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Flavia Mancini

@flaviamancini.bsky.social

🧠 #Neuroscience #neurotechnology #AIsafety #chronicpain | 🎓 MRC Career Development Fellow & Ass Professor at #CambridgeUniversity @eng.cam.ac.uk https://cbl.eng.cam.ac.uk

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Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge@eng.cam.ac.uk · 9mo ago

Cambridge #neuroscientist Dr Flavia Mancini has joined a landmark #research consortium aiming to revolutionise the treatment of chronic pain through personalised #neurotechnology www.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/cambrid... The 6-year, £11m project backed by the EPSRC is led by @ox.ac.uk #ChronicPain

Cambridge neuroscientist joins UK programme to develop next-generation neurotechnologies for chronic pain

The EPIONE programme – Effective Pain Interventions with Neural Engineering – is a six-year, £11 million project backed by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). It is led by ...

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Dan Goodman@neural-reckoning.org · last yr.

Almost last call to register for UK neural computation conference in London July 10-11. Registration deadline is July 1st. We have some great talks and posters as well as a session on funding with ARIA. 🤖🧠🧪 Look forward to seeing you all there. Now click here 👇 neuralcomputation.uk

A cartoon-style illustration of a brain and a computer having a conversation. The brain has eyes and a mouth, and is animated to look like it's talking. It says, 'Have you heard about this comp neuro thing happening at Imperial College?'. The computer has a friendly face on its screen and is replying, 'Yeah it's going to be pretty hot'.
The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · last yr.

Beyond housekeeping duties, astrocytes also coordinate complex computational tasks during modulation, expanding their role in the brain. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/astrocytes/a...

Astrocytes sense neuromodulators to orchestrate neuronal activity and shape behavior

Astrocytes serve as crucial mediators of neuromodulatory processes previously attributed to direct communication between neurons, four new studies show.

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Kepecs Lab @ WashU@kepecslab.bsky.social · last yr.

1/ Why do patients with late-stage cancer lose motivation & sink into apathy? 🔥 Our new Science paper shows chronic inflammation activates a cytokine-sensing brain circuit that lowers motivation. Huge team effort: Aelita Zhu, Sarah Starosta, Pignatelli & Janowitz labs! 🧵 🔗 doi.org/10.1126/scie...

A neuroimmune circuit mediates cancer cachexia-associated apathy

Cachexia, a severe wasting syndrome associated with inflammatory conditions, often leads to multiorgan failure and death. Patients with cachexia experience extreme fatigue, apathy, and clinical depres...

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Matthew Lieberman@socialbrain.bsky.social · last yr.

The line between brains and computer chips just got blurrier. Everyday chips made to work like neurons with a simple modification. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Synaptic and neural behaviours in a standard silicon transistor - Nature

A standard commercial CMOS FET can exhibit synaptic-like long-term potentiation and depression or neuron-like leaky-integrate-and-fire and adaptive frequency-bursting behaviour when biased in a specif...

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PessoaBrain@pessoabrain.bsky.social · last yr.

𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 Wait, that works with simple systems in physics where small scale signals ("details") average out. But how about more "interesting" complex systems? New approaches are breaking ground there. Great review paper. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Network renormalization - Nature Reviews Physics

The renormalization group (RG) is a theoretical framework to transform systems across scales and identify critical points of phase transitions. In recent years, efforts have extended RG to complex net...

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Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · last yr.

Big piece on how the UK is not getting the data it needs and how this is affecting policymaking. A key issue seems to be that the shift from surveys to admin data has not worked well as govt departments have not allowed the ONS access to the data it needs on.ft.com/3WSCN6h

How flawed data is leaving the UK in the dark

Trouble at the Office for National Statistics means policymakers cannot rely on key economic numbers, including on employment

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Simons Foundation@simonsfoundation.org · last yr.

Applications are now open for the Shenoy Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Neuroscience (SURFiN) program for the 2025–26 academic year. This program aims to spark interest in #neuroscience among undergrads who have not had access to research opportunities. www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/3/27/ap...

Applications Open for 2025–2026 Undergraduate Research Fellowships in Neuroscience

The Simons Foundation is accepting applications from undergraduate students for its Shenoy Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Neuroscience program.

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Patrik Ernfors@patrikernfors.bsky.social · last yr.

How is the input of the different kinds of primary sensory neurons responding to heat and mechanical stimuli summarized in the spinal cord? Check out our recent study. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Neural ensembles that encode nocifensive mechanical and heat pain in mouse spinal cord - Nature Neuroscience

Zhang et al. identify unimodal neural representations in the spinal cord of cutaneous mechanical and heat stimuli gated by a shared feed-forward local inhibitory neuron type and a neural transition du...

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Blake Richards@tyrellturing.bsky.social · last yr.

Two cool papers out in Neuron today on memory. 1. Animals can be trained to activate specific remote memories at will: www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... 2. Interactions between cortex and amygdala during reactivation in NREM sleep help enhance perceptual memories: www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... 🧠📈 🧪

Closed-loop modulation of remote hippocampal representations with neurofeedback

Animal models of memory retrieval trigger retrieval with cues and measure retrieval using behavior. Coulter et al. developed a neurofeedback paradigm that rewards hippocampal activity patterns associa...

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