Natalie Schaworonkow

found it for a few euros in used book shop, but interlibrary loans are great if nothing can be found locally. 🙂

cow from here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1111/(ISSN)1460-9568.philosophical-toolkit

spherical brain for spherical predictions

trying to get as far away as possible from the overly present LLM sentence cadence by reading only old books now.

& where can I do a history of science sabbatical?

"A History of the Electrical Activity of the Brain" – Mary Brazier

currently reading this fun book about the early pioneers of animal electrophysiology (of course with the inevitable pile-on about who discovered electrical activity in the brain first 🙃).

crazy cool Fig. 4! 🙂

looks great! I really enjoyed the Vanegas 2013 SSVEP paper, this seems like a cool follow-up 🙂

in my experience, phase efects for sensorimotor mu-alpha rhythms can come out very clear. but for visual alpha there are definitely less consistent results... taking individual variability into account seems like a step in the right direction to me.

cool traces on old book covers 🙂

of course, the relationship of this unit to LFP activity would be superinteresting (but no LFP data here).

I have been trying to reproduce work that shows a systematic relationship regarding alpha phase to HFA amplitude in spontaneous iEEG data, but that has been a complete failure so far... 😅

this paper shows 8 Hz oscillatory patterns in spontaneous unit activity, with spikes appearing at a regular pattern. so naturally, I was intrigued + downloaded the data + saw for myself. 🙂 really pretty! (but there is only 1 unit like this, out of ~15)

no, they only allow you to pull the full-text of 100 tweets per month 🫥

my feeling is that the unique non-duplicated content on twitter is comprised of more institutional accounts & on bluesky of more individual accounts. so possibly more neuroscience content will move here eventually.

the twitter API is super rate-limited, so it's complete pain to get numbers 😬, post count only available for the last 7 days in the free tier, that's why it starts on the 15th.

during SfN, it was fun to check the hashtag activity for #sfn25 or #sfn2025 here on bluesky, so I wondered how it would compare to twitter. grabbed the number of posts for each day via the API and it seems to be pretty comparable.

(with reposts & replies excluded)

I remember that you uploaded it after some discussion on twitter 🙂 x.com/LitvakVladim...

I do with track changes, so wrong name will happen less in the future due to mild embarrassment 🙃

later on, substantial evidence was provided against the general tremor + alpha link, so I am not positive this experiment would reproduce. but eyeball warming/cooling sounds like a cool experiment. 🙂 (control: changing forehead temperature)

source: Lippold & Novotny (1968). J. Physiology

fun old experiment (1968): O. Lippold believed that the alpha rhythm was related to the physiological tremor in eye muscles (also ~10 Hz). so in this experiment, the eyeball was cooled & warmed to shift the muscle tremor frequency. when they measured EEG, the alpha frequency seems to change.

so you drag & drop neurons, set the direction of the connections & get a Braitenberg vehicle in 2 minutes. 🙃 I also liked that the field of vision can be split & different hemifields can drive different neurons.

not out yet, but to be kept in the loop:
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superconvinced that the folks from @backyardbrains.bsky.social have the most fun at work. 🧠🤖🙂 new educational robot with camera + motors.

interesting for neuro: programmed with spiking neurons (similar devices typically use a sequential GUI programming interface like Scratch)

#sfn25 #sfn2025

supercool!! very much looking forward to the research that's coming from your team in the future! 🙂

all the stars aligned ➡️ I am in San Diego for #sfn25 🙂 find me to chat about oscillations & other cool electrophysiology!

already managed to get lab swag from the old lab! ❤️🙂

-- W. Grey Walter, 1937, here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19991061/

always cool illustrations in old papers 🙂

Fig. 1

"Electrodes are held on the scalp of the patient by an arrangement of rubber and whalebone bars tied under the chin (fig. 1). A most suitable cap is one made for setting waves in hair. It is not necessary to shave the scalp, though the examination is easier if the hair is short and recently washed."

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more orientated towards postdocs & PIs, but some suggestions in this article for starting a academic website: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

yes, the git commit to update the website on github pages is pretty cool! I feel many people (me also) now use this template: academicpages.github.io

no info regarding laminar profile here from this data (only two electrodes which have this type of signal), but of course it would be interesting to know 🙂

some of them def! but others go on for an extended period of time.
what is your burst cut-off threshold in cycles? 😅

(happy to be back in data-land! after lots of time spent last month on superboring paperwork, time that is lost forever 😶‍🌫️😖)

8 snippets showing 5 seconds of intracranial oscillatory brain activity from an electrodes located in the temporal cortex. brain plot showing the location of the electrode + surrounding electrodes.

auditory tau-rhythm with a cool waveform, oscillating at 10 Hz, recorded with intracranial electrodes. 🧠〰️🙂

our lab alumni list is full of incredible people! poeppel-lab.github.io/alumni