Sam Berry
@drberry.bsky.social
Postdoc neuroscience researcher at Royal Holloway. Exploring the connections of little brain regions with MRI. Interested in memory, stress, and the interplay between them.
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Neuroscientists long ignored variability in animals’ behavior in favor of studying differences across groups. But now researchers are studying the brain differences that underlie that variability—and their efforts are beginning to pay off.
www.thetransmitter.org/animal-behav...
www.thetransmitter.org/animal-behav...
Escaping groupthink: What animals’ behavioral quirks reveal about the brain
Neuroscientists have long ignored the variability in animals’ behavioral responses in favor of studying differences across groups. But work on the brain differences that underlie that variability is…
www.thetransmitter.org
May 23, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Neuroscientists long ignored variability in animals’ behavior in favor of studying differences across groups. But now researchers are studying the brain differences that underlie that variability—and their efforts are beginning to pay off.
www.thetransmitter.org/animal-behav...
www.thetransmitter.org/animal-behav...
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This looks super interesting!
A vectorial code for semantics in human hippocampus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.21.639601v1
February 23, 2025 at 8:47 AM
This looks super interesting!
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A blatant assault on academic freedom
February 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
A blatant assault on academic freedom
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We got a message from the university to remove any use of the "DEI", "diversity", "equity", or "inclusion" from all public-facing documents. They said that even "biodiversity" is being flagged by the federal government. We live in the dumbest timeline.
February 11, 2025 at 8:47 AM
We got a message from the university to remove any use of the "DEI", "diversity", "equity", or "inclusion" from all public-facing documents. They said that even "biodiversity" is being flagged by the federal government. We live in the dumbest timeline.
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Cognitive maps for hierarchical spaces in the human brain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.05.636580v1
February 6, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Cognitive maps for hierarchical spaces in the human brain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.05.636580v1
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@drberry.bsky.social testing his new VR anxiety and exploration paradigm on an unsuspecting @kavishinia.bsky.social!
January 31, 2025 at 5:19 PM
@drberry.bsky.social testing his new VR anxiety and exploration paradigm on an unsuspecting @kavishinia.bsky.social!
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Nature
Episodic and associative memory from spatial scaffolds in the hippocampus
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Episodic and associative memory from spatial scaffolds in the hippocampus
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Episodic and associative memory from spatial scaffolds in the hippocampus - Nature
A neocortical–entorhinal–hippocampal network model based on grid cell states recapitulates experimental results and reconciles the spatial, associative and episodic memory roles of the hippocampus.
www.nature.com
January 25, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Nature
Episodic and associative memory from spatial scaffolds in the hippocampus
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Episodic and associative memory from spatial scaffolds in the hippocampus
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Great video from Led By Donkeys laying it all out youtu.be/NjWl_RNDMSA?...
Heil Tesla
YouTube video by Led By Donkeys
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January 25, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Great video from Led By Donkeys laying it all out youtu.be/NjWl_RNDMSA?...
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Happy 30th birthday year to SPM!! 🎈🍰
To get the party started, we are delighted to announce SPM 25.01, a major new version of the open-source neuroimaging software.
Read the preprint to discover what's new arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12081 and download SPM for free from Github github.com/spm/spm/rele...
To get the party started, we are delighted to announce SPM 25.01, a major new version of the open-source neuroimaging software.
Read the preprint to discover what's new arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12081 and download SPM for free from Github github.com/spm/spm/rele...
arxiv.org
January 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Happy 30th birthday year to SPM!! 🎈🍰
To get the party started, we are delighted to announce SPM 25.01, a major new version of the open-source neuroimaging software.
Read the preprint to discover what's new arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12081 and download SPM for free from Github github.com/spm/spm/rele...
To get the party started, we are delighted to announce SPM 25.01, a major new version of the open-source neuroimaging software.
Read the preprint to discover what's new arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12081 and download SPM for free from Github github.com/spm/spm/rele...
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Coverage of our recent project in an Italian newspaper
Always sounds more evocative in Italian!
www.ilsole24ore.com/art/neurosci...
(see below advert for a PhD scholarship (internationally open) to come work with us)
Always sounds more evocative in Italian!
www.ilsole24ore.com/art/neurosci...
(see below advert for a PhD scholarship (internationally open) to come work with us)
January 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Coverage of our recent project in an Italian newspaper
Always sounds more evocative in Italian!
www.ilsole24ore.com/art/neurosci...
(see below advert for a PhD scholarship (internationally open) to come work with us)
Always sounds more evocative in Italian!
www.ilsole24ore.com/art/neurosci...
(see below advert for a PhD scholarship (internationally open) to come work with us)
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New ep! 🎊 this week, @gemmarides.bsky.social & Gaia are joined by Dr Vanita Chamdal, a Teaching Fellow at @royalholloway.bsky.social & therapist. Listen in for advice on how to balance productivity with wellbeing as a PhD student, & what unis & supervisors should be doing to support their students.
January 14, 2025 at 8:43 AM
New ep! 🎊 this week, @gemmarides.bsky.social & Gaia are joined by Dr Vanita Chamdal, a Teaching Fellow at @royalholloway.bsky.social & therapist. Listen in for advice on how to balance productivity with wellbeing as a PhD student, & what unis & supervisors should be doing to support their students.
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A few months ago I read @philipncohen.com's Citizen Scholar in proof. It's now available in print.
To restore public trust in expertise, professors can’t just profess—they need to engage. Citizen Scholar explores how contemporary academics can do this, and why they might choose to.
To restore public trust in expertise, professors can’t just profess—they need to engage. Citizen Scholar explores how contemporary academics can do this, and why they might choose to.
January 7, 2025 at 5:13 AM
A few months ago I read @philipncohen.com's Citizen Scholar in proof. It's now available in print.
