Join our MDJC: “Prediction of neural activity in connectome-constrained recurrent networks” (Beiran & Litwin-Kumar) w/ Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston — Tue, Jun 23, 3pm PT. Video: carboncopies.org/aspirational... #neuroscience #connectomics #memory

Join our MDJC: “Prediction of neural activity in connectome-constrained recurrent networks” (Beiran & Litwin-Kumar) w/ Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston — Tue, Jun 23, 3pm PT. Video: carboncopies.org/aspirational... #neuroscience #connectomics #memory

Join our MDJC: “Synaptic interactions between stellate cells and parvalbumin interneurons in layer 2 of the medial entorhinal cortex are organized at the scale of grid cell clusters” w/ Dr. Randal Koene—Tue May 26, 3pm PT. carboncopies.org/aspirational...

CSE Journal Club update: “Dissolving the Self” has been moved to Sun, May 24 at 5pm PST due to sudden technical difficulties. Thanks for understanding. Join here: carboncopies.org/cortex #consciousness

Join our Consciousness & Subjective Experience Journal Club: “Dissolving the Self” w/ Dr. Randal A. Koene — Sun, May 17, 5pm PST. Explore psychedelics, ego dissolution, self-models & personal identity. carboncopies.org/cortex #consciousness

Join our MDJC: “Circuit reorganization in the Drosophila mushroom body calyx accompanies memory consolidation” (Baltruschat et al.) w/ Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston — Tue, May 12, 3pm PT. Video: carboncopies.org/aspirational...

Join our MDJC: “Circuit reorganization in the Drosophila mushroom body calyx…” (Baltruschat et al.) w/ Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston — Tue, May 12, 3pm PT. Video: carboncopies.org/aspirational... RSVP: aspirationalneuroscience.org/register-wit...

Did you know the Carboncopies Foundation has a Substack? Our latest article covers the latest Memory Decoding Journal Club discussion on a recent study about grid cells, path integration, and dynamic spatial reference frames. Read the article here: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Join our MDJC: “Grid cells track movement despite switching reference frames” (Peng et al.) w/ Dr. Randal Koene — Tue, Apr 28, 3pm PT. Video: carboncopies.org/aspirational... RSVP: aspirationalneuroscience.org/register-wit... #neuroscience

Want to work on the science of mind uploading this summer? The Carboncopies Foundation has open remote internships in software engineering, machine learning, web development, data science, and LLM infrastructure. Unpaid but meaningful work. Apply here: carboncopies.org/Internships/

Join our MDJC: “Grid cells track movement during path integration despite switching reference frames” (Peng et al.) w/ Dr. Randal Koene — Tue, Apr 28, 3pm PT. Video: meet.google.com/xqd-zgjv-hag RSVP: aspirationalneuroscience.org/register-wit... #neuroscience

MDJC: “Thalamic activation of the visual cortex at the single-synapse level” (Chen et al.). Presented by Dr. Ken Hayworth — Tue Apr 14, 3pm PT / 6pm ET. Join: carboncopies.org/aspirational... Register: aspirationalneuroscience.org/register-wit... #neuroscience #memory #decoding

MDJC: “Thalamic activation of the visual cortex at the single-synapse level” (Chen et al.). Presented by Dr. Ken Hayworth — Tue Apr 14, 3pm PT / 6pm ET. Join: carboncopies.org/aspirational... Register: aspirationalneuroscience.org/register-wit... #neuroscience #memory #decoding

Join our Memory Decoding Journal Club: “Prediction of future input explains lateral connectivity in primary visual cortex” (Klavinskis-Whiting et al.) w/ Dr. Kenneth Hayworth — Tue, Mar 31, 3pm PT. meet.google.com/udr-jcdc-vkp #neuroscience #vision #computationalneuroscience

Join our Memory Decoding Journal Club: “Prediction of future input explains lateral connectivity in primary visual cortex” (Klavinskis-Whiting et al.) w/ Kenneth Kayworth — Tue, Mar 31, 3pm PT. meet.google.com/udr-jcdc-vkp #neuroscience #vision #computationalneuroscience

Join our Memory Decoding Journal Club: “Engram cell connectivity as a mechanism for information encoding and memory function” (Ortega-de San Luis et al.) w/ Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston — Tue, Mar 3, 3pm PT. meet.google.com/udr-jcdc-vkp #memory #engram #neuroscience #synapses

Join our Memory Decoding journal club “The Songbird as a Model for the Generation and Learning of Complex Sequential Behaviors” (Fee & Scharff) w/ Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston on Tue, Feb 17 at 3 pm PT carboncopies.org/aspirational... #memory #decoding #neuroscience #motorlearning

Join our Memory Decoding journal club "Structure and function of the hippocampal CA3 module" (Sammons et al.) w/ Randal Koene on Tue, Jan 27 at 3pm PT carboncopies.org/aspirational... #memory #decoding #aspirational #neuroscience #hippocampus #connectomics #CA3

Join our Memory Decoding journal club "Structure and function of the hippocampal CA3 module" (Sammons et al.) w/ Randal Koene on Tue, Jan 27 at 3 PM PT carboncopies.org/aspirational... #memory #decoding #aspirational #neuroscience #hippocampus #connectomics #CA3

⏰ Last chance in 2025! Our year-end campaign ends on Dec 31. Your gift supports Whole Brain Emulation research, ethics & outreach. 2025 Newsletter: carboncopies.org/Newsletter/D... Donate: carboncopies.org/Donate/ CCF is an IRS-approved 501(c)(3); U.S. donations are tax-deductible.

Join us today at 3 pm US Pacific Time at carboncopies.org/aspirational... as we build towards proposed Memory Decoding studies! #neuroscience #memory #decoding #hippocampus

Here's one of our ten nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Award! Ding et al. at Baylor College of Medicine found that functional connectomics reveals a general “like-to-like” wiring rule. See more nominees and RSVP via our bio to join us at #/SfN25.

Here's one of our ten nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Award! Ding et al. at Baylor College of Medicine. Functional connectomics reveals a general “like-to-like” wiring rule: See more nominees and RSVP via our bio to join us at #SfN25.

Here's one of our ten nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Award! Chettih et al. show that each food-cache encodes a sparse hippocampal “barcode” orthogonal to place cells and reactivated on retrieval. See nominees & RSVP in bio. #SfN25

Here's one of our ten nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Award! Dorkenwald et al. map ~2k synapses among L2/3 pyramidal neurons and find a bimodal size distribution—consistent with binary strength states plus analog noise. See nominees & RSVP in bio. #SfN25

#Throwback to #AspirationalNeuroscience2023: Holler et al. showed neocortical synapse size tightly tracks functional strength—enabling synaptic-weight estimates from EM and bridging connectomics with physiology. See more winners & RSVP in bio. #SfN2025

Here’s one of our ten nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Award! Wright et al. show compartmental plasticity: apical potentiation from local coactivity (spike-indep.); basal needs pre–post coincidence (2-photon imaging). See nominees & RSVP in bio. #SfN25

Here's one of our ten nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Award! Abatis et al. show fear learning strengthens recurrent LA-engram synapses, forming an attractor driving recall (viral tagging + 12-cell patch-clamp). See nominees & RSVP in bio. #SfN25

Nominee spotlight for AN2025: Bittner et al. at HHMI Janelia/Stanford identified BTSP seconds-scale, non-Hebbian plasticity driven by dendritic plateaus that rapidly imprint CA1 place fields. See more nominees and RSVP via our bio to join us at #SfN25.

Here's one of our ten nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Award! Tavakoli et al. at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria developed a new technique, light-microscopy-based connectomics, to fully trace all neuronal connections in brain tissue using fluorescence microscopy.

#Throwback to #AspirationalNeuroscience2023: here's one of our six winners from Aspirational Neuroscience 2023! J-H. Choi et al. & D. Choi et al. at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology provided insights into encoding memories at a structural & molecular level. #SfN2025

1 week until our satellite event at SFN SD! RSVP at the link in our bio.

Here's one of our ten nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Award! Lappalainen et al. fixed a recurrent network’s wiring to the Drosophila optic-lobe connectome, then task-optimized its remaining neuron/synapse parameters for optic-flow detection. #SfN2025

#Throwback to #AspirationalNeuroscience2023: Ghosh et al. and Xiong et al. at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory revealed how the brain establishes and maintains learned associations between sounds and actions through selective strengthening of corticostriatal synapses. #SfN25

The Aspirational Neuroscience Awards exist to honor and highlight groundbreaking scientific to research into how learning and memory are physically encoded in the brain. Here is one of the 2025 nominations: A Drosophila computational brain model reveals sensorimotor processing Author(s): Shiu et al

Memory Decoding advances nominated for 2025 Aspirational Neuroscience Awards!

Remembering past winners and nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience Awards!

2 weeks until our satellite event at SFN SD! RSVP at link in bio.

3 weeks until our satellite event at SFN SD! RSVP at the link in our bio.

Journal club TODAY at 3 pm US Pacific Time: Functional Connectomics Reveals General Wiring Rule in Mouse Visual Cortex -- join at carboncopies.org/aspirational... #neuroscience #memorydecoding #aspirationalneuroscience #connectomics #mouse

4 weeks until our satellite event at SFN SD! RSVP at link in bio.

5 weeks until our satellite event at SFN SD! RSVP at link in bio!

6 weeks left until Aspirational Neuroscience 2025! Be sure to RSVP at the link in our bio and follow along to learn more about our nominated papers this year.

We are excited to announce the Aspirational Neuroscience Awards 2025 event at SfN2025 in San Diego. The 3rd Aspirational Neuroscience Prizes for outstanding work in Memory Decoding from brain data. Follow to learn more about this year's nominated publications. RSVP in bio! #SfN2025 #Neuroscience

Follow along for more updates and RSVP at the link in bio! #SfN25 #AspirationalNeuroscience2025 #neuroscience #neurology #neuroplasticity #neurobiology #psychology #computationalneuroscience #neuroscienceresearch #scienceeducation #med #brain

Join us TODAY at carboncopies.org/aspirational... for a memory decoding journal club about plasticity rules in dendritic compartments presented by Dr. Kenneth Hayworth #memory #decoding #neuroscience #plasticity #dendrites

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Join our Memory Decoding journal club "Behavioral time scale synaptic plasticity underlies CA1 place fields" TODAY at 3 pm US Pacific Time carboncopies.org/aspirational... #memory #decoding #aspirational #neuroscience #plasticity #hippocampus

Join us Tomorrow - Tue Aug 12 - at 3 pm PDT for "The Dendritic Engram", a Memory Decoding journal club carboncopies.org/Events/Journ... #neuroscience #memory #dendritic #aspirational #decoding

Join our Special Session of the Memory Decoding journal club to discuss proposed papers to be nominated for the Aspirational Neuroscience Prize at SfN2025. Tuesday at 3 pm PDT at carboncopies.org/aspirational... #neuroscience #memory #decoding