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Marjolein Moorman @marjoleinmoorman.bsky.social · Jun 9

Keihard snijden in onderwijs schaadt onze kinderen én onze toekomst. De stapeling van bezuinigingen treft juist de meest kwetsbare kinderen. De afbraak van onderwijs moet stoppen! Die oproep doe ik samen met o.a. de @vngemeenten.bsky.social aan politiek Den Haag.

Noodkreet wethouder Moorman aan kabinet: ‘Dit keihard snijden in onderwijs schaadt kinderen’

Een brandbrief tegen de bezuinigingen op onderwijs die het kabinet wil doorvoeren, wordt onder meer namens Amsterdam verstuurd. ‘Zeggen dat je voor kansengelijkheid staat, maar intussen kinderen raken...

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Ravi Menon, Ph.D. @northernthrux.bsky.social · Jun 7

More fields need to do this.

Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · Apr 17

On this day 2y ago we announced our move away from the huge profits that NeuroImage makes for Elsevier.

Things at Imaging Neuroscience have progressed fantastically thanks to the support for this move by the brain imaging community and @mitpress.bsky.social. 565 papers published already!

Screenshot of the original tweet announcing our move, with 5K likes and 2M views.

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Knut Einar Rosendahl @rosendahlke.bsky.social · May 28

Many believed that EU would not be able to reach its ambitious 2030 climate goal
Now:
EU almost on track to reach 2030 climate goal
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

EU almost on track to reach 2030 climate goal

The European Union is nearly on track to reach its main climate target for this decade, with countries' existing CO2-cutting plans set to bring the bloc within one percentage point of the goal, the European Commission said on Wednesday.

www.reuters.com

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Timo van Kerkoerle @timovankerkoerle.bsky.social · May 27

Thanks for sharing. Too bad the trial wasn't succesful.

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Martin Vinck @martinavinck.bsky.social · May 27

With all the sad developments in the US - go study in the Netherlands: relatively low tuition (and adequate job search visa after graduating) for high-quality programs like this one in Neurophysics or Cognitive Neuroscience at the neuroscience Donders hub

Francesco Battaglia @battaglialab.bsky.social · May 15

Come study at the @dondersinst.bsky.social Neurophysics Master!

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Timo van Kerkoerle @timovankerkoerle.bsky.social · May 27

It's amazing to me that the functional relevance of this basic cortical architecture is still unknown. There is a lot of theory why columnar organization would be useful, i.e. fast & robust communication. But it remains hard to investigate experimentally, combining functional with anatomical imaging

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Timo van Kerkoerle @timovankerkoerle.bsky.social · May 27

You probably also know that Patricia Goldman-Rakic showed that columnar organization in PFC matches anatomical projections from contra- vs ipsilateral parietal cortex, so not necessarily visual features:
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Although she also linked it to visual features :
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Regional and cellular fractionation of working memory | PNAS

This chapter recounts efforts to dissect the cellular and circuit basis of a memory system in the primate cortex with the goal of extending the i...

www.pnas.org

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Timo van Kerkoerle @timovankerkoerle.bsky.social · May 27

Indeed, the imaging is impressive, but the stimulus selection seems a bit arbitrary to me. There is columnar organization in terms of connectivity across the visual cortex, but only in V1, this has been linked to function, and only for relatively local connections it seems :
doi.org/10.1007/s004...

Revisiting horizontal connectivity rules in V1: from like-to-like towards like-to-all - Brain Structure and Function

Horizontal connections in the primary visual cortex of carnivores, ungulates and primates organize on a near-regular lattice. Given the similar length scale for the regularity found in cortical orient...

doi.org

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · May 26

Going through months-worth of Google Scholar Alert emails getting caught up on neuro papers, so I figured I'd share some fun findings here 👇

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Timo van Kerkoerle @timovankerkoerle.bsky.social · May 27

It's an cool paper, but not very rigorous I would say. In particular, I would assume that neurons in IT connect using features that are topographically organized. See e.g. these paper, I assume you know:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
and Figure 3 in :
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

A map of object space in primate inferotemporal cortex - Nature

Primate inferotemporal cortex contains a coarse map of object space consisting of four networks, identified using functional imaging, electrophysiology and deep networks.

www.nature.com

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Francesco Battaglia @battaglialab.bsky.social · May 15

Come study at the @dondersinst.bsky.social Neurophysics Master!

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Donders Institute @dondersinst.bsky.social · May 15

Please find this English masters program in Neurophysics. Study the brain, artificial neural networks and complex systems through the lens of mathematical modeling and physics. Radboud University / Donders (Netherlands) is one of Europe’s leading universities in Neuroscience. 1/3

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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · May 16

Today, the ERC formally adopted a decision to increase its support for researchers moving to Europe.

On top of its normal grants, the ERC offers 'start-up' funding to help PIs establish laboratories / research teams in Europe.

This extra funding is now x2 (up to €2 million!)

europa.eu/!6Vdgmp

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Timo van Kerkoerle @timovankerkoerle.bsky.social · May 13

Fantastic piece indeed! Very clear and convincing. Would you maybe be willing to also share this on LinkedIn?

