Vicente Medel
@medelero.bsky.social
Chileno | Licenciado en Filosofía | PhD en Neurociencia | Brain States, Computational Neuroscience and Multimodal Neuroimaging. Assistant Professor at BrainLat-UAI
Atentos a esta iniciativa que estamos levantando desde Latinoamérica!!
[🚨LATAM ALERT🚨]
Do you want to strengthen consciousness science in Latin America? 🧠🌎
Take this short survey (5-10 mins) and join us in the creation of the first Latin American Society for Consciousness Science.
Your voice matters: forms.gle/iEd91YWVXcwH...
#Consciousnes #Science #LATAM
Do you want to strengthen consciousness science in Latin America? 🧠🌎
Take this short survey (5-10 mins) and join us in the creation of the first Latin American Society for Consciousness Science.
Your voice matters: forms.gle/iEd91YWVXcwH...
#Consciousnes #Science #LATAM
Survey towards a Latin-American Society for Scientific Studies of Consciousness
This survey explores the community's interest in a dedicated Society for the Scientific Studies of Consciousness in Latin America (LA). The focus of this society may be, among others, to develop regio...
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October 21, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Atentos a esta iniciativa que estamos levantando desde Latinoamérica!!
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Adaptive learning is coordinated across behaviour, time and neurobiology (from synapses and dendrites, to astrocytes and the systems level).
If you’ve ever wondered how noradrenaline helps shape these multiscale learning processes, you might like this: www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
If you’ve ever wondered how noradrenaline helps shape these multiscale learning processes, you might like this: www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
August 29, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Adaptive learning is coordinated across behaviour, time and neurobiology (from synapses and dendrites, to astrocytes and the systems level).
If you’ve ever wondered how noradrenaline helps shape these multiscale learning processes, you might like this: www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
If you’ve ever wondered how noradrenaline helps shape these multiscale learning processes, you might like this: www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
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On the left is a rabbit. On the right is an elephant. But guess what: They’re the *same image*, rotated 90°!
In @currentbiology.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I show how these images—known as “visual anagrams”—can help solve a longstanding problem in cognitive science. bit.ly/45BVnCZ
In @currentbiology.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I show how these images—known as “visual anagrams”—can help solve a longstanding problem in cognitive science. bit.ly/45BVnCZ
August 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
On the left is a rabbit. On the right is an elephant. But guess what: They’re the *same image*, rotated 90°!
In @currentbiology.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I show how these images—known as “visual anagrams”—can help solve a longstanding problem in cognitive science. bit.ly/45BVnCZ
In @currentbiology.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I show how these images—known as “visual anagrams”—can help solve a longstanding problem in cognitive science. bit.ly/45BVnCZ
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💤🧠🧪 New article! 🧪🧠💤
After years of effort led by @qualiastructure.bsky.social (Nao Tsuchiya and William Wong), Jenny Windt, Katja Valli, Valdas Noreika and @rherzoga.bsky.social, the Dream database is now published in @natcomms.nature.com
**A dream EEG and mentation database**
rdcu.be/eAwni
After years of effort led by @qualiastructure.bsky.social (Nao Tsuchiya and William Wong), Jenny Windt, Katja Valli, Valdas Noreika and @rherzoga.bsky.social, the Dream database is now published in @natcomms.nature.com
**A dream EEG and mentation database**
rdcu.be/eAwni
August 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
💤🧠🧪 New article! 🧪🧠💤
After years of effort led by @qualiastructure.bsky.social (Nao Tsuchiya and William Wong), Jenny Windt, Katja Valli, Valdas Noreika and @rherzoga.bsky.social, the Dream database is now published in @natcomms.nature.com
**A dream EEG and mentation database**
rdcu.be/eAwni
After years of effort led by @qualiastructure.bsky.social (Nao Tsuchiya and William Wong), Jenny Windt, Katja Valli, Valdas Noreika and @rherzoga.bsky.social, the Dream database is now published in @natcomms.nature.com
**A dream EEG and mentation database**
rdcu.be/eAwni
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Position open for a neuroimaging focused postdoc to come work with us in Sydney
Feel free to get in touch for a chat if you have any questions about it :)
usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E...
Feel free to get in touch for a chat if you have any questions about it :)
usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E...
