Joe Raimondo
@joeraimondo.bsky.social
South African cellular neuroscientist, mostly confused.
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For your enjoyment (by @jagarikin)
October 25, 2025 at 11:58 AM
For your enjoyment (by @jagarikin)
I’m incredibly stoked to announce our latest preprint led by Thijs Verhoog, where we show that human cortical neurons mature hundreds of times slower than mouse neurons, only reaching functional maturity well into the third decade of life.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
August 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I’m incredibly stoked to announce our latest preprint led by Thijs Verhoog, where we show that human cortical neurons mature hundreds of times slower than mouse neurons, only reaching functional maturity well into the third decade of life.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Look at these beautiful pig tapeworm larvae (Taenia solium)!
July 24, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Look at these beautiful pig tapeworm larvae (Taenia solium)!
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🎉🚨 Extended Application Deadline! Now July 16, 2025!
If you want to learn about the brain💻🧠in the amazing Noordhoek, Cape Town🇿🇦, apply.
What to Do Next: Finalise and submit applications before the deadline: imbizo.africa/apply/
Please spread the news. Don’t miss out!
If you want to learn about the brain💻🧠in the amazing Noordhoek, Cape Town🇿🇦, apply.
What to Do Next: Finalise and submit applications before the deadline: imbizo.africa/apply/
Please spread the news. Don’t miss out!
June 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
🎉🚨 Extended Application Deadline! Now July 16, 2025!
If you want to learn about the brain💻🧠in the amazing Noordhoek, Cape Town🇿🇦, apply.
What to Do Next: Finalise and submit applications before the deadline: imbizo.africa/apply/
Please spread the news. Don’t miss out!
If you want to learn about the brain💻🧠in the amazing Noordhoek, Cape Town🇿🇦, apply.
What to Do Next: Finalise and submit applications before the deadline: imbizo.africa/apply/
Please spread the news. Don’t miss out!
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“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.”
- Antonio Gramsci
- Antonio Gramsci
March 1, 2025 at 7:19 PM
“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.”
- Antonio Gramsci
- Antonio Gramsci
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one of the coolest things in my life 😆: listen to the spikes from cockroach leg + do spike sorting on them + plot the neural activity on #imbizo 2025 t-shirt!! 🆒🆒🆒 @imbizo.bsky.social
February 5, 2025 at 7:59 PM
one of the coolest things in my life 😆: listen to the spikes from cockroach leg + do spike sorting on them + plot the neural activity on #imbizo 2025 t-shirt!! 🆒🆒🆒 @imbizo.bsky.social
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🎉 Exciting day at #Imbizo2025! Dr. Dan Wetmore & Dr. Garrick Orchard from Meta’s Reality Labs shared their industrial insights on designing top-notch AI/ML experiments, including innovative BCI applications 🤖💡 Students showcased creative solutions for EMG, sleep, wind, epilepsy monitoring & more! 🌟
January 30, 2025 at 9:50 AM
🎉 Exciting day at #Imbizo2025! Dr. Dan Wetmore & Dr. Garrick Orchard from Meta’s Reality Labs shared their industrial insights on designing top-notch AI/ML experiments, including innovative BCI applications 🤖💡 Students showcased creative solutions for EMG, sleep, wind, epilepsy monitoring & more! 🌟
This is just so spot on.
I wrote about the concept of agency (both human and artificial) in the year 2025. gracewlindsay.com/2025/01/24/2...
2025: Agency gained and lost
If you’ve had even a passing glance at tech journalism over the past few months, you know the top buzzword for AI in 2025 is agentic. Agentic AI (according to many think pieces and press releases a…
gracewlindsay.com
January 25, 2025 at 12:16 PM
This is just so spot on.
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Today's lunchtime reading brings simultanuously the most enjoyable and confusing read in a while, by @tyrellturing.bsky.social and @kordinglab.bsky.social
It's redundant dummies, that's the whole point!
physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
It's redundant dummies, that's the whole point!
physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
The study of plasticity has always been about gradients
Abstract figure legend This figure illustrates our central point in this paper using a well-known meme. That central point is that the physiological study of synaptic plasticity and learning has alwa...
physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 21, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Today's lunchtime reading brings simultanuously the most enjoyable and confusing read in a while, by @tyrellturing.bsky.social and @kordinglab.bsky.social
It's redundant dummies, that's the whole point!
physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
It's redundant dummies, that's the whole point!
physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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New "kid" on the block being @arifahamid.bsky.social (left). @joeraimondo.bsky.social (right) was supposed to have retired as well, but by his local proximity, he still gets to hang out! NOT fair.
January 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
New "kid" on the block being @arifahamid.bsky.social (left). @joeraimondo.bsky.social (right) was supposed to have retired as well, but by his local proximity, he still gets to hang out! NOT fair.
