UCL neuroscientist investigating the neural basis of contextual decision making. Views are my own. also @macaskillaf@bsky.social / @macaskillaf@fediscience.org
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Huge congrats to @Karyna_mi for her paper published today in @ScienceMagazine! She found that the hippocampus is really important for a key strategy we use to make decisions called hidden state inference! 🧪 🧠science.org/doi/10.1126/scie… 1/7
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New preprint out! We developed a behavioural platform for the kinematic analysis of skilled whole body behaviour. Very fun collaboration with Christopher Black, Liam Browne and Rob Brownstone.
Ethologically relevant behavioural assay for investigating reach and grasp kinematics during whole-body motor control in mice biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… #biorxiv_neursci
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looking forward to speaking at KCL on thursday!
This week we are excited to welcome @MacAskillAF @ucl who will present a seminar on Thursday. He will be hosted by @NEURekaSeminars, a group of PhD students and post-docs who organise informal and discussion-led events.
All welcome, we look forward to seeing you there.
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Come use a combination of neural network and reinforcement learning approaches to tease apart how the brain supports motor adaptation with us @Ian_Duguid, Angus Chadwick and @eckstein_maria 🧠🤸
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Want to start your own lab at UCL? Then check out this opportunity. I went through the process a few years ago and can only recommend it! A fantastic place to do science, especially because of amazing colleagues and collaborators.
Applications are now open to join our fantastic department @uclbiosciences as a group leader fellow. Come start your independent group at (in our opinion) the best neuroscience department! reach out to @ibianco3 for more info!
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Highly recommend @RuedigerSarah lab - asking really exciting and important qs about how we convert sensation to decision making - using all the most fun tech! I did both PhD and postdoc in a new lab - its an amazing environment to do great science with amazing mentorship. apply!!
Join our team! We're investigating how the visual cortex interacts with subcortical structures like the Superior Colliculus and Basal Ganglia to shape sensory processing and behavior in health and neurobehavioral disorders. 🔬👁️ #NeuroscienceJobs #Neuroresearch @uclnpp
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the role will also allow you to join the amazing UCL neuroscience community @uclnpp @uclbiosciences - with hundreds of world class neuroscience research groups, all extremely collaborative and supportive, with an amazing mentorship program - all together an amazing opportunity!
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Join our team! We're investigating how the visual cortex interacts with subcortical structures like the Superior Colliculus and Basal Ganglia to shape sensory processing and behavior in health and neurobehavioral disorders. 🔬👁️ #NeuroscienceJobs #Neuroresearch @uclnpp
My lab @UCL is looking for a experimental #postdoc to join our team. Interested in circuits underlying visually-guided behavior, chronic #Neuropixel recordings, in Vivo 2-photon imaging in head-fixed or freely moving mice #mini2p? Please reach out & RT 🙏bit.ly/PostDoc_UCL
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Huge congrats to @Karyna_mi for her paper published today in @ScienceMagazine! She found that the hippocampus is really important for a key strategy we use to make decisions called hidden state inference! 🧪 🧠science.org/doi/10.1126/scie… 1/7
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We are now going to use these findings to investigate how these changes in hippocampal function might lead to the increased risk of mental illness, and how we might go about designing new treatments to help reverse this increased risk in the future 7/7
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congrats @Karyna_mi! and important to note this is an excellent collaboration between us, @WilbrechtL , @docqhuys and @gabigregoriou, albert Qu and @AlizeeKastler! team science!
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Andrew MacAskill retweeted
Pleased to announce I've received an Early-Career Award from @wellcometrust. Excited to spend the next 5 years studying the neural circuit mechanisms for economic decision-making with @AnnDuan2 and @SWC_Neuro!
Congratulations to @omgauld on receiving a @wellcometrust Early-Career Award!
Read the news: sainsburywellcome.org/web/re…
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🚨 We’re hiring 🚨 Interested in glial biology, retina ageing and killifish? We will soon be advertising a postdoc and technician position in my laboratory. Please get in touch if interested. Picture of our new glial reporter transgenic killifish. Courtesy of @ChiKuoHimself
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Come join our amazing department! I started on the fellowship route - it's a great way to begin your independent lab. Reach out if you have any qs!
Applications are now open to join our fantastic department @uclbiosciences as a group leader fellow. Come start your independent group at (in our opinion) the best neuroscience department! reach out to @ibianco3 for more info!
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'Mini analysis' is an unreliable reporter of synaptic changes biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_neursci
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Everyone (me) now is worried it's their paper you are reviewing 😅
I was in the middle of a frustrating paper review. Needed a cleanse so I read this new masterpiece from the Magee Lab. cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092…
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