Ethan B @ebbwood@qoto.org
- GitHub
- https://github.com/ethanbb
Grad student at Penn studying the topology of neuronal dynamics during learning
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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
Let me introduce myself! My name is Ilenna Jones, I am a computational neuroscientist with keen interest on how dendrites contribute to a singular neuron's ability to compute functions and learn tasks. I build biophysical models of neurons in #pytorch and use #deeplearning principles to investigate how #neuron models can learn and compute given their biologically realistic constraints.
I'm looking for postdocs right now! Feel free to connect if you're looking for someone like me!
I'm very interested in helping other students find resources and guidance as they consider science and #neuroscience in general. Feel free to connect if you're looking for advice/perspectives!
#computationalneuroscience #theoreticalneuroscience #neuroscience #neuralcomputation #learning #modeling #BlackInNeuro #FirstGen #Questbridge
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The University of California has 3 more days to avert a crisis & reach an agreement with the unions before nearly 50,000 grad students, postdocs, and TA/tutors go on strike (including myself) across all 10 UC campuses, including UCSF, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD, UC Davis etc. What a wild time to be alive. Thanks for the support LA Times! https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-11-09/la-ed-potential-strike-by-academic-workers-tarnishes-prestigious-university-system
OK I guess I'll do an #introduction!
I'm Ethan Blackwood and I'm a PhD student at UPenn with Alex Proekt studying how neuronal population dynamics in the cortex change as animals (mice) adopt new strategies or switch between them when learning a complex (for mice) decision task.
I'm also interested in AI and have done some investigation into the dynamics of RNNs learning to make decisions, although I'm taking a break from that for now. And I've been lucky to do some work on artificial network concept learning with @annaschapiro.
My feelings about #mastodon are changing day to day - it's definitely different from "the bird site" and requires an adjustment, but I'm excited for the potential!
Come find the lab at SfN!!
Saturday PM posters:
- Liz Siefert: TT13 Effects of the order of reactivation during sleep on memory and generalization
- Sarah Solomon: TT18 Predicting semantic representations over time in the medial temporal lobe
Sunday AM poster:
- Dhairyya Singh: WW34 Predictive shifts in object representations with statistical learning
Monday 2:30pm talk, room SDCC 24:
- Marlie Tandoc: Memory distortions reveal different representations for specific and general knowledge
@sophie ok actually I just found out I can automatically expand all CW posts for myself, which makes me a lot more ok with them.
@sophie like yeah it's eternal September but that's just how the world is no?
@sophie unpopular opinion but these norms are not going to survive a rapid expansion of the platform and they shouldn't. Moderation should be left to individual instances, no? I think there needs to be a space for just "Twitter, but decentralized (and Musk-free)."
@felicity_muth The CW system does feel like a cool feature that's a bit held back by its name/intended purpose. Basically there's a culture of tagging stuff, which is great, and then also a lot of toots are hidden by default. Imo the hashtags and CWs should be merged into one feature and searchable and all visible when a toot is hidden, and then people or instances can decide to automatically hide toots with certain tags (if not already manually hidden)
- GitHub
- https://github.com/ethanbb
Grad student at Penn studying the topology of neuronal dynamics during learning
