Meriam Zid
meriamzd.bsky.social
Meriam Zid
@meriamzd.bsky.social
Phd candidate, Neuroscience, University of Montreal.
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@backyardbrains.bsky.social is building a small, affordable BCI kit!!!

keep an eye on their kickstarter 👇

www.kickstarter.com/projects/bac...
Coming soon: Spiker:bit — Neurotech Education for Everyone!
Spiker:bit is a brain-computer interface built for the micro:bit. Create inventions with brainwaves, muscle signals, and heartbeats!
www.kickstarter.com
July 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Hey hey! Going to RLDM this year? We are organizing the interdisciplinary workshop PIMBAA: Principles of Intrinsic Motivations in Biological and Artificial Agents. Join us (and our amazing speaker lineup!) to discuss IMs in Neuro, CogSci, RL and Robotics.

Website: sites.google.com/view/pimbaa2...
PIMBAA @ RLDM2025
Inviting all Curious Agents to attend our workshop! The goal of PIMBAA is to bring together experts in intrinsic motivation across cognitive sciences, neuroscience, developmental science, robotics and...
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February 17, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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I am incredibly proud to share my first, first-author paper as a postdoc with @benhayden.bsky.social . How does the human hippocampus, known for encoding concepts, represent the meanings of words while listening to narrative speech?
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
February 27, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Neuropixels and Optogenetics are delighted to announce the birth of

Neuropixels Opto

Combining high-resolution electrophysiology and optogenetics

Today in bioRxiv

960 sites, 28 emitters, 2 colors

By Lakunina, @karolinazsocha.bsky.social, Ladd, et al

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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February 7, 2025 at 9:16 AM