Mark Histed
How brain neural nets do computations to process info. Bearish on AI taking over the world, bullish on neuro advances via understanding AI. Pers. views.
I tag neuro posts w/ #neuroscience /🧪
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Mark Histed’s list of bluesky neuroscience followers. Leans toward systems/network neuro, some neuro-AI, some theory; optical methods, stats, neural basis of behavior, circuits, coding, info processing in the brain.
@mkfeeney.bsky.social
Professor, traveller, cyclist, skater, science policy junkie. Reluctant Phoenician. Interested in all things public sector
@dereklowe.bsky.social
Medicinal chemist / chemical biologist, author of “In the Pipeline” at http://science.org/blogs/pipeline. derekb.lowe@gmail.com and on Signal at Dblowe.18 All opinions are mine; I don’t speak for my employer in any way.
@meganranney.bsky.social
Emergency physician & Dean of the Yale School of Public Health. Gun violence prevention researcher. Incorrigible optimist (because we can and do create change, together). Mom of two teens. GO BILLS. @meganranney at the other place 🛟🩺📉📈🧪
@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
Editor at large, The Bulwark. Director, Defending Democracy Together. Host, Conversations with Bill Kristol. Never Trump.
@juanbonifacino.bsky.social
Cell biologist at NIH researching mechanisms of protein and organelle transport, and related diseases. Special interest in neurons and neurodevelopmental disorders. Passionate about science, nature, travel, and music. Views are my own.
@iddoct.bsky.social
ID physician focused on emerging infectious diseases; sometime healthcare epidemiologist
@samerhattar.bsky.social
Loves science, soccer, food, music and life. Animals are more awesome than humans. Hates religions.
@jim-heys.bsky.social
Prof @UUNeurobiology. Father, scientist. Lover of music, ethereal landscapes, and getting lost in both. He/him 🇨🇦
@itsneuronal.bsky.social
Asst Prof at NYU + Flatiron Institute Computational + Statistical Neuroscience https://neurostatslab.org/
@investnscience.bsky.social
A public record of science for the greater good. #ScienceSavesLives Interested in participating? Click the link: https://linktr.ee/investNscience
@hannahstoryb.bsky.social
nyc writer & deputy research director on climate and governance @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social big fan of the biosphere. opinions my own.
@altnih4science.bsky.social
Facts & strategy, in an authoritarian takeover. Rightwing billionaires want to privatize NIH and use it to control universities. We work to cure diseases like cancer. Pers views. #science #medicine Signal: altnih4science.79
@gorillaguerilla.bsky.social
Beleaguered scientist. Primatologist interested in social behavior and behavior management, human interested in a life of purpose not profit.
@docsirianni.bsky.social
Biomedical Engineer, Professor & Vice Chair of Research for Neurosurgery, UMass Chan Medical School. Treating pediatric brain tumors and neurodegenerative disease via all things nanomedicine and the subarachnoid space. *opinions are my own
@klab.bsky.social
Neurobiology Lab studying development, maintenance, and aging of the Enteric Nervous System. Home of 'enfant terrible' of enteric neurobiology https://www.enteric-neuron.com
@shreyasaxena.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at the Wu Tsai Institute and Biomedical Engineering at Yale University. Computational neuroscientist studying dynamics in the brain, with applications in sensorimotor control and social behavior. Postdoc @Columbia. PhD @MIT.
@mikegreicius.bsky.social
Behavioral neurologist at Stanford University caring for patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders like Lewy body disease. My lab studies the genetics of these disorders looking for novel drug targets. #Alzheimer's #publichealth #neuroskyence
@prinarayan.bsky.social
Studying cellular mechanisms of risk and resilience in neurodegenerative diseases. Views are my own.
