Mayank Mehta @mayankmehta.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Prestigious, fully funded, 3 yearlong postdoctoral fellowship ($90,000/year salary plus benefits) in neural computation and NeuroAI is available starting October 2027. The Candidate must have a very strong CV, including empirical publications. See our lab's page for our research directions. 076
Mayank Mehta @mayankmehta.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I will speak about "Novel virtual reality for enhanced diagnosis, translation and treatment of memory disorders" National Institute of Aging (NIA) Webinar on this Wednesday, September 2 at 2:50pm EST (11:50Pacific). Registeration is free: nih.zoomgov.com/webinar/regi... 011
Reposted by Mayank MehtaScott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 19/02/2026UK: Prince Andrew arrested. South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life. Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence. USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers. 199150415602
Mayank Mehta @mayankmehta.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Imagine having the power to move the entire global stock market with a few words. One sentence—and trillions evaporate. Then buy the dip, and say the opposite words, and rake in billions over night. Then repeat. Only one personn has that secret power, its called tariffs other threats. 030
Mayank Mehta @mayankmehta.bsky.social · 31/12/2025Bye bye 2025, a divisive year, with many divisors: 3, 5, 9, 15, 25, 27, 45, 75, 81, 135, 225, 405, 675. Happy 2026 = 2*1013 Just two primes Cheers! 1216
Mayank Mehta @mayankmehta.bsky.social · 23/11/2025Welcome to USA, after you watch this NYT documentary. www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4X0...youtube.comInside ICE Detention: Stripped, Shackled, StarvedYouTube video by New York Times Opinion 000
Mayank Mehta @mayankmehta.bsky.social · 05/11/2025A democratic socialist, and a muslim, son of Indian parents, but born in Uganda, is the NYC Mayor! Oh my god, the sky is falling... on the Orange Bafoon. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n...nytimes.com 020
Mayank Mehta @mayankmehta.bsky.social · 30/10/2025In a chaotic world, some inspiration from human greatness. In even more chaotic times, on October 28 1893, Pyotr Tchaikovsky premiered his masterpiece, Symphony #6, aka "Pathetique". Nine days later he died. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVA1...youtube.comTchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 Pathetique | Dresden Philharmonic & Marek JanowskiYouTube video by DW Classical Music 020
Mayank Mehta @mayankmehta.bsky.social · 04/10/2025In a chaotic world, some inspiration from human greatness. In even more chaotic times, Mozart, just 32, created his 39th symphony! Then he finished the 40th the next month! Then the 41st in just 2 weeks! Timeless creations, untouched by the the chaos. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8bZ...youtube.comMOZART Symphony No 40 in G minor KV550 LEONARD BERNSTEINYouTube video by roger bridgland 020
Mayank Mehta @mayankmehta.bsky.social · 01/08/2025The same darkness that descended on Harvard and other East Coast Universities has now come to UCLA. First this www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Then this www.yahoo.com/news/article...theguardian.comUCLA agrees to $6.5m settlement with Jewish students over pro-Palestinian protestsLawsuit alleges protesters made antisemitic threats with the ‘knowledge and acquiescence’ of university officials 000
Mayank Mehta @mayankmehta.bsky.social · 03/06/2025🧠🧠Announcing: Neural computations without borders 🧠🧠 So many students and postdocs are stuck due to visa, or other hurdles. To help in a small way, I will mentor about ten students/postdocs in neural computation, or neuro-AI projects, leading to publication/s. 184
Reposted by Mayank MehtaSimone Schnall, Ph.D. @simoneschnall.bsky.social · 10/05/2025www.earth.com/news/beauty-...earth.comBeauty in art lifts the mind and awakens higher thoughtContemplating artistic beauty in museums can enhance abstract thinking and help people mentally step back from daily concerns. 001
Reposted by Mayank MehtaMatthijs van der Meer @mvandermeer.bsky.social · 27/03/2025New opinion paper in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social with Dan Bendor, where we argue that rodent studies provide only marginal support for the idea that replay supports real-time decisions (e.g. planning). Fictive learning and memory tagging are more consistent w/evidence. www.cell.com/trends/neuro...cell.comAwake replay: off the clock but on the jobHippocampal replay is widely thought to support two key cognitive functions: online decision-making and offline memory consolidation. In this review, we take a closer look at the hypothesized link bet... 15523
