Fernanda González
@fernandagonzalez.bsky.social
Studying minds and brains by the Mediterranean coast.
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Another of Charlie Gross’s passions was history of neuroscience. He wrote excellent books. This gave him a wide-angle view. He taught us that dogma exists to be challenged, we haven’t figured things out, and being a stepping stone is inevitable and perfectly fine.
direct.mit.edu/books/book/2...
direct.mit.edu/books/book/2...
Brain, Vision, Memory: Tales in the History of Neuroscience
In these engaging tales describing the growth of knowledge about the brain—from the early Egyptians and Greeks to the Dark Ages and the Renaissance to the
direct.mit.edu
November 26, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Another of Charlie Gross’s passions was history of neuroscience. He wrote excellent books. This gave him a wide-angle view. He taught us that dogma exists to be challenged, we haven’t figured things out, and being a stepping stone is inevitable and perfectly fine.
direct.mit.edu/books/book/2...
direct.mit.edu/books/book/2...
thanks for the follow up!!! just registered 🙌
September 22, 2025 at 1:14 PM
thanks for the follow up!!! just registered 🙌
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When reporting on these kinds of claims, the media should ask:
September 7, 2025 at 11:14 AM
When reporting on these kinds of claims, the media should ask:
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Here in the style of Burroughs:
Mock tribunal in the NIH meat locker. Fluorescents buzzing, spitting static. Half-rotted grant carcasses laid out on the table, twitching. You circle, knives of jargon sharpened, scalpels of critique. Tear the paper flesh, spill the weak hypotheses on the linoleum.
Mock tribunal in the NIH meat locker. Fluorescents buzzing, spitting static. Half-rotted grant carcasses laid out on the table, twitching. You circle, knives of jargon sharpened, scalpels of critique. Tear the paper flesh, spill the weak hypotheses on the linoleum.
August 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Here in the style of Burroughs:
Mock tribunal in the NIH meat locker. Fluorescents buzzing, spitting static. Half-rotted grant carcasses laid out on the table, twitching. You circle, knives of jargon sharpened, scalpels of critique. Tear the paper flesh, spill the weak hypotheses on the linoleum.
Mock tribunal in the NIH meat locker. Fluorescents buzzing, spitting static. Half-rotted grant carcasses laid out on the table, twitching. You circle, knives of jargon sharpened, scalpels of critique. Tear the paper flesh, spill the weak hypotheses on the linoleum.
Many thanks!
August 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Many thanks!
How to join? Is there a link?
August 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
How to join? Is there a link?
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August 20, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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I do think this one from @kordinglab.bsky.social is required reading, at least to be aware of the issues and risk of over-interpreting correlation-only “representation”.
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
Three aspects of representation in neuroscience
Neuroscientists often describe neural activity as a representation of something, or
claim to have found evidence for a neural representation, but there is considerable
ambiguity about what such claims...
www.cell.com
April 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I do think this one from @kordinglab.bsky.social is required reading, at least to be aware of the issues and risk of over-interpreting correlation-only “representation”.
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...