Alexis Paez
@palexis.bsky.social
Neurophysiologist - vestibular and oculomotor systems
Brain and music
Currently: Sciences at MathWorks
Previously: "Alexis from NeuroNexus", McGill PHGY, MIT Course 9
Knitter, violist, mom, Catholic, runner, skier
Brain and music
Currently: Sciences at MathWorks
Previously: "Alexis from NeuroNexus", McGill PHGY, MIT Course 9
Knitter, violist, mom, Catholic, runner, skier
Reposted by Alexis Paez
If you're planning a study, search DANDI or OpenNeuro first to see if relevant data already exists. If you're teaching, incorporate open datasets into your curriculum, writes @bendichter.com
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/open-neurosc...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/open-neurosc...
Data reuse represents an opportunity to accelerate the pace of science, reduce costs and increase the value of our collective research investments.
Data reuse represents an opportunity to accelerate the pace of science, reduce costs and increase the value of our collective research investments. New tools that make open data easier to use—and new…
www.thetransmitter.org
July 9, 2025 at 1:23 PM
If you're planning a study, search DANDI or OpenNeuro first to see if relevant data already exists. If you're teaching, incorporate open datasets into your curriculum, writes @bendichter.com
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/open-neurosc...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/open-neurosc...
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A different way to protest.
Researchers presented posters on how their terminated projects would have benefitted society.
Many of the scientists presenting were a few years into their projects before their funding was cut — wasting money already spent.
🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Researchers presented posters on how their terminated projects would have benefitted society.
Many of the scientists presenting were a few years into their projects before their funding was cut — wasting money already spent.
🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Symbolic ‘science fair’ showcases research cut by Trump team
Democrats hosted a protest event featuring ‘things we’ll never know’ because of the US government’s cuts to science.
www.nature.com
July 10, 2025 at 1:01 AM
A different way to protest.
Researchers presented posters on how their terminated projects would have benefitted society.
Many of the scientists presenting were a few years into their projects before their funding was cut — wasting money already spent.
🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Researchers presented posters on how their terminated projects would have benefitted society.
Many of the scientists presenting were a few years into their projects before their funding was cut — wasting money already spent.
🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Reposted by Alexis Paez
On Tuesday, scientists held an event organized by House Democrats in which they stood in front of posters outlining their work — and the federal cuts that now threaten it.
Canceled grants get the spotlight at a Capitol Hill 'science fair'
On Tuesday, scientists held an event organized by House Democrats in which they stood in front of posters outlining their work — and the federal cuts that now threaten it.
n.pr
July 9, 2025 at 11:55 AM
On Tuesday, scientists held an event organized by House Democrats in which they stood in front of posters outlining their work — and the federal cuts that now threaten it.
You know you hang with a certain age group when "Kragle" and "Pass the Parcel with Lucky's Dad's rules" come up in conversation and nobody misses a beat.
April 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
You know you hang with a certain age group when "Kragle" and "Pass the Parcel with Lucky's Dad's rules" come up in conversation and nobody misses a beat.
Happy 3/21 to those who celebrate 🤗
#DownsSyndrome
#DownsSyndrome
March 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Happy 3/21 to those who celebrate 🤗
#DownsSyndrome
#DownsSyndrome
Is Waze smart enough that we could ask for a button to say, "I'm stuck behind a vehicle going X mph slower than I want to. Based on the route I'm on, what's a route, even if it's longer by distance, that can help me make up time?"
March 20, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Is Waze smart enough that we could ask for a button to say, "I'm stuck behind a vehicle going X mph slower than I want to. Based on the route I'm on, what's a route, even if it's longer by distance, that can help me make up time?"
Good news for treating drug-resistant #Epilepsy with #MachineLearning to automate locating the epileptogenic zone from inter-ictal #EEG.
doi.org/10.1038/s417...
Credit to Christos Papadelis and team.
