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Vicente Medel

@medelero.bsky.social
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Chileno | Licenciado en Filosofía | PhD en Neurociencia | Brain States, Computational Neuroscience and Multimodal Neuroimaging. Assistant Professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

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Vicente Medel @medelero.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Too much of global science works like a stadium with open doors but expensive tickets: who can pay to publish, who can afford to travel, who gets to be seen, and who is expected to remain excellent in silence. Thanks to @thetransmitter.bsky.social for the space to write about this from latam.
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Thomas Andrillon @thomasandrillon.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
No they don't! Humans report being conscious half of the time when awoken from NREM sleep. The NREM/REM, conscious/unconscious dichotomy has been thoroughly debunked. It's time we stop oversimplifying the relationship between sleep and consciousness!
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Vicente Medel @medelero.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
DEADLINE REMINDER! Abstract submissions for #ASSC29 in Santiago close on February 12, 2026 (11:59 PM PT). Don’t miss it! theassc.org/assc-29/subm... @theassc.bsky.social
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Ivan Mindlin @ivanmindlin.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
📄Very happy to share our new pre-print!! 🧠 We introduce a homeostatic inhibitory plasticity rule into the Dynamic Mean Field (DMF) model which stabilizes firing rates and expands the model’s dynamical repertoire—for example, enabling slow-wave activity. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... ⬇️⬇️⬇️ 1/5
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The impact of homeostatic inhibitory plasticity in a generative biophysical model
A main characteristic of biological systems is their capacity to dynamically adapt to environmental changes. In the brain, synaptic plasticity enables the strengthening or weakening of connections bet...
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Vicente Medel @medelero.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Had a blast hosting @tomdonoghue.bsky.social at our lab in Santiago. We went full aperiodic mode, with @gnboncompte.bsky.social . Very cool collab ideas!! Thanks Tom!!
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Vicente Medel @medelero.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
So happy to see this one out!
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Heidi Jacobs @heidijacobslab.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Very proud of our PhD-student Yuliya Patsyuk's first publication: Locus coeruleus-entorhinal cortex tract integrity is linked to plasma tau and GFAP: alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🔵 🎉
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Locus coeruleus‐entorhinal cortex tract integrity is linked to plasma tau and glial fibrillary acidic protein
INTRODUCTION Pretangle tau inclusions from the locus coeruleus (LC) are hypothesized to propagate to the entorhinal cortex (EC) via neuron-to-neuron transmission along its projections. The lower int...
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Vicente Medel @medelero.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Atentos a esta iniciativa que estamos levantando desde Latinoamérica!!
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Claire O'Callaghan @claireocallaghan.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Adaptive learning is coordinated across behaviour, time and neurobiology (from synapses and dendrites, to astrocytes and the systems level). If you’ve ever wondered how noradrenaline helps shape these multiscale learning processes, you might like this: www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
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tal boger @talboger.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
On the left is a rabbit. On the right is an elephant. But guess what: They’re the *same image*, rotated 90°! In @currentbiology.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I show how these images—known as “visual anagrams”—can help solve a longstanding problem in cognitive science. bit.ly/45BVnCZ
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Thomas Andrillon @thomasandrillon.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
💤🧠🧪 New article! 🧪🧠💤 After years of effort led by @qualiastructure.bsky.social (Nao Tsuchiya and William Wong), Jenny Windt, Katja Valli, Valdas Noreika and @rherzoga.bsky.social, the Dream database is now published in @natcomms.nature.com **A dream EEG and mentation database** rdcu.be/eAwni
Illustration from Ana Yael
https://www.anayael.com/
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Claire O'Callaghan @claireocallaghan.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Position open for a neuroimaging focused postdoc to come work with us in Sydney Feel free to get in touch for a chat if you have any questions about it :) usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E...
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Ben Fulcher @bendfulcher.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Are you interested in our work on complex physical systems and applications (to neural systems)? Wanna join us in Sydney? 🐨 🦘 We have two open positions: 1. Postdoc position: usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA... 2. Fully-funded PhD position: www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate (Physics)
Full time, 2-year fixed term position with potential to extend. Located on the Camperdown Campus at the School of Physics. Exciting opportunity to conduct research in a world-leading interdisciplinary...
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
FlyBase, a Drosophila database, will lose a third of its team in early October because the Harvard grant that covered the employees’ salaries was canceled. Scientists warn that losing FlyBase could devastate fly research. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/community/ha...
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Harvard University lays off fly database team
The layoffs jeopardize this resource, which has served more than 4,000 labs for about three decades.
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flymuscles @flymuscles.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Total disaster for the #drosophila community if flybase disappears
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Rubén Herzog @rherzoga.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
📜[PUBLICATION ALERT]📜 I had the honour to be co-first author of this huge effort to advance dream science and our understanding of conscious experience during sleep. In Nature Communications rdcu.be/eAwni. @naotsuchiya.bsky.social @thomasandrillon.bsky.social #sleep #dreams #EEG
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A dream EEG and mentation database
Nature Communications - The authors present a multicenter database to investigate the neural correlates of dreaming, including physiological, behavioral and experiential data. This database could...
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Yohan J John @dryohanjohn.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
I'm starting a series of essays that view neuroscience through the lens of Baudrillard's concept of hyperreality. Here's the first part: yohanjohn.substack.com/p/neuroscien... #neuroscience
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Vicente Medel @medelero.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Wonderful Keynote by @sharnajamadar.bsky.social at #OHBM2025 @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
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Evan Thompson @evanthompson.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Today is publication day! A new edition of Francisco J. Varela's (long hard-to-obtain) 1979 classic Principles of Biological Autonomy in a new annotated edition by Ezequiel Di Paolo and Evan Thompson, with a Foreword by Amy Cohen Varela. mitpress.mit.edu/978026255140...
