Serdar Akkol, MD PhD
@sakkol.bsky.social
PGY4 @uabneurores, PhD'22 @NorthwellHealth, postdoc'19 @StanfordMed, MD'18 Cerrahpaşa, @lindaunobel'18, neurology-neuroscience, epilepsy, iEEG
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Every year on the second Monday of February people join together to acknowledge and highlight the problems faced by people with epilepsy, their families and care givers.
https://ow.ly/aNU450XZJsJ
#EpilepsyDay #AEDRegistry #FindingAnswers #pregnancy
https://ow.ly/aNU450XZJsJ
#EpilepsyDay #AEDRegistry #FindingAnswers #pregnancy
February 9, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Every year on the second Monday of February people join together to acknowledge and highlight the problems faced by people with epilepsy, their families and care givers.
https://ow.ly/aNU450XZJsJ
#EpilepsyDay #AEDRegistry #FindingAnswers #pregnancy
https://ow.ly/aNU450XZJsJ
#EpilepsyDay #AEDRegistry #FindingAnswers #pregnancy
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I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
Bluesky Map
Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.
bluesky-map.theo.io
February 8, 2026 at 10:59 PM
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
Incoming Assistant Professor for Fall 2026 at University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. I’m hiring PhD students in computer science by April 1. Please DM me for details.
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February 7, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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We’re hiring! The Suthana Lab @ Duke is looking for a Research Assistant to join our team studying human memory & real-world 🧠 dynamics using wearable tech & intracranial recordings.
Apply: careers.duke.edu/job/Durham-C...
You can also email suthanalab@duke.edu with CV/questions. Please share!
Apply: careers.duke.edu/job/Durham-C...
You can also email suthanalab@duke.edu with CV/questions. Please share!
February 5, 2026 at 4:41 PM
We’re hiring! The Suthana Lab @ Duke is looking for a Research Assistant to join our team studying human memory & real-world 🧠 dynamics using wearable tech & intracranial recordings.
Apply: careers.duke.edu/job/Durham-C...
You can also email suthanalab@duke.edu with CV/questions. Please share!
Apply: careers.duke.edu/job/Durham-C...
You can also email suthanalab@duke.edu with CV/questions. Please share!
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New PhD and post-doc job openings!
Join me and Prof. Nina Kazanina @ Uni Geneva, Switzerland, to take part in an exciting project on relations and binding in language and vision, explored with cutting-edge neurophysiology (#iEEG and MEG).
Full details in the job offer below.
Join me and Prof. Nina Kazanina @ Uni Geneva, Switzerland, to take part in an exciting project on relations and binding in language and vision, explored with cutting-edge neurophysiology (#iEEG and MEG).
Full details in the job offer below.
January 30, 2026 at 10:41 AM
New PhD and post-doc job openings!
Join me and Prof. Nina Kazanina @ Uni Geneva, Switzerland, to take part in an exciting project on relations and binding in language and vision, explored with cutting-edge neurophysiology (#iEEG and MEG).
Full details in the job offer below.
Join me and Prof. Nina Kazanina @ Uni Geneva, Switzerland, to take part in an exciting project on relations and binding in language and vision, explored with cutting-edge neurophysiology (#iEEG and MEG).
Full details in the job offer below.
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The recording of George Mashour's talk "Consciousness and the dying brain" is now available: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz7o....
George Mashour - Consciousness and the Dying Brain
YouTube video by MIT Consciousness Club
www.youtube.com
January 28, 2026 at 1:29 AM
The recording of George Mashour's talk "Consciousness and the dying brain" is now available: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz7o....
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ripple researchers probably open this article with sweaty palms, because ripple detection with 77% false positives for standard processing sounds pretty bad... 😨
Ripple oscillations are central for memory and sleep.
