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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Benjamin Lancer retweeted
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
Benjamin Lancer retweeted
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
Benjamin Lancer retweeted
This is the xkcd that I show in my first lecture on Sensory Systems. A lot can explained from this. #neuroscience #vision
Benjamin Lancer retweeted
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
Benjamin Lancer retweeted
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
Benjamin Lancer retweeted
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
Benjamin Lancer retweeted
When your labmate comes over to debug your R code
#Rstats #AcademicChatter
Benjamin Lancer retweeted
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
Benjamin Lancer retweeted
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-…
Benjamin Lancer retweeted
Understanding dragonfly neurobiology 🧠 brings applications in physiology, defence, biophotonics & more! Another fascinating & thoroughly engaging @UniofAdelaide School of Biomedicine Round table seminar by @StevenWiederman showcasing research by @benjamin_lancer @Joseph_M_Fabian
Benjamin Lancer retweeted
Research can be hard, but there are ways to make it simpler.
Here are some tips for working in the lab
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Benjamin Lancer retweeted
I just did a #DragonQuiz on IG and wanted to share this video with Twitter peeps as well. It's a dragonfly nymph using its extendable jaws to catch and eat a mosquito larva. The small larva sold out the one that got caught 🥲
Benjamin Lancer retweeted
WHAT IS NEUROETHOLOGY?
An Online International Symposium bringing together international leaders from Europe, USA and Israel, organized by the Club of Neuroethology of the French Society of Neurosciences.@SocNeuro_Tweets
On February 18th! Mark the date & RT. @neuroethology
Benjamin Lancer retweeted
Sneak peek:
We will soon be releasing a complete insect brain connectome! With both brain hemispheres mapped, we can study how the left and right sides of the brain communicate #Drosophila #neuroscience
Benjamin Lancer retweeted
How does the central complex (region involved in movment, navigation, and path integration) differ between flies, bees, and locusts?
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Benjamin Lancer retweeted
Visual images can be reconstructed from fMRI brain signals. Are they just about stimuli or about subjective percept? In this new preprint, work led by Horikawa-san, we show that given overlapping images as a stimulus (left), attention (to 'red') alters the reconstruction (right)
Attentionally modulated subjective images reconstructed from brain activity biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_neursci
