Emerson F. Harkin (@efharkin_) 's Twitter Profile
Emerson F. Harkin

@efharkin_

Computational neuroscience post-doc trying to figure out serotonin | he/him

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What’s the point of strong spike frequency adaptation in serotonin neurons? This new work offers a clue: adaptation lets neurons broadcast a prediction of their future output, preventing slow downstream regions from lagging behind. 💡 doi.org/10.48550/arXiv…

monosov_lab (@monosovlab) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New work on value related functions of the Raphe. Congrats Yang-Yang Feng and Ethan Bromberg-Martin! Yang-Yang Feng now continues his medical training and comp psych efforts. future of psychiatry is integration across disciplines and team work. cell.com/cell-reports/f…

Christopher Rozell (@crozscitech) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Please RT. Really excited to have this released! A new code package that lets you simulate your SNN models as if it was an in vivo experiment, complete with opto stim, ephys, imaging, and closed loop control. Prototype experiments or rigorously test your models against data.

monosov_lab (@monosovlab) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Dear Colleagues! Our foraging conference is now open! Amazing lineup, and fantastic location (Lyon France). Please Join us!!! Registration is OPEN sites.google.com/view/foragingc…

Emerson F. Harkin (@efharkin_) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New blog post about asymmetric learning rates in reward learning. What do they do and why? Slower learning for negative RPEs causes slower learning when the environment gets worse (duh!) but also causes an optimism bias when rewards are random. 🤔 efharkin.com/blog/2024-07-a…

Laura Driscoll (@lndriscoll) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If you want to do a postdoc w me (or generally do theory at Allen/UW) apply for this!   It’s a pretty independent postdoc position for people with a quantitative background, and pays well (104K)!    Due date is Dec 16th. Here’s the link to apply. tinyurl.com/coolgoodjob

Timothy O'Leary (@timothy0leary) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Apropos of never ending discussions about whether ANNs are "good" models of the nervous system, here is a slide I present to masters students showing a network that is found in motor control circuits *across phyla* (that's pretty ubiquitous!) I ask them to guess what it does...

Apropos of never ending discussions about whether ANNs are "good" models of the nervous system, here is a slide I present to masters students showing a network that is found in motor control circuits *across phyla* (that's pretty ubiquitous!) I ask them to guess what it does...
Rui Ponte Costa (@somnirons) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Our paper on how the cerebellum learns to drive cortical dynamics for rapid task learning, switching and consolidation is now out in Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s4146…

Richard Naud (@neuronaud) 's Twitter Profile Photo

What are serotonin neurons trying to tell the brain? Our work on the question has been so much fun (Jean-Claude Beique , @JermiahYCohen, cooper grossman ). Check out Emerson F. Harkin 's exciting paper biorxiv.org/content/10.110… nature.com/articles/s4158…

Richard Naud (@neuronaud) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I'm always impressed when I read an article about work I was involved in that summarizes better than what I feel capable of : brainpost.co/weekly-brainpo…

Ahmed El Hady (@zamakany) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If you are around in Berlin May 13th , come attend my talk at The Bernstein Center for computational neuroscience lecture hall May 13th at 4 pm . All details here : sfb1315.de/events/integra… Thank you Livia de Hoz and Collaborative Research Center 1315 for the invitation .

If you are around in Berlin May 13th  , come attend my talk at The Bernstein Center for computational neuroscience lecture hall May 13th at 4 pm . All details here : sfb1315.de/events/integra… 

Thank you <a href="/liviadehoz/">Livia de Hoz</a> and <a href="/SFB1315/">Collaborative Research Center 1315</a>  for the invitation .
monosov_lab (@monosovlab) 's Twitter Profile Photo

At JHU, our team will work on the circuit / algorithmic basis of intelligence & cognition, with attention to their malfunction in disease. We are looking for new team members with experience in circuit neuroscience, biology, or machine intelligence. Please DM if u are interested.

Emerson F. Harkin (@efharkin_) 's Twitter Profile Photo

After living in Germany for a year, this article made me laugh out loud. The director of my research institute here once told me that in a slow year, he physically signs ~1200 documents. cbc.ca/radio/sunday/e…

Guido Meijer (@guido_meijer) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨Pre-print alert🚨 We stimulated serotonin while doing large-scale Neuropixel recordings across the mouse brain. We found widespread modulation of neural activity, but no effect on the choices of the mouse🐭 How is this possible? Strap in! (1/9) 👇🧵 doi.org/10.1101/2025.0…