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Marco Capogrosso

@mcapo.bsky.social
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Assistant Prof @PittNeurosurg & @RNELabs #Neuroscience #Neurotech #Paralysis Founder of @ReachNeuro. What I love most of Science? my friends! 💙 Opinions my own; marcocapo.com

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
“We take vaccines so for granted in the United States” ...“Women in the developing world know the power of [vaccines]. They will walk 10 kilometers in the heat with their child and line up to get a vaccine because they have seen death.” Melinda Gates
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Takaki Komiyama @takakikomiyama.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Our paper is out in Nature. By examining various inputs to the motor cortex during learning, we found that thalamic inputs learn to activate the cortical neurons encoding the movement being learned. Tour de force by Assaf in collab with Felix and Marcus. Congrats! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Motor learning refines thalamic influence on motor cortex - Nature
Imaging and optogenetics in mice provide insight into the interplay between the primary motor cortex and the motor thalamus during learning, showing that thalamic inputs have a key role in the executi...
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Marco Capogrosso @mcapo.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
So, if you are looking for a postdoc in human neurotechnology send me an email, we will be looking for one soon #postdoc #neurotech #neuroscience
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American Physiological Society @apsphysiology.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Bioelectric medicine uses electroceutical techniques to modulate central and peripheral organ function and behavior. Don't miss the latest research at the #APS2025 game-changer session: ow.ly/4v2250VlJQk #WeArePhysiology 🧪@mcapo.bsky.social
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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
DOGE's crackdown on agency spending means that federal researchers can't do vital experiments, order liquid nitrogen tanks to preserve samples, or refill basic but necessary lab equipment. My story with @zoeschiffer.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/doge-e...
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Elon Musk’s $1 Spending Limit Is Paralyzing Federal Agencies
The DOGE-mandated credit card freeze is delaying shipments of critical supplies, stalling travel, and stopping employees from doing their jobs.
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Samuel Kaski @samikaski.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
I have big news: @ellis.eu has launched its 2nd major research center, @ellisfinland.bsky.social! I have agreed to start as founding director & the first call for PI positions is open. This is a major opportunity for outstanding researchers, join us! ellisinstitute.fi/PI-recruit
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Principal Investigator positions at ELLIS Institute Finland | ELLIS Institute Finland
Now recruiting new PIs in artificial intelligence and machine learning
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Celtic Karla @celtickarla.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Want to work in another country? The HFSP postdoc fellowship supports proposals for frontier, potentially transformative research in the life sciences and cross-disciplinary. high-risk projects are encouraged LOI opens March 13, 2025 #neuroskyence #academicsky 🧪🧠🪰🌱🧬 www.hfsp.org/funding/hfsp...
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Postdoctoral Fellowships | Human Frontier Science Program
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I know many universities are asking folks not to speak to reporters on the record. If you have need for someone who will be effing glad to speak on the record, DM me! 🙏
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TK (Takashi DY) Kozai @bioniclab.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Chaotic St Valentines Massacre (mass firing across government agencies, VA, NIH, NNSA, etc) puts millions of American lives at risk. There is no vetting if these jobs are important, just blanket firing of everyone they can legally fire. www.npr.org/2025/02/14/n...
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Trump firings cause chaos at agency responsible for America's nuclear weapons
The National Nuclear Security Administration is a semi-autonomous agency within the Department of Energy that oversees the U.S. stockpile of thousands of nuclear weapons. Officials were given hours to...
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Jeff Yau 姚明穎 @jeffmyau.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Dear Study Section gods, May you show mercy today. Please amplify the voices of our sympathetic and inspired reviewers. Please bestill the cranky reviewer who misunderstood our grant. Grant us the chance to do our science. Amen 🙏
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone Call it a Day Of Transparency
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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
This is basically saying, yes they are breaking the rules, and we could put them in jail, but because they are the federal government we probably won't. But doesn't that make it even more important that you put them in jail?? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/u...
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Judge Rules That Trump Administration Defied Order to Unfreeze Billions in Federal Grants
The federal judge in Rhode Island said the Trump administration had failed to comply with his order unfreezing billions of dollars in federal grants.
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Marco Capogrosso @mcapo.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
As a private citizen and human of the world I am quite worried by this development. What does it mean when officials defy court orders to follow a president?
