Dr. Long Ding

@NicoleCRust @hakwanlau Thanks, Nicole!

@hakwanlau @LongDingPA does incredible work teasing apart the contributions of FEF vs the different parts of the basal ganglia. elifesciences.org/articles/60535

on the topic of *the role of the prefrontal cortex in perception* - VERY broadly defined - who are your favorite female researchers? methods & stage of career don't matter (pardon the sexism, but this is twitter & men get too much airtime already)

@NeuroPolarbear @SteinmetzNeuro @KordingLab @neuroecology Thanks! Always happy to see more interest in non-cortical contributions to evidence accumulation/decision making.

Help me brainstorm the conceptual advances in systems neuroscience in last ~five years: 1) population codes (manifolds?) not single neurons 2) behavioral context effects everything ...?

@johannesburge @Penn Zero prediction error. Congrats!

Hey folks. Today is July 1st, so I am now (officially) tenured @Penn. Special thanks to my lab, colleagues, mentors, friends for their support throughout the years.

@MIcheleABasso1 Congrats!

It's finally out! Congratulations on an amazing piece of work team! I am so proud of you! nature.com/articles/s4159…

@jess_cardin Congrats!

Tenured! Very grateful to have been privileged to collaborate with so many colleagues inside and outside my lab here at Yale. I have been fortunate to have a series of truly fantastic people bring their creativity and expertise to the lab over the last 10 years!

@NeuroPolarbear Have you tried sending your review in all caps instead?

@MIcheleABasso1 @prokraustinator @AnneEUrai @PamelaReinagel Here is one anecdote: One time a monkey went on strike in the booth because we moved his home cage away from his preferred spot in the colony. Jean figured it out, we moved him back, and he has published several papers since without water restriction.

@LongDingPA @prokraustinator @AnneEUrai @PamelaReinagel Such as?

Training 🐭 to do behavioral tasks? Looking for an alternative to water restriction? Want to improve your own work-life balance, and train happy, healthy mice? We may have just the method for you! doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO… 👇 1/n

I like the poster experience at #cosyne2021! Great equalizer for height and vocal-cord output. Good job organizers!

@prokraustinator @AnneEUrai @PamelaReinagel @MIcheleABasso1 It's not just substituting water with juice, but, more importantly, fix things that make them not wanting to work. These things often have nothing to do with thirst.

@LongDingPA @AnneEUrai @PamelaReinagel @MIcheleABasso1 Is that enough?! I got a small bump in performance from preferred juice vs water, but I would have thought they'd partially substitute.

@MIcheleABasso1 @prokraustinator @AnneEUrai @PamelaReinagel The most significant trick we have is our monkey whisperer Jean. She convinced us that once we fix what makes monkeys unhappy in the booth, we don't need water restrictions for them to work.

@prokraustinator @LongDingPA @AnneEUrai @PamelaReinagel Yeah we’ve nit been able to do this successfully, consistently. But I’m aware that Long and Josh have had success. I’m eager to know the trick. For the mice, we found that they adapt to the CA water and over time it stops working

@AnneEUrai @prokraustinator @PamelaReinagel @MIcheleABasso1 We haven't tried citric acid water. We just give free regular water off-task in cage and juice on task.

@prokraustinator @PamelaReinagel Not that I know, but I think @LongDingPA and @MIcheleABasso1 may have expressed interest?

@DrChaya I share your confusion about these expressions. As a non-white immigrant, I consider them to be compliments. I understand that some population find them insulting. Still trying to figure out what similar expressions are more universally accepted as real compliments.

Apparently there is a sizable population that cares about the color of the cooling fan cover for RAM inside a computer.

The Mark Konishi virtual songbird symposium is coming up! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

@MatteoCarandini @CousinAmygdala @SRHeilbronner @DiFel1ceantonio Hi, Matteo, I was thinking of this paper by Selemon and Goldman-Rakic when I tweeted. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2983048/

Congratulations, Nicole @VisualMemoryLab

@SRHeilbronner @DiFel1ceantonio @CousinAmygdala Since you mentioned woman, Goldman-Rakic didn't make it to the references either.

@DiFel1ceantonio @CousinAmygdala she's a woman, and she writes with women. do you think this is the citation bias in action?

@anne_churchland @IntlBrainLab @AnneEUrai Nice! We haven't restricted water for our non-mice animals for several years now and they work just fine. Big plus is not having to worry about dehydration.

As part of the @IntlBrainLab, @AnneEUrai & colleagues evaluated citric acid as an alternative to traditional restriction methods for motivating subjects. It works! It makes life easier & is reliable, especially during things like lab closures on holidays or due to (e.g.) weather.

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@madsarv Nice work!