Mayank Mehta @mayankmehta.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Make Russia Great again: -Zero tariffs on Russia -Highest tariffs on the biggest trading partners of Russia: China, European Union, especially Germany, India. -Higher tariffs from USA will make them trade with Russia at a lower cost. Everyone else will bear the burden. 000
Reposted by Mayank MehtaNancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 30/03/2025If you are a faculty member at a US university, please consider signing this excellent petition asking our presidents, chancellors, etc to work together to defend our institutions from the direct attacks by Trump administration: sites.google.com/view/we-must...sites.google.comHomeMarch 20, 2025 Dear Presidents, Chancellors, and Boards of Trustees of the 60 Universities that received a March 10th warning letter from the U.S. Department of Education: You are on the frontlines ... 310861
Mayank Mehta @mayankmehta.bsky.social · 21/03/2025The real qustion is: Why would Musk want to know about war plans with china? ucla.zoom.us/j/9669404201... All of Musk's money is in Tesla Cars. Chinese car maker BYD (and others) has made much better EV cars for 70% less price than Tesla. www.cnbc.com/2025/03/18/b...ucla.zoom.usJoin our Cloud HD Video MeetingZoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars across mobile, desktop, and room systems. Zoom ... 000
Reposted by Mayank MehtaMichael Livingston @michaellivingston.com · 20/03/2025Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions. Authors, search your name here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...theatlantic.comSearch LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AIMillions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration. 28033832046
Reposted by Mayank MehtaAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Immigrants, trans people, palestinian rights activists, eventually it’s going to be your turn when the regime decides you are an enemy 713899998
Reposted by Mayank MehtaRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/03/2025When Trump was sworn in, Elon Musk's corporations were under more than 32 investigations conducted by at least 11 federal agencies. Most of the cases are now closed or likely to be closed soon, and the federal agencies are being defanged by DOGE. Funny how that works, huh? 323105655174
Reposted by Mayank MehtaAnonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Norwegian firm Haltbakk Bunkers announced it will stop providing fuel to all US forces in Norway: "No Fuel to Americans! We encourage all Norwegians and Europeans to follow our example. SLAVA UKRAINA" #3E #StandWithUkraine 28088622093
Reposted by Mayank MehtaJack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 28/02/2025 383159894672
Mayank Mehta @mayankmehta.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Clearly, Musk & Trump never thought this would happen. www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/p...cnn.comUS intel shows Russia and China are attempting to recruit disgruntled federal employees, sources say | CNN PoliticsForeign adversaries including Russia and China have recently directed their intelligence services to ramp up recruiting of US federal employees working in national security, targeting those who have b... 000
Mayank Mehta @mayankmehta.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Indeed terrifyingly accurate. Our only hope is to quit Musk in every way. Signature campaigns will have zero effects. Mass protests on the streets will be effective but too costly, they will use the military against us. 010
Mayank Mehta @mayankmehta.bsky.social · 10/02/2025This is a good move. Sadly, I doubt Musk+Maga madness will care. What they will definitely notice is if we quit everything Musk, from Twitter to Tesla cars and stocks. Europe has already done that, we are far behind. Give them a doGe of their own medicine. 010
Mayank Mehta @mayankmehta.bsky.social · 10/02/2025All 22 states are Blue states. Practically none of the Red states. You know where this is going. 000
Mayank Mehta @mayankmehta.bsky.social · 10/02/2025I like the undergrad textbook by Bear, Connors & Paradiso from Brown University. 030
