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Saman Abbaspoor

@sabbaspoor.bsky.social
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Postdoc @harvardmed, PhD @vanderbilt. Studying the dynamic organization of hippocampus in learning and sleep.

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Kari Hoffman @karihoffman.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
📣New paper! How does the sleeping brain help us to integrate new experiences while managing memories from the past? For his PhD work, @sabbaspoor.bsky.social recorded hippocampal ensembles in freely moving monkeys and found something unexpected. 🧵1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🧠📈👩‍🔬#OpenAccess
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Experience reorganizes content-specific memory traces in macaques - Nature Neuroscience
In macaques, old memories, relative to new ones, are supported by more stable and interconnected cell assemblies. New-biased and old-biased assemblies reactivate during overnight sleep and can sometim...
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Kari Hoffman @karihoffman.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Here are our contributions for #SFN2025 #SFN25, Sunday and Monday morning. Hope to see you there!
List of SFN presentations from the Hoffman lab
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Kari Hoffman @karihoffman.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Rm 25a @10:45 to hear about first full cell assembly reactivation in sleep in primates (human or nonhuman), comparing rvn for newly-learned and old memoranda. Implications for memory linking, integration. @sabbaspoor.bsky.social and I would love your feedback! #sfn25 🧠🧪
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Dan Levenstein @dlevenstein.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
The Wu Tsai Institute at Yale is hiring another faculty member in neurocomputation. Come work with us in a growing community at the interface of neuroscience and AI! More info below 👇
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Dan Levenstein @dlevenstein.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Come do a postdoc at the Wu Tsai Institute! WTI fellows have freedom to work with anyone at the institute, and preference is given to applicants who want to work on interdisciplinary projects with multiple faculty mentors. If you’re interested to work with me, please reach out!
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Abhilasha Joshi, PhD @rhythmicspikes.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
1/ 🚨 New preprint! 🚨 Excited and proud (& a little nervous 😅) to share our latest work on the importance of #theta-timescale spiking during #locomotion in #learning. If you care about how organisms learn, buckle up. 🧵👇 📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 💻 code + data 🔗 below 🤩 #neuroskyence
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allen institute @alleninstitute.org · 15/09/2025
🧠📈 Now accepting applications for the 2026 Shanahan Foundation Fellowship at the Interface of Data & Neuroscience! Apply by December 1 to join the Fall 2026 cohort: alleninstitute.org/shanahan-fou...
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Shanahan Foundation Fellowship
The Shanahan Foundation Fellowship at the Interface of Data and Neuroscience was created to provide freedom and flexibility to promising young scientists from diverse fields, as they work alongside ne...
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International Brain Laboratory @intlbrainlab.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Want to collaborate with the International Brain Laboratory on your own project? We have funding to work with groups anywhere in the world to do new large-scale projects and we are looking for new partners! Learn more and apply: www.internationalbrainlab.com/ibl-core-apply
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Yanliang Shi @shiyanliang.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Excited to share our new preprint on the brain-wide organization of intrinsic timescales at single neuron resolution. Work w/ @roxana-zeraati.bsky.social, @intlbrainlab.bsky.social, Anna Levina, @engeltatiana.bsky.social : www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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David Sussillo @sussillodavid.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Coming March 17, 2026! Just got my advance copy of Emergence — a memoir about growing up in group homes and somehow ending up in neuroscience and AI. It’s personal, it’s scientific, and it’s been a wild thing to write. Grateful and excited to share it soon.
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carolinehaimerl.bsky.social @carolinehaimerl.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
When neurons change, but behavior doesn’t: Excitability changes driving representational drift New preprint of work with Christian Machens: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Representational drift without synaptic plasticity
Neural computations support stable behavior despite relying on many dynamically changing biological processes. One such process is representational drift (RD), in which neurons' responses change over ...
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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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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
A brain region's importance is based on change in dynamics upon removing it. The brain is dynamic and so is "region importance". So while we can think of multivariate spatiotemporal patterns, it's also possible to focus on regions if one wishes to. Though in my view multi-region is the way to go.
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Kari Hoffman @karihoffman.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
After careful curation of single units from CA1 and connected structures, we identified cell assemblies - repeated patterns of synchronous firing (typically N~100, some approaching 300). Some assemblies were more active in NEW trials, others OLD. But did either or both groups reactivate in sleep?
