Elnaz Alikarami @elnaza.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Well, I am finally a Canadian, Though instead of writing all proud happy, this has been my home, etc. All I can say is that, I feel nothing special, I have lots of philosophical dilemmas swirling around in my head. What a time to be a Canadian for an original Iranian. 030
Elnaz Alikarami @elnaza.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Academic practice is universal, beneficial to all, it should be protected universally and treated globally as well. 011
Reposted by Elnaz Alikaramimegan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Neuromatch has been denied our Office of Foreign Assets Control "Iran license" renewal. We had renewed successfully before, but now our request is “inconsistent with current U.S. foreign policy.” I am absolutely gutted by this denial. 69040
Elnaz Alikarami @elnaza.bsky.social · 30/04/20261) Over the past 6 years, I’ve had the privilege of contributing to the inclusion of Iran in Neuromatch.I witnessed how much it can change lives.For many Iranian researchers, opportunities like Neuromatch were never just educational programs,but were rare bridges to a global scientific community.neuromatch.how 151
Elnaz Alikarami @elnaza.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Lately, I have joined to a prominent team of AI solutions for e-commerce. The team is focused on fostering a system that makes digital environment aligned with human cognition. It is fun to do applied neuroscience research. This is the very first step, read my piece: medium.com/@elnaz.karam...medium.comE-commerce Is Not a Platform. It’s a Cognitive SystemYou open an online store. Hundreds of products. You scroll. Pause. Compare. And somehow… it feels harder, not easier. 010
Elnaz Alikarami @elnaza.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Universities are supposed to be a censers of learning and hope, not targets. Striking them, whatever the justification, erodes norms that protect science, knowledge, civilization, and future of the next generation. Academics, don’t let that become normal… #SharifUniversity #academia #war 010
Reposted by Elnaz AlikaramiAmirreza Bahramani @amir137.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Last night, US/Israeli strikes bombed Sharif University, my alma mater, heavily damaging the IT Center, Philosophy of Science building, EE, and more. Trump spoke of sending Iran "back to the Stone Age." That is the goal of this war. Scientists worldwide should speak up against these atrocities. 03115
Elnaz Alikarami @elnaza.bsky.social · 04/04/20261) This is the Laser and Plasma Research Institute at Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, following recent airstrikes. As a neuroscientist, it’s gut-wrenching to see. This facility was pioneering optical methods to visualize neural activity in real-time. Said purely academic reseache center, 120
Reposted by Elnaz AlikaramiAthena Akrami @athenaakrami.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Pasteur Institute of Iran, founded in 1920 now destroyed by Israel-US bombing😞 It played a pivotal role in developing vaccines & public health services, for over a century, now gone😞 A few days ago a pharmaceutical plant was bombed, accused of making anesthetic fentanyl #War #PasteurInstituteIran 11276190
Elnaz Alikarami @elnaza.bsky.social · 24/03/2026What if heat and cold weren’t just experiences but signals? Wearables are turning thermal exposure into something we can actually observe: how the body reacts, and how it recovers. Short piece on this idea: medium.com/@elnaz.karam...medium.comHeat, Cold, and the Measurable BodyFor a long time, heat and cold belonged mostly to feeling. 000
Elnaz Alikarami @elnaza.bsky.social · 04/02/2026#Science-community, please read this and try to support your colleagues #Iran www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comCalling all scientists: Support your Iranian colleaguesLetter to the Editor 000
Reposted by Elnaz AlikaramiAthena Akrami @athenaakrami.bsky.social · 14/01/2026We're already in the phase that each of us (Iranians) by now know someone killed/injured in our circle of friends/family. And this is despite the continued internet blackout, when millions haven't still managed to hear from their family/friends since Thursday, January 8th. This tells a lot ... 😥😥 04213
Elnaz Alikarami @elnaza.bsky.social · 13/01/2026It’s becoming almost a year that I started looking for a job. Yes, I’ll never forgive my former employer for what he did to me. But what was harder is the prejudice and discriminationI face here everyday to get my life in back in order. I was thinking of moving back home. Now where is home? #iran 010
Reposted by Elnaz AlikaramiAntoine Bergel @antbergel.bsky.social · 29/12/2025⚠️ New paper alert and what a way to end 2025! 🎉 Happy to share our story “Sleep-dependent infraslow rhythms are evolutionarily conserved across reptiles and mammals.” published today in Nature Neuroscience. Sleeping dragons 🦎 and functional ultrasound! Read the full paper here: rdcu.be/eWJHb 1/8rdcu.beSleep-dependent infraslow rhythms are evolutionarily conserved across reptiles and mammalsNature Neuroscience - Bergel et al. show that an infraslow rhythm connecting the brain and body during sleep is shared by lizards, mammals and birds, revealing an ancestral process and reshaping... 310137
