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Matt Smear

@mattsmear.bsky.social

Associate professor, University of Oregon Follows your nose https://github.com/Smear-Lab https://ion.uoregon.edu/research/faculty-page/270 https://niceinneuro.org/

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Admirable Women@admirablewomen.bsky.social · 3w ago

Neuroscientist Dr. Brenda Milner is recognized as one of the fundamental founders of modern cognitive neuropsychology. She proved the hippocampus is essential for forming long-term "declarative" memory (facts, names & events). She was born #OTD in 1918--she's 108 years old today! #WomenInSTEM

A color photograph of Dr. Brenda Milner (born 1918), the pioneering British-Canadian founder of cognitive neuropsychology whose landmark work mapped localized memory in the human hippocampus. Seated and facing left, she engages an audience with an expressive, animated posture, both hands raised in gestural emphasis. Her short, silver-gray hair is styled back with soft volume, framing a deeply lined, intent face with a focused expression. She wears a tailored, dark navy and black textured tweed jacket over a simple cream blouse. A multi-strand necklace of dark, polished beads hangs around her neck, and a small, delicate pin is affixed to her left lapel. A flesh-colored over-ear microphone wire curves across her cheek. The dimly lit stage setting shows a blurred equipment in the background under subtle stage lighting, giving the composition a dynamic, scholarly atmosphere that highlights her enduring intellectual passion.
Matt Smear@mattsmear.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I am a neurodivergent neuroscientist. My bipolar brain brings struggle but it also helps me think off-the-map ideas. To help others who are similarly different, I co-founded the Neurodiversity Innovation Center for Excellence in Neuroscience (niceinneuro.org) with Leah Blankenship and Lila Kaye.

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Talmo Pereira@talmo.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We tracked mice in space! This video shows our estimate of their self-induced centripetal force during circling in 3D 👩‍🚀 Preprint thread below 👇

Amelia Eisch 🧪🧠👩‍🔬 🐁@eisch.bsky.social · 3mo ago

1/ New preprint! 🧪With @talmo.bsky.social and team, we used deep learning on archival NASA video of mice on the ISS. Turns out mice in microgravity become tiny acrobats: huddling to sleep, doing backflips, even briefly generating their own ~1g. #SpaceBiology #OpenScience #NASA #SLEAP

Matt Smear@mattsmear.bsky.social · 3mo ago

amazing result cited herein “ foundation models trained on orbital trajectories consistently fail to apply Newtonian mechanics when adapted to new physics tasks… these models behave as if they develop task-specific heuristics that fail to generalize.” arxiv.org/abs/2507.06952

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Prediction without understanding sustained astronomy through a thousand years of epicycles, writes @tonyzador.bsky.social. AI is now offering neuroscience the same deal. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/machine-lear...

Mark Histed@markhisted.org · 3mo ago

Quick hit on this (more in thread): “Now we can do Y for the first time” works best for a new tech, because there’s a set of cases where the conceptual framework is mature and tech limits hold us back. But that’s not all the most exciting science; advancing concepts is often what we want!

Abraham Palmer@abepalmer.bsky.social · 3mo ago

In my opinion, many of the most compelling grants could be summarized as “everybody has always wanted to do this, but because X changed, we are now able, for the first time, to do it.” X might be a technology, a dataset, a technique, a new analytical framework, likely other examples.

Ahmed El Hady @zamakany.bsky.social · 3mo ago

After three years of working on this review with my collaborator Emily Dennis (Janelia Farm), it is finally in press. The review provides an overview and our personal reflections on what constitutes an integrative approach to neurobiology of foraging. Enjoy www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Neurobiology of Foraging: An Integrative Approach

Foraging, defined as the search for food to sustain one's energetic needs, is a fundamental behavior performed by almost all animals to survive in their environment. Foraging involves a variety o...

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Matt Smear@mattsmear.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Ach, the supplementary video for this preprint is a life-affirming glory. But how can there only be one?? 😭 (Video visualizes brain-wide projections of locus coeruleus norepinephrine neurons in the right hemisphere.) Gonna show this in my class today!

Jeremiah Cohen@jeremiahycohen.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Delighted to share our discoveries about one of the brain's neurotransmitter systems: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Together with colleagues at the @alleninstitute.org, we have learned a lot about a tiny cluster of neurons in the brainstem locus coeruleus (LC) that releases norepinephrine (NE). 1