Systems neuroscientist, physicist, he|him|his
Fayetteville, AR, USA
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Woodrow Shew retweeted
How does the brain track how much sleep has occurred, and gauge the likelihood of waking at each moment? Check out our new preprint: “A molecular integrator of sleep duration and interruption” biorxiv.org/content/10.64898… (1/10)
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My department (physics) is hiring! I'm excited to get a new colleague who does neuroscience. If you're a hybrid physicist/neuroscientist looking for a job and a really pleasant work/life balance, check out the opportunity here: uasys.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/…
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Had a lively chat about brain criticality with Keith Hengen and Paul Middlebrooks (@pgmid ) on Paul's podcast
braininspired.co/podcast/216…
Explored territory beyond what Keith and I wrote in our recent Neuron review
doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.202…
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Woodrow Shew & Keith Hengen discuss the new wave of criticality research in brains. Historic studies asked whether the brain was critical. New methods probe how distance from criticality relates to cognitive functions.
"It's a volume, not a point"
braininspired.co/podcast/216…
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Very proud of this systematic review of all the experimental evidence for criticality in the brain. Wrote it with Keith Hengen (hengenlab.org/). More than 300 papers in the past 2 decades!
cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S08…
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Is criticality a unified set-point of brain function? biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
We review the past 20 years of experiments that suggest "yes" and perform a meta-analysis that reconciles many studies that seemed to disagree.
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Q: Why did so many early tests of criticality in awake animals come up negative?
A: Insufficient temporal coarse-graining hides evidence for criticality.
Low-dimensional criticality embedded in high-dimensional awake brain dynamics science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
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Many brain functions live on low-dimensional manifolds. Criticality optimizes some brain functions. Is criticality low-dimensional? Yes!
Low-dimensional criticality embedded in high-dimensional awake brain dynamics science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
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There seems to be a paper per day reporting a neural subspace for encoding [fill in the blank with your favorite brain function]. Ever wonder how the brain might find these subspaces without an ideal observer? Our recent paper offers a solution: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/a…
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Ever wonder what neuronal avalanches and criticality have to do with behavior? We've got one answer to that question in our recent eLife paper:
Scale-free behavioral dynamics directly linked with scale-free cortical dynamics doi.org/10.7554/eLife.79950
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How do motor neural circuits and behavior falter with too much inhibition and with disrupted expression of MeCP2? link.growkudos.com/1gb2dctjb…
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Woodrow Shew retweeted
SUPER excited to share that B-SOiD is finally out in @NatureComms! @runninghsu developed a technique to extract behaviors and subactions from post estimation data. Fly, rodent, primate - it all works and has a user interface even I can understand
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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Just wrapped up a super exciting visit to Wash U! Gave an in-person talk for the first time in a long while and had some great discussions of ongoing work on criticality. Thanks to @kbhengen, Larry Snyder, Ralf Wessel, and a bunch of bright students and post docs!
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Very proud of Jingwen's primary PhD work!
Collapse of complexity of brain and body activity due to excessive inhibition and MeCP2 disruption pnas.org/content/118/43/e210…
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Physicist, Non-Profits Test Air Purifiers to Promote Health and Learning piped.video/A7B7t4DUMOA via @YouTube
Remember Churchland's paper on quenched variability at stimulus onset? Apparently the opposite happens in olfactory bulb. See our recent paper:
doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2021.…
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Woodrow Shew retweeted
Woody Shew @ShewLab @UArkansas just got the record of most questions... Now moving to Ginestra Bianconi @gin_bianconi @QMUL on using "simplex" to model "complex" . Live on facebook: facebook.com/121887946321170…
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NIH-funded postdoc position available in our lab! We really want someone who loves the computational AND experimental facets of very high-dimensional neural systems. APPLY NOW: uasys.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/…
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Are glia responsible for critical dynamics in neural networks?
Phys. Rev. E 101, 022303 (2020) - Dynamic regulation of resource transport induces criticality in interdependent networks of excitable units journals.aps.org/pre/abstrac…
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