Jeffrey C. Erlich @jerlich@qoto.org
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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
Jeffrey C. Erlich
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Jeffrey C. Erlich
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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.
Come visit out poster Tuesday Oct 8 Morning!
LBA008.033 / LBA119 -
Task Context Shapes Short-Term Memory Localisation
Go see our very exciting results demonstrating the sensitivity of working memory strategies to task context. We made two variations of a classic 2AFC memory-guided orienting task : one that encouraged an egocentric strategy and one that encouraged an allocentric strategy. The results shocked us! M2 only involved in egocentric planning!
https://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/20433/presentation/31245
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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
@ekmiller Well, we showed the rat SC is causally involved in abstract categorisation, so... not so surprised https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-021-00865-x (cited as Ref 51)
@Sheril revisionist history (Malcolm Gladwell). All the freakonomics podcasts
Excited to share a new paper from the lab:
Encoding of 2D Self-Centered Plans and World-Centered Positions in the Rat Frontal Orienting Field
Activity in the M2 predicts upcoming choices. But what does the activity represent? A gaze-centered plan? A world-centered goal? A specific movement? We asked rats to plan responses to different targets from different start position to find out!
Liujunli Li, Timo Flesch, Ce Ma, Jingjie Li, Yizhou Chen, Hung-Tu Chen and Jeffrey C. Erlich
Journal of Neuroscience 11 September 2024, 44 (37) e0018242024; https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0018-24.2024
Tweetthread: https://x.com/erlichlab/status/1835716087251406866
#neuroscience #prefrontal #premotor #planning #neuralnetworks
@raineyday @JeremyMallin Also Rosetta stone does this. It uses pictures.
@david1 huh? Biden won the 2020 election. That doesn't mean people want him to run again now.
@adredish @UlrikeHahn @albertcardona
I would argue that the rise of GenAI demands more not less transparency. The "old" peer review system hides the process of approval, so once a paper is "peer-reviewed" it somehow has an air of legitimacy.
I share your concerns- but I think the solution involves networks of trust and more active science communication.
@adredish We disagree. I find it super informative to be able to read decision-letters. To see what careful readers came up with that I might have missed on a casual read.
@albertcardona Or wind or fusion or fission. Lots of ways to make energy. We need to do some large scale sequestration of C02, right?
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“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
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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
This seems important. A new catalytic process converts CO2 to ethanol or acetic acid. https://phys.org/news/2024-05-catalyst-carbon-dioxide-industrial-emissions.html
@ekmiller excited about this one!
@adamhsparks Agreed. I much prefer Julia over R (for syntax and other things) but the documentations of packages on CRAN is generally really good.
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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
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!! come join us as a group leader !! we have 2 lectureships just opened for applications in our department at UCL! Join one of the best, the most exciting and most friendly neuroscience departments! https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search-ucl-jobs/details?nPostingId=8470&nPostingTargetId=20780&id=Q1KFK026203F3VBQBLO8M8M07&LG=UK&languageSelect=UK&mask=ext #neuroscience #jobs #london
