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One day to go before the #Xodus. Tomorrow afternoon, UK time, January 20, join me in leaving this platform for Bluesky.

btw one v nice feature on Bluesky is the user-made 'starter packs', suggested lists of who to follow. Eg here is one of computational neuroscientists:

Bluesky and mastodon both great alternatives to this place. Bluesky neuro community in particular is growing rapidly now. Even a few classic-neurotwitter-style beefs emerging 🍿 I'm at https://t.co/VJm70SYNvI and

I'm leaving here for the foreseeable future. Sad for what has happened to this place. The once and future hope is that mastodon can carry the torch. If you join there I'm @cian@mstdn.science

Rest in peace to Lynn Conway, a brilliant hardware (chip) designer and a trans woman in tech who played the long game, and got an apology from IBM (for the company unfairly firing her for transitioning) over half a century later🙃 https://t.co/LmpzHKfWV0

"Mood disorders are psychological, not biological." What does that even mean? In my new piece for @_TheTransmitter, I lay out not just this but 5 clusters of positions around what mood and mood disorders are (and how to best move forward). https://t.co/Omdj9xOUL9

Abstract submission & registration now open for UK Neural Computation 2024 (Sheffield, July 8-10) https://t.co/S5wUGy3DXq Abstracts: 17 May 2024 4 will be selected for talks Registration: 21 June 2024 8 July: ECR day ~40 places available 9-10 July: main meeting Please RT!

📢 22-25 April 2024 Digital workshop on Dendritic computation, synaptic plasticity & molecular mechanisms. Join @cian_neuro and me in learning about the recent findings of friends and colleagues working in this exciting field.

New preprint, on 'sequence filtering'. Led by @CianaDeveau, Z Zhou. We see this as a key step forw on how cortex works. All cortical areas have dense exc-exc recurrent connectivity. What do these connections do, esp in sensory ctx? Our data say: they do dynamics/time. 1/4

Please do join us for this workshop, I'm very excited about the speaker list. The hope is to grow links between experimental and computational people working on molecular neurobiology

What a remarkable result! Electric fish directly use signals from others to 'collectively sense' their environment. Note, this is different from flocking etc., which is based on behavioural responses... wild (and reminds me of multi-sensor networks)

Johns Hopkins raises graduate student salaries to $47000 per year starting July 2024. The students won this through unionizing and collective bargaining.

It turns out that grant applications sometimes are successfull, allowing one* to update the lab's website with some good news 😉 https://t.co/By99GbhmoT [* one is me!] 📢WE ARE HIRING🎉 Anyone interested in joining this friendly and always properly caffeinated bunch?"⤵️

Solving f(x)=0 is just Newton's method, right? Well the #julialang nonlinear solvers have had lots of innovations in this very common numerical problems. See this new manuscript from @SciML_Org #sciml Shout out to the lead author @avikpal1410 https://t.co/iISxtMtGCn

As hype around brain-body stuff grows it has inevitably become a beacon to the grifters and snake oil sellers. If anyone claims to have any actionable knowledge, especially if they claim to have a panacea, it is 99% chance of bullshit.

Uncritical BBC piece on wearing a headset to fight depression. Ties into our recent discussions around brain disorders. At this point, CEOs/companies aren't even trying to convince the scientific community any longer. https://t.co/MbTHMPO61Y

Hey, @ejagnes, it seems we never wrote a tweeprint for our paper on #codependent #plasticity, wanna take a shot at it? Our new plasticity model incorporating the interaction between neighbouring synapses during learning is now online!