Jacob Reimer
@viajake.bsky.social
Assistant prof at Baylor College of Medicine. Sensory circuits & brain state modulation. Imaging, patching, and pupils. Kiddo dad. Opinions are my own. (he/him)
Very cool!
Can your AI beat a mouse?
Mice still outperform our best computing machines in some ways. One way is robust visual processing.
10 years ago I decided to work on HARD behavior driven by COMPLEX visual processing. And that risk is paying off now. #neuroAI 1/n
Mice still outperform our best computing machines in some ways. One way is robust visual processing.
10 years ago I decided to work on HARD behavior driven by COMPLEX visual processing. And that risk is paying off now. #neuroAI 1/n
July 10, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Very cool!
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These young Californians have something to say. I hope you’ll listen.
“The kids in the Cages” by The Neighborhood Kids
@theneighborhoodkidsmusic
“The kids in the Cages” by The Neighborhood Kids
@theneighborhoodkidsmusic
June 8, 2025 at 11:58 PM
These young Californians have something to say. I hope you’ll listen.
“The kids in the Cages” by The Neighborhood Kids
@theneighborhoodkidsmusic
“The kids in the Cages” by The Neighborhood Kids
@theneighborhoodkidsmusic
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Lyft driver picked me up from UNC, turned out he was a medicinal chemistry post-doc in a building near mine, until his grant got cut last month.
Worked on novel antivirals.
Worked on novel antivirals.
June 4, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Lyft driver picked me up from UNC, turned out he was a medicinal chemistry post-doc in a building near mine, until his grant got cut last month.
Worked on novel antivirals.
Worked on novel antivirals.
We will likely be looking for someone with expertise with optical methods in vivo, cranial window surgeries in mice, analysis of 2P imaging data (especially ML-based), viral approaches. Nothing posted yet, but I know there are good people looking, so please reach out.
May 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
We will likely be looking for someone with expertise with optical methods in vivo, cranial window surgeries in mice, analysis of 2P imaging data (especially ML-based), viral approaches. Nothing posted yet, but I know there are good people looking, so please reach out.
Strong endorse. Although I’d also point out that the good guys on Star Trek are always asking their super-intelligent computers for help as well.
The latest reasoning models (o3, Gemini 2.5 Pro), hold more knowledge, reason better, and communicate more clearly than you or me.
If you aren’t trying to integrate them to all elements of the research workflow, you are doing yourself and your trainees a disservice. Resistance is futile.
If you aren’t trying to integrate them to all elements of the research workflow, you are doing yourself and your trainees a disservice. Resistance is futile.
a man with a robotic helmet on his head and the words `` resistance is futile '' written on the bottom .
ALT: a man with a robotic helmet on his head and the words `` resistance is futile '' written on the bottom .
media.tenor.com
May 5, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Strong endorse. Although I’d also point out that the good guys on Star Trek are always asking their super-intelligent computers for help as well.
If you want to feel small and insignificant, stare up at the stars in the sky. If you want to feel how immensely profound, impossibly complex, and just outright improbable your existence is, gaze at the stars in this 1mm^3 cube and realize it's less than a millionth the volume of your own brain.
A package of research papers from the MICrONS (Machine Intelligence from Cortical Networks) consortium in Nature and Nature Methods provides a detailed map of mouse brain cell structure and connections, offering insights into how they relate to activity in the mouse brain. 🧪
The MICrONS Project
An unprecedented dataset of high resolution anatomical images of individual cells in mouse visual cortex, mapped on to their responses. This integrated view of function and structure lays a foundation for discovering the computational bases of cortical circuits.
go.nature.com
April 9, 2025 at 10:04 PM
If you want to feel small and insignificant, stare up at the stars in the sky. If you want to feel how immensely profound, impossibly complex, and just outright improbable your existence is, gaze at the stars in this 1mm^3 cube and realize it's less than a millionth the volume of your own brain.
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Instead of refreshing eRA commons to see if I got a grant, I can refresh eRA commons to see if grants still exist
February 3, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Instead of refreshing eRA commons to see if I got a grant, I can refresh eRA commons to see if grants still exist
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horrible fucking time to be a queer scientist
January 29, 2025 at 6:39 PM
horrible fucking time to be a queer scientist
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Feels like the part in Jurassic Park when the velociraptors are testing out the electric fence.
January 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Feels like the part in Jurassic Park when the velociraptors are testing out the electric fence.
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This is the difference between Trump 1 and Trump 2. First time around, all his cronies were named stuff like Joey Macaroni and wanted to commit tax fraud and go on Dancing With The Stars. This time, they have names like John Hitlerfuhrer and have spent the last 15 years blogging about phrenology.
The federal government's new top HR attorney has said "Consent is probably modern society’s most pernicious fetish" and "Slaves owe us reparations," according to a new report from @pogo.org. www.pogo.org/investigatio...
“Raging Misogynist” Now Federal Government H.R.’s Top Lawyer
The Office of Personnel Management’s new general counsel has a history of racist and sexist social media posts.
www.pogo.org
January 29, 2025 at 3:14 AM
This is the difference between Trump 1 and Trump 2. First time around, all his cronies were named stuff like Joey Macaroni and wanted to commit tax fraud and go on Dancing With The Stars. This time, they have names like John Hitlerfuhrer and have spent the last 15 years blogging about phrenology.
How did I miss that Dan Dennett died this year?
December 11, 2024 at 3:38 AM
How did I miss that Dan Dennett died this year?
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Help bluesky neurohivemind!
If you know of any computational / theoretical work modelling neuromodulators please share it 🙏 if you don't, please retweet!
If you know of any computational / theoretical work modelling neuromodulators please share it 🙏 if you don't, please retweet!
December 7, 2024 at 6:06 PM
Help bluesky neurohivemind!
If you know of any computational / theoretical work modelling neuromodulators please share it 🙏 if you don't, please retweet!
If you know of any computational / theoretical work modelling neuromodulators please share it 🙏 if you don't, please retweet!
Sometimes my left hand shifts over while I'm typing fast and I'm startled to see myself sign off as a leafy vegetable instead of Jake.
December 6, 2024 at 3:52 PM
Sometimes my left hand shifts over while I'm typing fast and I'm startled to see myself sign off as a leafy vegetable instead of Jake.
We’re hiring at all levels! If you want to study fast changes in state (alertness, attention, arousal), using cutting edge optical techniques, with awesome people, in a friendly, vibrant, diverse city - please reach out! Here’s one post: neurojobs.sfn.org/job/37232/re...
November 13, 2023 at 3:26 PM
We’re hiring at all levels! If you want to study fast changes in state (alertness, attention, arousal), using cutting edge optical techniques, with awesome people, in a friendly, vibrant, diverse city - please reach out! Here’s one post: neurojobs.sfn.org/job/37232/re...
Wow, finally made it - how cool to see so many familiar names over here!
August 11, 2023 at 3:49 PM
Wow, finally made it - how cool to see so many familiar names over here!