August 15, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Position open for a neuroimaging focused postdoc to come work with us in Sydney
Feel free to get in touch for a chat if you have any questions about it :)
usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E...
Feel free to get in touch for a chat if you have any questions about it :)
usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E...
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Are you interested in our work on complex physical systems and applications (to neural systems)?
Wanna join us in Sydney? 🐨 🦘
We have two open positions:
1. Postdoc position: usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...
2. Fully-funded PhD position: www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...
Wanna join us in Sydney? 🐨 🦘
We have two open positions:
1. Postdoc position: usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...
2. Fully-funded PhD position: www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Physics)
Full time, 2-year fixed term position with potential to extend. Located on the Camperdown Campus at the School of Physics. Exciting opportunity to conduct research in a world-leading interdisciplinary...
usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com
August 11, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Are you interested in our work on complex physical systems and applications (to neural systems)?
Wanna join us in Sydney? 🐨 🦘
We have two open positions:
1. Postdoc position: usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...
2. Fully-funded PhD position: www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...
Wanna join us in Sydney? 🐨 🦘
We have two open positions:
1. Postdoc position: usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...
2. Fully-funded PhD position: www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...
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FlyBase, a Drosophila database, will lose a third of its team in early October because the Harvard grant that covered the employees’ salaries was canceled. Scientists warn that losing FlyBase could devastate fly research.
By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social
www.thetransmitter.org/community/ha...
By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social
www.thetransmitter.org/community/ha...
Harvard University lays off fly database team
The layoffs jeopardize this resource, which has served more than 4,000 labs for about three decades.
www.thetransmitter.org
August 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM
FlyBase, a Drosophila database, will lose a third of its team in early October because the Harvard grant that covered the employees’ salaries was canceled. Scientists warn that losing FlyBase could devastate fly research.
By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social
www.thetransmitter.org/community/ha...
By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social
www.thetransmitter.org/community/ha...
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Total disaster for the #drosophila community if flybase disappears
August 13, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Total disaster for the #drosophila community if flybase disappears
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📜[PUBLICATION ALERT]📜
I had the honour to be co-first author of this huge effort to advance dream science and our understanding of conscious experience during sleep.
In Nature Communications rdcu.be/eAwni. @naotsuchiya.bsky.social @thomasandrillon.bsky.social
#sleep
#dreams
#EEG
I had the honour to be co-first author of this huge effort to advance dream science and our understanding of conscious experience during sleep.
In Nature Communications rdcu.be/eAwni. @naotsuchiya.bsky.social @thomasandrillon.bsky.social
#sleep
#dreams
#EEG
A dream EEG and mentation database
Nature Communications - The authors present a multicenter database to investigate the neural correlates of dreaming, including physiological, behavioral and experiential data. This database could...
rdcu.be
August 14, 2025 at 8:30 AM
📜[PUBLICATION ALERT]📜
I had the honour to be co-first author of this huge effort to advance dream science and our understanding of conscious experience during sleep.
In Nature Communications rdcu.be/eAwni. @naotsuchiya.bsky.social @thomasandrillon.bsky.social
#sleep
#dreams
#EEG
I had the honour to be co-first author of this huge effort to advance dream science and our understanding of conscious experience during sleep.
In Nature Communications rdcu.be/eAwni. @naotsuchiya.bsky.social @thomasandrillon.bsky.social
#sleep
#dreams
#EEG
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I'm starting a series of essays that view neuroscience through the lens of Baudrillard's concept of hyperreality.
Here's the first part:
yohanjohn.substack.com/p/neuroscien...
#neuroscience
Here's the first part:
yohanjohn.substack.com/p/neuroscien...
#neuroscience
July 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I'm starting a series of essays that view neuroscience through the lens of Baudrillard's concept of hyperreality.
Here's the first part:
yohanjohn.substack.com/p/neuroscien...
#neuroscience
Here's the first part:
yohanjohn.substack.com/p/neuroscien...
#neuroscience
June 28, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Today is publication day! A new edition of Francisco J. Varela's (long hard-to-obtain) 1979 classic Principles of Biological Autonomy in a new annotated edition by Ezequiel Di Paolo and Evan Thompson, with a Foreword by Amy Cohen Varela. mitpress.mit.edu/978026255140...
