Giorgia Caregnato
@giorgiacare99.bsky.social
Neuroscience. Clinician working for Veterans Affairs, US Government; prev. Sonova. MSc, University of Turin in collaboration with University of Illinois. University of Oxford 🧠🌿
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➡️ Letters of intent are due December 5, 2025. Upon review, selected applicants will be invited to submit a full proposal, due April 6, 2026. philanthropynewsdigest.org/rfps/rfp1846... #hearing #balance #otology #postdocs #research #funding #science #keeplistening
Hearing Health Foundation invites applications for emerging research
Hearing Health Foundation invites applications for emerging research. Grants will be awarded in support of proposals investigating hearing and balance research....
philanthropynewsdigest.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:43 PM
➡️ Letters of intent are due December 5, 2025. Upon review, selected applicants will be invited to submit a full proposal, due April 6, 2026. philanthropynewsdigest.org/rfps/rfp1846... #hearing #balance #otology #postdocs #research #funding #science #keeplistening
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Spiking NN fans - the #SNUFA workshop (Nov 5-6) agenda is finalised and online now. Make sure to register (free) soon. (Note you can register for either day and come to both.)
Agenda: snufa.net/2025/
Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/snufa-2025...
Thanks to all who voted on abstracts!
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Agenda: snufa.net/2025/
Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/snufa-2025...
Thanks to all who voted on abstracts!
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SNUFA 2025
Spiking Neural networks as Universal Function Approximators
snufa.net
October 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Spiking NN fans - the #SNUFA workshop (Nov 5-6) agenda is finalised and online now. Make sure to register (free) soon. (Note you can register for either day and come to both.)
Agenda: snufa.net/2025/
Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/snufa-2025...
Thanks to all who voted on abstracts!
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Agenda: snufa.net/2025/
Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/snufa-2025...
Thanks to all who voted on abstracts!
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Music could help ease pain from surgery or illness. Scientists are listening.
apnews.com/article/musi...
apnews.com/article/musi...
Music could help ease pain from surgery or illness. Scientists are listening
Hospitals and doctors' offices are inviting singers and musicians to help patients manage their pain, as music's ability to reduce pain is gaining attention.
apnews.com
October 19, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Music could help ease pain from surgery or illness. Scientists are listening.
apnews.com/article/musi...
apnews.com/article/musi...
The self is a #biophysical phenomenon: #consciousness that emerges from brain activity, even during sleep, including the fast unconscious.
The ego is a #biochemical need: desires and motivations driven by hormones and neurotransmitters, always in relation to others.
The ego is a #biochemical need: desires and motivations driven by hormones and neurotransmitters, always in relation to others.
October 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The self is a #biophysical phenomenon: #consciousness that emerges from brain activity, even during sleep, including the fast unconscious.
The ego is a #biochemical need: desires and motivations driven by hormones and neurotransmitters, always in relation to others.
The ego is a #biochemical need: desires and motivations driven by hormones and neurotransmitters, always in relation to others.
Excited to return to Ederle Military base in Vicenza after weeks of studying and deepening my knowledge on the health of American veterans 🇺🇸💙 Peace starts also with medicine and healing.
September 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Excited to return to Ederle Military base in Vicenza after weeks of studying and deepening my knowledge on the health of American veterans 🇺🇸💙 Peace starts also with medicine and healing.
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UK academics, be aware that what's happening to universities in the US is coming to us in a few years, in the (unfortunately quite likely) event that Reform wins.
Labour needs to get it's act together and give people a reason to vote for them.
Labour needs to get it's act together and give people a reason to vote for them.
Having lied to congress earlier in the week, Farage flew back to the U.K. to lie to his party conference. Populists don’t like having to deal with reality and truth. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/univers...
Universities ‘poisoning student minds’, says Farage
Populist leader takes aim at higher education in speech on first day of the Reform UK conference in Birmingham
www.timeshighereducation.com
September 6, 2025 at 9:01 AM
UK academics, be aware that what's happening to universities in the US is coming to us in a few years, in the (unfortunately quite likely) event that Reform wins.
Labour needs to get it's act together and give people a reason to vote for them.
Labour needs to get it's act together and give people a reason to vote for them.
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Brain tissue artificially expanded to show how neurons wire together www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Brain tissue artificially expanded to show how neurons wire together
A fluorescence-microscopy method for tracing neuronal connections in the brain could make connectomics studies more widely accessible for neuroscientists.
www.nature.com
June 13, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Brain tissue artificially expanded to show how neurons wire together www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A patient asked me today: “Is it a problem if I try the aids while I am in Italy?” 'I mean, Italians are known to be too noisy'. I replied "Well, I am Italian, that's a good question".
She apologised, and we all laughed in the room.
(My accent is no longer Italian, it seems... )
She apologised, and we all laughed in the room.
(My accent is no longer Italian, it seems... )
June 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
A patient asked me today: “Is it a problem if I try the aids while I am in Italy?” 'I mean, Italians are known to be too noisy'. I replied "Well, I am Italian, that's a good question".
She apologised, and we all laughed in the room.
(My accent is no longer Italian, it seems... )
She apologised, and we all laughed in the room.
(My accent is no longer Italian, it seems... )
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How does the brain track rhythms—and can we hack it?
In our new study, just published @plosbiology.org, we dive deeper into neural entrainment—how the brain synchronizes to rhythms in our environment—and explore whether transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) can modulate this process.
In our new study, just published @plosbiology.org, we dive deeper into neural entrainment—how the brain synchronizes to rhythms in our environment—and explore whether transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) can modulate this process.
