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Bitna Joo
@bitnajoo.bsky.social
Postdoc in Tye lab at Salk institute
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We’re continuing the GRC Amygdala community tradition at #SfN2025! Join a welcoming community of amygdala enthusiasts to connect, exchange ideas, and celebrate the joy of doing science together.
#SfN2025 #Amygdala #Neuroscience #amygdalasocial
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Are you at #SfN25 and want VIP access to the Cai-Tye Collective event on Nov 17?

Come by my lab members' posters for a bracelet!

Hailey Rosenblum: Nov 15, 1-5pm PSTR040.05/BB6
Zoé Christenson Wick: Nov 17, 8am-12pm PSTR192.01/RR13
Zach Pennington: Nov 17, 1-5pm PSTR234.05/CC7
November 14, 2025 at 8:15 PM
We’re continuing the GRC Amygdala community tradition at #SfN2025! Join a welcoming community of amygdala enthusiasts to connect, exchange ideas, and celebrate the joy of doing science together.
#SfN2025 #Amygdala #Neuroscience #amygdalasocial
November 14, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Super excited to share the first cooperative foraging paradigm in freely interacting mouse pairs! Stable leader and follower roles emerge spontaneously and predict learning. Well-trained mice show stereotyped, role-specific “behavioral motifs” absent in naive animals (1/5)
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
September 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Using a brain–computer interface to challenge monkeys to override their natural time courses of neural activity reveals that the time courses are highly robust, suggestive of network-level computational mechanisms

@aaronbatista.bsky.social and colleagues

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Dynamical constraints on neural population activity - Nature Neuroscience
Oby, Degenhart, Grigsby and colleagues used a brain–computer interface to challenge monkeys to override their natural time courses of neural activity. They found the time courses to be highly robust, ...
www.nature.com
January 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Stress drives a switch in sex preference!
Excited to share that my first perspective in the Tye lab is published!
It was so much fun writing this Please check out the fascinating full article by Wei et al. too!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Stress drives a switch in sex preference
Distinct brain circuits control sex preferences in mice
www.science.org
January 15, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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New brain aging study is out today in Nature

The largest single-cell RNA seq dataset of mouse brain aging reveals incredible insights and could pave the way for future therapies to slow or manage the impacts of the aging process. 🧵 #studyBRAIN
January 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM
One year ago, on the day of my first conference presentation, things have changed a lot since then.
December 31, 2024 at 7:27 PM
Can’t believe it’s the last day of the year
December 31, 2024 at 8:27 AM
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What is the neural code and statistical structure of neural states characterizing stress?
Our new work in Nature answers these questions and more. Thanks to my amazing co-first @fxia.bsky.social @stefanofusi.bsky.social @mazenkheirbek.bsky.social for precious guidance
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
December 4, 2024 at 6:04 PM
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The geometry of adaptation! My first excursion in the V1 territory. Great collaboration with @mariodipoppa.bsky.social @matteocarandini.bsky.social and many others
New results! Visual adaptation changes the geometry of V1 population activity: frequent stimuli elicit smaller responses but become more discriminable. Similar results are seen in ANNs trained with metabolic constraints, suggesting these changes emerge from efficient coding. bit.ly/3VJHXRn
Adaptation shapes the representational geometry in mouse V1 to efficiently encode the environment
Sensory adaptation dynamically changes neural responses as a function of previous stimuli, profoundly impacting perception. The response changes induced by adaptation have been characterized in detail...
bit.ly
December 16, 2024 at 10:28 PM