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Neuroscientist and Psychologist at Vassar College.
https://pages.vassar.edu/bergstromlab/
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Tiffany Ito
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University of Colorado Boulder Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors!!
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Assistant Professor
https://jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail/?jobId=67372
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Rebecca Pollet
4 days ago
It's almost fall in Poughkeepsie and you could be here next year! My department is hiring a lecturer in Organic Chemistry. The role is great for someone with an interest in pedagogy!
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Vinny Costa
10 days ago
A spatially resolved transcriptomic atlas of the primate amygdala (human, macaque, and baboon) now out in Science Advances (
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
). The amygdala contains 32 types of neurons with many neuron types specific to particular subdivisions. Lots of updates from the preprint!
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Transcriptomic diversity of amygdalar subdivisions across humans and nonhuman primates
Specialized cell types and links to psychiatric disorders are revealed by genetic mapping of primate amygdala neurons.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw1029
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Michael Totty
10 days ago
Yes, I am on the academic job market looking to start my own lab at the intersection of molecular, computational, and systems neuroscience! If you think my work may be interest to your department, please don't hesitate to reach out. Thank you, Keri!
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Roy Salomon
11 days ago
Just published in World Psychiatry our study "Trauma under psychedelics: how psychoactive substances impact trauma processing" . Amazing work led by
@ophirnetzer.bsky.social
with the brave survivors of the Nova festival attack. Huge team effort, thx to all! 👉
doi.org/10.1002/wps....
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Trauma under psychedelics: how psychoactive substances impact trauma processing
Click on the article title to read more.
https://doi.org/10.1002/wps.21363
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Blake Richards
12 days ago
For those interested in open neuroscience learning tools, check out the preprint for “RetINaBox: A hands-on tool for experimental neuroscience" that a couple students in my lab worked on in collaboration with the Trenholm lab:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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RetINaBox: A hands-on learning tool for experimental neuroscience
An exciting aspect of neuroscience research is developing and testing hypotheses via experimentation. However, due to logistical and financial hurdles, this compelling part of neuroscience research is...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.11.673547v1
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eLife
28 days ago
Stress intensifies unlearned fear, but not learned fear, by acting on a specific brain region.
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Behavioral Neuroscience: The consequences of stress on the brain and fear
A region of the brain called the paraventricular thalamus mediates the impact of stress on unlearned fear responses, but is not involved in learned fear behavior.
https://buff.ly/wq4ZIUT
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Dr. Michele Tugade
about 1 month ago
Grateful to
@vassar.bsky.social
for featuring our research on Yoga for Resilience. Thanks to an amazing research team, including Carla Olla (Rhinebeck Yoga Center), & my students, Aviv Fischer-Brown, Zoe Shelley, and Michelle Lima-Enriquez. Thank you for reading!
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Tomás Ryan
about 1 month ago
The cost of remembering: engram competition as a flexible mechanism of forgetting. Our new perspective piece in
@cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social
, lead by Ryan Lab alumni, Livia Autore. Also with Michael Drew from
@utaustin.bsky.social
Trends in Neurosciences
www.cell.com/trends/neuro...
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The cost of remembering: engram competition as a flexible mechanism of forgetting
The retention and use of long-term memories is crucial for adaptive behavior. While stable memories help organisms anticipate outcomes, they may become maladaptive if not updated to reflect new condit...
https://www.cell.com/trends/neurosciences/fulltext/S0166-2236%2825%2900153-5
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Vassar
about 2 months ago
Fish and robots? They might seem like an unlikely pairing, but in our latest Office Hours episode, Professor John Howard Long explains how they can help explain biological evolution.
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Bertoglio lab (FMC/UFSC)
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An amygdala-cortical circuit for encoding generalized fear memories
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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An amygdala-cortical circuit for encoding generalized fear memories - Molecular Psychiatry
Molecular Psychiatry - An amygdala-cortical circuit for encoding generalized fear memories
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-025-03140-8
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Dr. Anna Radke
about 2 months ago
Miami is hiring a neurobiologist! I am excited to welcome a new colleague to our Neuroscience community! Please share!
miamioh.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/miamio...
