Motor control friends. I have an optotrak. It used to be $50k. I will never use it. Anyone need one?

A reminder:

You will find this paper interesting and relevant too: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

People emphasizing circles in dimensionality reduced trajectories are emphasizing the wrong thing imho. In a spatiotemporally low-pass world, dimensionality reduction literally reveals the fourier bases.

40 Percent of Stroke Animal Studies May Have Problematic Images Red flags during a literature review led to the discovery of over 200 papers on animal models of stroke with duplicated images, which is likely an underestimate. www.the-scientist.com/40-percent-o...

Still beta-testing the app that helps people plan science, make it super clear, design their todos, and write a first version of the paper. Feeling overwhelmed by the countless aspects of doing science? Try this (for free): planyourscience.com

(1/2) University of Pennsylvania computational neuroscientist and @neuromatch.bsky.social co-founder @kordinglab.bsky.social shares his advice for career success in neuroscience. “The field has so much of an appetite for new ideas,” he says. #neurosociety #compsci #neuroscience

(2/2) Watch his full talk in Neuro&CompSci as part of the Neuro& webinar series from the @youthneuro.bsky.social:

Cracking the worm would provide a test bed for how molecular recipes generate neural physiology. And it would allow us to understand how neurons work together to yield emergent brain functions, write @kordinglab.bsky.social and @eboyden3.bsky.social. www.thetransmitter.org/computationa...

Enjoyed discussing "Why Science & Philosophy Need Each Other" w Megan Peters @meganakpeters.bsky.social We discuss the importance of engagement between science & philosophy, our experience w this & simplified conceptions of science & philosophy 🧠📕 Thanks Tev Naidu! #philsky #philsci #sciencesky

I wrote an op-ed for the Washington Square News about the government's attempt to extort universities. nyunews.com/opinion/gues...

Excited that this work discovering cross-species signatures of stabilizing foot placement control is now out in PNAS! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @antoinecomite.bsky.social

Time to do the worm.

It was fun writing this essay, about bottom-up neuroscience and how we might simulate entire brains, using data collected via new technologies (expansion microscopy, optogenetics, whole brain voltage imaging, and more), with @kordinglab.bsky.social!

This is amazing and moves scientific publishing into the modern age in a MAJOR way. @qedscience.bsky.social by @odedrechavi.bsky.social and team, and planyourscience.com by @kordinglab.bsky.social, are my gamechanging life-hack recommendations for all scientists!

Hear @dyamins.bsky.social and yours truly discuss causality and ml: x.com/kordinglab/s..., www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-54...

The Nobel prize in Econ to Phillipe Aghion is for innovation. Key driver for future world. And he is coauthor and mentor of my wife @imarinescu.bsky.social . Amazing development!

here the trick is to unpack the word *understanding* it’s not about what each neuron does, but the rules shaping the behaviour of biological systems! "rules for development and learning in brains may be far easier to understand than their resulting properties" 👇👌 arxiv.org/abs/1907.06374

🚨Big news!🚨 The lab is relocating to Lisbon, joining a great team of experimental and theoretical neuroscientists, and the Neurotechnology Warehouse, a new initiative to bridge basic and translational research. I'll be sharing postdoc openings soon. Come join us in this new incarnation of the lab!

New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft: Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf... 🧵 1/

Such a cool achievement!

Thanks to @pessoabrain.bsky.social and @thetransmitter.bsky.social for featuring our paper and to @aliyarumana.bsky.social and Peter Tse for engaging so generously with the ideas! 😊 www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...

I think it is very important to talk more about the deep problems of functional connectivity,

become my colleague at penn bioengineering: apply.interfolio.com/173716

He’s going to spend 25% of his life to live 10% longer, isn’t he? We need to teach opportunity cost more in our schools.

For those interested in open neuroscience learning tools, check out the preprint for “RetINaBox: A hands-on tool for experimental neuroscience" that a couple students in my lab worked on in collaboration with the Trenholm lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧠📈 🧪

At a meeting in 2000, a prominent researcher accused John Duncan and me of "turning cortex into a bowl of porridge". Hey, if the data shows a bowl of porridge, that's what it is. Sorry if that is uncomfortable or inconvenient.

This point by @earlkmiller.bsky.social is very much obvious from a mainstream deep learning perspective. Why would neurons specialize?

