#scientific publications

[compneuropapers]

Interesting Reviews for Week 4, 2024

Cognition from the Body-Brain Partnership: Exaptation of Memory. Buzsáki, G., & Tingley, D. (2023). Annual Review of Neuroscience, 46(1), 191–210.

Prefrontal Cortical Control of Anxiety: Recent Advances. Mack, N. R., Deng, S., Yang, S.-S., Shu, Y., & Gao, W.-J. (2023). The Neuroscientist, 29(4), 488–505.

Neural Circuits for Emotion. Malezieux, M., Klein, A. S., & Gogolla, N. (2023). Annual Review of Neuroscience, 46(1), 211–231.

Recent Insights on Glutamatergic Dysfunction in Alzheimer’s Disease and Therapeutic Implications. Pinky, P. D., Pfitzer, J. C., Senfeld, J., Hong, H., Bhattacharya, S., Suppiramaniam, V., … Reed, M. N. (2023). The Neuroscientist, 29(4), 461–471.

#neuroscience #science #research #brain science #scientific publications #cognitive science #reviews #neurobiology #cognition #psychophysics #computational neuroscience

[oh-dear-so-queer]

The words gay and lesbian are applied by scientists to animals and their behaviors in a number of scholarly publications spanning the past quarter century, including three separate instantiations in the prestigious journal Nature.

"Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity" - Bruce Bagemihl

#book quote #biological exuberance #bruce bagemihl #nonfiction #gay #lesbian #scientists #animals #nature journal #scientific publications

[tchaikovskym]

There are no conflicts of interest.

I love you

#uni thinking process #scientific publications #they used undergrads and instead of giving them credit of being co-authors they just thanked them

[night-skies-quiet-cries]

Kinda sad to learn that there aren't really any 'Popular Science' news sources that has actual scientists writing the article--more specifically scientists writing popular science articles about their paper.

#This is according to my professor at least #Realistically I could start something like this #It might be something I look into doing after college #and yeah there are blogs but those don't have as a wide a reach as a magazine or newspaper #if we want the public to understand science we gotta know how to explain it to them #science #journalism #onion rambles #scientific journalism

[ringompreg]

i've come to the conclusion that Supernatural is a retrovirus...it literally inserts itself into the very dna of viewers' cells. it is also a prion, causing transmissible fatal brain cell death

#i minored in biology and also public health this is all very factual and scientifically determined i promise

[miss-biophys]

Shortest math paper ever.

And with so much impact! It just disproved a widely accepted theorem from the year 1769 in 5 rows!!!

I'll never publish anything even remotely badass like this! But I want it so much!!!

#badass #badass science #science #research #mathematics #math #stem #scientific writing #publication #academia #cool science

[flower-biter]

nervous // rare books at the NYPL xx

#old books #rare books #anatomy #anatomical illustration #scientific illustration #nervous system #biology #physiology #nypl #new york public library #my photos #dark academia #dark academia aesthetic #science #science history #mine #queue

[trek-tracks]

You know how the losing side of the Supreme Court publishes a dissent for each case? I wonder if Spock and McCoy do this in their collaborative papers...

Spock publishing an addendum to Emergency Tissue Regrowth in Silicon Cycle Life Forms saying "this is why Dr. McCoy's solution, while working perfectly in practice, is illogical in theory"

Bones dissenting in On the Study and Destruction of Massive Single-Celled Organisms like "Spock was right in the end but here's why I'm still mad about it"

Jim: How can you work closely together, solve the problem, come to the same conclusion, and still dissent?

Bones: just watch us

#star trek #star trek tos #leonard mccoy #spock #spones #bones mccoy #jim kirk #captain kirk #star trek aos #devil in the dark #the immunity syndrome #scientific paper dissent #i mean i realize scientists can publish rejoinders to previous publications just i don't think it's usually in the same study #from collaborators

[saint-ambrosef]

something feels very wrong about putting mummies on display in museums. like i get it in the sense that they are priceless resources of scientific discovery, but they were once people. i would hate if my body was put in a glass box for people to gawk at a thousand years from now. they should be laid to rest.

#basically ig they cant consent to their bodies being treated that way #like again i get the scientific analysis stuff but i draw the line at public exhibition....

[kingworm]

Costume party held at the ‘Institue of Sexual Research’ (Institut für Sexualwissenschaft), Berlin, ca. 1920s x

#jewish history #queer history #Magnus Hirschfeld #queer #Berlin’s Third Sex #Out on the town #german history #post #Scientific-Humanitarian Committee #first gay activist group in germany #public domain #lgbt history #lgbt rights

[compneuropapers]

Interesting Papers for Week 30, 2023

Adult-born neurons inhibit developmentally-born neurons during spatial learning. Ash, A. M., Regele-Blasco, E., Seib, D. R., Chahley, E., Skelton, P. D., Luikart, B. W., & Snyder, J. S. (2023). Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 198, 107710.