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
BREAKING The Trump administration is maintaining a funding freeze at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in defiance of two federal court orders. The ongoing freeze was confirmed by an NIH official and internal correspondence reviewed by Popular Information.
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Trump maintains funding freeze at NIH, defying court order
The Trump administration is still prohibiting National Institutes of Health (NIH) staff from issuing virtually all grant funding, an NIH official tells Popular Information.
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Britton Sauerbrei @brittonsauerbrei.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
If you live in a state that didn't join this suit, you might consider asking your governor why they are not taking concrete action to protect scientific research, workers, the economy, and the people of your state.
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Marco Capogrosso @mcapo.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Here we demonstrate that neurotechnology can be tailored to change single neuron properties thereby improving motoneuron function in a human motoneuron disease. This opens new avenues for the therapeutic use of neurotechnologies in neurodegenerative diseases as disease modifying interventions 1/2
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UPMCnews @news.upmc.com · 05/02/2025
Three people with a muscle-destroying disease destined to worsen got a little stronger – able to stand and walk more easily – when an implanted device zapped their spinal cord. @mcapo.bsky.social Story via @apnews.com 👇 apnews.com/article/spin...
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A spine-zapping implant helped 3 people with a muscle-wasting disease walk better
Three people with a muscle-destroying disease destined to worsen got a little stronger when an implanted device zapped their spinal cord.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 23/01/2025
The Trump admin has cancelled the panels that approve NIH grants, & is also banning scientists from communicating with the public, attending conferences, and hiring. NIH is the largest funder of biomedical research in the world. This will severely halt the development of many lifesaving treatments.
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Zoe McElligott @nanopharmnc.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I just reached out to my senators about the NIH situation. If you need to find out how much impact NIH has in your state in terms of dollars in and their economic impact here's a link: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
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NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research
Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.
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Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
My NIH study section that was to meet tomorrow was one of those canceled. This represents many months of work by the applicants and by the NIH staff and reviewers. Devastating is the correct word.
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Jane Liebschutz, MD MPH (she/her) @liebschutz.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
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Marco Capogrosso @mcapo.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
So happy for the Italian community! Silvestro's and Mortini's team came to my lab few years ago to train to tune SCS parameters and look what they have done! SCS works and it can be replicated easily! hopefully more and more patients will benefit #SpinalCordInjury www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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High-frequency epidural electrical stimulation reduces spasticity and facilitates walking recovery in patients with spinal cord injury
High-frequency epidural electrical stimulation reduces spasticity, enabling protocols to improve recovery in people with incomplete spinal cord injury.
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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Can the motor system use sensory expectations to prepare for unexpected events? Excited to share my latest work with @andpru.bsky.social – where we establish that sensory expectations shape neural population dynamics in motor circuits! 🧵 and paper below 1/
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 21/12/2024
An essay in Nature discusses how it’s an astonishing achievement that all of statistics and much of science depends on probability considering no one’s sure what it is. 🧪
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Why probability probably doesn’t exist (but it is useful to act like it does)
All of statistics and much of science depends on probability — an astonishing achievement, considering no one’s really sure what it is.
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Jeff Yau 姚明穎 @jeffmyau.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DZo...
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Long-tailed macaques are more important than you think for medical treatments
YouTube video by Foundation for Biomedical Research
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Marco Capogrosso @mcapo.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
SfN 2023 “are those the guys that think GABA is excitatory? Ahahha” YES WE ARE BABY Finally out after a long process, GABA facilitates sensory inputs in the cervical spinal cord of NHPs #GABA #spinalcord www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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Pharmacological blocking of spinal GABAA receptors in monkeys reduces sensory transmission to the spinal cord, thalamus, and cortex
Mahrous et al. examine the controversial role of GABAARs in sensory transmission in the monkey cervical spinal cord. They find that blocking spinal GABAARs reduces sensory input to both motoneurons and supraspinal centers. These findings suggest that GABAARs facilitate sensory transmission to modulate both movement and sensory perception in primates.