#MATLAB #Neuroskyence 🧪🧠
doi.org/10.1038/s417...
Credit to Christos Papadelis and team.
#MATLAB #Neuroskyence 🧪🧠
Machine learning on interictal intracranial EEG predicts surgical outcome in drug resistant epilepsy - npj Digital Medicine
npj Digital Medicine - Machine learning on interictal intracranial EEG predicts surgical outcome in drug resistant epilepsy
doi.org
March 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Good news for treating drug-resistant #Epilepsy with #MachineLearning to automate locating the epileptogenic zone from inter-ictal #EEG.
doi.org/10.1038/s417...
Credit to Christos Papadelis and team.
#MATLAB #Neuroskyence 🧪🧠
doi.org/10.1038/s417...
Credit to Christos Papadelis and team.
#MATLAB #Neuroskyence 🧪🧠
Resting‐State fMRI to Map Language Function for Surgical Planning in Patients With Brain Tumors: A Feasibility Study
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#neuroimaging #neurology #neuroskyence #radiology #surgicalplanning #fmri #tumors
Free read
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#neuroimaging #neurology #neuroskyence #radiology #surgicalplanning #fmri #tumors
Free read
March 3, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Hi runners, ICYMI, smart watches and PFAs. Happy my Garmin is safe!
www.runnersworld.com/gear/a635083...
www.runnersworld.com/gear/a635083...
Concerned Your Smartwatch Band Has Forever Chemicals? Here’s How to Tell
If last week’s news has you worried, there are alternatives.
www.runnersworld.com
February 9, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Hi runners, ICYMI, smart watches and PFAs. Happy my Garmin is safe!
www.runnersworld.com/gear/a635083...
www.runnersworld.com/gear/a635083...
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Join our virtual Town Hall next week and give us input on what INCF should focus on in the coming years!
2 time slots available:
- Feb 11, 8am CET
- Feb 12, 8pm CET
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#neuroskyence 🧪🧠
Please RT! ✨
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#neuroskyence 🧪🧠
Please RT! ✨
Registration: INCF Town Hall 2025 (virtual)
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February 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Join our virtual Town Hall next week and give us input on what INCF should focus on in the coming years!
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#neuroskyence 🧪🧠
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Reposted by Alexis Paez
Join our virtual Town Hall next week and give us input on what INCF should focus on in the coming years!
2 time slots available:
- Feb 11, 8am CET
- Feb 12, 8pm CET
Register here: bit.ly/3Q2UWKx
If you're unable to join please fill out our survey: bit.ly/40BlrvI
#neuroskyence 🧪🧠
Please RT! ✨
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February 6, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Join our virtual Town Hall next week and give us input on what INCF should focus on in the coming years!
2 time slots available:
- Feb 11, 8am CET
- Feb 12, 8pm CET
Register here: bit.ly/3Q2UWKx
If you're unable to join please fill out our survey: bit.ly/40BlrvI
#neuroskyence 🧪🧠
Please RT! ✨
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Sensory inputs trigger a fast-traveling wave, followed by a slower wave carrying top-down info (value/choice). The late wave reactivates ensembles in superficial cortical layers.
Touch-evoked traveling waves establish a translaminar spacetime code
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
#neuroscience
Touch-evoked traveling waves establish a translaminar spacetime code
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
#neuroscience
Touch-evoked traveling waves establish a translaminar spacetime code
Translaminar spacetime patterns organized by feedback-dependent cortical circuits support sparse traveling waves.
www.science.org
February 4, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Only a bit delayed to say, welcome!
I learned #Psychtoolbox and used it for an auditory psychophysics experiment back in 2008, then caught up to the latest at #VSS2024. Such a key #MATLAB tool for #Neuroskyence
I learned #Psychtoolbox and used it for an auditory psychophysics experiment back in 2008, then caught up to the latest at #VSS2024. Such a key #MATLAB tool for #Neuroskyence
Hello Bluesky 🏙️! Psychtoolbox is here!
