Megan Carey
@megancarey.bsky.social
Neuroscience Group Leader at Champalimaud Center for the Unknown in Lisbon, Portugal. Formerly known as @meganinlisbon
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I’m honored to be named a 2025 @simonsfoundation.org Pivot Fellow! This support will allow me to build expertise in dynamical systems and control theory with mentorship from Guillaume Hennequin (@GJEHennequin on X).
www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/11/13/s...
www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/11/13/s...
Simons Foundation Announces Fourth Class of Pivot Fellows
The Simons Foundation is pleased to announce the fourth class of its Pivot Fellowship.
www.simonsfoundation.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I’m honored to be named a 2025 @simonsfoundation.org Pivot Fellow! This support will allow me to build expertise in dynamical systems and control theory with mentorship from Guillaume Hennequin (@GJEHennequin on X).
www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/11/13/s...
www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/11/13/s...
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
Pilot just came on and said that in addition to turbulence, “We are flying today with an unusually large number of tubes. Please make sure you exit the plane with the correct tube.” Non #SFN25 passengers very confused 😂
November 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Pilot just came on and said that in addition to turbulence, “We are flying today with an unusually large number of tubes. Please make sure you exit the plane with the correct tube.” Non #SFN25 passengers very confused 😂
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📖 DAY 2 related read: Working together to build strong scientific communities by @megancarey.bsky.social - Discover how ALBA’s Declaration and initiatives help create equitable, collaborative, and inclusive scientific communities.
🔗 Read here: loom.ly/RtQITXA
🔗 Read here: loom.ly/RtQITXA
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October 28, 2025 at 9:42 AM
📖 DAY 2 related read: Working together to build strong scientific communities by @megancarey.bsky.social - Discover how ALBA’s Declaration and initiatives help create equitable, collaborative, and inclusive scientific communities.
🔗 Read here: loom.ly/RtQITXA
🔗 Read here: loom.ly/RtQITXA
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🚨 New preprint! 🚨
Excited and proud (& a little nervous 😅) to share our latest work on the importance of #theta-timescale spiking during #locomotion in #learning. If you care about how organisms learn, buckle up. 🧵👇
📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
💻 code + data 🔗 below 🤩
#neuroskyence
🚨 New preprint! 🚨
Excited and proud (& a little nervous 😅) to share our latest work on the importance of #theta-timescale spiking during #locomotion in #learning. If you care about how organisms learn, buckle up. 🧵👇
📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
💻 code + data 🔗 below 🤩
#neuroskyence
September 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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🚨 New preprint! 🚨
Excited and proud (& a little nervous 😅) to share our latest work on the importance of #theta-timescale spiking during #locomotion in #learning. If you care about how organisms learn, buckle up. 🧵👇
📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
💻 code + data 🔗 below 🤩
#neuroskyence
🚨 New preprint! 🚨
Excited and proud (& a little nervous 😅) to share our latest work on the importance of #theta-timescale spiking during #locomotion in #learning. If you care about how organisms learn, buckle up. 🧵👇
📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
💻 code + data 🔗 below 🤩
#neuroskyence
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Wonderful piece by @megancarey.bsky.social on how @network-alba.bsky.social is tackling inequities in (neuro)science and building more inclusive research communities! ✨
#DEI #DiversityInScience #DiversityInSTEM #neuroscience #cognitivescience #neuroskyence #academia
#DEI #DiversityInScience #DiversityInSTEM #neuroscience #cognitivescience #neuroskyence #academia
Working together to build strong scientific communities — a Comment article by Megan R. Carey
@megancarey.bsky.social
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@megancarey.bsky.social
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Working together to build strong scientific communities - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
The scientific enterprise depends on attracting and retaining the very best talent, yet barriers persist that perpetuate inequities in the scientific workforce. Here I discuss the efforts of the ALBA ...
www.nature.com
August 28, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Wonderful piece by @megancarey.bsky.social on how @network-alba.bsky.social is tackling inequities in (neuro)science and building more inclusive research communities! ✨
#DEI #DiversityInScience #DiversityInSTEM #neuroscience #cognitivescience #neuroskyence #academia
#DEI #DiversityInScience #DiversityInSTEM #neuroscience #cognitivescience #neuroskyence #academia
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Working together to build strong scientific communities — a Comment article by Megan R. Carey
@megancarey.bsky.social
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@megancarey.bsky.social
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Working together to build strong scientific communities - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
The scientific enterprise depends on attracting and retaining the very best talent, yet barriers persist that perpetuate inequities in the scientific workforce. Here I discuss the efforts of the ALBA ...
www.nature.com
August 27, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Working together to build strong scientific communities — a Comment article by Megan R. Carey
@megancarey.bsky.social
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@megancarey.bsky.social
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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I like how the ambiguity of which side the labels refer to perfectly mirrors each viewpoint
May 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I like how the ambiguity of which side the labels refer to perfectly mirrors each viewpoint
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🎉 Excited to announce #BARCCSYN2025 – May 22–23 in Barcelona!