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Assistant Professor
Job Title Assistant Professor Department Biology Department Worker Type Regular Pay Type Salary Salary will be commensurate with the level of the position, education, and experience. Benefit Eligible ...
https://miamioh.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/miamioh-faculty/job/Assistant-Professor_JR102649
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Vassar
about 2 months ago
"Many retirees report feeling a 'phantom pressure' on Mondays, rooted in decades of workplace associations." —Michele M. Tugade, Professor of Psychological Science on the William R. Kenan, Jr. Chair.
bit.ly/3GRp4Ia
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Even Retirees Get a Case of the Mondays
Anxiety about the start of a new week isn't just experienced by those in the workforce. Retirees deal with it, too. Here's why it happens and strategies for dealing with it.
https://bit.ly/3GRp4Ia
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Alicia Izquierdo
about 2 months ago
Great paper on touchscreen response methods that integrate calcium imaging techniques in mice👇
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Felix Baier
2 months ago
🚨Very happy that my PhD work is now out in
@nature.com
! We discovered that evolution, by acting in the midbrain, shifted the threshold to escape in Peromyscus mice, to fine-tune defensive strategies in different environments
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This was a truly collaborative effort! 🧵⬇️
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New England Society for Microscopy
2 months ago
🐙 This Octopus shifts from deep to active rest while "dreaming" for
#MicroscopyMonday
. REM‑like sleep (color bursts and twitches) filmed in real time by Horst Obenhaus
@octoscience.bsky.social
, currently a 2025 Whitman Fellow at
@mblscience.bsky.social
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#NESM
#Octopus
#Neuro
#SleepScience
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Vassar College is seeking a biologist with a focus on Developmental Neurobiology on the tenure-track. Please spread widely!
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Assistant Professor of Biology, Tenure Track
Department Biology Vassar College is dedicated to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees and welcomes applications from individuals of all backgrounds. Decisions conc...
https://vassar.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Vassar-External/job/Poughkeepsie-NY/Assistant-Professor-of-Biology_R00030614?jobFamilyGroup=71e2c39500161003e7c502c9a45f8212
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John Tuthill
2 months ago
i wrote an essay for
@thetransmitter.bsky.social
about what it feels like to serve on an NIH grant review panel (study section) right now
www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...
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Fear and loathing on study section: Reviewing grant proposals while the system is burning
As grants are canceled, delayed and subject to general uncertainty, participating in study sections can feel futile. But it’s more important than ever.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-careers/fear-and-loathing-on-study-section-reviewing-grant-proposals-while-the-system-is-burning/
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SfN Journals
3 months ago
#JNeurosci
: Fernandes-Henriques, Guetta, Sclar,
@elikhtik.bsky.social
et al. show that L5 IL→SI/VP pathway in rats constrains defensive fear expression during active extinction learning.
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SfN Journals
3 months ago
#JNeurosci
: Subramanian et al. identify a group of cells in the infralimbic cortex that regulates generalization, a psychological process that allows for past experience to guide adaptive decision-making when environmental conditions change.
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Dr. Nikki Crowley
3 months ago
sharing an early heads up that we will be hiring a research technician ASAP. responsibilities will include colony management, ordering, & helping with science. lots of learning opportunities & most of our techs have had independent projects. learn about the lab at www.crowley-lab.org DM me for info
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Annalisa Scimemi
3 months ago
Spotlight:
www.albany.edu/news-center/...
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Scimemi Lab Explores Early Alzheimer’s Progression, how our Internal Clock Affects Learning and Memory
Associate Professor Annalisa Scimemi works at the intersection of neuroscience and public health. Surrounded by an interdisciplinary team, Scimemi is working to understand how shifts in brain activity...
https://www.albany.edu/news-center/news/2025-scimemi-lab-explores-early-alzheimers-progression-how-our-internal-clock
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Kate Wassum
7 months ago
Calling all amygdaloids!!! The
#AmygdalaGRC
is coming up this summer in Barcelona. We’ve got talks, posters, networking, power hour, and tons of fun planned. 👀 the program 👇🏻 We’re accepting folks on a rolling basis, apply soon to make sure you get a spot:
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Dr. Nikki Crowley
4 months ago
These images by
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The reciprocal relationship between posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and alcohol use in a large multisite longitudinal sample stratified by sex: A random‐intercept cross‐lagged panel model
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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The reciprocal relationship between posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and alcohol use in a large multisite longitudinal sample stratified by sex: A random‐intercept cross‐lagged panel model
Using a large-scale longitudinal observational emergency department (ED)-based study of individuals with recent trauma exposure, we conducted random-intercept cross-lagged panel models to test whethe...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/acer.70092
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Patrick Waeber
4 months ago
Nature turns a page. With concrete cleared, rapids return. Salmon reclaim old grounds. The river speaks. Restoration is real, because rivers were meant to run free.
