Saovleak Noury Khim

PhD candidate in Neuroscience @UMMedNeuro | Wolff Lab | (nor-ree) | ☕️ 🏐 🏕️ 🇰🇭 | (She/Her)

[Earl K. Miller @MillerLabMIT]

The brain uses a fixed set of building blocks and flexibly recombines them, allowing adapting to new tasks.

Learning stabilizes temporal activity but not neuronal selectivity in prefrontal cortex
https://t.co/PRqQkGE27v
#neuroscience

[Valerio Capraro @ValerioCapraro]

Paper: https://t.co/snprku8oXM

[Joe Ortiz @joeaortiz]

Robust visual + tactile perception is key for robot dexterity

In our new @SciRobotics paper, we use neural fields for in-hand reconstruction + pose estimation of novel objects.
https://t.co/HLS7AtTcey

See @Suddhus awesome thread below

[Lucy Lai, PhD @drlucylai]

🚨📊ɴᴇᴡ ᴘᴀᴘᴇʀ!! When we learn a new skill—like tying shoelaces or making pasta—we often start with a series of deliberate steps. But eventually, those steps blend into a smooth, single unit: an action chunk. But why and when do we chunk? 👇
📰https://t.co/7AVIWqaPub

[David Sussillo @SussilloDavid]

Coming March 17, 2026!
Just got my advance copy of Emergence — a memoir about growing up in group homes and somehow ending up in neuroscience and AI. It’s personal, it’s scientific, and it’s been a wild thing to write. Grateful and excited to share it soon.

[Rui Costa @ruimcosta]

Mental health is health. As a neuroscientist, a leader, and an optimist, I’m proud of the progress happening at the @AllenInstitute and around the world that is helping pave the way to new treatments and a brighter future.

Our research into the brain's mechanisms is crucial for advancing mental health science. By mapping brain cell types and studying their connections and characteristics, we aim to unlock new insights into mental health conditions and support the development of new treatments.

This #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth, we pause to reflect on the importance of mental health and the ongoing efforts to understand and support it. Some of my favorite ways to unwind and support my own mental health are walking my dog, and enjoying time outdoors in the beautiful city of Seattle.

[Daniella Fodera @DaniellaFodera]

People should KNOW WHO is being targeted for political reasons and WHY. I fight for our right to free speech and my belief than women's health MATTERS!

Shame on @realDonaldTrump @NIH @NICHD_NIH

[Daniella Fodera @DaniellaFodera]

Yet, this is not just a matter of women's health but the health of EVERYONE. Women make up 50% of the population but 100% of individuals are born from a woman.

[Daniella Fodera @DaniellaFodera]

This funding cancellation is a direct attack on women's health. And a direct attack for the values and beliefs I hold dear. To stop funding for women's health research, sends a clear message that the government does not care about women. And that makes me deeply sad and angry.

[Daniella Fodera @DaniellaFodera]

I found out this morning that my @NIH @NICHD_NIH F31 fellowship to study the biomechanics of uterine fibroids was CANCELLED.

[bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv_neursci]

Frontal connectivity dynamics encode contextual information during action preparation https://t.co/6G76YDAA3z #biorxiv_neursci

[Nick Desnoyer @NickDesnoyer]

Final pro tip: you can create vectors with your microscopy sections!

With "image trace" in Adobe Illustrator, one can make diagrams that can be colored in. Save time and make biologically accurate figures! (6/6)

[Saovleak Noury Khim @nouryscience]

My first in vivo ephys implant ✅ 🤭🫣!! From building the tetrode drive to the surgery.. super cool to finally see some recording data

[Steffen Wolff @SBE_Wolff]

First R01 for the Wolff Lab!!!
Extremely happy, grateful and excited!

We’ll be looking for a Postdoc now to explore how distinct learning systems interact - Ad will follow soon!

[Tyler Burns @tjburns08]

Flow/CyTOF users and leaders: here is an interface that allows you to see exactly where a given cell on a biaxial plot is on a corresponding UMAP. More details:

[Prachee Avasthi @PracheeAC]

A scientific conference but all submissions are in the form of a preprint at any stage of the research cycle (maybe collected in its own BioRxiv channel)— the meeting is presentation/discussion of all sorts that is essentially a peer review hackathon resulting in public comments on the preprints.

-Same IRL fun and networking benefits
-Participants also benefit from early stage broader sharing benefiting from collective feedback/improvement of the work
-Inclusive beyond the meeting since proceedings are public

We may never turn an existing meeting into this but definitely can start a new way of doing things at small scale that is so fun and useful that it becomes less appealing to do it the old way

[Jackson Sweder @thereal_jsweder]

It might be unpopular with publishers but for researchers the small advancements, the studies cleaning up and organizing data are important. Also the negative result studies where the evidence didn’t support the hypothesis. Those need to be published as well!

[ACNP @ACNPorg]

The Venniro lab introduced a novel "socio-sensory" approach to investigate the mechanisms underlying volitional social reward & its protective effect on substance use disorders https://t.co/tUwfEFNrWJ @KimPapastrat @Codyisinclass @dan_caprioli @LeslieARamsey @MarcoVenniro

[Univ of Maryland School of Medicine Neuroscience @UMMedNeuro]

Check out this exciting preprint from the Poulopoulos lab, led by PIN student Colin Robertson. This work is the first of its kind in prime editing of neurons in vivo. Congrats to the Pou lab!
https://t.co/X6gne3f4FZ

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

You in September: “let’s finish these projects no later than the end of November, so we can all enjoy a restful December”

You in late November: