I'm hiring 2 software engineers to help build the new software team at iota biosciences! We're developing BCI medical devices to help people with paralysis regain movement. This is early, foundational work across real-time, embedded, ML, cloud, & clinical apps. (1/3) jobs.ashbyhq.com/iota-bio

Are you a neuroscientist who would like to easily try out different methods to process & organize your Ca imaging and behavior data? Or analyze neural activity across sessions, behavior states, or trials? Try out the IDEAS platform — now free to try for everyone! Sign up here: inscopix.cloud 🧠🧪

i wrote an essay for @thetransmitter.bsky.social about what it feels like to serve on an NIH grant review panel (study section) right now www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...

Canada needs to reduce its dependence on US tech companies — and cloud infrastructure is a perfect place to start. For @policyalternatives.ca, I explain the threat posed by our dependence on US-owned data centres and why we need a public cloud that isn’t shaped by the need for shareholder profits.

On my way to @canacn.bsky.social #CAN2025 in Toronto! Come visit the Inscopix / Bruker booth to check out our latest instruments (like the new Inscopix 2-photon miniscope) and data + analysis software (the IDEAS cloud platform) for neuroscience research.

Are you an organization in need of data science help on a project for societal good? Are you a data scientist who wants to volunteer your time on good projects? Connect with us! data-for-good-team.org

I had a great time representing Inscopix, Inc. and Bruker at this year’s Advanced Neurotechniques Course at Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience! Always inspiring to connect with neuroscientists who are passionate about using cutting-edge tools and methods. Thanks to all the organizers!

An important, multi-lab effort to better understand how psilocybin effects standard mouse behavior assays. Some results expected, some not! The classic 'head twitch' response to hallucinogens was robust. But, surprisingly, no persistent reduction in anxiety or depression like symptoms. 🧪

If you’re a scientist whose funding has recently been cut or impacted, I would love to interview you and amplify your work! Hoping to release our first two podcast episodes next week. Please share widely!

At a time when scientists & tech leaders are contemplating a new home for their talents, what can Canada do to help attract them? Peter Zandstra (Director @sbmeubc.bsky.social) writes that without more foundational support for science, a 🇨🇦 'brain gain' may go to waste. tinyurl.com/ukabrr4x

This tool from @cbrs-scrc.bsky.social makes it easy to reach out to your Canadian federal candidates and voice the importance of prioritizing neuroscience research and brain health. Take a look. It takes 2 minutes to do. #cdnpoli #neuroskyence

On my way to #COSYNE2025 today! Looking forward to seeing old friends and meeting new people. Come check out the Inscopix and Bruker tables to learn more about our solutions for acquiring and analyzing calcium imaging & behavior research data.

Great questions can come from anywhere. OpenScope allows researchers from around the world to pitch experiments to be run – at not cost to them – in the Allen Brain Observatory. 🧠📈 🍿 youtu.be/13r9n0pSDLc #BrainAwarenessWeek

I asked for your favorite examples of the importance of cell types in systems neuro. I used those as a seed for Deep Research. Here's the report: chatgpt.com/share/67a8ea... It's illustrative of what o3 can and can't do 1/

Join our virtual Town Hall next week and give us input on what INCF should focus on in the coming years! 2 time slots available: - Feb 11, 8am CET - Feb 12, 8pm CET Register here: bit.ly/3Q2UWKx If you're unable to join please fill out our survey: bit.ly/40BlrvI #neuroskyence 🧪🧠 Please RT! ✨

"Watch a mouse raid your pantry day after day, and you’ll witness a master class in autonomous behavior far beyond the abilities of even our most sophisticated robots" Insightful perspective by @tonyzador.bsky.social on how lessons learned in neurobiology are relevant to today's AI efforts. 🧪

We no longer have a choice. The things we believe in won’t be here if we don’t fight for them. Call your representatives. Talk to your families. Create a storm on social media. Let your joy be resistance. Do whatever makes sense for you, and do it now. #scienceadvocate

In-depth article on chronic pain, with my friend @robgereau.bsky.social and Allan Basbaum heavily interviewed as scientists studying pain: ‘We die in pain, we don’t die of pain.’ www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/m...

Happy new year!

I wrote about a scientific paper called “The Unbearable Slowness of Being” which finds that the human brain’s throughput is just 10 bits per second. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/s... 🧪

Teachers, parents, and everyone: You should know Frontiers for Young Minds! It's a terrific (free) online journal with cutting-edge science articles, written for different age groups. Scientists write. *Kids* are the reviewers. Available in 5 languages. kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

Do the paradoxes of striatal physiology, reinforcement learning, & action selection keep you up at night? Thankfully, Lindsey & coauthors have recently published compelling evidence that reconcile these apparent inconsistencies with a biologically plausible model! 🧪🧠 doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

“We don’t value software, data, and methods in the same way we value papers, even though those resources empower millions of scientists” 💯 www.statnews.com/sponsor/2024...

