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Marla Feller @mfeller.bsky.social · Sep 6

Representing @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social #Neuroscience chair @danfeldman.bsky.social and @standupforscience.bsky.social at annual #BT5k fundraiser for brain tumor research. GO BEARS!

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Marla Feller @mfeller.bsky.social · Aug 1

Turns out that the “loudest” neurons are not always the most relevant ones. Great article about a fascinating and important result by @hayleybounds.bsky.social , graduate of @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social neuroscience.

Hayley Bounds @hayleybounds.bsky.social · Aug 1

Thanks to @thetransmitter.bsky.social and @ldattaro.bsky.social for this coverage of our recent paper!

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · Jul 31

Some neurons respond more strongly to visual stimuli than others. But the rest of the brain doesn’t prioritize signals from those neurons, according to a new study. Read more in this month’s Null and Noteworthy.

By @ldattaro.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/null-and-not...

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Dan Feldman @danfeldman.bsky.social · Jul 1

Mouse S1 will be a powerful platform to identify the control circuits for attentional capture.

Deepa will be working on this in her own lab at Univ. of California, Riverside!

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Dan Feldman @danfeldman.bsky.social · Jul 1

S1 pyramidal cells showed increased sensory gain and receptive field shifts toward the attended whisker. We used 2p imaging to measure the topography of the 'attentional spotlight'-- a Gaussian hill of sensory gain, 1.5 cortical columns in radius, that shifted as mice attended different whiskers.

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Dan Feldman @danfeldman.bsky.social · Jul 1

New paper from Deepa Ramamurthy in my lab, just out. Mice flexibly shift attention between different whiskers based on the recent history of whisker stimuli and rewards, during a tactile detection task. We saw a strong neural correlate of this attentional capture in S1 cortex.

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Reward history guides focal attention in whisker somatosensory cortex

Nature Communications - Mice flexibly shift attention between specific whiskers on a rapid timescale based on recent stimulus reward history in a detection task. Attention is correlated with a...

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Dan Feldman @danfeldman.bsky.social · Jun 14

Thousands at #NoKings in Oakland!

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Dan Feldman @danfeldman.bsky.social · Apr 6

About 2000 people at #HandsOff in sleepy North Berkeley!

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Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦 @sschwinghamer.bsky.social · Mar 15

Hey! Are you an American considering a PhD or a postdoc, and the funding / academic situation just went absolutely bonkers?

Canada's federal funding awards just added eligibility for international applicants if at Cdn institutions.

www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...

NSERC - Latest News - Launch of the new Harmonized Tri-agency Scholarship and Fellowship programs

As announced in Budget 2024, the scholarship and fellowship programs administered by the three federal research funding agencies – the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) – have been streamlined into a new harmonized talent program called the Canada Research Training Awards Suite (CRTAS) that will open for applications in summer 2025.

www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca

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Dan Feldman @danfeldman.bsky.social · Mar 8

Proud to be among ~2000 people at SUFS today in San Francisco. Inspiring speakers and great energy! @standupforscience.bsky.social
@mfeller.bsky.social and @adernburg.bsky.social were organizers!

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Dan Feldman @danfeldman.bsky.social · Nov 2

Haven't yet learned how to make threads on Bluesky... #neuroscience

VIP interneurons in sensory cortex encode sensory and action signals but not direct reward signals -...

Vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) interneurons in sensory cortex modulate sensory responses based on global exploratory behavior and arousal state, but their function during non-exploratory, goal-di...

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Dan Feldman @danfeldman.bsky.social · Nov 2

We study how neural circuits and coding are affected in mouse models of severe genetic forms of autism.

New from Han Chin Wang in my lab. The Cntnap2 model of autism has a blurry, unstable whisker map. Adds to growing evidence for degraded neural coding in forms of ASD. #neuroskyence

Degraded tactile coding in the Cntnap2 mouse model of autism - PubMed

Atypical sensory processing in autism involves altered neural circuit function and neural coding in sensory cortex, but the nature of coding disruption is poorly understood. We characterized neural co...

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Dan Feldman @danfeldman.bsky.social · Nov 2

Recent Curr. Biol. paper by Deepa Ramamurthy in my lab. Asks what behavioral signals are encoded by VIP neurons in whisker S1 during goal-directed behavior (beyond locomotion & arousal). Answer: local whisker signals, licking, and expected value of reward. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37499665/

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Dan Feldman @danfeldman.bsky.social · Nov 2

Finally moving to Bluesky! Will be posting papers, lab news, neuroscience at Berkeley. Hope people find it useful. #Neuroskyence #neuroscience

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