@profdasgupta.bsky.social
Author of 📚 Where Biology Ends & Bias Begins: Lessons on Belonging from our DNA 🧬 @UCPress Genetics Ed, BUMedical, PastPres APHMG, FulbrightPrgr 🇪🇬 shoumitadasgupta.com
@spintheory.bsky.social
Scientist studying life in all its mathematical beauty. Bridging bio+social with physics. At Complexity Science Hub in Vienna. Former NSF GRFP. Austrian Science Fund ESPRIT. Head of the PoETs Lab. Webpage https://eddielee.co
@coachdomin8.bsky.social
Former Director, NIH Exec Sec All views and opinions are my own and do not represent the views or opinions of any past or present employers.
@auditoryjoel.bsky.social
Professor of Psychology @ UNLV. Associate Editor for @jephpp.bsky.social. Researching #Music/ #Auditory Cognition since the last century. Helped found UNLV's Neuroscience Ph.D. program and served as director until July 2022.
@kenjilee.bsky.social
🧠 6th year Ph.D. student studying the in vivo identification of cell types and the neuroscience of decision making in prefrontal cortex. Chand Lab @ BU; NINDS F31 Fellow; prev. UW, Allen Inst., and U. Puget Sound. From Hawaii 🌴
@avaskham.bsky.social
senior reporter at The Transmitter, where I write about neuroscience research / neuroscience PhD / mother of two Email: angie at thetransmitter dot org Signal: avaskham.54
@michaelgoard.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Neuroscience at UC Santa Barbara. I study neural circuits underlying sensation, decision making, and spatial navigation. (transition from twitter still in progress...)
@stevencryu.bsky.social
MD/PhD Student at Washington University at St. Louis. Systems neuroscience, psychiatry, and metacognition w/ Kepecs Lab.
@drjamesbourne.bsky.social
@chrisnsimms.bsky.social
Science writer and editor. Formerly of New Scientist and Nature. Selection of articles here: https://www.newscientist.com/author/chris-simms/
@cllantz.bsky.social
• Neuroscientist • Development • Visual Circuits • Plasticity • BRAIN Backpacking, fly fishing, quilting. Skeets are my own. she/her/hers
@ngfriedman.bsky.social
PhD student with UMD & NIH at the Histed lab here in a personal capacity 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@nancymaclean.bsky.social
Cassandra. Author Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America & Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan (new ed. just out). Professor of History and Public Policy @ Duke. Views my own.
@gretchentg.bsky.social
President @ucsusa.bsky.social Previously: USDOT, White House OSTP, 500 Women Scientists. Environmental engineer. Mom. Cyclist. Public Transit Enthusiast. Views my own. She/her.
@katiecorker.bsky.social
Executive Director ASAPbio, promoter/enthusiast of all things open science
@nictritsch.bsky.social
Neuroscientist curious to unravel how neurons learn from one another. McGill / Hopkins / HMS / NYU / McGill https://www.tritschlab.org/
@jedshug.bsky.social
Prof BU Law. JD/PhD History & dad jokes. 5th most-cited legal historian, 2019-23 (thanks, LeiterReports) Book: The People’s Courts. Next: A Faithful President: The Founders v. the Originalists http://shugerblog.com http://ssrn.com/author=625422
@allisonharvey.bsky.social
Professor, University of California, Berkeley. Licensed Clinical Psychologist. Acamama. Transdiagnostic approaches to mentaI health. Implementation Science. Insomnia. Sleep & circadian disorders. 🇦🇺🇬🇧🇺🇸. I 💕to run in the mountains. Views my own.
@academic-chatter.bsky.social
Join #AcademicChatter for support & community in higher education.
@marthabhattacharya.bsky.social
Neuroscientist doing cell bio/genetics/genomics in Drosophila/mouse/iPSC neurons @ U of Arizona. Wife and Mom of 2. Love endorphins, learning new things, and sunrises.
@sarahstern.bsky.social
Neuroscientist at Max Planck Florida Institute. Mom x3. New Yorker at heart. She/her
@gbouvier.bsky.social
Neuroscientist working on sensory processing and behavior. Group leader of the SensoMotion Team at the Neuroscience Institute of Paris-Saclay / CNRS. ERC Stg 22 laureate