For Spanish researchers interested in postdoc positions: my lab at Amsterdam is looking for candidates to apply for a Ramon Areces postdoctoral fellowship, to work for 2 years on compneuro and digital brains. Deadline Feb 23. Please spread the word! More info: www.fundacionareces.es/fundacionare...

Our latest preprint on how regional cellular, molecular, and other forms of heterogeneity shape macroscopic wave dynamics is now out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... For a full thread, see: x.com/_victorbarne...

Great work, Nikos!

Starting 2026 on the right foot: my promotion to associate professor finally happened! Thanks to my lab and to the colleagues who significantly helped along the way, especially those who served in the committee and/or provided support letters. Now, to keep working towards new goals!

🔬 We're hiring a Junior Group Leader for Data-Driven Digital Twins/System Models in medicine/life sciences at @uni_goettingen! Perfect opportunity for early-career researchers who want to: - Lead their own research group - Work at the intersection of AI, simulation, and biomedicine

Very interesting work on extending the usefulness of biophysical neural network models (towards performing tasks, fitting experimental data, or all of the above).

In Spanish this time: si estás en Madrid este viernes y te interesa la mente humana (como arte o como ciencia), no te pierdas el evento de Sciencia en el Hospital 12 de Octubre. Allí te esperamos :)

Chatting with a brain scan --quite interesting work from Tim Kietzmann's lab:

Europe's MSCA postdoctoral fellowships are now attracting many researchers who would have gone to the US. So the payline has dropped below 10% (~1,600 fellowships to 17k applicants). Super tough situation. One more reason to double the next Horizon budget, as proposed by the EU Commission.

Timely by Xiao-Jing Wang Bifurcations—an underexplored concept in neuroscience—can help explain how small differences in neural circuits give rise to entirely novel functions. www.thetransmitter.org/neural-dynam...

Really hoping bifurcations are the new manifolds. What a time to be alive 🥲

Surprisingly good 'AI reviewer' tool from @odedrechavi.bsky.social to help you find gaps and improve your manuscripts. I've only run it through a couple of my (published) papers, but the feedback was mostly on point and in line with our ongoing directions for improvements: www.qedscience.com

Save the date: October 31, Amsterdam. A fantastic event for those interested in neurotech and neuro-AI, with a twist on how international collaborations can boost these fields. Please spread the word and join us there if you can! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The Wu Tsai Institute at Yale is hiring another faculty member in neurocomputation. Come work with us in a growing community at the interface of neuroscience and AI! More info below 👇

Come do a postdoc at the Wu Tsai Institute! WTI fellows have freedom to work with anyone at the institute, and preference is given to applicants who want to work on interdisciplinary projects with multiple faculty mentors. If you’re interested to work with me, please reach out!

Quite a good guideline about how to write a paper, I think: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Please RT - Open PhD position in my group at the Donders Center for Neuroscience, Radboud University. We're looking for a PhD candidate interested in developing theories of learning in neural networks. Applications are open until October 20th. For more info: www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

An explosion in open-neuroscience datasets has created a new generation of researchers with expertise in data science. But new restrictions put our research programs in jeopardy, writes Elvisha Dhamala @elvisha.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/open-neurosc...

𝗖𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 by Earl K Miller, Scott L Brincat, Jefferson E Roy This promises to be a must read One day we should create an online journal club to just read these kinds of papers! #neuroskyence doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

Sad to miss #CCN2025. It will be the 1st conference where a PhD working w/ me will speak 😭 go see Lubna's talk (Friday) about distributed neural correlates of flexible decision making in 🐒, work done in collaboration w/ @scottbrincat.bsky.social @siegellab.bsky.social & @earlkmiller.bsky.social

After preparing for a full year together with @neurosteven.bsky.social and all other amazing organizers of @cogcompneuro.bsky.social, #CCN2025 is finally here! While I'm proud of the entire program we put together, I'd now like to highlight my own lab's contributions, 6 posters total:

#CCN2025 is starting tomorrow in Amsterdam, and our lab is presenting and contributing in several ways. A summary thread:

If you are planning to attend #CCN2025 in Amsterdam next week and are interested in recurrent network models of decision making, please join our Satellite Workshop on Monday at 3pm. We'll have @summerfieldlab.bsky.social , @veronicachelu.bsky.social and many more! sites.google.com/view/rnnsmak...

