Lucas C. Parra @lcparra@qoto.org

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)...
http://stanford.edu/group/spanlab/Publications/bk22jcn_preprint.pdf

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:

(1/n)

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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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: https://github.com/helenahartmann/awesome-PhD

#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.”

I wrote a piece for the New York Times about how scientists used Twitter during the Covid pandemic and about what comes next.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/19/opinion/pandemic-twitter.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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) https://www.bmj.com/content/331/7531/1498

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....

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 https://doi.org/10.1101/833400 - and on the podcast https://tinyurl.com/y8rbttwz

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

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…
https://twitter.com/DeepMind/status/1590029887213273089