Michael Okun
@michael_okun
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Associate Professor of (Systems & Computational) Neuroscience @UniofNottingham. Interested in cortical dynamics.
United Kingdom
Joined August 2017
RT @markdhumphries: Save the date! UK Neural Computation 2025 will be at Imperial College London 9 July: ECR day 10-11 July: main meetin…
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"Among the generations that we synthesized, we found a bright fluorescent protein at a far distance (58% sequence identity) from known fluorescent proteins, which we estimate is equivalent to simulating five hundred million years of evolution."
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RT @GatsbyUCL: 📢 Apply now for the 7-week #Mathematics #SummerSchool in London! You will develop mathematics skills and intuition necessar…
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Starting 2025 with some splendid northern lights (visible about now in Västerbotten, Sweden).
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RT @SchmidhuberAI: The #NobelPrize in Physics 2024 for Hopfield & Hinton turns out to be a Nobel Prize for plagiarism. They republished met…
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RT @VVyazovskiy: Sleep-like state during wakefulness induced by psychedelic 5-MeO-DMT in mice | bioRxiv
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@TheBrunoCortex Even in chess, where Kasparov lost to AI > 25y ago and the space of possible steps is extremely limited, to the best of my knowledge human+AI still beats AI.
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@OliverKamm @ucl @JanLipavsky You, the Czech minister, and everyone who learned of this incident got a (yet another) lesson about the ongoings at British universities. Surely that's a learning outcome to rival anything the Czech minister had to say, and for which @ucl deserves full credit!
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RT @markdhumphries: We’re seeking a research assistant to work on predicting which Parkinson’s patients would most benefit from deep brain…
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Our school (@UoNLifeSci ) is advertising a teaching-focused position of Assistant Professor in Neuroscience. Application deadline: 7-Nov.
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RT @NeuroPSI_saclay: We grieve the passing of Dr. Yves Frégnac. Yves has shaped the study of cortical processing and plasticity. He herald…
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RT @apeyrache: Gyorgy Buzsaki just wrote an autobiography. The second paragraph starts with "I was 11 years old when I killed my best frie…
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RT @ViditaVaidya: Really glad to have this work identifying the key role of PV-neurons in the ventral hippocampus in gating the anxiolytic…
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RT @EnnyvBeest: The 2024 UCL Neuropixels course will take place on 14-16 October. Registration is free. Register today! More info: https://…
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RT @AllenInstitute: Mapping the brain’s visual world on psychedelics, texture and time. Meet the new #OpenScope projects tackling open ques…
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RT @markdhumphries: Bludgeoning reviewers into submission by the sheer volume of work in a paper now has a name! Daring reviewers to rejec…
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RT @lpachter: Aristotle was the first to notice honeybees dancing. In 1927 Karl von Frisch decoded the waggle. How it works was "explained"…
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RT @RnaudBertrand: The Economist: "China has become a scientific superpower" Rare for me - maybe even unprecedented - to praise the Econom…
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RT @markdhumphries: Register by June 21 for UK Neural Computation 2024 (Sheffield, July 8-10): A meeting for every…
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