Keynotes by:
🧠 Matteo Carandini ( @carandinilab.net )
🧠 Megan Carey ( @megancarey.bsky.social )
🧠 Chris Summerfield ( @summerfieldlab.bsky.social )
Submit your talk/poster by April 21 & register by May 11!
🔗 crm.cat/barccsyn-2025
Keynotes by:
🧠 Matteo Carandini ( @carandinilab.net )
🧠 Megan Carey ( @megancarey.bsky.social )
🧠 Chris Summerfield ( @summerfieldlab.bsky.social )
Submit your talk/poster by April 21 & register by May 11!
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BARCCSYN 2025 - Centre de Recerca Matemàtica
DEADLINE FOR TALKS OR POSTER PRESENTATIONS April 21st, 2025 REGISTRATION FEE 130 € (100 € for Members of the Catalan Society of Mathematics or Members of the Catalan Society of Biology) Barcelona Comp...
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April 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
🎉 Excited to announce #BARCCSYN2025 – May 22–23 in Barcelona!
Keynotes by:
🧠 Matteo Carandini ( @carandinilab.net )
🧠 Megan Carey ( @megancarey.bsky.social )
🧠 Chris Summerfield ( @summerfieldlab.bsky.social )
Submit your talk/poster by April 21 & register by May 11!
🔗 crm.cat/barccsyn-2025
Keynotes by:
🧠 Matteo Carandini ( @carandinilab.net )
🧠 Megan Carey ( @megancarey.bsky.social )
🧠 Chris Summerfield ( @summerfieldlab.bsky.social )
Submit your talk/poster by April 21 & register by May 11!
🔗 crm.cat/barccsyn-2025
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From Michael Roth, president of Wesleyan University: slate.com/life/2025/02...
Dear Fellow College Presidents: We Need to Do More Than Wait This One Out
Why civil society needs university leaders to speak up.
slate.com
February 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
From Michael Roth, president of Wesleyan University: slate.com/life/2025/02...
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Thinking of attending #NCMPan25 but not sure you have the funds? There are meeting support awards available! Learn more on the website and share with your network as we try to ensure all members of the community can attend.
ncm-society.org/dive...
ncm-society.org/dive...
February 7, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Thinking of attending #NCMPan25 but not sure you have the funds? There are meeting support awards available! Learn more on the website and share with your network as we try to ensure all members of the community can attend.
ncm-society.org/dive...
ncm-society.org/dive...
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Honored that a piece I wrote made it to NYTimes. It’s about how my mom’s stroke changed my connection to time, science, and nature. What a privilege to honor my mom in Modern Love.
Below is a gift link. Let me know your thoughts 🙏🏼
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/s...
Below is a gift link. Let me know your thoughts 🙏🏼
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/s...
Grief Makes Us Time Travelers (Gift Article)
A neuroscientist studying memory, I used to believe time was linear. Then my mother had a stroke.
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2024 at 3:04 PM
Honored that a piece I wrote made it to NYTimes. It’s about how my mom’s stroke changed my connection to time, science, and nature. What a privilege to honor my mom in Modern Love.
Below is a gift link. Let me know your thoughts 🙏🏼
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/s...
Below is a gift link. Let me know your thoughts 🙏🏼
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/s...
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Made a starter pack for researchers who are actively working on or have an interest in the cerebellum.
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#neuroscience #neuroskyence #cerebellum #neuroimaging #dbs #fmri
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#neuroscience #neuroskyence #cerebellum #neuroimaging #dbs #fmri
November 25, 2024 at 9:06 PM
Made a starter pack for researchers who are actively working on or have an interest in the cerebellum.
DM me to be added or reply to this thread!
🧠🤏🏻
go.bsky.app/7X4ekSH
#neuroscience #neuroskyence #cerebellum #neuroimaging #dbs #fmri
DM me to be added or reply to this thread!
🧠🤏🏻
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#neuroscience #neuroskyence #cerebellum #neuroimaging #dbs #fmri
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petition to change the word describing ChatGPT's mistakes from 'hallucinations' to 'confabulations'
A hallucination is a false subjective sensory experience. ChatGPT doesn't have experiences!
It's just making up plausible-sounding bs, covering knowledge gaps. That's confabulation
A hallucination is a false subjective sensory experience. ChatGPT doesn't have experiences!
It's just making up plausible-sounding bs, covering knowledge gaps. That's confabulation
December 11, 2024 at 9:47 AM
petition to change the word describing ChatGPT's mistakes from 'hallucinations' to 'confabulations'
A hallucination is a false subjective sensory experience. ChatGPT doesn't have experiences!
It's just making up plausible-sounding bs, covering knowledge gaps. That's confabulation
A hallucination is a false subjective sensory experience. ChatGPT doesn't have experiences!
