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Abhilasha Joshi, PhD @rhythmicspikes.bsky.social · 21d

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🚨 New preprint! 🚨

Excited and proud (& a little nervous 😅) to share our latest work on the importance of #theta-timescale spiking during #locomotion in #learning. If you care about how organisms learn, buckle up. 🧵👇

📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
💻 code + data 🔗 below 🤩

#neuroskyence

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Lioba Enk @liobaenk.bsky.social · Aug 28

Wonderful piece by @megancarey.bsky.social on how @network-alba.bsky.social is tackling inequities in (neuro)science and building more inclusive research communities! ✨

#DEI #DiversityInScience #DiversityInSTEM #neuroscience #cognitivescience #neuroskyence #academia

Nature Reviews Neuroscience @natrevneuro.nature.com · Aug 27

Working together to build strong scientific communities — a Comment article by Megan R. Carey

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#neuroscience #neuroskyence

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Working together to build strong scientific communities - Nature Reviews Neuroscience

The scientific enterprise depends on attracting and retaining the very best talent, yet barriers persist that perpetuate inequities in the scientific workforce. Here I discuss the efforts of the ALBA ...

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Megan Carey @megancarey.bsky.social · Aug 28

Thank you so much! 🙏🏼
I hope people find it helpful.

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Nature Reviews Neuroscience @natrevneuro.nature.com · Aug 27

Working together to build strong scientific communities — a Comment article by Megan R. Carey

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#neuroscience #neuroskyence

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

Working together to build strong scientific communities - Nature Reviews Neuroscience

The scientific enterprise depends on attracting and retaining the very best talent, yet barriers persist that perpetuate inequities in the scientific workforce. Here I discuss the efforts of the ALBA ...

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Megan Carey @megancarey.bsky.social · Jun 17

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Champalimaud Research @champalimaudr.bsky.social · Jun 17

👏 Congratulations to @megancarey.bsky.social, principal investigator at @champalimaudr.bsky.social on winning a 2.5M€ #AdvancedGrantInLifeSciences, awarded by the @erc.europa.eu, to develop the project 🧠 SCUPTABELLUM - Sculpting cerebellar activity across timescales.

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Megan Carey @megancarey.bsky.social · Jun 17

We are super excited about this news!!! 🤩 #ERCAdG

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Christophe 🔬 L @christlet.bsky.social · May 26

I like how the ambiguity of which side the labels refer to perfectly mirrors each viewpoint

Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · May 24

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barccsyn.bsky.social @barccsyn.bsky.social · Apr 4

🎉 Excited to announce #BARCCSYN2025 – May 22–23 in Barcelona!

Keynotes by:
🧠 Matteo Carandini ( @carandinilab.net )
🧠 Megan Carey ( @megancarey.bsky.social )
🧠 Chris Summerfield ( @summerfieldlab.bsky.social )

Submit your talk/poster by April 21 & register by May 11!
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BARCCSYN 2025 - Centre de Recerca Matemàtica

DEADLINE FOR TALKS OR POSTER PRESENTATIONS April 21st, 2025 REGISTRATION FEE 130 € (100 € for Members of the Catalan Society of Mathematics or Members of the Catalan Society of Biology) Barcelona Comp...

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · Feb 8

From Michael Roth, president of Wesleyan University: slate.com/life/2025/02...

Dear Fellow College Presidents: We Need to Do More Than Wait This One Out

Why civil society needs university leaders to speak up.

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Society for the Neural Control of Movement @ncmsociety.bsky.social · Feb 7

Thinking of attending #NCMPan25 but not sure you have the funds? There are meeting support awards available! Learn more on the website and share with your network as we try to ensure all members of the community can attend.

ncm-society.org/dive...

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Ida Momennejad @neuroai.bsky.social · Dec 20

Honored that a piece I wrote made it to NYTimes. It’s about how my mom’s stroke changed my connection to time, science, and nature. What a privilege to honor my mom in Modern Love.
Below is a gift link. Let me know your thoughts 🙏🏼

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/s...

