Vicente Medel

@medelero.bsky.social

Chileno | Licenciado en Filosofía | PhD en Neurociencia | Brain States, Computational Neuroscience and Multimodal Neuroimaging. Assistant Professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Too much of global science works like a stadium with open doors but expensive tickets: who can pay to publish, who can afford to travel, who gets to be seen, and who is expected to remain excellent in silence. Thanks to @thetransmitter.bsky.social for the space to write about this from latam.

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 2d ago

Neuroscience in Chile, and across Latin America, does not lack talent or ideas, but the systems that make science visible—prestige journals, conferences and networks—increasingly price its researchers out, argues @medelero.bsky.social. #neuroskyence

📄Very happy to share our new pre-print!! 🧠 We introduce a homeostatic inhibitory plasticity rule into the Dynamic Mean Field (DMF) model which stabilizes firing rates and expands the model’s dynamical repertoire—for example, enabling slow-wave activity. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... ⬇️⬇️⬇️ 1/5

The impact of homeostatic inhibitory plasticity in a generative biophysical model

A main characteristic of biological systems is their capacity to dynamically adapt to environmental changes. In the brain, synaptic plasticity enables the strengthening or weakening of connections bet...

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FlyBase, a Drosophila database, will lose a third of its team in early October because the Harvard grant that covered the employees’ salaries was canceled. Scientists warn that losing FlyBase could devastate fly research. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/community/ha...

Harvard University lays off fly database team

The layoffs jeopardize this resource, which has served more than 4,000 labs for about three decades.

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Today is publication day! A new edition of Francisco J. Varela's (long hard-to-obtain) 1979 classic Principles of Biological Autonomy in a new annotated edition by Ezequiel Di Paolo and Evan Thompson, with a Foreword by Amy Cohen Varela. mitpress.mit.edu/978026255140...

Principles of Biological Autonomy

Francisco Varela’s Principles of Biological Autonomy was a groundbreaking text when it was first published in 1979, putting forth a novel theory of how...

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🎉 Exciting news! Our symposium with Enzo Tagliazucchi, "Computational Models integrating Neurobiology & Social Determinants of Brain Health," is accepted for #OHBM2025! 🌎✈️ From South America to Brisbane—thrilled to bring diverse perspectives to global Neuroscience!

Pedro Pascal responding to transphobia on social media: “I can’t think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist.” (via @charliejane.bsky.social) [capitalfm.com]

Pedro Pascal calls out “vile and pathetic” transphobic trolls after defending trans rights

Pedro Pascal, whose sister Lux is a trans woman, is a prominent trans ally and he has no time for transphobia.

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