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Scientists reconstruct Pink Floyd song by listening to people’s brainwaves
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/aug/15/scientists-reconstruct-pink-floyd-song-by-listening-to-peoples-brainwaves?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#Neuroscience

The view from the International Space Station as an aurora meets the sunrise in space.

Watch the full 4K widescreen version on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmK7oY-Xcr8

Hi all,

Our research group “Circuit Mechanisms of Behavior” at the University Hospital Bonn (lab Tobias Rose) invites applications for a full-time (38.5 hours/week) position as: Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/d):

Detailed description here:
https://www.nature.com/naturecareers/job/12803739/postdoctoral-researcher-mfd

Closing date: 31st of August 2023
Start date: flexible
Contact: Tobias Rose, Tobias.Rose@ukbonn.de

The selected candidate will investigate the "Encoding of Landmark Stability and Stability of Landmark Encoding”:

You will study visual landmark encoding at the intersection of hippocampal, thalamic, and cortical inputs to retrosplenial cortex. You will use cutting-edge miniature two-photon Ca2+ imaging (https://tinyurl.com/mini2pCA1), enabling you to longitudinally record activity in defined, large neuronal populations and long-range afferents in freely moving animals.

You will carry out rigorous neuronal and behavioral analyses within the confines of automatized closed-loop tasks tailored for visual navigation. This will involve the application of advanced tools for dense behavioral quantification, including multi-angle videography, inertial motion sensing, and egocentric recording with head-mounted cameras for the reconstruction of retinal input.

Our aim is to gain a comprehensive understanding of the immediate and sustained multi-area neuronal representation of visual landmarks during unrestricted behavior. We aim to elucidate the mechanisms through which stable visual landmarks are encoded and the processes by which these representations are stabilized to facilitate robust allocentric navigation.

Ideal candidates for this position should hold a doctorate in neuroscience, engineering, physics, or a related discipline, and should be deeply committed to rigorous neuroethology and technical development. We seek individuals with a "tinkering spirit", i.e., a strong penchant for problem-solving and creativity. Essential competencies include the demonstrated ability to design and carry out complex neuroscience experiments, robust programming capabilities, and a foundational knowledge of machine learning methodologies. Valuable experience would include a familiarity with rodent behavior, both in freely moving and head-fixed contexts. Although not mandatory, a background in visual neuroscience or navigation neuroscience would be viewed favorably.

We are looking for a driven candidate with a solid record of accomplishment who is enthusiastic about interdisciplinary research. The successful candidate will be prepared to bring their skills and experience to our innovative and collaborative research environment.

While this role is tailored towards a specific project, we are equally enthusiastic about supporting the development of your individual research pursuits.

Applicants should send their application in a single pdf file, including a cover letter explaining your research interests and motivation for joining the team, CV, and contact information for two references. Applications will be shortlisted based on the above selection criteria. Please send your formal application to Prof. Tobias Rose via email until 31.08.2023. The Expected start date is September 2023 or at the earliest possible date thereafter. Informal enquires about the post are welcome. For more information on our research, please visit www.troselab.de (mastodon: @trose_neuro, twitter: @trose_neuro).

Rufus making himself known in New Mexico

How 'visual' is the visual cortex? The interactions between the visual cortex and other sensory, motivational and motor systems as enabling factors for visual perception https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.2022.0336 "we propose that visual percepts are generated by a larger network—the extended visual system—spanning other sensory cortices, supramodal areas and frontal systems."

Crossmodal visual predictions elicit spatially specific early visual cortex activity but later than real visual stimuli https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2022.0339 "participants were exposed to audiovisual combinations comprising one of two sounds and a Gabor patch either in the top left or in the bottom right visual field."

Gorgeous Greenfinch against the green of the woods..

#nature #NaturePhotography #birds #Wildlife #naturecommunity #photography #BirdsOfMastodon #birdphotography

Very proud of this paper that was led by a wonderful postdoc in my lab, Iva Lučić. My first paper without any channels, I think. #biophysics #enzymes #neuroscience #memory

CaMKII autophosphorylation can occur between holoenzymes without subunit exchange https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.86090

#pic #pics #pictures #picture #photo #photography #PhotoMonday #photografie #photographie #Fotomontag #foto #fotos #fotographie #fotografie #fotograf #BirdsOfMastodon #bird #birds

Where it all started:

Before I took this picture back in March 2022, I was not a bird photographer. Seeing this Long-tailed tit hooked me in, its such a beautiful bird and since then I have seen 100's of beautiful birds I'd never appreciated prior. I would say this is my first birding photo.

#nature #birds #Wildlife #photography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #UK

One of the most spectacular coronal mass ejections from the Sun ever captured by NASA's SDO spacecraft.

Credit: NASA​/​SDO

How Sony cameras help Vivienne Gucwa with her #cortical #blindness https://www.thephoblographer.com/2023/07/29/how-sony-cameras-help-vivienne-gucwa-with-her-cortical-blindness/ on @travelinglens

‘There’s a lack of trust in science – we need to show how it’s done.

Interview Nobel prize winner Giorgio Parisi

Source: The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jun/25/giorgio-parisi-nobel-prize-physics-spin-glasses-complex-systems-in-a-flight-of-starlings

#science #trust #NobelPrize #GiorioParisi

Clustered synapses develop in distinct dendritic domains in visual cortex before eye opening (in mice) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.03.02.530772v1 "presumably to equip dendrites with computational modules for high-capacity sensory processing."

More information in the Twitter thread https://twitter.com/Lohmann_lab/status/1680958228845191168

#neuroscience

A ladybird beetle spreading its wings captured with a high-speed camera. In real-time wing deployement from the fully folded state takes less than 0.1 seconds.

Video credit: University of Tokyo / Saito et al. 'Investigation of hindwing folding in ladybird beetles.' DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1620612114.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1620612114

"The THREE AGES OF WATER is a significant work on the critical topic of water. It’s historically rich and a scientifically accessible account of the water-human nexus over millennia, with a look at the future."

https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2023/07/book-review-water-scientist-offers-positive-vision-avoid-dystopian-future/?s=09

Mapping multi-modal #brain #connectome for brain disorder diagnosis via cross-modal mutual learning https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10182318 Potentially relevant to charting perceptual processing in sensory substitution for the blind; #crossmodal #multisensory #AI #neuroscience