ARBEL: Automated Recognition of Behavior Enhanced with Light, is a new supervised machine learning approach out of Clifford Woolf's lab. They show pretty impressive performance on scoring pain-related behaviors in mice. Cool to see new analysis methods enabled with Blackbox Bio's hardware! 🧪

Very interesting, well thought through analysis of how efforts in neuroscience can help contribute to the future AI safety.

Another huge influx of colleagues to BlueSky this week, so let me attach the fully updated Neurophysiology starter pack for anyone interested. go.bsky.app/9FY1ReG

Ok, so I wanted to try my hand at building a starter pack too :-). This pack includes developers of tools and methods for electrophysiology (focused on extracellular recordings). Please let me know if I missed anyone! Also, we need more people from X to switch to fill this out! go.bsky.app/DFWsuTJ

Happy Thanksgiving to all those celebrating in the states! For others based in Canada who work with predominately US-based teams, enjoy the time of peaceful productivity. Kind of brings back those 'going to lab on the weekend' feels without, you know, having to work on the weekend.

Inscopix & Lundbeck have been working together on using miniscope technology to monitor neurovascular dynamics during migraines, in the hopes of improving preclinical assays for therapeutics. Check out a review of this work, published today! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #neuroscience

100 scientists in our "Behavioral & Preclinical Neuroscience" starter pack ! Thank you for your enthusiasm! It also means, there are still 50 spots left, so ✋ raise your hand and 📢 nominate your colleagues! go.bsky.app/7cNykut

On the IDEAS platform, you can now analyze your calcium imaging neural circuit data across user specified time periods! Link to IDEAS: inscopix.cloud Link to analysis docs: tinyurl.com/4zdz8eh9 #neuroscience

At Inscopix, we've recently released an open-source version of our Python API for reading and writing our miniscope data files. If you'd like to add support for .isxd files to an analysis package, want to build pipelines starting from .isxd data, check it out! github.com/inscopix/pyisx #neuroscience

Thoughtful perspectives and ideas from Nima (@neurovium.bsky.social) and others on how we should think about managing neuroscience datasets for reproducibility and reuse.

Did you know that you can organize & analyze your 2-photon calcium data on the IDEAS platform? IDEAS offers 3 different workflows for 2P cell extraction: PCA-ICA, CaImAn CNMF, and suite2p. Pick your favourite, or try them all & compare! #neuroscience Learn more about IDEAS at inscopix.cloud

Did you know that you can organize & analyze your 2-photon calcium data on the IDEAS platform? IDEAS offers 3 different workflows for 2P cell extraction: PCA-ICA, CaImAn CNMF, and suite2p. Pick your favourite, or try them all & compare! #neuroscience Learn more about IDEAS at inscopix.cloud

Inscopix & Lundbeck have been working together on using miniscope technology to monitor neurovascular dynamics during migraines, in the hopes of improving preclinical assays for therapeutics. Check out a review of this work, published today! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #neuroscience

Do you teach neuroscience? Here’s a list I’ve compiled of mostly free online neuroscience textbooks, simulations and datasets you can use for your course! If I’m missing something, let me know so I can add it! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Our next multi-agent behavior challenge launches in <2 months! Will share bits of info here in the meantime. First, the basics: - 226 hours of top-down video of socially interacting mice - 15 contributor labs - all vids fully manually scored for behavior - 45 unique behaviors across videos (!)

We created a #neuroinformagical (obvs) starter pack! Let us know who else to add! #openscience #datasharing #neuroskyence 🧪 go.bsky.app/LRqnaMP

On the IDEAS platform, you can now analyze your calcium imaging neural circuit data across user specified time periods! Link to IDEAS: inscopix.cloud Link to analysis docs: tinyurl.com/4zdz8eh9 #neuroscience

At Inscopix, we've recently released an open-source version of our Python API for reading and writing our miniscope data files. If you'd like to add support for .isxd files to an analysis package, want to build pipelines starting from .isxd data, check it out! github.com/inscopix/pyisx #neuroscience

Proposing a maturity model for operations in neuroscience research. t.co/CK6EMh2Fhg We hope to help define and inspire how we can better build and automate data analysis workflows for diverse neuroscience research teams. Looking forward to hearing feedback from the field!

Hello! I'm a neuroscience tool developer, currently leading data product development at Inscopix. We're working on building ways for neuroscientists to more easily leverage the best processing and analysis methods for their Ca imaging & behavior data. Looking forward to joining the sci comm here!