Principles of Biological Autonomy
Francisco Varela’s Principles of Biological Autonomy was a groundbreaking text when it was first published in 1979, putting forth a novel theory of how...
mitpress.mit.edu
May 13, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Today is publication day! A new edition of Francisco J. Varela's (long hard-to-obtain) 1979 classic Principles of Biological Autonomy in a new annotated edition by Ezequiel Di Paolo and Evan Thompson, with a Foreword by Amy Cohen Varela. mitpress.mit.edu/978026255140...
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Can an LLM system become conscious? This question has generated significant debate and too much hype. Here's a paper from @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social on what neuroscience has to say about that shine-lab.org/wp-content/u...
April 30, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Can an LLM system become conscious? This question has generated significant debate and too much hype. Here's a paper from @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social on what neuroscience has to say about that shine-lab.org/wp-content/u...
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🎨🧑🎨 Looking for a tool to visualize subcortical/thalamic data in 2D? Check out this python-based package I put together (subcortex-visualization on PyPI), plus a guide for creating your own custom atlas meshes and vector graphics! All feedback/tips welcome 😊
anniegbryant.github.io/subcortex_vi...
anniegbryant.github.io/subcortex_vi...
May 4, 2025 at 10:13 AM
🎨🧑🎨 Looking for a tool to visualize subcortical/thalamic data in 2D? Check out this python-based package I put together (subcortex-visualization on PyPI), plus a guide for creating your own custom atlas meshes and vector graphics! All feedback/tips welcome 😊
anniegbryant.github.io/subcortex_vi...
anniegbryant.github.io/subcortex_vi...
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@christopherjwhyte.bsky.social and I introduce a novel data-driven framework to evaluate >200 connectivity-based neural correlates of consciousness! Results are used to quantitatively compare predictions from neurodynamical models tailored to theoretic predictions.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
April 14, 2025 at 4:06 AM
@christopherjwhyte.bsky.social and I introduce a novel data-driven framework to evaluate >200 connectivity-based neural correlates of consciousness! Results are used to quantitatively compare predictions from neurodynamical models tailored to theoretic predictions.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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In A History of Bodies, Brains, and Minds, Francisco Aboitiz provides a brief history of life, the brain, and cognition, from the earliest living beings to our own species.
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
April 12, 2025 at 2:40 PM
In A History of Bodies, Brains, and Minds, Francisco Aboitiz provides a brief history of life, the brain, and cognition, from the earliest living beings to our own species.
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
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Check out the latest news on funding, upcoming advanced neuroscience courses, new job opportunities and more in our newly launched Early-Career Neuroscientists Resource Center: www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...
#neuroskyence
#neuroskyence
Early-Career Neuroscientists Resource Center
News, perspectives and resources to help navigate the early stages of your neuroscience career
www.thetransmitter.org
April 2, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Check out the latest news on funding, upcoming advanced neuroscience courses, new job opportunities and more in our newly launched Early-Career Neuroscientists Resource Center: www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...
#neuroskyence
#neuroskyence
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📣🎉 Excited to share work co-led with @aditijh.bsky.social, developing a data-driven selection technique for overlapping community detection algorithms, applied to the human structural connectome! 📣🎉
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
March 21, 2025 at 2:09 AM
📣🎉 Excited to share work co-led with @aditijh.bsky.social, developing a data-driven selection technique for overlapping community detection algorithms, applied to the human structural connectome! 📣🎉
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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New preprint! 🧠🧬 genetic roots of brain functional organization in 30,000+ individuals by superstar @wanb.bsky.social et al.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Genetic, transcriptomic, metabolic, and neuropsychiatric underpinnings of cortical functional gradients
Functional gradients capture the organization of functional activity in the cerebral cortex, delineating transitions from sensory to higher-order association areas. While group-level gradient patterns...
www.medrxiv.org
March 5, 2025 at 8:50 AM
New preprint! 🧠🧬 genetic roots of brain functional organization in 30,000+ individuals by superstar @wanb.bsky.social et al.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
🎉 Exciting news! Our symposium with
Enzo Tagliazucchi, "Computational Models integrating Neurobiology & Social Determinants of Brain Health," is accepted for #OHBM2025!
