UCL neuroscientist investigating the neural basis of contextual decision making. Views are my own. also @macaskillaf@bsky.social / @macaskillaf@fediscience.org
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New preprint out! We developed a behavioural platform for the kinematic analysis of skilled whole body behaviour. Very fun collaboration with Christopher Black, Liam Browne and Rob Brownstone.
Ethologically relevant behavioural assay for investigating reach and grasp kinematics during whole-body motor control in mice biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… #biorxiv_neursci
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Come use a combination of neural network and reinforcement learning approaches to tease apart how the brain supports motor adaptation with us @Ian_Duguid, Angus Chadwick and @eckstein_maria 🧠🤸
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Want to start your own lab at UCL? Then check out this opportunity. I went through the process a few years ago and can only recommend it! A fantastic place to do science, especially because of amazing colleagues and collaborators.
Applications are now open to join our fantastic department @uclbiosciences as a group leader fellow. Come start your independent group at (in our opinion) the best neuroscience department! reach out to @ibianco3 for more info!
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Join our team! We're investigating how the visual cortex interacts with subcortical structures like the Superior Colliculus and Basal Ganglia to shape sensory processing and behavior in health and neurobehavioral disorders. 🔬👁️ #NeuroscienceJobs #Neuroresearch @uclnpp
My lab @UCL is looking for a experimental #postdoc to join our team. Interested in circuits underlying visually-guided behavior, chronic #Neuropixel recordings, in Vivo 2-photon imaging in head-fixed or freely moving mice #mini2p? Please reach out & RT 🙏bit.ly/PostDoc_UCL
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Pleased to announce I've received an Early-Career Award from @wellcometrust. Excited to spend the next 5 years studying the neural circuit mechanisms for economic decision-making with @AnnDuan2 and @SWC_Neuro!
Congratulations to @omgauld on receiving a @wellcometrust Early-Career Award!
Read the news: sainsburywellcome.org/web/re…
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🚨 We’re hiring 🚨 Interested in glial biology, retina ageing and killifish? We will soon be advertising a postdoc and technician position in my laboratory. Please get in touch if interested. Picture of our new glial reporter transgenic killifish. Courtesy of @ChiKuoHimself
Andrew MacAskill retweeted
'Mini analysis' is an unreliable reporter of synaptic changes biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_neursci
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Tonight!
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Applications now open! Join the SWC PhD Programme 2025
🧠 World-class training in systems neuroscience
💰 Fully-funded 4-year programme
💂 Based in London with close links to @GatsbyUCL
Learn more and apply by 11 Nov: sainsburywellcome.org/web/co…
#PhD #Neuroscience
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We are looking for postdocs funded by an ERC starting grant to investigate the mechanisms of cortical predictive learning! Opportunities to use in vivo whole cell recordings, 2-photon imaging VR for mice, and more. Please reach out if you are interested! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/…
Andrew MacAskill retweeted
👋 The paper modelling CANTAB IED performance is now out in Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience: rdcu.be/dUUSd
Thank you to everyone who's been following the journey! 🙌 @jonroiser @docqhuys @CANTABconnect @AlisaLoosen @jmyearsley @MacAskillAF
Andrew MacAskill retweeted
What is the nature of sensory prediction error signals in the neocortex?
Our research published in @Nature reveals that these error signals are amplified responses to unexpected inputs, mediated by a cooperative thalamocortical circuit mechanism! 1/4
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Looking forward to telling you all about why #NeuroAI is exciting!
Computational neuroscience merges biology’s search for brain mechanisms with an engineering-like pursuit of realistic models to try and answer big questions about cognition and what goes wrong in disease.
Explore the allure of the field and much more in tomorrow’s #MeettheExpert webinar with Kanaka Rajan, PhD.
🔗 bit.ly/3Aqs7Do
#NeuroTwitter #SciTwitter #MedTwitter #AcademicTwitter
ALT Scientific background. Society for Neuroscience logo. Webinar series. Meet-the-Expert. The Allure of Computational Neuroscience. Wednesday, August 21, 1 p.m.–2 p.m. EDT. Headshot of Kanaka Rajan, PhD.
Andrew MacAskill retweeted
Our paper on the effect of stimulus temporal regularity on visual decisions is out in its final form:
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
Thanks to reviewers whose comments made it a better paper! @matfritsche @AntaraMajumdar @LiebanaSamuel @LozStrickland Rafal Bogacz.
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Very pleased to announce our latest work on GLP-1 action in the olfactory bulb. A great collaboration with the Magnan group at Paris.
doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-5…
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GluA2-containing, calcium impermeable AMPA receptors respond to proton fluctuations - impacting their location at the synapse - thanks to all authors!
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We are looking for postdocs!
researchgate.net/job/1014176…
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Excited to share my new paper (with @Aman_sal and @FabioRibRod):
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
Interested in:
- neural population dynamics?
- neural correlations?
- sub-second timescale neural encoding?
- state-dependent sensory processing?
🧵and tl;dr👇
