Carsen Stringer
@computingnature.bsky.social
group leader @ HHMIJanelia, #neuroscience + AI 🔬 #cellpose | diversity and open-science for better science | Ⓥ | she/her | https://mouseland.github.io
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What if… spontaneous neural activity 🧠 reflects the baseline rumblings of a brainwide dynamical system initialized for learning? We find that the rumblings have macroscopic properties like those emerging from linear symmetric, critical systems 🧵 #neuroscience #neuroAI www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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President Mandela said, "there can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children."
“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...
www.propublica.org
February 9, 2026 at 11:36 PM
President Mandela said, "there can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children."
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$1.65M per day in DC alone. That’s approximately two NIH R01 Grant *years* burned per day. Ninety *five year* R01s projects burned in the last seven months with no end in sight.
Instead of lasting scientific advance we get….what?
Civil rights violations and authoritarian replacement of democracy.
Instead of lasting scientific advance we get….what?
Civil rights violations and authoritarian replacement of democracy.
A new report from Democratic members of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee finds that the deployment of the National Guard in D.C. is costing $1.65 million a day, and over seven months has hit $332 million. The report is here: hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/upl…
February 9, 2026 at 5:32 PM
$1.65M per day in DC alone. That’s approximately two NIH R01 Grant *years* burned per day. Ninety *five year* R01s projects burned in the last seven months with no end in sight.
Instead of lasting scientific advance we get….what?
Civil rights violations and authoritarian replacement of democracy.
Instead of lasting scientific advance we get….what?
Civil rights violations and authoritarian replacement of democracy.
🚨 new work from the lab on how eye movements 👀 versus orofacial movements influence 🐭 visual cortex activity 🧠 #neuroscience #behavior #neuroAI
Excited to share “Orofacial behaviors, not eye movements, govern neural activity in mouse visual cortex”
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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February 9, 2026 at 5:39 PM
🚨 new work from the lab on how eye movements 👀 versus orofacial movements influence 🐭 visual cortex activity 🧠 #neuroscience #behavior #neuroAI
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Excited to share “Orofacial behaviors, not eye movements, govern neural activity in mouse visual cortex”
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Summary below...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Summary below...
February 5, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Excited to share “Orofacial behaviors, not eye movements, govern neural activity in mouse visual cortex”
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Summary below...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Summary below...
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the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex
February 5, 2026 at 5:05 PM
the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex
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For #FluorescenceFriday - experiment was apparently a stereotaxic injection "miss", but resulted in a lovely image nevertheless. Credit to @rphillips3.bsky.social and JHU undergrad Natalia Gonzalez-Perez 🧠🔬🧪
December 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
For #FluorescenceFriday - experiment was apparently a stereotaxic injection "miss", but resulted in a lovely image nevertheless. Credit to @rphillips3.bsky.social and JHU undergrad Natalia Gonzalez-Perez 🧠🔬🧪
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Some #FluorescenceFriday content for you - check out these anterior cingulate cortex neurons that project to the superior colliculus. Image by @izzabellagreen.bsky.social 🧠
December 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Some #FluorescenceFriday content for you - check out these anterior cingulate cortex neurons that project to the superior colliculus. Image by @izzabellagreen.bsky.social 🧠
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A favorite recent image of some busy microglia, lovingly named the Rat King (yellow CD68, pink Iba1, blue DAPI) for my first #FluorescenceFriday
December 12, 2025 at 2:38 PM
A favorite recent image of some busy microglia, lovingly named the Rat King (yellow CD68, pink Iba1, blue DAPI) for my first #FluorescenceFriday
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A glittery, festive #FluorescenceFriday today, spent playing with some fun samples 🪩🕺
December 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
A glittery, festive #FluorescenceFriday today, spent playing with some fun samples 🪩🕺
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Dimensionality reduction may be the wrong approach to understanding neural representations. Our new paper shows that across human visual cortex, dimensionality is unbounded and scales with dataset size—we show this across nearly four orders of magnitude. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
December 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Dimensionality reduction may be the wrong approach to understanding neural representations. Our new paper shows that across human visual cortex, dimensionality is unbounded and scales with dataset size—we show this across nearly four orders of magnitude. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
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Amazing talk by my dear colleague and friend @albertdm.bsky.social and his supervisor @maweigert.bsky.social showing the cool things you can do with Spotiflow at #CBIAS2025. Look at this beautiful learned spot detection in 3D! 👩🏻💻👩🏻💻🔬 #bioimageanalysis #spotdetection
November 24, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Amazing talk by my dear colleague and friend @albertdm.bsky.social and his supervisor @maweigert.bsky.social showing the cool things you can do with Spotiflow at #CBIAS2025. Look at this beautiful learned spot detection in 3D! 👩🏻💻👩🏻💻🔬 #bioimageanalysis #spotdetection
#SfN2025 Qingqing is presenting this work on spatial predictive coding NOW at poster Q9!
