Nishant Joshi
MSCA PhD candidate at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, NL. Interested in the heterogeneity of neurons, brains, ideas, music, and art. Looking for next play!
- Reposted by Nishant JoshiOver 12,000 people peacefully protesting against the current Iranian regime have been killed in just one week. These are among the darkest days of 2026. Shame on every country that recognizes the Iranian regime as a legitimate government that murders its own people.
- I came from Iran yesterday, by taking one of the last flights. The situation in Iran is unimaginable. There are unofficial reports that over 2000 protestors have been killed by the regime in the span of two nights, while the internet is cut off. The world must see this and must do something! #iran
- Reposted by Nishant JoshiGiving what we can has implemented a fun game where you spin a globe to see how your starting point in life would compare if you were reborn today, randomly somewhere on earth. www.givingwhatwecan.org/birth-lottery
- Woot woot! I'm glad and relieved to see this project finally out in print. Questions and /or remarks are highly appreciated!
- Out now in PLOS CB: a wonderful study by @nishantjoshi.bsky.social, together with Tansu Celikel and Sven van der Burg: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... Nishant shows here how classifying neurons based on electrophysiological properties depends critically on the input you give these neurons.
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- Reposted by Nishant JoshiHow can biological systems anticipate future events? In our new paper with @jordiplam.bsky.social, we show how a simple genetic circuit can predict future trends through a simple (and perhaps widespread) mechanism @drmichaellevin.bsky.social @koseskalab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- This is the story of so many of us. Totally worth a read. The struggle to choose a path after PhD is so much more complex for people from middle to low income countries. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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- Reposted by Nishant JoshiWould you present your next NeurIPS paper in Europe instead of traveling to San Diego (US) if this was an option? Søren Hauberg (DTU) and I would love to hear the answer through this poll: (1/6)
- Reposted by Nishant Joshi1/ Still digesting the success of yesterday’s Donders Session on 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘈𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘮! 🌍 It left us no option but to use our knowledge & influence as scientists to tackle the #climate emergency — not just in researching it but also in leading by example and advocating for change 🧵
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- Reposted by Nishant JoshiA friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩🔬
- Reposted by Nishant JoshiI am very proud to announce that my PhD paper finally came out in Cell! In this *very* collaborative study, we develop and release a deep-learning approach to predict neuron type identity from their electrical signature. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... 1/16 🧵
- Reposted by Nishant JoshiWe are thrilled to host a tutorial on biophysical modeling with Jaxley & DendroTweaks at #CNS2025! 📍 Florence, July 5 — looking forward to seeing you there! www.cnsorg.org/cns-2025 @cnsorg.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Nishant Joshidelighted to share our work revealing a new type of excitatory hippocampal neuron we call the "ovoid cell", which has really exquisite properties relative to adjacent pyramidal cells! superb work of first-author @adriennekinman.bsky.social and many others in the lab www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Nishant JoshiMy lab is looking for a computational neuroscience postdoctoral researcher: www.ru.nl/en/working-a... Come join us at the @dondersinst.bsky.social!
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- Reposted by Nishant Joshi#NIH accounts for 47 billion = 25% of US federal research funding, essential for their world-leading position in bio-medical research. Trump just shut it down. No foreign adversary in their wildest wet dream could achieve such a devastating act of traitorous sabotage with a stroke of a pen.
- Reposted by Nishant JoshiWho likes categories anyway? I wonder what this means for the concept of "areas"... #neuroscience www.thetransmitter.org/neural-codin...
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- Reposted by Nishant JoshiEntropy is one of those formulas that many of us learn, swallow whole, and even use regularly without really understanding. (E.g., where does that “log” come from? Are there other possible formulas?) Yet there's an intuitive & almost inevitable way to arrive at this expression.
- Reposted by Nishant JoshiI have done this frequently and agree it is very valuable. Removing the presumed quality imprint of the journal name opens up the discussion dramatically in my experience.
- Reposted by Nishant JoshiOK If we are moving to Bluesky I am rescuing my favourite ever twitter thread (Jan 2019). The renamed: Bluesky-sized history of neuroscience (biased by my interests)
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- Reposted by Nishant JoshiWord of this morning is ‘procaffeinate’: to put everything on hold until you’ve had sufficient amounts of coffee.
- Reposted by Nishant JoshiI am really enjoying the surge of people to bluesky but still kind of missing the VERY early career group of people! (Aging in academia is a funny thing) - I went ahead and made this starter pack go.bsky.app/Jq8YaQM - if you would like to be removed/added please let me knowat://did:plc:jh6m5gadinfhfi7ocrlqiqco/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lavhwqagdy2z
- If someone's interested in tracking bsky's user growth stats like me, they can do so using this link: bsky.jazco.dev/stats Go opensource!
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