Elnaz Alikarami @elnaza.bsky.social · 13/12/20251. My take away from this is A good scientist and a professor should have accountability: Konrad says sorry! Doesn’t say we all make mistakes but the paper found its way anyways… he took the responsibility and apologized. Something that academics should learn. 130
Reposted by Elnaz AlikaramiKonrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · 05/12/2025New post: The Electric Motor and the Drill LLM chat bots are like electric motors: can do anything, bad at everything. The problem is UI/UX. AI should be more like power tools. I built a science planner around this philosophy. 10,000 scientists use it now. open.substack.com/pub/kording/...open.substack.comThe Electric Motor and the Drill - we use AI in the wrong wayPower tools are better than general purpose tools for most applications, my science planning app planyourscience.com is a result of this philosophy 0113
Elnaz Alikarami @elnaza.bsky.social · 11/11/20251.Ok, If I say something like this to my uncle/MP, I’ll probably hear: “Sure, science is important —but when unemployment kills and families can’t pay rent, why should taxpayers cover lifetime salaries, and multi-million-dollar labs for basic research?” honestly, that’s not an unreasonable question. 100
Elnaz Alikarami @elnaza.bsky.social · 05/11/2025As a person transitioning from research to clinic/industry back and forth, I only wish that researchers could understand that science is not under attack, scientists aren't under attack, not even their approach, their manner of practice is…, only if they understood this and improved themselves… 000
Reposted by Elnaz AlikaramiAdrian Duszkiewicz @adrian-du.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Thrilled to announce I'll be joining the Division of Neuroscience at @manchester.ac.uk as a Lecturer in Feb '26! The DuLab will explore how the brain integrates sensory streams into internal maps 🌐 using the rodent head-direction circuit, the 'neural compass', as a starting point for the journey 🧭 11654
Reposted by Elnaz AlikaramiAdrian Duszkiewicz @adrian-du.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Really excited to share this Opinion piece we've been working on with fellow head-direction cell geeks @apeyrache.bsky.social @desdemonafricker.bsky.social and (bsky-less?) Andrea Burgalossi! While head-direction cells pop up in many cortical regions, we think that one of them is quite unique (1/8)sciencedirect.comThe postsubiculum as a head-direction cortexThe organisation of thalamocortical networks follows a conserved structure. Traditionally, these are divided into primary sensory systems that receive… 24618
Reposted by Elnaz AlikaramiGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 15/10/2025Deeply embarrassing that Scientific American would lend its name to this claptrap. 733345
Elnaz Alikarami @elnaza.bsky.social · 15/10/20251/ I’ve lived this, I’ve studied it, and I’m using my experience to highlight broader inequities that many of us face. BUT I wrote this piece solely with a researcher’s eye 👀 It’s not a personal account. It’s an evidence-based look at how “fit” shapes belonging and power. medium.com/@elnaz.karam...medium.comMedium 120
Reposted by Elnaz AlikaramiGrace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Fyi if you're an educator looking for videos about the brain and/or how neuroscience is done, check out @brainfacts.org's YouTube page: youtube.com/@brainfactsorg It includes submissions to their Brain Awareness Week video contest, which can be quite fun! #neuroskyenceyoutube.comBrainFacts.orgBrainFacts.org is an authoritative source of information about the brain and nervous system for the public. The site is a public information initiative of The Kavli Foundation, the Gatsby Charitable F... 23814
Reposted by Elnaz AlikaramiShahab Bakhtiari @shahabbakht.bsky.social · 30/09/2025So excited to see this preprint released from the lab into the wild. Charlotte has developed a theory for how learning curriculum influences learning generalization. Our theory makes straightforward neural predictions that can be tested in future experiments. (1/4) 🧠🤖 🧠📈 #MLSky 34010
Reposted by Elnaz AlikaramiGuillaume Dumas @introspection.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Honored to be awarded the FRQ–IVADO Research Chair in "Social Neuro-AI & Inter-Personalized Psychiatry"! Grateful to my team & colleagues at @cra-chusj.bsky.social & @mila-quebec.bsky.social, and my family for their support 🙏 Excited to keep bridging social neuroscience, AI & precision psychiatry🚀 8286
Reposted by Elnaz AlikaramiSylvain Baillet @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Today is my first day as Director, Research & Innovation and CRCHUM Research Centre @crchum.bsky.social (University of Montreal's main Research & Teaching Hospital). Also starting a new research group @umontreal.ca. Stay tuned for updates along this new collective journey! 5552
