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Alana Darcher

@alanadarcher.bsky.social
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phd student studying how human brains process naturalistic stimuli \\ @humansingleneuron.bsky.social & @mackelab.bsky.social alanadarcher.com

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Shervin Safavi @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We are thrilled 🥳 to share that we’re joining forces with @roxana-zeraati.bsky.social to establish a joint research unit, @cmc-unit.bsky.social integrating embodied and natural decision making across species! We also have open PhD and postdoc positions (check below for more info) 🎉
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Alana Darcher @alanadarcher.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The main actors (JGL + Zooey Deschanel) weren't well known in Germany when data collection started c. 2012. The aim was to show a movie with a cast that would be largely unfamiliar for the patients. Coincidentally, another group used 500 Days in an fMRI study too! (Link in paper intro)
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Alana Darcher @alanadarcher.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
It was!
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Alana Darcher @alanadarcher.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
thanks!
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Alana Darcher @alanadarcher.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
oh shoot it's a one-time download link
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Alana Darcher @alanadarcher.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
And many thanks to: Johannes Niediek, @mskehl.bsky.social @treber.bsky.social @stefanieliebe.bsky.social @lauranett.bsky.social Attila Racz @lukaskunz.bsky.social @bstaresina.bsky.social @rachelrapp.bsky.social @ppjgoncalves.bsky.social @ismailelezi.bsky.social Valeri Borger & Rainer Surges!
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Alana Darcher @alanadarcher.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
A huge thank you to all the patients who agreed to watch this 2009 gem of millennial culture, with big thanks to @franzigrkn.bsky.social, and to @humansingleneuron.bsky.social, @jakhmack.bsky.social, and @lealtaixe.bsky.social for their support! 🙌
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Alana Darcher @alanadarcher.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
🌐 Data Availability: The dataset is publicly available and ready to use! 🔗 dandiarchive.org/dandiset/001... Codebase: github.com/mormannlab/S... We hope this serves as a valuable resource for the community! 🚀
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DANDI Archive
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Alana Darcher @alanadarcher.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
💡 main highlights: • 2,286 neurons from 29 patients, same 83-minute movie • 53 different binary, frame‑wise annotations aligned to 125,000+ movie frames. • Aligned to a common time scale • NWB format + code for loading + synching & recommended temporal splits + machine‑learning‑ready pipelines.
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Alana Darcher @alanadarcher.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
📊 tldr: 2200+ neurons from 29 different (human) patients who all watched the same movie, plus 50+ frame-level content annotations single- & multi-units from: • amygdala • hippocampus • entorhinal cortex • parahippocampal cortex & others during the movie “500 Days of Summer” 🌇
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Alana Darcher @alanadarcher.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
🎉 *extremely* excited to share our human single neuron + movie dataset is out in #ScientificData! 📄 Human neuron activity during an 83-minute movie from 2,286 neurons and 29 patients 🔗https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-026-07955-0 1st public dataset from @humansingleneuron.bsky.social!🧵
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Alana Darcher @alanadarcher.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
post-con album cover
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Alana Darcher @alanadarcher.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
How is the semantic content of a movie processed by our brains? 🧠🎬 We decode characters, events, & other features and investigate how populations and single neurons represent movie features. Check my poster @sfn.org #sfn25! Sat. Nov 15, 6:45-8:45pm, Hall E, poster S5 Wed. Nov 19, 9-10am, poster NN5
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Semantic Tuning of Single Neurons in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Alana Darcher @alanadarcher.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
excited to have gotten to work on this super cool project!
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Machine Learning in Science @mackelab.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
The Macke lab is well-represented at the @bernsteinneuro.bsky.social conference in Frankfurt this year! We have lots of exciting new work to present with 7 posters (details👇) 1/9
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Richard Gao @rdgao.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Manuel Brenner and I managed to organize this workshop not knowing we were gonna end up being new neighbors this month. The lineup speaks for itself. There were some last minute cancellations so we jumped in to fill their big shoes and will talk about the future directions of the new labs too!
