Charlie Wilson
@crewilson.bsky.social
🧠 Neuroscientist at INSERM SBRI Lyon 🧠
Prefrontal neural dynamics, learning to learn, oscillations, occasional 🐒 chat.
🇬🇧 in 🇫🇷; Conductor; horn player; slow cyclist.
Prefrontal neural dynamics, learning to learn, oscillations, occasional 🐒 chat.
🇬🇧 in 🇫🇷; Conductor; horn player; slow cyclist.
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Research in primate brains has been essential for the development of brain-computer interfaces and artificial neural networks. New funding and policy changes put future such advances at risk, write Cory Miller, @movshon.bsky.social and Doris Tsao.
#neuroskyence
bit.ly/47MXYLH
#neuroskyence
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Without monkeys, neuroscience has no future
Research in primate brains has been essential for the development of BCIs, ANNs. New funding and policy changes put future such advances at risk.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Research in primate brains has been essential for the development of brain-computer interfaces and artificial neural networks. New funding and policy changes put future such advances at risk, write Cory Miller, @movshon.bsky.social and Doris Tsao.
#neuroskyence
bit.ly/47MXYLH
#neuroskyence
bit.ly/47MXYLH
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A spatially resolved transcriptomic atlas of the primate amygdala (human, macaque, and baboon) now out in Science Advances (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...). The amygdala contains 32 types of neurons with many neuron types specific to particular subdivisions.
Lots of updates from the preprint!
Lots of updates from the preprint!
Transcriptomic diversity of amygdalar subdivisions across humans and nonhuman primates
Specialized cell types and links to psychiatric disorders are revealed by genetic mapping of primate amygdala neurons.
www.science.org
September 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM
A spatially resolved transcriptomic atlas of the primate amygdala (human, macaque, and baboon) now out in Science Advances (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...). The amygdala contains 32 types of neurons with many neuron types specific to particular subdivisions.
Lots of updates from the preprint!
Lots of updates from the preprint!
A fun hippo thread that is worth your time…
“ it makes neutering them a copper-plated bitch.”
“ it makes neutering them a copper-plated bitch.”
I have been doing entirely too much earnest posting about deep things recently, I need to do a proper thread about hippo testicles or something just to keep myself sane.
Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.
Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.
a statue of a hippopotamus with its mouth open and teeth showing .
Alt: A hippo being tossed a watermelon, which it crushes in its massive jaws.
media.tenor.com
March 12, 2025 at 1:46 PM
A fun hippo thread that is worth your time…
“ it makes neutering them a copper-plated bitch.”
“ it makes neutering them a copper-plated bitch.”
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Reposted by Charlie Wilson
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Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
March 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
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Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people.
Good trade.
Good trade.
January 17, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people.
Good trade.
Good trade.
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Very sad news, an inspiring scientist.
It is with profound sadness that we share the devastating news that Eleanor Maguire passed away on January 4th. She was a phenomenally brilliant neuroscientist, with immense passion for her work and many remarkable accomplishments. We will miss her terribly.
www.online-tribute.com/EleanorMaguire
www.online-tribute.com/EleanorMaguire
Eleanor Maguire | 1970 - 2025 | Online-Tribute.com
Learning and memory are so fundamental to us, so enmeshed throughout cognition, that ‘solving’ memory, unpacking its neural mechanisms and being able to conceptualise it fully will, I believe, res…
www.online-tribute.com
January 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Very sad news, an inspiring scientist.
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MRC Units across the UK have led the scientific world for generations, but are due to be closed with little consultation, for reasons that are largely unknown. Please sign this letter if you would like the MRC to reconsider. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Open letter to Sir Patrick Vallance
To sign the letter, please complete the form here: https://forms.gle/eRydV6VpMQVFPtdF7 Please forward a link to this letter to any colleagues who you think may be interested in signing – we would li...
docs.google.com
December 18, 2024 at 12:14 PM
MRC Units across the UK have led the scientific world for generations, but are due to be closed with little consultation, for reasons that are largely unknown. Please sign this letter if you would like the MRC to reconsider. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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New 💥beta burst💥 paper! With Sotirios Papadopoulos, Jérémie Mattout of @cophy.bsky.social, and @maciekszul.bsky.social, we show how waveform-specific beta burst rates outperform classic motor imagery BCI approaches based on beta power
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
Surfing beta burst waveforms to improve motor imagery-based BCI
Abstract. Our understanding of motor-related, macroscale brain processes has been significantly shaped by the description of the event-related desynchronization (ERD) and synchronization (ERS) phenome...
direct.mit.edu
December 18, 2024 at 12:56 PM
New 💥beta burst💥 paper! With Sotirios Papadopoulos, Jérémie Mattout of @cophy.bsky.social, and @maciekszul.bsky.social, we show how waveform-specific beta burst rates outperform classic motor imagery BCI approaches based on beta power
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
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Check out our recent article by Sotirios Papadopoulos, Jérémie Mattout, @maciekszul.bsky.social, @danclab.bsky.social et al.!
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
Surfing beta burst waveforms to improve motor imagery-based BCI
Abstract. Our understanding of motor-related, macroscale brain processes has been significantly shaped by the description of the event-related desynchronization (ERD) and synchronization (ERS) phenome...
direct.mit.edu
December 18, 2024 at 12:00 PM
Check out our recent article by Sotirios Papadopoulos, Jérémie Mattout, @maciekszul.bsky.social, @danclab.bsky.social et al.!