It's just making up plausible-sounding bs, covering knowledge gaps. That's confabulation
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Really excited to launch the megabouts.ai project from @adrienjouary.bsky.social. The era of large-scale behavioral data brings with it the challenge of how to integrate and compare data acquired using diverse set-ups and tracking approaches. (1/n)
November 29, 2024 at 1:31 PM
Don't miss @NTatianaSilva talking about her exciting recent work on cerebellar memory consolidation. 🧠 Today @ 16h Lisbon / 11am Baltimore. Preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 12, 2024 at 10:58 AM
Don't miss @NTatianaSilva talking about her exciting recent work on cerebellar memory consolidation. 🧠 Today @ 16h Lisbon / 11am Baltimore. Preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
New lab preprint! Tatiana Silva & Inês Ribeiro found that in 🐭, locomotor activity 🏃♀️ shifts the critical temporal window for memory consolidation (from after to WITHIN training sessions) & accelerates memory transfer from 🧠 cerebellar cortex ➡️ nucleus doi.org/10.1101/2024...
Behavioral state regulates the dynamics of memory consolidation
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
doi.org
July 1, 2024 at 3:58 PM
New lab preprint! Tatiana Silva & Inês Ribeiro found that in 🐭, locomotor activity 🏃♀️ shifts the critical temporal window for memory consolidation (from after to WITHIN training sessions) & accelerates memory transfer from 🧠 cerebellar cortex ➡️ nucleus doi.org/10.1101/2024...
Bom dia #cosyne24
Please remember to nominate your colleagues for @SfNtweets Swartz Prize in Theoretical & Computational Neuroscience 🏆 Nomination window is open - this is a great time to chat with others & coordinate nomination letters! www.sfn.org/careers/awar...
Please remember to nominate your colleagues for @SfNtweets Swartz Prize in Theoretical & Computational Neuroscience 🏆 Nomination window is open - this is a great time to chat with others & coordinate nomination letters! www.sfn.org/careers/awar...
Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience
www.sfn.org
March 4, 2024 at 10:53 AM
Bom dia #cosyne24
Please remember to nominate your colleagues for @SfNtweets Swartz Prize in Theoretical & Computational Neuroscience 🏆 Nomination window is open - this is a great time to chat with others & coordinate nomination letters! www.sfn.org/careers/awar...
Please remember to nominate your colleagues for @SfNtweets Swartz Prize in Theoretical & Computational Neuroscience 🏆 Nomination window is open - this is a great time to chat with others & coordinate nomination letters! www.sfn.org/careers/awar...
I wrote a few thousand words about the cerebellum… check it out if you’d like to learn more about “the little brain” authors.elsevier.com/a/1iOZX3QW8S...
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
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January 9, 2024 at 12:30 PM
I wrote a few thousand words about the cerebellum… check it out if you’d like to learn more about “the little brain” authors.elsevier.com/a/1iOZX3QW8S...
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
Happy to share our new paper, in which Catarina Albergaria, Daniela Carulli, & Robin Broersen present convergent optogenetic, anatomical & physiological evidence for 'Synaptic mechanisms for associative learning in the cerebellar nuclei,' now in Nature Communications
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Synaptic mechanisms for associative learning in the cerebellar nuclei - Nature Communications
The role of the cerebellar nuclei (CN) during associative learning remains debated. Here, the authors show that well-timed conditioned responses can result from stimulating CN inputs, and that learnin...
www.nature.com
November 21, 2023 at 10:36 AM
Happy to share our new paper, in which Catarina Albergaria, Daniela Carulli, & Robin Broersen present convergent optogenetic, anatomical & physiological evidence for 'Synaptic mechanisms for associative learning in the cerebellar nuclei,' now in Nature Communications
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Depressing, yes. Surprising? Not so much.
This is precisely why the #ALBADeclaration focused so heavily on workplace culture:
This is precisely why the #ALBADeclaration focused so heavily on workplace culture:
Toxic workplaces are the main reason women leave academic jobs
Women feel driven out by problems with workplace culture more often than by lack of work–life balance. Women feel driven out by problems with workplace culture more often than by lack of work–life...
www.nature.com
October 23, 2023 at 10:23 AM
Depressing, yes. Surprising? Not so much.
This is precisely why the #ALBADeclaration focused so heavily on workplace culture:
This is precisely why the #ALBADeclaration focused so heavily on workplace culture:
It was fun chatting with @carlzimmer.bsky.social about the new papers out today in Science journals - a success story for large scale, international collaborative science!
Here is my story on a new brain atlas: 3300 cell types and counting… Gift link: tinyurl.com/duzfw4df
October 12, 2023 at 9:11 PM
It was fun chatting with @carlzimmer.bsky.social about the new papers out today in Science journals - a success story for large scale, international collaborative science!