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International Brain Research Organization: New tool helps researchers discover neuroscience funding opportunities. “The Transmitter has launched the Neuro Funding Finder, a searchable database powered by Scientify Research that brings together hundreds of grants, fellowships, and funding opportunities for neuroscientists at every career stage. Users can browse and filter opportunities by career […]

International Brain Research Organization: New tool helps researchers discover neuroscience funding opportunities. “The Transmitter has launched the Neuro Funding Finder, a searchable database powered by Scientify Research that brings together hundreds of grants, fellowships, and funding opportunities for neuroscientists at every career stage. Users can browse and filter opportunities by career […]

#Neuroscientists of the world - do you sometimes have questions about a new technique you're trying to setup in the lab? Or getting too much noise in your system and wondering why? Not sure why your rats / flies / humans are not learning? Which virus to get for your optogenetic experiment? How to stain brain slices? Whether an expensive piece of kit is worth buying? ...

The #NeuroMethods community is there to help! We had been on slack for 10 years but recently moved to #Zulip. Anyone with an academic email can join at: https://neuromethods.zulipchat.com

questions and answers from experts by experts, no ads, no spam, no genAI :)

Feel free to spread the word to your colleagues, the more, the merrier!

any questions? let me know!

#Neuroscience #ResearchMethods

#Neuroscientists of the world - do you sometimes have questions about a new technique you're trying to setup in the lab? Or getting too much noise in your system and wondering why? Not sure why your rats / flies / humans are not learning? Which virus to get for your optogenetic experiment? How to stain brain slices? Whether an expensive piece of kit is worth buying? ...

The #NeuroMethods community is there to help! We had been on slack for 10 years but recently moved to #Zulip. Anyone with an academic email can join at: https://neuromethods.zulipchat.com

questions and answers from experts by experts, no ads, no spam, no genAI :)

Feel free to spread the word to your colleagues, the more, the merrier!

any questions? let me know!

#Neuroscience #ResearchMethods

🧠 #Matter vs. #Mind: In what worlds does our #brain live? 🌐

Today, #neuroscientists face a fascinating and, at the same time, profound #dilemma.

Share your thoughts with us in the comments! 👇

https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/03/22/kann-das-gehirn-das-gehirn-verstehen/

You can find this exciting interview at:

👉 https://youtu.be/C2FVIbAyaH4

#Brain #BrainResearch #Consciousness #Philosophy #WolfSinger #Zoomposium #Qualia #Neuroscience #FreeWill #Cognition #MindAndBrain #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Epistemology

🧠 #Matter vs. #Mind: In what worlds does our #brain live? 🌐

Today, #neuroscientists face a fascinating and, at the same time, profound #dilemma.

Share your thoughts with us in the comments! 👇

https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/03/22/kann-das-gehirn-das-gehirn-verstehen/

You can find this exciting interview at:

👉 https://youtu.be/C2FVIbAyaH4

#Brain #BrainResearch #Consciousness #Philosophy #WolfSinger #Zoomposium #Qualia #Neuroscience #FreeWill #Cognition #MindAndBrain #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Epistemology

@appassionato

#AIEthics
#HPsCommentary

(2/n)

...quite likely, the #Neuroscientists, *do recognize * the #NeuralNetworks resembling structures and can even determine which *human emotion* (most likely other concepts as well) the are (trying?) to mimick.

The leading AI scientists seem to be wondering what is happening, having very little of a clue.

I am willing to make a forecast, due to some analyses that I have done over the past months (not at liberty 2 discuss in detail).

According to..

@appassionato

#AIEthics
#HPsCommentary

(2/n)

...quite likely, the #Neuroscientists, *do recognize * the #NeuralNetworks resembling structures and can even determine which *human emotion* (most likely other concepts as well) the are (trying?) to mimick.

The leading AI scientists seem to be wondering what is happening, having very little of a clue.

I am willing to make a forecast, due to some analyses that I have done over the past months (not at liberty 2 discuss in detail).

According to..

I know I keep asking this but how can #Neuroscientists say that #fMRI lets you look at "neural activity patterns"?

The same BOLD signal, in a specific voxel, could be generated from an infinite combination of excitatory and inhibitory neurons being more or less active (and that's not even talking about glial cells). How could similar BOLD signals mean that the underlying neural activity patterns were similar?

I must be missing something, please explain 🙏

#Neuroscience

I know I keep asking this but how can #Neuroscientists say that #fMRI lets you look at "neural activity patterns"?

The same BOLD signal, in a specific voxel, could be generated from an infinite combination of excitatory and inhibitory neurons being more or less active (and that's not even talking about glial cells). How could similar BOLD signals mean that the underlying neural activity patterns were similar?

