Hussaini Lab @hussainilab@qoto.org

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.

I am on full-on recruitment mode on Twitter and people seem a bit more open to switch at the moment.
What are good instances you’d recommend for either #neuroscientists or more generally #scientists?
So far I’d say:
https://neuromatch.social (of course)
https://synapse.cafe
https://fediscience.org

Any others? Or even just nice instances that you like?

Boosts appreciated! 🙏

I am a cognitive neuroscientist who focuses on how the mind and brain change during healthy aging. I use cognitive tasks along with eye-tracking, fMRI, and EEG to determine how age differences in attentional control contribute to memory impairments. #introduction #cognition #neuroscience

Just got access to the new Bing. This sort of thing will really change research. (I have been looking into this topic and found these same papers the 'old-fashioned' way.)

#Neuroscience

Friends, please join our 60th (!) session of the #LearningSalon
*Friday March 3, 4-6:30 EST*

John Krakauer, @melaniemitchell Claire Sun & I are honored to have the inimitable

**Yoshua Bengio**

a leading pioneer of #deeplearning, a Turing awardee, & a climate activist.

https://crowdcast.io/e/learningsalon/60

* The #LearningSalon is an online interdisciplinary forum, with brief talks & 2-hour discussions on #neuroscience #deeplearning #AI #psychology #philosophy

New paper from my lab showing age-related differences in functional connectivity during a visual short-term memory (#VSTM) task.

#CognitiveNeuroscience #Neuroscience #aging #memory

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811923001283?via%3Dihub#sec0029

After sufficient lurking, here is my #introduction

I’m a #computational #cognitive #neuroscientist and asst. prof. at JHU Cog Sci studying social vision. Our lab uses a combination of human behavior, neuroimaging and computational modeling to understanding how humans can so effortlessly extract rich social information from the visual world around them.

Our recent work relies heavily on naturalistic neuroimaging and state of the art modeling (such as graph neural networks and disentangled representation learning). You can learn more/find papers on our website: isiklab.org

date: 2022-12-27 13:22:17
by: Oiwi Parker Jones

AWS and EPSRC are kindly funding a #PhDposition (DPhil) to work with me on deep learning and electrophysiology (for neural speech prosthetics). Deadline 20 Jan: https://aims.robots.ox.ac.uk/media/12256/parker-jones-2022-aws-aims-cdt-dphil-advert.pdf @OxEngSci @OxfordRobots #BrainComputerInterface #Neuroscience #DeepLearning #OxfordUniversity

Source🦖:
https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/1607728577931366402
#PhdPosition

Hi all, instead of a re- #introduction after moving instances, I'd like to introduce you to my graduate student Peter Salvino, who passed away under tragic circumstances last week.

Because of his way too early passing, most of you didn't get to know him. So I wanted to make sure my #neuroscience community knows how brilliant and kind a scientist he was. Peter wore many hats in the lab. Being my very first student, he built with me, and knew the ins and outs of every bit of hardware and software. He was also a masterful engineer and inventor, and had a keen scientific mind. He knew what the big questions in the field were and was completely fearless in going after them. We will slowly publish all his great contributions, so you will read his name again.

Most importantly, he was so generous to his lab mates. He helped every single person in the lab, with such selflessness and genuine humbleness. He was really loved by all of us. This is such a huge loss to our field. He was destined to greatness.

Peter's family has set up a GoFundMe campaign to help support research similar to his at Northwestern. They welcome any contributions to honor the memory of this amazing human being.

Pretty soon @TheConversationUS will have more followers on #mastodon after 9 days than we have accumulated on TikTok in 18 months.

Could you help us get to 1159 by boosting this toot and telling your friends about the work we do?

(We're a nonprofit news organization dedicated to sharing the knowledge of academic experts with the public)

https://theconversation.com/us/10-ways-we-are-different

New platform, new #introduction

I'm a neuroAI researcher and neurotechnology consultant. I'm interested in the intersection of neuroscience and AI: what can AI teach us about how the brain works, and how can we use that knowledge to help people with neurological disorders thrive?

I've worked on this question in academia, in industry (Google, Meta) and in non-profits (Neuromatch). I write papers but some of my most high-impact writing is on my long-running blog, xcorr.net. I'm also the author of the good research code handbook, teaching students how to write code that doesn't bite back, goodresearch.dev.

#neuroscience #neuroAI

👋 Hi everyone, time for an #introduction as I have recently moved Mastodon instances (and finally feel at home on here).

My name is Tim, I am a Professor at the Institute of Cognitive Science (University of Osnabrück, Germany), where I run an interdisciplinary ML/cognitive computational neuroscience lab.

My team and I focus on understanding visual processing, and information processing more generally, in both brains and machines.

We love to tinker with deep (recurrent) neural networks, and analyse neuroimaging data (mainly M/EEG, and fMRI). I firmly believe that the interdisciplinary space between ML and Neuroscience can teach us lots about how brains operate.

If you are curious about the work we do, this could be a good starting point: https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.03718

Looking forward to exchanging ideas with you all.

#computationalneuroscience #neuroscience #cognitivescience #deeplearning #academia

🚨 🧠 🚨
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

Hi everyone 👋 ! #introduction

I am an Associate Prof. at Harvard Medical School, and am interested in figuring out how the brain works 🧠 . In particular, how do its neural dynamics implement the probabilistic computations required for efficient behavior? We ask this question from the theoretical perspective 💻 , using tools from machine learning and physics, and collaborate with experimentalists 🐭 🙈 👤 to test the arising theories.

In the past I have worked a lot on decision-making - both perceptual and value-based - normative models for the speed-accuracy trade-off, and how this relates to decision confidence and attention. Currently, we are looking into probabilistic reasoning about more structured objects, like hierarchies, and at efficient navigation in light of uncertain sensory information.

Happy to be here!

#neuroscience #neuroAI

Correlations in neural population codes limit encoding capacity and windows of integration - below is a nice summary of how theory & experiments helped us understand why it is important to study population-level phenomena, and not merely sets of neurons in isolation >

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41583-022-00606-4

#neuroscience #neural_populations #correlation #information_theory

#Introduction

👋 I am a #neuroscience #PhD student at UPenn, working with @annaschapiro and Brett Foster studying how our #memory changes over time and during #sleep 🧐😴🧠

Outside of lab, I love playing soccer and printmaking (current project is screen-printing images of my brain on any fabric I can find!)