Luis Cobar
@prime5222.bsky.social
Salvadoran Neuroscientist 🇸🇻 PhD | Senior Research Advisor @ims-mrl.bsky.social | previously @kavlintnu.bsky.social (Nigro Lab) | Opinions my own | 🇹🇼 🇸🇬 🇳🇴 🇬🇧
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📆 updated for 2026!
list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP: 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP: 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
various computational neuroscience / MEEG / LFP short courses and summer schools
docs.google.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
📆 updated for 2026!
list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP: 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP: 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Reposted by Luis Cobar
How do biological agents learn for the future?
Our perspective piece on the value of prospective learning in neuroscience is finally out. This is part of a long running collaboration with @kordinglab.bsky.social & Josh Vogelstein (as well as many other people)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Our perspective piece on the value of prospective learning in neuroscience is finally out. This is part of a long running collaboration with @kordinglab.bsky.social & Josh Vogelstein (as well as many other people)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
December 17, 2025 at 5:06 PM
How do biological agents learn for the future?
Our perspective piece on the value of prospective learning in neuroscience is finally out. This is part of a long running collaboration with @kordinglab.bsky.social & Josh Vogelstein (as well as many other people)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Our perspective piece on the value of prospective learning in neuroscience is finally out. This is part of a long running collaboration with @kordinglab.bsky.social & Josh Vogelstein (as well as many other people)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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It was a big year for mathematics. youtu.be/hRpcWpAeWng
The Biggest Breakthroughs in Mathematics: 2025
YouTube video by Quanta Magazine
youtu.be
December 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM
It was a big year for mathematics. youtu.be/hRpcWpAeWng
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My first paper just got published last week!
*Longitudinal tracking of neuronal activity from the same cells in the developing brain using Track2p*
elifesciences.org/articles/107...
*Longitudinal tracking of neuronal activity from the same cells in the developing brain using Track2p*
elifesciences.org/articles/107...
December 18, 2025 at 10:59 AM
My first paper just got published last week!
*Longitudinal tracking of neuronal activity from the same cells in the developing brain using Track2p*
elifesciences.org/articles/107...
*Longitudinal tracking of neuronal activity from the same cells in the developing brain using Track2p*
elifesciences.org/articles/107...
Reposted by Luis Cobar
New online! Characteristics and mechanisms of cognitive impairment in Parkinson disease
Characteristics and mechanisms of cognitive impairment in Parkinson disease
Nature Reviews Neurology, Published online: 03 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41582-025-01163-xCognitive impairment is one of a range of non-motor symptoms that people with Parkinson disease (PD) can experience in addition to the hallmark motor symptoms of the disease. In this Review, Oikonomou et al. outline the epidemiology and natural history of cognitive decline in PD and related disorders, and discuss the key underlying pathophysiological factors and mechanisms.
bit.ly
December 4, 2025 at 9:10 AM
New online! Characteristics and mechanisms of cognitive impairment in Parkinson disease
Al cambiar de trabajo, tuve la necesidad de aprender varias cosas y ponerlas dentro del marco de mi experiencia previa. Quise escribir lo poco que he aprendido en los últimos meses y hacer un breve texto para gente de mí país. Me gustaría compartirlo:
gatoencerrado.news/2025/11/28/c...
gatoencerrado.news/2025/11/28/c...
CIENCIA | La neurociencia de la pérdida de peso
El desarrollo de nuevas drogas para la pérdida de peso ha abierto el debate sobre el lugar de estos fármacos en medio de una epidemia mundial de obesidad.
gatoencerrado.news
December 1, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Al cambiar de trabajo, tuve la necesidad de aprender varias cosas y ponerlas dentro del marco de mi experiencia previa. Quise escribir lo poco que he aprendido en los últimos meses y hacer un breve texto para gente de mí país. Me gustaría compartirlo:
gatoencerrado.news/2025/11/28/c...
gatoencerrado.news/2025/11/28/c...
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Tactile responses in the mouse perirhinal cortex show invariance to physical features of the stimulus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.15.670508v1
August 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Tactile responses in the mouse perirhinal cortex show invariance to physical features of the stimulus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.15.670508v1
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Our first steps into sensory processing is now online!
Work spearheaded by Rejwan Salih from experiments by @prime5222.bsky.social and François Pauzin
We were lucky to receive guidance from Davide Zoccolan on the analytical methods.
#neuroskyence
Work spearheaded by Rejwan Salih from experiments by @prime5222.bsky.social and François Pauzin
We were lucky to receive guidance from Davide Zoccolan on the analytical methods.
#neuroskyence
Tactile responses in the mouse perirhinal cortex show invariance to physical features of the stimulus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.15.670508v1
August 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Our first steps into sensory processing is now online!
Work spearheaded by Rejwan Salih from experiments by @prime5222.bsky.social and François Pauzin
We were lucky to receive guidance from Davide Zoccolan on the analytical methods.
#neuroskyence
Work spearheaded by Rejwan Salih from experiments by @prime5222.bsky.social and François Pauzin
We were lucky to receive guidance from Davide Zoccolan on the analytical methods.
#neuroskyence
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We are super happy to announce the fourth edition of School of Ideas in Neuroscience! Come to Warsaw in September for in-depth talks, discussions and workshops that will help you to make sense of your data! The deadline for registration is July 21, 2025.
July 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
We are super happy to announce the fourth edition of School of Ideas in Neuroscience! Come to Warsaw in September for in-depth talks, discussions and workshops that will help you to make sense of your data! The deadline for registration is July 21, 2025.
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We are super happy to announce the third Workshop of Ideas in Neuroscience! We will once again look critically at assumptions of modern neuroscience: what does it mean that the brain encodes information? Is this a useful approach, or a metaphor that blurs our vision?
