Mark Lescroart
@neuromdl.bsky.social
Computational cognitive neuroscientist at University of Nevada, Reno. Uses fMRI to study visual representations of objects, scenes, and bodies, and how attention affects them. Dad. Nerd since before it was cool. Likes pretty science pictures & puns. He/him
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Mark Lescroart
@neuromdl.bsky.social
· Jun 12
In a new paper led by @matthewshinkle.bsky.social, we use a pre-trained deep neural network (DNN) to model brain activity and to make detailed visualizations of feature selectivity across many brain areas. In plain English: we make pretty pictures of what different parts of the brain like to see.
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Like you I am celebrating Tuesday's victories. However, my job is not to sugarcoat things and tell you it's all fixed. It is to warning about what to expect next and fight back.
That is why I wrote this and why I hope you read and share. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/what...
That is why I wrote this and why I hope you read and share. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/what...
What Comes Next After the 2025 Elections
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Like you I am celebrating Tuesday's victories. However, my job is not to sugarcoat things and tell you it's all fixed. It is to warning about what to expect next and fight back.
That is why I wrote this and why I hope you read and share. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/what...
That is why I wrote this and why I hope you read and share. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/what...
I am glad about the election results, but yes this 👇👇👇
serious note: they're gonna try 5x harder to sabotage the midterms after tonight and we're gonna have to organize on a literally historic scale to stop them
really obvious now why trump and the republican party have been working so hard to prevent fair elections lol they know
November 5, 2025 at 5:13 AM
I am glad about the election results, but yes this 👇👇👇
Not a Dodgers fan - but man, that was some good baseball
November 2, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Not a Dodgers fan - but man, that was some good baseball
😞
October 23, 2025 at 9:02 PM
😞
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October 21, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Job announcement! UN Reno Psychology (Cognitive & Brain Sciences division) is hiring for a tenure-track position. Come join us! We have a great group! Deadline December 1. Please share!
nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UNR-external...
#neuroskyence #neuroscience
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#neuroskyence #neuroscience
Refreshingly clear: the hypocrisy is the point.
Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
October 20, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Refreshingly clear: the hypocrisy is the point.
👇👇👇
the aws outage should be evidence that running half the internet on a single company's servers is a terrible idea but i fear nothing will change
October 20, 2025 at 10:02 PM
👇👇👇
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I didn't take pics but the feeling of being in a group of people with no visible beginning or end was so thrilling. The opposite of online anomie, and a living counterpoint to the wary, isolated, compartmentalized world the shitheads want to make. It's simple and obvious I guess but it means a lot.
Sorry to be corny but the aerial shots of these crowds are almost indescribably moving and hopeful
October 18, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I didn't take pics but the feeling of being in a group of people with no visible beginning or end was so thrilling. The opposite of online anomie, and a living counterpoint to the wary, isolated, compartmentalized world the shitheads want to make. It's simple and obvious I guess but it means a lot.
💯
October 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM
💯
If you like this demo, you will love the great demos by @pezlarson.bsky.social that can be found here:
larsonlab.github.io/MRI-educatio...
(Complete with python code to generate them!)
larsonlab.github.io/MRI-educatio...
(Complete with python code to generate them!)
October 3, 2025 at 9:03 PM
If you like this demo, you will love the great demos by @pezlarson.bsky.social that can be found here:
larsonlab.github.io/MRI-educatio...
(Complete with python code to generate them!)
larsonlab.github.io/MRI-educatio...
(Complete with python code to generate them!)
Whoa dude.
A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue.
The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea.
From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt:
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...
The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea.
From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt:
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...
September 26, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Whoa dude.
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Sometimes I just think things. Maybe talk with my wife or a friend about them. Phone doesn't even enter into it.
September 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Sometimes I just think things. Maybe talk with my wife or a friend about them. Phone doesn't even enter into it.
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The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
www.nsf.gov
September 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
What an ugly world this administration wants to create. www.npr.org/2025/08/26/n...
NEA cancels decades-long creative writing fellowship
For decades the program has supported writers who would become big names – Alice Walker, Michael Cunningham, Louise Erdrich and more. Last week, applicants got an email saying the program would be no ...
www.npr.org
August 28, 2025 at 3:25 AM
What an ugly world this administration wants to create. www.npr.org/2025/08/26/n...