Grief Makes Us Time Travelers (Gift Article)

A neuroscientist studying memory, I used to believe time was linear. Then my mother had a stroke.

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Caroline Nettekoven @carobellum.bsky.social · Nov 25

Made a starter pack for researchers who are actively working on or have an interest in the cerebellum.

DM me to be added or reply to this thread!

🧠🤏🏻

go.bsky.app/7X4ekSH

#neuroscience #neuroskyence #cerebellum #neuroimaging #dbs #fmri

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Megan Carey @megancarey.bsky.social · Dec 11

Yes! This has been bugging me for a while but I hadn’t put my finger on exactly why. You’ve nailed it 👍🏼

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Cian O'Donnell @cianodonnell.bsky.social · Dec 11

petition to change the word describing ChatGPT's mistakes from 'hallucinations' to 'confabulations'

A hallucination is a false subjective sensory experience. ChatGPT doesn't have experiences!

It's just making up plausible-sounding bs, covering knowledge gaps. That's confabulation

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · Nov 29

This is relevant!

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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · Nov 29

Really excited to launch the megabouts.ai project from @adrienjouary.bsky.social. The era of large-scale behavioral data brings with it the challenge of how to integrate and compare data acquired using diverse set-ups and tracking approaches. (1/n)

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Megan Carey @megancarey.bsky.social · Nov 18

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Megan Carey @megancarey.bsky.social · Nov 12

Don't miss @NTatianaSilva talking about her exciting recent work on cerebellar memory consolidation. 🧠 Today @ 16h Lisbon / 11am Baltimore. Preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Megan Carey @megancarey.bsky.social · Oct 5

I thought we all agreed the first name-only badges were evil? 😈
#SfN2024

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Megan Carey @megancarey.bsky.social · Jul 1

New lab preprint! Tatiana Silva & Inês Ribeiro found that in 🐭, locomotor activity 🏃‍♀️ shifts the critical temporal window for memory consolidation (from after to WITHIN training sessions) & accelerates memory transfer from 🧠 cerebellar cortex ➡️ nucleus doi.org/10.1101/2024...

Behavioral state regulates the dynamics of memory consolidation

bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

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Megan Carey @megancarey.bsky.social · Mar 4

Bom dia #cosyne24
Please remember to nominate your colleagues for @SfNtweets Swartz Prize in Theoretical & Computational Neuroscience 🏆 Nomination window is open - this is a great time to chat with others & coordinate nomination letters! www.sfn.org/careers/awar...

Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience

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Megan Carey @megancarey.bsky.social · Jan 9

I wrote a few thousand words about the cerebellum… check it out if you’d like to learn more about “the little brain” authors.elsevier.com/a/1iOZX3QW8S...
#neuroscience #neuroskyence

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Megan Carey @megancarey.bsky.social · Nov 21

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Megan Carey @megancarey.bsky.social · Nov 21

Happy to share our new paper, in which Catarina Albergaria, Daniela Carulli, & Robin Broersen present convergent optogenetic, anatomical & physiological evidence for 'Synaptic mechanisms for associative learning in the cerebellar nuclei,' now in Nature Communications
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Synaptic mechanisms for associative learning in the cerebellar nuclei - Nature Communications

The role of the cerebellar nuclei (CN) during associative learning remains debated. Here, the authors show that well-timed conditioned responses can result from stimulating CN inputs, and that learnin...

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Megan Carey @megancarey.bsky.social · Oct 23

Depressing, yes. Surprising? Not so much.
This is precisely why the #ALBADeclaration focused so heavily on workplace culture:

Toxic workplaces are the main reason women leave academic jobs

Women feel driven out by problems with workplace culture more often than by lack of work–life balance. Women feel driven out by problems with workplace culture more often than by lack of work–life...

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Megan Carey @megancarey.bsky.social · Oct 12

It was fun chatting with @carlzimmer.bsky.social about the new papers out today in Science journals - a success story for large scale, international collaborative science!

Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · Oct 12

Here is my story on a new brain atlas: 3300 cell types and counting… Gift link: tinyurl.com/duzfw4df

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