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Hi folks, I’m afraid it’s time for me to say goodbye. Not just leaving Twitter, but the whole show. I’ve been battling cancer last 2 years, but now only have a few days left now. Thank you wonderful people, I leave this crazy world with much love in my heart ❤️
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18 years ago I turned up at this gate with a suitcase, and some vague ideas for graduate studies. Always fun to return and check out the old haunts
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Happy 2022 everyone!
This year will be especially significant for me. In 2020 I was diagnosed w cancer. Prognosis not v promising. After 6 months treatment, things started to look up, but by the end of 2021 cancer came back. Now restarted chemo, & planning to make v most of 2022
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Thanks @postlelab, especially for the awesome pun 😎
Part of a special issue of JOCN honoring the work of @StokesNeuro
direct.mit.edu/jocn/article/…
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This is amazing, thanks Alex et al for putting this together. I’m honoured by the kind words, but also very proud of your collective wisdom. Thanks for the inspiration you have all provided me over the years. Continue doing wonderful things!
A bunch of @StokesNeuro's trainees (from many points in time) put together a list of '10 simple rules for a supportive lab environment', inspired by the example he set. This has been a wonderful moment of reflection for me personally, as I start my own lab direct.mit.edu/jocn/article/…
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Thanks Eelke for your contribution! And also for the happy memories :)
I have extremely fond memories of my time in @StokesNeuro's lab. Alumni got together and wrote about the example set by Mark. Thanks to @Alexandra_Pike and @NoonanMP for the initiative, and to @postlelab for setting up the JoCN Special Focus of which this is part. (PDF in thread)
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Thanks Earl and Tim for your contribution, a complex and dynamic read 😁
New paper! With @timbuschman
Working Memory Is Complex and Dynamic, Like Your Thoughts
direct.mit.edu/jocn/article/…
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Thank YOU Darinka!
A little bit different from my typical cog neuro research, but, nevertheless, such an interesting and important topic. All too often, we tend to forget that science is done by groups of people, and that lab culture matters. Thanks @StokesNeuro for having been such an inspiration!
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Cool! Our paper on 'pinging' hidden neural states of working memory is just out in @NatureNeuro nature.com/neuro/journal/vao…
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Wow, thank you Brad for heroic efforts organising this, and everyone for their contributions! I’m really overwhelmed, and look forward to making my way through the best reading list ever :)
1/2 Lots of really good Perspectives in the @StokesNeuro Special Focus in JoCN, in addition to yours: Duncan, @nick_e_myers, @evaferedoes, @BrainInTheMind, @timbuschman and @MillerLabMIT , Buckley, @Alexandra_Pike +cast of 1000s, and @KiaNobre
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Pre-conference adventures in butterfly house (Amsterdam zoo) with @timbuschman @freekvanede and co
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A trip to the home country is just not complete unless you visit a ball of fur sleeping high and safely out of reach (hint: a koala)
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a peaceful sunset over Amsterdam-Noord after a busy few days of travel, conferencing and catching up with colleagues
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Will MVPA revolutionise MEG/EEG like it did fMRI? But with awesome time resolution! We think so cell.com/trends/cognitive-sc… @TrendsCognSci
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Bon voyage @mijowolff! We’re gonna miss you. All the best for the exciting times ahead in the @RL_Rademaker lab!
