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CL
@cllantz.bsky.social
• Neuroscientist • Development • Visual Circuits • Plasticity • BRAIN

Backpacking, fly fishing, quilting.

Skeets are my own. she/her/hers
Incredible new altas of the developing human brain out now in @nature.com, funded by the NIH BRAIN Initiative!
November 5, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Happy streaming retirement to the best person I know @nickwan.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Happy Halloween! Here is a spoooooky cell 👻
#FluorescenceFriday #Retina
October 31, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I am not a woodworker, but these were fun to make.
October 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Today we make birdhouses.
October 28, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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The UNC Department of Biology is seeking a Director of Biology Teaching Labs, a key leadership role overseeing our undergraduate laboratory program. 1/n
Learn more and apply here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/308...
Director of Biology Teaching Labs
The Director of Biology Teaching Labs provides leadership and direction in the management of the Biology Department's undergraduate laboratories and will be responsible for the undergraduate laborator...
unc.peopleadmin.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Be sure to join us this Wednesday from 6:30-8pm ET for a talk led by Nancy Kanwisher called "Face Value: How the Brain Shapes Human Connection".

Register: bit.ly/3VRv33B
October 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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What a time to be alive
October 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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We’re so psyched for this - check out our amazing lineup of speakers!!! Spots are going fast - register today!!! 👇
We're excited to announce the official lineup for our in-person event! 🎉

There's one week left to sign up - registration closes Nov. 1st. You don't want to miss this!

#StoriesOfWiN #SfN #WomenInNeuroscience
October 27, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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A compressed hierarchy for visual form processing in the tree shrew www.nature.com/articles/s41... - you can get representations of complex objects and features (even face specialisation) in a shallow hierarchy!
A compressed hierarchy for visual form processing in the tree shrew - Nature
Tree shrews show a primate-like hierarchical organization in their visual pathway and object decoding accuracy, along with strongly face-selective cells, demonstrating how core computational principle...
www.nature.com
October 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Early-mid career female @arvoinfo.bsky.social members! Apply for our Women's #LeadershipDevelopment Program to boost your leadership skills, expand your network and seize new opportunities. Deadline is Oct. 31: https://bit.ly/47oYoJC
October 27, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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microfabricated stamps, fresh off the printer :)
October 26, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Finished quilt. Ode to VA in the fall. Stash fabric, backing from an estate sale, binding left over from a previous quilt. Pyr neuron quilting in, best visible on the back.
October 27, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Is it too niche to quilt a pyramidal neuron onto a quilt?
October 26, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Meet the real rainbow fish 🌈🐟 Using Cre-mediated recombination, each zebrafish cell expresses a unique fluorescent color, creating a living rainbow of developmental history 🎨✨ Image by Bret Pearson #FluorescenceFriday #Zebrafish #DevBio
October 24, 2025 at 7:11 PM
You probably already know this, but today was the first full missed pay check for most of your friends, colleagues, POs and SROs at the NIH.

Stay strong out there folks. If you need help, ask for it. As always, try to be kind.
October 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Today we dye.

This definitely won't stay pink, I'll be lucky if it oxidizes to brown.
October 24, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Many many years ago (2009?), while still in grad school, I drove to the FEST with friends from Richmond. It was an incredibly fun and joyful weekend, that frankly I wish I could re-create.
Happy FEST, Gainesville!

If you love (or just kinda like, or are curious about) punk rock, downtown is where you want to be through Sunday.

If not, enjoy the rest of our excellent community and the millions of dollars FEST brings us every year.
October 24, 2025 at 11:20 AM
At this point, I'm really not sure what I should be doing anymore.
October 23, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Landmark publication from @junnagai.bsky.social lab!

Incredible work really detailing the neural mechanisms that recruit astrocyte ensembles ! 🤩
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The astrocytic ensemble acts as a multiday trace to stabilize memory - Nature
Emotional experience evokes signalling in astrocytes, which form an ensemble that is reinforced by secondary astrocytic state changes resulting from repeated experience, leading to memory stabilizatio...
www.nature.com
October 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Another baby quilt. This is from the Harrisonburg Quilt pattern from the VA Quilt Museum.

This was the last thing on my shut down to do list...
October 13, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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A study led by Cina Aghamohammadi is now out in ‪@natcomms.nature.com‬! We developed a mathematical framework for partitioning spiking variability, which revealed that spiking irregularity is nearly invariant for each neuron and decreases along the cortical hierarchy.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 12, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Today we plan the annual skeleton display, and there sure are a lot of opinions in the room.
October 9, 2025 at 12:23 PM