Ross Williamson
@rswilliamson.bsky.social
Scottish neuroscientist (Assistant Professor @ University of Pittsburgh). Likes brains, books, maths, and music. Avid endurance runner and cyclist.
Dream rig acquired. My life is now going to be defined in terms of pre- and post-Boogie.
November 7, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Dream rig acquired. My life is now going to be defined in terms of pre- and post-Boogie.
Awesome! Really beautiful stuff. Congrats all!
Super excited to share the first part of my thesis work!
Perhaps how you might be able to both recognize someone’s voice *and* understand what they’re saying, we find that both social identity and vocalization category can be decoded from gerbil auditory cortex activity👂🧠
tinyurl.com/4fba6wk4
Perhaps how you might be able to both recognize someone’s voice *and* understand what they’re saying, we find that both social identity and vocalization category can be decoded from gerbil auditory cortex activity👂🧠
tinyurl.com/4fba6wk4
October 31, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Awesome! Really beautiful stuff. Congrats all!
YES! GO @markhisted.org!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Federal workers are speaking out on how the Trump regime is harming Americans:
"We stand here today at a moment of the greatest assault of our lifetimes on our freedoms. The US Constitution is being shredded... We are here to call on Congress to stand up and stop it."
youtu.be/uw1KwIBgrCw?...
"We stand here today at a moment of the greatest assault of our lifetimes on our freedoms. The US Constitution is being shredded... We are here to call on Congress to stand up and stop it."
youtu.be/uw1KwIBgrCw?...
Mark Histed, NIH Scientist *speaking in personal capacity
YouTube video by Civil Servants Coalition
youtu.be
October 2, 2025 at 1:59 PM
YES! GO @markhisted.org!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Thank you @rswilliamson.bsky.social from University of Pittsburgh for giving a wonderful seminar at @erasmusmc.bsky.social about his exciting work on #auditory #corticofugalprojections. We thoroughly enjoy the discussion and hope you had a great time in the beautiful city of Rotterdam.
September 12, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Thank you @rswilliamson.bsky.social from University of Pittsburgh for giving a wonderful seminar at @erasmusmc.bsky.social about his exciting work on #auditory #corticofugalprojections. We thoroughly enjoy the discussion and hope you had a great time in the beautiful city of Rotterdam.
Really excited to share the latest work from my lab, where we identify how distinct cortical projections differentially encode sensory category and choice.
A cortical output channel for perceptual categorization
Perceptual categorization allows the brain to transform diverse sensory inputs into discrete representations that support flexible behavior. Auditory cortex (ACtx) has been implicated in this process,...
www.biorxiv.org
September 6, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Really excited to share the latest work from my lab, where we identify how distinct cortical projections differentially encode sensory category and choice.
RIP Ozzman. At least you and Randy Rhoads can rock out together now.
July 22, 2025 at 10:54 PM
RIP Ozzman. At least you and Randy Rhoads can rock out together now.
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Our next profile is here! Dr. Melissa Caras studies the neurophysiological mechanisms of auditory perceptual learning. Follow the link to listen and learn more!
www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202...
#WomenInNeuroscience #StoriesOfWiN
www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202...
#WomenInNeuroscience #StoriesOfWiN
Dr. Melissa Caras — Stories of WiN
studies the neurophysiological mechanisms of auditory perceptual learning.
www.storiesofwin.org
June 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Our next profile is here! Dr. Melissa Caras studies the neurophysiological mechanisms of auditory perceptual learning. Follow the link to listen and learn more!
www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202...
#WomenInNeuroscience #StoriesOfWiN
www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202...
#WomenInNeuroscience #StoriesOfWiN
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The Esther A. & Joseph Klingenstein Fund thanks @rswilliamson.bsky.social, @megyounger.bsky.social, and @sungsoo.bsky.social for presenting their research at the recent Klingenstein Fellowship Awards in Neuroscience Conference.
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June 12, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The Esther A. & Joseph Klingenstein Fund thanks @rswilliamson.bsky.social, @megyounger.bsky.social, and @sungsoo.bsky.social for presenting their research at the recent Klingenstein Fellowship Awards in Neuroscience Conference.
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New work from the lab highlighting the differential effect of arousal on distinct excitatory projections!
Pupil-linked arousal differentially modulates cell-type-specific sensory processing https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.09.658645v1
June 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
New work from the lab highlighting the differential effect of arousal on distinct excitatory projections!
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Imperial propaganda if Warhammer 40k was set in academia
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April 19, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Imperial propaganda if Warhammer 40k was set in academia
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Go work with Pierre! He is the business!
