Graduates of US universities: Interested in a postdoc studying cephalopod brains, on a tropical Japanese island, well funded by the Japanese government and CZI? Apply here, and please spread the word. chanzuckerberg.com/rfa/global-sci…
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Sam Reiter
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Sam Reiter
@SamAlbertReiter
I'm interested in quantitative behaviour and neuroscience, and lately have been looking at cuttlefish.
Okinawa, Japan Inscrit le Ekim 2012
126 Abonnements744 Abonnés
Please consider applying to lead a unit at OIST!
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST)@OISTedu
Join the OIST Faculty: Experience a new model of scientific freedom in an innovative university. Apply now or share👉 groups.oist.jp/facultypositio… Deadline: Oct. 31, 2023 #academia #stem #womeninacademia #transinstem #queerstem #lgbtstem #blackandstem #blackacademics
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Sam Reiter retweeté
We are pleased to announce a major faculty recruiting push at @OISTedu. We hope to hire 20 faculty over the next 3 years, with as many as 10 in this initial round.
groups.oist.jp/facultypositio…
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@SamAlbertReiter @WeissShahaf Congratulations Sam! Amazing results
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Happy to announce two new papers out in Nature today! One is on octopus sleep, where Neuropixels recordings shows a wake-like stage of 'active sleep' accompanied by rapidly changing skin patterns that match those of waking behavior rdcu.be/dfAQt
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The interview of #OISTPhDStudent, Aditi Pophale, who is the first author of this paper has been interviewed! Check this out to get some tips how to be a successful PhD student.
Click here 👉admissions.oist.jp/students
Congratulations @SamAlbertReiter & Aditi✨🥳
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@SamAlbertReiter @Nature @MpiBrain The second @Nature paper highlights the REM-like sleep phase in octopuses, which may suggest they can dream. Congratulations Prof. Reiter @SamAlbertReiter! (2/3🧵) ow.ly/a21G50P13Rl
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@aguilarr_m @EricLeonardis Good question! Turns out it is possible to head fix octopuses, and they will readily fall asleep under head fixation.
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@SamAlbertReiter @EricLeonardis Wow! Technical question: how did you keep the electrode tip intact in such moving tissue?
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@UW @OIST_TSVP @MpiBrain Nature did a nice summary video on the octopus work, where you can see first authors Aditi Pophale and Tomo Mano at work, and a rare citing of @CephWarden when he isn't diving. Octopus brain recordings were worked out by the inimitable Kazumichi Shimizu. youtube.com/watch?v=006DjA…
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Both studies were wonderful collaborations, the octopus work with Leenoy Meshulam @UW and who visited Okinawa as part of @OIST_TSVP, and the cuttlefish work with the lab of Gilles Laurent @MpiBrain
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The dynamics of pattern matching in camouflaging cuttlefish
- very cool new work from @SamAlbertReiter and Gilles Laurent labs! 🔥
nature.com/articles/s4158…
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Our story about small RNAs in big brains 🐙🧠 is now out in @ScienceAdvances.
A long 🧵 below ( grab a coffee!) :
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It’s been a pleasure to have Theodora intern in the unit!
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST)@OISTedu
Learn about OIST Research Intern Theodora Mautz's #OISTExperience in Prof. @SamAlbertReiter's Unit. "My Octopus (and Cuttlefish and Squid) Teachers: Interning in the Computational Neuroethology Unit at OIST"👉ow.ly/yzcI50L3Rpm #WorldOctopusDay 🐙 [📽️: @CephWarden]
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This week's #TSVPthursday Talk (June 23at 4pm) in room L4E48 @OISTedu:
"Can We Hope for Simplicity When Describing the Brain?" by Leenoy Meshulam
groups.oist.jp/tsvp/event/tsv…
#brain #neuroscience #physics #oist #oist_tsvp
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@CambNeuroTech Definitely helps surgeries, but the whole no bones issue is a challenge
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@SamAlbertReiter - seeing this and wondering how your cuttlefish experiments are going with our silicon neural probes? Transparent subjects seem to hold a lot of advantages!
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Watch this reef squid go from transparent to opaque in an instant
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We are looking for caretakers of our cuttlefish, octopus and squids in Okinawa at @OISTedu ! Here is the JD, happy to take any questions. oist.jp/careers/resear…
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@_fernando_rosas Small nocturnal mammals in the age of reptiles becoming diurnal more recently where vision is more advantageous? Not sure if mammals got better at audition.
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Is it true that through evolution mammalian brains have moved away from olfaction as dominant, giving more predominance to vision and audition?
If so, why? Are the latter somehow more powerful — but perhaps also more expensive — channels from which to learn about the world?
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