MULTIMÉDIA : des photos et des vidéos des audiences publiques en l’affaire concernant des Manquements allégués à certaines obligations internationales relativement au Territoire palestinien occupé (#Nicaragua c. #Allemagne) sont disponibles ici : https://t.co/UazyfliuCt
This year’s economic sciences laureate Robert E. Hall was born in 1943 in Palo Alto, California, USA.
He received his PhD in 1967 from @MIT, Cambridge, USA. He is currently a professor at @Stanford University, California, USA.
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2026 economic sciences laureate Michael Woodford, was born in 1955 in Chicopee, Massachusetts, USA.
He earned his PhD in 1983 from @MIT, Cambridge, USA. He is currently a professor at @Columbia University, New York, USA.
https://t.co/mVkIa1QzFP
NEWS: To mark the 80th anniversary of the #ICJ, Mr J.P.H. Donner, Chairman of the Board of the Carnegie Foundation (@PeacePalace), donated a stained-glass window curated by Mr Marien Heijboer to the President of the Court, HE Judge Iwasawa.
My lab’s microbial-opsin work (and by far most of the field also) is pure basic science, but it was intriguing to review the community's clinical progress– both direct translation as in retinal degeneration, and indirect translation not involving gene therapy– with a wonderful and broad international team of co-authors…
https://t.co/p7vfMsVRy7
& to adapt a long-ago figure from PMID:28912215 (2017) on the inner workings of light-gated ion channels with my long-time collaborator Peter Hegemann; photo is a memory from that year.
Directional elements: the preprints are out! Congratulations to our amazing team linked here:
https://t.co/SxNw2isNcd
https://t.co/f48w42FKcJ
https://t.co/o5NXdGcViw
We screened for principles governing global brain dynamics by developing a set of new methods: 1) conformal immersion microscopy for recording high-speed/high-resolution neural activity across dorsal cortex; 2) unbiased computational screening of brain-spanning activity for fast directionally-propagating spatiotemporal elements; and 3) novel genetically-encoded voltage sensing integrated with designed spectrally-compatible opsins (derived from our channelrhodopsin structure work) for systematic causal testing.
This unbiased screening/testing approach (which we show is applicable either to voltage or calcium imaging) allowed discovery and functional validation of a surprisingly well-defined set of directional elements that generalized across cell types and frequencies. The ability to work over long timescales at high speeds and with broad scope, anchored in optogenetic causal testing, unveiled rich spatiotemporal structure that was remarkably tractable.
From the perspective of natural brain function, the directional elements were found to be behaviorally relevant and robust to diverse perturbations; however, we also found specific conditions allowing elemental incidence and boundaries to be selectively modulated, which may provide translational as well as basic-science insight...
I'm so grateful to all our collaborators, and honored to work with all the outstanding students, postdocs, and staff who worked together to develop and apply this approach...
BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2026 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford “for microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilisation.”
#NobelPrize
NOUVELLE : un groupe de parlementaires des États participants de l’@OSCE assistant à l’assemblée parlementaire annuelle de l’OSCE à La Haye a visité la #CIJ hier. Les parlementaires ont bénéficié d’une visite guidée de certaines salles utilisées par la Cour au Palais de la Paix.
NEWS: A group of parliamentarians from @OSCE participating States, attending the annual OSCE Parliamentary Assembly held in The Hague, visited the #ICJ yesterday. The parliamentarians received a guided tour of certain rooms used by the Court in the Peace Palace.