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Matthew Schmitz

@mtvector.bsky.social
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Evolutionary neuroscientist 🐳 seeking cool papers

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Matthew Schmitz @mtvector.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Relieved to finally post my whole developing brain evolutionary "theory of everything" preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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ANTIPODE Provides a Global View of Cell Type Homology and Transcriptomic Divergence in the Developing Mammalian Brain
Diverse neurons and glia are generated in conserved spatial and temporal sequences during mammalian brain development. Divergence in gene regulatory networks can alter brain composition, scaling, timi...
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Matthew Schmitz @mtvector.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
This is also what it's like to finish a cortical layer dissection...
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Stein Aerts @steinaerts.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Very proud of two new preprints from the lab: 1) CREsted: to train sequence-to-function deep learning models on scATAC-seq atlases, and use them to decipher enhancer logic and design synthetic enhancers. This has been a wonderful lab-wide collaborative effort. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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CREsted: modeling genomic and synthetic cell type-specific enhancers across tissues and species
Sequence-based deep learning models have become the state of the art for the analysis of the genomic regulatory code. Particularly for transcriptional enhancers, deep learning models excel at decipher...
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Matthew Schmitz @mtvector.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
What a robust and slightly threatening solution for demuxing, doublet detection,etc for multiplex single cell genomics experiments!
A menacing bouncer checking cellular identification
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Wanna save the taxpayer money? Don’t buy any Teslas.
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Alex Pollen @brainevodevo.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Pleasure to co-edit this issue of Current Opinion on human genetic origins with @steinlab.bsky.social: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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Current Opinion in Genetics & Development | Genetics of Human Origin (2024) | ScienceDirect.com by ElsevierScienceDirect
Identification of the genetic variants underlying distinctive human traits provides a new perspective on human origins. However, complete descriptions of genetic variants under selective pressure alon...
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Matthew Schmitz @mtvector.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Amidst the chaos, my partner was featured in this WaPo article about one more way that the administration is undermining the future of American Government www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... So that's kinda fun right? 🥲😭
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
We need to make sure that everyone understands how important science is for EVERYONE not just for scientists...
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Matthew Schmitz @mtvector.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
We know by looking at the demographics of STEM faculty the system is biased against all sorts of people. With the murder of diversity supplements etc, what are we doing as a field to ensure a future of diverse people and ideas in science?
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Matthew Schmitz @mtvector.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
@chanzuckerberg.bsky.social why? If you're mostly privately funded, why would you make it your choice to join the segregationists? Please walk it back-back and reinstate your DEI programs. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Cedric Boeckx @cedricboeckx.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
First post on this platform 👋. Glad to reconnect with old friends, and also learn from new contacts. Will post about intersecting themes: human evolution, genetics (esp. aDNA), neuroscience & cognition. Currently focusing on brain organoids and early developmental changes that may have had an impact
cortical organoid [image credit: O. Leonardi, who is leading this collaborative project]
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Matthew Schmitz @mtvector.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Who knew hyenas were feliforms?! I always had them pegged for canidae 🧪 (phylogeny from carnivoran Wikipedia)
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