Season
@seasonqiu.bsky.social
Rutgers Neuro. Neuronal connectivity and population dynamics.
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Kara Walker's stunning "Unmanned Drone," a deconstructed & reassembled statue of Stonewall Jackson that was originally located in Charlottesville, Virginia until its 2021 removal. A fascinating & complex artwork, now on view at LA art space The Brick as part of "Monuments" exhibition the-brick.org
November 28, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Kara Walker's stunning "Unmanned Drone," a deconstructed & reassembled statue of Stonewall Jackson that was originally located in Charlottesville, Virginia until its 2021 removal. A fascinating & complex artwork, now on view at LA art space The Brick as part of "Monuments" exhibition the-brick.org
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To study how animals understand the physical world (and the rules that govern its dynamics), @jinyao-y.bsky.social trains rats to play fetch with robots 🐀🤖🎾
To learn more, come to our poster Tuesday morning!
[Board W11] Rats learn and use intuitive physics knowledge to solve fetch tasks.
#SfN2025
To learn more, come to our poster Tuesday morning!
[Board W11] Rats learn and use intuitive physics knowledge to solve fetch tasks.
#SfN2025
November 18, 2025 at 1:16 AM
To study how animals understand the physical world (and the rules that govern its dynamics), @jinyao-y.bsky.social trains rats to play fetch with robots 🐀🤖🎾
To learn more, come to our poster Tuesday morning!
[Board W11] Rats learn and use intuitive physics knowledge to solve fetch tasks.
#SfN2025
To learn more, come to our poster Tuesday morning!
[Board W11] Rats learn and use intuitive physics knowledge to solve fetch tasks.
#SfN2025
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🐸 Xenopus laevis 💚 The frog that shaped modern developmental biology! ✨ Xenopus embryos have revealed how the body axis forms, cells choose their fate, and tissues self-organize during early development 📹 Video by Bioquest Sudio and Xenbase #ModelMonday #DevBio
November 3, 2025 at 8:01 PM
🐸 Xenopus laevis 💚 The frog that shaped modern developmental biology! ✨ Xenopus embryos have revealed how the body axis forms, cells choose their fate, and tissues self-organize during early development 📹 Video by Bioquest Sudio and Xenbase #ModelMonday #DevBio
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Remember that as a professor you can be a member of @aaup.org
September 30, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Remember that as a professor you can be a member of @aaup.org
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Now out in @natneuro.nature.com
What happens to the brain’s body map when a body-part is removed?
Scanning patients before and up to 5 yrs after arm amputation, we discovered the brain’s body map is strikingly preserved despite amputation
www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-02037-7
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What happens to the brain’s body map when a body-part is removed?
Scanning patients before and up to 5 yrs after arm amputation, we discovered the brain’s body map is strikingly preserved despite amputation
www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-02037-7
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August 21, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Now out in @natneuro.nature.com
What happens to the brain’s body map when a body-part is removed?
Scanning patients before and up to 5 yrs after arm amputation, we discovered the brain’s body map is strikingly preserved despite amputation
www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-02037-7
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What happens to the brain’s body map when a body-part is removed?
Scanning patients before and up to 5 yrs after arm amputation, we discovered the brain’s body map is strikingly preserved despite amputation
www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-02037-7
🧵1/18
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The butterfly-like/four circular labeling in the mediodorsal (top two) and submedius (bottom two) thalamic nuclei when retrograde tracers are infused in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) of rats
Bonus: midline labeling are from retrograde tracers placed in the nucleus accumbens (nAc)
Bonus: midline labeling are from retrograde tracers placed in the nucleus accumbens (nAc)
August 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
The butterfly-like/four circular labeling in the mediodorsal (top two) and submedius (bottom two) thalamic nuclei when retrograde tracers are infused in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) of rats
Bonus: midline labeling are from retrograde tracers placed in the nucleus accumbens (nAc)
Bonus: midline labeling are from retrograde tracers placed in the nucleus accumbens (nAc)
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I NEED to tell you the story of Tae Heung “William” Kim.