Behavioral origin of sound-evoked activity in mouse visual cortex. Bimbard, C., Sit, T. P. H., Lebedeva, A., Reddy, C. B., Harris, K. D., & Carandini, M. (2023). Nature Neuroscience, 26(2), 251–258.

Exploration patterns shape cognitive map learning. Brunec, I. K., Nantais, M. M., Sutton, J. E., Epstein, R. A., & Newcombe, N. S. (2023). Cognition, 233, 105360.

Distinct contributions of ventral CA1/amygdala co-activation to the induction and maintenance of synaptic plasticity. Chong, Y. S., Wong, L.-W., Gaunt, J., Lee, Y. J., Goh, C. S., Morris, R. G. M., … Sajikumar, S. (2023). Cerebral Cortex, 33(3), 676–690.

 An intrinsic oscillator underlies visual navigation in ants. Clement, L., Schwarz, S., & Wystrach, A. (2023). Current Biology, 33(3), 411-422.e5.

Not so optimal: The evolution of mutual information in potassium voltage-gated channels. Duran-Urriago, A., & Marzen, S. (2023). PLOS ONE, 18(2), e0264424.

Successor-like representation guides the prediction of future events in human visual cortex and hippocampus. Ekman, M., Kusch, S., & de Lange, F. P. (2023). eLife, 12, e78904.

Residual dynamics resolves recurrent contributions to neural computation. Galgali, A. R., Sahani, M., & Mante, V. (2023). Nature Neuroscience, 26(2), 326–338.

Dorsal attention network activity during perceptual organization is distinct in schizophrenia and predictive of cognitive disorganization. Keane, B. P., Krekelberg, B., Mill, R. D., Silverstein, S. M., Thompson, J. L., Serody, M. R., … Cole, M. W. (2023). European Journal of Neuroscience, 57(3), 458–478.

A striatal circuit balances learned fear in the presence and absence of sensory cues. Kintscher, M., Kochubey, O., & Schneggenburger, R. (2023). eLife, 12, e75703.

Hippocampal engram networks for fear memory recruit new synapses and modify pre-existing synapses in vivo. Lee, C., Lee, B. H., Jung, H., Lee, C., Sung, Y., Kim, H., … Kaang, B.-K. (2023). Current Biology, 33(3), 507-516.e3.

Neocortical synaptic engrams for remote contextual memories. Lee, J.-H., Kim, W. Bin, Park, E. H., & Cho, J.-H. (2023). Nature Neuroscience, 26(2), 259–273.

The effect of temporal expectation on the correlations of frontal neural activity with alpha oscillation and sensory-motor latency. Lee, J. (2023). Scientific Reports, 13, 2012.

Describing movement learning using metric learning. Loriette, A., Liu, W., Bevilacqua, F., & Caramiaux, B. (2023). PLOS ONE, 18(2), e0272509.

The geometry of cortical representations of touch in rodents. Nogueira, R., Rodgers, C. C., Bruno, R. M., & Fusi, S. (2023). Nature Neuroscience, 26(2), 239–250.

Contextual and pure time coding for self and other in the hippocampus. Omer, D. B., Las, L., & Ulanovsky, N. (2023). Nature Neuroscience, 26(2), 285–294.

Reshaping the full body illusion through visuo-electro-tactile sensations. Preatoni, G., Dell’Eva, F., Valle, G., Pedrocchi, A., & Raspopovic, S. (2023). PLOS ONE, 18(2), e0280628.

Experiencing sweet taste is associated with an increase in prosocial behavior. Schaefer, M., Kühnel, A., Schweitzer, F., Rumpel, F., & Gärtner, M. (2023). Scientific Reports, 13, 1954.

Cortical encoding of rhythmic kinematic structures in biological motion. Shen, L., Lu, X., Yuan, X., Hu, R., Wang, Y., & Jiang, Y. (2023). NeuroImage, 268, 119893.

Mindful self-focus–an interaction affecting Theory of Mind? Wundrack, R., & Specht, J. (2023). PLOS ONE, 18(2), e0279544.

#science #Neuroscience #computational neuroscience #Brain science #research #cognition #neurons #cognitive science #neural networks #neural computation #neurobiology #psychophysics #scientific publications

[meraki-yao]

Chinese RWRB fans are some of the most unhinged RWRB fans in the whole fandom

Remember when I said I watched a Bilibili video creator make a whole 25-minute video speculating on everything that firstprince did during their night in Paris by analysing marks on Henry/Nick's body?

