Georgia Bastos

Neuroscience PhD. she/her. em português também 🇧🇷

[The Olympic Games™ @Olympics]

This is everything.

[Georgia Bastos @oigeorgia]

I’m so grateful and lucky to have these people around me. I’m gonna miss the Hamm lab so much 🥲

[Jordan Hamm @HammJordan]

Great party in Grant Park to celebrate a newly minted Ph.D. Congrats again Dr Bastos! Hamm lab will miss you! @oigeorgia

[Georgia Bastos @oigeorgia]

I am a doctor!!

[Jordan Hamm @HammJordan]

Delighted to announce that Dr. Georgia Bastos successfully defended her dissertation today! Georgia was an inspiring and original thinker when she joined my lab in 2019. She developed into a rigorous neuroscientist, with great papers to show! Best of luck in Bonn! @oigeorgia

[Jordan Hamm @HammJordan]

Excited to share our new preprint! 1/5
In humans and mice, we studied the impacts of psychedelics in the days/weeks after a trip. What we found amounts to a sort of stop-&-smell-the-roses effect. A neural basis for the afterglow. https://t.co/XlfntgFCHx

[Dr. Chloe West @drchloewest]

ReBUS suggests psychedelics shift the balance from top-down to bottom- up sensory processing during the trip, but what about after? Check out our pre-print to find out! Thank you to my amazing co-author @oigeorgia, PIs @HammJordan and @neilyvanneily and lab mates!

[Georgia Bastos @oigeorgia]

This Thursday!

[GSU Brains & Behavior @GSUBnB]

RETREAT COUNTDOWN: 8 DAYS!
Introducing our first B&B Fellow Speaker from Neuroscience, @oigeorgia ! Georgia Bastos will be presenting her talk "Serotonergic psychedelics alter predictive processing in humans and mice"

Check out the 🧵 for more info about the event and this talk!

[Georgia Bastos @oigeorgia]

The original aliens were fungi

[Gnome Anne May Perceive Me @annethegnome]

FUNGUS IN SPACE!!! 🍄🚀

Equal parts cosmic horror and nature being metal, let's talk about the lichen that grew on the OUTSIDE of the International Space Station!

Get your tea and curl up, because I PROMISE you wanna hear about these fungal cosmonauts 🧑‍🚀
🧵

[Anil Seth @anilkseth]

1/🧵 Lots of fuss and bother about the announcement from @neuralink today about having implanted their tech in a human brain for the first time. https://t.co/aI8P64TEav

[Georgia Bastos @oigeorgia]

I once again here to defend the idea that biology doesn’t negate psychology. Our collective minds in order to defend our biological drives (to survival, for comfort) evolved to believe in human rights, free will etc. this doesn’t make it less real. It actually makes it even more

[Andrew Snyder @Andrewnsnyder]

What a philosophically inept position.

Villainously inept.

https://t.co/225Hxeig8q

[Georgia Bastos @oigeorgia]

@julianadiota Aí que fodaaa MIT caralho

[Georgia Bastos @oigeorgia]

Sending a important email and then immediately realizing you called the person by the wrong name whyyy is it always like that why

[Georgia Bastos @oigeorgia]

I’ll give a lot of money if @QuantaMagazine had a subscription for a physical copy of the magazine

[murat 🍥 @mayfer]

i'll never get over how the cochlea is an analog fourier transform organ

[Luiz Pessoa @PessoaBrain]

𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯, a few suggestions!
(including older books read this year)

My top two choices include Kevin Mitchell's 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀, a fascinating take on how to "naturalize" challenging problems such as agency, and even free will.

[Georgia Bastos @oigeorgia]

Sleeping is a high consciousness state

[Georgia Bastos @oigeorgia]

yes.. you've heard it right... the hamm lab is studying psychedelics! Make sure to get an exclusive look at it at #ACNP2023 if you have a chance, very interesting predictive processing effects on both mice and humans.

[Jordan Hamm @HammJordan]

Looking fwd to #ACNP2023 next week! Check out our poster on mon w/ @oigeorgia @chloelilywest. I’ll be presenting our work in both humans and mice showing how 5HT2A agonists (psychedelics) affect cortical feedback circuitry to alter visual context processing and saccadic behavior.

[Luiz Pessoa @PessoaBrain]

On top of that you don't build arguments based on very weak evidence from social psychology experiments that have very small effects sizes (and replicability!) and antiquated notions that the brain is controlled by a prefrontal cortex (a homunculus controlling behavior??).

[Georgia Bastos @oigeorgia]

Sapolsky thinks he is going agaisnt free will by stating statistics about hormones and trauma that generalize behavior when actually the fact that there's a lot of examples where those conditions didnt triggered the "statistically likely" outcome is an example of free will

[Luiz Pessoa @PessoaBrain]

Here's the 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗱𝗲𝗯𝗮𝘁𝗲 by Kevin Mitchell and Robert Sapolsky
Thanks to @WiringTheBrain for correcting the enormous shortcomings by Sapolsky.
https://t.co/Hr5qAEhKfz

[Georgia Bastos @oigeorgia]

Getting new data is like developing a new obsession

[İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي @iyad_elbaghdadi]

Something scary happens when people no longer feel they can convince or engage the other side; when they feel the other side is a moral lost cause and there isn't any space of possible agreement between your minimum position and their maximum, or your maximum and their minimum