Sam Brunwasser

Add me on Bluesky! bsky.app/profile/neurri…

@SenBillCassidy Then why did you vote to confirm an HHS secretary who undermines the safety of fully vetted vaccines?

SpaceX and the Polaris Dawn crew have completed the first commercial spacewalk! “SpaceX, back at home we all have a lot of work to do, but from here, Earth sure looks like a perfect world.” — Mission Commander @rookisaacman during Dragon egress and seeing our planet from ~738 km

New paper from the lab! As we started using neural networks to recognize sleep states, an unexpected finding was the presence of "flickers" between states on the order of milliseconds and across independent regions. Really glad to be a part of this work! nature.com/articles/s4159…

@bsauerbrei1 This is excellent. I tried to do something like this for my lab when I was a grad student but it was crudely drawn on a sticky note. This seems a lot more sustainable 😊

How the lab works. As we plan new projects, capabilities, and rig upgrades, I thought it would be useful to map this out.

@JasterAlaina Seems logical since IEGs are necessary for Bdnf expression and 2A agonists thought to induce Bdnf. When I was a postbac we looked at another IEG Egr3 and its role in inducing Bdnf after ECS. Would imagine these pathways are related frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

At a glance: Psilocybin enhances levels of egr1 and cfos in the cortex, which seems to be unaffected by 2A antagonist. frontiersin.org/journals/pharm…

@LauraFlowersE Not me on surgery rotation bonding with the middle aged scrub tech over cassettes and 80s movies...

Medical students chatting with their MDPhD friends 🥲

@maybeadoc1983 @DouglasAdlerMD Humor between colleagues as a coping mechanism is one thing. But isn't it a little inhumane to post this publicly and request retweets? It comes off as short of bragging. If I were a patient in that ICU or family member of patient I would not want to see this.

@MalekaniMD @DouglasAdlerMD Not everything has to be a social justice crusade. I'm to the left of Lenin but also not a douchebag about it. Part of being human is finding the silver lining in tragedies. Let them have their fun.

Seen in our ICU! Cannot love it more! Please retweet! #gitwitter #surgery #icu #meded #medical #medschool #pulmonary #critcare

@FFNoodles @TriggerLoop @DrCJ_Houldcroft @bdelloid @aero_anna It's just JAK all the way down

@TriggerLoop @DrCJ_Houldcroft @bdelloid @aero_anna You mean to tell me that, deep down, it's all just jak?

Erm, how did Figure 1 get past a peer reviewer?! frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… H/T @aero_anna

@TriggerLoop @DrCJ_Houldcroft @bdelloid @aero_anna My favorite part is how JAK induces JAK which also is induced by JAK and the upstream JAK pathway

@rebeccagbrady Congratulations Rebecca!!!

This study has truly been my passion project for the last 5 years!! I’m so proud and excited to see it out in the world. What a great holiday present!

We found a psychedelic (DOI) altered neurovascular coupling and differential changed neuronal⚡️📉 vs hemodynamic🩸 📈 brain activity 🧠. These findings have grand implications for interpretation of psychedelic fMRI. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… @realJoshSiegel @adamqbauer @jordacular

@bita137 For sure. Seems like a short sighted strategy for the field to put all our eggs in one basket.

I worry that all the hype and excitement over #psychedelics advancing psychiatry is going to diminish resources and interest for major psychiatric disorders like schizophrenia and bipolar, treatment for which has remained stagnant for decades

@mysteriousjoe_ Congrats!!!

Check out the preprint for my main PhD project🥳 we find that a strong negative experience can update memories from DAYS ago, and this updating happens during rest periods shortly after the negative experience. We think this is one way animals make causal inferences across days!

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🔮Ever wished you could just say what behavioral analysis you wanted? ... "Plot the animal's trajectory" "Count the head hips in the open arm" 👀🪄we present AmadeusGPT🎻 to do this ... 🗞@shaokaiyeah @jessy_lauer @zhoumu53 @trackingplumes and me  arxiv.org/abs/2307.04858 🧵⬇️

@dvwz @arjunrajlab 100%

@arjunrajlab the answers here are good. on the flip side, what students don’t want is to be churned out like they’re in a degree factory. intellectual engagement and investment in their careers should be the minimum

Interesting responses :) (Yes, duh, I know it’s meant to vet me, not vice versa.) My question: exactly what do students want from this meeting? What question would you ask and what responses would influence your decision? A “vibe” can be highly misleading…

@arjunrajlab I’ve had these meetings and explained what I was planning to propose. Faculty often then told me which parts of the project they felt they could support me in and which parts might benefit from a committee member with different expertise, as well as offering scientific feedback.

@arjunrajlab Every member on my committee consistently made time for me to meet with them outside committee meetings. If you can’t schedule one in person meeting, maybe you are not ready for the responsibility of thesis committee mentorship.

Not sure who is giving this guidance, but PhD students: we don't need to meet to discuss whether or not I should be on your thesis committee. Just send a description of what you do and why I might be helpful. I can decide based on that.