Mohamed Abdelhack
@mabdelhack.bsky.social
Postdoc, founder of ArabsInNeuro. I theorize about the brain, mental health & AI and experiment with multicultural life. Views are my own!
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Congratulations to @mabdelhack.bsky.social for being selected by @thetransmitter.bsky.social as a Rising Star in Neuroscience 2025.
Learn more about their role in Arabs in Neuroscience here: www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...
Learn more about their role in Arabs in Neuroscience here: www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...
November 26, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Congratulations to @mabdelhack.bsky.social for being selected by @thetransmitter.bsky.social as a Rising Star in Neuroscience 2025.
Learn more about their role in Arabs in Neuroscience here: www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...
Learn more about their role in Arabs in Neuroscience here: www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...
Thank you to @thetransmitter.bsky.social for selecting me among the Rising Stars in Neuroscience 2025. It's an honor to be among a list of great scientists that I look up to. Check them out here: www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...
November 20, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Thank you to @thetransmitter.bsky.social for selecting me among the Rising Stars in Neuroscience 2025. It's an honor to be among a list of great scientists that I look up to. Check them out here: www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...
Canadian universities need to respect their job applicants more...
Looking into my faculty job application, I found that Canadian universities ghosted me over 70% of the time in comparison to about 31% for European universities
@futurepislack.bsky.social
Looking into my faculty job application, I found that Canadian universities ghosted me over 70% of the time in comparison to about 31% for European universities
@futurepislack.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Canadian universities need to respect their job applicants more...
Looking into my faculty job application, I found that Canadian universities ghosted me over 70% of the time in comparison to about 31% for European universities
@futurepislack.bsky.social
Looking into my faculty job application, I found that Canadian universities ghosted me over 70% of the time in comparison to about 31% for European universities
@futurepislack.bsky.social
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HAPPENING TODAY 🚨🚨🚨 Come watch our webinar! Register here: tinyurl.com/4a45v6mu
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November 6, 2025 at 8:11 AM
HAPPENING TODAY 🚨🚨🚨 Come watch our webinar! Register here: tinyurl.com/4a45v6mu
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And remember, you can stay up to date on webinars, events, and more by subscribing to our mailing list: t.co/Oa9dLowy1h
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me at the end of class: here's a little speculative exercises; imagine you wake up from cryosleep in 2085. what's the kind of tech-society r/ship you'd like to see around you?
students: no AI
I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion
students: no AI
I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion
November 6, 2025 at 6:32 AM
me at the end of class: here's a little speculative exercises; imagine you wake up from cryosleep in 2085. what's the kind of tech-society r/ship you'd like to see around you?
students: no AI
I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion
students: no AI
I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion
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It’s hard not to feel insulted by the Canadian federal budget’s implication that researchers currently working in Canada aren’t good enough, so they’ll spend a bunch of taxpayer money to bring in “top talent” from elsewhere.
November 5, 2025 at 12:33 PM
It’s hard not to feel insulted by the Canadian federal budget’s implication that researchers currently working in Canada aren’t good enough, so they’ll spend a bunch of taxpayer money to bring in “top talent” from elsewhere.
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Are you at @sfn.org this month? We are too... come meet us and other Arab neuroscientists at 7 PM on Monday the 17th at the Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina
November 4, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Are you at @sfn.org this month? We are too... come meet us and other Arab neuroscientists at 7 PM on Monday the 17th at the Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina
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Happening next week!
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October 29, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Happening next week!
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📣 Travel Grants for #COSYNE25
📍 Computational & Systems Neuroscience #COSYNE will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, 12-15 March 2026.
Undergrads & those from traditionally under-represented and under-served groups are encouraged to apply.
Deadline is 12 November.
📍 Computational & Systems Neuroscience #COSYNE will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, 12-15 March 2026.
Undergrads & those from traditionally under-represented and under-served groups are encouraged to apply.
Deadline is 12 November.
Travel Grants — COSYNE
Apply for COSYNE 2026 Travel Grants to support your participation in Lisbon and Cascais, Portugal. Grants are available for students, postdocs, and PIs, including programs for Childcare, Presenters,…
www.cosyne.org
October 29, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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Between October 13-17th we ran the second edition of Ibn Sina Neurotech School hosted and sponsored by NYUAD Center for Brain and Health and @ibroorg.bsky.social
We welcomed 18 students from across the world to learn hands-on about fMRI data collection and processing
We welcomed 18 students from across the world to learn hands-on about fMRI data collection and processing
October 26, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Between October 13-17th we ran the second edition of Ibn Sina Neurotech School hosted and sponsored by NYUAD Center for Brain and Health and @ibroorg.bsky.social
We welcomed 18 students from across the world to learn hands-on about fMRI data collection and processing
We welcomed 18 students from across the world to learn hands-on about fMRI data collection and processing
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Wondering what AiN has been up to recently? A lot!
