Norbert Fortin

Neuroscientist, exercise enthusiast, techie, and foodie. (usually in that order)

[Norbert Fortin @NorbertFortin]

A massive thank you and congratulations to you, @kw_cooper, for leading this humongous project.

We hope this review paper is a fun and useful read to those interested in data analysis of neural activity data.

[Keiland Cooper @kw_cooper]

From mechanical gears in the 1930s to deep learning in the 2020s, the way we study the brain has been a race between technology and analysis. How do we close the gap?

Our new paper, https://t.co/7au1HjT4eQ traces this journey, offers resources, and notes a plan for the future.

[Keiland Cooper @kw_cooper]

A huge thank you to my co-authors @NorbertFortin at @ucicnlm, @UCIneurobio and Babak Shahbaba at @UCIbrenICS

Check out the paper and visit https://t.co/E7OoNE8Y5B for updated resources and tools!

[Keiland Cooper @kw_cooper]

There is something in each section for everyone: students can get a field-level "big picture" (past), experts can stay current on new methods (present), and research program planners can identify the gaps (like data storage and training) we need to fill to reach the future.

[Keiland Cooper @kw_cooper]

From mechanical gears in the 1930s to deep learning in the 2020s, the way we study the brain has been a race between technology and analysis. How do we close the gap?

Our new paper, https://t.co/7au1HjT4eQ traces this journey, offers resources, and notes a plan for the future.

[Norbert Fortin @NorbertFortin]

Can I interest you in some non-spatial sequence replay in hippocampal ensembles? Perhaps you’d prefer some ordinal or schematic representations in prefrontal ensembles? Check out our posters Tuesday afternoon: WW48-51 😉 @Neurogaelias @kw_cooper @mansi_saraf @ucicnlm

[Norbert Fortin @NorbertFortin]

@ElDuvelle @NatureComms @ucicnlm @UCIBioSci @UCIbrenICS Yeah, I was planning a quick thread summarizing the findings and figures but I underestimated how much time this would all take. 😄 Hopefully I’ll get back to it soon.

[Norbert Fortin @NorbertFortin]

Our paper on the hippocampal mechanisms supporting the memory for nonspatial event sequences just came out in @NatureComms! Very proud of our collaborative team of neuroscientists (@ucicnlm, @UCIBioSci) and data scientists (@UCIbrenICS). Details to come! https://t.co/MYM5bSxICe

[Norbert Fortin @NorbertFortin]

@markpaulbrandon This is awesome, congrats!

[Mayank Mehta @mayankmehta.bsky.social @Neuro_Physics]

"Moving bar of light evokes vectorial spatial selectivity in the immobile rat hippocampus" Now in @Nature. If O'Keefe & Nadel had walked into a bar with Hubel & Wiesel in 1960s, instead of hippocampal place cells they might have been called VEVS.
https://t.co/1dh93oEFm7 1/4

[Norbert Fortin @NorbertFortin]

@NatureComms @ucicnlm @UCIBioSci @UCIbrenICS https://t.co/CUofDD5cEW

[Norbert Fortin @NorbertFortin]

Big congrats to @kw_cooper for landing a prestigious NSF GRFP! We're all proud of you and couldn't ask for a better team member. Looking forward to working on that ambitious project with you at the @ucicnlm! Some truly exciting stuff to come. 🥳

[Norbert Fortin @NorbertFortin]

@adinvivo @ucicnlm @UCIBioSci Welcome to the team, Aditya! This will be fun. Looking forward to a lot of cool data. 😄

[Norbert Fortin @NorbertFortin]

@adinvivo @ucicnlm @UCIBioSci Welcome to the team, Aditya! This will be fun. Looking forward to a lot of cool data. 😄

[Norbert Fortin @NorbertFortin]

@kei_m_igarashi @NeuroCellPress @jun_heechul This is great, congrats!

[Angeline J. Dukes, PhD @HeyDrDukes]

Less than 3% of all psych & neuro faculty are Black

Keep this in mind during your faculty searches. And don’t mention a “leaky pipeline”. Fix it.

#RepresentationMatters 🧠

[Norbert Fortin @NorbertFortin]

Couldn’t be prouder of our neighborhood. All these busy families showed up for a peaceful protest on short notice. Let’s keep this momentum going!

[Norbert Fortin @NorbertFortin]

@AllenNeuroLab @Maanasa_Jay @Sunnyschlecht @svmahler Always a good feeling to see former lab members do well on their own. Congrats Tim (and team)! Great work!

[Norbert Fortin @NorbertFortin]

@brittneymcox Awesome! Glad to hear it’s out! Really cool work.

[Norbert Fortin @NorbertFortin]

@kei_m_igarashi Welcome to the club. I think it’s harder to get one of those than landing an RO1. ;-)

[Norbert Fortin @NorbertFortin]

Irvine Renegades - winter wars U12A champs! #letsgoducks