#KlamathRiver
#DamRemoval
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The river that came back to life: a journey down the reborn Klamath
Less than a year after four dams were removed from the river, life has blossomed along its banks, presenting new challenges and joys of recovery
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/07/klamath-river-trip-dam-removal?utm_source=chatgpt.com
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OneNeuro Initiative
4 months ago
The winner of OneNeuro's May
#FotoFriday
#FluorescenceFriday
contest, "Astrocytes chewing tau aggregates in mouse brain", was submitted by Meghraj Baghel at the Philip C. Wong Lab. View the complete gallery of OneNeuro BRAINART images here:
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Social Exclusion Amplifies Behavioral Responses to Physical Pain via Insular Neuromodulation
The “Pain Overlap Theory” ([1][1]) proposes that the experience of social pain overlaps with and amplifies the experience of physical pain by sharing parts of the same underlying processing systems ([...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.09.653162v1
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Individual differences in fear memory expression engage distinct functional brain networks
Fearful stimuli elicit a mix of active ( e.g., evasion) and passive (e.g., freezing) behaviors in a wide range of species, including zebrafish ( Danio rerio ). However, it is not clear if individual d...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.12.653531v1
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Richard Amlôt
4 months ago
Please re-post! We have some new roles available with the Behavioural Science and Insights Unit at the
@ukhsa.bsky.social
. We are recruiting into 5 x SEO-level fixed-term roles associated with the NIHR-funded Health Protection Research Units (HPRU) programme (see
lnkd.in/ehyBR8KH
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Matthijs van der Meer
4 months ago
We are looking for a research assistant/lab manager to join the lab! A supportive, collaborative environment where you can learn neural recording with Neuropixels, optogenetics, fiber photometry, and neural data analysis.
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Annalisa Scimemi
4 months ago
New preprint from the lab: check how AAV-drived Ab42 production changes synapses and population activity in the hippocampus!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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An increased excitation and inhibition onto CA1 pyramidal cells sets the path to Alzheimer s disease
Synapses are critical targets of Alzheimer s disease (AD), a highly prevalent neurodegenerative disease associated with accumulation of extracellular amyloid-β peptides. Although amyloidosis and aggre...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.27.656417v1
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Karl Deisseroth
4 months ago
Congratulations to our Human Neural Circuitry team;
bit.ly/4dEyX7Z
publishes today in Science! This was the hardest challenge of my career, but one of the most rewarding, after years of rebuilding– & expanding my inpatient neuropsychiatry in the service of basic discovery
bsky.app/profile/deis...
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Christian Cazares, Ph.D.
4 months ago
Please consider helping, it really is up to our community to make sure the next generation of scientist even has a chance at pursuing a research career
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Blake Richards
5 months ago
Dear neuroscientists, The brain cannot generate information about the world de novo, it's impossible. All the brain can do is: 1. Selectively remove info that is irrelevant. 2. Re-emit info previously absorbed via evolution or memory. Our brain never "creates" information. Never. 🧠📈 🧪
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⚡️GREG_CORDER⚡️
4 months ago
🧠 🍄 ⚡️🐭 Now published in
@natneuro.nature.com
Psilocybin enhances fear extinction by reshaping retrosplenial cortex ensembles—suppressing fear neurons, recruiting extinction neurons + boosting plasticity to enable behavioral flexibility
nature.com/articles/s4159…
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Dr. Michele Tugade
4 months ago
Some graduation pics with my amazing students! Cheers to your continued success!!