To restore public trust in expertise, professors can’t just profess—they need to engage. Citizen Scholar explores how contemporary academics can do this, and why they might choose to.
To restore public trust in expertise, professors can’t just profess—they need to engage. Citizen Scholar explores how contemporary academics can do this, and why they might choose to.
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Struck by how many reflections here and offline focus on how Eleanor encouraged and supported their science and careers. A reminder that we distinguish ourselves by our kindness to others. Today, before the mayhem of the new year takes over, take a moment to do something kind for someone if you can.
The saddest news. I was fortunate to count Eleanor as a mentor for many years. She did some of the most innovative and exciting memory research in my lifetime, and was always hugely supportive of others, particularly those early in their careers. A devastating loss.
I just learned the very sad news that Eleanor Maguire passed away. It is very unlikely that I would be where I am if it wasn't for the work that she did since the early 2000s. She was a real trailblazer in the cognitive neuroscience of autobiographical memory, and conducted some (1/n)
January 6, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Struck by how many reflections here and offline focus on how Eleanor encouraged and supported their science and careers. A reminder that we distinguish ourselves by our kindness to others. Today, before the mayhem of the new year takes over, take a moment to do something kind for someone if you can.
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An online tribute page has been set up to remember Eleanor Maguire: 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…
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January 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM
An online tribute page has been set up to remember Eleanor Maguire: www.online-tribute.com/EleanorMaguire
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"Rather than avoiding this type of research, our best path forward is to proceed with caution and humility, using the flawed tools we have. Two crucial guide rails can steady our journey: close adherence to the scientific method and a proactive stance against bias." tinyurl.com/5b6nbezv
Males and females show different patterns of risk for brain-based conditions. Ignoring these differences does us all a disservice.
Although studying sex differences in the brain is complex, technically awkward and socioculturally loaded, it is absolutely essential.
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December 14, 2024 at 1:06 PM
"Rather than avoiding this type of research, our best path forward is to proceed with caution and humility, using the flawed tools we have. Two crucial guide rails can steady our journey: close adherence to the scientific method and a proactive stance against bias." tinyurl.com/5b6nbezv
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We're excited to join BlueSky! Make sure to follow us for the latest news from the UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences! We'll be posting about our cutting edge research, Faculty events and opportunities!
December 11, 2024 at 5:00 PM
We're excited to join BlueSky! Make sure to follow us for the latest news from the UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences! We'll be posting about our cutting edge research, Faculty events and opportunities!
I've always struggled to get this properly in my head - happy to read it doesn't, in the end, matter that much (don't kill me statisticians).
New post on the 100% Christmas Interval -- after almost 8 years, it's time that we finally talk about CIs.
www.the100.ci/2024/12/05/w...
www.the100.ci/2024/12/05/w...
Why you are not allowed to say that your 95% confidence interval contains the true parameter with a probability of 95%
A shibboleth is a custom, such as a choice of phrasing, that distinguishes one group of people from another. The term goes back to the Hebrew Bible, in which the inhabitants of Gilead identify members...
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December 6, 2024 at 11:52 AM
I've always struggled to get this properly in my head - happy to read it doesn't, in the end, matter that much (don't kill me statisticians).
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Our department @rhulpsychology.bsky.social has a starter pack for you all go.bsky.app/9en5Po4
December 3, 2024 at 3:45 PM
Our department @rhulpsychology.bsky.social has a starter pack for you all go.bsky.app/9en5Po4
Wow this looks interesting! I will add it to my ever expanding list of papers to read.
Well that's a spanner in the works. Transient CaMKII inhibition in the amygdala blocks the short term memory (1h) but the long term memory (>1 day) still forms!!!!
Brilliant work from the Yasuda lab
#neuroscience #biophysics
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Brilliant work from the Yasuda lab
#neuroscience #biophysics
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Formation of long-term memory without short-term memory revealed by CaMKII inhibition - Nature Neuroscience
Inhibiting CaMKII impairs short-term memory (STM) in mice during an avoidance task but does not affect long-term memory (LTM). This suggests that STM and LTM are processed differently, with CaMKII cri...
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December 6, 2024 at 10:38 AM
Wow this looks interesting! I will add it to my ever expanding list of papers to read.
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Hey #neuroskyence #compneurosky, et al., I am looking for code examples of reinforcement learning modeling in Python 🐍 I am mainly interested in *code organization* here. Thanks for any pointers to your favorite examples! 💫
December 6, 2024 at 7:49 AM
Hey #neuroskyence #compneurosky, et al., I am looking for code examples of reinforcement learning modeling in Python 🐍 I am mainly interested in *code organization* here. Thanks for any pointers to your favorite examples! 💫
Rare picture of my dog Archie in his bed. He gets into it about once a month for no longer than 10 minutes at a time.
December 5, 2024 at 7:48 PM
Rare picture of my dog Archie in his bed. He gets into it about once a month for no longer than 10 minutes at a time.
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I keep saying i'm korean but it's moments like this that remind me im a korean american. I simply have no idea what the fuck is happening here
December 3, 2024 at 6:00 PM
I keep saying i'm korean but it's moments like this that remind me im a korean american. I simply have no idea what the fuck is happening here
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the rapid transition of academics off x (despite temporarily reducing reach/followers) makes you wonder what’s stopping us from ending the for-profit, closed access publishing industry. it’s, like…. we can just do it? or if not, interesting to consider what the inertial differences are.
November 30, 2024 at 12:56 PM
the rapid transition of academics off x (despite temporarily reducing reach/followers) makes you wonder what’s stopping us from ending the for-profit, closed access publishing industry. it’s, like…. we can just do it? or if not, interesting to consider what the inertial differences are.