Jackie Birnbaum
@jackiebirnbaum.bsky.social
🧠 PhD student at Boston University | Economo Lab. Trying to understand how animals think and move. If I’m not pondering the brain, I’m probably on a mountain 🧗🏻♀️🏔️
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Honored for our recent work to be featured on the cover of Nature Neuroscience this month!
(@mikeeconomo.bsky.social and Bluesky-less Munib Hasnain)
If you’ve ever wondered about the relationship between cognitive processes and movement, check out our paper 👀
(@mikeeconomo.bsky.social and Bluesky-less Munib Hasnain)
If you’ve ever wondered about the relationship between cognitive processes and movement, check out our paper 👀
Reposted by Jackie Birnbaum
A scalable, all-optical method for mapping synaptic connectivity with cell-type specificity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.25.661552v1
June 26, 2025 at 6:15 AM
A scalable, all-optical method for mapping synaptic connectivity with cell-type specificity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.25.661552v1
Congrats @mvickymoya.bsky.social!! Can’t wait to see how this will be used in the future
So excited to announce our preprint describing a high-throughput method for mapping connectivity across neuron types! Using a combination of optogenetics, voltage imaging, and mFISH in over 1000 neurons, we describe new connectivity motifs in long-range inputs to the motor cortex.
A scalable, all-optical method for mapping synaptic connectivity with cell-type specificity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.25.661552v1
June 26, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Congrats @mvickymoya.bsky.social!! Can’t wait to see how this will be used in the future
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Mood after catching up on news:
a woman in a judge 's robe is saying earth is a mess y 'all .
Alt: The Good Place judge: "earth is a mess y'all ."
media.tenor.com
June 13, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Mood after catching up on news:
Reposted by Jackie Birnbaum
It is a beautiful and amazing thing that a team of scientists can work for years on some intricate detailed exploration, and with just a little pdf thousands of other scientist can know and debate and discuss what they learned.
March 16, 2025 at 2:25 AM
It is a beautiful and amazing thing that a team of scientists can work for years on some intricate detailed exploration, and with just a little pdf thousands of other scientist can know and debate and discuss what they learned.
Honored for our recent work to be featured on the cover of Nature Neuroscience this month!
(@mikeeconomo.bsky.social and Bluesky-less Munib Hasnain)
If you’ve ever wondered about the relationship between cognitive processes and movement, check out our paper 👀
(@mikeeconomo.bsky.social and Bluesky-less Munib Hasnain)
If you’ve ever wondered about the relationship between cognitive processes and movement, check out our paper 👀
March 10, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Honored for our recent work to be featured on the cover of Nature Neuroscience this month!
(@mikeeconomo.bsky.social and Bluesky-less Munib Hasnain)
If you’ve ever wondered about the relationship between cognitive processes and movement, check out our paper 👀
(@mikeeconomo.bsky.social and Bluesky-less Munib Hasnain)
If you’ve ever wondered about the relationship between cognitive processes and movement, check out our paper 👀
Reposted by Jackie Birnbaum
At @standupforscience.bsky.social and the signs are statistically significantly excellent
March 7, 2025 at 6:51 PM
At @standupforscience.bsky.social and the signs are statistically significantly excellent
Reposted by Jackie Birnbaum
Stand up for Science, on March 7th, in Boston. Please help spread this widely.
Boston, MA
Location: Massachusetts State House 24 Beacon St, Boston, MA, United States Address: 24 Beacon St., Boston, MA, 02133 Time: 12-4 PM Important information: Please do not fully block the sidewalk, st…
standupforscience2025.org
February 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Stand up for Science, on March 7th, in Boston. Please help spread this widely.
Reposted by Jackie Birnbaum
A large portion of grants awarded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health cannot be funded for the foreseeable future because of an indefinite hold on submissions to the Federal Register, according to an email reviewed by The Transmitter.
