Blake Porter 🐀

Postdoc at Brandeis studying the neural mechanisms of inference

[Blake Porter 🐀 @BlakeP_Neuro]

#tweetprint time! Between bouts of doom scrolling I put together the last big project of my postdoc:
"Dorsomedial prefrontal neural ensembles reflect changes in task utility"

https://t.co/nkepcTmKrQ

[SfN Journals @SfNJournals]

#eNeuro | Adapt-A-Maze: An Open-Source Adaptable and Automated Rodent Behavior Maze System https://t.co/yjt8J1mFOf

[Denise J. Cai, Ph.D. @denisejcai]

🌟 Cai Lab @Nature paper alert! In new work led by @mysteriousjoe_, we find that rest periods after learning not only stabilize new memories BUT ALSO integrate new memories with older ones from days past! (1/9)

Read it here: https://t.co/Ur8dbGfuP3

[bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv_neursci]

The role of REM sleep in neural differentiation of memories in the hippocampus https://t.co/23t7bL3J8U #biorxiv_neursci

[Waggoner Lab @LabWaggoner]

After a heart attack, immune cells are recruited to the brain to induce sleep, which suppresses inflammation in the heart and aids recovery @Nature @cam_phd @peacemakerhuynh
https://t.co/bPIHdOLxQp
https://t.co/BH3VooMfeh

[Neuron @NeuroCellPress]

Online now: Environmental complexity modulates information processing and the balance between decision-making systems https://t.co/XixSuOSwEq

[Nature Neuroscience @NatureNeuro]

A Comment on a trainee-informed model for undergraduate neuroscience research programs serving marginalized students

https://t.co/n6rYxoUZzq

[bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv_neursci]

Domain-specific Schema Reuse Supports Flexible Learning to Learn in Primate Brain https://t.co/gcGE7pGPOr #biorxiv_neursci

[(((Dr Hannah Wirtshafter))) 🔬 @AheadOfTheNerve]

🚨 New #Tweeprint 🚨 Ever wondered how the HPC supports learning across different contexts? This study, w @SaraASolla & @DisterhoftLab, uncovers a 'universal' memory code in the HPC—consistent across animals and environments! 🧵👇

https://t.co/7Axn8dZGo3

[Eleonora Russo @russo_eleon]

📢New work on hippocampal assemblies & theta!
https://t.co/NQ3jdNVD0U

It was a pleasure to work with @AleksDomanski, Nadine, Tim, @kipp_freud, @DurstewitzLab, and Matt Jones (@SleepDetectives).
@SantAnnaPisa @BristolNeurosci @zi_mannheim @BernsteinNeuro
🧵[1/11]

[Mariam Aly @mariam_s_aly]

When we anticipate the future, the brain shows graded representations of the future & past. The scale of these representations increases systematically from lower- to higher-order regions.

Proud of this work by @hannahtstoll, a collab w/ @ChrisBaldassano!
https://t.co/aTItfeZylz

[Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis, PhD @TrackingActions]

✨🥰 check out our article - and cover 🤩- about Decoding the Brain in @CellCellPress

https://t.co/HWBquErj0f

We review the mathematics, current approaches, and muse about the future…

#BCI #neuraldecoding #neuroAI

Thanks to my awesome co-authors Adriana Perez Rotondo, Edward Chang, @AToliasLab & @TrackingPlumes

[Surya Ganguli @SuryaGanguli]

Our new paper in @Nature shows that entorhinal grid cells adapt their representations to a new environment in one-shot and we derive a model that fuses landmarks & motion to *predict* the detailed grid rep *before* the mouse enters the new environment!
https://t.co/1zp8BSVUsy

[Bevil Conway @BevilConway]

A few postdocs asked me to read over their job applications. Here’s a few bits of advice: 🧵 /10

1. If any advice doesn’t ring true for you, discard it (including this!)

2. People on the search committee are keen to welcome a colleague, they aren’t looking to take you down

[Sebastian Seung @SebastianSeung]

Wow. Hopfield model and Boltzmann machine.

[Hannah Payne @HannahPaynePhD]

📢 Our newest preprint is up—just in time for SfN! Come by the nano Tues am N228 for the 10 min version, or see 🧵

The unexpected punchline: when a chickadee looks at a place from a distance, the SAME place codes activate as if it were actually there 👁️ https://t.co/8ZGZ6NhVRB

[George Dragoi @GeorgeDragoi2]

Hippocampus generates an internal model of Euclidean space. We ventured in a spatial odyssey exploring how much of the internal model is a priori, innate (Nature) and what is contributed by postnatal experience of Euclidean geometry (Nurture)
Our answer@ https://t.co/HkwkvAj4oO👇

[Paul Middlebrooks @pgmid]

Dopamine flooded my brain's pleasure center while Vijay @vijay_mkn
and Ali @mohebial told me how it's out with the old and in with the new dopamine stories.
https://t.co/aWU8eiF0gY

If you prefer reading, check out Vijay's article in @_TheTransmitter:
https://t.co/pUeFhTYqDX

[stephen mchugh @stephenmchugh6]

Our new study is out in @NeuroCellPress: “Offline hippocampal reactivation during dentate spikes supports flexible memory”, with David Dupret and fantastic group at @MRCBNDU, @NDCNOxford https://t.co/sPRvtEofB2 #NeuroTwitter #hippocampus #pubalert 🧵 (1/9)

[Guido Meijer @guido_meijer]

How a crying baby is similar to denoising an ephys rig:
1) There's noise and you don't know why
2) You need to stay grounded
3) You have superstitious beliefs about what actions stop the noise
4) These actions work sometimes but not always
5) The noise can randomly start again

[Patrick LaChance @patrick_lachanc]

Happy to share my first paper with @HasselmoMichael, "Distinct codes for environment structure and symmetry in postrhinal and retrosplenial cortices" https://t.co/nxz0733tHS