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Roberto Toro
@r3rt0.bsky.social
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Into brain development and evolution (+open science, generative art, genomics, music, 🇨🇱...). If you have questions about mechanical morphogenesis, I have more! https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6671-858X
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Eric Turkheimer @ent3c.bsky.social · 14h
Haven't posted much lately-- busy. One of my Substack projects is republishing my chapters from the Kendler and Parnas series on the philosophy of psychiatry. The books are expensive and hard to find. This is, "The Hard Question in Psychiatric Nosology." /1 @awaisaftab.bsky.social
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Roberto Toro @r3rt0.bsky.social · 23h
the right one looks wider! (by two observers)
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Ana Martínez Gómez @brainbyana.bsky.social · 6d
🚨 New in J. Comp. Neurology: "Larger Fish Have Larger Brains With More Neurons Across but Not Within Cohorts Raised in Different Growth Conditions" 🐟🧠

DOI: doi.org/10.1002/cne....

#Neuroscience #BrainEvolution #ComparativeNeurobiology #Fish #Plasticity
Larger Fish Have Larger Brains With More Neurons Across but Not Within Cohorts Raised in Different Growth Conditions
Teles et al. propose a model of brain evolution that explains how come fish with larger bodies have larger brains with more neurons across cohorts raised in different growth conditions, while individ....
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Bryan White, MS Bio, MPH 🧬 @crvscience.com · 4d
Homie got 229 pairs of chromosomes

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
This tiny butterfly has the most chromosomes of any animal on Earth
Scientists have confirmed that the Atlas blue butterfly carries the most chromosomes of any animal, with 229 pairs. Unlike duplication, its chromosomes split apart, reshaping its genome in surprising ...
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Roberto Toro @r3rt0.bsky.social · 4d
up for it! Paris could also be a possibility <3
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Roberto Toro @r3rt0.bsky.social · 4d
it'd be cool to see a small conference on an evodevo perspective on psychiatry and neurodevelopment!
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Roberto Toro @r3rt0.bsky.social · 5d
Congratulations Armin 🚀!
Great to have you have you closer 🌟
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Armin Raznahan @bogglerapture.bsky.social · 5d
Some news …! 🤗

So excited to get started next year, and very grateful for the opportunity.

Looking forward to connecting with friends and colleagues - old and new.

Watch this space for posting on fully funded positions as the new lab starts up !
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Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford @oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social · 6d
🔊We are delighted to announce the appointment of Armin Raznahan as the new WA Handley Professor of Psychiatry.

Professor Raznahan is a child & adolescent psychiatrist, joining us from the US National Institute of Mental Health Intramural Research Program.

More: www.psych.ox.ac.uk/news/armin-r...
An image of Professor Armin Raznahan, Incoming WA Handley Professor of Psychiatry, with a quote from him saying: "Returning to the UK to work and learn with the remarkable community at Oxford is a real privilege. There is such a unique landscape of opportunity across the university and local NHS Trusts to both advance our understanding of the developing human brain and make a difference in the way we care for youth experiencing mental health difficulties."
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Signe Johansen @signesjohansen.bsky.social · 6d
“Wow! Fantastic! Real fame at last! Fancy being in a Gary Larson cartoon!”

Amidst so many wonderful tributes to Jane Goodall, I thought I’d share this delightful detail for anyone else who grew up admiring her, and Gary Larson’s Far Side brilliantly bonkers cartoons

www.salon.com/2025/10/01/j...
“Well, well - another blonde hair…Conducting a little more ‘research’ with that Jane Goodall tramp?’
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Varun Warrier @vw1234.bsky.social · 7d
It is now clear that more people are being diagnosed as autistic in their teens and as adults than in childhood. A prevailing theory is that those diagnosed later have "milder" form of autism, and later diagnosis entirely due to social factors.
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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 8d
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Joshua A. Karpf, Christopher D. Kroenke, et al:

Characterization of normative fetal rhesus macaque brain development with magnetic resonance imaging

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 13d
The brain is incredibly densely connected. Human cerebral cortex may have as many as *one trillion* connections.