By @avaskham.bsky.social
bit.ly/3X8ngz8
By @avaskham.bsky.social
bit.ly/3X8ngz8
Federal Register hold makes ‘end run’ around court pause on NIH funding freeze
NIH-related updates to the Federal Register, which are required for the scheduling of study sections and advisory councils, are on hold indefinitely, according to an email reviewed by <i>The Transmitt...
www.thetransmitter.org
February 18, 2025 at 11:23 PM
A large portion of grants awarded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health cannot be funded for the foreseeable future because of an indefinite hold on submissions to the Federal Register, according to an email reviewed by The Transmitter.
By @avaskham.bsky.social
bit.ly/3X8ngz8
By @avaskham.bsky.social
bit.ly/3X8ngz8
Really proud and excited to share the final version of our paper, co-led by the Bluesky-less Munib Hasnain!!
We asked whether cognitive and motor neural dynamics can be isolated from one another, or whether they’re driven by common neural mechanisms 1/n
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We asked whether cognitive and motor neural dynamics can be isolated from one another, or whether they’re driven by common neural mechanisms 1/n
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Separating cognitive and motor processes in the behaving mouse
Nature Neuroscience - Using a novel method for isolating cognitive and motor neural dynamics, the authors show that dynamics often attributed to cognitive processes were corrupted by movements and...
www.nature.com
February 4, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Really proud and excited to share the final version of our paper, co-led by the Bluesky-less Munib Hasnain!!
We asked whether cognitive and motor neural dynamics can be isolated from one another, or whether they’re driven by common neural mechanisms 1/n
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We asked whether cognitive and motor neural dynamics can be isolated from one another, or whether they’re driven by common neural mechanisms 1/n
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Jackie Birnbaum
The entire website for the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) is very nearly stripped bare. This is so, so devastating. orwh.od.nih.gov/research/fun...
orwh.od.nih.gov
January 31, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The entire website for the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) is very nearly stripped bare. This is so, so devastating. orwh.od.nih.gov/research/fun...
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Rethinking Brain Mechanisms in the Light of Evolution with Paul Cisek youtu.be/CnT7jaQX4X8?... - if you want to understand what brains are for (and their functional organisation), this is the way... 👍👏
Rethinking Brain Mechanisms in the Light of Evolution with Paul Cisek
YouTube video by Kempner Institute at Harvard University
youtu.be
January 18, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Rethinking Brain Mechanisms in the Light of Evolution with Paul Cisek youtu.be/CnT7jaQX4X8?... - if you want to understand what brains are for (and their functional organisation), this is the way... 👍👏
Reposted by Jackie Birnbaum
Slow-motion videos reveal tree frogs making some of the most dramatic landings in nature.
Learn more: scim.ag/4gTAurn
Learn more: scim.ag/4gTAurn
January 15, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Slow-motion videos reveal tree frogs making some of the most dramatic landings in nature.
Learn more: scim.ag/4gTAurn
Learn more: scim.ag/4gTAurn
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A little challenge for neuro/cog sci (/psych/comp-sci/bio/philosophy!) blueys:
How would you define "cognition"?
How would you define "cognition"?
January 15, 2025 at 7:41 AM
A little challenge for neuro/cog sci (/psych/comp-sci/bio/philosophy!) blueys:
How would you define "cognition"?
How would you define "cognition"?
Reposted by Jackie Birnbaum
Can the motor system use sensory expectations to prepare for unexpected events?
Excited to share my latest work with @andpru.bsky.social – where we establish that sensory expectations shape neural population dynamics in motor circuits!
🧵 and paper below
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Excited to share my latest work with @andpru.bsky.social – where we establish that sensory expectations shape neural population dynamics in motor circuits!
🧵 and paper below
1/
December 23, 2024 at 1:00 PM
Can the motor system use sensory expectations to prepare for unexpected events?
Excited to share my latest work with @andpru.bsky.social – where we establish that sensory expectations shape neural population dynamics in motor circuits!
🧵 and paper below
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Excited to share my latest work with @andpru.bsky.social – where we establish that sensory expectations shape neural population dynamics in motor circuits!
🧵 and paper below
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