Rob Woodry
@robwoodry.bsky.social
PhD Candidate | Comp Neuro & Psych | @ NYU
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Professional dabbler in science/music/writing/art
rwoodry.github.io
I use neuroimaging and computational models to understand how we use the visual parts of the brain to remember and imagine stuff
🇨🇺🇺🇸
Professional dabbler in science/music/writing/art
rwoodry.github.io
I use neuroimaging and computational models to understand how we use the visual parts of the brain to remember and imagine stuff
if you're still at SfN and interested in how visual cortex supports oneshot memory retrieval, come by my poster this afternoon! (#RR1)
#sfn #neuroscience
#sfn #neuroscience
November 19, 2025 at 8:07 PM
if you're still at SfN and interested in how visual cortex supports oneshot memory retrieval, come by my poster this afternoon! (#RR1)
#sfn #neuroscience
#sfn #neuroscience
Looks like we’ve got to find all the potential claimants and make sure they file
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Looks like we’ve got to find all the potential claimants and make sure they file
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Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry
November 17, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry
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Come see our lab's posters at #SfN2025!
With great work including @alinatu.bsky.social @mjstarrett.bsky.social @aaronbornstein.bsky.social and more!
With great work including @alinatu.bsky.social @mjstarrett.bsky.social @aaronbornstein.bsky.social and more!
November 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Come see our lab's posters at #SfN2025!
With great work including @alinatu.bsky.social @mjstarrett.bsky.social @aaronbornstein.bsky.social and more!
With great work including @alinatu.bsky.social @mjstarrett.bsky.social @aaronbornstein.bsky.social and more!
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How prediction error drives memory updating: role of locus coeruleus–hippocampal interactions
Looks interesting, from Groves et al
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition
Looks interesting, from Groves et al
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition
How prediction error drives memory updating: role of locus coeruleus–hippocampal interactions
The brain constantly generates predictions based on one’s knowledge of the world, as captured in memory. When these predictions are in error, our know…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:22 AM
How prediction error drives memory updating: role of locus coeruleus–hippocampal interactions
Looks interesting, from Groves et al
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition
Looks interesting, from Groves et al
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition
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I rarely come on here or any social media, but wanted to share our latest preprint of large-scale human single neuron recordings during an auditory working memory task: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
I'm very grateful to our patients, my co-authors and the funders. And to anyone who reads it :-) 🧠📈🧵👇(1/5)
I'm very grateful to our patients, my co-authors and the funders. And to anyone who reads it :-) 🧠📈🧵👇(1/5)
Brain-wide single-neuron bases of working memory for sounds in humans
In order to understand the constantly changing acoustic world our brains must maintain elements of auditory scenes in memory. The neural mechanisms for this fundamental process remain unclear. Here, w...
doi.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I rarely come on here or any social media, but wanted to share our latest preprint of large-scale human single neuron recordings during an auditory working memory task: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
I'm very grateful to our patients, my co-authors and the funders. And to anyone who reads it :-) 🧠📈🧵👇(1/5)
I'm very grateful to our patients, my co-authors and the funders. And to anyone who reads it :-) 🧠📈🧵👇(1/5)
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
What are those glasses for if he’s always not seeing anything yet
Q: What's your reaction to yesterday's purge of senior ICE officials? When is it time for Congress to do some oversight?
MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know any of the details of that yet. I just heard about that, literally I was walking in.
MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know any of the details of that yet. I just heard about that, literally I was walking in.
October 29, 2025 at 5:11 PM
What are those glasses for if he’s always not seeing anything yet
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TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
www.python.org
October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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Looking for a PhD program where you can study vision from different perspectives (computer vision, visual neuroscience, visual perception, image processing)? Consider applying to NYU!
visionscience.com/pipermail/vi...
visionscience.com/pipermail/vi...
[visionlist] Doctoral studies in Visual Sciences at NYU
visionscience.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Looking for a PhD program where you can study vision from different perspectives (computer vision, visual neuroscience, visual perception, image processing)? Consider applying to NYU!
visionscience.com/pipermail/vi...
visionscience.com/pipermail/vi...
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Looking for a PhD program where you can study computational neuroscience? NYU has a fantastic array of researchers covering the field:
groups.google.com/g/systems-ne...
groups.google.com/g/systems-ne...
