Jeffrey C. Erlich @jerlich@qoto.org
@Gert this is such an important perspective. in the west, when someone has a psychotic episode, we strap them down in a hospital and then wonder why they are paranoid.
@dhananjaythakur@mastodon.social This is a challenge! h265 encoding of video can save a lot of space. Companies like 45drives.com offer really affordable solutions, but you should talk to your dept/university IT department because labs shouldn't be managing their own storage. Some places, like https://gin.g-node.org offer free storage (up to some limit).
A-mazing.
"A robot-rodent interaction arena with adjustable spatial complexity for ethologically relevant behavioral studies"
https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(23)01682-0
@MolemanPeter @neuralreckoning Dan - I think the most basic forms of consciousness (like https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1520084113) require representation and require some integration of sensory information over time (even if the timescale is short, like a few hundred milliseconds). Would you consider this memory? Is all integration memory?
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Someone got mad at me for using CC-BY-NC because it was a "nonfree license." Not like it stops them in practice, but now that all CC-BY are being harvested for LLMs i think I was right.
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/43/48/8074
Open Peer Review at J Neurosci!
Jeffrey C. Erlich
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There 1 week to apply for the PhD studentship in my lab (4 years, paid as an RA, fees at UK rate) to contribute to understanding how the brain constructs auditory space. shorturl.at/adoJN
Post will require great coding skills so background in engineering, datasciences or neuroscience is ideal!
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In press! 📣 The surprising result that basolateral amygdala has a more crucial role in learning meaningful changes in the reward environment than orbitofrontal cortex. Check our paper to find out how! 🤓 #neuroscience #CompNeuro https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2023/11/13/JNEUROSCI.0622-23.2023
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Anyone coming to #sfn? Come along to our @brainglobe poster on Wednesday afternoon, or get in touch to chat about BrainGlobe or any of our other projects (neuroinformatics.dev).
Do you want to do a postdoc in London at the fabulous @SWC_Neuro ?
Do you have expertise in rodent behavior, neurophysiology and/or imaging?
Are you interested in economics? decision-making? Multiplayer games?
Get in touch! I will be at SFN and would love to come to your poster/talk.
#sfn #neuroscience #postdoc #SocietyForNeuroscience #SFN2023
https://erlichlab.org
https://sainsburywellcome.org
please boost and forward to anyone who might be interested.
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#Nature Neural signal propagation atlas of Caenorhabditis elegans https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06683-4 "23,433 pairs of neurons across the head of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Signal propagation differs from model predictions that are based on anatomy. Extrasynaptic signalling not visible from anatomy contributes to this difference. Extrasynaptically released neuropeptides serve a similar function to that of classical neurotransmitters. Both synaptic and extrasynaptic signalling drive neural dynamics on short timescales."
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Jonny Lovelace, Jingrui Ma, ... and Vinny Augustine discovered the vagal pathway underlying fainting, really exciting work, summarized here: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03450-3 , full paper here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06680-7 (I helped a little w/ neural analyses)
When the mouse faints, its eyes roll back and most neurons across the brain *shut off completely* (at yellow line in first figure, shows one example #neuropixels recording). But neurons in the hypothalamic PVZ increased their firing during this time period (first group in the second figure). These neurons were causally implicated: inhibition increased fainting duration while excitation increased arousal.
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Hi everyone!
The BrainGlobe Initiative exists to facilitate the development of interoperable Python-based tools for computational neuroanatomy, particularly in model organisms.
For more details please see https://brainglobe.info or chat with us at https://brainglobe.zulipchat.com.
@jonny Interesting. Currently, we are using pub/sub so I don't have to worry about getting out of sync in a req/rep loop. but for some reason Matlab/jeromq does miss messages sometimes and our current hack is to just send messages meant for Matlab a few times. but I'm not really happy with that and would like something more robust. it's low priority as things are working...
@jonny In auto-pi-lot do you ever run into a situation where a zmq request is not replied to? and things get stuck? I took a look in `node.py` and couldn't tell if you do some time of timeout and message handling.
I'm asking because I'm thinking of re-writing part of our infrastructure to use REQ/REP zmq calls (which are now local function calls. this would be the first step in moving away from Matlab)..
@skykiss America definitely needs to deal with its gun issue. But listen to the 6 part series from Malcolm Gladwell to hear why the assault weapons ban is not really the answer: https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history#episodes
@kendmiller @tdverstynen They released this https://elifesciences.org/inside-elife/495baf34/statement-of-the-elife-board-of-directors
supports Tim's theory, that this was the straw that broke the camels back.
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Closing application date coming soon (Oct 30th) for this 3-year #Postdoc position in the lab of @katejjeffery, now in Glasgow!
“on the neural processing of space and direction in freely behaving rodents”
https://www.nature.com/naturecareers/job/12804781/research-associate/
