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Alana Darcher

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phd student studying how human brains process naturalistic stimuli \\ @humansingleneuron.bsky.social & @mackelab.bsky.social alanadarcher.com

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20.11.2025 03:05 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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How is the semantic content of a movie processed by our brains? 🧠🎬
We decode characters, events, & other features and investigate how populations and single neurons represent movie features. Check my poster @sfn.org #sfn25!
Sat. Nov 15, 6:45-8:45pm, Hall E, poster S5
Wed. Nov 19, 9-10am, poster NN5

14.11.2025 13:59 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Semantic Tuning of Single Neurons in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.21.682935v1

27.10.2025 10:15 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

excited to have gotten to work on this super cool project!

27.10.2025 16:28 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Macke lab is well-represented at the @bernsteinneuro.bsky.social conference in Frankfurt this year! We have lots of exciting new work to present with 7 posters (detailsπŸ‘‡) 1/9

30.09.2025 14:06 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Manuel Brenner and I managed to organize this workshop not knowing we were gonna end up being new neighbors this month. The lineup speaks for itself.

There were some last minute cancellations so we jumped in to fill their big shoes and will talk about the future directions of the new labs too!

29.09.2025 09:55 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Not Even Nice Work If You Can Get It; A Longitudinal Study of Uber's Algorithmic Pay and Pricing Ride-sharing platforms like Uber market themselves as enabling `flexibility' for their workforce, meaning that drivers are expected to anticipate when and where the algorithm will allocate them jobs, ...

New paper out today, accepted at #FAccT2025, led by Jake Stein and me: "Not Even Nice Work If You Can Get It; A Longitudinal Study of Uber's Algorithmic Pay and Pricing" arxiv.org/abs/2506.15278

Over the last 3 years, we've been working with @workerinfox.bsky.social to audit Uber's algorithms. 1/

19.06.2025 08:03 πŸ‘ 132 πŸ” 57 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 7
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Coming to OCNS this year? Let’s hang out!

27.05.2025 18:45 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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@graphcrimes.bsky.social

27.05.2025 15:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Foundation Model crew at #COSYNE2025. With @josueortc.bsky.social , @colehurwitz.bsky.social , @averyryoo.bsky.social , @nandahkrishna.bsky.social , @auschulz.bsky.social

17.04.2025 03:17 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

@dorisdijk.bsky.social hallo hallo 🧠

24.03.2025 09:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ§ πŸ” Featuring talks by:
Jonathan Daume (hippocampal dynamics + WM)

Sina Mackay (concept cells + memory formation)

@ilonavieten.bsky.social (attention modulation + single neurons)

@muthujeyanthi.bsky.social (gamma osc. during sequence tasks)

and me (decoding semantic info during movies)!

24.03.2025 09:43 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Coming to #NWG GΓΆttingen and interested in single neurons, LFP, & human memory? Check out our upcoming symposium!

🧠 Investigating memory using human single-neuron recordings
πŸ“… Fri. 28/3, 11:30-13:30 | πŸ“ Hall 8

@neurowissg.bsky.social
Co-org w/ @ilonavieten.bsky.social

24.03.2025 09:37 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Workshop on Foundation Models at Cosyne, also featuring @auschulz.bsky.social!

11.03.2025 06:41 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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ZAPBench ZAPBench evaluates how well different models can predict the activity of over 70,000 neurons in a novel larval zebrafish dataset.

⚑️ Excited to introduce ZAPBench, our #ICLR2025 spotlight: The Zebrafish Activity Prediction Benchmark measures progress in predicting neural activity within an entire vertebrate brain (70k+ neurons!)

Explore interactive visualizations, datasets, code + paper: google-research.github.io/zapbench

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04.03.2025 15:21 πŸ‘ 40 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2
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Behavioral investigation of allocentric and egocentric cognitive maps in human spatial memory Spatial memory is a fundamental cognitive function that enables humans and other species to encode and recall the locations of items in their environments. Humans employ diverse strategies to support ...

Happy to share our new preprint on cognitive maps and human spatial memory! Led by @lauranett.bsky.social, together with @timaguth.bsky.social and @philippbuchel.bsky.social

Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Task for easy re-use: github.com/BonnSpatialM...

Code: github.com/BonnSpatialM...

19.01.2025 20:14 πŸ‘ 36 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Gatsby Bridging Programme flyer

Gatsby Bridging Programme flyer

πŸ“’ Apply now for the 7-week #Mathematics #SummerSchool in London!

You will develop mathematics skills and intuition necessary to enter the #TheoreticalNeuroscience or #MachineLearning field.

ℹ️ www.ucl.ac.uk/gatsby/study-and-work/gatsby-bridging-programme

Please help spread the word!

06.01.2025 10:16 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2

Thrilled to announce we have three #NeurIPS2024 papers! Interested in simulating realistic neural data with diffusion models or recurrent neural networks, or in source distribution sorcery? Have a look πŸ‘‡ 1/4

09.12.2024 19:28 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
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Hi world! This is the brand-new BlueSky account of the Machine Learning in Science (@jakhmack.bsky.social) lab. We create probabilistic #MachineLearning and #AI Tools for scientific discovery β€” but more on that soon!
For now let’s introduce ourselves with some pictures of our recent group retreat.

14.11.2024 13:38 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1