Alon Baram

Post-doc with Tim Behrens at Oxford

[Alon Baram @BaramAlon]

Very happy to see our paper out in @NeuroCellPress! We show that the brain abstracts and generalises the structure of reinforcement learning tasks.

Link to the paper:
https://t.co/Mpu4jJVtdr

[James Whittington @jcrwhittington]

Want the freedom of a fancy fellowship, but not the year-long wait or arduous application?

Come join my lab! Work on neuroscience and AI, explore your creativity, be independent or work closely with me, collaborate widely, and have a lot of fun!

https://t.co/zmROCA5Ib6

[Mohamady El-Gaby @GabyMohamady]

If you’re at SfN and interested in cognitive maps/PFC then this is the symposium for you! https://t.co/4PMrkwZc4X

Saturday 2-4:30 Room SDCC 6CF

Also check out our brand new review:
https://t.co/EdvpYk79B9
With Sebastijan Veselic, Elena Gutierrez, @sandra_tanja & @MSableMeyer

[Yonatan Elbaz @ElbazYonatan]

הוא היה הראשון שמדד את גיל כדוה"א - 4.55 מיליארד שנה - בדיוק מדהים שנותר עד היום.
אבל תוך כדי, הוא גילה משהו לא צפוי לחלוטין ומדאיג.
תוך עשורים בודדים, הרף עין ביחס לגיל כדוה"א, משהו השתנה לרעה.
מאוד לרעה.
בגלל בני האדם.
אז הוא יצא למשימת חייו.
שרשור על כל מה שטוב (ורע) במדע 🧵⬇️

[Anna Shpektor @AnnaShpektor]

Excited to share my PhD results showing a hierarchical coordinate system for sequence memory in human EC.
https://t.co/8KicCW0j73
Below is a thread explaining this nonsense. 1/9

[Hebrew University @HebrewU]

The leadership of the Hebrew University in a strongly-worded, unequivocal response letter to the presidents of Harvard and Stanford universities, following their weak condemnation of Hamas:
"You have failed us, not only as Israelis, who are subject to the imminent threat of being subject to genocide, but also as leaders of an academic institution, who expect their colleagues to present higher moral standards, and more courage.”

The letter is signed by Prof. Asher Cohen, President of the Hebrew University, Prof. Tamir Shafer, Rector of the Hebrew University and Prof. Barak Medina

To read the full letters: https://t.co/AV5ixXHgZa

[Alon Baram @BaramAlon]

Michael wrote it better than I could.

[Michael Peer @michael_peer_]

I usually don’t write political posts on Twitter, but I wanted to clarify a few things about the situation in Israel.

[Mona Garvert @mona_garvert]

I am hiring a PhD student in cognitive computational #neuroscience! 👩🏻‍🎓👨🏻‍🎓Come and help us discover how the human brain learns, decides and guides flexible behaviour in beautiful Würzburg 🧠🙌

Find out more & apply here: https://t.co/peB7eeShaQ

@bioDGPs_DGPA @FENSorg @SfNtweets

[Avital Hahamy @AvitalHahamy]

Study uncovers how our brains connect the past and present | Brain Sciences - UCL – University College London https://t.co/446NMpYaSU

[Avital Hahamy @AvitalHahamy]

Ever wondered how your brain makes sense of threads like this? So did we! @behrenstimb @haim_dub and I tried to answer this question in our new paper, now available in @NatureNeuro.
https://t.co/nmUPoooFur
1/13

[Alon Baram @BaramAlon]

@mona_garvert @Uni_WUE Woohoooo congrats Mona!!

[Jacob Bakermans @BakermansJJW]

Excited to share our preprint, with Jo Warren, @jcrwhittington, and @behrenstimb! Hippocampus famously supports memory and scene construction, but recent state-space models have also explained a wealth of hippocampal results. Maybe it does both?
https://t.co/ddoKgll7gB
1/10

[Mona Garvert @mona_garvert]

This suggests that participants formed and used a map for generalization! And indeed, using fMRI adaptation we found a representation of the spatial map in the hippocampus. However, not only spatial relationships between monsters were represented in the hippocampus!

[Amy Howard @AmyFDHoward]

Roses are red, violets are blue, and today I am again on strike with the #UCU. Show some V-day love and support your striking colleagues in HE. #ucuRISING

[UCU @ucu]

Dogs on Pickets!🐶
#ucuRISING

[Alon Baram @BaramAlon]

@OxfordUCU Arya is also striking

[Alon Baram @BaramAlon]

@ruskin147 For us installing a dog door to the garden made a big difference - keeps the house warmer and the dog can still come in and out!

[Alon Baram @BaramAlon]

@haitchjayy @ruskin147 We're also loving #sophiefromromania - and we have the bonus of finding all these Romanian doppelgangers of our short-legged Arya, who came from Romania 1.5 years ago and is the best we did for ourselves

[James Whittington @jcrwhittington]

If everything's a big manifold, why do neurons often code for human-interpretable factors? In https://t.co/xCaJbmtwwi we show the most efficient biological representation puts different factors in different neurons. This lets us build machines that disentangle too! 1/9

[Weizmann Institute @WeizmannScience]

Congratulations to Gily Ginosar in the group of Prof. Nachum Ulanovsky of the Brain Sciences Department, who has been awarded the Capranica Prize for the 2021 Best Paper in Neuroethology

[Xenia Grande @xe_grande]

Join this week’s WorldWideNeuRise seminar @worldwideneuro to hear more about the functional architecture of the human entorhinal-hippocampal circuitry and discuss our preprint with me! https://t.co/79euYlgral