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Neuroscience PhD & postdoc studying neural computations of communication in humans @bcmhouston Hayden lab. Sister to someone with autism. she/her

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Highly recommend this book for learning how to be a more empathetic, compassionate, and meaningful person in your community and workplace, especially the lab! Ruchika provides practical, actionable strategies to enhance inclusivity and belonging in science.
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RT @storiesofwin: In honor of Black History Month, we want to highlight a few of the outstanding Black neuroscientists we have interviewed!…
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RT @leafs_s: The geometry of the neural state space of decisions
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RT @leoschilbach: Nonverbal Synchrony in Social Interactions of Patients with Schizophrenia Indicates Socio-Communicative Deficits https://…
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RT @MillerLabMIT: Theory of morphodynamic information processing: Linking sensing to behaviour #neuroscience
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RT @d_g_clark: Very happy to share a preprint: “Symmetries and Continuous Attractors in Disordered Neural Circuits” Detailed accompanying t…
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RT @MainakDeb19: Unlike the brain, most ANNs lack any kind of organization of units🧠 In our paper (ICLR 2025) with @mayukh091 @apurvarata
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RT @AgnesCallard: If we were designed to think solo, monologue would be easier than dialogue. Dialogue involves INCREDIBLY complex acts of…
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RT @MoeNeuro: It is Faculty interview season, so I created a doc with compiled Chalk Talk advice! Please share widely- this shouldn't be hi…
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RT @JayAlammar: Ellie Pavlick: "Should we care about linguistics?" Wonderful talk about NLP's movement from solving tasks to generally pra…
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RT @cmu_bme: Researchers from Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh explored how the brain uses one-way neural paths. Their find…
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RT @MillerLabMIT: Nonresponsive Neurons Improve Population Coding of Object Location #neuroscience
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RT @sugsharma: How does one brain circuit encode memories of both places and events? 🧠 The answer is out in Nature today! (proud to have le…
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RT @NTFabiano: The shallow cognitive map hypothesis of schizophrenia. 🧵1/13
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RT @leafs_s: Science People who can’t picture images in their ‘mind’s eye’ still represent them in their brains
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RT @leafs_s: Nature Reviews Neuroscience The curious case of dopaminergic prediction errors and learning associative information beyond va…
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RT @BastosLabNeuro: Awesome paper
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RT @marlenecohen: New results for a new year! “Linking neural population formatting to function” describes our modern take on an old questi…
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RT @IpshitaZ: None of this work would have been possible without Winnie. They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Winnie’s plot, showi…
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