Kayson Fakhar
Post-Doc @camneuro.bsky.social | Computational Neuroscience, Neuro-AI, and a bit more.
https://kaysonfakhar.com
- Non-invasive brain surface stimulation targeting personalized SCAN alleviated symptoms in patients with Parkinson’s disease. See the videos below.(www.nature.com/articles/s41...)
- It’s time to rethink Parkinson’s disease. Our work reframes PD as a disorder of the somato-cognitive action network (SCAN), and shows that normalizing SCAN connectivity represents a shared mechanism across diverse effective therapies. rdcu.be/e2n4t @ndosenbach.bsky.social @gordonneuro.bsky.social
- #ProtistsOnSky no 'swimming' by 𝘝𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘺𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢, definitively no 'staying still'. just a relaxed walk towards the lunch...
- Do microbes get more food by swimming or staying still? Turns out both work, and cilia help them pull in nutrients no matter the strategy. buff.ly/vK3GmK5
- An intracellular meteor shower. EB3 comets tracking growing microtubule plus-ends in a cultured cell.
- New perspective on the evolutionary potential of symbiotic interactions! Is there something special about symbiosis that leads to new traits and adaptations? If so, how would we know and how would this work? academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...
- 📣 Calling experimental, computational, or theoretical researchers! WTI's Postdoc Fellowships application is now open, offering a competitive salary, structured mentorship, world-class facilities + more: wti.yale.edu/initiatives/... Apply by November 10: apply.interfolio.com/174525 #KnowTogether
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- 4 February 1912 | A Polish Jew, Leib Jassy, was born in Brzesko. A worker. In #Auschwitz from 20 March 1942. No. 26931 He perished in the camp three days later.
- 4 February 1941 | French Jewish girl, Pauline Pelcman, was born in Paris. She was deported to #Auschwitz from Drancy on 10 February 1944. She was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection with her older brother Maurice.
- Nice article but the social dynamics of science mean that peer review is de facto a "throughout problem". LLM usage in PR will increase because it reduces pressures on overstretched researchers. We can't stop LLM PR without addressing those pressures. www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/ai-n...
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- Infants organise their visual world into categories at two-months-old! So happy to see these results published - congratulations Cliona and the rest of the FOUNDCOG team.
- Discovered @patrickmineault.bsky.social's excellent Good Research Code Handbook today, which was always awesome, but is even more necessary as more scientists consider integrating coding agents into their workflows. goodresearch.dev
- Happy to be part of this new paper analyzing lesion-induced aphantasia, now accepted in Cortex. One more reason to believe that the Fusiform Imagery Node is important for the conscious experience of mental imagery. Here: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1....
- The recording of George Mashour's talk "Consciousness and the dying brain" is now available: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz7o....
- Somebody created an Reddit clone exclusively populated by personal digital agents and let them interact with each other. It’s bonkers, fascinating and terrifying in equal measure. www.forbes.com/sites/amirhu...
- RFK Jr. Demonstrates How To Remove Tapeworm By Scooting Ass Across Carpet theonion.com/rfk-jr-demonstrates…
- While we’re talking about penguins, it’s a good time to remind you that some species are distressingly huge.
- We should use AI not to remove friction but we should use AI to *add* friction. The problem is not a lack of good ideas. The problem is that bad ideas are everywhere. Adding AI carelessly will just add more bad ideas that sound like good ideas. As if we didn't already have enough of that.
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- Brain modularity is a concept inspired by how we make machines. But brains are not made by people. press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
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- Postdoc position in Paris: come help develop new generation human brain computer interfaces ⚡🧠💻 Interested? Contact me if you have experience with machine learning (e.g. simulation-based inference, RL, generative/diffusion models) or dynamical systems. See below for + details and retweet 🙏
- This is Mochi. He wanted to see if you were done with work yet. Knows you just logged on, but still thought he'd check. 12/10 (IG: mochidanchoo)
- We could all use some extra stress #resilience rn. But how does it work in the brain? On the surface, resilience looks like ignoring stress. Does the brain fail to respond? Or are active adaptations required? Or are resilience and susceptibility divergent paths? doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2025.116867
- Happy to share our preprint with @neworderofjamie.bsky.social , @danakarca.bsky.social and @drtnowotny.bsky.social ! We’ve been working on a neuron position learning algorithm by coupling space and time! See manuscript below 👇
- Your Iranian colleagues are cut off from family back home & are in a state of collective grief, which has many faces. We may appear more aloof or be more impatient, may self-isolate, have more typos, may freeze or overwork to numb the pain, or find fear, memory, or hope in unexpected moments.
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- The extended version of my thesis procrastination project/subcortex visualization package is out now in both Python and R, now that I’ve graduated 🤠 This figure shows the 9 atlases included (and counting)! Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Website: anniegbryant.github.io/subcortex_vi...
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- Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.
- The US government lost more than 10,000 STEM PhDs last year, according to an analysis by Science of newly released OPM data, with 11 departures for every hire. And many OPM calls "voluntary" separations were probably pushed. www.science.org/content/arti...
- 🔥🔥The Noosa Brain Workshop Registration Deadline is approaching!!!🔥🔥 Speakers are confirmed and registration closed Feb 1st. Only a few places are left so get in now! Details here: www.monash.edu/turner-insti...
- Decoding behavior with minimal and interpretable agent models www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Some days I wake up feeling like a minimal agent model
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- "The accounts from the massacre in Mashhad, Iran’s second-most populous city, are a small window into one of the most lethal government actions the Iranian regime has taken in recent history."
- The interplay between poverty and the human brain connectome across the lifespan: A systematic review - ScienceDirect www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Anatomical White Matter Tracts Span the Cortical Hierarchy to Support Cognitive Diversity | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- At @elife.bsky.social you can now include explainer videos with every figure. Like going to a seminar while you engage with the paper. First example here elifesciences.org/articles/106... Click the arrows next to each figure to get a video of @mathiassablemeyer.bsky.social explaining it for you!
- ripple researchers probably open this article with sweaty palms, because ripple detection with 77% false positives for standard processing sounds pretty bad... 😨
- Ripple oscillations are central for memory and sleep. But ripple detection in humans remains challenging. Here we introduce a simulation approach in @natcomms.nature.com as common ripple detectors mainly pick up 1/f noise and not genuine oscillations 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroskyence
- 🚨 New paper from @comunelab.bsky.social ! 🧪🧠 If you do connectome analysis from correlations, you’re probably averaging at some point (and you probably don't give it much thought). But when is it OK? 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s42... 🧵 1/
- ADHD treatments move beyond stimulants www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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- How can null models explain *anything*?
- Andrea Mazzolini, Mattia Corigliano, Rossana Droghetti, Matteo Osella, Marco Cosentino-Lagomarsino: Component systems: do null models explain everything? arxiv.org/abs/2601.13985 arxiv.org/pdf/2601.13985 arxiv.org/html/2601.13985
