Milan Valyear
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Carolina Tropini (TropiniLab@UBC)
9 days ago
CIHR funding rate: 13.6%. Early 2000s: 30%+. Canada’s new $1.7B Impact+ program recruits talent — but without increased Tri-Council base funding, we risk further strain on an already stretched system. We’re calling for $1B over 5 years. Support here:
tinyurl.com/33c5av46
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Vijay Mohan K Namboodiri
7 days ago
Very excited to post our paper led by
@daburke.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
where we uncover a simple mathematical rule underlying how brains learn that a cue predicts a reward. 1/26
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Duration between rewards controls the rate of behavioral and dopaminergic learning - Nature Neuroscience
Cue–reward learning rate scales proportionally with the time between rewards. Consequently, learning over a fixed duration is independent of the number of trials. This challenges trial-based dopamine ...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-026-02206-2
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Eric Garr
about 1 month ago
Since the Namboodiri lab isn’t on Bluesky (I think?), I’d like to amplify this cool paper which I and others in the Janak lab made a small contribution to.
add a skeleton here at some point
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Thank you - so happy to join such an exciting and supportive department!
add a skeleton here at some point
2 months ago
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en route to Vancouver. thrilled to start my lab
@psych.ubc.ca
@arts.ubc.ca
and join the
@dmcbrainhealth.bsky.social
- doors open Jan 2026. it's great to be back, 🇨🇦.
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