Pablo Castro
@pablocastro1.bsky.social
PhD Student in Computational Neuroscience and Applied AI at UNICOG NeuroSpin CEA & ICN NeuroPSI CNRS.
Passionate about natural sciences, philosophy, consciousness, and mathematics.
Biophile all day everyday.
Passionate about natural sciences, philosophy, consciousness, and mathematics.
Biophile all day everyday.
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November 29, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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So many great birds this morning at our casitas in San Vito #CostaRica. I lost count of how many White-necked Jacobins were buzzing around.
#hummingbirds #birds #nature
#hummingbirds #birds #nature
November 29, 2025 at 12:40 AM
So many great birds this morning at our casitas in San Vito #CostaRica. I lost count of how many White-necked Jacobins were buzzing around.
#hummingbirds #birds #nature
#hummingbirds #birds #nature
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We're very happy to announce another consciousness workshop in the famed snowy mountain cabin of the Austrian Alps! ❄️🦇
This year's theme is computational neurophenomenology (broadly defined)
Applications are now open!
www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/res...
This year's theme is computational neurophenomenology (broadly defined)
Applications are now open!
www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/res...
Computational Neurophenomenology Cabin Workshop - Bamberg Mathematical Consciousness Science Initiative (BAMΞ)
www.uni-bamberg.de
November 23, 2025 at 11:31 AM
We're very happy to announce another consciousness workshop in the famed snowy mountain cabin of the Austrian Alps! ❄️🦇
This year's theme is computational neurophenomenology (broadly defined)
Applications are now open!
www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/res...
This year's theme is computational neurophenomenology (broadly defined)
Applications are now open!
www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/res...
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Our study of time processing in bumblebees 🐝 covered by @cnn.com here edition.cnn.com/2025/11/12/s... . Our summary is here youtu.be/hsGxU65OMQk and the original paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.... @royalsocietypublishing.org
Scientists now know that bees can process time, a first in insects | CNN
Bumblebees can process the duration of flashes of light and use the information to decide where to look for food, a new study has found.
edition.cnn.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Our study of time processing in bumblebees 🐝 covered by @cnn.com here edition.cnn.com/2025/11/12/s... . Our summary is here youtu.be/hsGxU65OMQk and the original paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.... @royalsocietypublishing.org
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Velvet-purple Coronet, sticking its tongue out at me. At @montezumalodge.bsky.social #Colombia
#birds #hummingbirds
#birds #hummingbirds
July 18, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Velvet-purple Coronet, sticking its tongue out at me. At @montezumalodge.bsky.social #Colombia
#birds #hummingbirds
#birds #hummingbirds
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A dazzling ocean of tulips stretching endlessly in Hokkaido, Japan...
June 15, 2025 at 6:08 AM
A dazzling ocean of tulips stretching endlessly in Hokkaido, Japan...
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
May 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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Eyes full of hope :3
May 15, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Eyes full of hope :3
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What a sad headline 😔
The World Seems to Be Surrendering to Climate Change
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/o...
The World Seems to Be Surrendering to Climate Change
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/o...
Opinion | The World Seems to Be Surrendering to Climate Change (Gift Article)
The state of the climate future, Part I.
www.nytimes.com
April 24, 2025 at 1:59 AM
What a sad headline 😔
The World Seems to Be Surrendering to Climate Change
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/o...
The World Seems to Be Surrendering to Climate Change
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/o...
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Another nice Costa Rican hummingbird, the tiny Violet-headed Hummingbird. At @tapirvalley.bsky.social
#birds #hummingbirds #nature
#birds #hummingbirds #nature
April 23, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Another nice Costa Rican hummingbird, the tiny Violet-headed Hummingbird. At @tapirvalley.bsky.social
#birds #hummingbirds #nature
#birds #hummingbirds #nature
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Newly out in @cellpress.bsky.social from my friend and colleague @danilobzdok.bsky.social :
LLMs trained on clinical reports can be used to determine what features are really driving autism diagnoses, and they're not the ones we assume.
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
#neuroscience 🧪
LLMs trained on clinical reports can be used to determine what features are really driving autism diagnoses, and they're not the ones we assume.
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
#neuroscience 🧪
Large language models deconstruct the clinical intuition behind diagnosing autism
Clinical assessment is the gold standard for autism diagnosis, and by using amply
pre-trained language models paired with a suitable interpretability strategy, the
native analysis of clinical intuitio...
www.cell.com
April 18, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Newly out in @cellpress.bsky.social from my friend and colleague @danilobzdok.bsky.social :
LLMs trained on clinical reports can be used to determine what features are really driving autism diagnoses, and they're not the ones we assume.
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
#neuroscience 🧪
LLMs trained on clinical reports can be used to determine what features are really driving autism diagnoses, and they're not the ones we assume.