Does predictive coding work in SPACE or in TIME? Most neuroscientists assume TIME, i.e. neurons predict their future sensory inputs. We show that in visual cortex predictive coding actually works across SPACE, just like the original Rao+Ballard theory #neuroscience
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
November 19, 2025 at 10:53 PM
#SfN2025 Qingqing is presenting this work on spatial predictive coding NOW at poster Q9!
#sfn2025 interested in how eye movements 👀 versus orofacial movements influence 🐭 visual cortex activity 🧠? Check out poster R8 by @atika-syeda.bsky.social NOW!
November 19, 2025 at 7:16 PM
#sfn2025 interested in how eye movements 👀 versus orofacial movements influence 🐭 visual cortex activity 🧠? Check out poster R8 by @atika-syeda.bsky.social NOW!
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Still at SfN on the last day? During the morning session on the 19th, 8:00AM - 12:00PM, come check out our posters from the Moser, Zong, and Gonzalo Cogno groups in row QQ ('Grid cells and spatially modulated cells'). Ephys, imaging, remapping, development, sweeps and more! 🧠
Detailed thread below 👇
Detailed thread below 👇
November 18, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Still at SfN on the last day? During the morning session on the 19th, 8:00AM - 12:00PM, come check out our posters from the Moser, Zong, and Gonzalo Cogno groups in row QQ ('Grid cells and spatially modulated cells'). Ephys, imaging, remapping, development, sweeps and more! 🧠
Detailed thread below 👇
Detailed thread below 👇
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Happening now! Come see Jorge Ramirez present our recent work showing that Purkinje cell nonlinear mixed selectivity facilitates flexible readouts of locomotor coordination 🐭 🧠🚶♂️ #SfN25 Board W6
November 18, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Happening now! Come see Jorge Ramirez present our recent work showing that Purkinje cell nonlinear mixed selectivity facilitates flexible readouts of locomotor coordination 🐭 🧠🚶♂️ #SfN25 Board W6
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Watching this literal magic tech take shape has been one of my favorite parts of being in this group - a plausible path to real actual naturalistic life-scale experiments.
#SfN2025
#SfN2025
We're presenting Miniscope Zero, the first fully-wireless Miniscope, at #SfN25! Wireless power + data enable long-term neural recordings from multiple freely behaving animals. @MiniscopeTeam
Poster: Nov. 17, 1–5 pm, ZZ7
Info: tinyurl.com/mhdfb67u
Full video: youtu.be/mIt15LA-rZI?...
Poster: Nov. 17, 1–5 pm, ZZ7
Info: tinyurl.com/mhdfb67u
Full video: youtu.be/mIt15LA-rZI?...
November 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Watching this literal magic tech take shape has been one of my favorite parts of being in this group - a plausible path to real actual naturalistic life-scale experiments.
#SfN2025
#SfN2025
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Good morning #SfN. Want to chat about chronic Neuropixels or tracking? Find me today at the #Neuropixels booth (3731) from 11 to 12! And if you're still around tomorrow afternoon, come talk about distributed coding in navigation at my poster tomorrow afternoon (RR16).
November 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Good morning #SfN. Want to chat about chronic Neuropixels or tracking? Find me today at the #Neuropixels booth (3731) from 11 to 12! And if you're still around tomorrow afternoon, come talk about distributed coding in navigation at my poster tomorrow afternoon (RR16).
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#SfN #SocietyForGlia
STARTING NOW!
Ending strong with the last www.liddelowlab.com presentations of the week.
@pryprk.bsky.social
talking about a world first mouse model for XDP... and OLIGODENDROCYTES!
