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Pol Bech

@polbech.bsky.social
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Neuroscience PhD student @ EPFL 🧠💡 Sensorimotor control afficionado 💪🦾 Chef wannabe and cosmere junkie (He/Him)

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Pol Bech @polbech.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Curious about how your brain tells you to pick up the phone if you sense a notification at your place, but not at the cinema? Check out our latest preprint studying context-dependent sensorimotor processing! (A short thread🧵)
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Retrosplenial cortex enables context-dependent goal-directed sensorimotor transformation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Pol Bech @polbech.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
It was very exciting to talk to @ardemp.bskyverified.social yesterday and hear his presentation! It was fascinating to see how mechanosensation plays such a diverse role in nature from tactile sensation, to interoception, parturition, plant root guidance and so much more!
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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 27/01/2025
Thanks @trackingactions.bsky.social for being a generous host and @trackingskills.bsky.social for pouring wine for the fantastic @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social visit. Days like this remind me how lucky we are as scientists. Loved the student lunch, 1:1s, seminar reception, and dinner!
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Wow, just wow. V different approach reveals numerous problems in Scientific Reports - cf deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/10/an-o... I do hope @springernature.bsky.social will start to publish reviewer reports and editor info as we suggested
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An open letter regarding Scientific Reports
16th October 2024  to: Mr Chris Graf Research Integrity Director, Springer Nature and Chair Elect of the World Conference...
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Alireza Modirshanechi @modirshanechi.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Super excited to see my PhD thesis featured by EPFL! 🎓 actu.epfl.ch/news/learnin... P.S.: There's even a French version of the article! It feels so fancy! 😎 👨‍🎨 🇫🇷 actu.epfl.ch/news/apprend...
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Learning from the unexpected
A researcher at EPFL working at the crossroads of neuroscience and computational science has developed an algorithm that can predict how surprise and novelty affect behavior.
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Pol Bech @polbech.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
I have to give a presentation on a paper about machine learning for astrophysics for a PhD course, and all my knowledge on the field comes from Big Bang Theory episodes lol
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Rubén Moreno-Bote @morenobote.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
1/2 Brain and Cognition Master at @UPFBarcelona Please, spread the word Why to enroll here? Nuria Sebastian-Galles (language, Premio Nacional) Gustavo Deco (comp neuro) Chris Summerfield (cognition & AI) Salva Soto-Faraco (attention) Rubén Moreno-Bote (comp neuro & AI)
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Aria Ritz Finkelstein @coastofbohemia.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Salmon hats, a 90s throwback? "As anyone who follows fashion knows, certain trends like indie sleaze and cargo pants can come back around after a long and quite deserved break. Orcas, it seems, are not immune." www.iflscience.com/wearing-a-sa... (Amazing actual photo embedded in this article, too.)
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Wearing A Salmon On Your Head Is Back In Fashion For Orcas, After A 37-Year Break
In 1987, there was a strange trend amongst killer whales. Recent sightings show it's back in fashion.
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Should neuroscientists keep all raw data or focus on processed datasets? Nima Dehghani @neurovium.bsky.social asks experimentalists and theorists for their thoughts on neurophysiology’s data dilemma: www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict... Check out some opinions in the thread below:
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To keep or not to keep: Neurophysiology’s data dilemma
An exponential growth in data size presents neuroscientists with a significant challenge: Should we be keeping all raw data or focusing on processed datasets? I asked experimentalists and theorists…
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Alireza Modirshanechi @modirshanechi.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
🚨Preprint alert🚨 In an amazing collaboration with @lucasgruaz.bsky.social, S Becker, & J Brea, we explored a major puzzle in #neuroscience & #psychology: **What are the merits of curiosity?** 🧠🧑‍🔬🧪 osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/7
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Chaz Firestone @chazfirestone.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
The Extinction Illusion: The left side and the right side have the same number of black dots journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Jaan Aru @jaanaru.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
A potential role for the thalamus in demixing cortical signals while providing a low-dimensional pathway for cortico-cortical communication New paper from Halassa lab in Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Prefrontal transthalamic uncertainty processing drives flexible switching - Nature
By examining neural responses from tree shrews performing hierarchical decision tasks with rule reversals, the authors identify a thalamocortical mechanism for regulating cognitive flexibility.
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Pol Bech @polbech.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Hello Bluesky world! 🦋 I'm a neuroscience PhD student at EPFL 🇨🇭 I'm currently working on context and sensory processing but also interested in motor control in animals and machines 💪🦾
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