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Saameh Sanaaee @saamehsanaaee.bsky.social · May 21

Our micropublication from the Impact Scholars Program is finally live on the interwebs!

This wouldn't have been possible without the one and only @barbaramu.bsky.social, the @neuromatch.bsky.social academy, and our amazing team!

Check it out: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Parallel GNN-LSTM Model Predicting Working Memory Involvement during Language and Emotion Processing

Working memory (WM) is a core cognitive system, strongly associated with the prefrontal cortex (PFC), crucial for task-relevant information storage and processing, serving as the main “relay” for high...

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Katharina Schmack @kathaschmack.bsky.social · 17h

Dear Student,

It has been wonderful to see you grow from a lab novice into a thoughtful experimentalist. The results you have generated rob me of sleep because I am so excited thinking about the potential that lies in them. Science can be exhilarating! (1/4)

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Saameh Sanaaee @saamehsanaaee.bsky.social · 2h

My Mom just now: "It's been millions of years that humans have done ... "

Me: "Mom, you should say thousands. Humans have been around for about 300 thousand years only."

Mom: "It's been a difficult 300 thousand years. It feels like a million. Give me a break."

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Hannes Mehrer @hannesmehrer.bsky.social · 2d

🧠 New preprint: we show that model-guided microstimulation can steer monkey visual behavior.

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2510.03684

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Saameh Sanaaee @saamehsanaaee.bsky.social · 1d

"We've created an open-source tool. Check out the paper!"

Great. Where can I find it?

"The paper? Behind a paywall.
The code is open though."

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Neuromatch @neuromatch.bsky.social · 2d

Free #Python tutorials! These hands-on, open-access lessons teach computational methods in Python.

Whether you're self-learning or looking for material to use in your classroom, these tutorials help you build practical, research-relevant coding skills.

compneuro.neuromatch.io/tutorials/W0...

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Saameh Sanaaee @saamehsanaaee.bsky.social · 2d

Today, I had to explain to a 30-year-old guy that bills and utilities are not a single payment thing and that people get (and pay) them periodically.

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Allie Sinclair @asinclair.bsky.social · 5d

Attending #SNE2025? Come learn about how we applied insights from cognitive psych/neuro to inform policy-relevant decision making to address the current science funding crisis!

I’ll be presenting a poster this afternoon from 2:45-4 PM, board #48 in the Skyline Foyer! @socforneuroecon.bsky.social

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Saameh Sanaaee @saamehsanaaee.bsky.social · 4d

Sorry that my hyperfixations won't allow for a regularly scheduled program.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 5d

The future is now.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 5d

it is striking how quickly tech boosterism has become openly, even brazenly authoritarian, but the habit of insisting that your tech represents the future means you’re always there already by implication

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 6d

Measure Twice, Cut Once

xkcd.com/3149/

Comic. “Measure [Twice], cut [Once]” -Carpenty Proverb. [Scatter plot with number of measurements on y axis and number of cuts on x axis. Points in a descending line on graph: surveyor, surgeon, good carpenter, careless carpenter, really bad carpenter, serial killer]

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 7d

Now getting chased by a publisher to sign an AI 'addendum' for my first book so it can be used etc. No, as in no thank you and goodbye, and no additional royalties % is going to change my mind on that. Funnily enough they don't really say how to opt out.

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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 7d

Walking past an Alan Turing/AI poster on campus at Manchester and overheard some facilities staff saying something like, “Yeah. There’s this AI girl actress who’s better than real people. She’s *that* good, studios are fighting to sign her up…” 🤯

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Saameh Sanaaee @saamehsanaaee.bsky.social · 5d

We still have to explain why we need vaccines, huh?

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Boris Bernhardt @borismontreal.bsky.social · 7d

🚨 New paper in Nature Methods:
HippoMaps: multiscale cartography of the human hippocampus

Open-source tools & data to explore structure and function of the 🍤🧠 (histology, in/ex vivo MRI, iEEG)

Led by @jordandekraker.bsky.social

docs: hippomaps.readthedocs.io
paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Shahab Bakhtiari @shahabbakht.bsky.social · 7d

Lone scientists are fictional creatures.

Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 7d

When we hear about a lone scientist who made groundbreaking discoveries on their own, it’s usually erasing the truth that science is a team sport, and field research builds on the local knowledge and expertise of the people that live there (8/10)

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Benjamin Kay @benjaminkay.bsky.social · 9d

Ever wondered if your interesting brain-behavior correlation was over- or under-estimated due to head motion, but were afraid to ask? We’ve created a motion impact score for detecting spurious brain-behavior associations, now available in Nature Communications!
doi.org/10.1038/s414...

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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · 7d

Going through my Google Scholar alert results each month for my newsletter is always good fun

Screenshot of Google Scholar alert results for the query "habitable zone" and related terms. The first and only result is a paper titled "Covenants with Allah: Keystone of Islam"

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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 7d

The best guess of climate experts at this Overshoot Conference is that - in an optimistic scenario - we return to 1.5C (where we are now) in 7 generations time.

That's about the same distance from now as the start of the Industrial Revolution.

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Garvin Brod @garvinbrod.bsky.social · 8d

You can learn better by making your own predictions than by watching someone else's predictions, even if they are the same as yours. New computational approach to show the benefits of active/generative learning developed together with the fabulous @ebonawitz.bsky.social rdcu.be/eILdR

Do it yourself: discerning the effects of self-directed activity on conceptual learning

npj Science of Learning - Do it yourself: discerning the effects of self-directed activity on conceptual learning

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 8d

Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.

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Varun Warrier @vw1234.bsky.social · 8d

It is now clear that more people are being diagnosed as autistic in their teens and as adults than in childhood. A prevailing theory is that those diagnosed later have "milder" form of autism, and later diagnosis entirely due to social factors.

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Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 9d

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

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Neuromatch @neuromatch.bsky.social · 9d

⏰ Last call – we’re hiring!

Apply by Oct 3 to become an Impact Scholar Program Supervisor.

Paid + remote | ~10 hrs/month | Guide scholar teams in #neuroscience #AI or #ClimateScience

➡️ Apply now: buff.ly/c7vn0Fy

#Hiring #RemoteWork #PhDCommunity

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Arman Behrad @armanbehrad.bsky.social · 9d

How can we identify state transitions from neural data — in an unsupervised way? (1/4)
👉 Check out UNITE: Universal Neural-State Identification through Temporal Embeddings
📅 Oct 1 | #BernsteinConference
📍 Poster Session III, #14
abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B...

Bernstein Conference 2025

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