On one side, the ideologues of an otherworldly entity whose form doctrine disputes, omniscient and omnipotent, promising eternal life. On the other, the Catholic Church. What a time to be alive! Sad that Dan Simmons did not get to see it

On one side, the ideologues of an otherworldly entity whose form doctrine disputes, omniscient and omnipotent, promising eternal life. On the other, the Catholic Church. What a time to be alive! Sad that Dan Simmons did not get to see it

"One nice thing about LLMs is that they show us which parts of our systems of intellect are mechanical traditions. LLMs are a good way to stress-test our systems for organizing experience and expertise. We’ll need to be more creative about what we want to do moving forward." Indeed!

AI has been inextricably linked to warfare since its inception. @kevinbaker.bsky.social contextualizes this bureaucratization of bombing in the Iran War and explains why we should again be talking about Project Maven. Required reading.

Xerox Machines of Loving Grace: what happens when code cloning is commoditised? Xerocoding is the new vibecoding vigji.github.io/blog/xerox-m...

After some months of daily Cursor/Claude usage, I have put in writing my main take home message: with vibecoding, software development will probably start sounding familiar to most evolutionary biologists: vigji.github.io/blog/the-mes...

I just realised this 10 yo library was a visionary anticipation of coding with LLMs github.com/drathier/sta...

Can't recommend this highly enough! It's the one and only life changing neuroscience school I've attended in my life. Amazing community of organizers, interesting speakers, in depth discussions, incredibly warm vibes. Apply!!!

And so our Decoding the Brain workshop is over! Thank you for three days of engaging discussions; we hope that you will come back home with new ideas and new confusions!

Anyone following the flame sparked by this post might be interested in our upcoming workshop: challenging neuroscience people on their idea of representations: nenckiopenlab.org/decoding/ There will be plenty of time and space to elaborate and exchange ideas beyond 300 chars lim!

We are super happy to announce the third Workshop of Ideas in Neuroscience! We will once again look critically at assumptions of modern neuroscience: what does it mean that the brain encodes information? Is this a useful approach, or a metaphor that blurs our vision?

We are happy to announce a next workshop by @cam-openlab.bsky.social! This time you can learn everything you need to know about electronics to know your equipment better, improve your setup and get a deeper understanding of the processes you are studying! nenckiopenlab.org/electronics-...

Check out our preprint where we take a deep dive into the super-trendy concept of "naturalistic behavior" and ponder: how much naturalistic do we want our experiments to be?

GPT training is soooo 2024

good post www.science.org/content/blog...

After a horrible parenting night, I dreamed this morning that I was keeping track of my son's wake-ups and night feedings using xarrays in #Python. Somehow, this gave me a reassuring sense of structure amidst the unstructured chaos - I knew how to access data easily 😅 @xarray.bsky.social

"I published my paper on biorxiv and now I'm hoping to get it advertised in Nature" This may seem like a diss, but 'is the exposure you get from Nature worth 10k?' has a different answer than 'is it worth paying 10k to publish a PDF online?' (which was always a strawman)

Fully agree. Too bad Italy officially relies on it for any kind of public evaluation-calls for post-graduate positions at universities, habilitation to professorship, etc. This (Italian system) is incredibly frustrating, but seemingly not enough for a critical mass of scientists to protest the rules

Although we don’t want this fight now, if we have to have it we will. We have all the funders/unis/institutes on our side. Elife papers will be treated just the same as before. And maybe we can collectively put a dent in Clarivate’s business model.

A writeup of my thesis on heading direction circuits in the #zebrafish #brain! If you want to read more: edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de/31211/1/Petr... #neuroscience #OpenAccess

““naturalistic behavior” isn’t necessarily an ideal to strive for in all situations. Researchers need to be using the best methods for their specific research questions and not just get distracted by fancy new technology” says @vigji.bsky.social in this insightful article. Well said.

A beautiful piece featuring the unconventional "Rethinking Naturalistic Behavior" workshop we organised in the Dolomites with the @openlab.bsky.social. We need more such occasions for this kind of debates! Thanks @thetransmitter.bsky.social @shaena.bsky.social for giving it space!

A mind-boggling opportunity for everyone who want to think deeper and broader about neuroscience! Apply to this wonderful school and enter the multi level marketing scheme of the Nencki Open Lab!

🚨#ComplexityThoughts short essay: Phantom oscillations in your data? Relevant for data science in general, emerged from a discussion about #Neuroscience applications. Not yet subscribed? It's never too late, and it's 100% free. #ComplexSystems open.substack.com/pub/manlius/...

Happy that this is now finally out! A framework for comparing navigation mechanisms across diverse species - the 'navigation toolbox' royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @noranewcombe.bsky.social

Interested in making high-quality 2D & 3D neuroanatomical visualisations across multiple species? New versions of brainrender (github.com/brainglobe/b...) and brainglobe-heatmap (github.com/brainglobe/b...) have been released.

The first part of BrainGlobe restructuring is complete. If you use any of the BrainGlobe registration tools (brainreg, brainreg-napari or brainreg-segment) please read this changelog - brainglobe.info/community/re...

Join us on the next Ideas in Neuroscience JC on Wednesday! This time we start 4:40 PM Polish time.

#HiSciSky! I learned systems ##neuroskyence in the Portugues lab imaging zebrafish brains and their head direction network (doi.org/10.1101/2022...) I moved to Iurilli lab at IIT (Italy), following up onsubcortical circuits for naturalistic behavior. Fan of #openscience and unconventional paradigms!