@melcooperphd.bsky.social
presenting on astrocyte networks in the mouse forebrain.
STARTING NOW!
Ending strong with the last www.liddelowlab.com presentations of the week.
@pryprk.bsky.social
talking about a world first mouse model for XDP... and OLIGODENDROCYTES!
@melcooperphd.bsky.social
presenting on astrocyte networks in the mouse forebrain.
November 18, 2025 at 8:58 PM
#SfN #SocietyForGlia
STARTING NOW!
Ending strong with the last www.liddelowlab.com presentations of the week.
@pryprk.bsky.social
talking about a world first mouse model for XDP... and OLIGODENDROCYTES!
@melcooperphd.bsky.social
presenting on astrocyte networks in the mouse forebrain.
STARTING NOW!
Ending strong with the last www.liddelowlab.com presentations of the week.
@pryprk.bsky.social
talking about a world first mouse model for XDP... and OLIGODENDROCYTES!
@melcooperphd.bsky.social
presenting on astrocyte networks in the mouse forebrain.
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#sfn2025 posters 4 and 5 today: our collaborator Nitsan Goldstein shares some of our work on suppression of pain in PBN with Nick Betley, and grad student Ryan Lu shares his work modeling swim dynamics in the jellyfish nervous system with Brady Weissbourd
November 18, 2025 at 2:32 PM
#sfn2025 posters 4 and 5 today: our collaborator Nitsan Goldstein shares some of our work on suppression of pain in PBN with Nick Betley, and grad student Ryan Lu shares his work modeling swim dynamics in the jellyfish nervous system with Brady Weissbourd
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Looking forward to SfN in San Diego ☀️ Come visit our posters and Nano talk!
November 18, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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presenting TODAY at #SfN2025 🧠
if you're curious about distinct structure learning & metacognitive dynamics across multiple statistical patterns & stimuli types, come check out my poster w/
@meganakpeters.bsky.social 📈
📍PSTR363.17 / UU13
🕐 Tues Nov 18 1-5 PM
www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...
if you're curious about distinct structure learning & metacognitive dynamics across multiple statistical patterns & stimuli types, come check out my poster w/
@meganakpeters.bsky.social 📈
📍PSTR363.17 / UU13
🕐 Tues Nov 18 1-5 PM
www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...
November 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
presenting TODAY at #SfN2025 🧠
if you're curious about distinct structure learning & metacognitive dynamics across multiple statistical patterns & stimuli types, come check out my poster w/
@meganakpeters.bsky.social 📈
📍PSTR363.17 / UU13
🕐 Tues Nov 18 1-5 PM
www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...
if you're curious about distinct structure learning & metacognitive dynamics across multiple statistical patterns & stimuli types, come check out my poster w/
@meganakpeters.bsky.social 📈
📍PSTR363.17 / UU13
🕐 Tues Nov 18 1-5 PM
www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...
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At #sfn2025? Check out 2 posters this afternoon from our lab: David Jin at D9 and Elam Cutts at LBP100.
Who's coming to #SfN25? Come see us at my lab's posters! 2 Saturday 1-5, and another two on Tuesday 1-5.
November 18, 2025 at 7:04 PM
At #sfn2025? Check out 2 posters this afternoon from our lab: David Jin at D9 and Elam Cutts at LBP100.
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#SfN2025 Poster 4 of 6
TODAY! Tuesday 11/18 1-5p
@hazimi.bsky.social
PSTR363.09 / UU5 Modeling Prior-like Higher-Order Representations in DecNef with a Generative NERD Model
www.abstractsonline....
TODAY! Tuesday 11/18 1-5p
@hazimi.bsky.social
PSTR363.09 / UU5 Modeling Prior-like Higher-Order Representations in DecNef with a Generative NERD Model
www.abstractsonline....
November 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
#SfN2025 Poster 4 of 6
TODAY! Tuesday 11/18 1-5p
@hazimi.bsky.social
PSTR363.09 / UU5 Modeling Prior-like Higher-Order Representations in DecNef with a Generative NERD Model
www.abstractsonline....
TODAY! Tuesday 11/18 1-5p
@hazimi.bsky.social
PSTR363.09 / UU5 Modeling Prior-like Higher-Order Representations in DecNef with a Generative NERD Model
www.abstractsonline....
