
Jim Heys
@jamesgheys1
Prof @UUNeurobiology. Father, scientist. ❤️being lost in music and ethereal landscapes. He/him 🇨🇦🇺🇸
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http://heyslab.org 21-07-2016 01:51:49
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What a treat to start the new year with a new paper from the lab, with @azayhara ! Hongyu_Chang and Wenbo Tang found that pupil dynamics in naturally sleeping mice uncover a microstructure of sleep that organizes different types of memory replay: nature.com/articles/s4158…





This would cripple biomedical research at public institutions like University of Utah, threatening life-saving treatments for cancer, Alzheimers, and Parkinsons. I urge our representatives to act now to protect the funding that makes this research possible. John Curtis Governor Cox Celeste Maloy




Just spent 30 hours reviewing for an NIH study section set for Thurs—now postponed indefinitely. 20 other scientists did the same X multiple sections. Huge waste of time, resources, and funding, with real costs for science and economy. Donald J. Trump admin is bad for everyone.

Excited to share our latest work on songbirds showing dopamine guides learning of natural behavior nature.com/articles/s4158… Congrats to Jonathan Kasdin Alison Duffy Nathan Nadler Arnav Raha Adrienne Fairhall Kim Stachenfeld (neurokim.bsky.social) ! Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute Columbia University Google DeepMind University of Washington

Very excited that this cute study is finally out as a preprint. It began in Neurobridges 2023 when Tal Nahari approached me after my lecture on foraging theory wondering : " I have some saccadic eye movement data that looks like your patch foraging model" . Here we are, two


Our latest research, led by Antoine Madar, on what #SynapticPlasticity rules shape CA1 and CA3 representations in the hippocampus during familiarization has just been published in Nature Neuroscience! Read here: nature.com/articles/s4159…




Excited to share our new study: "Cold memories control whole-body thermoregulatory responses" by Andrea Muñoz Zamora, Aaron Douglas & team at Trinity College Dublin, in collaboration with Lydia Lynch & Christine Ann Denny Ryan Lab nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

