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⚠️ An uncomfortable finding from our lab that I want to state carefully.
BCI trials are enrolling participants without routine genetic screening for neurodegeneration risk. We have mouse data that makes this worth examining systematically. 🧵
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We met a majestic Borzoi today 😍 it absolutely made my week. It was like seeing a celebrity 📸
pictured with lovely queeny (black hound), and poppy coming up between them later in the video
I always thought that mice couldn't over groom their own backs in a pattern like this, and that instead it was due to their cagemates eg barbering?
Just a regular day in Australia
Traffic diverted due to a seal taking a nap on the road
Check out our new collection of Primers, which bridge the gap between psychiatry and neuroscience 🌉🌉
Each Primer translates a single concept across disciplines so that these communities can more effectively communicate and interpret findings in a shared language.
www.nature.com/collections/...
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The perfect in between weather stripey outfit 😍
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Easter long weekend vibes
*Yes poppy has two cuddlepillars, one used to belong to my old boy Spacey 😢
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A cuddlepillar head makes a great pillow
*The greyhound love of a cuddlepillar (giant caterpillar toy) is truely bizarre
Submit your abstract until May 15 for the "Monitoring Molecules in Neuroscience" conference in Amsterdam (Sept 7-10, 2026) to get the latest update on in-vivo neuro-methods from a brilliant lineup of keynote and panel speakers: monitoringmolecules.org/invited-spea... Please repost!
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Yesterday we had a bit of a cold snap! Summer is coming to an end 😭 poppy looking cute (and knowing it!) prancing around in her purple coat makes it a little easier 💜💜💜
🚨The Sweis Lab for Translational Neuroeconomics at Mount Sinai is searching for a postdoctoral research fellow! If you or someone you know is searching for a position, please share!
📄 📌Link to job flyer here:
tinyurl.com/3vapfpn5
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@sinaibrain.bsky.social @mountsinai.bsky.social
We apologize for the delay but our next profile is here! Dr. Ann Kennedy (@antihebbiann.bsky.social) combines theory & biological data to study how internal states shape social behavior by reconfiguring neural circuit dynamics.
Follow the link to learn more!
www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202...
Cosyne invited me to give a long tutorial (4 hours!) on methods to quantify differences high-d neural recordings across animals, brain regions, deep neural nets, etc.
The recording is up on youtube. I hope it inspires more research on this fundamental topic!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n44x...
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The weird and wonderful shapes that greyhounds make (how is this comfortable!)
Excited to share my postdoc work is out in @natneuro.nature.com today!
We examined how the brain enables social groups to collectively coordinate their behavior in the face of environmental challenge ❄️🐭🐭🐭🐭❄️ :
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Please spread the word about a postbac position in Behavioral Neuroscience at Dartmouth with me, Shelley Warlow, and Kyle smith. The postbac will contribute to collaborative projects across the three labs aimed at studying the neuroscience of motivation and reward learning.
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Today we visited Stockton beach with ~40 if poppy's greyhound friends. Greyhounds are so sweet when they're together and we have a great community of hounds/families in Newcastle!
Poppy gets super excited galloping through the water 😍
A white greyhound wearing a red stripe shirt with a look of excitement on her face as she is about to jump into the water at the beach
Look at this thumbnail for the video 😂😂😂 this silly girl makes me laugh so much
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Today we visited Stockton beach with ~40 if poppy's greyhound friends. Greyhounds are so sweet when they're together and we have a great community of hounds/families in Newcastle!
Poppy gets super excited galloping through the water 😍
The continued underspend of the MRFF is a missed opportunity, impacting our future health, economic prosperity, and biomedical sovereignty. Please support Dr. Monique Ryan MP's campaign calling on the government to fully release the MRFF funds: www.moniqueryan.com.au/medical_rese...
Back translation of value-modulated attentional capture from humans to mice (experiment 1) and rats (Experiment 2). Very nice work by @bradfield-neuro.bsky.social et al.
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
I go on to note that previous analyses by NIH have looked at R01 grant success rates by the race of the investigator have revealed statistically significant effects that could not be accounted for by educ. background, training, previous awards, publication record, and other factors.
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Looking a bit interested in, and then worrying about, barking from the neighbours dogs
I wanted to share some photos with her giant, expressive ears, but she tends to point her ears back as soon as I point my phone at her 🤷♀️ here she was sufficiently distracted by the barking 😅
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Poppy was glaring at me for disturbing her sleep (by trying to leave my desk on a Saturday 😅)
She is the queen of my house
We noticed something interesting (and frustrating) this winter because we had a number of cold spells here in Florida - when humidity drops, the food in our cages loses moisture and therefore weight, artificially increasing our food consumption measures. Curious if anyone else has noticed this?
The PM calling Grace Tame, a woman fighting for the safety of children, “difficult” is completely unwarranted.
Labelling women as difficult won’t silence us. It won’t stop us speaking truth to power.
Next time try “unbreakable” or “warrior” or “fierce”, Prime Minister.
Photo 5 (need to catch up)
Poppy looking beautiful in her yellow jacket with a rainbow this morning.
How can you not smile at that photo?
A man standing up in a crowded room of people sitting. He is dressed in workman's clothes and has his head raised as if speaking up when not necessarily belonging there.
We are a rich enough country to be funding 37% of all basic research proposals, not just considering "the best" 37% and then maybe only funding 12% in the end.