Reposted by Elnaz AlikaramiMIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 01/10/2025"I feel that there’s nothing more important than to pass on, to my son, the little piece of nothing and everything that I’ve observed — the happiness that comes from watching a dragonfly, spider, frog, lizard, elephant, parrot, mouse, orangutan, or ladybug."thereader.mitpress.mit.eduSelf-Medicating Chimps, Pugilistic Shrimp, and Other Remarkable Animals: An Illustrated GuideA catalog of wondrous beings, excerpted from Emmanuelle Pouydebat's book "Atlas of Poetic Zoology." 0131
Reposted by Elnaz AlikaramiWIRED @wired.com · 01/10/2025Jane Goodall understood better than most the impact humans have had on the planet. Having witnessed so much environmental deterioration during her lifetime, she was as much an activist as a scientist. Read our piece from 2024 on the legendary primatologist. 💚wired.comJane Goodall Thinks It’s Not Too Late to Save the WorldThe world, the famed primatologist says, isn’t what it used to be—but there’s still time to save it, if we treat crises like climate change, biodiversity loss, and poverty as one. 7703180
Elnaz Alikarami @elnaza.bsky.social · 22/09/2025I am playing with Muse device as a part of my work, Today I tried the resistance meditation that is centered around refuge. I realized that I have no stability refuge except my family, which are in Iran so not a real refuge… I am more nervous after my meditation now 🤦♀️ 000
Reposted by Elnaz AlikaramiBlake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · 18/09/2025The CTRL-Labs decoding model paper is out! Saw this presented at Cosyne this year, very cool to see it out. I would say this is the clearest demonstration of scaling laws in neural decoding to-date. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧠📈 🧪nature.comA generic non-invasive neuromotor interface for human-computer interaction - NatureA high-bandwidth neuromotor interface offers performant out-of-the-box generalization across people. 1346
Reposted by Elnaz AlikaramiDan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 17/09/2025If you're interested in spiking neural networks, you should know about surrogate gradient descent and @fzenke.bsky.social's SPyTorch tutorial which shows just how easy it is to apply this method that's changing the whole field. Check out my paean below. 👇 0252
Reposted by Elnaz Alikaramihakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 17/09/2025www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... my wife (2nd author) just published in Cell working from home is not without pressure you know? #neurosciencesciencedirect.comDistinct circuit motifs evaluate opposing innate values of odorsEvaluating the innate value of objects is critical for expressing adaptive behaviors. However, where and how this computation takes place in the brain… 2396
Elnaz Alikarami @elnaza.bsky.social · 17/09/2025I am digging into use of HRV in sleep research with the folks in the field. In my latest article, I unpack the science of HRV biofeedback—and how wearable tech is translating this from controlled lab settings into everyday use for stress, sleep, and performance. medium.com/@elnaz.karam...medium.comHeart Rate Variability, Biofeedback, and the Future of Personalized RegulationYour heartbeat is more than just a rhythm. The autonomic nervous system orchestrates rapid adjustments to maintain balance across… 130
Reposted by Elnaz AlikaramiKatharina Schmack @kathaschmack.bsky.social · 14/09/2025"Sleep, like aging, may be an inescapable consequence of aerobic metabolism." Really enjoyed this thought-provoking paper 🧠💤🪰 - congrats to @rafsarnataro.bsky.social and team on this impressive work! No wonder the Krebs cycle always put me to sleep 😅 #neuroskyence 46815
Elnaz Alikarami @elnaza.bsky.social · 16/09/2025This is a great input I received. To respond that: 1/ Social influence doesn’t stop at politics or media—it’s present in science too. Scientists are not immune to bandwagon effects—repeated claims in literature can start to feel more “true” (illusory truth effect), even when replication is weak. 341
Reposted by Elnaz AlikaramiThe Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 15/09/2025International collaborations enable the sharing of resources and expertise, as well as more broadly applicable and reproducible results. But new U.S. federal funding restrictions are putting them in jeopardy, writes @lucinauddin.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/funding/inte...thetransmitter.orgInternational scientific collaboration is more necessary—yet more challenging—than everThese partnerships accelerate neuroscience by enabling researchers to share resources and expertise, as well as generate more relevant and reproducible results. But new federal funding restrictions in... 0148
Reposted by Elnaz AlikaramiDan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 04/09/2025Is anarchist science possible? As an experiment, we got together a large group of computational neuroscientists from around the world to work on a single project without top down direction. Read on to find out what happened. 🤖🧠🧪 27528
