Jörn Alexander Quent
@jaquent.bsky.social
Currently working in #Shanghai | PhD from MRC-CBU/Cambridge Uni | Gates Cambridge | interested in neuroscience of memory | you can call me Alex
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what happens when you spend two weeks learning new navigation or memory skills? as shown in our recent paper below, brain network connectivity changes but not hippocampal or other brain volumes! special thanks to collaborators Li Zheng and Steve Weisberg
elifesciences.org/articles/106...
elifesciences.org/articles/106...
Newly trained navigation and verbal memory skills in humans elicit changes in task-related networks but not brain structure
Learning new navigation or memory skills engages flexible brain network dynamics without altering gray matter, white matter, or hippocampal structure.
elifesciences.org
November 5, 2025 at 11:26 PM
what happens when you spend two weeks learning new navigation or memory skills? as shown in our recent paper below, brain network connectivity changes but not hippocampal or other brain volumes! special thanks to collaborators Li Zheng and Steve Weisberg
elifesciences.org/articles/106...
elifesciences.org/articles/106...
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Excellent chimeric face image showing off a left visual field bias for face processing - this image will tend to look more like John Travolta to observers, but the next one (see following post in this thread)... <1/2>
Respond with the same actor as a hero and villain.
November 4, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Excellent chimeric face image showing off a left visual field bias for face processing - this image will tend to look more like John Travolta to observers, but the next one (see following post in this thread)... <1/2>
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Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026.
The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.
Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.
Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
November 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026.
The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.
Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.
Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
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I wrote a thing on episodic memory and systems consolidation. I hope you all enjoy it and/or find it interesting.
A neural state space for episodic memories
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪
A neural state space for episodic memories
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪
A neural state space for episodic memories
Episodic memories are highly dynamic and change in nonlinear ways over time. This dynamism is not captured by existing systems consolidation theories …
www.sciencedirect.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I wrote a thing on episodic memory and systems consolidation. I hope you all enjoy it and/or find it interesting.
A neural state space for episodic memories
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪
A neural state space for episodic memories
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪
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What are your favorite books/articles/resources about graphic design for academic posters and presentations?
November 4, 2025 at 1:44 AM
What are your favorite books/articles/resources about graphic design for academic posters and presentations?
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what an absolutely iconic intro. immediate goosebumps! how weird that it should get famous with the exorcist. now they're inseparably connected in our collective consciousness. even more incredible, mike oldfield was 19 years old when he made this song. how on earth?!...
MIKE OLDFIELD Tubular Bells (Live at the BBC, 1973) [HQ]
YouTube video by Hendra Sumatera (Hendra)
youtu.be
October 31, 2025 at 4:33 AM
what an absolutely iconic intro. immediate goosebumps! how weird that it should get famous with the exorcist. now they're inseparably connected in our collective consciousness. even more incredible, mike oldfield was 19 years old when he made this song. how on earth?!...
The paper that I have been working on for ages has finally been accepted.
More news on this soon!
All in all, a really great weekend.
More news on this soon!
All in all, a really great weekend.
October 26, 2025 at 6:40 AM
The paper that I have been working on for ages has finally been accepted.
More news on this soon!
All in all, a really great weekend.
More news on this soon!
All in all, a really great weekend.
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For the Spring Holiday of 1985, during our year studying at the Beijing Language Institute (2nd year of SOAS Chinese degree course), my roommate (APB) and me decided to go on a big adventure overland from Chengdu to Lhasa 1/🧵
February 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
For the Spring Holiday of 1985, during our year studying at the Beijing Language Institute (2nd year of SOAS Chinese degree course), my roommate (APB) and me decided to go on a big adventure overland from Chengdu to Lhasa 1/🧵
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New JML paper led by Merel Muylle with @bonnie-nozari.bsky.social reporting simulations and experiments showing that those pesky homophone errors in typing - there/their/they’re - reflect lexical competition and not poor spelling knowledge.
eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com
October 9, 2025 at 8:54 AM
New JML paper led by Merel Muylle with @bonnie-nozari.bsky.social reporting simulations and experiments showing that those pesky homophone errors in typing - there/their/they’re - reflect lexical competition and not poor spelling knowledge.
eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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Instead of flying somewhere I bought a carbon road bike (I promise no #midlifecrisis) and we rented a car to drive to Taihu (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Tai) to give it a spin.