Is This the End of the Growth Mindset Theory? | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

In our capitalist society, we worship competition But in academia it can be harmful Encouraging secrecy over collaboration, withholding of data, misappropriation of ideas, and even questionable research practices

Come join us at University of Toronto. We're hiring a Professor of computational cognitive neuroscience. #neuroAI #compneuro jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

I can hear it speak my language! Hasta la vista, baby!

#Neuro4Pros 4ever 🧠🤓 Grateful for a week of learning from & being in community with fellow early career profs & amazing facilitators @gunnarblohm.bsky.social @kordinglab.bsky.social @meganakpeters.bsky.social @yaelniv.bsky.social @patrickmineault.bsky.social Hannah Bayer 📸: @mohebial.bsky.social

Had a fabulous time at the gorgeous QUBS discussing science, mentorship, and community. Grateful to @kordinglab.bsky.social, @gunnarblohm.bsky.social ❤️ our facilitators, and everyone who made it so meaningful. Proud of the friendships we built. #wethepeople

Run don’t walk to the #Neuro4Pros summer school if it happens again and you’re an early career prof Thanks again for the absolute best time ⭐️ @gunnarblohm.bsky.social @kordinglab.bsky.social @yaelniv.bsky.social @meganakpeters.bsky.social @patrickmineault.bsky.social, and Hannah Bayer

you guys. i am REALLY bad at steering a canoe. @neurograce.bsky.social is truly a saint for putting up with me 🙏 at least i didn't capsize us! (team building exercises @ #neuro4pros! h/t to @gunnarblohm.bsky.social & @kordinglab.bsky.social for organizing such a stellar group, & it's only day 2!)

hello again from LAX! it's 6am & i'm on my way to Neuro4Pros, hosted & organized by @gunnarblohm.bsky.social & @kordinglab.bsky.social! compneurosci.com/Neuro4Pros/i... looking forward to talking mentorship, scicomms, project management, & open science infrastructure w/ all you brilliant people!

Just in time for @kordinglab.bsky.social's visit, my blue oysters fruited! Konrad and I will be running our new neuroscience leadership camp starting tomorrow with the most amazing group of participants! compneurosci.com/Neuro4Pros/i...

Dropout is signal dependent (proportional) noise. Neurons tend to have it. Is dropout just a cheap implementation of signal dependent noise?

I've started using this tool to guide new papers and projects and it's awesome; @kordinglab.bsky.social made something really cool here! Highly recommend for all scientists :)

#C4R25 Conference speaker highlights - Join our PI, @kordinglab.bsky.social for a demo of his new app, the Scientific Project Planner. A hands-on session to get your study started rigorously. 🗓️ September 9 Space is limited. RSVP at C4R.io/conference

Planning your first scientific project as the term is about to start? Teaching a project based course? I am working on an app that should help. planyourscience.com Still looking for feedback. Much simpler than any previous version. Works on mobile. Good science, much AI.

Neuroscience students asked us to teach a PRACTICAL course on experimental methods, and it is now on YouTube! Please like and repost to help us get the word out! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization 🧵

Need a coi list? Just a reminder that it does not need to be hard.

Its a new term and a lot of us are preparing their lectures. I am a huge fan of online ways of teaching. And my student Joey Rudoler @jrudoler.bsky.social made a great online stats course. Shiny app and all. Modern take on stats. Thought some of you may appreciate.

We can now define a set of rules of good science and automatically flag violations, and help users avoid violations. But we may kill creativity in the process. Which rules should we enshrine? How should we manage a system where some need rules and others are stifled by them?

New CNeuroMod-THINGS open-access fMRI dataset: 4 participants · ~4 000 images (720 categories) each shown 3× (12k trials per subject)· individual functional localizers & NSD-inspired QC . Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2507.09024 Congrats Marie St-Laurent and @martinhebart.bsky.social !!

Is involuntary hospitalization killing people instead of saving them? www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary...

I'm curious if any senior nonhuman primate Neuro-AI researchers would be interested in joining Queen's University if we were to obtain a research chair position (full professor level)? Could you please send me a confidential message to indicate your interest? [email protected]

This line strikes me most. We're doing this work not for our blink-of-an-eye lives. It's for our whole species. What future generations build from depends on our integrity in the present. It's wrong to corrupt the body of knowledge humanity has been building since its origins for personal gain.