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Marco A. Maximo Prado
4 months ago
This is finally out! Great collaboration with Andy Holmes
@timbussey.bsky.social
@lisasaksida.bsky.social
and
@touchscreencog.bsky.social
@westernubrainscan.bsky.social
trainees
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Integrating optical neuroscience tools into touchscreen operant systems - Nature Protocols
This protocol extension enables researchers to integrate optically based manipulation and measurement techniques into their touchscreen experimental systems, focusing on optogenetic manipulation, fibe...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41596-025-01143-x
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Dr. Nikki Crowley
4 months ago
It’s a difficult time in science, so we are particularly humble and grateful to receive a new R01 from NIAAA/NIH on adolescent binge drinking with Nanyin Zhang. We have the lofty goal of investigating alcohol’s effects with biological depth and to translatable imaging datasets bridge in humans.
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Emily A. Aery Jones
4 months ago
I'm hiring a lab tech! If you know any talented college seniors or recent grads who'd enjoy doing cool neuroscience in Baltimore, please encourage them to consider applying:
umb.taleo.net/careersectio...
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Laboratory Research Assistant (Contractual)
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
https://umb.taleo.net/careersection/umb_external_staff/jobdetail.ftl?job=250000IZ&lang=en
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Paul Frankland
5 months ago
Sharing a new paper from the lab. This paper, led by Sangyoon Ko, represents a merging of two longstanding research themes in the lab-- adult neurogenesis and systems consolidation.
rdcu.be/el18q
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Systems consolidation reorganizes hippocampal engram circuitry
Nature - A study shows that loss of memory precision associated with systems consolidation can be explained by neurogenesis-dependent reorganization of engram circuitry within the hippocampus over...
https://rdcu.be/el18q
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Flavio Mourao
5 months ago
This marks my first-author contribution as part of the Maren Lab team! Our findings shed new light on the mechanisms underlying context-dependent extinction of learned fear. Huge thanks to
@stevemaren.bsky.social
, Tugce tuna, and
@mictott.bsky.social
for teamwork.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Hippocampal-prelimbic coupling during context-dependent extinction retrieval in rats
After fear conditioning, repeated presentation of the conditioned stimulus (CS) alone produces a context-dependent extinction of learned fear. The hippocampus has a critical role in this process, but ...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.03.652056v1
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Debbie Bangasser
5 months ago
📣 Now Hiring: Project Coordinator Passionate about science, education, & making an impact? Join the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience at Georgia State University Support groundbreaking 🧠research, education, & outreach
#TheStateWay
#jobs
#AtlantaCareers
#SciComm
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Vivek Nityananda
5 months ago
Cool set of talks by early career researchers on the neural basis of behaviour! Organized by
@neuroethology.org
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Paul Byrne
5 months ago
This is a new image from
#JWST
. The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way. Everything else is a galaxy. Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.
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Rebecca Peretz-Lange
5 months ago
Check out our symposium on *parents' lay theories of cognitive development* at
#SRCD2025
! Ft. work by
@reutshachnai.bsky.social
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@julia-a-leonard.bsky.social
,
@dominicgibson.bsky.social
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@andrewshtulman.bsky.social
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Tomás Ryan
5 months ago
Excited to share our new study: "Cold memories control whole-body thermoregulatory responses" by
@andreamunozz.bsky.social
,
@aaron-douglas.bsky.social
& team at
@tcddublin.bsky.social
, in collaboration with
@lydialynch.bsky.social
&
@drchristineannd.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Cold memories control whole-body thermoregulatory responses - Nature
Cold-sensitive engrams contribute to learned thermoregulation in mice that are returned to an environment in which they previously experienced a cold challenge, through a network formed betw...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08902-6
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Ceremony Marks Opening of New Neuroscience Lab | Vassar College
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Ceremony Marks Opening of New Neuroscience Lab | Vassar CollegeVassarSearch buttonOpen SearchClose SearchClose MenuVassarInstagramFacebookLinkedInYoutubeTikTokThreadsBlueskyFlickr
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Dr. Michele Tugade
5 months ago
Still feeling the glow from an amazing day of yoga w my students at Vassar College. Thanks to Carla Olla for the wonderful
#yoga
practice & teachings. So valuable for students' lives and the many communities they serve. A fabulous day for all! 🧘🏻♀️✨🙏🏻
@vassar.bsky.social
@rhinebeckyoga.bsky.social
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Luke Sjulson
5 months ago
Check out this cool work from my superstar student Elie developing a new dimensionality reduction algorithm that compares two conditions! It works on many types of data
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