Andrew MacAskill

UCL neuroscientist investigating the neural basis of contextual decision making. Views are my own.
also @[email protected] / @[email protected]

[Andrew MacAskill @MacAskillAF]

Huge congrats to @Karyna_mi for her paper published today in @ScienceMagazine! She found that the hippocampus is really important for a key strategy we use to make decisions called hidden state inference! 🧪 🧠https://t.co/6RgR5Iu6FL 1/7

[Stephanie Koch @SKochLab]

New preprint out! We developed a behavioural platform for the kinematic analysis of skilled whole body behaviour. Very fun collaboration with Christopher Black, Liam Browne and Rob Brownstone.

[Andrew MacAskill @MacAskillAF]

looking forward to speaking at KCL on thursday!

[CDN | King's College @dev_neuro]

This week we are excited to welcome @MacAskillAF @ucl who will present a seminar on Thursday. He will be hosted by @NEURekaSeminars, a group of PhD students and post-docs who organise informal and discussion-led events.

All welcome, we look forward to seeing you there.

[Andrew MacAskill @MacAskillAF]

@RochefortLab @WomeninNeuroUK Congrats!

[Jes Pass @PassJes]

Come use a combination of neural network and reinforcement learning approaches to tease apart how the brain supports motor adaptation with us @Ian_Duguid, Angus Chadwick and @eckstein_maria 🧠🤸

[Sarah Ruediger @RuedigerSarah]

Want to start your own lab at UCL? Then check out this opportunity. I went through the process a few years ago and can only recommend it! A fantastic place to do science, especially because of amazing colleagues and collaborators.

[Andrew MacAskill @MacAskillAF]

@RuedigerSarah the role will also allow you to join the amazing UCL neuroscience community @uclnpp @uclbiosciences - with hundreds of world class neuroscience research groups, all extremely collaborative and supportive, with an amazing mentorship program - all together an amazing opportunity!

[Andrew MacAskill @MacAskillAF]

Highly recommend @RuedigerSarah lab - asking really exciting and important qs about how we convert sensation to decision making - using all the most fun tech! I did both PhD and postdoc in a new lab - its an amazing environment to do great science with amazing mentorship. apply!!

[Sarah Ruediger @RuedigerSarah]

Join our team! We're investigating how the visual cortex interacts with subcortical structures like the Superior Colliculus and Basal Ganglia to shape sensory processing and behavior in health and neurobehavioral disorders. 🔬👁️ #NeuroscienceJobs #Neuroresearch @uclnpp

[Sarah Ruediger @RuedigerSarah]

Join our team! We're investigating how the visual cortex interacts with subcortical structures like the Superior Colliculus and Basal Ganglia to shape sensory processing and behavior in health and neurobehavioral disorders. 🔬👁️ #NeuroscienceJobs #Neuroresearch @uclnpp

[Andrew MacAskill @MacAskillAF]

@dileeplearning @Karyna_mi @ScienceMagazine @WilbrechtL @docqhuys @gabigregoriou @AlizeeKastler Yep! Really enjoyed your seminar when you came and visited us at UCL!

[Andrew MacAskill @MacAskillAF]

Huge congrats to @Karyna_mi for her paper published today in @ScienceMagazine! She found that the hippocampus is really important for a key strategy we use to make decisions called hidden state inference! 🧪 🧠https://t.co/6RgR5Iu6FL 1/7

[Andrew MacAskill @MacAskillAF]

@jamesgheys1 @Karyna_mi @ScienceMagazine Thanks jim

[Andrew MacAskill @MacAskillAF]

@vijay_mkn @Karyna_mi @ScienceMagazine Thanks Vijay - sadly no dancing video from us...!

[Andrew MacAskill @MacAskillAF]

@SMikulovic Thanks sanja!

[Andrew MacAskill @MacAskillAF]

@JiannisTax @Karyna_mi @ScienceMagazine Thanks Jiannis!

[Andrew MacAskill @MacAskillAF]

@CarterAG Thanks adam! now we need to get back to patching!

[Andrew MacAskill @MacAskillAF]

@Karyna_mi @ScienceMagazine congrats @Karyna_mi! and important to note this is an excellent collaboration between us, @WilbrechtL , @docqhuys and @gabigregoriou, albert Qu and @AlizeeKastler! team science!

[Andrew MacAskill @MacAskillAF]

@Karyna_mi @ScienceMagazine We are now going to use these findings to investigate how these changes in hippocampal function might lead to the increased risk of mental illness, and how we might go about designing new treatments to help reverse this increased risk in the future 7/7