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Unlike @PessoaBrain, we argue that reductionism remains a valuable and viable approach to understanding brain function.
Like him, however, we suspect there is a better way (not emergence but expansion; preprint link to "Disentangling the brain w/ Srirangarajan)...
stanford.edu/group/spanlab/Pub

Hello Mastodon peeps 👋! This is what it looks like across hundreds of neurons in prefrontal cortex when a monkey starts dozing off.

I'm working with an organization that may eventually fund proposals to fund workshops for research groups working on "mathematics for humanity". This would include math related to climate change, democracy, economics, health, maybe AI risks, etc.

I can't give details until it solidifies.

However, it would help me to know a bunch of possible good proposals. Can you help me imagine some?

A good proposal needs these things:

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@nataliepeluso @neuroscience That a rhythm as robust as breathing should help entrain brain activity, and thus play a functional role makes perfect sense. It probably helps that breathing rhythm is fast in mice (4Hz), and that olfaction is so important. I wonder if it still makes sense in human who breathe at a much slower rate (0.3Hz) and olfaction not as important. Thoughts?

We biology geeks may sound elitist when we use scientific names instead of common names, but we're really just trying to avoid this:

Remember, friends don’t let friends use the official Mastodon apps.

Get yourself Tusky for Android, or Metatext for iOS. Toot! Is also good for iOS.

Enjoy all the timelines and features.

Hey #neurodon #neuroscience #neurotech #neuro @neuroscience

Let's make it easier for new members of the Mastodon network to find the #neuroscience (and former #neurotwitter) community. Consider adding yourself to this list of neuroscience accounts on #Mastodon

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100% agree with that message.

Long time ago we saw in EEG recordings that the smallest change to the task changed everything about the results. Reduced experiments, with all their merits, stopped making sense to me on that day.

Earl K. Miller  
Natural behavior is the language of the brain https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(22)00426-2 #neuroscience

Because this was my only post ever that got +5k likes on Twitter, it is only fitting that this is my first post here ⤵️

I created an awesome-PhD list on GitHub where everybody can contribute with their own tools and resources! 🔥

✨ Check it out and contribute yourself via pull requests: github.com/helenahartmann/awes

#ScienceMastodon #phdchat #academicmastodon

My Dad just sent this gem of a description of Zoom higher ed from 1927: “On the 201St Day of the year 3221 A.D., the professor of history at the University of Terra seated himself in front of the Visaphone and prepared to deliver the daily lecture to his class, the members of which resided in different portions of the earth. The instrument before which he seated himself was very like a great window sash, on account of the fact that there were three or four hundred frosted glass squares visible.”

As I clear up my Twitter history, there are some things I just don't want to lose. One is the Case of the Disappearing Teaspoons. (HT @synapticlee@twitter.com) bmj.com/content/331/7531/1498

RT @pskatz@twitter.com

There seems to be an increasing use of the justification for a paper being "little is known". Here is the appearance of this phrase in PubMed. It looks like we know less as time progresses. Little is known about why this trend has developed.

🐦🔗: twitter.com/pskatz/status/1592

⭐ Another new study showing the importance of #respiration to #oscillations #neuroscience- a little thread 👇

Wenyu Tu and Nanyin Zhang at Penn State University performed fMRI on sedated rats and combined the results with (1) measurements of the depth and rate of respiration, and (2) with electrophysiology to directly record the electrical properties of neurons. This allowed them to map out the network of neurons that become active in response to #breathing....

Mindfulness meditation as effective at reducing anxiety as medication. Just out in JAMA Psychiatry

jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap

RT @sachinsethi
Have you ever wondered what a head direction neuron looks like in a fly? Here’s an example where I patch-clamped a head direction neuron as a fly was walking around in a virtual-reality environment (sound on).

Intro time. Hi #sciencemastodon - I'm Co-Founder of the #preprint servers bioRxiv & medRxiv at Cold Spring Harbor Lab, where I also oversee CSH Perspectives and other #publishing projects. I trained as a molecular biologist. My goal is to improve science communication.

Learn more about bioRxiv at doi.org/10.1101/833400 - and on the podcast tinyurl.com/y8rbttwz

I'm also interested in promoting understanding of different career paths for academics. More at tinyurl.com/4papvn5z

@theexplorographer@mindly.social @sfmatheson I am liking the Twidere app.

You know how text models "naively" predicting the next words/characters led to breakthroughs in language & reasoning at scale?

I think this kind of prediction could do the same for visual reasoning...
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RT @DeepMind
Introducing TAP-Vid, a new benchmark for tracking points on physical surfaces in videos.

To gain physical understanding, AI must perceive how objects can move, including rotation and shape change. But there hasn't been a w…
twitter.com/DeepMind/status/15

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