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Jonah Pearl

@j4jonahp.bsky.social
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Neuroscientist grad student, singer, runner.

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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
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How Vivek Ramaswamy’s mom manipulated Alzheimer’s data and made her son rich
Vivek Ramaswamy, a billionaire and the Republican nominee in Ohio’s gubernatorial race, served as the frontman for a dubious pharmaceutical company and then cashed out weeks before its dramatic crash.
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Jonah Pearl @j4jonahp.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
We use pyControl for freely moving tasks in mice and it’s excellent! Easy to code, customize, reliable, and a good user interface.
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Prediction without understanding sustained astronomy through a thousand years of epicycles, writes @tonyzador.bsky.social. AI is now offering neuroscience the same deal. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/machine-lear...
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Can AI do neuroscience without understanding?
Prediction without understanding sustained astronomy through a thousand years of epicycles. Artificial intelligence is now offering neuroscience the same deal.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
“My patient is refusing a drug studied in 170,000 people because of side effects that a 124,000-person analysis just confirmed do not exist — while injecting a compound studied in 14 humans, from unregulated sources, based on the recommendation of someone who profits from selling it.”
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My patient would rather take a peptide than a statin. That reveals an uncomfortable truth in medicine
“The volume of evidence behind a therapy has become inversely correlated with public trust in it,” writes Vikas Patel.
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hellabores92.bsky.social @hellabores92.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
open.substack.com/pub/elizabet... Another thoughtful article from Elizabeth Ginexi on the dramatic reduction in the Notice of Funding Opportunities (NOFO) published by the NIH in 2025 and 2026.
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I Wrote Research Funding Announcements for NIH for 22 Years. This Year They’ve Published 14
How NIH went from 756 funding announcements to 14 in two years — and what it means for every disease that depends on federal research
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Jonah Pearl @j4jonahp.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
(E.g., I could imagine using opto-DA to match DA amplitudes / avoid the water-restriction regime where the mice probably find the waiting period betw trials to be somewhat aversive)
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Jonah Pearl @j4jonahp.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Lovely work! Do you all know or have a guess about the extent to which the differences in DA amplitudes (eg Fig 2C, ~4% vs. ~15% cue-evoked df/f on day 8) are driving the diff in learning rate, vs. the delay per se?
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Jonah Pearl @j4jonahp.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
I like the idea of something like the seafood or egg recommendations you see in grocery stores: www.seafoodwatch.org/recommendati.... Maybe with ratings being a combination of author-dependent, formal review-dependent, and open-source factors.
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Jonah Pearl @j4jonahp.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Enjoying this thoroughly
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Jonah Pearl @j4jonahp.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Ohh the Stabat Mater — can’t say I knew that one had an organ either, but I thought you meant New World :)
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Jonah Pearl @j4jonahp.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
There’s an organ in that piece??
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Jonah Pearl @j4jonahp.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Shame that the video gets de-sync’d by the end of it — I see that a lot in these old recordings on YouTube, makes me want to download them and fix em.
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Jonah Pearl @j4jonahp.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
My YouTube app has a glitch where the section titles are from the last video I watched…so the exposition was “infusing the ice cream base” (with cedar bark), development “smoke infuser”, adagio “cedar smoked chocolate”, and the finale “tasting the ice cream”. Fitting for a delicious symphony!
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Jonah Pearl @j4jonahp.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
“The Bluebird” by Stanford is a great one: open.spotify.com/track/2RxLbH...
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The Bluebird
Charles Villiers Stanford, The Choral Project · One is the All · Song · 2006
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Jonah Pearl @j4jonahp.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Agreed!
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Jonah Pearl @j4jonahp.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I know this is partly in jest, but the takeaway from the first paper here (and plenty of others like it) is that theta and breathing rhythms co-exist. Most LFP’s aren’t “just” related to breathing :) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Parallel detection of theta and respiration-coupled oscillations throughout the mouse brain - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Parallel detection of theta and respiration-coupled oscillations throughout the mouse brain
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