Gunnar Blohm
Computational Neuroscientist at Queen's University, Canada. Viking. In real life, dad, home brewer, gardener, artist. Amongst others.
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Three trouble spots facing women in science—and how we can tackle them
Science | AAAS 102d 3 tweets
A sense of belonging is critical, our Letters to Young Scientists columnists write
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Gunnar Blohm Summary of the awesome June paper analyzing challenges that women in Psychology face. Unfortunately this is true for all of academia... Please read! đŸ‘‡ 100d
Johns Hopkins Researchers Identify Immune System Pathway That May Stop COVID-19 Infection
SciTechDaily 101d 3 tweets
Blocking Immune System Pathway May Stop COVID-19 Infection, Prevent Severe Organ Damage While the world waits eagerly for a safe and effective vaccine to prevent infections from severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus...
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Gunnar Blohm Potentially some good news. A way to stop the body's inflammatory response to Covid... 101d
I benefited from being an international scientist in the U.S.—until the pandemic
Science | AAAS 109d 1 tweets
This postdoc was abroad when the U.S. imposed travel restrictions. He got back—but got COVID-19 along the way
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Gunnar Blohm This is really sad to read! As the scientific community we need to work harder to build a better world from the ground up... 109d
COVID-19 can affect the heart
Science 125d 13 tweets
COVID-19 has a spectrum of potential heart manifestations with diverse mechanisms
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Gunnar Blohm Evidence is growing that Covid attacks your whole body... Here the heart. Even in asymptomatic people! 124d
JNeurosci Journal Club | Journal of Neuroscience
Jneurosci.org 477d 2 tweets
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Gunnar Blohm What? charges publication fees for Journal Clubs? Those are written by trainees! Do you expect them to pay out of pocket? Unacceptable! 134d
High-fidelity record of Earth's climate history puts current changes in context
Phys.org 138d 2 tweets
For the first time, climate scientists have compiled a continuous, high-fidelity record of variations in Earth's climate extending 66 million years into the past. The record reveals four distinctive climate states, which the researchers dubbed...
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Gunnar Blohm This is quite a graph! Yikes! 137d
Appreciating the variety of goals in computational neuroscience | Published in Neurons, Behavior, Data analysis, and Theory
Nbdt.scholasticahq.com 143d 2 tweets
By Konrad P. Kording, Gunnar Blohm & 2 more. This Commentary from Kording and colleagues discusses the variety of goals and desiderata for modeling work in computational neuroscience.
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Gunnar Blohm Finally officially out! We argue that diversity and modeling goals is real and beneficial for science. Amd that you should always explicitly state your goals... Great fun with , and Kendrick Kai 143d
Ice Sheet Melting Is Perfectly in Line With Our Worst-Case Scenario, Scientists Warn
ScienceAlert 148d 4 tweets
The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, which hold enough frozen water to lift oceans 65 metres, are tracking the UN's worst-case scenarios for sea level rise, researchers said Monday, highlighting flaws in current climate change models.
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Gunnar Blohm Worst case scenario is happening right now... Yikes! 146d
Elon Musk’s Neuralink is neuroscience theater
MIT Technology Review 149d 9 tweets
Rock-climb without fear. Play a symphony in your head. See radar with superhuman vision. Discover the nature of consciousness. Cure blindness, paralysis, deafness, and mental illness. Those are just a few of the applications that Elon Musk and...
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Academia needs a reality check: Life is not back to normal
Science | AAAS 151d 22 tweets
Our columnists offer three principles for facing the realities of the upcoming semester
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Gunnar Blohm Nothing is back to normal! đŸ‘‡ 151d
Slow Drift of Neural Activity as a Signature of Impulsivity in Macaque Visual and Prefrontal Cortex
Neuron 162d 3 tweets
The ability to make a perceptual decision depends both on sensory inputs and on internal cognitive state. Cowley et al. find a slow drift embedded in populations of neurons in visual and prefrontal cortex. Rather than biasing sensory evidence, the...
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Gunnar Blohm This looks very interesting! đŸ‘‡ 162d
Signs of ‘citation hacking’ flagged in scientific papers
Nature.com 165d 18 tweets
An algorithm developed to spot abnormal patterns of citations aims to find scientists who have manipulated reference lists.
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Prior Expectations of Motion Direction Modulate Early Sensory Processing
Journal of Neuroscience 167d 2 tweets
Perception is a process of inference, integrating sensory inputs with prior expectations. However, little is known regarding the temporal dynamics of this integration. It has been proposed that expectation plays a role early in the perceptual...
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Gunnar Blohm Interesting paper. Very much in line with our work on smooth pursuit being influenced by history through a build-up of expectation! And also re decision making... () 167d
How scientists can stop fooling themselves over statistics
Nature.com 176d 50 tweets
Sampling simulated data can reveal common ways in which our cognitive biases mislead us.
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Gunnar Blohm Scientists should not be allowed to handle p-values without safety training! (Paraphrased) Awesome article by ! Also: you should always simulate your statistical analysis! Totally agree! This should become standard in all papers! 176d
Ten simple rules for reading a scientific paper
Journals.plos.org 180d 5 tweets
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Gunnar Blohm Some good tips on how to more effectively read scientific papers 176d
Neuromatch Academy
YouTube 188d 4 tweets
Neuromatch Academy is a massive online school for computational neuroscience taking place July 13-31, 2020. For more information on the school, please visit ...
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Gunnar Blohm At academy, our main goal was to make high-quality computational neuroscience education accessible to anyone in the world. While I'm sure we'll do better next year, I think this was a good start. Here are some statistics... Youtube channel đŸ‘‡ 177d
NeuromatchAcademy/course-content
GitHub 261d 12 tweets
Summer course content for Neuromatch Academy. Contribute to NeuromatchAcademy/course-content development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Gunnar Blohm Don't forget to sign up as an observer for Neuromatch Academy! Program: Sign-up: 216d
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Gunnar Blohm Github: We got over 1.2k stars, over 400 forks, 2-3k unique visitors every NMA day... And all materials (notebooks, lecture videos, Q&A recordings) remain freely available indefinitely! Please distribute this as widely as possible! And see you in 2021! 177d
Online Survey Software | Qualtrics Survey Solutions
Semtsinghua.au1.qualtrics.com 218d 5 tweets
Qualtrics makes sophisticated research simple and empowers users to capture customer, product, brand & employee experience insights in one place.
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Gunnar Blohm Don't forget to sign up as an observer for Neuromatch Academy! Program: Sign-up: 216d
TRU EDDL
Eddl.tru.ca 237d 1 tweets
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Gunnar Blohm Since lots of people that will have to do online teaching this fall, I am sharing this awesome resource about how to keep students motivated... 237d
NeuromatchAcademy/precourse
GitHub 274d 1 tweets
A repo for the pre-course work at home exercises. Contribute to NeuromatchAcademy/precourse development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Gunnar Blohm Neuromatch academy prerequisites and preparatory materials list is now available. Check it out! 274d