Neural engineer, Prof. @nyugrossman @nyuniversity. Making waves to bend, mend & understand perception. SPIE Fellow. #neurotech #biophotonics #focusedultrasound

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Remarkable new tentacle electrodes from @mfyanik and colleagues 👏 Fig. 1a carries a compelling visual message to the field...
Hard work of Baran, Peter, Wolfger et.al.  It took a while to establish everything in house, but more to come soon. Special thanks to our reviewers.  rdcu.be/dJ6Um   Months-long tracking of neuronal ensembles spanning multiple brain areas with Ultra-Flexible Tentacle Electrodes (UFTEs)
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My earliest intro to this was Fee, Mitra & Kleinfeld 1996 'Variability of Extracellular Spike Waveforms in Cortical Neurons'.
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The abstract submission deadline for the 2024 Optogenetics and Optical Manipulation @PhotonicsWest conference is extended until August 16⏳ Don't miss this (extra) opportunity to present your research! Please submit your abstract here: spie.org/BO202 @SPIEtweets
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A perfect storm

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Introducing "data-to-paper": autonomous AI research! We've let it play with the large CDC Health Survey Dataset. Went to lunch. When back, it had already chosen several research topics, wrote data analysis codes, interpreted results and wrote 5 transparent, reproducible papers.
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Transformer Science! ⚡️👏
Our paper on fluorescence lifetime voltage imaging of neurons is out! We combine kilohertz frame rate, micrometer spatial scale, and picosecond lifetime resolution in vivo. Check out the videos and original thread below. @ChengHuangThu science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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Call for papers now open for #PhotonicsWest conferences. Great opportunity to present and learn about cutting edge research in #neurophotonics, including Optogenetics and Optical manipulation spie.org/pwb/conferencedetai…
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Honestly very touched and surprised by the outpouring of support from my very wonderful lab members! Can't thank them all enough!
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⚡️result: neuro-CSF coupling...

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excited to share @stephaniedwill new paper! We found we could induce CSF flow in the awake human brain, by presenting intense visual stimuli. This shows that neuronal activity can drive fluid flow, and suggests neurovascular coupling contributes! journals.plos.org/plosbiolog…
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A sample of fun @nycmarathon messages 😎
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Front runners 🏃‍♂️ of @nycmarathon passing through Park Slope #brooklyn
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A major advance towards #neurophotonics imaging of intracellular potentials using diamond probes by @quantum_simpson and team! See @NaturePhotonics News & Views: nature.com/articles/s41566-0…
Interested to learn more about how #defects in #diamond can be used to image #voltages? Check out our paper published today🎉 rdcu.be/cVdtX Very proud of the team and the journey we have undertaken to get this far! @naturephotonics @SciMelb @ResearchRMIT
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Joining today this fun, commemorative 🏃‍♀️ from Brooklyn to the towers
The 21st Annual Tunnel to Towers 5K Run & Walk NYC kicked-off this morning in Brooklyn
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Great event today at @nyuniversity announcing the strategic partnership with @kaistpr - with @NYCMayor and president Yoon of Korea @President_KR. This is likely a major step forward for both universities.
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Replying to @schoppik
I'm more old school
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The @schoppik lab's version of rocking fish...
Tilt In Place Microscopy (TIPM): a simple, low-cost solution to image neural responses to body rotations biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_neursci
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Browsing through this paper it appears to describe a (currently) pretty messed up situation - not just for the patients...
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Perfect transmission through scattering media by tailored matching👇 Dark science...
As promised here is a short thread explaining our recently published result. 🧵
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Immensely proud of our Daniela for being selected as the @BASISIndBK #class2022 valedictorian! Her speech highlighted how much she gained from her tremendous teachers and peers and encouraged her classmates to "stay curious". Looking forward to her next steps @BarnardCollege 👩‍🎓🔥
Class of 2022, you will always be remembered for your keen intelligence, wit, creativity, leadership, sarcasm, kindness, activism, and so much more. Thank you for the impact you made on our school community, and thank you @per_simmons_ for beautifully capturing graduation.
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You guys do realize that this is Thor, aka the god of war? ...and that he controls @Thorlabs ?
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Curiouser and curiouser
In 2017, w/ the group of @Stefan_W_Hell we published #MINFLUX. Its capacity for nm resolution in a fluorescence microscope under ambient conditions raised lots of attention. Widespread application, though, has been limited, I believe due to technical and conceptual complexity 👇
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Everybody's rushing to @SLBconference
#SLBConference schedule for day 1. See you soon !
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Max Planck institute for brain research acknowledging a very dark chapter in its history
When history defines your thinking, and 80-year old events are painfully present: Why we just inaugurated a memorial for 40 killed children at our institute. A thread.
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What a remarkable and inspiring story on scientific prediction! The awesome multiscale video highlights the imaging accomplishment.
A special day for me: >22 years ago I thought we could perhaps see the supermassive black hole in the Milky Way with an earth-sized radio telescope. We calculated its appearance, colored it orange/red, coined the term 'shadow', published it, & now we see! ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/20…
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Mother nature overlooks the gates to knowledge.
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Philosophers...
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The chemist who made an earlier attempt...
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A physicist, having conquered matter, attempts to tackle the mysteries of the brain...
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It gets overwhelming...
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Beautiful spring day in Paris - so much to savor, Dopamine everywhere...
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A photo I took of Yoav during his visit to @NYULH_Neuro, overlooking @cornell_tech
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We're so excited for our beloved daughter Daniela's upcoming years in her college of choice @BarnardCollege at @Columbia. A mere 17 short years ago, she was born a few blocks away at Columbia's @nyphospital.
Congratulations to the new members of the Barnard Class of 2026! We are so excited to welcome you to campus for the next four years. This is only just the beginning ✨ #Barnard2026 #WelcomeBC26 barnard.edu/news/barnard-col…
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Truly remarkable finding: M*L≈const. [except for cats, who apparently abide by different rules😸]
Incredibly excited to share our paper ‘Somatic mutation rates scale with lifespan across mammals’ now published @nature. nature.com/articles/s41586-0… An illustrated & updated tweetorial… [1/24]
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Loads of spontaneous #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 expressions seen in my morning 🏃‍♂️ through #BrooklynBridgePark @bbpnyc
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Wow, what a remarkable new element in the eye’s bio-photonic mosaic! Cone mitochondria as directionally selective microlenses… Kudos to the authors of this @ScienceAdvances paper.
.@Wei_Li_Vision discovered that mitochondria in cone photoreceptors have a dual purpose: They act as the cell's powerhouse, but also as a microlens, concentrating light. #NEIfunded bit.ly/3hvSQSi
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Replying to @LiddelowSA
Congrats - I guess that’s your new twist on Apple announcements…

