Sébastien Maillé @sebmaille@qoto.org

Serotonin is such an enigma.

In a fresh paper by the lab of Mark Andermann it is shown that serotonin gates the information flow from retina to thalamus.

https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(22)01079-0

Trying to understand the bigger picture, we have recently proposed that serotonin has a central role in digesting information. Our paper w @macshine @DrYohanJohn @claireocallaghan and others can be found here: https://shine-lab.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/2022_brain.pdf

@markkula @KathaSchmack @albertcardona @kanoldlab @rhodricusack @antoniolozano @jmgrohneuro Thanks for the encouragement! I have refined those "tips for writing science" and they are now published in eNeuro (https://www.eneuro.org/content/9/6/ENEURO.0497-22.2022). I hope they will be useful to some fellow scientists, and especially trainees.

Here is #Classic of #Neuroscience I hope will make the #mastodon community smile!!

A real #neuroimaging study in search for the #Christmas spirit network in the #brain

This is the BMJ paper: https://www.bmj.com/content/351/bmj.h6266

SPOILER ALLERT
The network is the same as 42 other higher #cognitive functions…

I love zero-indexing so much. I'm probably its number one fan

New instance so a new #introduction! 👋​ I am a neuroscientist working at the Champalimaud Foundation in the Mainen lab and the International Brain Laboratory (@internationalbrainlab). I am interested in how neuromodulators, such as serotonin, modulate neural dynamics across the brain, and ultimately 🐭​ behavior​. I am also investigating these topics using psychedelics 🍄​. To do this, I perform acute multiple Neuropixel recordings in behaving mice combined with optogenetics or pharmacology.

I'm also the author of the paper that found neurons in the mouse brain that correlate with Bitcoin 📈​ https://peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10.24072/pcjournal.30/

#introduction : I am a computer scientist, and I do AI for #neurosience (#NeuroAI).

My work is most well known for:
1) comparing #machinelearning and models of brain #plasticity,

2) optimization in networks of #spiking neurons.

I am currently doing my postdoc with Wulfram Gerster at #epfl

Holiday🎄reminder to acknowledge and generously gift 🎁 the animal care and husbandry staff that are essential to #neuroscience experiments! #labtech #veterinarian #vetstaff

The Boston University School of Public Health is withdrawing from Twitter.

The dean’s thoughtful, nuanced explanation raises the question: Why are other institutions still there?

https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2022/reconsidering-our-engagement-with-twitter/

Join us! We are looking for a software engineer to work with an amazing development team to build open science tools. https://www.internationalbrainlab.com/opportunities

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

Understanding #Mastodon gets easier once you get the basic idea that federation between servers can be understood as homeomorphisms across hyperplanes between the Riemannian manifolds of toots, whereas the servers represent countable finite sets of discrete entities.

Do you want to learn about systems neuroscience?

We have an open position to work as a research assistant in sunny Marseille: https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UMR7289-FANCAZ-001/Default.aspx?lang=EN

Please, help spread the word!

Hi everyone! This my #introduction

I am a #neuroscientist based in Marseille (France).

After a PhD in NYC with JL Pena, and a postdoc in the lab of Zach Mainen and the #InternationalBrainLab, I recently joined the #cnrs as a tenured researcher.

My work combines #experimental and #computational approaches to study the neural dynamics of flexible behavior in mice. My research is supported by the Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain (#SCGB).

#neuroscience

I have collected some tips on how to write a scientific paper. I know that many people are way better than me at it and that there is a whole genre on this. Still, some have found these tips useful. If you are interested, or you think others would benefit, here you go:

Some tips for writing science
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zcmqa47vmpw81AW2q5EMeIxxJiVrqXCd/view?usp=share_link

A surprising attribute of dendrites is that they seem to control the dispersion of inter spike intervals. They also control gain and act as ANNs but somewhat less readily.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.18.517108v1
#neuroscience

Here’s my (required?) #introduction - I’m Tim, a #scientist living in #Austria working at the @istaustria near Vienna. I work on #neural_network_dynamics #plasticity #neurotheory. PhD w Larry Abbott at #brandeis and #columbia, postdoc w Wulfram Gerstner at #EPFL, 1st lab at #Oxford for 7 years before moving in 2020. Married to Ms Moon, w/ 3 daughters (a cat). I’ve been 20 years German, 1.5 Greek, 10 American, 4 Suisse, 7 British & 2 Austrian, sorta in that order. I #row #Am_I_doing_it_right?

i mean by way of #introduction i have always viewed twitter as a farce and a professional embarrassment so i am not concerned about its recent decline, but i look forward to taking an equally unprofessional stance here. oh and yeah i'm a computational neuroscientist at princeton & visiting deepmind but again my greatest aspiration is that my social media presence is a complete disgrace to them.

"Neuroscientists accept foundationally that the brain represents every distinct thought, feeling, and behavior as some sort of neural ripple: a sad thought must at some level differ from a happy one. But we are very far from identifying such ripples in a human brain, and farther still from understanding how to intervene at that level to shift the balance from a sad ripple to a happy one." Peter Sterling, in https://www.madinamerica.com/2022/10/neuroscientist-evaluates-depression/

Think about your baseline before scaling your data #statsmeme

Mastodon gets a lot of reasonable criticism, but I don't think enough people are excited for how it will improve as an open source project - you can go straight to the github to make suggestions and even help with improving things!!!

Lots of stuff I and others noted as flawed compared to Twitter is already a much-discussed issue on Github, so I expect many improvements to come in the future.