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
#neuroscience 🧪
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Psychedelic-mediated Reversal of General Anesthesia and Restoration of Brain Dynamics in Rat
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#neuroscience
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#neuroscience
Psychedelic-mediated Reversal of General Anesthesia and Restoration of Brain Dynamics in Rat
Serotonergic psychedelics enhance neurophysiological complexity and the repertoire of brain states, whereas general anesthetics produce opposite effects. Serotonergic psychedelics are also known to in...
doi.org
January 28, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Psychedelic-mediated Reversal of General Anesthesia and Restoration of Brain Dynamics in Rat
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#neuroscience
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#neuroscience
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And here we go! First position on my ERC grant is officially open. Fully funded 3.5 years PhD position at NetSI London working with me and the @nplab.bsky.social on modeling and reconstructing higher-order systems.
Application deadline: 16th February 2025.
Bring your A game!
Application deadline: 16th February 2025.
Bring your A game!
January 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
And here we go! First position on my ERC grant is officially open. Fully funded 3.5 years PhD position at NetSI London working with me and the @nplab.bsky.social on modeling and reconstructing higher-order systems.
Application deadline: 16th February 2025.
Bring your A game!
Application deadline: 16th February 2025.
Bring your A game!
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Happy 30th birthday year to SPM!! 🎈🍰
To get the party started, we are delighted to announce SPM 25.01, a major new version of the open-source neuroimaging software.
Read the preprint to discover what's new arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12081 and download SPM for free from Github github.com/spm/spm/rele...
To get the party started, we are delighted to announce SPM 25.01, a major new version of the open-source neuroimaging software.
Read the preprint to discover what's new arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12081 and download SPM for free from Github github.com/spm/spm/rele...
arxiv.org
January 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Happy 30th birthday year to SPM!! 🎈🍰
To get the party started, we are delighted to announce SPM 25.01, a major new version of the open-source neuroimaging software.
Read the preprint to discover what's new arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12081 and download SPM for free from Github github.com/spm/spm/rele...
To get the party started, we are delighted to announce SPM 25.01, a major new version of the open-source neuroimaging software.
Read the preprint to discover what's new arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12081 and download SPM for free from Github github.com/spm/spm/rele...
*opens internet*
*Musk does a Nazi salute, the crowd cheers*
*closes internet*
WHAT IN 1930s HISTORY CLASS IS THIS?!
*Musk does a Nazi salute, the crowd cheers*
*closes internet*
WHAT IN 1930s HISTORY CLASS IS THIS?!
January 20, 2025 at 11:46 PM
*opens internet*
*Musk does a Nazi salute, the crowd cheers*
*closes internet*
WHAT IN 1930s HISTORY CLASS IS THIS?!
*Musk does a Nazi salute, the crowd cheers*
*closes internet*
WHAT IN 1930s HISTORY CLASS IS THIS?!
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WAKE UP BABE, THE FIRST NEW HUBBLE IMAGE OF 2025 DROPPED!!!
January 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
WAKE UP BABE, THE FIRST NEW HUBBLE IMAGE OF 2025 DROPPED!!!
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The Christmas Tree in Space...
December 23, 2024 at 4:35 PM
The Christmas Tree in Space...
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December 22, 2024 at 10:03 PM
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Spanning spatial scales with functional imaging in the human brain; initial experiences at 10.5 Tesla https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.20.629800v1
December 22, 2024 at 2:15 AM
Spanning spatial scales with functional imaging in the human brain; initial experiences at 10.5 Tesla https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.20.629800v1
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“Everyone in positions of influence should ask themselves the question: are you treating those fighting to save the planet more harshly than those fighting for inherited wealth? If so, why?”
@josiah.writes.news
bylinetimes.com/2024/12/12/t...
@josiah.writes.news
bylinetimes.com/2024/12/12/t...
Two-Tier Reporting: When Climate Protesters Slow Ambulances They’re Vilified, So Why Are Wealthy Farmers Given a Free Pass?
Media outlets rush to condemn climate change campaigners as "middle class" protesters causing "chaos" while ignoring greater disruption by millionaire landowners
bylinetimes.com
December 13, 2024 at 8:19 AM
“Everyone in positions of influence should ask themselves the question: are you treating those fighting to save the planet more harshly than those fighting for inherited wealth? If so, why?”
@josiah.writes.news
bylinetimes.com/2024/12/12/t...
@josiah.writes.news
bylinetimes.com/2024/12/12/t...
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BREAKING 🚨: NASA dropped a new James Webb telescope deep space image 💫💫💫
All the eight-sided features are stars in the Milky Way, everything else is a galaxy 🤯
All the eight-sided features are stars in the Milky Way, everything else is a galaxy 🤯
December 10, 2024 at 10:35 PM
BREAKING 🚨: NASA dropped a new James Webb telescope deep space image 💫💫💫
All the eight-sided features are stars in the Milky Way, everything else is a galaxy 🤯
All the eight-sided features are stars in the Milky Way, everything else is a galaxy 🤯