@zmainen

Systems neuroscience, neural computation, decision-making, serotonin, psychedelics, philosophy, VR, music & dance.

 Lisbon
mainenlab.org/
Joined February 2011
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Replying to @TAP_Portugal
@TAP_Portugal sold me a 4 tickets from Cairo to Lisbon via Brussels last night for 2700 dollars and now because the flight from Cairo was late, we’re stuck in Brussels. I’ve been flying TAP for almost 20 yrs and never been treated this poorly…
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TAP booking site is happy to sell me 4 seats on the 20h55 flight to Lisbon for another 1828,44 euros. Now waiting to see if TAP / Egypt Air will tell me the flight is ‘sold out’ or we can’t be rebooked. If so, SHAME ON YOU, TAP.
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TAP, step up and do something decent. You took my 2700 and now you ought to solve the problem not point at Egypt Air.
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My hat's off to Fanny's fantastic work and to all our collaborators!
Fanny Cazettes@FannyCazettes13 Apr 2023
✨Exciting news! Our research on parallel decision computations is just out in @NatureNeuro ! nature.com/articles/s41593-0… With it, here goes my first attempt at a #tweetprint ! 🧵
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Vlad Haltakov
@haltakov29 Dec 2021
You think you know what is an NFT? Well, think again... You are doing it wrong if you think about NFTs as pixelated images of punks, toads, or apes. It is not about the JPEG! A better mental model for thinking about NFTs 👇
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Beautiful!
Adam J Calhoun
@neuroecology28 Dec 2021
Mechanical lego animals [by Mitsuru Nikaido] toyforce.net/archives/catego…
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This is by far the most personal (and longest) essay I’ve ever had published. It's about memory, compulsion, and the value of experience. Mostly, to borrow from Joan Didion, it's about the stories we tell ourselves in order to live. aeon.co/essays/a-dispatch-fr…

A dispatch from the end of travel’s brief, troubled golden age | Aeon Essays

Driven by the need for a storied life, I relished the opportunity for endless travel. Is that a moment in time, now over?

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Excited and proud to share my postdoc work out @nature today: go.nature.com/3pscOlX. It all started as a conversation on a balcony many years ago with @zmainen on the mysteries of olfaction and spatial cognition 👃🧠🚀 Video by @Neuro_CF AV team 👉youtu.be/BunEBiU3MO0 1/n
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Excited that my paper is finally out on how rodents regulate the amount of work they invest to get water: Rational regulation of water-seeking effort in rodents pnas.org/content/118/48/e211…

Rational regulation of water-seeking effort in rodents | PNAS

In the laboratory, animals’ motivation to work tends to be positively correlated with reward magnitude. But in nature, rewards earned by work are e...

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Agree/disagree? "We know nothing important about how the human brain works that isn't also true of a monkey or a mouse brain." @TonyZador @behrenstimb @KordingLab @gershbrain ?
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Really impressive finding linking food deprivation to changes in visual coding through energy costs. Almost couldn't believe it when I heard it, but a very convincing set of experiments. Congratulations @RochefortLab @ZPadamsey!
Zahid Padamsey@ZPadamsey8 Nov 2021
1/ I am very excited to share my work from @RochefortLab with @KatsanevakiD and Nathalie Dupuy, now published in @Neuron doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.202…. We find that in times of food scarcity, neurons reduce their ATP consumption at the cost of coding precision.
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How does the brain generate high variability in timing within a reliable sequence of actions? Very happy to be part of this collaboration!
Ulises Pereira-Obilinovic@ulisespereirao29 Oct 2021
Out sciencedirect.com/science/ar… in Neuron today. This was a great collaboration in which Stefano Recanatesi and I are co-first authors working together with Luca Mazzucato and Zach Mainen labs. We combine electrophysiology, behavior, data analysis, and network modeling. 1/4
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I'll be discussing about "the consciousness of neuroscience" on Saturday 6th November, here: paricenter.com/event/the-con…
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It has been one year since the last Ar event and we´r very excited to announce the first Ar online event, just in time for the #BAW2021! "Tripping into the (un)known: treating the #mind with #psychedelics" Mar 18th 9pm WET. Join us bit.ly/2NSwr6y @ChampalimaudF Please RT
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🔥New preprint alert! Using household items, we gathered over 171K ratings from 134 countries worldwide. Simple sniff self-tests screen #COVID19 with 90% sensitivity / 80% specificity, work in asymptomatic cases and could be even better than antigen tests! medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

A Novel Olfactory Self-Test Effectively Screens for COVID-19

Key to curtailing the COVID-19 pandemic are wide-scale testing strategies[1][1],[2][2]. An ideal test is one that would not rely on transporting, distributing, and collecting physical specimens....

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Neuroscience job opening to join us at the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown!
Carlos Ribeiro@RibeiroCarlitos9 Dec 2020
We are recruiting a Computational #Neuroscience/ Machine Learning Group Leader to work with us @Neuro_CF in #Lisbon. Great environment, many opportunities to collaborate. Apply and join us! nature.com/naturecareers/job… #ArtificialIntelligence
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Controllability estimation by comparing actor and spectator models:
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