Badr Albanna
@badralbanna.bsky.social
Mad scientist. Really mad. • AI Research Engineer @ Duolingo • Professor @ Pitt• he/him/his • Formerly @ Fordham UCBerkeley Yale
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Was just pointed to this important preprint from @minsanally.bsky.social :
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-4...
tl;dr: classically "non-responsive" cells are preferentially recruited by top-down inputs and are critical for learning.
So, my neuro-friends: Don't ignore untuned cells!!!!
🧠📈 🧪
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-4...
tl;dr: classically "non-responsive" cells are preferentially recruited by top-down inputs and are critical for learning.
So, my neuro-friends: Don't ignore untuned cells!!!!
🧠📈 🧪
Dynamic gating of perceptual flexibility by non-classically responsive cortical neurons
The ability to flexibly respond to sensory cues in dynamic environments is essential to adaptive auditory-guided behaviors. Cortical spiking responses during behavior are highly diverse, ranging from ...
www.researchsquare.com
April 17, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Was just pointed to this important preprint from @minsanally.bsky.social :
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-4...
tl;dr: classically "non-responsive" cells are preferentially recruited by top-down inputs and are critical for learning.
So, my neuro-friends: Don't ignore untuned cells!!!!
🧠📈 🧪
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-4...
tl;dr: classically "non-responsive" cells are preferentially recruited by top-down inputs and are critical for learning.
So, my neuro-friends: Don't ignore untuned cells!!!!
🧠📈 🧪
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Come check out our posters at Cosyne this year! #cosyne2025 @cosynemeeting.bsky.social
March 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Come check out our posters at Cosyne this year! #cosyne2025 @cosynemeeting.bsky.social
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There are hard skills in physiology, biology, psychology. Experimental design is one of them. As an EE by training, this deference to math, physics, engineering misses the point that neuroscience is not a discipline and we need teams of domain experts to make progress on the big questions.
Paul Middlebrooks asked what we need to prepare the next gen of scientists. @tyrellturing.bsky.social said that we need to first teach students hard skills earlier in their careers: math, physics, engineering, and then have them do biology experiments, instead of the opposite order. I agree 2/
November 19, 2024 at 7:51 PM
There are hard skills in physiology, biology, psychology. Experimental design is one of them. As an EE by training, this deference to math, physics, engineering misses the point that neuroscience is not a discipline and we need teams of domain experts to make progress on the big questions.
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𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗱𝗼 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲??
This way! Every neuro program should just make this required reading and teach students how to do outstanding science like this.
Further the discoveries in this paper merit a Kavli neuroscience award to the team!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience
This way! Every neuro program should just make this required reading and teach students how to do outstanding science like this.
Further the discoveries in this paper merit a Kavli neuroscience award to the team!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience
November 8, 2024 at 10:09 PM
𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗱𝗼 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲??
This way! Every neuro program should just make this required reading and teach students how to do outstanding science like this.
Further the discoveries in this paper merit a Kavli neuroscience award to the team!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience
This way! Every neuro program should just make this required reading and teach students how to do outstanding science like this.
Further the discoveries in this paper merit a Kavli neuroscience award to the team!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience
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In researching the class I'll present this week I am reviewing the story of James Watson, Nobel Laureate foir hsi work on DNA structure and a prominent leader in our community for decades, including a leadership role in the Human Genome Project 1/n 🧪
October 20, 2024 at 11:02 AM
In researching the class I'll present this week I am reviewing the story of James Watson, Nobel Laureate foir hsi work on DNA structure and a prominent leader in our community for decades, including a leadership role in the Human Genome Project 1/n 🧪
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I'm on an airplane right now, enroute to a conference on interplanetary dust. But the Sun just set and like always I got excited at seeing the curvature of Earth directly. The Earth's shadow is dead straight; the horizon curves away from it. #EarthIsNotFlat and I am an eyewitness! 🧪🔭
October 19, 2024 at 11:41 PM
I'm on an airplane right now, enroute to a conference on interplanetary dust. But the Sun just set and like always I got excited at seeing the curvature of Earth directly. The Earth's shadow is dead straight; the horizon curves away from it. #EarthIsNotFlat and I am an eyewitness! 🧪🔭