cybellesmith @neuromatch.social .bsky.social

Neural tissue engineer and cognitive neuroscientist. Postdoc at the Cullen Lab (Penn Medicine). Interested in building functional neural circuits in vitro.

[cybellesmith @neuromatch.social .bsky.social @CybelleSmith]

Excited to release this preprint with @AnnaSchapiro and @stslab! Humans and recurrent neural nets can learn slow temporal statistics in the presence of fast timescale dependencies. https://t.co/Ow6hkeHWLN

[cybellesmith @neuromatch.social .bsky.social @CybelleSmith]

They're proposing major changes to how scientific grants are awarded and administered in the US, and it all seems really bad -- do you want political appointees to award and revoke awarded grants at will? -- read & public comment by July 13th! https://t.co/xTkzurdNXy

[cybellesmith @neuromatch.social .bsky.social @CybelleSmith]

Celebrating the acceptance of my first middle-author paper in neural tissue engineering with @D_Boufidis!

[Dimitris Boufidis @D_Boufidis]

✨ I am beyond thrilled to share that our new paper has just been published in Advanced Materials Interfaces! We present the 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗰𝘆𝘁𝗲–𝗠𝗫𝗲𝗻𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀

🔗 https://t.co/HaJEJB4dS1

[Andrew Saxe @SaxeLab]

Excited to announce the 2nd Analytical Connectionism summer school!

How can we mathematically understand neural network models of higher level cognition?

Where: @FlatironCCN, New York
When: Aug 12-23, 2024
Info: https://t.co/H5swhF9SmC

Apply by May 17, travel awards available!

[Cullen Lab @dkcullenlab]

More pictures from the celebration! Congratulations @VictorAcero20 again!!!

[Penn Medicine CSO @PennMedCSO]

Congratulations to @KyndallNicholas (@PennNGG/ @dkcullenlab/ @HHMINEWS) & @Eugenia_South (@UPennEM/ @PennUHL_) on winning @AARCPenn 2024 Women of Color Awards in recognition of their exceptional leadership & service to the community! https://t.co/9NVUokozHf

[Dan Goodman @neuralreckoning]

Fellowship opportunity for ECRs <4y post-PhD. Engineering. 5 year funding. Significant advantage given to people from "underrepresented groups" (see below). Internal deadline of May 6. Comp neuro has done well recently in our dept. Email me if interested.

https://t.co/DuuZNRZZm9

[Wai Keen Vong @wkvong]

1/ Today in Science, we train a neural net from scratch through the eyes and ears of one child. The model learns to map words to visual referents, showing how grounded language learning from just one child's perspective is possible with today's AI tools. https://t.co/hPZiiQt6Vv

[CLaE @leafs_s]

Neuron

Beyond hippocampus: Thalamic and prefrontal contributions to an evolving memory
https://t.co/RmTGC3FXbx

[Kayson Fakhar @Kaysonfakhar]

Excited to say this is out with minimal adjustments and a more representative title: https://t.co/26JKeO0BHV
The short description is in the thread below but in a sentence, we use game theory and multi-site lesioning to show neural activity does not intuitively map to function.

[Colin Phillips @ColinPhillips2]

Postdoc funding opportunity! But with a short turnaround. Internal processes in Oxford call for 1-page expressions of interest by next week (Feb 2). get in touch if interested.

[Stem Cell Podcast @stemcellpodcast]

📣 Check out our latest episode!

Dr. Malin Parmar (@ParmarLab) from @Lund_Stem joins us to talk about her #neuroscience research and developing cell therapies for #ParkinsonsDisease. 🧠

Listen now: https://t.co/TrY4ff2Wlu

[Mick Bonner @michaelfbonner]

New paper out in @PLOSCompBiol. The best deep neural network models of visual cortex do not reduce representations to low-dimensional manifolds—instead, they benefit from high-dimensionality. Led by a fantastic student, @EricElmoznino. https://t.co/PPIuP6vaeN

[Chen Weng @chenweng1991]

Very delighted to share our work Deciphering cell states and genealogies of human hematopoiesis online today in @Nature (Accelerated Preview version). It is a really great collaboration of Weissman lab @JswLab and Sankaran lab @bloodgenes https://t.co/L1oJOXRpxv 🧵(1/n)

[cybellesmith @neuromatch.social .bsky.social @CybelleSmith]

The next time something goes wrong, I'm blaming "interdependent percolation theory."

[Yoed Kenett @yoed_kenett]

A highly recommended event!

[Eero Simoncelli @EeroSimoncelli]

Summer Research Internships in Computational Neuroscience @FlatironCCN

Graduate students and advanced undergraduates: Spend a summer doing research at the Flatiron Institute in NYC!

Application deadline 2 Feb 2024:
https://t.co/WhQqGOXClV

[cedric boeckx @cedricboeckx]

Very interesting results concerning region-specific patterns of laminar gene expression in the context of the neocortical circuit supporting language, by @magsmaggiewong @sha_zhiqiang @ClydeFrancks & colleagues. Good to see the prominent role of SLIT genes
https://t.co/QXYtN9ZnQS

[Ida Momennejad @criticalneuro]

Hi, thanks to Lynn Nadel & Sarah Aronowitz I wrote a book chapter on multiscale predictive representations that connect the past to the future, memory to planning.
There's still time to edit it & I'd love to read your comments!
Am I missing citations?
https://t.co/HhforOoob3

[Ethan Perlstein 1-to-N @eperlste]

Excited for Broad 2.0 aka the Bell Labs of Biotech!

[Sergiu P. Pasca @Sergiu_P_Pasca]

Throwback to last year’s phenomenal conference at @CSHL on human brain development #organoids #assembloids — a superb gathering for this new field of multi-cellular models of the human nervous system & disease.

Thrilled about organizing another edition with Guo-Li Ming @UPenn_SongMing , in early December 2024, which promises to be even more exciting with an amazing lineup of speakers! 👇

https://t.co/ZZy30ZJvnw

[cybellesmith @neuromatch.social .bsky.social @CybelleSmith]

Summary: Citations primarily reflect social relationships and who has clout in the field, not necessarily who *intellectually and causally* impacted the work and its interpretation. This is problematic with respect to funding and attentional resource allocation in science.

[cybellesmith @neuromatch.social .bsky.social @CybelleSmith]

I'm back on Twitter/X and it's time for a good clean rant on the sociopolitical structure of science. #metascience (1/N)

[cybellesmith @neuromatch.social .bsky.social @CybelleSmith]

My viewpoint doesn't so much reflect my own lack of success (which, fair) as it does the huge contrast in attention paid to the work of myself and others at UIUC vs. Penn, despite little or no difference in quality, or in some cases, better quality at UIUC. (13/N)