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Luis Cobar

@prime5222.bsky.social
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Salvadoran Neuroscientist 🇸🇻 PhD | Senior Research Advisor @ims-mrl.bsky.social‬ | previously @kavlintnu.bsky.social‬ (Nigro Lab) | Opinions my own | 🇹🇼 🇸🇬 🇳🇴 🇬🇧

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SueYeon Chung @sueyeonchung.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Our paper is out in @natneuro.nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s41... We develop a geometric theory of how neural populations support generalization across many tasks. @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social @flatironinstitute.org @kempnerinstitute.bsky.social 1/14
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Luke Sjulson @lukesjulson.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Neuroscience students asked us to teach a PRACTICAL course on experimental methods, and it is now on YouTube! Please like and repost to help us get the word out! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization 🧵
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Neuroscience methods - YouTube
Nanocourse: Approaches to Study Neural Circuits This course was taught by Anita Autry, Tiago Gonçalves, and Luke Sjulson at Albert Einstein College of Medici...
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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
📆 updated for 2026! list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP: 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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various computational neuroscience / MEEG / LFP short courses and summer schools
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Tim Verstynen @tdverstynen.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
How do biological agents learn for the future? Our perspective piece on the value of prospective learning in neuroscience is finally out. This is part of a long running collaboration with @kordinglab.bsky.social & Josh Vogelstein (as well as many other people) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 18/12/2025
It was a big year for mathematics. youtu.be/hRpcWpAeWng
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The Biggest Breakthroughs in Mathematics: 2025
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Jure Majnik @juremaj.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
My first paper just got published last week! *Longitudinal tracking of neuronal activity from the same cells in the developing brain using Track2p* elifesciences.org/articles/107...
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Nature Reviews Neurology @natrevneurol.nature.com · 04/12/2025
New online! Characteristics and mechanisms of cognitive impairment in Parkinson disease
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Characteristics and mechanisms of cognitive impairment in Parkinson disease
Nature Reviews Neurology, Published online: 03 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41582-025-01163-xCognitive impairment is one of a range of non-motor symptoms that people with Parkinson disease (PD) can experience in addition to the hallmark motor symptoms of the disease. In this Review, Oikonomou et al. outline the epidemiology and natural history of cognitive decline in PD and related disorders, and discuss the key underlying pathophysiological factors and mechanisms.
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Luis Cobar @prime5222.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Al cambiar de trabajo, tuve la necesidad de aprender varias cosas y ponerlas dentro del marco de mi experiencia previa. Quise escribir lo poco que he aprendido en los últimos meses y hacer un breve texto para gente de mí país. Me gustaría compartirlo: gatoencerrado.news/2025/11/28/c...
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CIENCIA | La neurociencia de la pérdida de peso
El desarrollo de nuevas drogas para la pérdida de peso ha abierto el debate sobre el lugar de estos fármacos en medio de una epidemia mundial de obesidad.
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Tactile responses in the mouse perirhinal cortex show invariance to physical features of the stimulus www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Maximiliano José Nigro @maxnigro.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Our first steps into sensory processing is now online! Work spearheaded by Rejwan Salih from experiments by @prime5222.bsky.social and François Pauzin We were lucky to receive guidance from Davide Zoccolan on the analytical methods. #neuroskyence
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Nencki Open Lab @openlab.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
We are super happy to announce the fourth edition of School of Ideas in Neuroscience! Come to Warsaw in September for in-depth talks, discussions and workshops that will help you to make sense of your data! The deadline for registration is July 21, 2025.
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Nencki Open Lab @openlab.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
We are super happy to announce the third Workshop of Ideas in Neuroscience! We will once again look critically at assumptions of modern neuroscience: what does it mean that the brain encodes information? Is this a useful approach, or a metaphor that blurs our vision?
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Ching-Lung Hsu @hiallen72.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
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Two-photon voltage imaging with rhodopsin-based sensors
The recent advances in sophisticated optical techniques, coupled with two-photon sensitive genetic voltage indicators (GEVIs), have enabled in-depth voltage imaging in vivo at single spike and single-...
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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 03/04/2025
Possible answers to Fermi’s “paradox” abound. For instance, maybe alien civilizations destroy themselves before they can become interstellar wanderers. A new proposal challenges that bleak conclusion.
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Why Everything in the Universe Turns More Complex | Quanta Magazine
A new suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to rewrite notions of time and evolution.
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Matteo Carandini @carandinilab.net · 01/04/2025
Many of us use 2p scopes to image 3D volumes of brain. But then we analyze the data plane by plane, resulting in duplicated neurons, missed neurons, and low s/n. Let's go 3D! Suite3D: Volumetric cell detection for two-photon microscopy by @haydari.bsky.social & team. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Stephanie M. Lee @stephaniemlee.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...
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Opinion | What Autocrats Want From Academics: Servility
In 1931, Italian scholars were made to take loyalty oaths. Will that happen to us?
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Luis Cobar @prime5222.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
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The World's Observatory of the Mind | OpenScope
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Brain @brain1878.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Belelli et al. explore the role of GABA in integrating brain and GI tract functions. They discuss how gut bacteria use and produce GABA, influencing brain activity and providing potential therapeutic opportunities for brain disorders. tinyurl.com/yc283kby
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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 14/03/2025
In chaotic systems, the smallest fluctuations get amplified. As scientist Edward Lorenz put it in the 1960s and 70s, even a seagull flapping its wings might eventually make a big difference to the weather. Here's how scientists came to understand what chaos is, and how to wrangle it: 🧵
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Ching-Lung Hsu @hiallen72.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
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Academic mentees thrive in big groups, but survive in small groups - Nature Human Behaviour
Using longitudinal genealogical data on mentor–mentee relations and their publications, the authors find that mentees trained in larger groups tend to exhibit superior academic performance compared wi...
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Anne Urai @anne-urai.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I spoke about science and activism with @elife.bsky.social, together with @clarekelly.bsky.social: elifesciences.org/interviews/1...
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Activism and Science: Anne Urai and Clare Kelly on responding to the climate and biodiversity crises
How an economic framework may inspire new ways to tackle the climate crisis.
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Steve Ramirez @okaysteve.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
in our new lab work, we find that: natural forgetting & induced amnesia share common impaired neural dynamics this work was funded by multiple #NIH grants that supported students, postdocs, & the science, all with the goal of healing disorders of memory & the brain www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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Gabriel Labrador @periodistagl.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Miles de personas, sobre todo mujeres, se manifestaron este sábado en San Salvador para conmemorar el #8M. La marcha iba encabezada por el movimiento anti minería metálica y ecologistas. Las consignas iban contra la violencia, los feminicidios y los desaparecimientos que siguen ocurriendo.
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Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis @trackingactions.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Interested in using #CEBRA for modeling neural &/or behavioral (or both) dynamics? Check out the newest demo notebook to help you get started! 🚀 📝 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 💻 cebra.ai/docs/demo_no...
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Ching-Lung Hsu @hiallen72.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
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A trans-synaptic nanocolumn aligns neurotransmitter release to receptors - Nature
Synaptic vesicle fusion, as evoked by action potentials, is confined to presynaptic protein nanoclusters, which are closely aligned with concentrated postsynaptic receptors and their scaffolding prote...
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Luis Cobar @prime5222.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
‘Creepy’ puppets may have starred in rituals at ancient Central American pyramid | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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‘Creepy’ puppets may have starred in rituals at ancient Central American pyramid
Detachable heads of marionettelike figures may have swiveled on a string more than 2000 years ago
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