It’s Friday! 🎉

We were asked to write a commentary on NeuroAI for Nat. Rev. Neuro. with Sadra Sadeh, so here it is: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨New paper🚨 Neural manifolds went from a niche-y word to an ubiquitous term in systems neuro thanks to many interesting findings across fields. But like with any emerging term, people use it very differently. Here, we clarify our take on the term, and review key findings & challenges rdcu.be/ex8hW

Check out our new review/perspective (w/ @juangallego.bsky.social & Devika Narain) on neural manifolds in the brain! It was a lot of fun to think through these ideas over the past couple of years, and I'm excited it's finally out in the world! 🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📄: rdcu.be/ex8hW

New paper @pnas.org with Lola Beerendonk, Jan Willem de Gee, Simon van Gaal and others, on pharmacological shifts of performance. We combine psychophysics and pupillometry with computational modeling to provide interesting insights linked to PV-SST-VIP circuits: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New group leader position in computational neuroscience @ Neurocentre Magendie, INSERM, Bordeaux! More info here: www.bordeaux-neurocampus.fr/group-leader... ⚠️ Application deadline: end of September 2025 @neurobordeaux.bsky.social @neuromagendie.bsky.social

We just pushed “Memory by a 1000 rules” onto bioRxiv, where we use clever #ML to find #plasticity quadruplets (EE, EI, IE, II) that learn basic stability in spiking nets. Why is it cool? We find 1000s!! of solutions, and they don’t just stabilise. They #memorise! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Dutch universities want to prohibit many educational programs from being taught in English, folding to the government's demands. If you're against this serious hit to the international prestige and quality of Dutch institutions, consider signing this letter: openletter.earth/against-lang...

Save the date: for those in the Amsterdam area, the date for this year's Amsterdam Neuroscience Meeting is a bit later than usual: January 16th 2026. It's a great opportunity to connect with other researchers in the Amsterdam area. Hopefully see you there!

Fantastic initiative, and a prime example of the benefits of large-scale scientific collaboration. Thanks @jeromelecoq.bsky.social for leading the effort, looking forward to the next steps!

Upcoming (April 28 - May 2) free, 5-day webinar "Advancing Computational Neuroscience Through Collaborative Learning". With speakers from Afrika, US and Europe, and organized by Jessica Oparebea and collaborators at the University of Ghana. Please spread the word, and sign up if you're interested!

Remember, today is the last day to apply for the Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience Summer School, June 29-July 20 2025, Suzhou (China). Join us this summer! Link: www.csh-asia.org?content/2621=

Science is under threat in the US. @elife.bsky.social have commissioned a series of articles discussing the implications and what we can do. The first three articles are now live. More to follow: elifesciences.org/articles/106... elifesciences.org/articles/106... elifesciences.org/articles/106...

Fantastic textbook of theoretical and computational neuroscience by @xjwanglab, covering everything from biophysical circuits to cognition, full-brain models, neuro-AI and computational psychiatry. I can't recommend it enough for anyone in the field www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...

There is again a model-based neuroscience summer school from Aug 4-8th in Amsterdam! modelbasedneurosci.com

Fantastic opportunity to join an equally fantastic lab!

Our new paper on ignition during conscious perception, spearheaded by @ulysse-klatzmann.bsky.social and @seanfw.bsky.social. A detailed large-scale brain model tackling fundamental questions and presenting experimental predictions tested and confirmed. More details in Ulysse's thread below!

Please spread the word!! We are accepting applications for the Cold Spring Harbor Asia Computational and Cognitive Summer School in Suzhou, China. Dates: June 29 to July 20 of 2025. Application deadline: March 31. #computationalneuroscience. For the top three reasons to attend, see thread below:

Predictive Coding Explains Asymmetric Connectivity in the Brain: A Neural Network Study https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.27.640572v1

Great to see these AI workflows for neuroscientific data analysis popping up (although perhaps a few figures illustrating the results would have made it more attractive? Very interesting nonetheless)

Really interesting piece on network topology and dynamics from my old colleagues Ana Millán and Joaquín Torres: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Artificial Intelligence is facing a crisis: humans are consuming far too many precious resources that AI needs to thrive. Every sip of water you take and every light you turn on could be sustaining the AI systems that uphold your digital conveniences" Brave campaign from @savetheai.bsky.social ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽

Apparently, postdocs are the make-it-or-break-it moment for academic careers. We already knew it was crucial, but I always thought that the PhD stage was still more influential. Interesting: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Just gave my lecture at @imbizo.bsky.social summer school today. What an amazing school both in terms of science and social impact --and the place is breathtaking! Now, time to enjoy the summer time with @therealdrdukes.bsky.social, @arifahamid.bsky.social, and all the students and tutors 🏖️

Pre-print 🧠🧪 Is mechanism modeling dead in the AI era? ML models trained to predict neural activity fail to generalize to unseen opto perturbations. But mechanism modeling can solve that. We say "perturbation testing" is the right way to evaluate mechanisms in data-constrained models 1/8

There's a movement in neuroscience suggesting we should be pursuing bigger bets with larger teams. I think there's a case for doing a bit of this, but I think it's a bad idea to prioritise it for two reasons, and a good case for saying we should be moving in the exact opposite direction. 🧠🧪