Most of those cortical connections are recurrent, inside each area. What do they do?

New paper from me in Annual Reviews: 🧪 🧠📈 1/

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Active Filtering: A Predictive Function of Recurrent Circuits of Sensory Cortex | Annual Reviews
Our brains encode many features of the sensory world into memories: We can sing along with songs we have heard before, interpret spoken and written language composed of words we have learned, and reco...
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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 14d
HHMI adopts Plan U journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Pascal Mamassian @mamassian.bsky.social · 14d
A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue.

The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea.

From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt:
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...
An array of 9 purple discs on a blue background. Figure from Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt.
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 17d
“Many scholars from historically overexploited countries (often referred to as the global south) expected that exposing the problem would trigger change. Four years on, I see it clearly: the scientific system was never designed for equity,” writes Dolors Armenteras in Nature. #Academicsky 🧪
Equity in science is a beautiful lie — and I’m done pretending
Science isn’t really moving towards equity; institutions are just perfecting the appearance of equity. We need to build an alternative system.
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Sasha Gusev @sashagusevposts.bsky.social · 18d
Massive sibling regression study finds that human traits are largely environmentally driven (average heritability = 0.3)
Within-family heritability estimates for behavioural and disease phenotypes from 500,000 sibling pairs of diverse ancestries
Quantification of the direct effect of genetic variation on human behavioural traits is important for understanding between-individual variation in socio-economic and health outcomes but estimates of ...
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Roberto Toro @r3rt0.bsky.social · 19d
postdoc organoids?
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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 19d
Only single cell sequencing of the all these post docs will reveal why
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Oxford Mathematics @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social · 20d
What did you have for breakfast this morning? A couple of slices of toast perhaps? Great, but a little more burnt than you wanted? It often happens, doesn't it. Blame maths.

Sam Howison sets off the smoke alarm.
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Roberto Toro @r3rt0.bsky.social · 20d
if you look at that person into their eyes, you see their prefrontal cortex. Maybe the eyes would then pop out from the nose? 🤔👁️😤
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Jonathan Basile @jonothingeb.bsky.social · 23d
I'm excited to share with you all a conference I'm planning Oct. 10-12: Dialectical Biology Today: Legacies of Richard Lewontin.

It will be hybrid in Toronto and on zoom, so please join us however you can! Register for zoom link here: ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/diale...
Conference title: Dialectical Biology Today: Legacies of Richard Lewontin, and image of Lewontin in Black and White with intense expression in front of a chalkboard holding up a fist, When and Where Friday, October 10, 2025 11:30 am to Sunday, October 12, 2025 2:00 pm Music Room (218) Goldring Student Centre 150 Charles St W, Toronto, ON M5S 1K5 | and online via Zoom
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epithelial mechanics fan club @epimechfc.bsky.social · 25d
How can we use cell shapes and geometry to study mechanics of tissues?

I'm @juliaeckert.bsky.social, and with this thread, I would like to show you the secrets of cells and tissues. Let’s connect biology with a little bit of physics. Don't be scared and get inspired 😀. #EpithelialMechanics
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Merlin Lange @merlinlange.bsky.social · Jul 2
Students & scientists interested in multiscale integration in biological systems don’t miss this international course at
@institutcurie.bsky.social. Explore #computation #morphogenesis #biology #machinelearning & more 🧪

Deadline soon - registration here training.institut-curie.org/courses/mult...
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Gregory Kohn @kohngregory.bsky.social · 28d
Really interesting study showing learning of tool use in carrion crows! www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Gregory Kohn @kohngregory.bsky.social · 28d
Today is the birthday of one of my favorite scientists, thinkers, and writers of all time, Stephen Jay Gould. He would have been 84 year old. “Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity.” -S. J. Gould
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