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Neuroscientist at the @DondersInst in the @battaglialab • Prev: @IntlBrainLab • Into Neuropixels, machine learning, and niche science jokes • 🔊 gee-doh my-er
Jul 15, 2023 11 tweets 3 min read
I was watching Lord of the Rings last night and realized there are many parallels with academia!

A thread 🧵👇 PI

Randomly disappears for long stretches of time. Occasionally saves the day at the last minute. Determines who shall and shall not pass. Gandalf
Mar 15, 2023 7 tweets 2 min read
I recently moved to the Netherlands 🇳🇱 from Portugal 🇵🇹

Here's a thread with some remarkable differences between these two countries: Lunch in Portugal 🇵🇹: Lunch in NL 🇳🇱: a plate with two whole fish...a slice of brown bread with...
Feb 19, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
Datoviz is mind-blowingly fast 🤯 Here are 14 million spikes from 315 neurons displayed in 3D at the same time without breaking a sweat. This data is from one of my Neuropixel recordings in the posterior parietal cortex, hippocampus and thalamus. Each dot is a spike, colors indicate different neurons. Time is on the x-axis, depth along the probe on the y-axis and the z-axis is the spike amplitude of each spike.