April 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
We are super happy to announce the third Workshop of Ideas in Neuroscience! We will once again look critically at assumptions of modern neuroscience: what does it mean that the brain encodes information? Is this a useful approach, or a metaphor that blurs our vision?
Reposted by Luis Cobar
Reposted by Luis Cobar
Possible answers to Fermi’s “paradox” abound. For instance, maybe alien civilizations destroy themselves before they can become interstellar wanderers. A new proposal challenges that bleak conclusion.
Why Everything in the Universe Turns More Complex | Quanta Magazine
A new suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to rewrite notions of time and evolution.
www.quantamagazine.org
April 3, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Possible answers to Fermi’s “paradox” abound. For instance, maybe alien civilizations destroy themselves before they can become interstellar wanderers. A new proposal challenges that bleak conclusion.
Reposted by Luis Cobar
Many of us use 2p scopes to image 3D volumes of brain. But then we analyze the data plane by plane, resulting in duplicated neurons, missed neurons, and low s/n. Let's go 3D!
Suite3D: Volumetric cell detection for two-photon microscopy
by @haydari.bsky.social & team.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Suite3D: Volumetric cell detection for two-photon microscopy
by @haydari.bsky.social & team.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
April 1, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Many of us use 2p scopes to image 3D volumes of brain. But then we analyze the data plane by plane, resulting in duplicated neurons, missed neurons, and low s/n. Let's go 3D!
Suite3D: Volumetric cell detection for two-photon microscopy
by @haydari.bsky.social & team.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Suite3D: Volumetric cell detection for two-photon microscopy
by @haydari.bsky.social & team.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...
Opinion | What Autocrats Want From Academics: Servility
In 1931, Italian scholars were made to take loyalty oaths. Will that happen to us?
www.chronicle.com
March 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...
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Belelli et al. explore the role of GABA in integrating brain and GI tract functions. They discuss how gut bacteria use and produce GABA, influencing brain activity and providing potential therapeutic opportunities for brain disorders. tinyurl.com/yc283kby
March 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Belelli et al. explore the role of GABA in integrating brain and GI tract functions. They discuss how gut bacteria use and produce GABA, influencing brain activity and providing potential therapeutic opportunities for brain disorders. tinyurl.com/yc283kby
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In chaotic systems, the smallest fluctuations get amplified. As scientist Edward Lorenz put it in the 1960s and 70s, even a seagull flapping its wings might eventually make a big difference to the weather. Here's how scientists came to understand what chaos is, and how to wrangle it:
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March 14, 2025 at 5:38 PM
In chaotic systems, the smallest fluctuations get amplified. As scientist Edward Lorenz put it in the 1960s and 70s, even a seagull flapping its wings might eventually make a big difference to the weather. Here's how scientists came to understand what chaos is, and how to wrangle it:
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Reposted by Luis Cobar
I spoke about science and activism with @elife.bsky.social, together with @clarekelly.bsky.social:
elifesciences.org/interviews/1...
elifesciences.org/interviews/1...
Activism and Science: Anne Urai and Clare Kelly on responding to the climate and biodiversity crises
How an economic framework may inspire new ways to tackle the climate crisis.
elifesciences.org
March 14, 2025 at 10:20 AM
I spoke about science and activism with @elife.bsky.social, together with @clarekelly.bsky.social:
elifesciences.org/interviews/1...
elifesciences.org/interviews/1...
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in our new lab work, we find that:
natural forgetting & induced amnesia share common impaired neural dynamics
this work was funded by multiple #NIH grants that supported students, postdocs, & the science, all with the goal of healing disorders of memory & the brain
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
natural forgetting & induced amnesia share common impaired neural dynamics
this work was funded by multiple #NIH grants that supported students, postdocs, & the science, all with the goal of healing disorders of memory & the brain
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
March 13, 2025 at 4:57 PM
in our new lab work, we find that:
natural forgetting & induced amnesia share common impaired neural dynamics
this work was funded by multiple #NIH grants that supported students, postdocs, & the science, all with the goal of healing disorders of memory & the brain
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
natural forgetting & induced amnesia share common impaired neural dynamics
this work was funded by multiple #NIH grants that supported students, postdocs, & the science, all with the goal of healing disorders of memory & the brain
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Reposted by Luis Cobar
Miles de personas, sobre todo mujeres, se manifestaron este sábado en San Salvador para conmemorar el #8M. La marcha iba encabezada por el movimiento anti minería metálica y ecologistas. Las consignas iban contra la violencia, los feminicidios y los desaparecimientos que siguen ocurriendo.
March 8, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Miles de personas, sobre todo mujeres, se manifestaron este sábado en San Salvador para conmemorar el #8M. La marcha iba encabezada por el movimiento anti minería metálica y ecologistas. Las consignas iban contra la violencia, los feminicidios y los desaparecimientos que siguen ocurriendo.
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Interested in using #CEBRA for modeling neural &/or behavioral (or both) dynamics? Check out the newest demo notebook to help you get started! 🚀
📝 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
💻 cebra.ai/docs/demo_no...
📝 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
💻 cebra.ai/docs/demo_no...
March 7, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Interested in using #CEBRA for modeling neural &/or behavioral (or both) dynamics? Check out the newest demo notebook to help you get started! 🚀
📝 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
💻 cebra.ai/docs/demo_no...
📝 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
💻 cebra.ai/docs/demo_no...
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‘Creepy’ puppets may have starred in rituals at ancient Central American pyramid | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
‘Creepy’ puppets may have starred in rituals at ancient Central American pyramid
Detachable heads of marionettelike figures may have swiveled on a string more than 2000 years ago
www.science.org
March 5, 2025 at 12:59 PM
‘Creepy’ puppets may have starred in rituals at ancient Central American pyramid | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...