I must be missing something, please explain 🙏

#Neuroscience

An interesting social media datapoint: @rmgrieves and I recently posted about our new research:

• Mastodon / Fedi:
  Boosts: 18; Quotes: 0; Favs: 19, Comments: 2 (interesting discussions!)

• Bluesky:
  Boosts: 60; Quotes: 7; Favs: 115, Comments: 6 (interesting questions, 1 troll)

• LinkedIn
  Boosts: 9; Quotes: 0; Favs (reactions): 46; Comments: 3 (no discussion initiation)

• [Twitter/X] (only the journal posted there, I will not link to it)
  Boosts: 5; Quotes: 0?; Favs: 9; Comments: 1 but I can't read it.

• [Facebook] (yeah I know, that's also the journal)
  Can't see any stats for it

Conclusion: #Bluesky currently the place to be for article-sharing and discussion..
We need more #Neuroscientists and #Researchers on Mastodon!

Lastly: Altmetric has always been useful to check mentions of a paper. They've recently added Bluesky, but not Mastodon / the Fedi.. We should keep asking them to add us! More on this below..

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#AcademicChatter

An interesting social media datapoint: @rmgrieves and I recently posted about our new research:

• Mastodon / Fedi:
  Boosts: 18; Quotes: 0; Favs: 19, Comments: 2 (interesting discussions!)

• Bluesky:
  Boosts: 60; Quotes: 7; Favs: 115, Comments: 6 (interesting questions, 1 troll)

• LinkedIn
  Boosts: 9; Quotes: 0; Favs (reactions): 46; Comments: 3 (no discussion initiation)

• [Twitter/X] (only the journal posted there, I will not link to it)
  Boosts: 5; Quotes: 0?; Favs: 9; Comments: 1 but I can't read it.

• [Facebook] (yeah I know, that's also the journal)
  Can't see any stats for it

Conclusion: #Bluesky currently the place to be for article-sharing and discussion..
We need more #Neuroscientists and #Researchers on Mastodon!

Lastly: Altmetric has always been useful to check mentions of a paper. They've recently added Bluesky, but not Mastodon / the Fedi.. We should keep asking them to add us! More on this below..

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#AcademicChatter

🤖 The future of #AI – Evolutionary approaches for #intelligentSystems 🌱

What will the next generation of #artificialintelligence look like?

According to #WolfSinger, one of Germany's leading #neuroscientists, advances in AI will soon have to be guided by #evolution itself.

📺 https://youtu.be/C2FVIbAyaH4

📎 https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/03/22/kann-das-gehirn-das-gehirn-verstehen/

#EvolutionarySystems #Autopoiesis #ArtificialIntelligence #Neuroscience #Zoomposium #FutureOfAI #EvolutionAndTechnology #IntelligentSystems

A colleague is asking how many #Neuroscientists are here on Mastodon / Fedi. If you are one, could you make yourself known in this poll? Also, more specific comments about your field welcome! 🧠

please boost around if you don't mind
#Neuroscience #Academia #AcademicChatter

A colleague is asking how many #Neuroscientists are here on Mastodon / Fedi. If you are one, could you make yourself known in this poll? Also, more specific comments about your field welcome! 🧠

please boost around if you don't mind
#Neuroscience #Academia #AcademicChatter

go.bsky.app/RnPdB5N #NeuroScience #NeuroScientists

RE: https://bsky.brid.gy/convert/ap/at://did:plc:p66b7zkep57fp4rhrtktsdni/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3kvx5n6apqq2m

#anxiety #depression #stress #mitochondria #neuroscience #neuroscientists #MentalHealth

"Mitochondria May Hold Keys to Anxiety and Mental Health

Carmen Sandi recalls the skepticism she faced at first. A behavioral neuroscientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, she had followed a hunch that something going on inside critical neural circuits could explain anxious behavior, something beyond brain cells and the synaptic connections between them. The experiments she began in 2013 showed that neurons involved in anxiety-related behaviors showed abnormalities: Their mitochondria, the organelles often described as cellular power plants, didn’t work well — they produced curiously low levels of energy.

Those results suggested that mitochondria might be involved in stress-related symptoms in the animals. But that idea ran contrary to the 'synapto-centric' vision of the brain held by many neuroscientists at the time. Her colleagues found it hard to believe Sandi’s evidence that in anxious individuals — at least in rats — mitochondria inside key neurons might be important.

'Whenever I presented the data, they told me, it’s very interesting, but you got it wrong,' Sandi said.

