Nava Shmoel David

Postdoc @mcgovernmit @mit

[Amit Vinograd @AmitVinograd]

Astrocyte energy metabolism shaping cognition - fascinating! Curious whether Npas3 expression differs in subcortical regions like hypothalamus, where astrocyte-neuron metabolic coupling could directly influence internal states https://t.co/0tt9LVVusp

[Nava Shmoel David @Navashmoeld]

@zilberzwige Congrats 🎉 and good luck with your new role!

[Shai Zilberzwige-Tal @zilberzwige]

Happy to share that I’m opening my lab at the Weizmann Institute of Science!
We’ll study systems-level regulation of bacterial defense, driven by RNA-protein interactions shaping cell fate.
Now recruiting PhD students & postdocs
https://t.co/HZ28Ns0y0C
Please reach out and share!

[David @dav1dcg]

Distinct roles of prefrontal subregion feedback to the primary visual cortex across behavioral states: https://t.co/JzND71ERbb

[Niko McCarty. @NikoMcCarty]

"A beautiful experiment is more than just a good experiment — one that has appropriate controls, well-calibrated equipment, and clear reasoning from data to its interpretation," Ulkar writes.

The notion of "beauty" in experiments has shifted a lot over time. During the Enlightment, "experimental science was primarily seen as a means of revealing the beauty of nature itself. There was a strong belief in nature as well-ordered and comprehensible by the human mind, and its beauty as originating in God’s design."

In the mid-20th century, this began to shift toward Wilczek's definition; namely, that a beautiful experiment is one where you get out more than you put in. A beautiful experiment thus became "more than just a good experiment — one that has appropriate controls, well-calibrated equipment, and clear reasoning from data to its interpretation," Ulkar writes.

A beautiful experiment is often perceived as "the opposite of brute force," an experimental that "interrogates nature by a precise perturbation of a system that produces a rich and revealing response. Making such a delicate yet compelling perturbation requires the researcher to already have a good model of the system, noticing or stipulating some patterns that can be used to compress or skip unnecessary steps."

Note that the end of this article also talks about some really recent methods, such as MEMOIR, that could also be thought of as "beautiful" even though they are complex or have multiple steps.

Recommended.

[Andrew Payne @Andrew_C_Payne]

Paper: https://t.co/vaYDVtnsAX

We partnered with @SGRodriques (Francis Crick Institute, now Future House), @eboyden3 (MIT and HHMI), and @jmrko (MPI) for this study.

[Nava Shmoel David @Navashmoeld]

There’s so much ignorance in this post. it’s hard to believe a scientist could write such uneducated, fake ‘facts’.

[Afif Aqrabawi @AjAqrabawi]

Tonight’s vigilante attack on Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam reflects the rage provoked by Israel’s unaccountable war crimes and the manipulation of Jewish symbols, like the Star of David, to incite and justify genocide. Zionism is the most dangerous form of antisemitism, with Netanyahu and the colonial project of Israel posing the greatest threat to Jewish people since Hitler.

[Nava Shmoel David @Navashmoeld]

@santorof14 @advancematerial @antoniolob98 @VRinconMontes @simonMusall @danielarana97 @ClaudiaLubrano4 @aoffenhaeusser @ERC_Research @RWTH @fz_juelich @NEInterfacesLab Congratulations @santorof14 !

[Margaret Schroeder @meschro]

Very excited to share our pre-print and my thesis work on the postnatal development of astrocyte regional heterogeneity, which includes an integrated dataset of >1.4 million single nuclei transcriptomes in mouse and marmoset brains (now available online)!

https://t.co/jT88PILBXo

[Nava Shmoel David @Navashmoeld]

@MatBVictor Congratulations!!

[Nava Shmoel David @Navashmoeld]

@okaysteve Congratulations @okaysteve !!!

[Talia Khan @realtaliakhan]

https://t.co/Fnm97cyn4v

Hi all! We are planning an incredible event with students from the greater Boston area. We will have Idan Raichel, Kosha Dillz, and a Nova DJ joining us on MIT’s campus. We have initial funding, but we need your help! Any amount will help. Please donate and share to make this amazing community event a success! Much love 🎗️

[Aviva Klompas @AvivaKlompas]

200 days ago, Palestinian terrorists brought RPGs into sleepy Israeli towns and fired on civilian cars for sport.

Do not for one moment forget how this war began.

[Tay Shin @tayshin0827]

Happy to share this! In this work, we rationally and systematically designed membrane labeling probes, and optimized the ExM protocol, to achieve dense labeling of membranes, including plasma membranes, with ExM: https://t.co/W4mY77JzVE

[Nava Shmoel David @Navashmoeld]

@tayshin0827 Congratulations @tayshin0827 !!

[HHMI @hhmi_science]

A team led by HHMI Investigator Ed Boyden (@eboyden3) of @MIT has imaged human brain tissue in greater detail than ever before, revealing cells & structures that were not previously visible. This technique could one day help diagnose & treat brain tumors. https://t.co/QxUJa23gME

[Nava Shmoel David @Navashmoeld]

@MendozaHalliday @MillerLabMIT @BastosLabNeuro Congratulations @MendozaHalliday !!!

[Diego Mendoza-Halliday @MendozaHalliday]

Our new paper is out in Nature Neuroscience https://t.co/WNarDO1xM6. We show a preserved laminar motif of LFP oscillations across cortical areas & mammals, suggesting a canonical mechanism for cortical computations. Work from DesimoneLab, @MillerLabMIT, @BastosLabNeuro, etc!

[Nava Shmoel David @Navashmoeld]

@yumesinha Great project and great team, I highly recommend! @yumesinha

[sapna sinha @yumesinha]

🌟 Exciting Job Opportunity at MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research! Join us as a Technical Associate. Apply now!

Apply Here - https://t.co/rRQ6Bn2ITV

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