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Reuben Binns @rdbinns.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
New paper out today, accepted at #FAccT2025, led by Jake Stein and me: "Not Even Nice Work If You Can Get It; A Longitudinal Study of Uber's Algorithmic Pay and Pricing" arxiv.org/abs/2506.15278 Over the last 3 years, we've been working with @workerinfox.bsky.social to audit Uber's algorithms. 1/
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Not Even Nice Work If You Can Get It; A Longitudinal Study of Uber's Algorithmic Pay and Pricing
Ride-sharing platforms like Uber market themselves as enabling `flexibility' for their workforce, meaning that drivers are expected to anticipate when and where the algorithm will allocate them jobs, ...
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Tim Behrens @behrenstimb.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
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Kayson Fakhar @kayson.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Coming to OCNS this year? Let’s hang out!
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Alana Darcher @alanadarcher.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
@graphcrimes.bsky.social
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Patrick Mineault @patrickmineault.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
The Foundation Model crew at #COSYNE2025. With @josueortc.bsky.social , @colehurwitz.bsky.social , @averyryoo.bsky.social , @nandahkrishna.bsky.social , @auschulz.bsky.social
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Alana Darcher @alanadarcher.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
@dorisdijk.bsky.social hallo hallo 🧠
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Alana Darcher @alanadarcher.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
🧠🔍 Featuring talks by: Jonathan Daume (hippocampal dynamics + WM) Sina Mackay (concept cells + memory formation) @ilonavieten.bsky.social (attention modulation + single neurons) @muthujeyanthi.bsky.social (gamma osc. during sequence tasks) and me (decoding semantic info during movies)!
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Alana Darcher @alanadarcher.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Coming to #NWG Göttingen and interested in single neurons, LFP, & human memory? Check out our upcoming symposium! 🧠 Investigating memory using human single-neuron recordings 📅 Fri. 28/3, 11:30-13:30 | 📍 Hall 8 @neurowissg.bsky.social Co-org w/ @ilonavieten.bsky.social
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Jakob Macke @jakhmack.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Workshop on Foundation Models at Cosyne, also featuring @auschulz.bsky.social!
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Jan-Matthis Lueckmann @janmatthis.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
⚡️ Excited to introduce ZAPBench, our #ICLR2025 spotlight: The Zebrafish Activity Prediction Benchmark measures progress in predicting neural activity within an entire vertebrate brain (70k+ neurons!) Explore interactive visualizations, datasets, code + paper: google-research.github.io/zapbench 🧠🧪
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ZAPBench
ZAPBench evaluates how well different models can predict the activity of over 70,000 neurons in a novel larval zebrafish dataset.
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Lukas Kunz @lukaskunz.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Happy to share our new preprint on cognitive maps and human spatial memory! Led by @lauranett.bsky.social, together with @timaguth.bsky.social and @philippbuchel.bsky.social Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Task for easy re-use: github.com/BonnSpatialM... Code: github.com/BonnSpatialM...
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Behavioral investigation of allocentric and egocentric cognitive maps in human spatial memory
Spatial memory is a fundamental cognitive function that enables humans and other species to encode and recall the locations of items in their environments. Humans employ diverse strategies to support ...
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Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit @gatsbyucl.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
📢 Apply now for the 7-week #Mathematics #SummerSchool in London! You will develop mathematics skills and intuition necessary to enter the #TheoreticalNeuroscience or #MachineLearning field. ℹ️ www.ucl.ac.uk/gatsby/study-and-work/gatsby-bridging-programme Please help spread the word!
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Machine Learning in Science @mackelab.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Thrilled to announce we have three #NeurIPS2024 papers! Interested in simulating realistic neural data with diffusion models or recurrent neural networks, or in source distribution sorcery? Have a look 👇 1/4
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Machine Learning in Science @mackelab.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Hi world! This is the brand-new BlueSky account of the Machine Learning in Science (@jakhmack.bsky.social) lab. We create probabilistic #MachineLearning and #AI Tools for scientific discovery — but more on that soon! For now let’s introduce ourselves with some pictures of our recent group retreat.
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