🌎✈️ From South America to Brisbane—thrilled to bring diverse perspectives to global Neuroscience!
Enzo Tagliazucchi, "Computational Models integrating Neurobiology & Social Determinants of Brain Health," is accepted for #OHBM2025!
🌎✈️ From South America to Brisbane—thrilled to bring diverse perspectives to global Neuroscience!
March 3, 2025 at 7:01 PM
🎉 Exciting news! Our symposium with
Enzo Tagliazucchi, "Computational Models integrating Neurobiology & Social Determinants of Brain Health," is accepted for #OHBM2025!
🌎✈️ From South America to Brisbane—thrilled to bring diverse perspectives to global Neuroscience!
Enzo Tagliazucchi, "Computational Models integrating Neurobiology & Social Determinants of Brain Health," is accepted for #OHBM2025!
🌎✈️ From South America to Brisbane—thrilled to bring diverse perspectives to global Neuroscience!
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(1/18) Now out on BioRxiv‼️ Reproducible Brain Charts: An open data resource for mapping brain development and its associations with mental health | doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Funded by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Funded by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Reproducible Brain Charts: An open data resource for mapping brain development and its associations with mental health
Major mental disorders are increasingly understood as disorders of brain development. Large and heterogeneous samples are required to define generalizable links between brain development and psychopat...
doi.org
February 27, 2025 at 8:57 PM
(1/18) Now out on BioRxiv‼️ Reproducible Brain Charts: An open data resource for mapping brain development and its associations with mental health | doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Funded by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Funded by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
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Pedro Pascal responding to transphobia on social media: “I can’t think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist.” (via @charliejane.bsky.social) [capitalfm.com]
Pedro Pascal calls out “vile and pathetic” transphobic trolls after defending trans rights
Pedro Pascal, whose sister Lux is a trans woman, is a prominent trans ally and he has no time for transphobia.
www.capitalfm.com
February 27, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Pedro Pascal responding to transphobia on social media: “I can’t think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist.” (via @charliejane.bsky.social) [capitalfm.com]
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
"What do neural travelling waves tell us about information flow?"
A new preprint is out, with Antoine Grimaldi, Fredo Chavane and @martinavinck.bsky.social
"What do neural travelling waves tell us about information flow?"
A new preprint is out, with Antoine Grimaldi, Fredo Chavane and @martinavinck.bsky.social
What do neural travelling waves tell us about information flow?
In many behavioral conditions, neural activity propagates within and across brain regions as traveling waves, revealing the importance of analyzing spatiotemporal dynamics in electrophysiological data...
www.biorxiv.org
February 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
"What do neural travelling waves tell us about information flow?"
A new preprint is out, with Antoine Grimaldi, Fredo Chavane and @martinavinck.bsky.social
"What do neural travelling waves tell us about information flow?"
A new preprint is out, with Antoine Grimaldi, Fredo Chavane and @martinavinck.bsky.social
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Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"
Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’
A leading figure in feminism and gender studies, the thinker welcomes EL PAÍS in California after being voted one of the most influential minds in the world
english.elpais.com
February 21, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"
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Happy to share our recent work "Aperiodic exponent of brain field potentials is dependent on the frequency range it is estimated"
This relation was consistent across Specparam and IRASA estimations
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Thanks to our team
Martin, Vicente @medelero.bsky.social, JP and Tomas
This relation was consistent across Specparam and IRASA estimations
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Thanks to our team
Martin, Vicente @medelero.bsky.social, JP and Tomas
Aperiodic exponent of brain field potentials is dependent on the frequency range it is estimated
The aperiodic component of brain field potentials, like EEG, LFP and intracortical recordings, has shown to be a valuable tool in basic neuroscience and in clinical applications. Aperiodic activity is...
www.biorxiv.org
December 23, 2024 at 12:32 PM
Happy to share our recent work "Aperiodic exponent of brain field potentials is dependent on the frequency range it is estimated"
This relation was consistent across Specparam and IRASA estimations
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Thanks to our team
Martin, Vicente @medelero.bsky.social, JP and Tomas
This relation was consistent across Specparam and IRASA estimations
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Thanks to our team
Martin, Vicente @medelero.bsky.social, JP and Tomas