Liz Zavitz

Visual neuroscience and population coding, natural images and texture. she/her.

[Liz Zavitz @ezavitz]

@NandaRibeiro93 @AshYork1 @MilinkovBorjan I've registered! Will pop in at least one abstract by the deadline, I hope!

[Liz Zavitz @ezavitz]

@brianoakley @yantatwong Congratulations!! It’s official official Dr Oakley!

[Liz Zavitz @ezavitz]

Really great article where @HsinHaoYu demonstrates how to use open science to debunk a myth for the poor, oft-maligned koala: https://t.co/IlEJ42jERn

[Liz Zavitz @ezavitz]

@ClaireFoldi Congratulations!! That is such good news!

[Liz Zavitz @ezavitz]

@_marstudio @_BecFarrington_ @Blewey30 @OzTurps @SharnaJamadar @lindenashcroft @lindamciver @ScienceAU @unimelb Congratulations and well deserved!!

[Liz Zavitz @ezavitz]

@ClaireFoldi Thank you!!

[Liz Zavitz @ezavitz]

Really pleased to see this work out in its final form! The intuition from the modelling here is some of the most satisfying science I've had the pleasure of working on.

[Brain Networks and Behaviour Lab @BNBLMegalab]

New lab paper out in @ScienceAdvances. It turns out that retinotopic maps can and do contain "twists" in primate extrastriate cortex! From @HsinHaoYu and @ezavitz on Twitter; as well as Declan Rowley, Nic Price and Marcello Rosa.

https://t.co/VzxfuWIXl1

[Liz Zavitz @ezavitz]

@_mullerlab @salkinstitute @WesternU @Brains_CAN @BMI_WesternU Congratulations! It’s fantastic to see this work out, I’m looking forward to reading it.

[Liz Zavitz @ezavitz]

@ladylaptop @ottawahealth A little bit of love back from the PCR gods?

[Liz Zavitz @ezavitz]

This also explains a lot about why some papers/sub-subfields are impenetrable to casual or student readers. Before you know enough to see the tricks people use, the puzzle pieces of different papers just feel like they don't fit together and it's hard to tell why.

[Blake Richards @tyrell_turing]

1/n) A small thread on argument structure... I've been thinking about this bc @TheFrontalLobe_ recently posted about Tim Van Gelder's famous paper, and I turned into a complete jerk in response (sorry again André). I was asking myself, why does that paper make me so irritable?

[Liz Zavitz @ezavitz]

@neurograce OA is the only option. It was created as an open society journal so the page charges are also quite reasonable.

[Liz Zavitz @ezavitz]

@neurograce Journal of Vision publishes visual neuroscience, and is pretty broad about the definition of vision (visual cognition, visually guided motor tasks...).

[Liz Zavitz @ezavitz]

@KordingLab I am not in Asia, but Australia. I found the time difference was too much for most sessions. For the others, it might have helped to indicate an Asia-pacific time zone in the schedule (I saw EST and Europe).

[Liz Zavitz @ezavitz]

@BlakeP_Neuro @_rdgao If it’s the same as Oz you’re looking for a “thick shake”. Ice cream shops usually have them.

[Brain Networks and Behaviour Lab @BNBLMegalab]

Great to have @mauhagan, @ezavitz, and Nic Price presenting our latest work at the Systems and Computational Neuroscience Down Under conference #SCINDU @BrainDialogue @QldBrainInst

[Liz Zavitz @ezavitz]

This was a great read! Recommended for anyone working to connect their results to the kind of narrative that makes people care (ie: me, I am bad at this).

[Richard Gao @_rdgao]

"sell me this pen"

except it's even more useless than a pen. It's your research.

plus some thoughts on the narrative and the creative component of problem-creation in science.

2/52: https://t.co/kOE7vPY1jQ

[Liz Zavitz @ezavitz]

@neuroamyo Depends on skills! I’m fluent/confident because of self-driven projects as a teen. Good grasp of formalisms thanks to CS education, capable at what I do now because of discipline-specific practice. When I teach, I aim to teach the confidence :).

[Liz Zavitz @ezavitz]

Anyone doing sensory neuro have a way of coping with one word two meanings here? (sensory v. viral transduction?). I try to avoid this when I write, but neither really has an alternate.

[Ofer Yizhar @OferYizhar]

Dear neuroscientists: when you use a viral vector to express stuff, the correct term is "transduction", which refer to introduction of foreign DNA into cells. "Infection" is used to describe the natural process by which a (wt) virus propagates in an organism/tissue. 🤓

[Liz Zavitz @ezavitz]

@neurograce I also don't mind one bit when things just get to the end and stop.

[Liz Zavitz @ezavitz]

@neurograce As a reader, I like a little summary of the major points and how they connect to a bigger picture. It helps me evaluate my own understanding of the text, and gives me a skimming target when I want to go back to refresh my memory.