Randy Bruno
@TheBrunoCortex
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Neuroscientist investigating the role of cerebral cortex and thalamus in our behavior
Oxford, UK
Joined February 2013
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TFW you consider burning your brand new photo album to avoid suspicion 🙄
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In 1992 Peter Ratcliffe received this rejection letter from Nature. His findings were not "a sufficient advance in our understanding". 27 years later he won the Nobel Prize for the same discovery. Don't lose faith in the things you believe in.
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The 38th Barrels Meeting November 13–14, 2025 (just before #SfN) UC San Diego Registrants may submit requests for short talks and poster presentations. Invited speaker list and registration link in replies ⬇️
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Will lab heads proud of their presentation skills up the unemployment rate?
This is insane 🤯 A new system called Paper2Video can read a scientific paper and automatically create a full presentation video slides, narration, subtitles, even a talking head of the author. It’s called PaperTalker, and it beat human-made videos in comprehension tests.
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A new type of neuronal connectivity
In Science, researchers report the observation of dendritic nanotubes in brain tissue from mice and humans. The discovery suggests that the current understanding of the brain’s organization may be incomplete, overlooking a hidden layer of connectivity. Learn more in a new
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Why does the naked mole rat have the longest lifespan and healthspan of any rodent, nearly 40 years? A 30-year long mystery unraveled @ScienceMagazine today! Its cGAS enzyme in cells has 4 missense mutations that upends its function, promoting DNA repair and suppressing
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BREAKING NEWS The 2025 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”
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Invited speakers Randy Bruno (Oxford) Multi-modal representations in thalamus and cortex Nuno da Costa (Allen) Inhibitory and excitatory specificity from a connectomics census in mouse visual cortex Jesse Goldberg (Cornell) The brainstem trigeminal nucleus represents tactile
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The 38th Barrels Meeting November 13–14, 2025 (just before #SfN) UC San Diego Registrants may submit requests for short talks and poster presentations. Invited speaker list and registration link in replies ⬇️
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Cross my palm with silver... Like these 1642 Oxford pound coins that came from the royal mint where St Peter's College now stands.
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Google presents an AI system to write expert-level scientific software. Using LLMs + tree search, it invented novel methods in bioinformatics, epidemiology, geospatial analysis & more, often surpassing human SOTA. (1/4)
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Online now: Neural basis of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation for neuropathic pain relief https://t.co/i5lOYNJHZN
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"Domestication of animals by humans generally leads to a decrease in brain size. To date, this has been seen in dogs, sheep and rabbits. ...researchers wondered if the same was true of house cats...They found that the brains of domesticated cats are much smaller than their
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4 out of 5 Harvard doctors fail an introductory statistics question Expertise is real, but most "experts" are shockingly innumerate
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A woman saw dragons every time she looked at a face for 40 years. For most of her life, a 52-year-old woman in the Netherlands saw terrifying reptilian faces wherever she went. Human features would suddenly shift – turning black, sprouting snouts, growing pointed ears, and
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