Reposted by Elnaz AlikaramiBlake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · 15/09/2025For those interested in open neuroscience learning tools, check out the preprint for “RetINaBox: A hands-on tool for experimental neuroscience" that a couple students in my lab worked on in collaboration with the Trenholm lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧠📈 🧪biorxiv.orgRetINaBox: A hands-on learning tool for experimental neuroscienceAn exciting aspect of neuroscience research is developing and testing hypotheses via experimentation. However, due to logistical and financial hurdles, this compelling part of neuroscience research is... 45719
Reposted by Elnaz AlikaramiDan Levenstein @dlevenstein.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Such a fun collaboration to be a part of! Turns out, like many things in the brain, inhibition-stabilization is the answer. 👀🧭⚖️ 0223
Elnaz Alikarami @elnaza.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Have you ever changed your mind in a meeting, not for evidence but because everyone else agreed? There’s neuroscience to explore 🧠 I just published a piece on how the brain rewards consensus, why repetition feels like truth, and what that means in the age of the infodemic. medium.com/@elnaz.karam...medium.comThe Neuroscience of Social Influence: How Our Brains Shape BeliefHave you ever noticed yourself doubting your own opinion after seeing everyone else agree on something different? Or felt a sudden… 130
Elnaz Alikarami @elnaza.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Just published on Medium: Combating the Infodemic. Personal experience as an Iranian: I’ve felt overwhelmed by headlines during the recent Iran–Israel war—proof of how framing shapes what we feel + believe. Based on brilliant research of @profsanderlinden.bsky.social medium.com/@elnaz.karam...medium.comCombating the Infodemic: The Subtle Art of Propaganda Through News Framing and How to Spot ItHave you ever read a headline that felt true but left you uneasy — like it was nudging you toward a conclusion without saying it outright… 041
Reposted by Elnaz AlikaramiAndrew Iwaniuk @evoneuro.bsky.social · 20/08/2025For anyone interested in an academic job in 🇨🇦, we will soon be advertising an Assistant Prof position in Systems Neuroscience (rodents and other animal models) at ULethbridge. There are many pros and cons of working here, so feel free to DM me to find out more #neuroskyence #academicsky 06741
Elnaz Alikarami @elnaza.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Dear community, It’s been a long job search, and being Iranian, even while based in Canada, has sometimes limited my options. But I’m still pushing forward 🌱. I bring a diverse set of skills and a scientific mindset, and I’m excited to find my next role. 121
Reposted by Elnaz AlikaramiKonrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Planning your first scientific project as the term is about to start? Teaching a project based course? I am working on an app that should help. planyourscience.com Still looking for feedback. Much simpler than any previous version. Works on mobile. Good science, much AI.planyourscience.comScientific Paper PlannerScientific Paper Planner Application 4338
Elnaz Alikarami @elnaza.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Who could answer these questions better than this? Bloody AI...! 010
Reposted by Elnaz AlikaramiSTITCHES Medicine - the Best of Medical Research @medicine.stitches.today · 24/07/2025A groundbreaking cohort study reveals that multi-modal AI models enhance disease prediction by integrating rich lifestyle and health data. by Reicher L, Shilo S (...) Segal E et 35 al. in Nat Med #MedSky 👉 get more here 📖 read the article: nature.comDeep phenotyping of health–disease continuum in the Human Phenotype Project - Nature MedicineDeep phenotyping of an ancestrally diverse group of 13,000 individuals in the Human Phenotype Project highlights diversity and variations in lifestyle factors, clinical features and molecular signatures of health and disease. 033
Elnaz Alikarami @elnaza.bsky.social · 17/07/2025Demetrios is definitely one of the most fun conference hosts I’ve ever seen! Thank you @mlopscommunity.bsky.social for a day full of things to learn and so much fun. 000
Reposted by Elnaz AlikaramiRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 17/07/2025Echo Chamber xkcd.com/3116/ 142330228
Reposted by Elnaz AlikaramiBlake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Super excited to see this paper from Armin Lak & colleagues out! (I've seen @saxelab.bsky.social present it before.) www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... tl;dr: The learning trajectories that individual mice take correspond to different saddle points in a deep net's loss landscape. 🧠📈 🧪 #NeuroAIcell.comDopamine encodes deep network teaching signals for individual learning trajectoriesLongitudinal tracking of long-term learning behavior and striatal dopamine reveals that dopamine teaching signals shape individually diverse yet systematic learning trajectories, captured mathematical... 58317
Reposted by Elnaz AlikaramiDan Levenstein @dlevenstein.bsky.social · 11/07/2025Anyone have a good concrete example of this being successfully applied in neuroscience? #neuroskyence #compneuro 393