Yet a growing number of scientists have joined her during the past decade or so in wondering whether mitochondria might be fundamental not just to our general physical well-being but specifically to our mental health. In particular, they have explored whether mitochondria affect how we respond to stress and conditions like anxiety and depression.

Although much of the evidence so far is preliminary, it points to a substantial connection. Mitochondria seem to be central to the very existence of a stress response, serving both as mediators of it and targets for the damage it can do. To some of the researchers involved in this work, the stress response even looks like a kind of coordinated action by mitochondria throughout the body that interacts with the neurological processing. "

https://www.quantamagazine.org/mitochondria-may-hold-keys-to-anxiety-andmental-health-20200810/

#anxiety #depression #stress #mitochondria #neuroscience #neuroscientists #MentalHealth

"Mitochondria May Hold Keys to Anxiety and Mental Health

Carmen Sandi recalls the skepticism she faced at first. A behavioral neuroscientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, she had followed a hunch that something going on inside critical neural circuits could explain anxious behavior, something beyond brain cells and the synaptic connections between them. The experiments she began in 2013 showed that neurons involved in anxiety-related behaviors showed abnormalities: Their mitochondria, the organelles often described as cellular power plants, didn’t work well — they produced curiously low levels of energy.

Those results suggested that mitochondria might be involved in stress-related symptoms in the animals. But that idea ran contrary to the 'synapto-centric' vision of the brain held by many neuroscientists at the time. Her colleagues found it hard to believe Sandi’s evidence that in anxious individuals — at least in rats — mitochondria inside key neurons might be important.

'Whenever I presented the data, they told me, it’s very interesting, but you got it wrong,' Sandi said.

Yet a growing number of scientists have joined her during the past decade or so in wondering whether mitochondria might be fundamental not just to our general physical well-being but specifically to our mental health. In particular, they have explored whether mitochondria affect how we respond to stress and conditions like anxiety and depression.

Although much of the evidence so far is preliminary, it points to a substantial connection. Mitochondria seem to be central to the very existence of a stress response, serving both as mediators of it and targets for the damage it can do. To some of the researchers involved in this work, the stress response even looks like a kind of coordinated action by mitochondria throughout the body that interacts with the neurological processing. "

https://www.quantamagazine.org/mitochondria-may-hold-keys-to-anxiety-andmental-health-20200810/

🎧 Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas: https://pod.link/1406534739

— world-renowned #physicist and thinker Sean Carroll sits down each week with some of the most fascinating minds on the planet — from #neuroscientists and #philosophers to game designers, authors, and filmmakers. Together, they explore the deep questions that shape how we think, feel, and understand the universe.

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💡

#time_travel #science_podcast #culture #philosophy #pop_science

#Neuroscientists Explored How the #Brain Reacts — or Doesn’t React — to #Music

https://www.insidehook.com/wellness/neuroscientists-explored-brain-reacts-doesnt-react-music

#Neuroscientists Explored How the #Brain Reacts — or Doesn’t React — to #Music

https://www.insidehook.com/wellness/neuroscientists-explored-brain-reacts-doesnt-react-music

As a "baseline" for this poll ⬆️, let's see which of you (#Neuroscientists) did go to SfN last time it was in San Diego, so 2022:

#Neuroscience #NeuroConf #SfN2022
Edited to lengthen the poll duration

As a "baseline" for this poll ⬆️, let's see which of you (#Neuroscientists) did go to SfN last time it was in San Diego, so 2022:

#Neuroscience #NeuroConf #SfN2022
Edited to lengthen the poll duration

Any #Neuroscientists going to #SfN this year (in San Diego, USA)?

https://www.sfn.org/meetings/neuroscience-2025/general-information/dates-and-deadlines

#Neuroscience #NeuroConf #SfN2025
(I am not)

Edit: reopened the poll because it was set for just 1 day, oops

Any #Neuroscientists going to #SfN this year (in San Diego, USA)?

https://www.sfn.org/meetings/neuroscience-2025/general-information/dates-and-deadlines

#Neuroscience #NeuroConf #SfN2025
(I am not)

Edit: reopened the poll because it was set for just 1 day, oops

#Neuroscientists share how to 'revive' #memories that you thought you had #forgotten forever

https://www.upworthy.com/how-to-remember-things

#Neuroscientists share how to 'revive' #memories that you thought you had #forgotten forever

https://www.upworthy.com/how-to-remember-things

Poll for #Hippocampus #Neuroscientists:

Do you think that ripples (#SWRs) and #ThetaRhythm can co-occur?

