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 · 2mo 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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