Kerry Walker

Chief Operations Officer (COO) - Astera Neuro COO - Astera Neuro

If I did not have an excellent (long term) job, I would apply for this. What an adventure!
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A distinct set of brain areas process prosody--the melody of speech https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.12.693781v1

Good Morning, San Diego! A hearty brunch to prepare for APAN tomorrow - the best day of SfN www.med.upenn.edu/apan/

No thanks!

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

...and social media 😉

What do representations tell us about a system? Image of a mouse with a scope showing a vector of activity patterns, and a neural network with a vector of unit activity patterns Common analyses of neural representations: Encoding models (relating activity to task features) drawing of an arrow from a trace saying [on_____on____] to a neuron and spike train. Comparing models via neural predictivity: comparing two neural networks by their R^2 to mouse brain activity. RSA: assessing brain-brain or model-brain correspondence using representational dissimilarity matrices

In neuroscience, we often try to understand systems by analyzing their representations — using tools like regression or RSA. But are these analyses biased towards discovering a subset of what a system represents? If you're interested in this question, check out our new commentary! Thread:

Being Too Helpful At Work Can Hurt Your Career—Here’s How To Say No Women are more likely to take on behind-the-scenes duties at work—extra tasks like onboarding or event planning—and it's hurting their careers. Here's how to say no.

In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

Imperial is hosting a workshop on volumetric imaging of neural circuit connectivity and dynamics on Jul 22nd.
opticalneurophysiology.org?page_id=420
This international workshop brings together innovators and users of volumetric neural imaging technologies, with a particular focus on voltage imaging.

FOMO!

Today we came together in the Chapel to celebrate the people who make Exeter feel like home 🏡 — from tutors and scouts to friends and porters.

Thank you to everyone who took part in our first Student–Staff Appreciation Event.

Exeter, you are truly special ✨

#FloreatExon

⏰ Don't procrastinate on your abstract submission!

The #SfN25 abstract submission deadline is next week, Wednesday, June 4, 5 p.m. EDT.

Early submission allows you more time to address any issues & beat the last-minute rush.

Submit now. 🔗 bit.ly/3G5vEde

#NeuroSky #AcademicChatter

Postdoctoral researcher in evolutionary developmental neurobiology Come join our EU cephalopod consortium to discover how octopuses and other coleoids developed their large nervous system. Postdoc position available in the Seuntjens Lab in Leuven, Belgium.

We're hiring! Our lab is looking for a postdoc to investigate the #evodevo of #cephalopod brains. Did you recently graduate, and do you want to join our EU #WEAVE project with the Simakov and @simon-sprecher.bsky.social labs? Find the application form👇Thanks for RT 🐙🦑
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Thank you students of @exeter.ox.ac.uk for organising such a wonderful celebration of Women in STEM last Saturday. The future is bright!
www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/celebrating-...

As an immigrant to Britian, I feel this. However, it is not a "handful" of Reform voters. The Reform vote is symptomatic of a wider shift in attitudes among UK voters as a whole. If the Left ignores what UK voters want, we will find ourselves in the same situation as the USA - far right landslide.

Snake venom protection by a cocktail of varespladib and broadly neutralizing human antibodies To combat snake bites from diverse species, this work identifies broadly neutralizing antibodies from a donor hyperimmune to snake venom, and it demonstrates that a combination of two of the identifie...

Quite a cool study on snake antibodies development with an interesting backstory. A one man hero! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Trump proposes unprecedented budget cuts to US science Huge reductions, if enacted, could have ‘catastrophic’ effects on US competitiveness and the scientific pipeline, critics say.

Trump proposes unprecedented budget cuts for US science in next fiscal year
NASA cut by 24%
NIH cut by 40%
EPA cut by 55%
NSF cut by 56%
Analysis from @maxkozlov.bsky.social @dangaristo.bsky.social @alexwitze.bsky.social and @nature.com team
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See the most detailed map of human brain matter ever created Explore the tiny 'pizza slice' down to the neuron.

Wowow!! >> www.popsci.com/science/see-... @popsci.com #brain

A bar chart showing that there have been 134 fentanyl seizures at the border in the last two months... but 3,254 "egg-related" seizures

Today in charts

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Musical neurodynamics - Nature Reviews Neuroscience In this Perspective article, Edward Large and colleagues examine the neuroscience of music, placing their focus on neural resonance theory, which summarizes how the dynamics of fundamental neural mech...

It's all about the waves, cats
Musical neurodynamics
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience

Writing this took some guts, but we are all thinking it.

Thank you for this brave, eloquent, and important message, Masud.

Used Google Colab for the first time today to teach undergraduates how to analyse spike data. Have to say, I was very impressed with how it allows a novice to easily use Python. 👍🏻👍🏻

Congratulations! I'm looking forward to buying my copy

Happy Chinese New Year! 🐍🎆🧧

OMG, I just realised that my daughter designed the DeepSeek logo 5 years ago, when she was 3yo.

"What should we make electric cars sound like?"
"A choir of wailing ghosts."
*everyone laughs*
"Okay, but really, guys."
*nine hours later*
"So we're going with the choir of wailing ghosts?"

Oxford University Park this morning, or cortical layers II/III? @oxforddpag.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk

As a J Neuroscience editor, may I take this moment to say a sincere "thank you" to those of you who suggest other suitable reviewers when you have to turn down an invitation to review. This is incredibly helpful to the peer review process. 🤗

Huge congratulations, Tim (and eLife)!