#neuroscience

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My name is Matilda, I am a member of Greenheart Co-op. Interested in , and . Specifically in the spirit of e.g , . Also in interested in in the spirit of ( ). Furthermore interested in

We're just migrated from another instance, so here is our (re)introduction:

Neurofrontiers is a bilingual blog about interesting neuroscience topics that tries to be accessible to the broader public while still maintaining scientific accuracy. It's run by a team of three people: a computational neuroscientist, a psychologist, and a graphic designer. We think that being on social media allows us to stay up-to-date with the most recent discussions in science and hope to be able to connect with like-minded individuals.

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If you or someone you know is looking for an interdisciplinary master's programme in brain and cognitive sciences, note that the @mbcs applications for September 2025 are open!

https://www.uva.nl/shared-content/programmas/en/research-masters/brain-and-cognitive-sciences/study-programme/study-programme.html

replied to Greg Egan's status

@gregeganSF

The connectome of the Drosophila male nerve cord, where the neural circuits for generating the courtship song reside, has already been mapped:

"A Connectome of the Male Drosophila Ventral Nerve Cord", by Takemura et al. 2023
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.05.543757v1

What's missing now is the brain of the male. I'll let the joke write itself.

The ventral nerve cord, and its location within the fly’s body.
A selection of reconstructed neurons. The neurons shown here comprise 4% of all reconstructed neurons in the MANC. (Ventral view.)

Scientific conferences:

  • what makes them so much better in person than online?
  • How can we improve online conferences so people enjoy them as much as in person ones?
  • What's your favourite platform for online conferences? isn't bad I think? And obviously did great (are these still going?)

Serious questions 😃 please boost and give us your thoughts🙏

(or not)

Happy birthday to Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852 - 1934), here in front of Purkinje and granule cells from a pigeon, based on one of his own drawings! Cajal &Golgi won the Nobel in 1906, "in recognition of their work on the structure of the nervous system". He was as much of an artist as he was a scientist & his 100s of drawings are still used for teaching purposes.⁠
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My linocut portrait of Cajal in a gradient of gold (left, where there is a table and microscope) to blue (right, where he is) . Behind him is an image based on his drawing of a Purkinje and granule cell of a pigeon in a gradient of gold to black.

Extremely biased take coming, this is my wife's DELIGHTFUL brand-new column in the Transmitter where she breaks down incredibly complex but also incredibly important papers and walks through how she would teach them, thereby teaching us; this is an AMAZING paper I've really been looking forward to, about false memories and

https://www.thetransmitter.org/how-to-teach-this-paper/how-to-teach-this-paper-creating-a-false-memory-in-the-hippocampus-by-ramirez-and-liu-et-al-2013/

Why big numbers break our brains.

NPR quotes a neuroscientist: "Our brains are evolutionarily very old and we are pushing them to do things that we've only just recently conceptualized."

https://flip.it/-34ex8