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# post-doc job alert!! # if you want to join my lab to study working memory with EEG, get your application in by 12.00 midday on 7 September 2018 jobs.ac.uk/job/BMA002/postdo…
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"What does fMRI measure?" New blog post at the Brain Box the-brain-box.blogspot.co.uk…
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Eldest is off school today, so I’ve recruited him to ‘help’ unpack boxes for my new office. Not sure if will actually be helpful, but hopefully more fun :)
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We relate working memory, intrinsic neural dynamics, temporal dimensionality of activity in prefrontal cortex
Intrinsic neuronal dynamics predict distinct functional roles during working memory biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_neursci
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That’s amazing news, congratulations 🥳 @KiaNobre
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Prioritizing Information during Working Memory. Our @TrendsCognSci Opinion w/ @OHBA_Oxford's own Myres & @KiaNobre! cell.com/trends/cognitive-sc…
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Xmas has come early this year at #bioRxiv. All you need to know about dynamic vs stable neural codes for working memory in this weekend's reading:
Neurophysiology:
biorxiv.org/content/early/20…
biorxiv.org/content/early/20…
Modelling:
biorxiv.org/content/early/20…
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Congrats dr @lev_tank on blitzing his phd viva today, with Clayton Hickey and @MasudHusain (not shown). Matthew and I look suitably proud
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Congratulations Dante Wasmuht, newly minted phd! Surrounded by examiners David Dupret (@MRCBNDU ) and @djfreedman, and proud supervisor lurking in the background!
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Really sorry to hear you went through this, but glad Sophie is doing so well now. We had a close call with our daughter Clara, who also wouldn’t be here today if not for recent advances in neonatal care.
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Just one more week to apply for a post-doc in my lab: WM, EEG, multivariate decoding, and more :)
# post-doc job alert!! # if you want to join my lab to study working memory with EEG, get your application in by 12.00 midday on 7 September 2018 jobs.ac.uk/job/BMA002/postdo…
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Cool, our paper exploring dynamic vs stable population coding in PFC for working memory is out now :)
.@EelkeSpaak , Watanabe, Funahashi, @StokesNeuro Stable & dynamic coding for working memory in primate PFC jneurosci.org/content/early/…
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Ah, so simple!! MT: Mystery of Stonehenge and Easter Island revealed @Brooks_Rob @nucAmbiguous @pickover
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I just booked my flu shot. You should too. It works. It helps protect you, and those around you. If you get flu, you spread flu. You might survive it fine, but the next person in the chain may not
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## Job Alert!! ## We are looking for a new research assistant/lab manager to help with EEG studies of working memory and attention: recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliv… Please get in touch if interested, and/or RT just to spread the word!!
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Congratulations to the amazing @KiaNobre 🥳
In recognition of her contributions to cognitive neuroscience, Anna C. (Kia) Nobre of @OxExpPsy @OxPsychiatry and @UniofOxford is being inducted into the National Academy of Sciences. Watch the #NAS159 livestream: ow.ly/Icl650IVOt6
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The Importance of Single-Trial Analyses in Cognitive Neuroscience: Trends in Cognitive Sciences cell.com/trends/cognitive-sc…
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Here it is folks - items in working memory drift around within a stable coding scheme. Latest paper from @StokesLabOx , led by @mijowolff with @Janina_Jochim Akyurek & @timbuschman biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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read this thread - it's so thorough you won't even need to read the paper :)
But do read the paper as well. It's cool, and nicely complements ours in the same issue: nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
Our paper 'Reconciling persistent and dynamic hypotheses of working memory coding in prefrontal cortex' is out in @NatureComms!
This is work with John Towers, Joni Wallis, @LHuntNeuro and Steve Kennerley that we first posted on BiorXiv in December. [1/n]
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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Great to catch up with @SHallMcMaster on his brief trip back to Oxford. We are standing on top of an ancient bell tower with Emilia Piwek, @mijowolff, @PMuhleKarbe and @nick_e_myers (who took the photo)
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folks in the lab have been busy, two new papers hot off the press:
@JasperHajonides @KiaNobre @freekvanede
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
@PMuhleKarbe @nick_e_myers
jneurosci.org/content/41/20/…
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this is simply disastrous for any future attempts to lead on public health policy - the government is actively sabotaging any future lockdown measures to save the skin of one adviser. Many people will die if this becomes acceptable during a second wave. They know the maths.
I know how ill coronavirus makes you. It was entirely right for Dom Cummings to find childcare for his toddler, when both he and his wife were getting ill.