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Marco Capogrosso @mcapo.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Ok, I am in Italy 🇮🇹 for family, ski, food and wine, any other request will be denied until 2025. Ciao! #xmas #family
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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I need bluesky to add bookmarks so I have a place to put things I'll never look at again
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Marco Capogrosso @mcapo.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Very nice summary of an important discussion. Loved it
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Britton Sauerbrei @brittonsauerbrei.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Had a great time hosting Marco this week! But regarding the CPG: reposts are not endorsements … ;)
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Marco Capogrosso @mcapo.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Had a great time at Case Western this week hosted by @brittonsauerbrei.bsky.social for my first post-parental leave trip! Saw amazing science and had plenty of passionate discussions. In case you are wondering, word is that the CPG is not a thing 😝 #CPG #Epiphenomenon
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Marco Capogrosso @mcapo.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
So, I used to have @pinkfloyd as my most listened artist in year wrapped at @Spotify. And now my top five is all songs from the kids movie “Sing”. And I think I know the culprit
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Joao Barbosa @jbarbosa.org · 07/12/2024
Help bluesky neurohivemind! If you know of any computational / theoretical work modelling neuromodulators please share it 🙏 if you don't, please retweet!
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Justin Blau @justinblau.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
We are hiring at NYU! An Assistant Professor position between the Department of Biology and the Center for Neural Science. apply.interfolio.com/160048 Deadline Jan 8th Please re-post / re-Sky / re-Blue...just tell people
NYU campus near Washington Square
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TK (Takashi DY) Kozai @bioniclab.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Excited to be able to share our (Robert Gaunt, Alberto Vazquez, Omar Gharbawie, Mac Hooks, Chengcheng Huang) recent work to the University of Pittsburgh Provost and Vice Chancellor of Research, as well as the Board of Trustees. news.engineering.pitt.edu/power-moves/
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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
New autism research projects represent a broad range of approaches to achieving a shared goal picower.mit.edu/news/new-aut... #neuroscience
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New autism research projects represent a broad range of approaches to achieving a shared goal
At a symposium of the Simons Center for the Social Brain, six speakers described a diversity of recently launched studies aimed at improving understanding of the autistic brain.
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Marco Capogrosso @mcapo.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
SUBMITTEEEEEEED
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TK (Takashi DY) Kozai @bioniclab.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Created a Neural Engineering feed if this is useful to anyone. #BCI #Neurotech #NeuralInterface #NeuralEngineering #Neuroengineering #Neuroelectronics bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Incredible stuff
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SimianCollective @simiancollective.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Thank a monkey !
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Marco Capogrosso @mcapo.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Nothing better than a good beef Wellington #NotTurkey #saturday
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Tom Stafford @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 29/11/2024
I'm sure this Science story on how systematic reviews are threatened by paper mills is good, but the illustration by Sara Gironi Carnevale is great saragironicarnevale.com Story: www.science.org/content/article/sys…
Cartoon which mimics The Great Wave off Kanagawa, but the wave is made of research papers and the boat is full of lab coated researchers
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Marco Capogrosso @mcapo.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Look @bsky.app I want to read this paper but rn I am snuggling my 3 month old to sleep. You know what would make my life better? A Book mark function ( 🤯 ) so I can close my phone and then find it later when I can read it!
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Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
It's that time of year, where I need the cathartic release of complaining about reference letters in #academia: 1) FFS, just get letters for shortlisted candidates! 2) Stop asking meaningless MC ranking questions. 3) I don't have a work phone, it's like asking for a fax. Thank you, I feel better
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The Tennis Letter @thetennisletter.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Sinner wins the 1st set 7-6(2) against Griekspoor at the Davis Cup Powerful, smart, unbreakable tennis from Jannik. Italy is one set away from winning another Davis Cup title. 🇮🇹🦊
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Marco Capogrosso @mcapo.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Very happy to have @jngai58.bsky.social visit our lab and RNEL last Friday! 🧬🔬🥼We could show our brand new facilities 🆕. Only problem, we had the saddest lunch ever, for which I owe my sincerest apologies. I can’t fathom who could think that chicken is ok with balsamic vinegar in a sandwich ☠️💀🪦
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Marco Capogrosso @mcapo.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Super useful
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Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
1/ I work in #NeuroAI, a growing field of research, which many people have only the haziest conception of... As way of introduction to this research approach, I'll provide here a very short thread outlining the definition of the field I gave recently at our BRAIN NeuroAI workshop at the NIH. 🧠📈
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Good editorial by @mtosterholm.bsky.social gift link www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/o...
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Opinion | What R.F.K. Jr. Might Do on Vaccines
As the nation’s top health official, he could discourage vaccine research and production, and dissuade Americans from getting shots.
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