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Kari Hoffman @karihoffman.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
= massive labor of love, built over yrs of foundational work, made possible with the laudable contributions from international students @sabbaspoor.bsky.social (lead, now w/ @jordan-farrell.bsky.social) and @aymanaljishi.bsky.social, and with BRAIN Initiative NINDS + Whitehall Foundation funding.
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Kari Hoffman @karihoffman.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
How does the brain integrate information from new experiences while preserving established memories? Have a look at our latest preprint, "Experience reorganizes content-specific memory traces in macaques" 🧵 🧪🧠🤖👩‍🔬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Experience reorganizes content-specific memory traces in macaques
Memory formation requires neural activity reorganization during experience that persists in sleep. How these processes promote learning while preserving established memories remains unclear. We record...
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Paul Frankland @franklandlab.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
It's the post-"standard model" age! Our Preview of a fantastic new study from Yi Zhong's lab on the role of the hippocampus in updating remote memories. Fun putting this together with Ali Golbabaei. authors.elsevier.com/a/1kZ4f3BtfH...
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William Menegas @williammenegas.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Really happy to share our preprint now on @elife.bsky.social on quantifying patterns in a large behavioral dataset from >100 socially-housed marmosets elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre.... We hope this data be useful for identifying atypical patterns of behavior in disease models in our lab and others.
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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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Carsen Stringer @computingnature.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
We wrote a review on analysis methods for large-scale neural recordings www.science.org/stoken/autho... @marius10p.bsky.social #neuroscience 🧪🧠 Anything we missed? Reply w/ your fav method!
large-scale neural recording of 50,000 neurons, showing many diverse activity patterns, and also what the cells look like at various zooms of the maximum projection image of the recording FOV
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Saman Abbaspoor @sabbaspoor.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I’m trying to train HMMs on large spiking activity datasets. What are some of the most efficient and robust methods of estimating the number of states in Python? I’m avoiding dimensionality reduction to simplify data for now (1/2).
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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I have not seen a starter pack for the study of brain rhythms. So, here's a start. go.bsky.app/A6zgHeE
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Tom George @tomnotgeorge.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
What are the brain’s “real” tuning curves? Our new preprint "SIMPL: Scalable and hassle-free optimisation of neural representations from behaviour” argues that existing techniques for latent variable discovery are lacking. We suggest a much simpl-er way to do things. 1/21🧵
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Nima Dehghani @neurovium.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Here is a list of some institutions/organizations/centers related to Neuro/Bio; Math/Physics/AI Still very sparse...Reach out to your institute/center social network admin to embrace the growing #scienceSky ps. it would be great if @bsky.app to actively send invites to sci/tech go.bsky.app/VGrotvN
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Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Oh, and how silly of me, I didn't share the #NeuroAI starter pack!!!! What terrible Bluesky manners... 😅 bsky.app/profile/agre...
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Patrick Mineault @patrickmineault.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
My talk at the BRAIN Initiative NeuroAI meeting is live! It starts at the 1h14m mark. Lots of great content across the board from, among others, @tonyzador.bsky.social , @bingbrunton.bsky.social and @tyrellturing.bsky.social videocast.nih.gov/watch=55160
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BRAIN NeuroAI Workshop
NIH BRAIN NeuroAI Workshop to inform and coordinate future BRAIN research strategies and priority areas to build on recent scientific advances at the intersection of neuroscience and artificial intell...
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Dr. Liz Kirby @thekirbylab.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Announcing a new open access textbook for entry level behavioral neuro. Funded by NSF. Written by a collection of 26 neuro experts. Method demonstration videos and author interviews too. Consider using it in your courses to reduce financial barriers to education. openstax.org/details/book...
Picture of textbook cover with title "Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience"
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Shervin Safavi @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
In our next Learning Club at CMC lab (Nov 14, Thursday, 2 PM CET), @sabbaspoor.bsky.social will tell us about his recent work (elifesciences.org/articles/86548). If you'd like to attend, send an empty email to virtual-talk-link-request@cmclab.org to get the link!
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Theta- and gamma-band oscillatory uncoupling in the macaque hippocampus
Oscillations that co-occur in hippocampal CA1 during exploration in the rodent are shown to segregate according to exploratory and sleep states in the primate.
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