Assistant Professor of Psychology and Data Science, New York University | Working on the brain and climate (separately) | http://www.gracewlindsay.com | Author, "Models of the Mind: How physics, engineering, and mathematics have shaped our understanding of the brain" http://tinyurl.com/h9dn4bw7
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Fast synaptic learning is pretty amazing: it seems to require only very sparse firing (both in terms of percentage of cells firing and in terms of firing rate), but it can lead to very long-term changes.
Piette et al 2020. Engrams of Fast Learning. https://doi.org/10.3389/fncel.2020.575915
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Hundreds of Christians begin 240-hour climate change protest outside Parliament
Activists will swap in and out every few hours to ensure a round-the-clock presence
#religion #Shropshire #UK #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate #ClimateStrike
"the U.S. has lost almost one-third of its newspapers and nearly two-thirds of its newspaper journalists since 2005. The shocking decimation of the journalism industry has led to the proliferation of ever-expanding news deserts in which more than one half of American counties have little or no access to local news. And it will only get worse." https://lpeproject.org/blog/taking-media-out-of-the-market/
@NicoleCRust I think this is what’s at the root of @MolemanPeter ‘s “conservation of misery” and why the life cycle of “popular research topics” in psych tends to feel the same: we move from an experiment aimed at investigating a theory to the reification of that task as the object of inquiry which we pursue until everybody gets bored…
we drill deep, ultimately largely unconnected holes
we’re basically perpetually exploring the affordances of individual experimental tasks
Any neuro people in the room who has worked with the Allan Institute Dataset for #visualcoding?
I'm trying to get it to work and I'm finding some issues that I have no idea how to solve. If you have worked with the data and are willing to help a poor theoretician willing to see some spikes please poke me...
Here I describe what my (current) problem is: My computer is running out of RAM for apparently very simple stuff! 😭 https://community.brain-map.org/t/single-session-taking-too-much-ram/2930
Robert Rosenthal passed away. He was a key figure in metascience. His work on experimenter effects led to the previous crisis in psychology. He coined the term 'file-drawer'. He promoted replications and had an idea close to Registered Reports. This book is still worth reading.
New paper: "Grounding neuroscience in behavioral changes using artificial neural networks"
This Current Opinion piece shows how focusing on changes in brain state that cause changes in behavior helps pinpoint neural mechanisms. Specifically, I show how recent ANN models in neuro & AI help with this.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959438823001411
#neuroscience #AI
@neuralreckoning @tyrell_turing @DrYohanJohn Yea I think its the classic issue of generalization (which is being tackled more explicitly in psychology now). If we say "this model produced this behavior" what kind of claims about how general that finding is can we make? Technically you need to test everything, but practically we want to be able to generalize
@neuralreckoning @tyrell_turing @DrYohanJohn A lot of times the whole story of a computational paper is a demonstration of what settings caused the model to work and which ones didn't
@neuralreckoning @tyrell_turing @DrYohanJohn Just as the excellent experimental work controls for the fan noise etc, so too does the high quality computational work. People run parameter sweeps and compare multiple architectures trained on different random seeds etc etc. Comparing average experimental work to average comp work, I don't think there'd be a difference.
I am excited that the editor reacted positively to my suggestion to use this beautiful/awful long-time-exposure photo of the sky full of satellite streaks: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220614.html
My opinion piece about satellite pollution will get published eventually! Looking forward to proofs soon I hope...
Breaking news: "The Transmitter" launches!
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I'm excited about this development.
A new publication for the neuroscience community, The Transmitter offers up-to-date news and analysis of the field, written by journalists and scientists.
@tdverstynen and don't exist many places today!
NYU Center for Data Science is hiring a teaching professor (aka 'clinical professor')! https://cds.nyu.edu/jobs/ #datascience #machinelearning
These Climate Solutions Could Get Us Halfway to Net Zero
Of the 90 potential climate solutions in Project Drawdown's tracker, reducing food waste has the greatest projected potential to cut emissions
https://www.triplepundit.com/story/2023/evidence-based-climate-solutions/786641
We are excited to present a Brain-Wide Map of neural activity during a complex decision-making behavior, a product of the monumental effort of 22 labs: 547 Neuropixels recordings in 267 brain regions from 115 mice collected in 11 labs 🐭 (1/8)
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.07.04.547681v2
#neuroscience