September 1-19, we conducted our Introduction to Computational Neuroscience Summer School for the 4th year in a row #ArabCompNeuro25 where we welcomes over 130 students and teaching assistants to learn more on basic of comp-neuro
September 1-19, we conducted our Introduction to Computational Neuroscience Summer School for the 4th year in a row #ArabCompNeuro25 where we welcomes over 130 students and teaching assistants to learn more on basic of comp-neuro
October 26, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Wondering what AiN has been up to recently? A lot!
September 1-19, we conducted our Introduction to Computational Neuroscience Summer School for the 4th year in a row #ArabCompNeuro25 where we welcomes over 130 students and teaching assistants to learn more on basic of comp-neuro
September 1-19, we conducted our Introduction to Computational Neuroscience Summer School for the 4th year in a row #ArabCompNeuro25 where we welcomes over 130 students and teaching assistants to learn more on basic of comp-neuro
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🐦🔎 The findidfsoldiers.net database lists five doctors who, as per publicly available information, currently teach Medicine in Canadian universities. One went to serve after Oct. 7, 2023:
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October 22, 2025 at 1:07 PM
🐦🔎 The findidfsoldiers.net database lists five doctors who, as per publicly available information, currently teach Medicine in Canadian universities. One went to serve after Oct. 7, 2023:
substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com/home/post/p-...
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In this paper we use a new approach from control theory (engineering), a "disturbance observer", to see if it can be applied to visuomotor adaptation. This "DO model" is doing reasonably well.
Modeling Human Visuomotor Adaptation with a DisturbanceObserver Framework https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.01.673530v1
September 5, 2025 at 11:32 PM
In this paper we use a new approach from control theory (engineering), a "disturbance observer", to see if it can be applied to visuomotor adaptation. This "DO model" is doing reasonably well.
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OMG! i love it 😍
An @abeba.bsky.social tweet turned into a protest banner artwork at BCU MA graduate show. Brilliant!
August 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
OMG! i love it 😍
Help us fund more student travel to Abu Dhabi to attend #ISNeurotech25
Support a student to attend #ISNeurotech25
We are looking to support ten more students to attend the Ibn Sina Neurotech school to learn all about fMRI and brain science
www.zeffy.com/en-CA/donati...
We are looking to support ten more students to attend the Ibn Sina Neurotech school to learn all about fMRI and brain science
www.zeffy.com/en-CA/donati...
August 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Help us fund more student travel to Abu Dhabi to attend #ISNeurotech25
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Applications are open for our Diversity Mentorship Program!
This program is open to undergraduates or recent graduates, anywhere in the world, who are interested in graduate studies in psychology. Apply here by Aug 25: psych.ubc.ca/diversity
This program is open to undergraduates or recent graduates, anywhere in the world, who are interested in graduate studies in psychology. Apply here by Aug 25: psych.ubc.ca/diversity
August 13, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Applications are open for our Diversity Mentorship Program!
This program is open to undergraduates or recent graduates, anywhere in the world, who are interested in graduate studies in psychology. Apply here by Aug 25: psych.ubc.ca/diversity
This program is open to undergraduates or recent graduates, anywhere in the world, who are interested in graduate studies in psychology. Apply here by Aug 25: psych.ubc.ca/diversity
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www.npr.org/2025/07/06/g...
From Anas Baba, NPR's producer in the Gaza Strip: "NEAR THE NETZARIM CORRIDOR, Gaza Strip — What does it take to get food today in Gaza? It involves a perilous journey that I took myself..
I faced Israeli military fire, private U.S. contractors pointing laser beams
From Anas Baba, NPR's producer in the Gaza Strip: "NEAR THE NETZARIM CORRIDOR, Gaza Strip — What does it take to get food today in Gaza? It involves a perilous journey that I took myself..
I faced Israeli military fire, private U.S. contractors pointing laser beams
Knives, bullets and thieves: the quest for food in Gaza
NPR's Gaza producer faced Israeli military fire, private U.S. contractors pointing laser beams at his forehead and masked thieves as he tried to get food from a U.S.-supported group.
www.npr.org
July 6, 2025 at 11:02 PM
www.npr.org/2025/07/06/g...
From Anas Baba, NPR's producer in the Gaza Strip: "NEAR THE NETZARIM CORRIDOR, Gaza Strip — What does it take to get food today in Gaza? It involves a perilous journey that I took myself..
I faced Israeli military fire, private U.S. contractors pointing laser beams
From Anas Baba, NPR's producer in the Gaza Strip: "NEAR THE NETZARIM CORRIDOR, Gaza Strip — What does it take to get food today in Gaza? It involves a perilous journey that I took myself..
