Seb Tremblay

*Very* excited to see the last study of my PhD making the cover of @ScienceMagazine on the macaques of @CayoSantiagoPR. We show that ecological disturbances can alter selective pressures on social ties leading to persistent societal changes. shorturl.at/i2WIB 🧵👇

@CamilleTestard @Nature Such a privilege to be working with @CamilleTestard for almost 10 years. Dream team !!! 👩‍🔬🧬👨‍🔬

So immensely proud to see my PhD work out today in @Nature! Combining neuroscience and ethology to an unprecedented degree in primates, we uncover neural signatures of social support and grooming reciprocity—building blocks of relationships. shorturl.at/jvHSY 🧵👇

*THRILLED* to share our latest work with @seb_trem & co in @MichaelLouisPl1 ’s lab! Primates maintain long-term bonds through grooming and social support. How? Here, we reveal neural signatures of natural social behavior in freely-moving macaques. rb.gy/ii0lr 🧵👇

@NicoleCRust @jcbyts @CamilleTestard I would argue that knowing whether an area is visual or auditory is a “what”, not a “how” question. Eg. We didn’t learn through Hubel&Wiesel’s ephys that V1 is visual. We learned it through prior lesion studies. They showed “how” through ephys based on prior “what” knowledge.

@seb_trem @jcbyts @CamilleTestard Oh! Hard and respectful disagree. I don't think you can create a sensible causal experiment unless you know a bit about the 'how' (is it visual? auditory?). And even then, it's really tricky to interpret the results of those experiments given the complex recurrent loops.

Inspired by @jcbyts and @CamilleTestard, let's redirect to a productive conversation. What are neurophysiologists doing if they are not interpreting the signals they record as a function of a brain area? Solid question for all. I'll start: twitter.com/jcbyts/status/…

@CamilleTestard *Dobzhansky, not Darwin. (I guess causal attributions can be wrong sometimes?!) 😜

@CamilleTestard Thanks everyone for the heated debate! Just to add some oil on the fire 🔥 ... To quote Darwin🦜: "Nothing in neurophysiology makes sense, except in the light of causation!" 🙃 happy to chat in person at SFN!

**NEW PREPRINT ALERT** co-authored w/ @seb_trem (yes, 2nd in a week!!) We show that inferring a brain area’s function from neural recordings alone can be misleading, with severe consequences to the field of neuroscience. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 🧵👇 (1/10)

@NicoleCRust @jcbyts @CamilleTestard Nothing in neurophysiology makes sense, except in the light of causation...

Great blog post by @anne_churchland about our recent work with @CamilleTestard. Movements in monkeys & mice churchlandlab.org/2022/09/14/mov… via @anne_churchland

*Thrilled* to share our latest work with @seb_trem! Pioneering work in rodents from @anne_churchland's group showed that spontaneous movements dominate neural dynamics across the whole brain. Is this also the case in macaque monkeys ? biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 🧵👇