Scott Waddell
@scottishwaddell.bsky.social
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Neurobiologist. Learning. Memory. Motivation. Dopamine.
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Final extension until March 17 ☘️ at 12 noon Dublin time for abstract submission. Existing submissions are published on the website.

Join us at @tcddublin.bsky.social in May to disseminate your research and listen to the latest findings by leaders in the field at all career stages.
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Abstract submission will remain open until March 14th - after which time speakers will be selected.

Submitted abstracts and registered delegates are available here:
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Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness
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Yeh! However, so long ago that it’s now forgotten.
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The same @mikekrashes.bsky.social that now works in more furry animals showed that inhibiting aversive dopaminergic neurons released appetitive memory expression. PMID: 19837040.
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Pleasing to see that our Krashes et al 2009 study in the fly is the way it is in the mouse in 2024/5.
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We are currently repeating key experiments of our multisensory learning study. We have communicated with the journal and will correct literature as necessary and as soon as possible. Please get in touch if this impacts your work. Thanks to those that raised a flag. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37100911/
Multisensory learning binds neurons into a cross-modal memory engram - PubMed
Associating multiple sensory cues with objects and experience is a fundamental brain process that improves object recognition and memory performance. However, neural mechanisms that bind sensory featu...
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All these groups and things. How do I find people?! 😂
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I’m here. Just don’t yet quite understand how it works!
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Wassup Mike? I’ve now moved here full time too
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What’s the sculpture?
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Hello Bluesky peeps. Will start to post here from now on to see how it goes. Before anyone asks, my profile isn’t AI generated. It’s the real me 😂