Alisa Vlasenko

World Central Kitchen | WCK Resumes Cooking in Gaza World Central Kitchen aid trucks have Gaza for the first time in over 12 weeks. As of today, our teams have resumed cooking at select kitchens, a critical step toward increasing meal production to mee...

Sorry, I donate to orgs like the white helmets and WCK. wck.org/news/gaza-6-21

Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

It's not non-mindfulness for sure 😄

Never have I ever thought that I would be feeling bad for the US scientists. Somehow I thought the US science would suffer least from any kind of global crisis and even serve as a safe haven for less fortunate scientists. But here we are 🥲

Oh, the sensory substitution (specifically, the works of Bach-y-Rita and Eagleman) got me into neuroscience in the first place back when I was not even considering a non-clinical career path for myself. I totally see the usefulness of what you’re doing and I think we both have our place ☺️

Those people you are talking about are probably salespeople by nature and have little to do with science (or government efficiency).

*optogenetic😅

I didn’t mean that in a competitive way, I have seen lots of examples of amazing collaboration in terms of research and combinations in terms of clinical approach, both outlined/planned and already implemented. But the feeling that I don’t really fit was definitely there😅

csng.mff.cuni.cz/research.html
And this group is,among other amazing things, building a model to predict,to which extent exactly this would be possible if we could really drive activity in specific neurons whose orientation preference we would have known (sorry if I am not making sense,conf fatigue)

Optoception: Perception of Optogenetic Brain Perturbations How do animals experience brain manipulations? Optogenetics has allowed us to manipulate selectively and interrogate neural circuits underlying brain function in health and disease. However, little is...

This is my loose dumbed down interpretation of this paper. I really don’t think that ontogenetic stim is that different, perceptually, from estim. If anything, I hope it to achieve even greater control over the perceptual nature of the stimulus.

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

A photo showing a poster “Optogenetic Stimulation in Visual Cortex Evokes Modality-Specific Percepts”, basically trying to achieve the most specific visual cortex stimulation with wild type animals that would still not be holographic stimulation requiring a huge 2photon setup to be precise

Hugely outmanned by non-invasive methods people, I still managed to have a couple of inquisitive conversations here at #BrainStimConf and find the most interesting computation person in my life. Not too ashamed of my poster anymore:

Ten illustrated bunnies in a burrow, captioned "there are tunnels underground where bunnies are safe - safe from emails"

A lightly edited illustration from Peter McCarthy's Bunny Dreams

Cool, gonna check it out!

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I think I was too late to see you in person, but cool work(or at least I find it very interesting even as an invasive methods person)!

It also means changing the PhD theses on the fly cause their time is running out and they still need to finish somehow.I am not saying it's the same everywhere,but in biomed the money and human workforce are far from being used efficiently and it needs mending before advertising Europe 4 scientists

Research in EU is…waiting 1.5 years for your animal license to be approved and thus wasting tens of thousands of € on
- keeping up the colony of animals just sitting around;
- paying the salaries of those involved in the project you’ve planned while they are waiting.

Protecting Scientists Engaging in Advocacy The Union of Concerned Scientists invites you to a webinar to help scientists and experts understand their first amendment rights, enhance their digital privacy, and navigate the risks involved in eng...

Seems useful!! secure.ucsusa.org/a/2025-02-26...

Middle aged Asian male with black hair very straight. He has a somber expression behind a pink KN95 mask. He is standing in front of a Helmet I series vaccine fridge. It is blue with a glass door and an LCD status panel.

If you're worried about vaccine availability moving forward talk to your pediatricians. While there is a routine schedule, there is flexibility.
For example Gardasil is usually given at 11 but can be dosed as early as 9.
MMR is given at 12 and 48 months but dose 2 can be given earlier.

I think it's a very appropriate line to flirt with PhD students struggling with their writing

Hi Onions, I am very happy that you got on that NYU mailing chain. You are very cute!

YouTube video by Donders Institute Inaugural Lecture Marius Peelen

My inaugural lecture of last week "Visual Cognitive Neuroscience: Exploring the fuzzy boundary between seeing and thinking" is now online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T6Q...

It’s a Japanese pancake with extra puff!☺️

A photo of the front side of Mila's main building.

A photo of the main building of the Université de Montréal in summer.

I'm looking for PhD and MSc students for Fall 2025, at Mila and the Université de Montréal.

Topics: machine learning for science, details in 🧵

I especially encourage applicants from under-represented groups and regions in conflict (Palestine, Ukraine, Sudan, Myanmar...)

See 🧵 for how to apply.

Reddit - Dive into anything Anyone can view, post, and comment to this community

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A cream coloured rat fully relaxed on its hooman’s belly and getting scratched or pet

Rats don’t do loaf; they turn into pancakes

A flyer for ‘Training for First-Time Reviewers’ Hosted by Reviewer Zero. The bottom left says “So you want to participate in peer review: how to write inclusive and equitable reviews. Learn how to write your first review by learning the general principles and structure of writing an effective review” The date is December 4th, 11 AM PT, 1 PM CT, 2 PM Et. You can RSVP at https://tinyurl.com/YC5U6XWK The Black In Neuro logo is on the bottom right. The top right has a photo of a laptop keyboard with a small notepad and pen.

You won’t want to miss this amazing workshop for first-time reviewers on How to Write Inclusive and Equitable Reviews, with @reviewerzero.bsky.social on December 4th!

Register here: blackinneuro47.wildapricot.org/event-5883989

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Thank you! Much appreciated!

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Thank you! I have experienced something in this spirit in my previous career (I come from medicine): old docs are experienced, but young docs are, on average,more attentive despite (or owing to) lack of experience. I hope I won't have to back off.