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Eliza Bliss-Moreau @eblissmoreau.bsky.social · May 4

The NIH move to restrict animal research is a bad one and not just about health - it's about national security.

More here:
medium.com/@eblissmorea...

This will kill us: restricting animal research

Tuesday, as my lab gathered to celebrate the completion of one of our big studies, the National Institutes of Health announced that they…

medium.com

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · May 13

oh wow I wonder if this is something he could have done when the Trump admin condemned 2000 infants a day to a lifelong HIV infection or when he defied a unanimous Supreme Court decision ah well nevertheless

The New York Times @nytimes.com · May 13

Senator Chuck Schumer of New York intends on Tuesday to put a hold on all Justice Department political appointees awaiting Senate confirmation until he gets more information on President Trump's plans to accept a luxury jet from Qatar.

Schumer to Slow Trump Justice Dept. Nominees Over Qatari Jet

www.nytimes.com

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Timo van Kerkoerle @timovankerkoerle.bsky.social · Apr 30

The deadline is extended to Friday May 9th, as there were some technical issues with the application portal due to the large number of last minute applications.

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Timo van Kerkoerle @timovankerkoerle.bsky.social · Apr 30

The deadline is extended to Friday May 9th, as there were some technical issues with the application portal due to the large number of last minute applications.

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Decision, Action, and Neural Computation (DANC) lab @danclab.bsky.social · Apr 18

This looks so cool

Timo van Kerkoerle @timovankerkoerle.bsky.social · Feb 20

We have a very exciting 4-year PhD position available at the @dondersinst.bsky.social, to better understand how neuronal populations generate magnetic fields and how to measure those intracranially, with Corette Wierenga & @gauteeinevoll.bsky.social.
For more info:
neuronanotech.eu/phd-projects...

NeuroNanotech MSCA Doctoral Network @neuronanotechdn.bsky.social · Feb 20

📢The call is open!

Are you seeking a #PhDposition in Nanoscience/Neuroscience? Have a look to the NeuroNanotech Doctoral Network positions. A great funding scheme with career development support.

️🟪 🟦 neuronanotech.eu?utm_campaign... 🟦 🟪

#MSCA #EUfunded #HorizonEU #PhDjob

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Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience @bernsteinneuro.bsky.social · Apr 23

Deadline April 30! 👇

Timo van Kerkoerle @timovankerkoerle.bsky.social · Feb 20

We have a very exciting 4-year PhD position available at the @dondersinst.bsky.social, to better understand how neuronal populations generate magnetic fields and how to measure those intracranially, with Corette Wierenga & @gauteeinevoll.bsky.social.
For more info:
neuronanotech.eu/phd-projects...

NeuroNanotech MSCA Doctoral Network @neuronanotechdn.bsky.social · Feb 20

📢The call is open!

Are you seeking a #PhDposition in Nanoscience/Neuroscience? Have a look to the NeuroNanotech Doctoral Network positions. A great funding scheme with career development support.

️🟪 🟦 neuronanotech.eu?utm_campaign... 🟦 🟪

#MSCA #EUfunded #HorizonEU #PhDjob

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Timo van Kerkoerle @timovankerkoerle.bsky.social · Apr 22

One week left to apply!

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Timo van Kerkoerle @timovankerkoerle.bsky.social · Apr 22

Thanks for sharing! One week left to apply.

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Timo van Kerkoerle @timovankerkoerle.bsky.social · Mar 10

Fantastic work from the group of Wim Vanduffel! Super fast face-selective neurons in the prefrontal cortex, suggesting that we need to rethink how 'high-level' the encoding in PFC is. At least it gets a strong transient input, so has to be considered as part of the feedforward processing stream.

Cell Reports @cp-cellreports.bsky.social · Mar 8

Fast face-selective responses in prefrontal face patches of the macaque

Mergan et al. conducted an fMRI-guided electrophysiology study in macaque prefrontal face patches. They found that, although receptive fields and basic selectivity in these face patches resemble those in ITC, a subset of POC neurons show rapid face…

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Timo van Kerkoerle @timovankerkoerle.bsky.social · Mar 7

No need for 3-photon imaging anymore?

Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · Feb 28

Excited to share this collaborative work led by Guosong Hong’s group @stanfordneuro.bsky.social. A new method to render animals optically transparent for deep tissue imaging across the visible spectrum 🌈

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Color-neutral and reversible tissue transparency enables longitudinal deep-tissue imaging in live mice

Light scattering in biological tissue presents a significant challenge for deep in vivo imaging. Our previous work demonstrated the ability to achieve optical transparency in live mice using intensely...

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · Feb 28

Robust encoding of stimulus–response mapping by neurons in visual cortex
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
#neuroscience

Robust encoding of stimulus–response mapping by neurons in visual cortex | PNAS

Neural activity in sensory cortex is modulated by behavioral and cognitive factors, and this modulation is thought to contribute to the selection o...

doi.org

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