If you live close to #Shanghai #China and like cycling, it's definitely a must do. It was just amazing. Some impressions:
If you live close to #Shanghai #China and like cycling, it's definitely a must do. It was just amazing. Some impressions:
October 4, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Instead of flying somewhere I bought a carbon road bike (I promise no #midlifecrisis) and we rented a car to drive to Taihu (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Tai) to give it a spin.
If you live close to #Shanghai #China and like cycling, it's definitely a must do. It was just amazing. Some impressions:
If you live close to #Shanghai #China and like cycling, it's definitely a must do. It was just amazing. Some impressions:
Instead of flying somewhere I bought a carbon road bike (I promise no #midlifecrisis) and we rented a car to drive to Taihu (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Tai) to give it a spin.
If you live close to #Shanghai #China and like cycling, it's definitely a must do. It was just amazing. Some impressions:
If you live close to #Shanghai #China and like cycling, it's definitely a must do. It was just amazing. Some impressions:
October 4, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Instead of flying somewhere I bought a carbon road bike (I promise no #midlifecrisis) and we rented a car to drive to Taihu (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Tai) to give it a spin.
If you live close to #Shanghai #China and like cycling, it's definitely a must do. It was just amazing. Some impressions:
If you live close to #Shanghai #China and like cycling, it's definitely a must do. It was just amazing. Some impressions:
Amazing!
🚨 New paper in Nature Methods:
HippoMaps: multiscale cartography of the human hippocampus
Open-source tools & data to explore structure and function of the 🍤🧠 (histology, in/ex vivo MRI, iEEG)
Led by @jordandekraker.bsky.social
docs: hippomaps.readthedocs.io
paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
HippoMaps: multiscale cartography of the human hippocampus
Open-source tools & data to explore structure and function of the 🍤🧠 (histology, in/ex vivo MRI, iEEG)
Led by @jordandekraker.bsky.social
docs: hippomaps.readthedocs.io
paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
October 3, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Amazing!
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🚨 New paper in Nature Methods:
HippoMaps: multiscale cartography of the human hippocampus
Open-source tools & data to explore structure and function of the 🍤🧠 (histology, in/ex vivo MRI, iEEG)
Led by @jordandekraker.bsky.social
docs: hippomaps.readthedocs.io
paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
HippoMaps: multiscale cartography of the human hippocampus
Open-source tools & data to explore structure and function of the 🍤🧠 (histology, in/ex vivo MRI, iEEG)
Led by @jordandekraker.bsky.social
docs: hippomaps.readthedocs.io
paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
October 2, 2025 at 11:50 AM
🚨 New paper in Nature Methods:
HippoMaps: multiscale cartography of the human hippocampus
Open-source tools & data to explore structure and function of the 🍤🧠 (histology, in/ex vivo MRI, iEEG)
Led by @jordandekraker.bsky.social
docs: hippomaps.readthedocs.io
paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
HippoMaps: multiscale cartography of the human hippocampus
Open-source tools & data to explore structure and function of the 🍤🧠 (histology, in/ex vivo MRI, iEEG)
Led by @jordandekraker.bsky.social
docs: hippomaps.readthedocs.io
paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Weird ggplot thing that got me this week with the update to 4.0 - it supports new ink and paper arguments (www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09... ) and they've changed how transparency works! If you a transparent bg, you can control it with theme_*() now #rstats
October 2, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Weird ggplot thing that got me this week with the update to 4.0 - it supports new ink and paper arguments (www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09... ) and they've changed how transparency works! If you a transparent bg, you can control it with theme_*() now #rstats
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Jane Goodall understood better than most the impact humans have had on the planet. Having witnessed so much environmental deterioration during her lifetime, she was as much an activist as a scientist.
Read our piece from 2024 on the legendary primatologist. 💚
Read our piece from 2024 on the legendary primatologist. 💚
Jane Goodall Thinks It’s Not Too Late to Save the World
The world, the famed primatologist says, isn’t what it used to be—but there’s still time to save it, if we treat crises like climate change, biodiversity loss, and poverty as one.
www.wired.com
October 1, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Jane Goodall understood better than most the impact humans have had on the planet. Having witnessed so much environmental deterioration during her lifetime, she was as much an activist as a scientist.