Doctoral studies in Computational/Theoretical Neuroscience at NYU
groups.google.com
October 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Looking for a PhD program where you can study computational neuroscience? NYU has a fantastic array of researchers covering the field:
groups.google.com/g/systems-ne...
groups.google.com/g/systems-ne...
many pro-AI people tend to take the “you’ll get left behind” stance when rejected - feels weird
It’s not about whether AI is practical (it’s often not), it’s about how insidious and unethical the training and deployment has been
Stop treating artists like they’re a resource you’re entitled to
It’s not about whether AI is practical (it’s often not), it’s about how insidious and unethical the training and deployment has been
Stop treating artists like they’re a resource you’re entitled to
Another day, another ai enthusiast warning me I’ll get ‘left behind’ if I’m not careful. He makes the future of entertainment sound delightful
October 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
many pro-AI people tend to take the “you’ll get left behind” stance when rejected - feels weird
It’s not about whether AI is practical (it’s often not), it’s about how insidious and unethical the training and deployment has been
Stop treating artists like they’re a resource you’re entitled to
It’s not about whether AI is practical (it’s often not), it’s about how insidious and unethical the training and deployment has been
Stop treating artists like they’re a resource you’re entitled to
Idk about yall but the best thing in this article is that there exists a robotic arm to test knives called J Robot Choppenheimer
oh goodie now the tech guys are disrupting knives
(as a person with small hands who cooks using regular sharp knives, that handle, which requires you to hold down a button while cutting, looks huge and unwieldy as hell)
www.geekwire.com/2025/slice-o...
(as a person with small hands who cooks using regular sharp knives, that handle, which requires you to hold down a button while cutting, looks huge and unwieldy as hell)
www.geekwire.com/2025/slice-o...
Slice of startup life: Seattle kitchen tech wizard creates ultrasonic knife for more effortless cuts
It's taken more than 2.5 million years to get from the earliest sharpened-stone version of a knife to what Scott Heimendinger believes is a modern kitchen marvel.
www.geekwire.com
September 25, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Idk about yall but the best thing in this article is that there exists a robotic arm to test knives called J Robot Choppenheimer
Wow!
September 25, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Wow!
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I'm horrified by the shooting of Charlie Kirk at a college event in Utah.
Political violence has no place in our country.
Political violence has no place in our country.
September 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I'm horrified by the shooting of Charlie Kirk at a college event in Utah.
Political violence has no place in our country.
Political violence has no place in our country.
I hate this so much. This is so damn painful.
Sotomayor on the impact: "The Government, and now the concurrence, has all but declared that all Latinos, U. S. citizens or not, who work low wage jobs are fair game to be seized at any time, taken away from work, and held until they provide proof of their legal status to the agents’ satisfaction."
September 9, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I hate this so much. This is so damn painful.
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Cool work by Arash Afraz's lab using a dual AI system to be able to reverse-engineer the perceptual experience of receiving visual cortex stimulation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
September 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Cool work by Arash Afraz's lab using a dual AI system to be able to reverse-engineer the perceptual experience of receiving visual cortex stimulation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This says a lot about the PhDs at OpenAI tbh 😂
Yesterday I discovered that ChatGPT's PhD-level expertise didn't extend to bird anatomy. This morning I thought, perhaps I was being too hard on the half-trillion-dollar company. Birds are a little weird, anatomically speaking. Let's try something more familiar. A mammal. Behold.
August 14, 2025 at 5:59 PM
This says a lot about the PhDs at OpenAI tbh 😂
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Friends (esp if you live in CA) we REALLY need signatures on this petition supporting Bill AB412 - the AI Copyright Transparency Act.
TLDR = this will require AI corps to be transparent about what is in their datasets!
Signing takes 1 min. Once you sign, PLEASE SHARE!! tinyurl.com/4uxbp963
TLDR = this will require AI corps to be transparent about what is in their datasets!
Signing takes 1 min. Once you sign, PLEASE SHARE!! tinyurl.com/4uxbp963
August 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Friends (esp if you live in CA) we REALLY need signatures on this petition supporting Bill AB412 - the AI Copyright Transparency Act.
TLDR = this will require AI corps to be transparent about what is in their datasets!