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Yes, it’s one of these days
When @SPIEtweets asked @PhotonicsWest participants for their ideal equipment ‘must have’…Some gems here 😄
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Starting the 3-minute poster presentation competition @PhotonicsWest
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Samar Mohanty @NSTherapeutics updating on their clinical trial pipeline for Optogenetic vision restoration @PhotonicsWest
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A lot of benefits…
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@IsacoffLab on novel approaches to vision restoration.
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Bruce Trumberg, @NIBIBgov director and winner of this year’s Britton Chance award discusses his personal history at #Bios @PhotonicsWest and @NIBIBgov Covid-19 effort over the past two years
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@NicoPegard presenting presenting new approaches for creating speckle-free holograms
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@mlab_cbs describing their very large FOV multiphoton microscope
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@ianOldenburg from @RutgersU and @UCBerkeley updating on his work with @AdesnikHillel on precisely controlling population codes.
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Chris Xu @cornell updating on adaptive excitation for 3p microscopy
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Dr. Margaret Stevens from @USNRL discussing parametric dependence of infrared neural modulation
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Excited to open the #neurophotonics track at @PhotonicsWest! Smiling (under the masks) with @VU_Biophotonics Anita and Duco Jansen and Samar Mohanty @NSTherapeutics @SPIEtweets
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@SPIEtweets tweeps: promising evidence from San Francisco's sewage that Covid-19 wave is receding (data.covid-web.org/). Viral loads appear returning to baseline already on Jan. 12. Indirect measure but it apparently has faster response times than PCR tests @PhotonicsWest
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Conversation networks unraveled!

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🔥 Exciting new research by @ronen_segev and colleagues on non-innate navigational learning by goldfish has set Twitter on 🔥 2022 already has its best neuro-research paper with Umbrella Academy & @elonmusk memes

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I am excited to share a new study led by Shachar Givon & @MatanSamina w/ Ohad Ben Shahar: Goldfish can learn to navigate a small robotic vehicle on land. We trained goldfish to drive a wheeled platform that reacts to the fish’s movement (authors.elsevier.com/a/1eEnu…).
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Merrily flashing coronas in this year’s #christmaslights show in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn. Ironically appropriate - perhaps a new city mascot idea for NYC?
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Great! Does your new office have wild-fi or perhaps cell-trees like in the US?
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The really 🔥 stuff came when we turned the system on. In GCaMP6 mice we observed rapid fluorescence dips, targetable with 0.1mm accuracy. We traced these transients back to an accurately predictable effect of localized temperature rise: fluorescence decreased by >1% per degree.
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Beyond dimensions, we wanted our scaled model to harness the remarkable toolbox of (mouse-optimized) fluorescent indicators. FLUS accomplishes this by combining a 512-channel spherical US array with cortex-wide fluorescence widefield imaging through a concentric fiber bundle.

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MR-guided focused Ultrasound (MRgFUS) is the gold-standard noninvasive intervention in human brains, targeting tissue lesions or subtle effects like BBB opening & neuromodulation. But scaling MRgFUS from 15→1cm brains implies focal dimensions of ~0.3mm through intact skulls!

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Amazing display of natural forces over downtown Manhattan this afternoon in this amazing picture by @NeotDoron
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Great weather today for #NYCMarathon. Lots of inspiring & funny scenes as seen in Park Slope, Brooklyn..
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and Eric ‘eyeball’ Richardson’s hybrid creatures
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… so much to see, like Dustin Yellin’ unreal augmented reality pieces.
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Supporting our emergency services with today’s ⁦@Tunnel2Towers⁩ run! #tunnel2towers
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Best Jewish new year wishes to all you Twitterzens ! Fun tidbit - the penultimate Rosh Hashana kids song by Levin Kipnis was printed in NYC in 1928.
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