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Principles of Biological Autonomy
Francisco Varela’s Principles of Biological Autonomy was a groundbreaking text when it was first published in 1979, putting forth a novel theory of how...
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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Can an LLM system become conscious? This question has generated significant debate and too much hype. Here's a paper from @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social on what neuroscience has to say about that shine-lab.org/wp-content/u...
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Annie G. Bryant @anniegbryant.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
🎨🧑‍🎨 Looking for a tool to visualize subcortical/thalamic data in 2D? Check out this python-based package I put together (subcortex-visualization on PyPI), plus a guide for creating your own custom atlas meshes and vector graphics! All feedback/tips welcome 😊 anniegbryant.github.io/subcortex_vi...
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Annie G. Bryant @anniegbryant.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
@christopherjwhyte.bsky.social and I introduce a novel data-driven framework to evaluate >200 connectivity-based neural correlates of consciousness! Results are used to quantitatively compare predictions from neurodynamical models tailored to theoretic predictions. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Javier DN @javierdn.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
In A History of Bodies, Brains, and Minds, Francisco Aboitiz provides a brief history of life, the brain, and cognition, from the earliest living beings to our own species. direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Check out the latest news on funding, upcoming advanced neuroscience courses, new job opportunities and more in our newly launched Early-Career Neuroscientists Resource Center: www.thetransmitter.org/early-career... #neuroskyence
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Early-Career Neuroscientists Resource Center
News, perspectives and resources to help navigate the early stages of your neuroscience career
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Annie G. Bryant @anniegbryant.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
📣🎉 Excited to share work co-led with @aditijh.bsky.social, developing a data-driven selection technique for overlapping community detection algorithms, applied to the human structural connectome! 📣🎉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
First figure of our preprint, depicting brain maps of seven identified structural connectivity communities bridged by fifteen overlapping nodes at the spatial interface between communities. Structural communities are depicted as nodes on a circular graph while the overlapping regions between the corresponding communities are highlighted along the edges. The seven communities are: (1) Dorsomedial cortex; (2) Limbic; (3) Visual; (4) Ventral attention and visual stream; (5) Somatomotor; (6) Insula; and (7) Frontal pole.
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Sofie Valk @sofievalk.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
New preprint! 🧠🧬 genetic roots of brain functional organization in 30,000+ individuals by superstar @wanb.bsky.social et al. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Genetic, transcriptomic, metabolic, and neuropsychiatric underpinnings of cortical functional gradients
Functional gradients capture the organization of functional activity in the cerebral cortex, delineating transitions from sensory to higher-order association areas. While group-level gradient patterns...
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Vicente Medel @medelero.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
🎉 Exciting news! Our symposium with Enzo Tagliazucchi, "Computational Models integrating Neurobiology & Social Determinants of Brain Health," is accepted for #OHBM2025! 🌎✈️ From South America to Brisbane—thrilled to bring diverse perspectives to global Neuroscience!
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Golia Shafiei @goliashf.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
(1/18) Now out on BioRxiv‼️ Reproducible Brain Charts: An open data resource for mapping brain development and its associations with mental health | doi.org/10.1101/2025... Funded by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
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Reproducible Brain Charts: An open data resource for mapping brain development and its associations with mental health
Major mental disorders are increasingly understood as disorders of brain development. Large and heterogeneous samples are required to define generalizable links between brain development and psychopat...
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 27/02/2025
Pedro Pascal responding to transphobia on social media: “I can’t think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist.” (via @charliejane.bsky.social) [capitalfm.com]
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Pedro Pascal calls out “vile and pathetic” transphobic trolls after defending trans rights
Pedro Pascal, whose sister Lux is a trans woman, is a prominent trans ally and he has no time for transphobia.
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Andrea Alamia @artipago.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... "What do neural travelling waves tell us about information flow?" A new preprint is out, with Antoine Grimaldi, Fredo Chavane and @martinavinck.bsky.social
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What do neural travelling waves tell us about information flow?
In many behavioral conditions, neural activity propagates within and across brain regions as traveling waves, revealing the importance of analyzing spatiotemporal dynamics in electrophysiological data...
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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"
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Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’
A leading figure in feminism and gender studies, the thinker welcomes EL PAÍS in California after being voted one of the most influential minds in the world
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Gonzalo Boncompte @gnboncompte.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Happy to share our recent work "Aperiodic exponent of brain field potentials is dependent on the frequency range it is estimated" This relation was consistent across Specparam and IRASA estimations www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Thanks to our team Martin, Vicente @medelero.bsky.social, JP and Tomas
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Aperiodic exponent of brain field potentials is dependent on the frequency range it is estimated
The aperiodic component of brain field potentials, like EEG, LFP and intracortical recordings, has shown to be a valuable tool in basic neuroscience and in clinical applications. Aperiodic activity is...
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Shannon Macauley @macauleylab.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Our latest in PNAS! 🎉 ATP-sensitive potassium channels alter glycolytic flux to modulate cortical activity and sleep Take home message? KATP channels are metabolic sensors under circadian control that gate glycolytic flux, arousal, & sleep/wake transitions. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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ATP-sensitive potassium channels alter glycolytic flux to modulate cortical activity and sleep | PNAS
Metabolism plays a key role in the maintenance of sleep/wake states. Brain lactate fluctuations are a biomarker of sleep/wake transitions, where in...
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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
What separates life from death? Mary Shelley once wrote: "To understand life, we first need to understand death". In this movie, we see how a single-celled organism dies. The same matter in both pictures. It is not the same state or the same integrated complexity. youtube.com/watch?v=4bj6...
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