But ripple detection in humans remains challenging. Here we introduce a simulation approach in @natcomms.nature.com as common ripple detectors mainly pick up 1/f noise and not genuine oscillations
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroskyence
But ripple detection in humans remains challenging. Here we introduce a simulation approach in @natcomms.nature.com as common ripple detectors mainly pick up 1/f noise and not genuine oscillations
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroskyence
Aperiodic 1/f noise drives ripple activity in humans - Nature Communications
How aperiodic 1/f noise drives ripple activity in human brain and impacts on ripple detections is not fully understood. Here authors show that ripple detections should be driven by the 1/f noise, whic...
www.nature.com
January 22, 2026 at 8:21 AM
ripple researchers probably open this article with sweaty palms, because ripple detection with 77% false positives for standard processing sounds pretty bad... 😨
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Really cool stuff!
"Working memory readout varies with frontal theta rhythms"
by the @earlkmiller.bsky.social lab, published in @cp-neuron.bsky.social
www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...
"Working memory readout varies with frontal theta rhythms"
by the @earlkmiller.bsky.social lab, published in @cp-neuron.bsky.social
www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...
Working memory readout varies with frontal theta rhythms
Han et al. show that frontal theta oscillations rhythmically control access to working
memory. The theta rhythm sweeps across the mental image, shaping behavior by coordinating
spikes and beta oscilla...
www.cell.com
January 8, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Really cool stuff!
"Working memory readout varies with frontal theta rhythms"
by the @earlkmiller.bsky.social lab, published in @cp-neuron.bsky.social
www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...
"Working memory readout varies with frontal theta rhythms"
by the @earlkmiller.bsky.social lab, published in @cp-neuron.bsky.social
www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...
This is fun! 🤓
How likely is ‘likely’? Does ‘likely’ have a higher probability than ‘probable’? I put together a quick quiz so you can see how you interpret probability phrases, then see how you compare with others: probability.kucharski.io
January 5, 2026 at 2:26 PM
This is fun! 🤓
Late post from #AES2025, as always it was amazing to catch up with the friends, mentors and to learn the latest in the epilepsy field 🤓 also presented our case study, wait for the full results 😁
December 16, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Late post from #AES2025, as always it was amazing to catch up with the friends, mentors and to learn the latest in the epilepsy field 🤓 also presented our case study, wait for the full results 😁
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My rough attempt at sorting people on this spectrum of epiphenomenal to causal...
December 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
My rough attempt at sorting people on this spectrum of epiphenomenal to causal...
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Just posted, "The Tiling Tree Method, Part 2: Common Pitfalls and How to Overcome Them" a follow-up to our previous essay on the "tiling tree" method for thinking of all the possible solutions to a problem, by Claire Wang, Nina Khera, and myself. engineeringx.substack.com/p/the-tiling...
The Tiling Tree Method, Part 2: Common Pitfalls and How to Overcome Them
How to really think of every way of solving a problem
engineeringx.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Just posted, "The Tiling Tree Method, Part 2: Common Pitfalls and How to Overcome Them" a follow-up to our previous essay on the "tiling tree" method for thinking of all the possible solutions to a problem, by Claire Wang, Nina Khera, and myself. engineeringx.substack.com/p/the-tiling...
Recently discovered @kerrymuzzey.bsky.social's post-rock project Candlepark Stars and I'm loving it. Been a while since I heard something like this. Much like Mono (Japan), @hammockmusic.bsky.social's "Departure Songs" or @explosionsinthesky.bsky.social! Thank you! open.spotify.com/artist/2o532...
Spotify – Web Player
open.spotify.com
September 27, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Recently discovered @kerrymuzzey.bsky.social's post-rock project Candlepark Stars and I'm loving it. Been a while since I heard something like this. Much like Mono (Japan), @hammockmusic.bsky.social's "Departure Songs" or @explosionsinthesky.bsky.social! Thank you! open.spotify.com/artist/2o532...
Very interesting! #iEEG
New manuscript from the lab!
