Athena Akrami

@AthenaAkrami

Neuroscientist at The Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL, in London. Leading the "Learning, Inference & Memory" laboratory.

Vrijeme pridruživanja: kolovoz 2018.

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    A daily Black scientist thread in honor of (and doubling down today since it's the 2nd). Dr. Marie M. Daly (1921-2003) was an American biochemist; in 1947, she became the first African-American woman to obtain a PhD in Chemistry.

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  2. 30. sij

    Many (all) species are sensitive to temporal regularities, learning and utilizing them seamlessly in different contexts. Ultimate case: human babies learning language. Check this beautiful work, where Catherine shows how mice are using temp regularities in their courtship beh.

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    29. sij

    Today I will be teaching my undergrad course "How to build a brain from scratch" for the 2nd year running. I've put the materials online - include a document with all lecture slides and notes, which is about as long as a decent novel. Enjoy!

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    28. sij

    How does the thalamus contribute to memory? Mediodorsal thalamus has a material-general role in familiarity; anterior thalamus has a material-general role in recollection Mediodorsal thalamus coupling w/ MTL cortex is related to familiarity confidence

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  5. 28. sij

    reposting this as a friendly nudge to those of you working with rodents :) about your practices around "clean" facilities. if you retweet, it would be wonderful!

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    28. sij

    Gul Dolen's lab proposes that magnocellular oxytocin and parvocellular oxytocin neurons subserve two streams of social information processing, allowing a single molecule to encode an array of ethologically distinct behaviors. Join us Thursday to hear more

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  7. 27. sij

    Rodent twitter, a question for those of you working around "clean" breeding facilities. What's ur practice to enter the "clean" facility from outside "dirty" lab? Do u shower each time entering? Do u change into scrubs? I'd really appreciate to hear about ur practice, & plz RT!

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  8. 27. sij

    Want to help to support & empower young people from low income & disadvantaged backgrounds to pursue careers in ? Sign up to host a 1-2 week summer placement for a young bright person! We were trilled to be part of this initiative, last summer .

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    27. sij

    We're hiring! Lecturer in Quantitative Psychology - details here: - please spread the word 👍

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    26. sij

    Imagine being accepted in a good US university, going through months long vetting process to get a visa, hoping to join your wife in America, then humiliated upon arrival in LA airport, dreams crushed, sent back. Your crime? Born Iranian.

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    25. sij

    Dual* first* author papers: did you know you can cite them throughout your paper as Jane, John et al. (2019)? copyeditors just did that for our proofs. Yay! This is what I call true shared first authorship. how about same in ?

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    25. sij

    Insect and arthropod neuroscientists: the German ANN (Arthropod Neuroscience Network) Spring Meeting registration deadline is in two days. This is aimed especially at young researchers and the cost is very modest. Come if you can!

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    22. sij

    In Jan 1959 composer & inventor Daphne Oram quit the BBC's Radiophonic workshop to start her own studio - where she created the first electronic musical instrument, the Oramics machine, which turned pictures into sound. See it here:

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  14. 20. sij

    "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." - Letter from Birmingham Jail

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    14. sij

    Come spend three weeks learning about Computational Neuroscience in sunny Lisbon this summer!

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    20. sij

    This is a very important paper showing the problems of using AAVs. AAVs ablate neurogenesis in Dentate Gyrus. Great work by the Shtrahman group.

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    After >2 years of effort by our team in 7 labs, we present to you: 3 million choices from 101 mice in a standardized decision-making task. 🐭 "A standardized and reproducible method to measure decision-making in mice" Story time! 🧵👇 1/10

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    Girls across England and Wales will have access to free menstrual products in schools from this year because of the amazing activism of . A brilliant young woman making the world fairer for all young women. Thank you 🙏

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    16. sij

    New paper with and , which unifies a panoply of decision-making models (1D accumulation-to-bound, multi-D race models, discrete stepping, hybrid ramp+step models, collapsing bounds, etc) into single recurrent-state-space modeling framework!

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    16. sij

    very happy to share 's thesis work on complimentary roles of medial & lateral VTA DA signals in regulating fear extinction. with

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