Leo Fernandino

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Cognitive neuroscientist interested in concept representation, embodied cognition and language processing.

All these red states are now boasting about how they are withdrawing from the American Library Association. They aren’t just satisfied with banning books, they want to get rid of the places that keep and lend them, too. The Christian Right is on the march.

Carl Sagan once warned us of the “dumbing down” of America. He warned of a time when our “critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...”

That time is upon us. We must do all we can to prevent that darkness from taking hold.

Join our team at a top-ranked academic center and make a real difference, translating #MachineLearning and #Neuroscience to patients.

We're seeking a highly motivated faculty member to apply #LLM/#GPT3 to #BCI.

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#hiring

MCW Faculty Computational Neuroscientist

The Medical College of Wisconsin Neuroscience Institute invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in Neurology and Neurosurgery at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor, with specialization in computational science. Our language research group (https://www.neuro.mcw.edu/)

This preprint outlines the shameful way in which my colleague Steven Roberts has been treated by the editor of Perspectives on Psychological Science. Please stand with me in supporting his efforts to bring diversity to psychological science. https://psyarxiv.com/xk4yu

Two excellent, in-depth guides to Mastodon, which should answer many of your questions, are here:

1. An Increasingly Less-Brief Guide to Mastodon by joyeusenoelle: https://github.com/joyeusenoelle/GuideToMastodon

2. Nikodemus' Guide to Mastodon: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D9gfeKg_-hlsU66R-dLEvUeyMsqEfyIx2pnfUeX0t_E/edit#heading=h.j95atvlbfrn5

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GitHub - joyeusenoelle/GuideToMastodon: An increasingly less-brief guide to Mastodon

An increasingly less-brief guide to Mastodon. Contribute to joyeusenoelle/GuideToMastodon development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Holy wow! This new infrared image of Jupiter’s moon Io from the Juno spacecraft shows volcanoes, lava flows and lava lakes glowing with heat radiation!

New result!
A ubiquitous cortical signature: Beta is stronger in deep layers, gamma is stronger in superficial layers. So robust you can find layer 4 by the crossover point, everywhere.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.09.30.510398v2

#neuroscience

3,013 neurons, half a million synapses: the complete #connectome of the whole #Drosophila larval brain!

Winding, Pedigo et al. 2022. "The connectome of an insect brain" https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.28.516756v1

We’ve mapped and analysed its circuit architecture, from sensory neurons to brain output neurons, as reconstructed from volume electron microscopy, and here is what we found. 1/

#neuroscience #connectomics #vEM #volumeEM

Here are two ideas of how Picasso might have painted the #brain.