#Neuroscientists find #braincells that explain why #stress keeps you up at #night

https://www.fastcompany.com/91355846/neuroscientists-find-brain-cells-that-explain-why-stress-keeps-you-up-at-night

#Neuroscientists find #braincells that explain why #stress keeps you up at #night

https://www.fastcompany.com/91355846/neuroscientists-find-brain-cells-that-explain-why-stress-keeps-you-up-at-night

Davi Bock on the fly connectome, its uses, its impact beyond – and his life.
https://www.uvm.edu/magazine/news/thoughts-fly
#neuroscience #neuroscientists #biographies #connectomics

Davi Bock on the fly connectome, its uses, its impact beyond – and his life.
https://www.uvm.edu/magazine/news/thoughts-fly
#neuroscience #neuroscientists #biographies #connectomics

#Neuroscientists have discovered why ‘aha moments’ stick in your #brain long after you have them

Using #fMRI scans, researchers at #DukeUniversity and the #UniversityofBerlin learned how flashes of #insight get encoded into our #memories.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91337909/neuroscientists-discover-aha-moments-stick-to-our-brains-memory

#Neuroscientists have discovered why ‘aha moments’ stick in your #brain long after you have them

Using #fMRI scans, researchers at #DukeUniversity and the #UniversityofBerlin learned how flashes of #insight get encoded into our #memories.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91337909/neuroscientists-discover-aha-moments-stick-to-our-brains-memory

#Neuroscientists Discover a Hidden #Brain Circuit That Shapes Every #Decision

https://scitechdaily.com/neuroscientists-discover-a-hidden-brain-circuit-that-shapes-every-decision/

#Neuroscientists Discover a Hidden #Brain Circuit That Shapes Every #Decision

https://scitechdaily.com/neuroscientists-discover-a-hidden-brain-circuit-that-shapes-every-decision/

Dear #Neuroscientists.. What is your suggestion for the highest "reputation", non-profit, journal, that you would recommend publishing in?

I've thought of eLife, PloS Biology, Journal of Neuroscience, eNeuro... But these are usually considered "mid-range" and not "top range" and my colleague wants something that's "top range", whatever that means.
(Well, there is Science but that's probably too much)
#Academia #ScientificPublishers #Neuroscience
@academicchatter

Dear #Neuroscientists.. What is your suggestion for the highest "reputation", non-profit, journal, that you would recommend publishing in?

I've thought of eLife, PloS Biology, Journal of Neuroscience, eNeuro... But these are usually considered "mid-range" and not "top range" and my colleague wants something that's "top range", whatever that means.
(Well, there is Science but that's probably too much)
#Academia #ScientificPublishers #Neuroscience
@academicchatter

@neuralreckoning @albertcardona @keithwilson as UK #Neuroscientists shouldn't we do something? Write a letter to them saying it's a really bad and wasteful idea?

@neuralreckoning @albertcardona @keithwilson as UK #Neuroscientists shouldn't we do something? Write a letter to them saying it's a really bad and wasteful idea?

"The History of Neuroscience in Autobiography is a book series [...] that details the lives and discoveries of eminent senior neuroscientists." Very cool!
-> This volume has the biography of György Buzsáki and Patricia Churchland (among other eminent #Neuroscientists)!

https://www.sfn.org/about/history-of-neuroscience/autobiographical-chapters#volume13

#Neuroscience #BuzsakiLab #ChurchlandLab

We Still Don't Know What #Memories Are Made Of

A large survey of #neuroscientists finds little consensus about how #memory works.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/your-internet-brain/202412/we-still-dont-know-what-memories-are-made-of

We Still Don't Know What #Memories Are Made Of

A large survey of #neuroscientists finds little consensus about how #memory works.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/your-internet-brain/202412/we-still-dont-know-what-memories-are-made-of

A #Neuroscientists Taught #Rats How To Drive — Then Things Got Weird

Yes, #rodents can be taught to #drive. They seem to even like it.

https://www.inverse.com/science/neuroscientist-teaches-rats-to-drive

#Israel - #Gaza - #Lebanon war
To all #Psychologists and #Neuroscientists :

If you haven't seen it yet, our colleagues Mehdi Khamassi and Yael Niv have been working on a sign-on letter for psychologists and neuroscientists around the world calling for international pressure towards an immediate ceasefire and peace in the Middle-East.

The letter: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScfwFaH2AdOJBX3wwPUjCUORsOLEmQ498l-OFeW-TvDf63GGw/viewform

Their explanation:

"We take a humanist approach, condemning all violence targeting civilians, using psychology to try to explain why things have escalated so badly (e.g., talking about in-group/out-group, extremism, dehumanization, revenge, etc.), and why international pressure is needed to stop this spiral of death now.
Please feel free to co-sign this letter with us and to circulate it among your colleagues and students that you think could be interested to sign"

I haven't followed the events so well and thought that a ceasefire had just been implemented, but it can't hurt to sign the letter and share it! Better late than never..

