Rodrigo Suárez, PhD
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🇨🇱🇦🇺 Associate Professor @UQMedicine School of Biomedical Sciences & @QldBrainInst. Brain Evo-Devo Lab head 🧠🧬🔬🦘Autopoietic, Natural Drifter, Ally 🌈
Meanjin, Brisbane
Joined July 2009
Interested in complex systems, brain evo-devo, and/or computational approaches to big questions in neuroscience? Check out new opportunities in our lab! 🧠🧬💻🦘🔬🏝️🏄♀️😍 Further details and deadlines will be announced soon! #PhD #Postdoc #NeuroJobs
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Illusions of AI consciousness | Science
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The belief that AI is conscious is not without risk
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A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species https://t.co/2vgdjcuFPH
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Nature - Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.
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Have recent changes led to uncertainty in your future scientific career? Wonder it's like in Australia? Good news! Monash's is seeking to hire talented EMCRs from other countries. Come join a wonderful community of brain mappers & modellers! https://t.co/oXsfxGTUqa
monash.edu
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Really excited to share our new preprint "Geometric influences on the regional organization of the mammalian brain" with @AFornito and a superstar 17-person team! (1/n) https://t.co/1pWlq5JAGk
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The mammalian brain is comprised of anatomically and functionally distinct regions. Substantial work over the past century has pursued the generation of ever-more accurate maps of regional boundari...
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We are hiring! @AurinaArn and I are jointly looking for a talented Postdoc in Systems and Comp Neuro at Monash (AUS). If you like neuroimaging 🧠, comp models 💻, genetics 🧬, brain disorders 🤕, and/or evolution 🐵🐭, this could be the job for you!! https://t.co/BXqtxqIxkJ
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Two more weeks before the deadline to recruit a 3-year Postdoctoral position in Systems Neuroscience - Bioinformatics applied to Brain Evo-Devo. Please RT and/or apply at:
Interested in complex systems, brain evo-devo, and/or computational approaches to big questions in neuroscience? Check out new opportunities in our lab! 🧠🧬💻🦘🔬🏝️🏄♀️😍 Further details and deadlines will be announced soon! #PhD #Postdoc #NeuroJobs
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I want to tell you a story about computers, creativity and awe! (1/N)🧵 Sydney Brenner once said in 2012 that “nobody has actually read the human genome. I mean, computers have processed the human genome, but we all know computers are stupid.” (This is a talk I gave last week..)
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Conducted by @RuedaEneritz, we have seen that pallial neurons are generated in different regions and stages of the embryonic brain🐣🦎🐀: pallial neurons and circuits have evolved separately. Evolutionary CONVERGENCE of neurons and circuits! https://t.co/2ctu2n8tkk
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Ethnic cleansing is anything but an "out-of the box" thinking, no matter how one packages it. It is illegal, immoral and irresponsible.
Moving million Palestinians to neighboring countries, "a remarkable proposal from a sitting US president." We are beyond anything 👇 https://t.co/uh4AzVowKU
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Brazil's government decried the US after dozens of deportees arrived on a plane in handcuffs. The Brazilian justice minister called it a "blatant disrespect" of their rights.
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Brazil's government decried the US after dozens of deportees arrived on a plane in handcuffs. The Brazilian justice minister called it a "blatant disrespect" of their rights.
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Calling undergrad neuroscience educators! 🧠📚 Join us for a 4-day workshop (July 21-24, 2025) on developing inquiry-based activities using our open science data. 🧳 Travel to Seattle, meals, and a $1000 stipend included! Apply by Feb. 3: https://t.co/jKmMGhfzvQ
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MEDIA RELEASE: Jewish Council welcomes Australia’s commitment to Palestinian sovereignty Yesterday, Australia voted with 158 other countries, including the UK and New Zealand, in support of a UN Resolution supporting “permanent sovereignty” of Palestinians over their natural
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Contralateral vs. ipsilateral BLA-NAc circuits via the anterior commissure mediate avoidance vs. appetitive behaviours @ScienceMagazine
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The structurally symmetric mammalian brain hemispheres are interconnected by commissural axons across the midline. However, the functions of interhemispheric connectivity remain largely unknown. We...
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A new @ScienceAdvances study of more than 482,000 Wikipedia readers identifies the knowledge networks associated with the three main styles of curiosity. https://t.co/f3iPu2y0Hj
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“Staff were informed of the looming redundancies on the same day UOW opened its India campus in Gujarat.”
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The University of Wollongong has approached staff across 25 disciplines for redundancies in a restructure the union fears could abolish its degrees in history, mathematics, geography and languages.
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No more ugly figures! The @NIH BioArt released +2000 (free & accurate) vector schematics for you to play and enjoy! https://t.co/VL6Lb2C1zJ
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@ARC_Tracker another sad graph to add to the story - down to 19% in 2023 - research overheads for ARC grants - from https://t.co/vNrLATkZbo
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