Ritu Roy Chowdhury @rituroych.bsky.social

A brain at the intersection of brains, minds and machines | IMPRS Fellow @MPICybernetics ¦
Khorana fellow 2015 @SurlabMIT ¦
INSPIRE @IiserMohali
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[Ritu Roy Chowdhury @rituroych.bsky.social @rituroych]

1/5 Don't miss our last call for registrations for the @BernsteinNeuro Ph.D. Symposium 2022! Deadline 25-8-2022.
https://t.co/wYWGzv5kuI

Critical thinking is more important than ever today when disinformation often threatens the truth. Can you tell the #real from the #fake?

[David Poeppel @davidpoeppel]

Predicting the future of academia, given news: painful. Predicting the next couple of seconds, given this new paper: rigorous, near-mechanistic explanation. Great work by Matthias Grabenhorst and Georgios Michalareas. (tl;dr hazard rate again wrong model) https://t.co/swfBS3IvYW

[Edward Grefenstette @egrefen]

Do you have a PhD (or equivalent) or will have one in the coming months (i.e. 2-3 months away from graduating)? Do you want to help build open-ended agents that help humans do humans things better, rather than replace them? We're hiring 1-2 Research Scientists! Check the 🧵👇

[Ritu Roy Chowdhury @rituroych.bsky.social @rituroych]

@TobiasRuff1 This looks amazing! Congratulations Tobias! 👏

[Vincent Breton-Provencher @vbprovencher]

First preprint from the lab: https://t.co/mbwk53FJ7m

[storiesofWiN @storiesofwin]

Check out our latest profile! Dr. Eve Marder (@MarderLab) studies the stability and flexibility of neural circuit function. Follow the link below to learn more!

https://t.co/vsfVsQsoqR

#StoriesofWiN #WomenInNeuroscience #WomenInNeuro

[Nancy Padilla Coreano @DrNancyPadilla]

For our 150th episode we had a very special interview with Dr. Eve Marder!! Check it out

[Kording Lab 🦖 @KordingLab]

I have seen folks waste so much time by not properly planning research. Missed literature, missing controls, ignored hypotheses, etc. Lack of planning also produces bad science (e.g. analysis until significant). So I am writing an app. Looking for feedback. https://t.co/M9qlsTH7j9

[Danny Huang, MD @YuhaoHuangMD]

The cerebellum, often underestimated in its role, is crucial for driving neuroplasticity. Groundbreaking @NatureMedicine study showed that deep brain stimulation targeting the cerebellum dramatically improved motor functions in stroke patients, even three years post-stroke.

[Ubadah Sabbagh @neubadah]

prudent reminder for scientists today, from a thousand years ago

[Neuromatch @neuromatch]

⌛ Neuromatch Academy applications close 🚨THIS SUNDAY🚨 , March 23 at midnight in your local time zone.

Make sure to get your application in to be a student or TA before the deadline! Don't miss this incredible opportunity.

Apply here: https://t.co/2aGOKQ86Dq

[Naomi Conrad @NaomiConrad]

"Broken scientists" - my colleagues @EstherFelden and @LewisSandersIV investigated power abuse at the prestigious Max Planck Society. https://t.co/CJXXrAIyuL

[David Poeppel @davidpoeppel]

https://t.co/m2XIALP8Oj
Important topic

[Byron Yu @YuLikeNeuro]

We are excited to share our work on dynamical constraints on neural population activity, published as a cover article in @NatureNeuro. It was led by Emily Oby, @AlanDegenhart, @ErinnGrigsby, with @aaronbatista and team.

https://t.co/Oi2wXl0MIz

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[Marco Bocchio @marco_bocchio]

🚨 🎓 PhD opportunity in Experimental & Computational Neuroscience! 🚨

@srikipedia and I have PhD project available between @UniofNewcastle & @durham_uni to study the computational principles of #serotonin. 🧠

https://t.co/rFgJQkdbp0

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[Surya Ganguli @SuryaGanguli]

Love this quote from Sir Michael Atiyah: "Algebra is the offer made by the devil to a mathematician. The devil says, 'I will give you this powerful machine...all you need to do is give up your soul: give up geometry...' The danger to our soul is there... when you pass into algebraic calculation,..., you stop thinking geometrically, you stop thinking about meaning.

[Project EduAccess @ProjEduAccess]

We’re excited to collaborate with @NCBS_Bangalore to launch the PRISM Fellowship (Promoting Research and Inclusion in STEM). It offers an unparalleled opportunity for students from disadvantaged backgrounds to gain research experience, academic skills & mentorship at NCBS.

[TheBetterPath @TheBetterPath_]

This neuroscientist worked until she was 103.

She also:

• Won a Nobel Prize at 77
• Became a senator at 92
• Stayed mentally sharp into her 100s

Her secret? 5 daily habits that prevented brain aging: 🧵

[Prachee Avasthi @PracheeAC]

When you’re a grad student (at least back in the day), the conventional wisdom was to change your research direction or organism as a postdoc — to ensure you got some educational value out of the next stage.

One of the main reasons I chose the postdoc lab I did was because when I visited, the students/postdocs were using so many different model systems… whatever best suited their research question. There were almost as many organisms in use as there were people in the lab. I found it such a refreshing approach. What if everyone could do this with even more accuracy to identify the most effective model systems for human-relevant insights?

Smash cut to 15 years later. Check out our data-driven approach for choosing the best research organism for your favorite genes of interest. Check out the organism selection pipeline from @ArcadiaScience:

The concept: https://t.co/2x9bTZJQOU

The approach/analysis: https://t.co/AEcYbg1Man

The validation: https://t.co/xxhnJVrGfE

[Jeffrey Markowitz @vulcnethologist]

Standard particle mixtures diffused away within 48 hours. We formulated an alternative and now we can watch the insides of mice glow for weeks as they freely move! We call the end-result Quantum Dot-based Pose estimation in vivo or…QD-Pi.

[Ritu Roy Chowdhury @rituroych.bsky.social @rituroych]

Delighted to see my undergrad mentor being honored by the state of Karnataka. Congratulations Prof. Sowdhamini!

[National Centre for Biological Sciences @NCBS_Bangalore]

🏆We are honoured to share that Professor R. Sowdhamini has been awarded the Dr Raja Ramanna Award by the Govt of Karnataka!
🎉Congratulations Prof Sowdhamini!
Know more about her work in Computational approaches to Protein Science here https://t.co/Xky3ATyvk2