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The astrocytic ensemble acts as a multiday trace to stabilize memory - Nature Emotional experience evokes signalling in astrocytes, which form an ensemble that is reinforced by secondary astrocytic state changes resulting from repeated experience, leading to memory stabilizatio...

Landmark publication from @junnagai.bsky.social lab!

Incredible work really detailing the neural mechanisms that recruit astrocyte ensembles ! 🤩
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I was told if you're over 40 you shouldn't be on a ladder.

I live and die by the to do list.

Blue and white quilt hanging from a clothes line

Back of quilt is yellow with purple binding

Another baby quilt. This is from the Harrisonburg Quilt pattern from the VA Quilt Museum.

This was the last thing on my shut down to do list...

A study led by Cina Aghamohammadi is now out in ‪@natcomms.nature.com‬! We developed a mathematical framework for partitioning spiking variability, which revealed that spiking irregularity is nearly invariant for each neuron and decreases along the cortical hierarchy.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ah it made it! Glad you like it, thanks for helping me design!

Front of a brick house with skeletons posed in the front yard with orange pom-poms as cheerleaders.

They decided on 'Cheerleaders.' It would appear that committees may not be the best decision makers.

Amazing! Congratulations Kurt!

Someone has to do the work while all the lazy govt workers are at home.

7 skeletons sit on a couch around a coffee table in a variety of positions.

Today we plan the annual skeleton display, and there sure are a lot of opinions in the room.

Sure 🤷‍♀️

Hot dog*

Haunted Hydrology (SPOOKY LAKES) with Geo Rutherford — alie ward Mudbank bones. River wrecks. Salty seas. Pink ponds. Poison dust devils. Steamy streams.. It’s Haunted Hydrology with your favorite Spooky Lakes ambassador, the artist and author Geo Rutherford who is...

#HauntedHydrology aka SPOOKY LAKES is up w/ *the* Geo @geodesaurus.bsky.social.

Mudbank bones, river wrecks, salty seas, pink ponds, poison dust devils, steamy streams, a stump that controls the weather, goo lagoons, and droughts shivering your spine.

IT'S HERE:
www.alieward.com/ologies/haun...

Foreground is a ceramic hotdog with relish and mustard, background is a blue and white ceramic that holds a lot of corn dogs

Dress made of butter boxes

Large quilt made of winning ribbons from new Mexico state fair

Don't sleep on the State Fair exhibit at the Renwick.

🪰 A team of researchers has unveiled the complete connectome of a male fruit fly central nervous system—a seamless map of all the neurons in the brain and nerve cord of a single male fruit fly and the millions of connections between them.
🔗 https://hhmi.news/4o3EJnk

Engrams Formed in Virtual Reality Exhibit Reduced Familiarity Upon Retrieval: Electrophysiological Correlates of Source Memory Retrieval Indicate Modality‐Dependent Differences in Recognition Memory The study examines whether the retrieval of virtual reality (VR)-engrams is more profoundly based on recollection than on familiarity compared to PC-engrams, and whether the encoding modality functio...

Engrams Formed in Virtual Reality Exhibit Reduced Familiarity Upon Retrieval: Electrophysiological Correlates of Source Memory Retrieval Indicate Modality-Dependent Differences in Recognition Memory
doi.org/10.1111/ejn....
#neuroscience

Pre-stimulus beta power mediates explicit and implicit perceptual biases in distinct cortical areas - Communications Psychology Two EEG studies in healthy human adults suggest that choice history and stimulus probability-induced biases in somatosensory perception are reflected in distinct prestimulus beta power modulations across distinct cortical regions.

Pre-stimulus beta power mediates explicit and implicit perceptual biases in distinct cortical areas
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
#neuroscience

Quilt hanging on a clothes line, quilt has red, blue and yellow pills on a green checkerboard background

Dr. Mario themed quilt.

Take me back to playing Dr. Mario late nights in grad school.

Submissions close soon!

Promotional image for the Dana Foundation featuring details of the Neuroscience & Society Bridge Funding Program with a deadline of October 10. Contact email provided as RapidResponse@dana.org.

(1/2) The Dana Foundation has launched a rapid response bridge funding opportunity for work impacted by recent shifts in federal funding. We encourage scholars, practitioners, and teams doing work that falls within the Foundation's mission area of neuroscience and society to apply. #neurosky

About Seeding Postdoctoral Innovators in Research & Education (SPIRE) SPIRE’s Mission: 1) To provide scholars with both high quality research training and the opportunity to develop research based teaching skills that will inspire students across the sciences 2) To promote effective teaching and research partnerships between research intensive institutions and partner institutions with a large population of underrepresented students The four major components of the SPIRE Postdoctoral Fellowship Program include: Research Teaching Professional Development Additional Opportunities

Cool Postdoc opportunity alert! UNC SPIRE (Seeding Postdoctoral Innovators in Research & Education)-it provides scholars with both high quality research training & the opportunity to develop research based teaching skills that will inspire students across the sciences 1/n
spire.unc.edu/program-info/

Out of office message set. Godspeed everyone.

White and green checkerboard English paper pieces flower roset thing. I don't know what it's called I've never done this before..

Well my flight still hasn't left Chicago but we did sit on the tarmac for 2 hours and I learned how to English paper piece. Behold my first little bit in all its glory

Still good but not even the same though! Thomas was the life blood of strike anywhere and Inquisition and a really solid human.

Let's be fair Inquisition was a stellar band too.

Revisiting albums from the early aughts, and Chorus of One by Strike Anywhere is still a banger.

She's too good

He's referred to exclusively as 'Coffee Daddy' in this house.