Mathew Summers
Thalamic hodologist, formerly retina surfer. Scientist @AllenInstitute
- Retinal waves are known to be important for proper wiring at the retina's downstream targets: but their role in the development of microcircuits -within the retina itself- is less understood. Some nice work on this topic by @miah-pitcher.bsky.social!
- Reposted by Mathew SummersThe 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...
- We've got a great lineup of speakers for our Thalamocortical Interactions GRS! Only a few spots remaining for poster presenters - apply soon!
- If you're a trainee studying the thalamus, consider checking out our GRS on Thalamocortical Networks in Sensation, Behavior, and Disease: www.grc.org/thalamocorti.... Apply by Nov 16th to be considered for a talk!
- Reposted by Mathew SummersWhat is the computational role of dendritic excitations? Byung Hun Lee and team mapped voltage dynamics throughout the dendritic trees of CA1 pyramidal neurons in mice navigating in virtual reality. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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- Reposted by Mathew SummersOur lab is looking for a postdoc! We have interesting projects and cutting-edge techniques such as Neuropixels Opto, Light Beads Microscopy and more. We would be delighted to receive your application. Deadline is 25 November 2025. More info here: www.ucl.ac.uk/cortexlab/po...
- 10 days left to be considered for a speaking slot at the Thalamocortical Interactions GRS! If you're a trainee at the NIH and unable to submit an application due to furlough, shoot me a DM and we'll figure something out.
- If you're a trainee studying the thalamus, consider checking out our GRS on Thalamocortical Networks in Sensation, Behavior, and Disease: www.grc.org/thalamocorti.... Apply by Nov 16th to be considered for a talk!
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- Reposted by Mathew SummersFresh off the press! @selinsch.bsky.social discovered some really cool features of mouse frontal cortex pyramidal cells that co-vary with dopamine receptor expression. D3R+ cells appear very responsive to AP bursts, producing Ca transients across dendritic arbors. www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
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- Reposted by Mathew SummersTo celebrate the first anniversary of the release of FlyWire, we asked nine neuroscientists to share how they are using connectome data in their research and what they hope is in store for the future of fly connectomics. By @franciscorr25.bsky.social #neuroskyence bit.ly/3Wx5nt3
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- Check out our resource for navigating and analyzing spatial transcriptomics data in the thalamus, which we fondly call "the THALMANAC" (𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐋amus 𝐌ERFISH 𝐀𝐍alysis and 𝐀𝐂cess), now live on bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- If you're a trainee studying the thalamus, consider checking out our GRS on Thalamocortical Networks in Sensation, Behavior, and Disease: www.grc.org/thalamocorti.... Apply by Nov 16th to be considered for a talk!
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- A great environment!
- Come join our new Department of Neuroscience @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05041
- Reposted by Mathew Summers6+6 = 12 reasons to move to Waterloo, Canada. First 6..... 6 job openings in the University of Waterloo School of Optometry & Vision Science/Waterloo Eye Institute. lnkd.in/d3QD5wFA see thread for the next 6.
- Reposted by Mathew SummersNEW: In an unprecedented move, the NIH will soon disinvite dozens of scientists about to take positions on advisory councils that make final decisions on grant funding. NIH staff were told to select others aligned with the Trump administration and told to expect placements by political appointees.
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- Reposted by Mathew SummersSummary Table of the massive defunding of biomedical research in the United States www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
- Reposted by Mathew SummersThe ICE budget is now set to be approximately what the NIH budget was. We’re shifting money from solving real problems to solving fictitious problems.
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- Reposted by Mathew SummersThe President's Budget request as released yesterday will gut scientific research. Why should you care? 1) Science is fundamentally a jobs program. Many 100,000s are employed to do science and work for you, the US taxpayer.
- Reposted by Mathew SummersI subscribe to the @newyorker.com, I was part of ACT UP, I knew Larry Kramer well and know Tony Fauci too. Daniel Immerwahr's piece on RFKJr, features this and other passages that need a reponse. 1/
- Reposted by Mathew SummersIf you're planning a course with mathematical methods content, or use such methods in your own work, please take a look at "Mathematics in Biology", by Meister, Lee, and Portugues, published at MIT Press. 1/2 @portugueslab.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026204940...
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- Check out some of our locus coeruleus reconstructions - the average fully reconstructed LC neuron is about 30 cm in length (in a mouse brain that spans ~1.3 cm front to back)
- THIS IS ONE NEURON! Jaw dropping. It distributes a particular neurotransmitter (norepinephrine) across the mouse brain; it’s a locus coeruleus neuron. @jeremiahycohen.bsky.social and colleagues at the @alleninstitute.bsky.social are using new biotech to see things never seen before.
- Reposted by Mathew SummersJeopardy! is great, but my real passion… Seattle-area local transit.
- Reposted by Mathew SummersMy group is hiring at Oregon Health & Science University. Come work with us in beautiful Portland to study interoception and physiology. Check out the lab view! 🌲👩🔬 Research Assistant 2: externalcareers-ohsu.icims.com/jobs/32602/r... Postdoc applicants: please email me your CV and 3-4 references.
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- Reposted by Mathew SummersOkay, I cannot recommend 5calls.org enough. Enter your address and it will find all your reps (federal and state). AND give you a list of issues to call about AND which reps to call about each of them AND a little script for each, in case it's helpful. They have an app, too.
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Academic workers across the country are organizing to call on our congressional representatives on Thursday, 1/30, at 3pm ET / 12pm PT to demand these restrictions be lifted immediately. There will be a training over zoom at the beginning of the event. Join us! form.jotform.com/250226137228... - Reposted by Mathew Summers[Not loaded yet]
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- Will be personally undertaking a replication study
- Reposted by Mathew SummersHi, Vox reporter here: If you've had a study section, NIH travel, or other NIH-related meeting cancelled (or not), raise your hand! Reply or DM me, and repost for visibility if you're able. #academicsky @drugmonkey.bsky.social
- Reposted by Mathew SummersNIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research. Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
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- Reposted by Mathew SummersBioart, courtesy of the NIH. All images are in the public domain and available for download as high-quality SVGs. bioart.niaid.nih.gov
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- Reposted by Mathew SummersI am excited to share the last work of my postdoc as a Swartz Fellow at NYU on the dynamic routing of large-scale cognitive networks in the neocortex! 🌐🧠 Here's a quick breakdown: 🧵 preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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- Wishing a merry Spotify wrapped day to all who celebrate
