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. 🧠🧪

Our review on Metastability has been published in Nature Reviews Neuroscience - you can view it here rdcu.be/d3bh9. Fantastic collaboration involving experts from the UK, the US, Spain, Australia and Portugal.

If you think the moon orbits the earth, think again. Really cool little video by Minute Physics on why it’s a bit more complicated: https://buff.ly/49D2oVN

I feel this is a big step forward from our previous work modeling cortex-wide activity during cognition. We provide candidate mechanisms for various 1) representations, 2) dynamics, 3) gating mechanisms and 4) competition within and across the default mode, frontoparietal, dorsal attention networks

For all those Spanish-speaking neuroscientists who want to know about why this year's Nobel Prize in Physics is so relevant for neuroscience, my past PhD advisor gave a nice talk about it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=owVu...

Let's try a Bluesky tweeprint (skyprint?)! Here we explore how the excitatory to inhibitory number of neurons ratio affects the dimensionality of the resulting network activity and its capacity to perform a discrimination task. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

@elseveir.bsky.social elevating medical practices to literally new horizons /s #badpractices #papermill #fakescience

Really interesting paper on how distributed computations may give rise to localized properties in the brain. Congrats @mwcole.bsky.social and team!

Don't forget about the Netsci 2025 abstract deadline on 9 December netsci2025.github.io/calls/

Some thoughts on scaling up "brain observatory", as prompted by @patrickmineault.bsky.social . First, what's that? 3 key ingredients: 🔍 the 🧠 (easy); a large piece of equipment that requires substantial investment (consortia); and, runs experiments for a community. 🧵1/

The fantastic #BrainModes2024Bilbao meeting (Nov. 18 - 21, 2024) will be streamed for free, and you don't need to register! For those of us not there, this is the next best thing. Link for the streaming tomorrow Monday: youtube.com/live/CyLS2gS...

Review article: Timescales of learning in prefrontal cortex www.nature.com/articles/s41...

May commissural axons find their way in here 🙏 #Microscopy #LiveImaging #AxonGuidance #Neuroscience

Really looking forward to having CCN meeting in Amsterdam next year --and even better, with full paper submissions!

Hello Bluesky world! I just decided to test the water and come to this side of the social network ocean. I'll keep a foot on each side, but I'm happy to see how many people are already here :)