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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 20h

Please spread the word! I am recruiting a PhD student this cycle (Fall 2026 start) to join my team in a new venture: the neuroscience of mood.

If you are curious to learn more, this short talk provides a good overview of why, what and how.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjIK...

Nicole Rust - The representation of mood in the primate insula (May 6, 2025)

YouTube video by Simons Foundation

www.youtube.com

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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 22h

É oficial!

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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 5d

I love this

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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 5d

If anyone is wondering how this ends go watch Eddington

Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 6d

“In a rural Louisiana farming community of 20,000 people, Meta is building a 4-million-square-foot AI data center, even as locals in Georgia grapple with a dwindling and discolored water supply following the construction of a similar facility that began in 2018.” 10/1/25 … 1/

Meta Builds AI Center the Size of 70 Football Fields. Residents Near Similar Facility Say They're 'Scared to Drink Our Own Water'

As Meta builds its largest AI data center in rural Louisiana, residents living near a similar facility in Georgia are having issues with their water supply. The parent company of Instagram has promise...

people.com

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Jeff Yau 姚明穎 @jeffmyau.bsky.social · 6d

I wish I could join Jonathan’s lab now!

Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 6d

The neural control & computation lab is recruiting!

If you're interested in using large-scale neural population recordings to study how the brain learns to produce complex and flexible behaviours, please get in touch.

www.ncclab.ca

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Vinny Costa @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social · 6d

Jonathan is honestly one of the best most talented junior PIs out there and joining his lab is essentially future proofing your career

Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 6d

The neural control & computation lab is recruiting!

If you're interested in using large-scale neural population recordings to study how the brain learns to produce complex and flexible behaviours, please get in touch.

www.ncclab.ca

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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 6d

High praise! Thanks Jeff 🙏

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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 6d

High praise! Thank you 🙏

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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks! I like it too 😅

Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 6d

The neural control & computation lab is recruiting!

If you're interested in using large-scale neural population recordings to study how the brain learns to produce complex and flexible behaviours, please get in touch.

www.ncclab.ca

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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 6d

Beautiful day on the water and at the Allen Institute!

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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 9d

Seattle ❤️

Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 9d

They admit in the last paragraph of the paper that they’re probably not reaaaally observing arousal here, and many other labels could be substituted

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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 10d

This seemed trivial to me at first, but I'm coming around to the idea that it might be a profound application of Takens' Theorem to neuroscience

Nature @nature.com · 12d

Nature research paper: Arousal as a universal embedding for spatiotemporal brain dynamics

go.nature.com/4nMUgYz

Arousal as a universal embedding for spatiotemporal brain dynamics - Nature

Reframing of arousal as a latent dynamical system can reconstruct multidimensional measurements of large-scale spatiotemporal brain dynamics on the timescale of seconds in mice.

go.nature.com

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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 10d

Haha amazing

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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 10d

So.. more funding for science?

Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 10d

The time to invest in Canada is now.

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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 13d

When your life becomes a natural experiment

Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 13d

I’m scheduled for surgery today on my Achilles tendon, followed by 2 weeks of no weight bearing.😵‍💫

So, like any good scientist, I got together 7 colleagues to study consequences of limb disuse.

Introducing the HEALING study

with @laurelgd.bsky.social @sneuroble.bsky.social @briemreid.bsky.social

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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 14d

Congratulations!!

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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 14d

Congrats Blake! Excited to see what the team comes up with

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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 16d

The firehose of falsehood

Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 18d

Great article. Not quite the same, but tools like NotebookLM (based on Gemini) work only with sources you provide. I've found the results to be very reliable. Have you investigated this tool?

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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 19d

A very real message I sent my class today: "I have confirmation that the philosophy department has been vanquished – we have our original lecture hall back."

Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 20d

They can't get over the fact that being 1000x richer than the plebs doesn't mean they'll live 1000x longer

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Chris J Dallmann @chrisjdallmann.bsky.social · 21d

Now out in @nature.com: Our study discovering a neural circuit in Drosophila that predictively inhibits proprioceptor axons during voluntary leg movements, such as walking and grooming. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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