Ece Kuru

Interested in how calcium permeates #AMPAreceptors (or not)? Check out our latest collaboration with @hansunlab.bsky.social from @fmp-berlin.de, now online in its final form. Congrats to former students Florian, Johann and Ece!
@humboldtuni.bsky.social @dfg.de #iGluRs

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A scientific figure blueprint guide!

If this seems empty it's bcz I don't plan to use it anytime soon!

I made this figure panel size guide to avoid thinking about dimensions every time. Apparently this post is going to be a 🧵! So feel free to bookmark it and save some time of yours.

NEW: Elon Musk’s X has suspended accounts of Turkish opposition groups, suppressing footage of anti-government protests.

So, best we share all the footage we can here!

This was last night’s massive demo against Erdogan’s government, which follows the arrest of his rival Ekrem İmamoğlu.

🇹🇷 #Turkey

"Prekär ist auch nur ein akademisches Wort für Scheiße"
- M.W. seeing right through the fluff

As a rule, cells that fire together wire together, but some synapses disobey this rule, notably hippocampal basket cells, BCs, have anti-Hebbian plasticity. We wondered if this was true in neocortex as well, and it turns out it is, suggesting a general principle! 🧪

Stromatolites xkcd.com/3046

Dear #neuroscience community, do people submitting abstracts for ICMNS 2025 receive a confirmation email at one point that they submitted successfully? Asking for an anxious friend 👀

Preparing practicals is the best way to see what needs maintenance. From replacing microforge filaments to patching core repos.

Also pulled the classic: put a list of relevant phenomena I can think of in 5 minutes and combine it with random images after googling "temperature+biophysics". 😌

Me as a participant in practical courses: *gives a long list of suggestions for improvement, plans to do all that when I'm giving a course"
Me preparing a practical course: *Repo needs to be done by Mon, 2/3 notebooks pretty much empty* "Let's improve these bifurcation diagrams" (notebook 1, task 0)

Dopamine increases protein synthesis in hippocampal neurons enabling dopamine-dependent LTP The reward and novelty related neuromodulator dopamine plays an important role in hippocampal long-term memory, which is thought to involve protein synthesis-dependent synaptic plasticity. However, th...

Role of calcium-permeable AMPA receptors in LTP, congrats Tanja!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A george terrier lying on a pouf with open eyes.

This little lady joined two humans on a 20 minute walk that turned into a 3 hour walk after a wrong turn on a field. Jumping over grass taller than her she powered through the walk and ran the last 200 m! Truly a bonding experience ❤️

If you've been meaning to check out the Night Science Podcast, this is the perfect episode to get started with. Everyone is telling me it's our best one yet!

Atomistic Mechanisms of Calcium Permeation Modulated by Q/R Editing and Selectivity Filter Mutations in GluA2 AMPA Receptors GluA2 is a key subunit of AMPA receptor ion channels that is abundantly expressed in the vertebrate brain. Posttranscriptional Q/R editing of GluA2 renders AMPARs nearly impermeable to calcium ions, w...

! 🚨Preprint Alert🚨
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Flo and Johann’s magnum opus on calcium permeation in AMPA Receptors is up. It’s another chapter in our collaboration with Han Sun (FMP-Berlin), with ephys from our former student @ecekuru.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

For the details, here's a #bluetorial

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A screenshot of the Advent of Code 2022 progress showing most days until 14.12. were completed with two stars.

Time for another #AdventOfCode 🎄🎄 Let's see if I can do better than 2022

LSP gives you at least the warning "Type checking disabled in functions without return type", which you should listen to! Never trust the python interpreter over LSP!

And just because you don't use type hints, don't think their existence can't break your code the wrong way.

So why is this happening? It's because python interpreter thinks you were meaning to use a type hint there. It is however not checking type hints in functions without return type, so one could expect an error. But instead it just... skips that line.

Python does it again... The code below has an obvious mistake, but won't raise an error at that line. Instead it will skip that line and possibly break somewhere completely different.
```
foo = {}
foo['bar'] : 0
```
For me this didn't even raise a warning.