Well I just saw on Weibo a RWRB fan who's a forensic analyst who wrote a "scientific" report proving Nick is scientifically a babygirl by analysing his skull structure 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

And no I'm sorry but I won't be translating this one, it's phrased too academically for me to handle it 😅

#rwrb #red white and royal blue #rwrb movie #nicholas galitzine #henry hanover stuart fox #henry fox mountchristen windsor #scientifically proven babygirl needs to be a phrase #the paper also involves discussion of race and sex/gender that I'm not entirely comfortable with so sorry really no translation this time #will get to the paris video once i sort my life out #this fan also did a 7-page report and even pulled out the big guns with statistical data sets and digital measurements #but the subject of that report.... ugh.... yeah I'm not gonna say in public #she does this all in good fun and is in no way intention to reflection anything bad on the boys #but I really find how scientific and methodically she is with fandom stuff endearing and funny #rwrb rambles

[thathilomgirl]

After more than a year of work on this, @0hana0fubuki0 and I are finally able to present our translation of the Religion chapter featured in the TPN Western Literature Analysis book by Kei Toda!

Disclaimers: 

The translations aren't perfect and the wordings picked might not match the desired nuance of the author, as the main translator is not a native Japanese speaker. If there are things that are unsure by the translator, they will be addressed later at the bottom. 

From what I can remember, this book was published at least a few weeks/months before the Mystic Code fanbook and 3rd light novel got released (and based on Part 3, also possibly finished before the last few chapters of the manga were out), so certain observations written here may or may not have been made obsolete by any new information revealed in these specific sources.

Names and terms used within the series follow the Viz English translation, and mentions of the manga’s timeline are double-referenced with the fanbook. 

The ESV translation is used for the Bible verses mentioned in-text. 

Another thing to note is that Kei Toda is looking through this topic as a Western literature/culture scholar, and not necessarily as a theologian.

#Yakusoku no Neverland #The Promised Neverland #TPN Reference #Religion #Kei Toda #I'm now realizing the showing this off here in public might be the equivalent of a flash bomb given the topic #But my friend and I worked really hard to see and finish this project through to the end SO YOLO I GUESS #I had to do so research to make sure of certain parts of this translation for factual accuracy #This chapter was apparently written in 1st person in Japanese and I'm not even sure if that's the standard for this type of thing #I'm too used to seeing 3rd person but in scientific/health-related articles #Christianity #Judaism #Stonehenge

[spurgie-cousin]

the fucking audacity and privilege it must take to essentially say to women "yea I'll vote to make these procedures illegal bc I don't trust YOU guys to use them right. I, however, should be able to make my own decisions about my reproductive health" 🙃🙃🙃

#that her quote insurance doesn't even cover for that very reason #in Arkansas of all places where her freakishly large family and everyone like them are voting to have women die before get a choice about #their pregnancies #when she and her siblings didn't even learn basic ass biology like not even the shitty public school verson 🙃🙃🙃 #and she somehow still has THIS much confidence painting all women who've had an abortion with the murderer brush #jessa what's the scientific method btw um tell me the parts that make up a cell

[roversrovers]

#eclipse #solar eclipse #total solar eclipse #eclipse 2024 #solar eclipse 2024 #science #space #astronomy #public health #scientific american #eclipse glasses #my post

[miss-biophys]

We found a new antibiotic target in bacteria!!

It took almost 4 years, but the fruits of my postdoc research are finally here! In our paper (with me as the first author), just published in Nature Communications, we decipher a working mechanism of an antibiotic that targets the membrane of bacteria in an unprecedented way!

enhanced PDF: https://rdcu.be/dgj2d web version: https://lnkd.in/eRpxr4jg

And how does it work?

The antibiotic AMC-109 first self-assembles into stable aggregates with a cationic surface. These aggregates then specifically target bacteria cells and insert into their membrane.

You can see the process how we simulated it in a computer on the figure below. Grey-Blue is the antibiotic, Red-Yellow are lipids that together form a membrane.

@jmelcr did this awesome simulation work! You are an amazing scientist, jmelcr! I love you and it seems our collaboration did not ruin our marriage. Not yet, anyway 😄.

After insertion into the bacterial membrane, the antibiotic dissolves membrane nanodomains affecting membrane function without formation of any pores or holes in the membrane.

Below is the series of high-speed atomic force microscopy images that shows the process of dissolution of membrane nanodomains. Yellow are the membranes extracted from bacteria laying flat on a hard surface (black). The membranes contain nanodomains (bright yellow) that are important in living bacteria for its survival. Addition of antibiotic dissolves them.

More studies will follow that use this new target in bacteria giving us an advantage over untreatable superbugs. I will keep you posted. And... keep your fingers crossed. It's research after all, so we never know if and how well it's going to work.

#science #women in science #research #postdoc #stem #biophysics #antimicrobial #antibiotic #amr #achievement #scientific journals #publication #breakthrough #original content