology is being broadcast to the group... This group was not disappearing over time, and I do think it would have been worse to not try to diversify this group.
In any case, I believe that there is no certainty about what the global effect of leaving or staying is, and I certainly support people who want to leave and will keep interacting with them.
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@elduvelle @NicoleCRust @matrig
To clarify a conversation we've had elsewhere - I think it's fine for people to leave twitter, especially people that are targeted by hate speech.
But I am not sure that - for people who are in a good enough place to stay without too much emotional damage - it is best to leave in the current circumstances where one is able to express dissent (to similar extent that could be done before; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Twitter and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_banning reviewing limitations to this).
In my opinion, if all people with liberal values were leaving, this could contribute to more segregation of people according to their political beliefs. I fear that the attempts to just isolate right-leaning people, both on separate media platforms and in other ways, has just led to their radicalization, not only in the USA but in many different countries.
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Looong post with Cool Neuroscience Papers
As I scroll through my #ResearchGate feed, here's a bunch of recent (March->May 2023), not-to-be-missed papers and preprints in the #Hippocampus / #Navigation field:
(please add to the list if I missed something!)
Superficial-layer versus deep-layer lateral entorhinal cortex: Coding of allocentric space, egocentric space, speed, boundaries, and corners
Learning to predict future locations with internally generated theta sequences
Hippocampal beta rhythms as a bridge between sensory learning and memory-guided decision-making
Direct Entorhinal Control of CA1 Temporal Coding
Making Sense of the Multiplicity and Dynamics of Navigational Codes in the Brain
The temporal and contextual stability of activity levels in hippocampal CA1 cells
Increased cortical plasticity leads to memory interference and enhanced hippocampal-cortical interactions
Convergence of location, direction, and theta in the rat anteroventral thalamic nucleus
Goal-oriented representations in the human hippocampus during planning and navigation
Oscillation-coordinated, noise-resistant information distribution via the subiculum
Successor-Predecessor Intrinsic Exploration
Transforming a head direction signal into a goal-oriented steering command
On the results of causal optogenetic engram manipulations
Computational models of episodic-like memory in food-caching birds
Spatial learning impairments and discoordination of entorhinal-hippocampal circuit coding following prolonged febrile seizures
Mechanisms of memory storage and retrieval in hippocampal area CA3
Firing rate adaptation affords place cell theta sweeps, phase precession and procession
Three separable roles for context in breaking environmental symmetries for place cells
Mice can learn a cognitive map based on a stable start location and self-motion signals
Grid cell disruption in a mouse model of early Alzheimer’s disease reflects reduced integration of self-motion cues
The hippocampus of the common marmoset is a GPS, but G is for gaze
Contribution of dorsal versus ventral hippocampus to the hierarchical modulation of goal-directed action
Schema cell formation in orbitofrontal cortex is suppressed by hippocampal output
Dynamic and stable hippocampal representations of social identity and reward expectation support associative social memory in male mice
Specific patterns of neural activity in the hippocampus after massed or distributed spatial training
Anchoring of grid fields selectively enhances localisation by path integration
Goal Choices Modify Frontotemporal Memory Representations
Hippocampo-cortical circuits for selective memory encoding, routing, and replay
The subiculum encodes environmental geometry
Object-centered population coding in CA1 of the hippocampus
Boundary vector cells in the goldfish central telencephalon encode spatial information
Congrats to all authors! You rock 🤟 (and I wish you were advertising your work here on Mastodon 💜 - if you are, let yourself be known!)
Special thanks to Youcef Bouchekioua for his Researchgate activity!
Disclaimer: I haven't read those (yet)
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There will soon be an open call for 4 year independent research fellowships at Imperial College. If you're interested in me sponsoring/mentoring your application, get in touch now to discuss because our department's deadline is mid July.
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If you had a #Facebook account and resided in the States anytime from May 2007 to Dec 2022, you can now apply for your share of the $725 million #CambrideAnalytica privacy lawsuit settlement.
Deadline is Aug 25
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/20/1170987739/facebook-settlement-lawsuit-privacy
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RT @plasticity_lab
Targeting key issues in the new @gordonneuro paper in @Nature on M1 functional organization. Our open review with @diedrichsenlab and @DollyaneMuret offers alternative perspectives and encourages more thoughtful interpretation. Explore our thoughts: https://www.diedrichsenlab.org/BrainDataScience/or_gordon2023/index.htm https://twitter.com/gordonneuro/status/1648704877629956097
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Looking for #neuroscience? Or #Celegans? or #Drosophila? Or #connectomics? Or #brains, #entomology, #academia, #nativebees? Different place, different approaches – tags here are useful and can be followed.
For accounts, @PhiloNeuroSci selects and comments on neuroscience papers; @eLife and @PLOSBiology publish their papers and digests.
@NicoleCRust challenges us all often; @matrig and @kristinmbranson publish at the intersection of neuroscience and computer science; John @tuthill, @BorisBarbour, Jason Shepherd @jasonsynaptic , @mtarr @gepasi, @cian, @schoppik, @MatteoCarandini, Dan Goodman @neuralreckoning, Bryan @BWJones, @achterbrain, @CoriBargmann and many others publish on neuroscience among other topics.
On open access and #ScientificPublishing there's Stephen Eglen @sje, Stephen Royle @clathrin
I am living many out ... the list is long. One way to find them is via tags like #neuroscience.
Big accounts like Doctorow @pluralistic, @Carl_Zimmer, @jwz, and @timkmak are here too. There are many more.
There are useful bots like, for me, @flypapers – I wish I could filter for neuro-only papers, but the volume isn't high. Then there're neuroscience-specific servers like synapse.cafe and neuromatch.social – their local timelines may reveal further accounts you may like.
@neurojojo@c.im Always the same crappy borderline eugenicist tendency in these men who ascended the pyramid of power. See Epstein et al.... https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/elon-musk-nick-cannon-breeding-kink-1382676/ ; https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7ge4v/why-are-elon-musk-and-marc-andreesen-obsessed-with-birth-rates
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🔔Job alert🔔
Fully funded postdoc position at the brand new Adaptive Control group (Lyon, France). Since more positions will be open soon, a broad range of profiles and background will be considered for this first one!
👉https://www.adaptivecontrol.org/positions
Please RT🔁🙏
#neurotwitter
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#Hippocampus neuroscientists:
Do you think that hippocampal #Replay can truly represent a future planning trajectory?
Or that all replay trajectories are actually related to consolidation / generalization / other memory-oriented mechanisms?
Discussion & questions welcome!
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Poll in Post 2 ⤵️
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PSA for #cosyne2023 :
We're going to be changing our #clocks in Montreal this coming Sunday morning at 2AM, moving them forward one hour (i.e. what used to be 2AM will become 3AM)!
https://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/canada/montreal?year=2023
So, remember that when you're planning your schedule for Sunday the 12th!
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For #WomensHistoryMonth, I’ll be posting about women making history in neural engineering and systems/computational neuroscience!
This is a multi-year project. You can find past years on twitter (https://twitter.com/neuroamyo/status/1498674431542972416). Join me this year and be prepared for amazing science.
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It has been an absolute joy to be part of this exciting collaboration. Thank you Sam Sober and
#simonsfoundation for the opportunity and for bringing together this wonderful group of colleagues and friends. Check out the 🤯 EMG recordings: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.02.21.529200
Theoretical neuroscientist trying to connect with other scientists, listen and learn.
Joined Nov 2022