(Plz repost)
I’ve been receiving some good news lately and will be hiring at all levels to expand the lab. Please get in contact if you are interested in reinforcement learning, neural plasticity, neural circuit dynamics, and/or hearing rehabilitation.
pierre.apostolides @ umich .edu
Tyvm
I’ve been receiving some good news lately and will be hiring at all levels to expand the lab. Please get in contact if you are interested in reinforcement learning, neural plasticity, neural circuit dynamics, and/or hearing rehabilitation.
pierre.apostolides @ umich .edu
Tyvm
April 18, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Go work with Pierre! He is the business!
Beautiful new work from @anbuhlk.bsky.social! Go join her new lab!
Excited to share my latest work just out in @pnas.org! This NIH MOSAIC K99-funded project identifies a top-down cortical circuit—from cingulate to auditory cortex—that supports auditory perceptual performance in challenging listening conditions: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The cingulate cortex facilitates auditory perception under challenging listening conditions | PNAS
We often exert greater cognitive resources (i.e., listening effort) to understand
speech under challenging acoustic conditions. This mechanism can ...
www.pnas.org
April 4, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Beautiful new work from @anbuhlk.bsky.social! Go join her new lab!
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"What makes an artificial system a good model of intelligence?" Researchers at CMU are addressing this question with a focus on artificial brain models.
Read more about how the proposed "NeuroAI Turing Test" offers a standard benchmark to develop "truly brain-like AI"! arxiv.org/abs/2502.16238
Read more about how the proposed "NeuroAI Turing Test" offers a standard benchmark to develop "truly brain-like AI"! arxiv.org/abs/2502.16238
March 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
"What makes an artificial system a good model of intelligence?" Researchers at CMU are addressing this question with a focus on artificial brain models.
Read more about how the proposed "NeuroAI Turing Test" offers a standard benchmark to develop "truly brain-like AI"! arxiv.org/abs/2502.16238
Read more about how the proposed "NeuroAI Turing Test" offers a standard benchmark to develop "truly brain-like AI"! arxiv.org/abs/2502.16238
Incredible new work from the legendary @caroline-runyan.bsky.social. Congrats to all!
Check out our new paper, that reveals both the striking generality of cortical circuit organization, but also what we think are key differences in the scales of local excitatory and inhibitory networks across cortical areas. www.jneurosci.org/content/45/1...
Local Differences in Network Organization in the Auditory and Parietal Cortex, Revealed with Single Neuron Activation
The structure of local circuits is highly conserved across the cortex, yet the spatial and temporal properties of population activity differ fundamentally in sensory-level and association-level areas....
www.jneurosci.org
March 17, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Incredible new work from the legendary @caroline-runyan.bsky.social. Congrats to all!
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Congrats @audreydrotos.bsky.social and @robertsneuro.bsky.social!!!!!! Happy that we got a chance to contribute!
Our new work investigating multiplexing and mixed selectivity in auditory inferior colliculus neurons is up on bioRxiv 🎉 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Neurons in the inferior colliculus use multiplexing to encode features of frequency-modulated sweeps
Within the central auditory pathway, the inferior colliculus (IC) is a critical integration center for ascending sound information. Previous studies have shown that many IC neurons exhibit receptive f...
doi.org
February 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Congrats @audreydrotos.bsky.social and @robertsneuro.bsky.social!!!!!! Happy that we got a chance to contribute!
Happy to announce some exciting new funding from @kavlifoundation.bsky.social to investigate brain-wide projections using holographic opto with Greg Handy and Anne Takesian!
Sculpted Light in the Brain
New Kavli Exploration Awards in neuroscience will advance photonic technologies
www.kavlifoundation.org
January 13, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Happy to announce some exciting new funding from @kavlifoundation.bsky.social to investigate brain-wide projections using holographic opto with Greg Handy and Anne Takesian!
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If you are an auditory neuroscientist attending ARO 2025, please check your inbox for an important survey from ARO regarding strategies for safety and inclusion at the MWM this year in Florida. 🧠 👂 🏳️🌈
December 17, 2024 at 4:12 PM
If you are an auditory neuroscientist attending ARO 2025, please check your inbox for an important survey from ARO regarding strategies for safety and inclusion at the MWM this year in Florida. 🧠 👂 🏳️🌈
Super excited to share the first preprint from my lab, looking at auditory cortical necessity and categorical learning. This one has been cooking for a while and has really set the stage for several other ongoing projects in the lab (stay tuned)! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
February 4, 2024 at 7:19 PM
Super excited to share the first preprint from my lab, looking at auditory cortical necessity and categorical learning. This one has been cooking for a while and has really set the stage for several other ongoing projects in the lab (stay tuned)! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...