Aphantasic studying vision. Selective attn in Zebrafish. Ca2+ imaging. Interest in Ecology🐜, Ethology🐦, Cognition🙉, Neuroscience🧠, Biopsychiatry🧬 & AI🤖
St. Louis, Missouri
Joined August 2018
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How do Dragonflies balance Attention and Distraction?
In this @CommsBio Behind the Paper I give an overview for how my latest research on dragonflies shed's light on their impressive predatory abilities.
socialsciences.nature.com/po…
I can't imagine what kind of AI analysis tools future anthropologists and historians will be using on the collective consciousness of the internet, but somewhere out there sometime in the future maybe an future person will be reading this.
So hi, good luck with your research.
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Ah, I see the brain localisation wars have started up again
Just going to lob this in and run back to my dugout:
link.medium.com/IeRVJoI5bxb
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A really cool idea, can a generative adversarial model help explain intrusive imagery in humans? - thinking outside the box! academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/a…
@CA_Cushing @Vincent_T_D @alexeijoel @SHofmann1512 @hakwanlau
@theamygdaloid
my love language is sending people papers I came across and thought they'd be interested in.
#ScienceTwitter
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This is the xkcd that I show in my first lecture on Sensory Systems. A lot can explained from this. #neuroscience #vision
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1/ Teaching "Freud" in psych 101 is a terrible idea
Students in biology 101 don't study "Darwin"
Students in astronomy 101 don't study "Copernicus"
Focus should be subject matter, not historical person Contemporary concepts, not history
But psych textbooks make no distinction
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Wow. COVID changes the chirality of DNA.
1/🧵 Our cell’s genes are rewired in MILD COVID 🧬
Stunning data in @Nature
White Cells (monocytes) switch gene expression from an established innate immune profile to a pro-clotting signature in COVID.
We’re immunocompromised.
Let’s unpack this…
go.nature.com/3GeDygW
Dear #AcademicTwitter, how do you deal with getting #scooped?
Feeling pretty demotivated at the moment :(
As someone totally new to the IP, #wednesdaynetflix is like someone spilled The Witcher into their Harry Potter. I love it.
#Wednesday
No one:
Every neuroscientist who studies attention after giving a talk: thank you for your [dramatic pause] attention.
#SfN22
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If coyotes have a million fans I am one of them.
If coyotes have ten fans I am one of them.
If coyotes have no fans, that means I am no more on the earth.
If the World is against coyotes, I am against the World
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When your labmate comes over to debug your R code
#Rstats #AcademicChatter
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In a Nature Portfolio Behavioural and Social Science Community post, @benjamin_lancer reports how the electrical activity of neurons reveals dragonflies are able to successfully predict prey trajectories in distracting environments. go.nature.com/3SHp6T4
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Seeing the waves even made old hand Jens Krause standing still for a moment, deeply impressed by nature’s beauty. >900 analyzed bird attacks later, we know the fish do it to confuse the birds. @LeibnizIGB @scioi_cluster @dfg_public authors.elsevier.com/c/1eHx-…
Finally arrived at the first @JusttheZooofUs episode in my podcast playlist. Amazing to see how far you've come! 🥹🥹🥹