Reposted by Gal AtlanGuy Bouvier @gbouvier.bsky.social · 18/10/2025🧵 New paper out🚨🧠! Information about motion is key to vision. Head motion signals from the vestibular system robustly modulate visual cortex activity. Despite this profound modulation, we still don’t know how these signals reach visual cortex - or even what aspects of head motion are transmitted. 1258
Reposted by Gal AtlanYuval Nir @labnir.bsky.social · 10/09/2025🚨 New paper alert! 🚨(1/6) Excited to share our work, out now in Science Advances We show that a rapid norepinephrine surge along a brainstem pathway (LC→PRN) is a key driver of sound-evoked awakenings www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...science.orgAn early surge of norepinephrine along brainstem pathways drives sensory-evoked awakeningThe locus coeruleus has a specialized pathway to the brainstem that controls sound-evoked awakening from sleep. 12710
Reposted by Gal AtlanCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 02/03/2025I'm putting together a slide illustrating how generative AI is being forced on people even though they don't want it, and this is sort of funny. Here's are Google's autocomplete suggestions for "google gemini how to", and Bing's autocomplete suggestions for for "microsoft copilot how to". 281192365
Reposted by Gal AtlanDr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 19/02/2025If the block on the Federal Register isn’t removed in the next few months, I fear a majority of labs will close within a year. This small procedural wrench has the power to kill US science indefinitely, losing an entire generation of discovery and innovation. 241034510
Reposted by Gal AtlanCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/2025Thinking back on all this I better understand the pain I feel to see science under devastating attack here. It’s not just about my livelihood or my university. It’s about my identity. And it’s about a pursuit that I see as standing along with art, literature, and music as among our highest callings. 481484195
Reposted by Gal AtlanAndré K. Isaacs @drdre4000.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Just got word that our Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Inclusive Excellence 3 (IE3) Grant was being canceled. All 100+ institutions. So even private funding is susceptible to this administration’s unraveling of DEI initiatives 40412213
Gal Atlan @galatlan.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Maybe they will ask chatGPT which applications should be funded. 100
Gal Atlan @galatlan.bsky.social · 16/01/2025media.tenor.coma yellow light is shining in the dark on a black background .ALT: a yellow light is shining in the dark on a black background . 000
Reposted by Gal AtlanRob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 15/01/2025I don’t want to make a fuckin account to use my toaster. I don’t want to fuckin subscribe to software. I don’t want to create a fuckin profile to watch TV. I don’t want to fuckin register my whatever to unlock whatever. I don’t want to download a fuckin app to access anything. Death to new logins 223115722781
Reposted by Gal AtlanAdam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 22/11/2024A list of bands in order of efficacy: 3. Placebo 2. The Cure 1. Prevention 476241613036
Gal Atlan @galatlan.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Check, check... Let's see how long this one lasts before it devolves into hateful rants and spam! 120