Follow us for Psychtoolbox-related news📰, as well as tips and tricks💡! #Psychtoolbox
Follow us for Psychtoolbox-related news📰, as well as tips and tricks💡! #Psychtoolbox
January 28, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Only a bit delayed to say, welcome!
I learned #Psychtoolbox and used it for an auditory psychophysics experiment back in 2008, then caught up to the latest at #VSS2024. Such a key #MATLAB tool for #Neuroskyence
I learned #Psychtoolbox and used it for an auditory psychophysics experiment back in 2008, then caught up to the latest at #VSS2024. Such a key #MATLAB tool for #Neuroskyence
This cover captured all my attention while I was reading a #ScienceAdvances paper online today. Beautiful.
This cellular confetti glows in the dark thanks to an array of new bioluminescent proteins. That story and more of the best from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
January 27, 2025 at 10:07 PM
This cover captured all my attention while I was reading a #ScienceAdvances paper online today. Beautiful.
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Hi, Vox reporter here: If you've had a study section, NIH travel, or other NIH-related meeting cancelled (or not), raise your hand! Reply or DM me, and repost for visibility if you're able.
#academicsky @drugmonkey.bsky.social
#academicsky @drugmonkey.bsky.social
January 23, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Hi, Vox reporter here: If you've had a study section, NIH travel, or other NIH-related meeting cancelled (or not), raise your hand! Reply or DM me, and repost for visibility if you're able.
#academicsky @drugmonkey.bsky.social
#academicsky @drugmonkey.bsky.social
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Question for people going from intan based ephys to neuropixels. Do you have an alternative for the accelerometer from the intan headstage? That was a nice feature that is missing on freely moving neuropixels recordings 🧠📈
January 17, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Question for people going from intan based ephys to neuropixels. Do you have an alternative for the accelerometer from the intan headstage? That was a nice feature that is missing on freely moving neuropixels recordings 🧠📈
Some favorite practical summer courses are the ARTCs at the MBL in Woods Hole, MA. I anticipate visiting a few this year to talk #Neuroskyence, sharing #openscience data stories, and using #MATLAB.
John Tuthill explains why practical summer courses in neuroscience matter and how this tradition helps researchers rekindle the unfettered joy that initially brought them to the field.
www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...
#neuroskyence
January 15, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Some favorite practical summer courses are the ARTCs at the MBL in Woods Hole, MA. I anticipate visiting a few this year to talk #Neuroskyence, sharing #openscience data stories, and using #MATLAB.
Got some new socks this week 💪🏻
January 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Got some new socks this week 💪🏻
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New paper out! 🚨 📰 With @batuhanerkat.bsky.social, John McClure, @hussainyk1.bsky.social, @polacklab.bsky.social we reveal how discretized representations in V1 predict suboptimal orientation discrimination. 🧪🧠🐭 This work reconciles neuro and psychometric curves
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Discretized representations in V1 predict suboptimal orientation discrimination - Nature Communications
How animals generate perceptual decisions remains poorly understood. Here, the authors show that during a discrimination task, the mouse visual cortex does not encode the orientations of the cues but ...
www.nature.com
January 8, 2025 at 9:43 PM
New paper out! 🚨 📰 With @batuhanerkat.bsky.social, John McClure, @hussainyk1.bsky.social, @polacklab.bsky.social we reveal how discretized representations in V1 predict suboptimal orientation discrimination. 🧪🧠🐭 This work reconciles neuro and psychometric curves
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Self-reflection: I'm particularly bad about changing over the year when I write the date sitting the first couple weeks of January. Consistently.
January 8, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Self-reflection: I'm particularly bad about changing over the year when I write the date sitting the first couple weeks of January. Consistently.
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Está invitado para CIENCIA EN ESPAÑOL
I am hosting an event where University of Arizona scientists will speak about their science in Spanish. It is meant to be a community event with a Zoom option, so share with family too!
events.trellis.arizona.edu/en/f44lNu67/...
