Emily Stephen
@emilyps14
(she/her) Assistant professor in math/stats at Boston University, computational neuroscience and statistics @[email protected]
This is a big one! @PatrickBloniasz, Shohei Oyama, and I throwing our hat in the ring on interpreting broadband effects in neural power spectra. I can’t wait to hear what people think and chat about it at #SfN24!
🧠 I’m excited to share our latest preprint with @emilyps14 and undergraduate S. Oyama! We introduce a stochastic forward modeling framework to improve the interpretation of neural power spectral effects—like spectral slope—in biophysical terms. 1/ biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Check out our new manuscript on the role of norepinephrine in shaping the hemodynamic IRF biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Congrats to Brad, Natalie, Sreekanth, Patrick and the team! You are my inspiration :)
We. are. hiring! New TT Asst Prof in SLHS. Any scientific area. Excited about applicants who will build on the multidisciplinary, diverse, collaborative, research emphasis in our department. More info at the AJO link below, or ping me with questions. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28196
Please share widely: We are seeking applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position, in any research area in speech, language, and hearing science. Read more about the position and research opportunities at BU, and apply online, at this link: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28196
So excited to be mentoring @PatrickBloniasz, who was awarded a GRFP today!
Excited to announce that I was offered a neuroscience @NSF GRFP award this morning. I will continue my work developing new tools to model neural field potentials under the mentorship of @emilyps14. Huge thanks all my friends, family, and mentors over the years! :)
I can't wait for the Modeling Extracellular Potentials Workshop on July 9 after the #CNS2025 conference in Florence! Hosted by @Nico_Meneghetti and @russo_eleon nicolomeneghetti.github.io/ECP_CNS2025_Ws…
In yesterday’s @buCSNneuro seminar, @Stefan_Mihalas from the @AllenInstitute discussed “Computing with complex components: How heterogenous, nonstationery and noisy neurons and synapses contribute to the brain's computational power.” Thanks Emily Stephen (@emilyps14) for hosting!
📜I just preprinted a little perspective piece / mini review on the history of the study of aperiodic neural activity - arguing there is more out there in literature than one might expect! A historical overview of the study of aperiodic neural activity: osf.io/preprints/psya…
Interesting talk from Prof Ryan Raut (@ryanvraut) from @AllenInstitute @UW on "Unifying systems neuroscience through arousal dynamics” in today’s seminar jointly sponsored by @buCSNneuro and @BU_NPC /NRT. Thanks Prof. Emily Stephen (@emilyps14) for hosting!
I just posted a major piece of my graduate research, where we used global coherence (previously used with EEG recordings of general anesthesia) to characterize coherent networks of alpha oscillations in disorders of consciousness medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
Catch us Friday at @apanhearing where the lab has 3 posters! 🧠 Neural response timing to speech onsets in STG @aana_moore @emilyps14 🧠 Auditory structural connectivity in children w/ ASD @Becky_Belisle_ 🧠 Laterality bias in cortical surface atlases @YinuoLIU16 @jayoung_choi
*Two* new TT Faculty openings in human cognitive neuroscience at BU's PBS Department! Spread the word! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28478
New manuscript from @AnnaDevor's lab and coauthored by several collaborating @buCSNneuro faculty, "Neurovascular Impulse Response Function (IRF) during spontaneous activity differentially reflects intrinsic neuromodulation across cortical regions." READ>>biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
We have an opening for a statistics/education 2-year post doc to help with the Large Course Transformation of our intro statistics sequence -- please share! mathjobs.org/jobs/list/24916
New Preprint with Wan-Chi Hsin and Uri Eden! Switching Models of Oscillatory Networks Greatly Improve Inference of Dynamic Functional Connectivity arxiv.org/abs/2404.18854
As some of you are well aware, the BRAIN Initiative funding was cut by 40% (braininitiative.nih.gov/news-events/bl…). “This is truly awful, This large cut to the BRAIN Initiative is, simply put, going to kill jobs and hurt patients over the next 10-20 years.” – Kip Ludwig, PhD
🗣️🗣️🗣️WHAT DOES @SenWarren want the BU admin to know???
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