I faced Israeli military fire, private U.S. contractors pointing laser beams
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Thrilled to see our TinyRNN paper in @nature! We show how tiny RNNs predict choices of individual subjects accurately while staying fully interpretable. This approach can transform how we model cognitive processes in both healthy and disordered decisions. doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Discovering cognitive strategies with tiny recurrent neural networks - Nature
Modelling biological decision-making with tiny recurrent neural networks enables more accurate predictions of animal choices than classical cognitive models and offers insights into the underlying cog...
doi.org
July 2, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Thrilled to see our TinyRNN paper in @nature! We show how tiny RNNs predict choices of individual subjects accurately while staying fully interpretable. This approach can transform how we model cognitive processes in both healthy and disordered decisions. doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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EXCLUSIVE — The Onion has a full-page ad in today’s NYT featuring part of an editorial calling out congressional fecklessness towards Trump. They also sent a copy of their latest issue to every lawmaker.
My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...
My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...
June 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
EXCLUSIVE — The Onion has a full-page ad in today’s NYT featuring part of an editorial calling out congressional fecklessness towards Trump. They also sent a copy of their latest issue to every lawmaker.
My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...
My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...
"War is peace... Freedom is slavery... Ignorance is strength"
June 22, 2025 at 7:03 PM
"War is peace... Freedom is slavery... Ignorance is strength"
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Just so u know, these 'military ppl' & 'nuclear scientists' don't live in a cave, tucked away from the rest of the population. They live in residential areas, AMONG ordinary ppl. Media reports are quite disingenuous & outrageous...
& to be clear, Israel has no right doing what it's doing.
#NoToWar
& to be clear, Israel has no right doing what it's doing.
#NoToWar
June 13, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Just so u know, these 'military ppl' & 'nuclear scientists' don't live in a cave, tucked away from the rest of the population. They live in residential areas, AMONG ordinary ppl. Media reports are quite disingenuous & outrageous...
& to be clear, Israel has no right doing what it's doing.
#NoToWar
& to be clear, Israel has no right doing what it's doing.
#NoToWar
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Our paper is now accepted at Neural Networks!
This work builds on our previous threads in X, updated with deeper analyses.
We revisit brain-to-image reconstruction using NSD + diffusion models—and ask: do they really reconstruct what we perceive?
Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
🧵1/12
This work builds on our previous threads in X, updated with deeper analyses.
We revisit brain-to-image reconstruction using NSD + diffusion models—and ask: do they really reconstruct what we perceive?
Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
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Redirecting
doi.org
June 13, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Our paper is now accepted at Neural Networks!
This work builds on our previous threads in X, updated with deeper analyses.
We revisit brain-to-image reconstruction using NSD + diffusion models—and ask: do they really reconstruct what we perceive?
Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
🧵1/12
This work builds on our previous threads in X, updated with deeper analyses.
We revisit brain-to-image reconstruction using NSD + diffusion models—and ask: do they really reconstruct what we perceive?
Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
🧵1/12
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We are pleased to announce our keynote speaker for #ISNeurotech25 Prof. Nancy Kanwisher from MIT Only one week left before application deadline... APPLY NOW: arabsinneuro.org/school/isn/
June 9, 2025 at 3:44 AM
We are pleased to announce our keynote speaker for #ISNeurotech25 Prof. Nancy Kanwisher from MIT Only one week left before application deadline... APPLY NOW: arabsinneuro.org/school/isn/
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The 2025 GRC on Cannabinoid Function in the CNS: Cannabinoid Neurobiology: Bridging Basic Science, Big Data, Biomarkers and Bedside Applications Across the Lifespan final program is here! Spots are going fast! Register soon for trainee talks! Reshare please! grc.org/cannabinoid-...
June 3, 2025 at 4:04 AM
The 2025 GRC on Cannabinoid Function in the CNS: Cannabinoid Neurobiology: Bridging Basic Science, Big Data, Biomarkers and Bedside Applications Across the Lifespan final program is here! Spots are going fast! Register soon for trainee talks! Reshare please! grc.org/cannabinoid-...
I was calling my mum today and she told me the whole city is paralyzed and she had water leakage at home herself. This kind of a storm in May is unprecedented for Alexandria... flashfloods and hail 😱 It highlights how Egypt is catastrophically unprepared for climate change
Egypt
'Alexandria was struck by a sudden and severe rainstorm early Saturday morning, catching residents off guard with intense weather changes that included repeated lightning strikes, thunder, strong winds, heavy rain, and hail in some areas.'
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'Alexandria was struck by a sudden and severe rainstorm early Saturday morning, catching residents off guard with intense weather changes that included repeated lightning strikes, thunder, strong winds, heavy rain, and hail in some areas.'
en.royanews.tv/news/60045
VIDEO: Sudden storm hits Alexandria as governor declares state of emergency
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June 1, 2025 at 3:35 AM
I was calling my mum today and she told me the whole city is paralyzed and she had water leakage at home herself. This kind of a storm in May is unprecedented for Alexandria... flashfloods and hail 😱 It highlights how Egypt is catastrophically unprepared for climate change