"Mirror manifolds: partially overlapping neural subspaces for speaking and listening"
Led by superstar grad student Anilu Chavez (not on Bluesky)!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
"Mirror manifolds: partially overlapping neural subspaces for speaking and listening"
Led by superstar grad student Anilu Chavez (not on Bluesky)!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Mirror manifolds: partially overlapping neural subspaces for speaking and listening
Participants in conversations need to associate words their speakers but also retain those words general meanings. For example, someone talking about their hand is not referring to the other speakers ...
www.biorxiv.org
September 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Very interesting! #iEEG
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📢 Our paper published!! One of my PhD projects with @stephanbickel.bsky.social and Ashesh Mehta!
"Neural entrainment by speech in human auditory cortex revealed by intracranial recordings"
We tried to give a more nuanced picture of speech perception using #iEEG
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"Neural entrainment by speech in human auditory cortex revealed by intracranial recordings"
We tried to give a more nuanced picture of speech perception using #iEEG
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Neural entrainment by speech in human auditory cortex revealed by intracranial recordings
Humans live in an environment that contains rich auditory stimuli, which must be processed efficiently. The entrainment of neural oscillations to acou…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 16, 2025 at 2:24 AM
📢 Our paper published!! One of my PhD projects with @stephanbickel.bsky.social and Ashesh Mehta!
"Neural entrainment by speech in human auditory cortex revealed by intracranial recordings"
We tried to give a more nuanced picture of speech perception using #iEEG
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"Neural entrainment by speech in human auditory cortex revealed by intracranial recordings"
We tried to give a more nuanced picture of speech perception using #iEEG
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
📢 Our paper published!! One of my PhD projects with @stephanbickel.bsky.social and Ashesh Mehta!
"Neural entrainment by speech in human auditory cortex revealed by intracranial recordings"
We tried to give a more nuanced picture of speech perception using #iEEG
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"Neural entrainment by speech in human auditory cortex revealed by intracranial recordings"
We tried to give a more nuanced picture of speech perception using #iEEG
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Neural entrainment by speech in human auditory cortex revealed by intracranial recordings
Humans live in an environment that contains rich auditory stimuli, which must be processed efficiently. The entrainment of neural oscillations to acou…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 16, 2025 at 2:24 AM
📢 Our paper published!! One of my PhD projects with @stephanbickel.bsky.social and Ashesh Mehta!
"Neural entrainment by speech in human auditory cortex revealed by intracranial recordings"
We tried to give a more nuanced picture of speech perception using #iEEG
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"Neural entrainment by speech in human auditory cortex revealed by intracranial recordings"
We tried to give a more nuanced picture of speech perception using #iEEG
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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"Neural entrainment by speech in human auditory cortex revealed by intracranial recordings"
Akkol and colleagues, Progress in Neurobiology 2025
#iEEG
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Akkol and colleagues, Progress in Neurobiology 2025
#iEEG
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Neural entrainment by speech in human auditory cortex revealed by intracranial recordings
Humans live in an environment that contains rich auditory stimuli, which must be processed efficiently. The entrainment of neural oscillations to acou…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 15, 2025 at 11:45 AM
"Neural entrainment by speech in human auditory cortex revealed by intracranial recordings"
Akkol and colleagues, Progress in Neurobiology 2025
#iEEG
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Akkol and colleagues, Progress in Neurobiology 2025
#iEEG
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Neural entrainment by speech in human auditory cortex revealed by intracranial recordings www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 12 people had intracranial electrodes & listened to natural speech oscillatory -> speech edge induced activity persisted after evoked responses thus ...neural entrainment?
Neural entrainment by speech in human auditory cortex revealed by intracranial recordings
Humans live in an environment that contains rich auditory stimuli, which must be processed efficiently. The entrainment of neural oscillations to acou…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 11, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Neural entrainment by speech in human auditory cortex revealed by intracranial recordings www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 12 people had intracranial electrodes & listened to natural speech oscillatory -> speech edge induced activity persisted after evoked responses thus ...neural entrainment?
