Neuroscientist and artist. Uruguayo. Incoming Asst. Prof. at
@UPenn
in Jan 2025. PhD
@BrechtLab
..
@HFSP
Postdoc Fellow
@Harvard
with Hoekstra and Uchida Labs.
I’m super excited to say that I will be starting my lab as Asst. Prof. at the University of Pennsylvania
@PennSAS
in the beautiful, vibrant, and sunny city of Philadelphia. My lab will lead an integrative approach to animal cognition in the lab and in the field!!
#recruiting
Excited to see our paper on Unsupervised discovery of brain states in Hide and Seek out today on
@CurrentBiology
! A massive exploration effort done by Bence Bagi
@bagibence
during his masters at
@HumboldtUni
in the
@BrechtLab
. That continued through years of pandemic.
El doctorado en ciencia no se paga. Te pagan para hacerlo. Un estudiante de doctorado en ciencia es un investigador contratado para liderar un proyecto. Como con cualquier trabajo, si no conseguis pagarle a la persona que lo va a hacer, el trabajo no se hace.
@bahhmejorasi
@BatthyanyCarlos
@Est_PEDECIBA
@ANIIuy
Un año, será un año! Tanto les cambia a los científicos q no pueden pagarse el doctorado??? Prefiero que esa plata ahora se use en otra cosa! Tenemos excelentísimos científicos jóvenes, a los otros un año no les cambian
Excelente noticia! Las vacunas de ARNm previenen la infección, no solo los sintomas! E incluso previenen la infección en un 80% dos semanas despues de la 1era dosis!!!
In Uruguay we celebrate on Christmas eve. So, Im in charge of Eve dinner. So to reduce anxiety I just made 327 Ñoquis. Happy Holidays or Merry Christmas to all.
Another smaller paper from my PhD is out (still not the last) and my first corresponding paper, and a second hide and seek paper. Work led by
@miguelconcham
who came to do an internship at the
@BrechtLab
during his PhD in Chile and worked closely with me.
Nadie:
Absolutamente nadie:
Un grupo de investigación en Berlín: ¿Se puede jugar a las escondidas con una rata?
Hay una forma de saberlo: enseñarle a una rata a jugar a las escondidas y ver qué pasa.
Algo que note en estas semanas de lucha por divulgar el tsunami
#CoronavirusEnUruguay
que venia es lo poco que los uruguayos, los periodistas y los politicos siguen en twitter a sus propios cientificos. Me parece terrible. Hablando de redes y conexiones...abro hilo
Here you can find the paper open access. Where we looked into brain activity in Rat PFC during Hide and Seek. Hat 🎩 Hat tip to
@HuWantsToKnow
for her amazing art work in the graphical abstract. (hudrewthis)
Watching this amazing debate on the nature of learning, prediction, retrospection, prospection. Its feels like watching a Christopher Nolan movie but just with people talking.
Last day at
@tenss_ed
! Always the best part of the year. Playing with bonsai
@bonsai_rx
, next gen ephys
@OpenEphys
and meeting amazing students from all over the world.
Reproducibility should come from multiplicity not from homogeneity. You can run the same code/exp in the same language/method 1000 times and always get the wrong result. If two ways can get to same/different results on something, we learn more. Multiple angles, not obsession.
I’ll be at SfN talking about our recent attempt at analyzing the brain during Hide & Seek using Unsupervised learning and reverse physiology.
@bagibence
@BrechtLab
If you are interested in exploring the biological bases of animal natural cognition, consider joining me and a superb neuroscience community at
@PennSAS
@PennMindCORE
@PennNGG
. I’ll be recruiting curious, diverse and driven people at all levels to start 2025. Get in touch!
Dejo acá una herramienta para visualización de datos del Covid-19 centrado sudamerica. La aplicación fue desarrollada por mi colega
@jjennychenn
con quien tradujimos su aplicación de US para nuestros paises sudamericanos. Ahi fue
#CoronavirusSudamerica
It was previously thought there was no sound in outer space, but now NASA has released the sound waves they picked up from a black hole.
This is wild 🤯
Did you know that rats enjoy playing hide and seek? We did not 😱 That's why we invited Juan Ignacio Sanguinetti-Scheck
@neurotheo
from
@Harvard
University to
#ESISYNC2023
to enlighten us. Don’t hide, sign up for this fantastic talk and many more:
Mañana a las 22, en
@TVCIUDADuy
, información científica sobre la situación del
#agua
en Montevideo y el área metropolitana.
Y todo lo que te contamos acá 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
In Uruguay my colleagues suspended the first uruguayan congress for cognitive science. They put a ton of effort and work and money to get this going. Sadly they did the right thing. We are are small country, we need more neuroscientist visiting us. Please show them your support!
Very excited to see
@CamilleTestard
work out today in
@Nature
. Very proud! But also, scientifically elated. This is a huge milestone for social neuroscience, specially for research into the neural bases of primate bonds and social structures.
So immensely proud to see my PhD work out today in
@Nature
!
Combining neuroscience and ethology to an unprecedented degree in primates, we uncover neural signatures of social support and grooming reciprocity—building blocks of relationships.
🧵👇
I few months ago I was asked to Ratvocate by introucing the amazing “Ratatouille” for
@scienceonscreen
.
@thecoolidge
It was a total blast, mind my sensationalism, but the objective of transmitting love for rats get me.
Part of the lab will use cutting edge technology to study the fascinating brains and behaviors of the Agouti a large neotropical rodent in Panama.
@HikingHack
hat tip. Including ecology and field neuroscience!!
