MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’ Awarded To Inventor Of Eatin’ Shirt https://theonion.com/macarthur-genius-grant-awarded-to-inventor-of-eatin-shirt/

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Really proud to share this w/ @francimandi.bsky.social from the Lake lab: we applied fingerprinting in a simultaneous wide-field fluorescence Ca2+ imaging and BOLD-fMRI dataset in mice!

w/ @toddc.bsky.social @mallarchak.bsky.social @richardfbetzel.bsky.social et al.

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Launched in 2023, Imaging Neuroscience is now firmly established, with full indexing (PubMed, etc.) and 700 papers to date.

We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400.

Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.

Are interoception and mental health linked? Many assume so, with interoception even described as a psychiatric “p-factor.” But in our latest preprint, we were surprised to find little evidence for such a connection. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 Thread with our reflections on the matter 👇

This feels like a spot of good news

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Check out the latest from @daveocskys.bsky.social !

Cool work looking at functional connectivity dynamics and predictive-modeling of brain-behavior relationships!! 🔥 🔥

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@toddc.bsky.social @francimandi.bsky.social

What happens in the brain when we breathe? 🧠 🔄 🫁

🧠 The functional state of the brain fluctuates across the respiratory cycle

🫁 Brain activity can be volitionally influenced by varying the rate, depth, and pattern of breathing

Read more ➡️ doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

@uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social

Recently had the last piece of work from my PhD published, only took 2.5 years or so. Check it out here! Thanks to @coreyhorien.bsky.social @francimandi.bsky.social @toddc.bsky.social

This New Yorker piece about the Irish Famine has several paragraphs I found literally jaw-dropping (positive). This is a book review!! Good god!!!

Unbelievable news.

Pancreatic is one of the deadliest cancers.

New paper shows personalized mRNA vaccines can induce durable T cells that attack pancreatic cancer, with 75% of patients cancer free at three years—far, far better than standard of care.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable.

THIS IS HUGE! A cancer vaccine developed by Yale University and DFCI shows MAJOR promise. Results of an early-phase trial reveal ALL patients with ADVANCED stage kidney cancer had successful anti-cancer immune responses AND have remained CANCER-FREE approximately THREE years after treatment. 🧪🧵⬇️

We've updated our mouse connectome-based ID paper using simultaneous Ca2+ imaging and fMRI connectivity data--check it out!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Shoutout to all! @francimandi.bsky.social, @toddc.bsky.social, @mallarchak.bsky.social, @richardfbetzel.bsky.social, and many others! 1/2

Unclear if Jordan Peterson was entirely read up on Nigel Farage when the two appeared 'in conversation' at the Arc conference this morning...

Maybe I wasn’t clear about this. I wanted more egg and no plane crash, not many plane crash and no egg.

A BBC study just found that generative AI can't even generate news story synopses with any consistent accuracy, and here we are happily pretending it's a symmetrical replacement for education and experience

Newsletter: Generative AI is a marketing con perpetuated by Sam Altman and Dario Amodei through a mixture of lies and half-truths carried by a tech media that fails to ask the right questions. Outside of ChatGPT, generative AI companies barely get any traffic at all.

www.wheresyoured.at/longcon/

BBC asked leading AI tools 100 basic questions, using its articles as sources.

Significant issues with just over half of the answers.

Clear factual errors in a fifth

Where answers included quotes from BBC articles, more than 1 in 10 were altered, or didn’t exist

www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

This, by @martinsandbu.ft.com is very good. If the EU can figure out a way through the next few years, there is a real chance it will have a long term advantage as only major power with a semi-functional governance system.

The whole "$1 NIH dollar generates $2.50 in output" sells science wildly short. Scientific discovery and technological development is the foundation on which our entire society is built -- and that includes all the businesses that operate within it. The throughlines are shorter than you think: 1/n

Come join Raredon Lab!

We have a cool project running 🏃🏻‍♂️on post-pneumonectomy lung regeneration 🫁 and we are looking for a new post-doctoral recruit…lots of opportunity for creativity and experimentation!

Tons of data viz too… 📈🤔🧐💫 and tissue microscopy…🔬

DM with questions!!

Thus far OpenAI & its peer scaling labs have sought to convince the public & policymakers that scaling is the best way to reach so-called AGI. This has always been more of an argument based in business than in science. 4/

This paper is an excellent reminder that the brain works across space and time and that we can appreciate both, even with fMRI data.