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Kerry Walker

@kerrywalker.bsky.social
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Associate Professor in Auditory Neuroscience University of Oxford; Exeter College

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
If I did not have an excellent (long term) job, I would apply for this. What an adventure! jobs.ashbyhq.com/astera/e5cc7...
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Chief Operations Officer (COO) - Astera Neuro
COO - Astera Neuro
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
A distinct set of brain areas process prosody--the melody of speech www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Kerry Walker @kerrywalker.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Good Morning, San Diego! A hearty brunch to prepare for APAN tomorrow - the best day of SfN www.med.upenn.edu/apan/
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video
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Andrew Lampinen @lampinen.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
In neuroscience, we often try to understand systems by analyzing their representations — using tools like regression or RSA. But are these analyses biased towards discovering a subset of what a system represents? If you're interested in this question, check out our new commentary! Thread:
What do representations tell us about a system? Image of a mouse with a scope showing a vector of activity patterns, and a neural network with a vector of unit activity patterns
Common analyses of neural representations: Encoding models (relating activity to task features) drawing of an arrow from a trace saying [on_____on____] to a neuron and spike train. Comparing models via neural predictivity: comparing two neural networks by their R^2 to mouse brain activity. RSA: assessing brain-brain or model-brain correspondence using representational dissimilarity matrices
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...
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Being Too Helpful At Work Can Hurt Your Career—Here’s How To Say No
Women are more likely to take on behind-the-scenes duties at work—extra tasks like onboarding or event planning—and it's hurting their careers. Here's how to say no.
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Simon Schultz @simonschultz.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Imperial is hosting a workshop on volumetric imaging of neural circuit connectivity and dynamics on Jul 22nd. opticalneurophysiology.org?page_id=420 This international workshop brings together innovators and users of volumetric neural imaging technologies, with a particular focus on voltage imaging.
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Workshop | Optical Neurophysiology
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Exeter College, Oxford @exeter.ox.ac.uk · 05/06/2025
Today we came together in the Chapel to celebrate the people who make Exeter feel like home 🏡 — from tutors and scouts to friends and porters. Thank you to everyone who took part in our first Student–Staff Appreciation Event. Exeter, you are truly special ✨ #FloreatExon
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Society for Neuroscience @sfn.org · 29/05/2025
⏰ Don't procrastinate on your abstract submission! The #SfN25 abstract submission deadline is next week, Wednesday, June 4, 5 p.m. EDT. Early submission allows you more time to address any issues & beat the last-minute rush. Submit now. 🔗 bit.ly/3G5vEde #NeuroSky #AcademicChatter
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Eve Seuntjens @eveseuntjens.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
We're hiring! Our lab is looking for a postdoc to investigate the #evodevo of #cephalopod brains. Did you recently graduate, and do you want to join our EU #WEAVE project with the Simakov and @simon-sprecher.bsky.social labs? Find the application form👇Thanks for RT 🐙🦑 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
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Postdoctoral researcher in evolutionary developmental neurobiology
Come join our EU cephalopod consortium to discover how octopuses and other coleoids developed their large nervous system. Postdoc position available in the Seuntjens Lab in Leuven, Belgium.
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Kerry Walker @kerrywalker.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Thank you students of @exeter.ox.ac.uk for organising such a wonderful celebration of Women in STEM last Saturday. The future is bright! www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/celebrating-...
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Kerry Walker @kerrywalker.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Quite a cool study on snake antibodies development with an interesting backstory. A one man hero! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Snake venom protection by a cocktail of varespladib and broadly neutralizing human antibodies
To combat snake bites from diverse species, this work identifies broadly neutralizing antibodies from a donor hyperimmune to snake venom, and it demonstrates that a combination of two of the identifie...
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Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Trump proposes unprecedented budget cuts for US science in next fiscal year NASA cut by 24% NIH cut by 40% EPA cut by 55% NSF cut by 56% Analysis from @maxkozlov.bsky.social @dangaristo.bsky.social @alexwitze.bsky.social and @nature.com team www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Trump proposes unprecedented budget cuts to US science
Huge reductions, if enacted, could have ‘catastrophic’ effects on US competitiveness and the scientific pipeline, critics say.
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Hearing Health Foundation @hearinghealthfn.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Wowow!! >> www.popsci.com/science/see-... @popsci.com #brain
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See the most detailed map of human brain matter ever created
Explore the tiny 'pizza slice' down to the neuron.
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Brooke Jarvis @brookejarvis.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Today in charts www.cbc.ca/news/world/u...
A bar chart showing that there have been 134 fentanyl seizures at the border in the last two months... but 3,254 "egg-related" seizures
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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
It's all about the waves, cats Musical neurodynamics www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience
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Musical neurodynamics - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
In this Perspective article, Edward Large and colleagues examine the neuroscience of music, placing their focus on neural resonance theory, which summarizes how the dynamics of fundamental neural mech...
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Kerry Walker @kerrywalker.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Writing this took some guts, but we are all thinking it.
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Kerry Walker @kerrywalker.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Used Google Colab for the first time today to teach undergraduates how to analyse spike data. Have to say, I was very impressed with how it allows a novice to easily use Python. 👍🏻👍🏻
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Kerry Walker @kerrywalker.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
OMG, I just realised that my daughter designed the DeepSeek logo 5 years ago, when she was 3yo.
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Ian Karmel @iankarmel.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
"What should we make electric cars sound like?" "A choir of wailing ghosts." *everyone laughs* "Okay, but really, guys." *nine hours later* "So we're going with the choir of wailing ghosts?"
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Kerry Walker @kerrywalker.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Oxford University Park this morning, or cortical layers II/III? @oxforddpag.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk
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Kerry Walker @kerrywalker.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
As a J Neuroscience editor, may I take this moment to say a sincere "thank you" to those of you who suggest other suitable reviewers when you have to turn down an invitation to review. This is incredibly helpful to the peer review process. 🤗
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Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
when the star on the tree is an actual star lol A NASA photo of the Christmas Tree Cluster 🎄
A NASA photo of NGC 2264- a cosmic tree that has been named the Christmas Tree Cluster which lives in our galaxy about 2,500 light-years from Earth. It contains baby stars that are between 1 and 5 million years old 🥺
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
You there - what day is it? Why sir, it's stylish but illegal ikea monkey day Stylish but illegal ikea monkey day! Then I haven't missed it!!
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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Order matters: neurons in the human brain fire in sequences that encode information www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Order matters: neurons in the human brain fire in sequences that encode information
A timing-based code for semantic knowledge in humans complements the established role of firing rates in neural coding.
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Jenny Bizley @bizleylab.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Want to start your own lab at the @uclofficial.bsky.social Ear Institute? You have 8 days left to apply to this round of our fellowship sponsorship scheme! www.ucl.ac.uk/ear/research... #neuroscience #neuroskyence #hearing #auditoryneuroscience
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Kerry Walker @kerrywalker.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Having served as an editor for 2 journals, I honestly can not fathom the level of negligence required to let something like this through.
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Maria Geffen @geffenlab.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Deadline for applying to the EARS trainee seminar is Nov. 25. If you would like to submit an abstract, but need more time, please reach out to me.
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Kerry Walker @kerrywalker.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Inspiring move, MIT. The world needs more of this.
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