Roni Maimon Mor

Research Fellow @UCL: A cognitive/clinical neuroscientist studying plasticity.
Focusing on sensory deprivation and restoration processes in human development

[Roni Maimon Mor @maimon_roni]

Super excited that our new paper is out!
Following retinal gene-therapy, congenitally colorblind children (achromats) show recovered(!!) neural cone maps in early visual cortex. So grateful to be a part of this groundbreaking study. @ChildVisionLab @TesDekker @MahtabFrhb

[Brain @Brain1878]

Farahbakhsh et al. show that gene therapy can activate dormant cone photoreceptor pathways in children with achromatopsia, a monogenic disease that causes complete loss of colour vision. The changes are paired with improved visual function. https://t.co/72ROG4mvuJ

[Science News @SciencNews]

Scientists should get paid for thinking time @Nature

#PhD #PhDlife #academics #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #Postdocs #Research #Science

[UCL Brain Sciences @UCLBrainScience]

The first treatment for rare sight-threatening infection, acanthamoeba keratitis has been approved in Europe after 15 years of research supported by @UCLeye and @Moorfields. https://t.co/NB2sUO7gJj

[Jonathan Birch @birchlse]

To mark the release of The Edge of Sentience, I've done a 2hr mega-podcast with @80000Hours covering many of the key ideas and themes. You can find it here and on all the main podcast places: https://t.co/gEALBEHYtV

[Keir Yong @KeirYong]

4 year PhD (apply by 19th July) on visual system vulnerability to neurodegenerative disease.
https://t.co/bcw4TicMJU
Understand susceptibility to 'brainsight' loss in the largest imaging study (UK Biobank) & in visual-led dementia
@drcionucl
@RareDementia
@UCLIoN
@CombineLab

[Matan Mazor @mazormatan]

How do we infer perceptual absences? Do beliefs about perception play a role in such inferences? And how does it all relate to cellist Natalia Gutman’s career decisions? Find answers in our new preprint with @moran_rani and @ClarePress:

https://t.co/T1V64SA0sH

A 🧵

[Kording Lab 🦖 @KordingLab]

Retinal waves as world simulator for network initialization: https://t.co/viRroAPyhj

[Leah Banellis @LeahBanellis]

@BrainAndStomach While many believe being ‘more in tune with your body’ improves mental health, we surprisingly found the opposite: worse mental health (higher anxiety, depression, stress, fatigue & reduced well-being)—with stronger stomach-brain connections.

[Nanditha Rajamani @NaN_Value]

Modulating networks using DBS is an effective treatment for PD – but which circuits map to improvements in individual symptoms such as tremor, bradykinesia, rigidity, and axial? A 🧵 about our new paper out now in @NatureComms https://t.co/4KPUBGgsRd @netstim_org

[Jonathan Birch @birchlse]

A preview of the contents page of my book The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI - out 15 August, open access online and in print (https://t.co/BLRrl99GZ0).

[Siawoosh Mohammadi (@siawooshmr.bsky.social) @siawooshmn]

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Exciting #qMRI workshop (5-6 June)
“In vivo Histology using qMRI: Validation and Clinical Application in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy”
#Free_Of_Charge
#hMRI #Microstructure #Histology #AI

More information: https://t.co/zspk4gOc7T

15 speakers:
@KonradWagstyl @IleanaJelescu...

[Ella Striem-Amit (@striemamit.bsky.social) @StriemAmit]

How can vision scientists drive real-world impact?
@SharonGutnick and I will hear from Lotfi Merabet (HMS), @jeremymwolfe (HMS), @cogscimon (NSF/Rice) & Cheri Wiggs (NEI) at a #VSS2024 satellite Mon 2-5p. Join us!
https://t.co/eAp84ouVaV

[Jon Roiser 🟣 @jonroiser]

We are currently recruiting for the next phase of the LIFE study on the mechanisms underlying the effects of different types of physical activity in depression - if you or anyone you know are interested (based in the London area) please ask them to get in touch!

[Martina F Callaghan (@mfcallaghan.bsky.social) @mfcallaghan]

Come work with us at the FIL! You can learn more about the Physics Group here: https://t.co/9ojp6vSN9k

[Roni Maimon Mor @maimon_roni]

@CarlyleKirsty @LBofoundation @ReachCharity

[Oded Rechavi @OdedRechavi]

Is forgetting a bug or a feature? Can you delay it and remember longer? Our 🥶COOLEST paper to date (and our most poetic abstract…) Show LOVE ❤️and please SHARE! Thread (1/N)👇
https://t.co/nhe4P2dk7G

[Martin Hebart @martin_hebart]

I'm soon going to be looking for a senior postdoc to join my lab who is interested in transitioning to independence and in building their own group, with a strong background in vision science, cognitive computational neuroscience or visual neuroscience. Please RT 1/3

[Liad Mudrik @Liad_Mudrik]

1/ What things are conscious and how could we know? New in @TrendsCognSci – a new strategy for developing ‘Tests for Consciousness in Humans and Beyond’ – a @CIFARnews Brain, Mind, and Consciousness production
https://t.co/A32BJf3IUI

[Roni Maimon Mor @maimon_roni]

Another incredibly well crafted and insightful work by the brilliant @mazormatan and colleagues.

This time asking how good are we at pretending we don't know something and what does that teach us about how well we know ourselves?

[Matan Mazor @mazormatan]

How good are we at knowing what we would think and do if our beliefs were different? In a new preprint with @chazfirestone and @ibphillips, we use pretense behavior to show that the answer is *remarkably good* https://t.co/gMHSAUOafC

A thread 🧵(1/7)

[Sharon Gilaie-Dotan @ShaGilDot]

In 1 hr Prof Liad Mudrik @Liad_Mudrik
on "Consciousness and the brain: comparing and testing neuroscientific theories of consciousness" https://t.co/93sdKGlHSV…
@worldwideneuro
@TelAvivUni
@ubarilan
@GondaBrain
#BIUVisionScienceSeminar #WomenInSTEM #womeninscience #consciousness

[Jonathan Birch @birchlse]

We need to retune our empathy to fit the evidence, in relation to both animals and AI. (A clip from an event at Princeton with @jeffrsebo and @KristinAndrewz. The camera angle is weird because it's academia.)