Read our piece from 2024 on the legendary primatologist. 💚
Read our piece from 2024 on the legendary primatologist. 💚
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does someone good at coding & analysis want to work remotely w/ us in the coming few months (before end of 2025), as a paid consultant? project will be on neurofeedback (fMRI, ECoG, calcium imaging). we'll work towards developing the experiments & analysis pipelines together. if so pls DM me ur CV🧠📈
September 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM
does someone good at coding & analysis want to work remotely w/ us in the coming few months (before end of 2025), as a paid consultant? project will be on neurofeedback (fMRI, ECoG, calcium imaging). we'll work towards developing the experiments & analysis pipelines together. if so pls DM me ur CV🧠📈
I never thought that one day I would be routing for film and music companies to aggressively defend their copyrights.
I’m opening a movie theater in which I show recently released films that I ripped from the internet but the studios are welcome to opt out if they wish.
Exclusive: OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator, which creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear.
September 30, 2025 at 3:29 AM
I never thought that one day I would be routing for film and music companies to aggressively defend their copyrights.
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What is it @github.com @githubeducation.bsky.social? Am I faculty or am I not faculty? Why do you keep asking me the same question, after saying you won't ask for 2 years, and then not believing my answer?
September 28, 2025 at 2:46 AM
What is it @github.com @githubeducation.bsky.social? Am I faculty or am I not faculty? Why do you keep asking me the same question, after saying you won't ask for 2 years, and then not believing my answer?
It's so strange I always pick exactly the time a company is experiencing higher volumes of requests when I contact their support.
Real strange. I bet I must be unlucky.
Real strange. I bet I must be unlucky.
September 28, 2025 at 1:06 AM
It's so strange I always pick exactly the time a company is experiencing higher volumes of requests when I contact their support.
Real strange. I bet I must be unlucky.
Real strange. I bet I must be unlucky.
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MC Stan is here! Follow for the latest Stan news, and tag if you want us to repost your posts about new papers, packages, courses, etc. about Stan
September 17, 2025 at 3:16 PM
MC Stan is here! Follow for the latest Stan news, and tag if you want us to repost your posts about new papers, packages, courses, etc. about Stan
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v1.108 is rolling out today 🚚
Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to!
Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇
Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to!
Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇
September 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
v1.108 is rolling out today 🚚
Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to!
Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇
Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to!
Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇
I am honestly positively surprised with reviewer portal of Springer Nature's Scientific Reports.
1st they didn't force me to provide a million details for the privilege to volunteer my (unpaid) time. 2nd everything else was also pretty stream-lined including what criteria had to be judged. 👍
1st they didn't force me to provide a million details for the privilege to volunteer my (unpaid) time. 2nd everything else was also pretty stream-lined including what criteria had to be judged. 👍
September 5, 2025 at 3:02 AM
I am honestly positively surprised with reviewer portal of Springer Nature's Scientific Reports.
1st they didn't force me to provide a million details for the privilege to volunteer my (unpaid) time. 2nd everything else was also pretty stream-lined including what criteria had to be judged. 👍
1st they didn't force me to provide a million details for the privilege to volunteer my (unpaid) time. 2nd everything else was also pretty stream-lined including what criteria had to be judged. 👍
Why are LibreOffice's ordered list so ugly? As much as I hate MS Office, this is one absolutely abysmal thing.
September 2, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Why are LibreOffice's ordered list so ugly? As much as I hate MS Office, this is one absolutely abysmal thing.
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In sum, we believe this is the first direct evidence in humans of systems consolidation theory for specific memories: the hypothesized transformation of memories from hippocampus to cortex over sleep.
Take look for yourself on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social t.co/xFEDpqVXfE 6/6
Take look for yourself on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social t.co/xFEDpqVXfE 6/6
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.01.662486v3
t.co
August 28, 2025 at 7:39 PM
In sum, we believe this is the first direct evidence in humans of systems consolidation theory for specific memories: the hypothesized transformation of memories from hippocampus to cortex over sleep.
Take look for yourself on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social t.co/xFEDpqVXfE 6/6
Take look for yourself on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social t.co/xFEDpqVXfE 6/6