Reposted by Mayank MehtaSimone Schnall, Ph.D. @simoneschnall.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Early Career Researchers: If you have a job offer in the US, get everything in writing*immediately*. Universities will have no choice but to rescind offers. Hiring freezes are unavoidable. #AcademicSky 073
Reposted by Mayank MehtaEdvard I Moser @edvardmoser.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Grid cells have a geometry in time. Thanks to @azvollan.bsky.social l & @rjgardner.bsky.social for this heroic discovery. @ercresearch.bsky.social #KiloNeurons @m-bmoser.bsky.social @kavlintnu.bsky.social @nature.com @kavlifoundation.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comLeft–right-alternating theta sweeps in entorhinal–hippocampal maps of space - NatureA study in rats proposes a mechanism for how the brain maps the surrounding environment, including places it has never seen, by alternating left and right forward sweeps in successive theta cycles. 418758
Mayank Mehta @mayankmehta.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Quitting twitter is a solid way to protest Mu$k+Maga madness. But, we can do better. Use X solely to criticize Musk+Maga. Many are still enamoured with him. They need to hear us. If we change just 1% of votes, we change the election result. Let's do mass protests on X against Mu$k+maga. 000
Reposted by Mayank MehtaCharlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Democratic lawmakers need to understand something: Imagine your house is on fire. Fire truck shows up. Firefighters get out. They look at the fire, then at you, and say: "Such a fire is a grave threat. This house will not sustain." And just stand there. This is how many of you are coming across. 336152224058
Mayank Mehta @mayankmehta.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Why is Alzheimer's note cured? When sleuths examined papers from the topmost 46 scientists, they found a staggering 600 papers (cited 80,000 times) that had ostensibly fraudulant content. How do we fix this mess? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/o...nytimes.comOpinion | The Long Shadow of Fraud in Alzheimer’s ResearchFraud in research needs to end. 011
Reposted by Mayank MehtaRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/01/2025A real photo and perfect metaphor heading into 2025. 21127915617450
Reposted by Mayank MehtaJake Watson @jakefwatson.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Is neuroscience research really working to understand the human brain? Or do we get lost in mouse cognition? I’ve asked myself this a lot since starting to work with human tissue. Our first Jonas Lab foray into untangling human hippocampal circuits is now online! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... 1/a fewcell.comHuman hippocampal CA3 uses specific functional connectivity rules for efficient associative memoryHuman hippocampal CA3 networks use sparse and broad synaptic connectivity, and their recurrent synapses employ reliability, precision, and long integration times to enhance memory capacity. Thus, the human hippocampus is distinct from both rodent counterparts and human neocortical circuits. 1116349
Mayank Mehta @mayankmehta.bsky.social · 27/11/2024High energy physics (HEP) and neuroscience are very different. A) HEP experiments are strongly driven by theories that match diverse data to decimal points. e.g. SU3XSU2XU1 -> seek Higgs particle for decades. B) it has been decades since any particle, not predicted by theory, was found. But...1/3 110
Mayank Mehta @mayankmehta.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Precisely my thoughts too. The standard memory test in mice is the water maze escape task, a **fearful** memory. But, humans are tested in **positive** events, e.g. what did you have for lunch. Entirely different circuits. We need tests in mice that are relevant for & identical to that in humans 1/2 220
Mayank Mehta @mayankmehta.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Yet another major failure of translation of memory therapy from mice to humans. It's easy to blame the pharma but there is a real, fundamental science problem: why have so many drugs cured memory disorders in mice all have failed in humans? www.investors.com/news/technol...investors.comCassava Plummets 84% After Embattled Alzheimer's Drug FlopsThe company tested simufilam in patients with mild-to-moderate Alzheimer's disease. 140
Reposted by Mayank MehtaTony Zador @tonyzador.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Surprisingly it does look like bluesky is the new home for the community formerly known as Academic Twitter 0598