@stri_panama
✔️Ciclo
#Cient
íficosUruguayosPorElMundo 🇺🇾🌎
📣Entrevista: Juan Ignacio Sanguinetti (
#Neurociencias
-
@HumboldtUni
)
👉Investigador uruguayo estudia en Alemania 🇩🇪 la percepción de la espacialidad de los mamíferos
🔗
Hoy comenzó el III módulo del curso “Latin American Training Program (LATP): Molecules, Cells, and Circuits: Understanding the mechanisms of the nervous system"
Module III: Neural systems, cognition, genomics & behavior
🕘 L-V 9-12: Conferencias de asistencia libre
📍
@IIBCE
Here is how the method segments PFC states in a single trial. The bar below shows the most likely states inferred by the HMM (different colours), again, from neural data alone. Without information of behavior.
Festejamos 30 y te invitamos a ser parte. Vení con lo mejor de tu memoria, la necesitamos para proyectar futuro ¿Querés sumarte? Traé un recuerdo, una anécdota, una idea, una foto o decinos porqué te sumás a la celebración. Arrobanos y agregá
#Felices30Fcien
No se puede apoyar la precarización del trabajo científico al nivel doctoral (incluso mas de lo que ya está, falta de seguridad social, salud, sin crecimiento por inflación, etc)
Nice piece by
@DrShaena
about natural/ naturalistic behavior where I basically just mostly talk about
@jmkendallbar
paper and hence finding beauty where it needs to be found.
Básicamente esto es como si tuvieras varias obras de infraestructura continua en el país y no dieras los contratos a los trabajadores de obra. La obra no se hace y la inversión previa en la infraestructura se pierde.
Uno puede decir lo que quiera. Incluso opinar que hay otras cosas en que gastar la plata. Pero lo que no tiene sentido es decirle a los obreros que trabajen gratis. Si la obra se para, se para. Y hay que asumir las consecuencias de la pérdida de esa inversión. Ahora y mañana
Part of the idea of this paper was to learn more but also inspire new directions. Having
@edyong209
capture and spread the essence of that inspiration so beautifully is priceless.
O ya que estan de moda. El investigador doctoral es el golero, el libero, el 5 , el 10 , el carrilero que levanta el centro y el que cabecea en el area chica.
After hours of walking the Honduras clouded forest I managed to see my first male Resplendent Quetzal, only 5 meters away! The Quetzal being a featured symbol in Mayan civilization, a “god of the air”
If you are still around at
#SfN19
this afternoon come to talk to
@AnnikaReinhold
and me about Hide and Seek (Z36 and Z37) and
@Kon_Hart
about production of vocalizations at K17. If it happens that there is nobody there we can do a massive Hide and Seek game at the poster hall?
🏆👨🔬🧠
@ibroSecretariat
, organismo que nuclea a sociedades de
#neurociencias
del mundo desde 1961, otorgó el premio IBRO a Jóvenes Investigadores 2021 a
@TriasEmi
, investigador del
@IPMontevideo
, por su trabajo en envejecimiento celular y neurodegeneración. Felicitaciones!
#Hilo
@JuanRaFerreira
Mala comparación. El virus llega de afuera. Santa Fe no tiene Aeropuerto internacional, no tiene nuestro puerto, el primer caso en Santa Fe fue el 22 de marzo, 7 dias despues de que Argentina ya habia cerrado las fronteras y dos días despues del comienzo de la cuarentena
We look forward to welcoming Nacho Sanguinetti to
@Penn
next year!
Nacho joins Marlyse Baptista of
@PennLinguistics
as part of our "Interconnected Minds" cluster, mapping the relationship between individual minds & group behavior.
(Um, it is not always sunny in Philadelphia.)
@jspujji
@akshulg
Why do you emphatically unpersonalize this? Saying, not you, your code, as if that made it better. The experience is private and personal. Who gives a damn if the algo treats everything as a code? “Oh I’m not associating all this things to you, just your social security number”
Crazy amounts of fun visiting Konstanz. It is amazing the things they are capable of. Deep learning, drones, barns with movie tech, insane tanks, vr. And the subjects: Corals, fish, pigeons, zebras, robots, locusts. What a cool collective. Thanks
@icouzin
for hosting!
My country helped Australian and New Zealander passengers stuck in a Cruise ship with Covid-19 dissembark, get to the airport unimpeded and go back home. That, besides also caring for the sickest among them. Some of them still waiting in Uruguay to be able to get home safely.
Se arrodilló, le dio beso a nuestra tierra y se fue. Ahora sí, todos a bordo del avión, a nuestros queridos amigos australianos y neozelandeses les decimos: muy buen viaje y hasta muy pronto. Safe travels! Hope to see you back soon!
🇺🇾 🤝 🇦🇺 🇳🇿
This work started as soon as I started clustering single neurons in PFC recorded by
@AnnikaReinhold
@Kon_Hart
and I realized I could really just count the amount of trials of Hide and Seek by just seeing raw spiking data. Excuse the thumb.
Algo que note en estas semanas de lucha por divulgar el tsunami
#CoronavirusEnUruguay
que venia es lo poco que los uruguayos, los periodistas y los politicos siguen en twitter a sus propios cientificos. Me parece terrible. Hablando de redes y conexiones...abro hilo
Do I have too many animal models? Well, I made fairly complete archosaur & mammalian phylogenetic trees with them, so you tell me. And this is WITH me sticking to models that are roughly in scale with each other as a means of limiting my purchases. It’s... not very effective. 😅
Our lab will bring together neuroscience, early life experience, genetics, non-traditional animal models and field work to study how animals perform fascinating flexible behaviors. We will focus on the role of “Play” in development of behavioral flexibility.