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Mayank Mehta

@mayankmehta.bsky.social
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Prof. in Physics, Neuro, ECE at UCLA Board of Reviewing Editors @ Science Interests: Quantum physics, Hippocampus, Learning & Memory, VR, Sleep, Neural computation, AI mayank.pa.ucla.edu

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Mayank Mehta @mayankmehta.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Prestigious, 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.
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Mayank Mehta @mayankmehta.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I 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...
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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
UK: 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.
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Mayank Mehta @mayankmehta.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Imagine 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.
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Mayank Mehta @mayankmehta.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Bye 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!
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Mayank Mehta @mayankmehta.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Welcome to USA, after you watch this NYT documentary. www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4X0...
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Inside ICE Detention: Stripped, Shackled, Starved
YouTube video by New York Times Opinion
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Mayank Mehta @mayankmehta.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
A 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...
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Mayank Mehta @mayankmehta.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
In 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...
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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 Pathetique | Dresden Philharmonic & Marek Janowski
YouTube video by DW Classical Music
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Mayank Mehta @mayankmehta.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Thank you. I learned a lot from this visit.
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Mayank Mehta @mayankmehta.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
In 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...
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MOZART Symphony No 40 in G minor KV550 LEONARD BERNSTEIN
YouTube video by roger bridgland
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Mayank Mehta @mayankmehta.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
The 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...
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UCLA agrees to $6.5m settlement with Jewish students over pro-Palestinian protests
Lawsuit alleges protesters made antisemitic threats with the ‘knowledge and acquiescence’ of university officials
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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.
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Simone Schnall, Ph.D. @simoneschnall.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
www.earth.com/news/beauty-...
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Beauty in art lifts the mind and awakens higher thought
Contemplating artistic beauty in museums can enhance abstract thinking and help people mentally step back from daily concerns.
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Matthijs van der Meer @mvandermeer.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
New 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...
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Awake replay: off the clock but on the job
Hippocampal 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...
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Mayank Mehta @mayankmehta.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
This was a wonderful meeting.
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Mayank Mehta @mayankmehta.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Make 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.
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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
If 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...
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March 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 ...
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Mayank Mehta @mayankmehta.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
The 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...
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Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting
Zoom 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 ...
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Michael Livingston @michaellivingston.com · 20/03/2025
Meta 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...
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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Immigrants, trans people, palestinian rights activists, eventually it’s going to be your turn when the regime decides you are an enemy
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
When 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?
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Norwegian 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
A US submarine emerges from the ocean, highlighted by a clear blue sky and calm waters, symbolizing a recent fuel supply dispute.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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Mayank Mehta @mayankmehta.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Clearly, Musk & Trump never thought this would happen. www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/p...
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US intel shows Russia and China are attempting to recruit disgruntled federal employees, sources say | CNN Politics
Foreign 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...
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Mayank Mehta @mayankmehta.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Indeed 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.
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Mayank Mehta @mayankmehta.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
This 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.
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Mayank Mehta @mayankmehta.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
All 22 states are Blue states. Practically none of the Red states. You know where this is going.
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Mayank Mehta @mayankmehta.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
I like the undergrad textbook by Bear, Connors & Paradiso from Brown University.
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Simone Schnall, Ph.D. @simoneschnall.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Early 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
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Edvard I Moser @edvardmoser.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Grid 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...
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Left–right-alternating theta sweeps in entorhinal–hippocampal maps of space - Nature
A 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.
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Mayank Mehta @mayankmehta.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
​Quitting 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.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Democratic 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.
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Mayank Mehta @mayankmehta.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Why 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...
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Opinion | The Long Shadow of Fraud in Alzheimer’s Research
Fraud in research needs to end.
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Mayank Mehta @mayankmehta.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Wishing everyone a *better than expected* 2025.
We have unprecedented wildfires in LA.
But, no worries, we will just move into Canada or Greenland.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
A real photo and perfect metaphor heading into 2025.
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Jake Watson @jakefwatson.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Is 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 few
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Human hippocampal CA3 uses specific functional connectivity rules for efficient associative memory
Human 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.
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Mayank Mehta @mayankmehta.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
High 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
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Mayank Mehta @mayankmehta.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Precisely 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
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Mayank Mehta @mayankmehta.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Yet 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 ​h​ave so many drugs ​c​ured memory disorders in mice ​all have fail​ed in humans?​ www.investors.com/news/technol...
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Cassava Plummets 84% After Embattled Alzheimer's Drug Flops
The company tested simufilam in patients with mild-to-moderate Alzheimer's disease.
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Tony Zador @tonyzador.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Surprisingly it does look like bluesky is the new home for the community formerly known as Academic Twitter
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