Signing takes 1 min. Once you sign, PLEASE SHARE!! tinyurl.com/4uxbp963
TLDR = this will require AI corps to be transparent about what is in their datasets!
Signing takes 1 min. Once you sign, PLEASE SHARE!! tinyurl.com/4uxbp963
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I gave a talk in 2009 about feature-based attention and a famous vision scientist asked how top down signals from PFC could possibly target the right sensory neurons. The best I could do was "uh, dunno". sunyoungp.bsky.social has a much more thoughtful answer journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
Near-random connections support top-down feature-based attentional modulations in early sensory cortex
Author summary In everyday life, we focus on what matters—like finding our car keys on a messy desk—by sending signals from higher control brain areas to earlier sensory brain areas. These “top-down” ...
journals.plos.org
August 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I gave a talk in 2009 about feature-based attention and a famous vision scientist asked how top down signals from PFC could possibly target the right sensory neurons. The best I could do was "uh, dunno". sunyoungp.bsky.social has a much more thoughtful answer journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
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Portfolio update : The Mirror of Pride
"She's been following me for several days; I only see her at dusk. She always stays about ten paces away. When I confront her, she claims to be my shadow. I then asked her if I was her light. She replied that I was confusing my pride with her patience."
"She's been following me for several days; I only see her at dusk. She always stays about ten paces away. When I confront her, she claims to be my shadow. I then asked her if I was her light. She replied that I was confusing my pride with her patience."
August 7, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Portfolio update : The Mirror of Pride
"She's been following me for several days; I only see her at dusk. She always stays about ten paces away. When I confront her, she claims to be my shadow. I then asked her if I was her light. She replied that I was confusing my pride with her patience."
"She's been following me for several days; I only see her at dusk. She always stays about ten paces away. When I confront her, she claims to be my shadow. I then asked her if I was her light. She replied that I was confusing my pride with her patience."
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The events of 2/28/2025 were especially shameful
The related SCOTUS brief filed 1 August is here bit.ly/4le7P1N
lots of good arguments/lawyering in these briefs
The related SCOTUS brief filed 1 August is here bit.ly/4le7P1N
lots of good arguments/lawyering in these briefs
August 3, 2025 at 12:35 PM
The events of 2/28/2025 were especially shameful
The related SCOTUS brief filed 1 August is here bit.ly/4le7P1N
lots of good arguments/lawyering in these briefs
The related SCOTUS brief filed 1 August is here bit.ly/4le7P1N
lots of good arguments/lawyering in these briefs
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“It’s just a tool! People used to hate on photoshop too.”
Take away my photoshop, take away my tablets, I can still draw. Take away your plagiarism machine and what are you gonna do? Shout prompts at me?
Take away my photoshop, take away my tablets, I can still draw. Take away your plagiarism machine and what are you gonna do? Shout prompts at me?
August 2, 2025 at 8:47 AM
“It’s just a tool! People used to hate on photoshop too.”
Take away my photoshop, take away my tablets, I can still draw. Take away your plagiarism machine and what are you gonna do? Shout prompts at me?
Take away my photoshop, take away my tablets, I can still draw. Take away your plagiarism machine and what are you gonna do? Shout prompts at me?
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IMPORTANT UPDATE IMPORTANT UPDATE
Regarding APHU/ACLU et al. vs. NIH Lawsuit
Regarding APHU/ACLU et al. vs. NIH Lawsuit
a cartoon of a man and a dog with the words now 's the time for action written on the bottom
ALT: a cartoon of a man and a dog with the words now 's the time for action written on the bottom
media.tenor.com
July 30, 2025 at 11:23 PM
IMPORTANT UPDATE IMPORTANT UPDATE
Regarding APHU/ACLU et al. vs. NIH Lawsuit
Regarding APHU/ACLU et al. vs. NIH Lawsuit
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I’m thinking today about all the women doing DEI work in universities, and how all of our canceled grants and shuttered initiatives means that not only are we losing the time we’ve already put in, we’re now even more behind our male peers who stayed focused on their research.
July 24, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I’m thinking today about all the women doing DEI work in universities, and how all of our canceled grants and shuttered initiatives means that not only are we losing the time we’ve already put in, we’re now even more behind our male peers who stayed focused on their research.