Eran Mukamel
@emukamel
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Bridging computational neuroscience and epigenomics. Dad jokes, theology and geometry. Assoc. Prof. of Cognitive Science at UC San Diego.
San Diego
Joined August 2009
Nice writeup in The Transmitter about false positives in neurogenomics.
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RT @UriAlonWeizmann: When we came to see our destroyed labs hit by an Iranian missile, we found that a piano had survived .@WeizmannScience….
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Remember to adjust for multiple comparisons when searching for memory-encoding neuronal regulation!.
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RT @zengqiurui: Why are older individuals more prone to neurodegenerative diseases?. Very excited to share our new #bioRxiv from @JoeEcker.….
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RT @keltonminor: There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated….
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Unbelievable.
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UCSD admitted an unexpectedly large class this Fall and apus is crowded. Thankfully the new signage helps. good luck crossing the street everyone! Maybe just stay in your office instead
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Congrats to Hinton (who was a postdoc in Cognitive Science at UCSD!) and Hopfield, whose papers attracted (!) me to neuroscience as a physics student. Discipline boundaries are not real!.
BREAKING NEWS.The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”
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The Masliah saga seems to be an opposite case study: Decades of fraud with no whistleblowers or public skeptics.
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I'm moved by the integrity, courage and fortitude of my colleagues @UCSDNeuro , especially the Bloodgood lab members who stood up for truth after a sad betrayal. Their actions are a master class in how to do the right thing, not the easy thing.
Science is built on trust. What happens when someone destroys it?. My first feature for @_TheTransmitter investigates the emotional and existential fallout for one lab in the aftermath of a misconduct case.
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RT @SebastianSeung: TL;DR New preprint with discovery: many interneuron types in the fly visual system function as highly specific normaliz….
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Wow.
My new investigation for @newsfromscience: Did a top @NIH official manipulate Alzheimer's/Parkinson’s research for decades? Neuroscientist Eliezer Masliah found to engage in scientific misconduct; 132 of his papers fall under suspicion.
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and seem to have an information-rich connectome that requires at least a few bits/cell to be specified.
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The self-organizing dynamics of development leverages <3 billion bits of genetic information to generate a human body with trillions of cells -- many of them are similar/redundant but some structures (like the brain) are incredibly intricate. .
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This is a brilliant and provocative paper. There's an equally profound gap b/w the info. capacity of genomes (~3GB) and our sense of the complexity and diversity of organisms. How many bits are needed to describe all cells in the tree of life?.
Why is reality so slow? Why can we only have one thought at a time? Why do we need so many neurons? Will @elonmusk's @neuralink really speed up his cognition? For answers and more questions check out our new review: "The Unbearable Slowness of Being".
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Come join us in San Diego! A great department, a great public university, and the surfing is not bad (so I'm told).
My awesome department @UCSDCogSci is hiring THREE!!! Assistant Professors in any area of Cognitive Science. See job ad for details: I love my colleagues and the students are unbelievably talented and interdisciplinary minded. Join us!.
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RT @biorxiv_neursci: Gene expression changes in long-term memory unlikely to replicate in the long term #biorxiv_n….
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Venn diagrams are the best!.
I had seen this clip before but I had never really processed it until just now
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RT @DoctorVive: In all the drama over Biden, & all the mockery of Trump's unhinged (yet super-boring) convention speech, I haven't seen muc….
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