Peter Finnie

Neuroscientist @UofT | Formerly @MIT & @mcgillu | Occasional appreciator of other things | he/him

[Peter Finnie @peter_finnie]

Our preprint has now been published @CurrentBiology with a few new elements, thanks to 3 great reviewers! Check it out!

In brief: The hippocampus is required for cortical (V1) plasticity elicited by visual sequences but not individual grating stimuli.
https://t.co/4GBWAC4SRB

[Peter Finnie @peter_finnie]

Excited to finally share some of my postdoc work in which we investigated the role of hippocampus in visually-induced long-term V1 plasticity. Featuring Mark Bear and appearances by @robkomo81. 1/5

[Peter Finnie @peter_finnie]

@mariam_s_aly Nice! Congrats Mariam! Lucky Berkeley..

[Peter Finnie @peter_finnie]

@MJJRAS @CDelawalla 1) guys like this actually exist
2) prestige seeker? you list yourself as 8 different "-ists" in your bio and include PhD in your name
3) what do you know about professional licensure in Georgia? In plenty of jurisdictions you can practice as a licensed therapist with a Masters'

[Peter Finnie @peter_finnie]

Elon out here flexing his true talent: not innovating, but convincing people that he's innovating.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

First ever post made just by thinking, using the @Neuralnk Telepathy device!

[Peter Finnie @peter_finnie]

@dr_abela I've been saying for years that Sunday is the Monday of the work week

[Nghia Nguyen @NghiaDNguyen]

Amazing day for my first tweet. Super excited to share my PhD research, published today @Nature.

We find that contrary to popular belief, cortical reactivations predict the future rather than reflect the past.

https://t.co/OrUqE5n0KM

1/10

[Peter Finnie @peter_finnie]

@cremieuxrecueil Hey kids! stop wasting your lives and go to grad school!

[Peter Finnie @peter_finnie]

@JohnStreicher1 Here, let me fix it: here's $ one university charges PIs for the privilege of having a student help w/ their research. Lucky PIs find students interested in pursuing the projects for which they've managed to obtain support funding.

Proposed research isn't contractually binding.

[Peter Finnie @peter_finnie]

@CarcelMousineau @Broloccini @AprilEngelberg @trainguy89 Usually they don't put the 'sidewalk closed' sign at the intersection where there's a crosswalk. So you're halfway down a block before discovering that the sidewalk is closed. Most people just walk into the road, which disrupts traffic and is dangerous for all.

Bigger setbacks!

[Peter Finnie @peter_finnie]

@dr_alphalyrae "the handful of people who are the most willing to exploit others for their personal gain should get to decide what science is done"

[Peter Finnie @peter_finnie]

@alisatweetsmore @SmallsCreek @Metrolinx @GOExpansion They're currently laying gravel down to the creek on the south side of the tracks adjacent to Williamson after about a year of inactivity. Presumably to finally finish the culvert and retaining wall?
It's been so long, I'd started to think Metrolinx had revised their plans..

[Peter Finnie @peter_finnie]

@VCBrags She's into thruples, but only if they're looking to start a family with her

[Nature Neuroscience @NatureNeuro]

A neural network formalization of systems-level #memory consolidation that postulates that memories only consolidate when it aids generalization

https://t.co/v5fDk4oUmp

[Peter Finnie @peter_finnie]

@ppyajunebug @mbeisen On top of everything else, you have to be a terrible scientist to confidently conclude tokenism when observing a few women moved to the front of a group photo.

[Oded Rechavi @OdedRechavi]

No nucleus? No problem! No DNA? Who cares! Histones? No need! Read our @biorxivpreprint on #Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance in animals that transmit to their progeny their cytoplasm but not their nuclei- Small RNAs are doin’ it for themselves!🧵 https://t.co/yoKNmcpxjU

[Tony Zador @TonyZador]

why does the executive director of SFN need to make $751K/yr??

[Georg Keller @georg98keller]

Cholinergic input to mouse visual cortex primarily signals a movement state signal, with virtually no activation in response to visual stimuli or prediction errors. https://t.co/4QkEUvQUj5

[Alex Naka @gottapatchemall]

Recurrent pattern completion drives the neocortical representation of sensory inference
https://t.co/nt5Okeb80J

[Peter Finnie @peter_finnie]

@VitalyGanusov @mariam_s_aly Mariam's threads didn't leave much room for ambiguity, man: she clearly feels like she deserves to be put up for tenure by her dept. It's inconceivable that anyone who knows her record could disagree.

[Peter Finnie @peter_finnie]

@mariam_s_aly @Columbia I've never been more shocked by a tenure decision, and that's a very high bar.
I'm sorry Mariam. Truly unreal..