#Israel - #Gaza - #Lebanon war
To all #Psychologists and #Neuroscientists :

If you haven't seen it yet, our colleagues Mehdi Khamassi and Yael Niv have been working on a sign-on letter for psychologists and neuroscientists around the world calling for international pressure towards an immediate ceasefire and peace in the Middle-East.

The letter: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScfwFaH2AdOJBX3wwPUjCUORsOLEmQ498l-OFeW-TvDf63GGw/viewform

Their explanation:

"We take a humanist approach, condemning all violence targeting civilians, using psychology to try to explain why things have escalated so badly (e.g., talking about in-group/out-group, extremism, dehumanization, revenge, etc.), and why international pressure is needed to stop this spiral of death now.
Please feel free to co-sign this letter with us and to circulate it among your colleagues and students that you think could be interested to sign"

I haven't followed the events so well and thought that a ceasefire had just been implemented, but it can't hurt to sign the letter and share it! Better late than never..

Neuroscientists uncover brain changes linked to Alzheimer’s before symptoms arise https://www.psypost.org/neuroscientists-uncover-brain-changes-linked-to-alzheimers-before-symptoms-arise/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Alzheimers #Neuroscientists #BrainChanges #AmyloidBeta #TauProteins

#Neuroscientists Discover Secret to Making and Breaking #Habits

https://scitechdaily.com/neuroscientists-discover-secret-to-making-and-breaking-habits/

#Neuroscientists Discover Secret to Making and Breaking #Habits

https://scitechdaily.com/neuroscientists-discover-secret-to-making-and-breaking-habits/

Hi #Neuroscientists, do you know someone working on #HippocampalReplay (either experimentally or computationally) who might want to go to #EBBS25 (it's in Bordeaux, France)?

I'm thinking about submitting a symposium proposal and don't want to be biased towards only people I already know.. 🙏

#Hippocampus

#Neuroscientists and #architects are using this enormous #laboratory to make #buildings better

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/13/1103935/neuroscientists-architects-enormous-laboratory-make-buildings-better/

#Neuroscientists and #architects are using this enormous #laboratory to make #buildings better

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/13/1103935/neuroscientists-architects-enormous-laboratory-make-buildings-better/

Why “The Web of #Meaning” Is a #Meaningful #Book for #Progressives—and Everybody Else;
Lent devotes major chunks of his book to spelling out all sorts of recent findings by #neuroscientists and others, findings that often reinforce earlier insights by non-Western #thinkers.

https://hollywoodprogressive.com/literature/web-of-meaning

#Neuroscientists say this is the most #relaxing #song in the world

https://www.upworthy.com/neuroscientists-say-this-is-the-most-relaxing-song-in-the-world-rp3

#Neuroscientists say this is the most #relaxing #song in the world

https://www.upworthy.com/neuroscientists-say-this-is-the-most-relaxing-song-in-the-world-rp3

#Neuroscientists have mapped what happens to your #brain when you take #shrooms—and it’s eye-opening

https://www.fastcompany.com/91158709/neuroscience-mapping-brain-magic-mushrooms-psilocybin-hallucinogenics-medicine

“A team of MIT #neuroscientists may have unlocked the answer in the case of #propofol. Propofol has been commonly used since the 1980s to put and keep patients in a state of unconsciousness. The new research indicates that it works by interfering with a brain’s “dynamic stability”—a state where #neurons can respond to input, but the brain is able to keep them from getting too excited. “ #anesthesia #anestodon https://appdot.net/@jgordon/112791570676638713

@NicoleCRust

As dilettante in neuro, by choice, circumstances faults, consequences, etc.— I always appreciated how you refer yourself as Brain Scientist —instead of Neuroscientist, ea...

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» Aldous Huxley
Julian Huxley
Dr W. Grey Walter
Prof A. J. Ayer

Should we take an anxiety pill?

- The Brains Trust «

https://youtu.be/R-rrQUKAjiQ

#neurodon
#Neuroscience
#neuroscientists
#brainscientists
#mindscientists
#brainmindbody
#PhilosophyofNeuroscience
#neurotheory
#BrainsTrust

Unlocking #Memory: #Neuroscientists Reveal How the #Brain Decides What To #Remember

https://scitechdaily.com/unlocking-memory-neuroscientists-reveal-how-the-brain-decides-what-to-remember/

Have you seen the latest #AIHype? Now that #AI marketers have claimed the term "reason" for what #LLM do, I'm afraid that real #neuroscientists and #cognitivescientists are going to have to come up with a new word for what real intelligence does 🤔