@therealdrdukes.bsky.social, founding president of @blackinneuro.bsky.social sharing the highs and lows of her inspirational journey, and the importance of building community in neuroscience at @imbizo.bsky.social. @ibroorg.bsky.social @simonsfoundation.org
January 17, 2025 at 8:22 AM
@therealdrdukes.bsky.social, founding president of @blackinneuro.bsky.social sharing the highs and lows of her inspirational journey, and the importance of building community in neuroscience at @imbizo.bsky.social. @ibroorg.bsky.social @simonsfoundation.org
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Just gave my lecture at @imbizo.bsky.social summer school today. What an amazing school both in terms of science and social impact --and the place is breathtaking! Now, time to enjoy the summer time with @therealdrdukes.bsky.social, @arifahamid.bsky.social, and all the students and tutors 🏖️
January 15, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Just gave my lecture at @imbizo.bsky.social summer school today. What an amazing school both in terms of science and social impact --and the place is breathtaking! Now, time to enjoy the summer time with @therealdrdukes.bsky.social, @arifahamid.bsky.social, and all the students and tutors 🏖️
Annual cockroach spike 🪳 fun at the @imbizo.bsky.social! @simonsfoundation.org @ibroorg.bsky.social @backyardbrains.bsky.social
January 17, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Annual cockroach spike 🪳 fun at the @imbizo.bsky.social! @simonsfoundation.org @ibroorg.bsky.social @backyardbrains.bsky.social
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My patch peeps will get this
Patching with an Axoclamp 200B and a Tektronix oscilloscope 💖 The dials were perfect, the switches were all analog and the bridge balance setting was totally by vibes. I had 6 of them on a 6-patch rig and it was glorious when I got all 6 perfect cells 💕
Patching with an Axoclamp 200B and a Tektronix oscilloscope 💖 The dials were perfect, the switches were all analog and the bridge balance setting was totally by vibes. I had 6 of them on a 6-patch rig and it was glorious when I got all 6 perfect cells 💕
what’s your favorite instance of haptic nostalgia—the poignant memory of the physicality of an obsolete thing—like dialing a rotary phone, shifting gears in a manual transmission, opening a soda can with a pull ring?
January 13, 2025 at 4:13 AM
My patch peeps will get this
Patching with an Axoclamp 200B and a Tektronix oscilloscope 💖 The dials were perfect, the switches were all analog and the bridge balance setting was totally by vibes. I had 6 of them on a 6-patch rig and it was glorious when I got all 6 perfect cells 💕
Patching with an Axoclamp 200B and a Tektronix oscilloscope 💖 The dials were perfect, the switches were all analog and the bridge balance setting was totally by vibes. I had 6 of them on a 6-patch rig and it was glorious when I got all 6 perfect cells 💕
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Join us in Zambia for the third TReND-CaMinA course: computational neuroscience & machine learning in Africa.
📆Applications open until 15.01.
🧠🧪
trendinafrica.org/trend-camina/
📆Applications open until 15.01.
🧠🧪
trendinafrica.org/trend-camina/
January 9, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Join us in Zambia for the third TReND-CaMinA course: computational neuroscience & machine learning in Africa.
📆Applications open until 15.01.
🧠🧪
trendinafrica.org/trend-camina/
📆Applications open until 15.01.
🧠🧪
trendinafrica.org/trend-camina/
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I wish we could get Edward Tufte over here on Bsky.
Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction
Graphic from Edward Tufte
More graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d... 🧪
Graphic from Edward Tufte
More graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d... 🧪
November 19, 2024 at 1:20 AM
I wish we could get Edward Tufte over here on Bsky.
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Is basic science undervalued? David Glanzman (UCLA) talks about the decline of 'middle class' labs and that "there is no empirical evidence that the translational approach accomplishes this [cures] any better than the traditional one. Claims to the contrary at this point are mere propaganda."
November 18, 2024 at 5:47 PM
Is basic science undervalued? David Glanzman (UCLA) talks about the decline of 'middle class' labs and that "there is no empirical evidence that the translational approach accomplishes this [cures] any better than the traditional one. Claims to the contrary at this point are mere propaganda."
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Are you building a patch-clamp setup, and would like a cheap heating system? Have you ever wondered how temperature changes the membrane properties of MSNs? Then you might like our latest paper, out now!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A low-cost perfusion heating system for slice electrophysiology - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - A low-cost perfusion heating system for slice electrophysiology
www.nature.com
November 18, 2024 at 7:04 PM
Are you building a patch-clamp setup, and would like a cheap heating system? Have you ever wondered how temperature changes the membrane properties of MSNs? Then you might like our latest paper, out now!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Three crazy, wonderful days in Accra, Ghana, setting up a patch rig and fluorescent scope for Tom Tagoe...including our first spikes in West Africa!
November 17, 2024 at 8:30 PM
Three crazy, wonderful days in Accra, Ghana, setting up a patch rig and fluorescent scope for Tom Tagoe...including our first spikes in West Africa!