This is upsetting and clear and true. Quoting the Declaration of Independence is spot on.
August 27, 2025 at 5:43 AM
This is upsetting and clear and true. Quoting the Declaration of Independence is spot on.
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A pleasant surprise from the Journal of Neuroscience RE the application of the updated NIH public access policy (authors deposit accepted manuscript in PMC, journal retains license to final copyedited version, no requirement to pay OA fee) www.jneurosci.org/content/righ...
Rights and Permissions | Journal of Neuroscience
www.jneurosci.org
August 22, 2025 at 5:49 PM
A pleasant surprise from the Journal of Neuroscience RE the application of the updated NIH public access policy (authors deposit accepted manuscript in PMC, journal retains license to final copyedited version, no requirement to pay OA fee) www.jneurosci.org/content/righ...
Truck Tetris
This time lapse video of haulage trucks loading on to a ferry to cross the Jialing river is hypnotic.
August 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Truck Tetris
Hell yeah. Love this.
About 18 years ago, my Postdoc advisor dropped an undergraduate student in lab and asked me to teach her. I asked her career plans. She said she was going to be an astronaut. I glibly replied “ok well let’s work on your plan B”. She’s about to blast off into space in an hour.
August 1, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Hell yeah. Love this.
Tell me again about cutting waste.
This is the same amount as the entire National Science Foundation's R&D spending for the entire field of *engineering* for the whole country. All of it.
NYT reports that a mysterious, *$984 million* transfer from a Pentagon"black box" account might be paying for the renovation of Trump's "free" Qatari jet.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...
July 27, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Tell me again about cutting waste.
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📣 CALL TO ACTION -
Yesterday, the House Appropriations Subcommittee that determines the funding for NSF proposed a 23% cut to NSF’s 2026 budget.
If one of these members listed is your representative, use our link to easily call your rep & demand NO CUTS to NSF➡️ actionnetwork.org/call_campaig...
Yesterday, the House Appropriations Subcommittee that determines the funding for NSF proposed a 23% cut to NSF’s 2026 budget.
If one of these members listed is your representative, use our link to easily call your rep & demand NO CUTS to NSF➡️ actionnetwork.org/call_campaig...
July 17, 2025 at 12:30 AM
📣 CALL TO ACTION -
Yesterday, the House Appropriations Subcommittee that determines the funding for NSF proposed a 23% cut to NSF’s 2026 budget.
If one of these members listed is your representative, use our link to easily call your rep & demand NO CUTS to NSF➡️ actionnetwork.org/call_campaig...
Yesterday, the House Appropriations Subcommittee that determines the funding for NSF proposed a 23% cut to NSF’s 2026 budget.
If one of these members listed is your representative, use our link to easily call your rep & demand NO CUTS to NSF➡️ actionnetwork.org/call_campaig...
Welcome news
🧪 BREAKING (good news): Senate subcommittee says NO! to Trump's proposed slashes to NASA & NSF funding.
Today, the subcommittee said to keep NASA + NSF funding at $33.9 billion, the same as in FY24.
See 7:15 below. Full Senate appropriations committee meets tomorrow about it.
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Today, the subcommittee said to keep NASA + NSF funding at $33.9 billion, the same as in FY24.
See 7:15 below. Full Senate appropriations committee meets tomorrow about it.
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Subcommittee Markup of the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
www.appropriations.senate.gov
July 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Welcome news
Please keep it up, many of us really appreciate it
That ship set sail quite a while ago...
Some of my favorite lists
(1) Cheeky former NIH leaders
(2) Big pains-in-the-ass to would-be fascists
(3) People willing to stand up for those who are less able to do so themselves
etc.
Some of my favorite lists
(1) Cheeky former NIH leaders
(2) Big pains-in-the-ass to would-be fascists
(3) People willing to stand up for those who are less able to do so themselves
etc.
You are going to be on sooo many lists, my friend.
July 7, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Please keep it up, many of us really appreciate it
YES.
The problem with the status quo wasn’t that progressives overstepped, it’s that progressive politics didn’t advance a comprehensive vision of the state as a force for good
July 3, 2025 at 11:24 PM
YES.