He's a graduate student at Texas A&M where he's working on a vaccine for Lyme disease.
He's a *legal permanent resident* of the United States.
And he's been in ICE detention for 12 days & counting, transferred Tuesday to South Texas.
He's a graduate student at Texas A&M where he's working on a vaccine for Lyme disease.
He's a *legal permanent resident* of the United States.
And he's been in ICE detention for 12 days & counting, transferred Tuesday to South Texas.
July 31, 2025 at 11:35 AM
I NEED to tell you the story of Tae Heung “William” Kim.
He's a graduate student at Texas A&M where he's working on a vaccine for Lyme disease.
He's a *legal permanent resident* of the United States.
And he's been in ICE detention for 12 days & counting, transferred Tuesday to South Texas.
He's a graduate student at Texas A&M where he's working on a vaccine for Lyme disease.
He's a *legal permanent resident* of the United States.
And he's been in ICE detention for 12 days & counting, transferred Tuesday to South Texas.
@coolzonemedia.bsky.social @iwriteok.bsky.social went over his life and how he conceived the scheme in their podcast. My colleagues and research friends were shock when I told them about this. More people in research need to know about this. youtu.be/g1H5NNFdpF8
July 31, 2025 at 5:17 AM
@coolzonemedia.bsky.social @iwriteok.bsky.social went over his life and how he conceived the scheme in their podcast. My colleagues and research friends were shock when I told them about this. More people in research need to know about this. youtu.be/g1H5NNFdpF8
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Remote activation of place codes by gaze in a highly visual animal www.nature.com/articles/s41... - very cool study with chickadees!
Remote activation of place codes by gaze in a highly visual animal - Nature
Place cells in the chickadee hippocampus coherently represent locations in space, whether physically visited or viewed, enabling spatial reasoning at a distance through a unified process coordinated b...
www.nature.com
July 24, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Remote activation of place codes by gaze in a highly visual animal www.nature.com/articles/s41... - very cool study with chickadees!
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Just sent this as an email to my department but figured I'd share more broadly in case it is useful. This describes the procedure happening now for science funding in Congress (@davidimiller.bsky.social can correct me if I got this wrong). Importantly, there are still actions that can be taken.
Science Funding Process
=====Written July 11 2025====== Hi all, Just wanted to share some information that is likely relevant to a lot of us, but not always easy to understand, about federal science budget procedure (feel f...
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July 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Just sent this as an email to my department but figured I'd share more broadly in case it is useful. This describes the procedure happening now for science funding in Congress (@davidimiller.bsky.social can correct me if I got this wrong). Importantly, there are still actions that can be taken.
Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In my lane. Focus. Flourishing.
Saimaa ringed seals have lived landlocked in Lake Saimaa, Finland, for the last 10,000 years. A study finds the seals likely represent a distinct species from other Arctic ringed seals and have been evolutionarily isolated for 60,000 years. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
July 10, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In my lane. Focus. Flourishing.
Only we can protect each other.
Postdoctoral researchers at the University of Michigan have joined thousands of colleagues at other US institutions in seeking union recognition
https://go.nature.com/4eHYSMr
https://go.nature.com/4eHYSMr
Postdocs file for union recognition at University of Michigan
Nature - International scholars targeted by Trump administration are among those seeking greater protection.
go.nature.com
July 5, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Only we can protect each other.
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New preprint from the team at BCM Neurosurgery, led by superstar neuroscientist / neurosurgeon Vigi Katlowitz! “Attention is all you need (in the brain): semantic contextualization in human hippocampus” 🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org
June 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
New preprint from the team at BCM Neurosurgery, led by superstar neuroscientist / neurosurgeon Vigi Katlowitz! “Attention is all you need (in the brain): semantic contextualization in human hippocampus” 🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Skills I acquired in Luke's lab as a tech helped me speedup the setup of all my graduate school projects. Highly recommend for any graduate student works with projects involved animal neurophysiology and behavior.
Announcing two new lectures in our youtube neuroscience methods course:
Lecture 12: experimental design (by Anita Autry)
Lecture 13: neuronal population coding (in which I advocate a viewpoint that is... controversial)
Please repost to help us spread the word!
