Asst Professor at University of Maryland, Baltimore
interneuron enthusiast, sharp-wave ripple lover & code monkey
https://aeryjoneslab.github.io
she/her
Emily A. Aery Jones
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How do brains plan actions towards goals?
To get at this question we studied mice navigating complex mazes as goals changed on every trial 🧵
Work with @thomasakam.bsky.social @behrenstimb.bsky.social @kristorpjensen.bsky.social now on BioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
THE OFFICIAL @standupforscience.net GUIDE FOR TALKING TO ANYONE ABOUT THE OMB RULE PROPOSAL!!
www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a...
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Representational drift - the change in cells' responses to the same stimulus over time - may be a feature rather than a bug.
Thank you to @dianakwon.bsky.social for giving me a chance to talk about this fascinating topic. 🤯 The brain never ceases to amaze!
READ: My Public Comment on Proposed OMB Rule: Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance
elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/my-public-...
🦇🍸 bat cocktail party problem 🍸🦇
Like humans at a party, echolocating bats must pick out the sound they're interested in while ignoring out many others
This review highlights roles of not just auditory but also "cognitive" brain areas in solving this problem
#neuroskyence
#bioacoustics
#prattle 💬
Our new paper is out this week in Nature Neuroscience! www.nature.com/articles/s41... We built a BCI that works with the brain's natural geometry — and we found that people could learn to play a video game with their brains in <1 hr of training. This efficiency is groundbreaking & here's why:
Place cells respond to terrain geometry. Explicable as a generalisation of the BVC model.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
This is the kind of discovery which, I admit, makes me slightly miss my old job.
This is a very helpful resource from the former EiC of Science: a template for commenting on the proposed changes to OMB regulations that threaten the continued existence of US Science.
Megathread resources now compiled in a Google doc. Send it to your friends. Share with your departments and trainees. And share with non-scientists! I also have a template for non-scientist comments, because this is an all-taxpayer, all medical service user issue. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
POINTseq, now out in Neuron after peer review. Read it. There are barcodes, viruses, and dopamine. Congrats to @hyopilkim.bsky.social on leading our lab's first published paper!
Colette Delawalla, PhD
Submitted by: Elizabeth Ginexi, PhD, Former NIH Scientific Program Official (2003–2025)
Busch et al. use nonlinear neural manifolds to help humans gain rapid control over a noninvasive brain–computer interface, allowing them to learn how to play a video game with real-time fMRI neurofeed...