#CIENCIAENESPAÑOL
I am hosting an event where University of Arizona scientists will speak about their science in Spanish. It is meant to be a community event with a Zoom option, so share with family too!
events.trellis.arizona.edu/en/f44lNu67/...
#CIENCIAENESPAÑOL
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January 7, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Está invitado para CIENCIA EN ESPAÑOL
I am hosting an event where University of Arizona scientists will speak about their science in Spanish. It is meant to be a community event with a Zoom option, so share with family too!
events.trellis.arizona.edu/en/f44lNu67/...
#CIENCIAENESPAÑOL
I am hosting an event where University of Arizona scientists will speak about their science in Spanish. It is meant to be a community event with a Zoom option, so share with family too!
events.trellis.arizona.edu/en/f44lNu67/...
#CIENCIAENESPAÑOL
The wonders of population coding! Recent paper by @juliencorbo.bsky.social et al. @polacklab.bsky.social -> visual cortex in trained mice encodes orientation differently from in naive mice... almost more "messily"(?)... but behavior is good. #neuroskyence #matlab 🧪 🧠
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Discretized representations in V1 predict suboptimal orientation discrimination - Nature Communications
How animals generate perceptual decisions remains poorly understood. Here, the authors show that during a discrimination task, the mouse visual cortex does not encode the orientations of the cues but ...
doi.org
January 8, 2025 at 1:59 AM
The wonders of population coding! Recent paper by @juliencorbo.bsky.social et al. @polacklab.bsky.social -> visual cortex in trained mice encodes orientation differently from in naive mice... almost more "messily"(?)... but behavior is good. #neuroskyence #matlab 🧪 🧠
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
My undergrad advisor!
A hardy and hale "huzzah!" to Emery N. Brown on receiving the National Medal of Science! It’s the nation’s highest honor for scientists and engineers.
picower.mit.edu/news/emery-n...
#neuroscience
picower.mit.edu/news/emery-n...
#neuroscience
Emery N. Brown, innovative neuroscientist, statistician and anesthesiologist, earns National Medal of Science
President Biden bestowed the nation’s highest scientific honor on Brown, fellow winners, at a White House ceremony.
picower.mit.edu
January 4, 2025 at 2:27 PM
My undergrad advisor!
Reposted by Alexis Paez
A hardy and hale "huzzah!" to Emery N. Brown on receiving the National Medal of Science! It’s the nation’s highest honor for scientists and engineers.
picower.mit.edu/news/emery-n...
#neuroscience
picower.mit.edu/news/emery-n...
#neuroscience
Emery N. Brown, innovative neuroscientist, statistician and anesthesiologist, earns National Medal of Science
President Biden bestowed the nation’s highest scientific honor on Brown, fellow winners, at a White House ceremony.
picower.mit.edu
January 4, 2025 at 12:37 PM
A hardy and hale "huzzah!" to Emery N. Brown on receiving the National Medal of Science! It’s the nation’s highest honor for scientists and engineers.
picower.mit.edu/news/emery-n...
#neuroscience
picower.mit.edu/news/emery-n...
#neuroscience
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Neuroscience colleagues, I’m excited to say that applications are pouring in for the summer’s Gordon Conference on Cerebellum. Doing work on how this structure regulates movement, cognition, and behavior? Apply this month, while there is still room! www.grc.org/cerebellum-c...
2025 Cerebellum Conference GRC
The 2025 Gordon Research Conference on Cerebellum will be held in Les Diablerets, Vaud (fr) Switzerland. Apply today to reserve your spot.
www.grc.org
January 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Neuroscience colleagues, I’m excited to say that applications are pouring in for the summer’s Gordon Conference on Cerebellum. Doing work on how this structure regulates movement, cognition, and behavior? Apply this month, while there is still room! www.grc.org/cerebellum-c...