Timely review of the HFA based functional mapping of cortical functions. There some more stuff to do:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
A critical review of high‐frequency activity for functional mapping in SEEG
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Timely review of the HFA based functional mapping of cortical functions. There some more stuff to do:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Conversation Mapping in Action!
scienceblog.cincinnatichildrens.org/new-method-s...
#HGM #Epilepsy #Neurosurgery #iEEG #Neurophysiology
scienceblog.cincinnatichildrens.org/new-method-s...
#HGM #Epilepsy #Neurosurgery #iEEG #Neurophysiology
New Method Simplifies Brain Evaluations for Planning Epilepsy Surgery - Research Horizons
scienceblog.cincinnatichildrens.org
September 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Conversation Mapping in Action!
scienceblog.cincinnatichildrens.org/new-method-s...
#HGM #Epilepsy #Neurosurgery #iEEG #Neurophysiology
scienceblog.cincinnatichildrens.org/new-method-s...
#HGM #Epilepsy #Neurosurgery #iEEG #Neurophysiology
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As it's hiring season again I'm resharing the NeuroJobs feed. Add #NeuroJobs to your post if you're recruiting or looking for an RA, PhD, Postdoc, or faculty position in Neuro or an adjacent field.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
bsky.app/profile/did:...
September 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
As it's hiring season again I'm resharing the NeuroJobs feed. Add #NeuroJobs to your post if you're recruiting or looking for an RA, PhD, Postdoc, or faculty position in Neuro or an adjacent field.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Interested in doing a PhD with me and lacns.github.io? Or with any of the incredible fellows in the IMPRS School of Cognition www.maxplanckschools.org/cognition-en - apply before Dec 1st at cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/application
Language and Computation in Neural Systems
We are an international group of scientists consisting of linguists, cognitive scientists, cognitive neuroscientists, computational neuroscientists, computational modellers, computational scientists, ...
lacns.github.io
September 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Interested in doing a PhD with me and lacns.github.io? Or with any of the incredible fellows in the IMPRS School of Cognition www.maxplanckschools.org/cognition-en - apply before Dec 1st at cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/application
It feels like the introductions of new papers became a long abstract. There is background. There is method and results in the last paragraph. I guess the scientific writing is evolving..
September 2, 2025 at 8:37 PM
It feels like the introductions of new papers became a long abstract. There is background. There is method and results in the last paragraph. I guess the scientific writing is evolving..
Juggling 3 manuscript submissions/revisions, doing analyses and writing manuscript on another project, writing an abstract for a case report... All the while not missing the clinical duties. I feel welcomed to the #physician-scientist life 😮💨 Is this how it'll be the rest of my career? 🫣
I hope so 😁
I hope so 😁
a man in a suit and tie says all i can do right now is put on a brave face .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie says all i can do right now is put on a brave face .
media.tenor.com
September 2, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Juggling 3 manuscript submissions/revisions, doing analyses and writing manuscript on another project, writing an abstract for a case report... All the while not missing the clinical duties. I feel welcomed to the #physician-scientist life 😮💨 Is this how it'll be the rest of my career? 🫣
I hope so 😁
I hope so 😁
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Amazing resource ⚡️ 🧠
Single-neuron datasets for linguistic and semantic processing in the human amygdala and hippocampus
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Single-neuron datasets for linguistic and semantic processing in the human amygdala and hippocampus
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Single-neuron datasets for linguistic and semantic processing in the human amygdala and hippocampus - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Single-neuron datasets for linguistic and semantic processing in the human amygdala and hippocampus
www.nature.com
August 29, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Amazing resource ⚡️ 🧠
Single-neuron datasets for linguistic and semantic processing in the human amygdala and hippocampus
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Single-neuron datasets for linguistic and semantic processing in the human amygdala and hippocampus
www.nature.com/articles/s41...