Professor, University of Pennsylvania, & Santa Fe Institute. Author of Curious Minds: The Power of Connection (MIT Press). | 🏳️🌈 they/them.
Philadelphia, PA
Joined November 2012
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Excited to share our review on the use of network models for cross-species translational neuroscience! nature.com/articles/s41583-0… led by Kate Brynildsen (gif below from @academicmatou)
New work from postdoc Christoffer Alexandersen! Addressing an important open question in Alzheimer's disease using mathematical modeling.
🧠 New paper out in 𝘉𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯
Why does tau pathology often begin in the entorhinal cortex in Alzheimer’s disease?
We show that brain-wide gradients of neuronal activity and amyloid-β may make this region particularly vulnerable to tau pathology.
doi.org/10.1093/brain/awaf37…
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❗🧠 New review in IEEE RBME
How network math models are reshaping how we think about neurodegenerative disease, from brain dynamics to disease progression
"Network models of neurodegeneration: bridging neuronal dynamics and disease progression"
ieeexplore.ieee.org/document…
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🤖 Robotic manipulation tasks grow combinatorially, but data collection still scales linearly.
Is there a better way to obtain expert datasets at scale?🤔
Excited to share our latest work, Iterative Compositional Data Generation for Robot Control.
📄 doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2512.…
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Seeing this comic get brought up again, and I don't think I'll ever stop feeling overjoyed that it's been able to help even a single person.
Am I Queer Enough? thenib.com/am-i-queer-enough… via @thenib
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New preprint with @DaniSBassett and @nathanieldaw!
How do humans learn predictive representations? We propose a trial-by-trial learning rule that incorporates trace updating to learn the SR.
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Incredible news. Zooey Zephyr, my fiancée, was re-elected to the Montana House of Representatives, getting 83% of the vote.
Many of you will remember her for standing up for trans people in Montana, and then getting censured and kicked off the House floor.
I'm so proud of her.
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Big news out of Iowa!
Iowa has elected its first transgender House of Representatives member, Aime Wichtendahl after winning a tightly contested election.
She will join a growing number of trans legislators and will make history in the state of Iowa.
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Brianna Titone, transgender legislator in Colorado, wins her re-election.
She helped make the state of Colorado a refuge state for transgender people.
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For the first time in history, the United States has a sitting congressperson who is transgender.
Congratulations to Sarah McBride, whose race was just called by MSNBC.
She wins in a year where a historic amount of anti-trans ads were blared across TV screens in America.
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What a fantastic pair 😊 tiny mycena for #twosday #fungi #macro #nature #wildlife #tuesdaymorning #thephotohour
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A collaborative team of researchers led by @UCIrvine postdoc Dale Zhou and @WarrenCntrPenn faculty affiliate @DaniSBassett looked at how nearly half a million people around the world use Wikipedia’s knowledge networks. penntoday.upenn.edu/news/stu…
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Apropos of nothing... our new paper finds that Americans overestimate how undemocratic the other side is.
When they learn what the other side really thinks, they support democracy more themselves.
Democracy is probably more popular than you realize!
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/a…
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A Penn team worked with @Wikimedia to analyze the browsing habits and curiosity styles of over 480,000 people across 50 countries. The study was led by led by @DaniSBassett & @neuro_dz with contributions from @sppatankar. #PennBioengineering
Read more: bit.ly/3YoclBs
ALT A hyperlink network from English Wikipedia, with only 0.1% of articles (nodes) and their connections (edges) visualized. Seven different reader journeys through this network are highlighted in various colors. The network is organized by topic and displayed using a layout that groups related articles together. (Image: Dale Zhou)
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A jelly ear that thinks it's a 15 tog duvet 😊🤣 #macro #macrophotography #fungi #wednesdaymorning #nature #wildlife #photohour
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Busybody or hunter? @DaniSBassett of @pennbioeng and @eseatpenn studied Wikipedia browsing patterns to uncover insights into how people learn online. Their research sheds light on curiosity-driven learning paths in the digital age. bit.ly/4ekDsU1
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Dani Bassett @DaniSBassett and Lauren Ross @ProfLaurenRoss unpack the term “mechanism” and explore its use in different subfields of neuroscience. @ar0mcintosh, @kaczkurkin, and @PessoaBrain also share their thoughts.
thetransmitter.org/the-big-p…
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Maybe the most powerful figure I’ve seen this year: the racial gap in tickets from speed cameras vs. officer stops.
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.24…
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Can new targets for Parkinson’s disease be identified by examining pathology patterns in the brain? We are very excited to share our latest preprint where we explore exactly that question.
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Excited to have this newest preprint from the lab out! There is a lot here to see: pathology maps, a new mouse gene expression atlas, new targets for Parkinson’s!
Can new targets for Parkinson’s disease be identified by examining pathology patterns in the brain? We are very excited to share our latest preprint where we explore exactly that question.
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
