Athena Akrami

@AthenaAkrami

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Neuroscientist at The Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL, in London.

London, England lim.bio Joined August 2018

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Athena Akrami @AthenaAkrami Apr 24, 2024

Excited to see the final version out @eLife. A long journey since the 1st draft as we ran experiments to test new model's predictions. Thanks to reviewers whose comments made it a better paper!
@vboboeva, A Pezzotta, @ClopathLab
Image by @mulesome
article: elifesciences.org/articles/86725…

Athena Akrami @AthenaAkrami May 17, 2022

New preprint (first from the lab)! 📢

"From recency to central tendency biases in working memory: a unifying attractor network model"

by @vizhe4 (Vezha Boboeva), Alberto Pezzotta, co-supervised by me & @ClopathLab!
@SWC_Neuro, @imperialcollege

biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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Athena Akrami @AthenaAkrami Apr 7

Academic friends,
A few of us drafted an open letter calling for protection of civilians & of educational, research, medical & cultural institutions; and for practical support for students and scholars.

Please read, share & sign if you agree:
sites.google.com/view/protect-a…

#IranWar‌

sites.google.com Home We, the undersigned academics and researchers from around the world, express our profound concern over recent military strikes on Iran, the retaliatory responses, and the reported impact on civilian...

Athena Akrami @AthenaAkrami Apr 2

Pasteur Institute of Iran, founded in 1920 now destroyed by Israel-US bombing 😞

It played a pivotal role in developing vaccines & infectious disease prevention, now gone😞

This is after a few pharmaceutical plants were bombed over the past days

#IranWar
#PasteurInstituteIran

Rubble and ruins -- Iran Pasteur Institute in Tehran, bombed by US-Isreal

Athena Akrami @AthenaAkrami Jun 19, 2025

I couldn't get in touch w my parents (in Tehran) since yesterday, as there's a massive internet shutdown.
Just now, via some news channel, saw a video of their street lit up under anti-aircraft guns.
Watching war, where your loved ones live, from afar, is pure torture😞
#NoToWar

NetBlocks Verified account @netblocks Jun 19, 2025

⚠️ Update: It has now been 24 hours since #Iran imposed a nationwide internet shutdown; the ongoing blackout incident is the most severe tracked since the November 2019 protests and impacts the public's ability to stay connected at a time when communications are vital ⏱️

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Athena Akrami @AthenaAkrami Jun 16, 2025

“Dear citizens, for your safety, we ask you to immediately leave the mentioned area in District 3 of Tehran” says the IDF Persian-language spokesman.

While I was still on phone w my dad to see where they are, the attack started (less than 1.5hr after the notice). What a facade!