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Lecture 12: experimental design (by Anita Autry)
Lecture 13: neuronal population coding (in which I advocate a viewpoint that is... controversial)
Please repost to help us spread the word!
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Neuroscience methods - YouTube
Nanocourse: Approaches to Study Neural Circuits This course was taught by Anita Autry, Tiago Gonçalves, and Luke Sjulson at Albert Einstein College of Medici...
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June 6, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Skills I acquired in Luke's lab as a tech helped me speedup the setup of all my graduate school projects. Highly recommend for any graduate student works with projects involved animal neurophysiology and behavior.
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(1/6) Thrilled to share our triple-N dataset (Non-human Primate Neural Responses to Natural Scenes)! It captures thousands of high-level visual neuron responses in macaques to natural scenes using #Neuropixels.
May 11, 2025 at 1:33 PM
(1/6) Thrilled to share our triple-N dataset (Non-human Primate Neural Responses to Natural Scenes)! It captures thousands of high-level visual neuron responses in macaques to natural scenes using #Neuropixels.
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Does your research involve comparing experimental conditions? Then our latest publication is for you: We developed generalized contrastive PCA (gcPCA), a tool for comparing high-dimensional datasets. 🧠📊 doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012747
This tool was born out of necessity, here is the story. 🧵
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This tool was born out of necessity, here is the story. 🧵
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April 18, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Does your research involve comparing experimental conditions? Then our latest publication is for you: We developed generalized contrastive PCA (gcPCA), a tool for comparing high-dimensional datasets. 🧠📊 doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012747
This tool was born out of necessity, here is the story. 🧵
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This tool was born out of necessity, here is the story. 🧵
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New paper from the Neurosurgery Research Team at BCM! "Learning and language in the unconscious human hippocampus"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Learning and language in the unconscious human hippocampus
Consciousness is a fundamental component of cognition, but the degree to which higher-order perception relies on it remains disputed. Here we demonstrate the persistence of learning, semantic processi...
www.biorxiv.org
April 11, 2025 at 11:50 AM
New paper from the Neurosurgery Research Team at BCM! "Learning and language in the unconscious human hippocampus"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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🚨Important paper alert (a bit late, but see below)
Guo et al show that while place cells may not initially form a manifold reflecting the environment's topology, the topology is learned across days, during sleep.
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Another story to tell about this paper 👇
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Guo et al show that while place cells may not initially form a manifold reflecting the environment's topology, the topology is learned across days, during sleep.
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Another story to tell about this paper 👇
1/5
Latent learning drives sleep-dependent plasticity in distinct CA1 subpopulations
Guo et al. find that when mice repeatedly explore a novel environment, a distinct
subset of neurons in the CA1 region of the hippocampus, which initially exhibits weak
spatial selectivity, gradually d...
www.cell.com
January 28, 2025 at 3:45 PM
🚨Important paper alert (a bit late, but see below)
Guo et al show that while place cells may not initially form a manifold reflecting the environment's topology, the topology is learned across days, during sleep.
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Another story to tell about this paper 👇
1/5
Guo et al show that while place cells may not initially form a manifold reflecting the environment's topology, the topology is learned across days, during sleep.
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Another story to tell about this paper 👇
1/5
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Neuroscience students asked us to teach a PRACTICAL course on experimental methods, and it is now on YouTube!
Please like and repost to help us get the word out!
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition
Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization
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Please like and repost to help us get the word out!
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition
Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization
🧵
Neuroscience methods - YouTube
Nanocourse: Approaches to Study Neural Circuits This course was taught by Anita Autry, Tiago Gonçalves, and Luke Sjulson at Albert Einstein College of Medici...
www.youtube.com
December 13, 2024 at 11:33 AM
Neuroscience students asked us to teach a PRACTICAL course on experimental methods, and it is now on YouTube!
Please like and repost to help us get the word out!
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition
Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization
🧵
Please like and repost to help us get the word out!
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition
Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization
🧵