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
One of those days where you bust out the soldering iron half way through the experiment 🤷♂️
December 16, 2024 at 3:10 PM
One of those days where you bust out the soldering iron half way through the experiment 🤷♂️
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⚠️ New preprint !
« Social determinants of cognitive aging trajectories across 39 countries »
Some people in their 80s have cognitive abilities similar to many 30-year-olds, others are severely diminished. How comes?
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
A short 🧵👇 1/7
« Social determinants of cognitive aging trajectories across 39 countries »
Some people in their 80s have cognitive abilities similar to many 30-year-olds, others are severely diminished. How comes?
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
A short 🧵👇 1/7
December 9, 2024 at 10:51 AM
⚠️ New preprint !
« Social determinants of cognitive aging trajectories across 39 countries »
Some people in their 80s have cognitive abilities similar to many 30-year-olds, others are severely diminished. How comes?
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
A short 🧵👇 1/7
« Social determinants of cognitive aging trajectories across 39 countries »
Some people in their 80s have cognitive abilities similar to many 30-year-olds, others are severely diminished. How comes?
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
A short 🧵👇 1/7
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I have not seen a starter pack for the study of brain rhythms. So, here's a start.
go.bsky.app/A6zgHeE
go.bsky.app/A6zgHeE
November 26, 2024 at 5:52 PM
I have not seen a starter pack for the study of brain rhythms. So, here's a start.
go.bsky.app/A6zgHeE
go.bsky.app/A6zgHeE
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Do you know how dark Twitter has to be for *STEPHEN KING* to say it’s too dark
November 15, 2024 at 1:22 AM
Do you know how dark Twitter has to be for *STEPHEN KING* to say it’s too dark
I've largely been absent from the socials, for reasons, but as this place seems to have a reasonable discussion to bullshit ratio, and folks are here now, let's give it another go. Here is an introductory thread for all these lovely new followers....
Hello world.
I'm a neuroscientist based in Lyon studying the neurophysiology of the prefrontal cortex, and how it changes during learning & cognitive training. Particularly interested in the role of neural oscillations in frontal regions.
#Neuroskyence #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #neurocience
I'm a neuroscientist based in Lyon studying the neurophysiology of the prefrontal cortex, and how it changes during learning & cognitive training. Particularly interested in the role of neural oscillations in frontal regions.
#Neuroskyence #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #neurocience
November 15, 2024 at 12:13 PM
I've largely been absent from the socials, for reasons, but as this place seems to have a reasonable discussion to bullshit ratio, and folks are here now, let's give it another go. Here is an introductory thread for all these lovely new followers....
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Thrilled to be presenting at the Foraging Conference: Mechanisms of foraging, information seeking and exploration. Please join us in delightful Lyon, France, Dec 11-13 for in-depth, exciting discussion. Registration and poster abstracts now open: bit.ly/48levq6 #Neuroscience
Foraging conference
REGISTRATIONS ARE OPEN, Abstract submission for posters also!
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October 22, 2024 at 1:30 PM
Thrilled to be presenting at the Foraging Conference: Mechanisms of foraging, information seeking and exploration. Please join us in delightful Lyon, France, Dec 11-13 for in-depth, exciting discussion. Registration and poster abstracts now open: bit.ly/48levq6 #Neuroscience
Magnificent
26 years after Larry Swanson emphasized “the amygdala is neither a structural or functional unit” we used sn-RNAseq to answer the question:
“What is the [primate] amygdala?”
Check out the preprint 👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
“What is the [primate] amygdala?”
Check out the preprint 👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 21, 2024 at 11:41 AM
Magnificent
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Always limit your global variable changes.
December 18, 2023 at 6:35 PM
Always limit your global variable changes.
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famous moments in psychology / cog-sci as lego sets, a thread.
1. Pavlov's dogs.
1. Pavlov's dogs.
November 20, 2023 at 3:08 PM
famous moments in psychology / cog-sci as lego sets, a thread.
1. Pavlov's dogs.
1. Pavlov's dogs.
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me responding to colleagues' emails about this grant I'm working on
October 27, 2023 at 1:42 AM
me responding to colleagues' emails about this grant I'm working on
Hello world.
I'm a neuroscientist based in Lyon studying the neurophysiology of the prefrontal cortex, and how it changes during learning & cognitive training. Particularly interested in the role of neural oscillations in frontal regions.
#Neuroskyence #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #neurocience
I'm a neuroscientist based in Lyon studying the neurophysiology of the prefrontal cortex, and how it changes during learning & cognitive training. Particularly interested in the role of neural oscillations in frontal regions.
#Neuroskyence #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #neurocience
September 25, 2023 at 11:54 AM
Hello world.
I'm a neuroscientist based in Lyon studying the neurophysiology of the prefrontal cortex, and how it changes during learning & cognitive training. Particularly interested in the role of neural oscillations in frontal regions.
#Neuroskyence #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #neurocience
I'm a neuroscientist based in Lyon studying the neurophysiology of the prefrontal cortex, and how it changes during learning & cognitive training. Particularly interested in the role of neural oscillations in frontal regions.
#Neuroskyence #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #neurocience