esschaffer.bsky.social
Computational neuroscientist, Assistant Professor at @sinaibrain.bsky.social, Mount Sinai. Views are my own. New York, NY. He/him. schafferlab.com
👤 Joined on 14 September 2023
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@esschaffer.bsky.socialThis seems like a great time to finally announce that 🙌I got my dream job!! 🙌 The Christenson Wick lab is open for business at the University of Oregon's Knight Campus!!
Show PostPlease stop telling high school students to cold email university professors. Really, just stop. If you are a high school student looking for research opportunities, search and apply to the myriad of formal training programs that cater specifically to your education level.
Show PostWait! There's a 6th! It landed in a diff memory compartment b/c it focuses on a diff type of enigma: 6. @esschaffer.bsky.social ++ ask: how could the brain possibly maintain it's stability with representational drift? Really clean answers here. Beautiful! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Show PostMy hot take: We were *already* in a state of being overwhelmed by reviewing grants, scholarships, and papers prior to generative AI. Now it's not even close to tenable. The time to start rethinking the entire peer review model in #academia was 10 years ago. Hopefully this will force it!
Show PostIn brain-computer interfacing, clever and adaptive decoders help brains learn complex tasks faster. These can impact the nature of solutions learned by the brain. Our new paper is one of the first attempts to study this effect. W/ @neuroamyo.bsky.social and team www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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