Jeffrey C. Erlich @jerlich@qoto.org

We are delighted to share that Jingjie Li (@jerlich Lab) and Ella Svahn (@macaskillaf Lab and Athena Akrami Lab), have been awarded the Jon Driver Prize!

This prize recognises outstanding research from UCL neuroscientists at the PhD level.

Join the UCL Neuroscience Symposium on 18 June, when Jingjie and Ella will be presenting their research:

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/neuroscience/events/neuroscience-symposia

Thanks to @jerlich for hosting me at @SWC_Neuro! So much great science and a wonderful community there.
https://neuromatch.social/@SWC_Neuro/114702999239631790

“You can’t just be confident, you have to be confident about something.”

Research led by @jerlich and Xiaoyue Zhu in @nbdt_journal set out to disentangle the different kinds of confidence by designing a perceptual gambling task for rodents.

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https://www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/blog/decoding-confidence-lessons-lab

Elsevier/RELX profit rises 10%, investor call: "continuing to see strong growth" including from pay-to-read and pay-to-publish. From the www.journalology.com newsletter.

In my opinion, more researchers and universities need to stop supporting them. One way to help is to join the Free Journal Network https://fediscience.org/@alexh/114055607398246074

If you know simulation based calibration checking (SBC), you will enjoy our new paper "Posterior SBC: Simulation-Based Calibration Checking Conditional on Data" with Teemu Säilynoja, @marvinschmitt.com and @paulbuerkner.com
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.03279 1/5

New SWC research identifies the precise brain mechanisms that enable animals to overcome instinctive fears.

Full story ➡️ https://www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/research-news/scientists-discover-brain-mechanism-helps-overcome-fear

Read the full paper in Science from Sara Mederos, Patty Blakely, @NicoleVissers Claudia Clopath and Sonja Hofer. ➡️ https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adr2247

@pluralistic

How does that "individual pricing in grocery stores" work? Does that mean the price can change from the time you take it off the shelf to the time you check out? How does that match the "economic agreement"? (which depends on full information on both sides).

At least airplane and online store prices lock in the individual price when you select it. It doesn't suddenly change at the payment page. Although, I'm sure that's the next enshitification step...

A hardy and hale "huzzah!" to Emery N. Brown on receiving the National Medal of Science! It’s the nation’s highest honor for scientists and engineers.
https://picower.mit.edu/news/emery-n-brown-innovative-neuroscientist-statistician-and-anesthesiologist-earns-national-medal
#neuroscience

A computational #NeuralNetwork model leverages a simple unsupervised learning principle to account for recent findings on when memories move apart (differentiate) or together (integrate) in the brain. #Neuroscience https://elifesciences.org/articles/88608?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic

Faces will melt. #sfn2024 #SfN24
https://www.reggieslive.com/show/pavlovs-dogz/

It took me ~a year to translate Neurodata Without Borders to linkml+pydantic with full abstraction over array/storage backend. Now that I did that, it is taking me ~hours to make interfaces to put NWB in SQL dbs, web APIs for editing and serving NWB datasets (where you can download arbitrary slices of the individual datasets instead of a bigass 100GB HDF5 file), and interconversion between hdf5, dask, and zarr.

Anyway open data in neuroscience is about to get real good.

#neuroscience #linkml #OpenData #OpenScience

Applications now open! Join the SWC PhD Programme 2025

🧠 World-class training in systems neuroscience
💰 Fully-funded 4-year programme
💂 Based in London with close links to @GatsbyUCL

Learn more and apply by 11 Nov: https://www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/phd-programme

#PhD #Neuroscience

“We need to understand interorgan communication if we want to understand the aging process,”https://www.science.org/content/article/faulty-communication-organs-make-us-old?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_content=alert&utm_campaign=SCIeToc&et_rid=35074937&et_cid=5223300

Sounds familiar to me: teh challenge of being an interdisciplinary academic https://www.science.org/content/article/why-pursued-interdisciplinary-research-as-aspiring-academic-despite-career-risks?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_content=alert&utm_campaign=SCIeToc&et_rid=35074937&et_cid=5223300

How do neural circuits generate flexible, cognitive behaviours? The Duan and @jerlich labs are looking for 2️⃣ excellent postdoctoral research fellows to join the team. Check out the vacancies and apply by 25 May: https://www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/current-vacancies#research-fellow-senior-research-fellow-two-posts