Sensory stimuli dominate over rhythmic electrical stimulation in modulating behavior
Transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) modulates entrainment to rhythmic auditory stimuli, but the details of this interaction are not clear. This study shows that the effects of tACS dep...
journals.plos.org
June 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
How does the brain track rhythms—and can we hack it?
In our new study, just published @plosbiology.org, we dive deeper into neural entrainment—how the brain synchronizes to rhythms in our environment—and explore whether transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) can modulate this process.
In our new study, just published @plosbiology.org, we dive deeper into neural entrainment—how the brain synchronizes to rhythms in our environment—and explore whether transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) can modulate this process.
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A new blood test for Alzheimer’s disease can accurately detect people with early symptoms, research suggests.
The test examines blood plasma levels of amyloid beta 42/40 & p-tau217 – both associated with amyloid plaque buildup, a hallmark of the disease.
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www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
The test examines blood plasma levels of amyloid beta 42/40 & p-tau217 – both associated with amyloid plaque buildup, a hallmark of the disease.
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www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Alzheimer’s blood test can spot people with early symptoms, study suggests
New test accurately picks up on memory problems by examining two proteins in blood plasma, US researchers find
www.theguardian.com
June 7, 2025 at 7:23 AM
A new blood test for Alzheimer’s disease can accurately detect people with early symptoms, research suggests.
The test examines blood plasma levels of amyloid beta 42/40 & p-tau217 – both associated with amyloid plaque buildup, a hallmark of the disease.
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www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
The test examines blood plasma levels of amyloid beta 42/40 & p-tau217 – both associated with amyloid plaque buildup, a hallmark of the disease.
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www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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We're excited to take this step, and to talk to other folks who are interested in experimenting. If you have something you're excited to try, reply here -- and we might even fund it. asterainstitute.substack.com/p/scientific...
Scientific Publishing: Enough is Enough
Why we're no longer funding journal publications
asterainstitute.substack.com
June 3, 2025 at 5:55 AM
We're excited to take this step, and to talk to other folks who are interested in experimenting. If you have something you're excited to try, reply here -- and we might even fund it. asterainstitute.substack.com/p/scientific...
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EVENT: Join us at the launch event for Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit 2025 taking place tomorrow
🗓️ Wednesday 4 June, 8-10pm
📍 Sheldonian Theatre
👥 Hosted by Justin Rowlatt, Climate Editor at the BBC
#OxfrordClimate
🗓️ Wednesday 4 June, 8-10pm
📍 Sheldonian Theatre
👥 Hosted by Justin Rowlatt, Climate Editor at the BBC
#OxfrordClimate
June 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
EVENT: Join us at the launch event for Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit 2025 taking place tomorrow
🗓️ Wednesday 4 June, 8-10pm
📍 Sheldonian Theatre
👥 Hosted by Justin Rowlatt, Climate Editor at the BBC
#OxfrordClimate
🗓️ Wednesday 4 June, 8-10pm
📍 Sheldonian Theatre
👥 Hosted by Justin Rowlatt, Climate Editor at the BBC
#OxfrordClimate
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📣 July 22-25 I’ll be teaching an online short course on how to read and understand statistics commonly found in medical literature — tell your clinician friends! @stathorizons.bsky.social statisticalhorizons.com/seminars/und...
Understanding Statistics in Medical Literature Seminar
This online workshop by Lucy D’Agostino McGowan introduces the core concepts of data and statistics, equipping you with the tools to extract meaningful insights from research.
statisticalhorizons.com
June 3, 2025 at 6:50 PM
📣 July 22-25 I’ll be teaching an online short course on how to read and understand statistics commonly found in medical literature — tell your clinician friends! @stathorizons.bsky.social statisticalhorizons.com/seminars/und...
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🎶 New paper on how working and long-term auditory memory interact—and how aging and musical training shape this relationship 🚫🎻🧠
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#NeuroScience #Cognition #Memory #AuditoryPrediction #MusicPerception
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#NeuroScience #Cognition #Memory #AuditoryPrediction #MusicPerception
Working Memory Predicts Long‐Term Recognition of Auditory Sequences: Dissociation Between Confirmed Predictions and Prediction Errors
Memory is a crucial cognitive process involving several subsystems: sensory memory (SM), short-term memory (STM), working memory (WM), and long-term memory (LTM). While each has been extensively stud....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 23, 2025 at 9:55 AM
🎶 New paper on how working and long-term auditory memory interact—and how aging and musical training shape this relationship 🚫🎻🧠
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#NeuroScience #Cognition #Memory #AuditoryPrediction #MusicPerception
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#NeuroScience #Cognition #Memory #AuditoryPrediction #MusicPerception
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Trump tasked #Palantir to build a system that fuses your medical records, bank data, online activity, parking tickets, wet dreams and more into one massive profile. This isn't for security. It's a surveillance state in beta.
June 1, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Trump tasked #Palantir to build a system that fuses your medical records, bank data, online activity, parking tickets, wet dreams and more into one massive profile. This isn't for security. It's a surveillance state in beta.
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What is consciousness? A global team of researchers, including Chair of Translation Cognitive Neuroscience Professor Ole Jensen, put two top theories to the test. Find out how they fared: buff.ly/5IU1BH0
May 2, 2025 at 11:02 AM
What is consciousness? A global team of researchers, including Chair of Translation Cognitive Neuroscience Professor Ole Jensen, put two top theories to the test. Find out how they fared: buff.ly/5IU1BH0