Lauri Nurminen

This is interesting. It seems noninvasive laminar imaging is definitely moving forward.

This is such a wonderful tool!

Laminar MEG is possible across all cortical depths. Our comprehensive simulations outline SNR, head movement, and micro/macro anatomical limitations to source reconstruction precision. Not perfect by any chance, lots of confirmatory work ahead, but it's promising.

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

GitHub - Julie-Fabre/bombcell: Automated quality control, curation and neuron classification of spike-sorted electrophysiology data Automated quality control, curation and neuron classification of spike-sorted electrophysiology data - Julie-Fabre/bombcell

🚀 We are excited to share that bombcell is now available in Python! 🐍 Automatically sort your units into good/MUA/noise/non-somatic using quality metrics and interpretable & adjustable classification thresholds.
pip install and play around with our toy dataset:
🔗 github.com/Julie-Fabre/...

This is wonderful news!

Because we must build good things while we scream about the bad, I have started a "Data for Good" team @data-for-good-team.bsky.social that partners with organizations needing short-term data science help. We have three projects ongoing & will add more as our capacity grows.
data-for-good-team.org

Universities were invented 1000 years ago as an island of liberty in a society that was (literally) medieval. For instance, students were protected against reprisal. The US is going medieval, and it's time for universities to regain their role .

The dynamic version is even more disturbing...

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.

This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

This is interesting in light of some of the old studies suggesting that MMN is an auditory phenomenon (doi.org/10.1016/0168.... Perhaps this study again highlights the importance of using naturalistic experimental paradigms...

Dear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email (klangin@aaas.org) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity.

Roughly 9% of NIH employees fired yesterday - rumors are IC directors may be next. Please call your senators and representatives!

Sign the Petition Petition to Reverse the NIH Indirect Cost Cap (NOT-OD-25-068)

Petition to Reverse the NIH Indirect Cost Cap initiated by Tom Maniatis. Please amplify
Sign the Petition: chng.it/kK2HMP5pGk
"Share with Leadership & Faculty. Reach out to professional societies, biotech and pharma leaders, and philanthropic organizations to raise awareness and mobilize support."

Probably the best news this week.

Let’s go OHIO!!!

SCREW THE COUP!!!

This account is for sharing info with US scientists, both extramural and intramural to NIH, about attacks on science in the US.

Education is power, and we can help advocate for science and medicine together. 💪🧪

We are a team of NIH people. Please ask us questions you might have.

Save the date! SimCo 2025: August 25-27 at Duke in Durham.

With science so hot it makes deepseek seem ancient!

@neurodisney.bsky.social @stevewcchang.bsky.social @janzimmermann.bsky.social

🔵 NEW PAPER 🔵

Spatiotemporal Style Transfer #STST is out on #NatureComputationalScience!

STST as a framework for dynamic visual stimulus generation to study brain and machine vision

feat. @siegellab.bsky.social
paper: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
code: github.com/antoninogrec...

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Vision Science Faculty at UCLA Stein Eye Institute University of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now!

My first Bluesky post is to announce a Tenure-Track Faculty Search at the Jules Stein Eye Institute of UCLA. We are considering applications at the Assistant and Associate professor levels. Apply here: recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10092.
DM or email me with any questions. Please distribute!

Who’s quitting academia? Data reveal gender gaps in surprising fields Even in scientific areas in which women are well represented, they are up to 40% more likely than men to leave research within 20 years.

“‘It’s very easy to assume that science is going to change organically towards equality — and what this study shows is that that’s not happening…It is an ‘important reminder for us that we need to stay vigilant in working towards equality in science’” @crsugimoto.bsky.social 🧪
#AcademicSky 👩🏽‍🔬

Let's see how long Meta's "no fact checking" policy lasts.

Scientists fear big cuts to animal research under Trump 2.0 New political environment could provide opening for groups that want to eliminate animal studies

In conversations about #SciAdvocacy, a wise colleague advised that impact requires us to"get out of our echo chambers and go to where they are."

What's the best way to have meaningful conversations with White Coat Waste and those who will be influenced by them?

www.science.org/content/arti...

Science is awesome

Nudge for scicomm (~spring)

Many of you (& me) want to help with the next steps in the US. How?

Science may take a hit in 2025. Spring is a great time for public-facing efforts that unpack what scientists do and why it matters. *Now is pitch time!*

Imagine if we all did 1 thing? To consider:

A screenshot of a paper on bioarxiv illustrating the lack of blue sky share button!

Would you like to see @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social add a share to blue sky button?! I know I would! Share this post to let @richardsever.bsky.social @erictopol.bsky.social and others at bioarxiv know!

My lab studies both lab mice and naked mole rats. There is a belief amongst some that what we discover in mice will be universally true, and what we discover in naked mole rats will be a weird mole rat quirk. I believe this mouse-centric view of biological systems is very limiting.

Hey @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social, I think you need to add another icon here 🦋