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Our new MEG study decoding perceptual decision templates out now @elife elifesciences.org/content/ea… w/ @KiaNobre & good folk from @OHBA_Oxford
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Also check out our complementary paper: biorxiv.org/content/early/20… & theory paper from @MasudHusain @BrainInTheMind biorxiv.org/content/early/20…
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Yay! Big congrats @nick_e_myers! Well deserved!
Our last round of applause this morning goes to @nick_e_myers who has been conferred the title of University Research Lecturer...congratulations! Nick's work involves examining the control of working memory. @OxfordMedSci
win.ox.ac.uk/people/nicholas…
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A typical fMRI voxel contains 5.5 million neurons, 22–55 billion synapses, 22 km of dendrites and 220 km of axons... from Logothetis (2008)
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A new way to resolving trial-wise dynamics in patterns of neural data -mixed supervised/unsupervised analysis, best of both worlds!
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First paper of Dr @lev_tank’s phd out now on biorxiv! How reward history captures attention. Also featuring @EelkeSpaak and Matt Rushworth
Previously reward-associated stimuli capture spatial attention in the absence of changes in the corresponding sensory representations as measured with MEG biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #bioRxiv
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But just for the record, #WorkingMemory, if you are listening, we actually still do really think you are perfect
Imperfection in #WorkingMemory: @StokesNeuro &co suggest that the neural coding scheme is stable, despite other time-varying dynamics; error in performance is likely due to drift in mnemonic representation within otherwise stable coding scheme #PLOSBiology plos.io/2VGnVsD
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Tune into this WM folks, should be fun!
I am excited to announce the workshop: 'Searching for the WM engram' in Groningen on the 30-31st of May between 9.00 - 17.00 (AMS). The workshop will be streamed online. Detailed information can be found on wmengram.com.
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@neurocritic follows up Buzsaki's #CNS2016 bombshell implying tDCS *does not* influence brain activity neurocritic.blogspot.co.uk/2… via @mocost
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UK started lockdown too late to save 60k deaths. We were told: don't worry, 'science led'. Data now clearly show the disaster many feared. Highest % death, & still cases well above traceable levels. So we ask again, what 'science' is leading us out of lockdown? Or is 'politics'
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Two new papers just out show the importance of intrinsic temporal dimensionality of activity in prefrontal cortex for dynamic/stable coding in working memory, authors include tweeps @Sean__Cavanagh @LHuntNeuro @MillerLabMIT biorxiv.org/content/early/20…
biorxiv.org/content/early/20…
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Democracy is not a winner takes all deal. Presidency is a job, not a prize
McConnell rips Dem boycott: "It's time they get over the fact they lost the election" hill.cm/5tjU6zg
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Oof, youngest at home with chicken pox and nasty cold. Seems a bit retro these days, but the old classics can still pack a punch… 🥴
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I’m going to start watering interesting patterns into my dry lawn to mess with any archaeologists flying overhead bbc.com/news/world-europe-44…
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If Russians hacked both camps, but only leaked one side, remaining dirt will serve good blackmail material. Keeping Trump on Putin's payroll
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Hot off the press!
van Ede, Chekroud, Stokes, Nobre, "Decoding the influence of anticipatory states on visual perception in the presence of temporal distractors", Nature Communications, doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-03960-z,nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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It really is the only sensible thing to do at this point: Hold a second referendum on EU membership. petition.parliament.uk/petit…
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"Adaptive forgetting of competing memories" Very cool study from @mrccbu nature.com/neuro/journal/v18… @NatureNeuro
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Huge congrats @AnnelieseDodds! Excited to have you represent us on all that's important to the people of east Oxford, esp our place in EU
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Last days to apply for this post doc to work with the great @BrainInTheMind (and myself) on working memory. It’s going to be an awesome project!!
POSTDOC JOB! Anybody want to study computational models of working memory? @StokesNeuro and I are advertising for a new post to start soon, modelling plasticity and flexible neural representations at @OxNeuro @OxExpPsy @OHBA_Oxford.
recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliv…
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