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Benjamin A. Ely

@Brainses

Confused insomniac by day, neuroscientist by night

 New York, NY
Joined June 2009
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My paper mapping human #habenula functional connectivity in healthy adults using data from @HumanConnectome is now in press @NeuroImage_EiC! Many thanks to @JunqianXuLab for guiding and supporting this work sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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soooo @NIH_LRP if I haven't received an award notice but a "Verify Payment" button appeared under my LRP application banner on ERA Commons today, does that mean anything? ...besides that I'm checking my LRP status a little too obsessively 😂
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It's a I, pedantic Mario!
WHOSE AMERICA AM I EVEN LIVING IN ANYMORE npr.org/2022/07/26/111369224…
impressed @audible_com managed to capture so much of the uncomfortable orientalism that defined the original Sandman comics, great job guys #SandmanxAudible
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just renamed the lab's stats slack channel "Student's Tea" and feel immeasurably proud of myself
I need an emoji of Munch's The Scream except they're yawning
Nevada more like Neva-done amIrite
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fig newtons are the pinnacle of normcore
god the number of times I waited in my car after I got home just so I could finish out #thediamondsea <3 #washingmachine25
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still got them no queen blues. miss you SY! #washingmachine25
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Please donate blood if you can! Banks are way low pretty much everywhere 🧛‍♂️ NY donor link: nybloodcenter.org/donate-blo…
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my neighbor has been practicing guitar during #quarantine and the sound doesn't bother me but the fact that they're getting better is infuriating
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me every day during #Quarantine
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we need you now more than ever, @IcahnMountSinai employee training hand hygene rap youtu.be/xbDodTSD6zE
Saw #OfMontreal: 1) convinced their frontman was the world's fanciest chicken before he got his wish to become a real boy, 2) their set was 100% consistent with this theory. Needless to say, great show!
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Noticed a cool linguistic use case for singular they: clarifying possessive relationships, e.g. "his brother and their girlfriend" vs. "his brother and his girlfriend" #they #grammar
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Love that there's durability transfer and item duplication now in #botw but has also kinda turned it into pokemon for swords amIrite
Great talk by Gül Dölen on using psychedelics to re-open the critical period for social reward learning, possibly other domains like vision #ACNP2019 paper on MDMA results: nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
Oxytocin-dependent reopening of a social reward learning critical period with MDMA

Oxytocin-dependent reopening of a social reward learning critical period with MDMA

Nature - A critical period for social reward learning in mice, which closes at maturity, can be reopened by MDMA-mediated upregulation of oxytocin-dependent plasticity.

nature.com
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Lot of the talks at #ACNP2019 running ahead of schedule. Aim early! Just got to one at the listed start time, managed to catch the final slide and acknowledgements
Vilma Gabbay just gave an interesting talk on anhedonia in children and it’s complex relationship with cytokines, GABA and glutathione. #ACNP2019 – at Florida, USA
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