#sfn2022 — Public Fediverse posts

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

A highlight of #SFN2022 was a masterful presentation by @analog_ashley on how we can integrate coding into the neuroscience curriculum.

Check out Ashley's recent paper on coding in the neuroscience curriculum in Neuron: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0896627321009946

And this preprint on what we *say* is important in neuro vs. what we train: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.09.455678v1

#Neuroscience #Training #Coding

This is part of a "dueling perspectives" feature in the Journal of Neuroscience that was also presented at #SFN2022.

For a contrary opinion, see Brad Alger's take: https://www.jneurosci.org/content/42/45/8432

It was a real treat to work with Brad on this, as well as Marina Picciotto (JNEuro Editor), JNeuro staff, and Christophe Bernard (ENeuro Editor) -- hope they'll be on Mastadon soon.

Neuroscientists need strong training in experimental design.

Another highlight of #SFN2022 was Mary Harrington's presentation on why and how to integrate experimental design into neuroscience training. Here slides (with sample syllabus) are here: https://osf.io/phzje

And her textbook, The Design of Experiments in Neuroscience, is a great starting point (https://tinyurl.com/expdesignneuro)

Mary's not on Mastodon (yet) -- but soon?

#Neuroscience #OpenScience #ExperimentalDesign

What math do neuroscientists need to know?

A highlight of #SFN2022 was Ella Batty's answer to this question. She showed off an incredible math for neuroscientists course she has developed at Harvard with open materials (https://ebatty.github.io/MathToolsforNeuroscience/) and discussed her amazing work with Neuromatch Academy (https://compneuro.neuromatch.io/)

Her SFN slides are here: https://osf.io/s94b2

#Neuroscience #GradSchool #Math

NPR: Over 23,000 brain scientists gathered in San Diego for a conference last week

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/20/1138051066/over-23-000-brain-scientists-gathered-in-san-diego-for-a-conference-last-week

#neuroscience #sfn2022

I once said that Twitter was like going to an academic conference, only much less expensive.

But what does that mean in practice for #ECR and #academicTwitter on Mastadon?

Here's a typical Twitter example. Two days ago I spotted a tweet from Brad Voytek (whose Twitter account is now deleted - please join us here, Brad!) about a poster at #SfN2022 featuring his PhD student Eena Kosik's work on neural #oscillations and #respiration. 🤩

I tweeted Brad - he tweet introduced me to Eena...

#SfN2022 was a blast! We had a huge turnout to the lab's posters. Congrats to the team. What an awesome group.

Okay, if Twitter manages to limp along just long enough to make me liveblog on two platforms during #sfn2022 and then dies before I manage to recover from this round of con crud, I'm going to be pissed.

(Two negative COVID tests so far! But I'm still sniffly, snotty and miserable as I sulk around the house.)

Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana...
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RT @Diogenes_LXX
Best poster of #SfN2022
https://twitter.com/Diogenes_LXX/status/1592971753189363713

#introduction

Hello,

I am a neuroscientist studying how specific regions in the brain are vulnerable to Alzheimer's disease (#AD). We are mainly interested in the neurons of entorhinal cortex and hippocampal since they are affected early in AD and important for memory. We use in vivo electrophysiology to understand the population dynamics of neurons affected by amyloid beta and tau pathologies. More recently, we've been interested in how locus coeruleus pathology impacts downstream regions.
Was awesome meeting so many fellow scientists at the #neuroscience meeting #sfn2022

#neurodon #memory #alzheimers #dementia #entorhinalcortex #hippocampus #locuscoeruleus #sfn22

Thanks #SfN2022 ! See you again i’m sure. Very grateful to The Brain Development and Disorders lab for inviting me and making the trip happen 🙏 Time to sleep…

Wow! That was new: At the San Diego airport, random attendees of #sfn22 #sfn2022 were called up by name and asked if they had any biological materials with them, related to their specialty.

Say what?!
New brain implants ‘read’ words directly from people’s thoughts: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/brain-implant-reads-peoples-thoughts
Fresh from #sfn2022
@neuro @cognition

Heading home from #sfn2022. This was my first big conference since the before times— and wow, how nice it was to catch up with old friends and drink from the firehose of neuroscience that is on full blast for this conference.

Big thank you and pleased to meet you to the folks who came to the dueling perspective symposium on inference this afternoon—it was so special to see a full house excited about stats still so engaged after a long conference..

Had a wonderful time discussing histological definitions of the medial temporal lobe cortical subregions today at my SfN poster! Thanks to all who stopped by! #SfN2022

Tim Buschman and I had too much fun in San Diego
#SfN2022

#kvelling @SfNtweets #SfN2022 @dena_goldblatt

Wonderful seeing so many friends here at #SfN2022 and especially grateful to have celebrated with Betsy Murray on her Lifetime Achievement Award! 🥇 #womeninneuro

#Blackrock #Neurotech reveals #Neuralace: 10,000+ channel next-gen #BCI https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/blackrock-neurotech-reveals-neuralace-10-000-channel-next-gen-bci-301679826.html "The company will later explore visual prosthesis applications in humans, with aims to have first-in-human demonstrations of a Neuralace visual prosthesis by 2028"; #neuroscience #SfN22 #SfN2022