New preprint! What happens if you add neuromodulation to spiking neural networks and let them go wild with it? TLDR: it can improve performance especially in challenging sensory processing tasks. Explainer thread below. 🤖🧠🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

bioRxiv partners with Dryad to enable easier, better linking to curated datasets connect.biorxiv.org/news/2025/09...

Submissions (short!) due for SNUFA spiking neural networks conference in <2 weeks! 🤖🧠🧪 forms.cloud.microsoft/e/XkZLavhaJe More info at snufa.net/2025/ Note that we normally get around 700 participants and recordings go on YouTube and get 100s-1000s views. Please repost.

1/ 🚨 New preprint! 🚨 Excited and proud (& a little nervous 😅) to share our latest work on the importance of #theta-timescale spiking during #locomotion in #learning. If you care about how organisms learn, buckle up. 🧵👇 📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 💻 code + data 🔗 below 🤩 #neuroskyence

How do we update our predictions when our environment changes? The hippocampus rapidly integrates previously distinct sequences to support updated predictions. Proud of this work with Hannah Tarder-Stoll & @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🚨New preprint alert! The thalamus has long been seen as a relay of sensory signals to cortex. But could it also generate its own structured activity? Our study explores this question in the head-direction (HD) system. Some explanation 🧵👇 1/13 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our new paper "High-capacity associative memory in a quantum-optical spin glass." Achieves 7-fold increased capacity thru a quantum optical analog of short term plasticity from neuroscience. Atoms (neurons) couple to motion and photons (synapses)! arxiv.org/abs/2509.12202

Interested in hippocampal dynamics and their interactions with cortical rhythms? Our physically constrained model of cortico-hippocampal interactions - complete with fast geometrically informed numerical simulation (available at embedded github repo) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Hey #neuroskyence #compneurosky I made this interactive tool for showing the phase planes of 2D neuron models to studs! Have fun :) github.com/JuliaSNN/Com...

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Representational Geometries of Perception and Working Memory: A Pilot Study Tomoya Nakamura's first fMRI project ... in which we hereby release a preprint as a way of pre-registration 🧠📈

Thrilled to share that our work is now published in Science! ✨ We found a preference for visual objects in the mouse spatial navigation system where they dynamically refine head-direction coding. In short, objects boost our inner compass! 🧭 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵1/

Universal statistics of hippocampal place fields across species and dimensionalities www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Neural entrainment by speech in human auditory cortex revealed by intracranial recordings www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 12 people had intracranial electrodes & listened to natural speech oscillatory -> speech edge induced activity persisted after evoked responses thus ...neural entrainment?

In today's Generative AI lecture, we cover Vision Transformers (as well as the broader notion of Encoder-Only Transformers). We also explain the historical throughline to some of these ideas, inspired by Nobel-prize-winning observations in neuroscience!

All at once!

How does the brain🧠 make causal inferences and use memories to understand narratives🎬? We built an RNN🤖 with key-value episodic memory that learns causal relationships between events and retrieves memories like humans do! Preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... w/ @qlu.bsky.social, Tan Nguyen &👇

Two flagship papers from the International Brain Laboratory, now out in ‪@Nature.com‬: 🧠 Brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09235-0 🧠 Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09226-1 +

Excited to share our new preprint on the brain-wide organization of intrinsic timescales at single neuron resolution. Work w/ @roxana-zeraati.bsky.social, @intlbrainlab.bsky.social, Anna Levina, @engeltatiana.bsky.social : www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Amazing resource ⚡️ 🧠 Single-neuron datasets for linguistic and semantic processing in the human amygdala and hippocampus www.nature.com/articles/s41...

(1/26) Excited to share a new preprint led by grad student Albert Wakhloo, with me and Larry Abbott: "Associative synaptic plasticity creates dynamic persistent activity." www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I drew a big 🧠 on my own mug! I'll keep you posted once it's done!

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

-You can't script this! -Well, technically...

I haven't noticed this before, but the dude is wearing a smartwatch (or watch to say the least)! Persian empire was so ahead of time back then! lol

Bubbles are enjoying their questionable existence!

Interested in cortical wave dynamics? Check out our new preprint led by J Cruddas with @jchrispang.bsky.social where review the physics and physiology of cortical waves and their implications for psychological function: osf.io/preprints/ps... @nsb-lab.bsky.social

How does the structure of a neural circuit shape its function? @neuralreckoning.bsky.social & I explore this in our new preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🤖🧠🧪 🧵1/9

In neuroscience, we often try to understand systems by analyzing their representations — using tools like regression or RSA. But are these analyses biased towards discovering a subset of what a system represents? If you're interested in this question, check out our new commentary! Thread:

Introducing five concepts from dynamical systems to decode developmental regulatory mechanisms, have a read! @perez-carrasco.bsky.social‬ @roederlab.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social This effort started in a morphogenesis meeting @kitp-ucsb.bsky.social‬ in 2023. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Coming March 17, 2026! Just got my advance copy of Emergence — a memoir about growing up in group homes and somehow ending up in neuroscience and AI. It’s personal, it’s scientific, and it’s been a wild thing to write. Grateful and excited to share it soon.

What makes human pyramidal neurons uniquely suited for complex information processing? How can human neurons’ distinct properties contribute to our advanced cognitive abilities?

1/N What are the organizational principles underlying crossmodal cortical connections? We address this in this new preprint, led by @alexegeaweiss.bsky.social & ‪@bturner-bridger.bsky.social‬ in collab w/ ‪@petrznam.bsky.social‬ @crick.ac.uk www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

When neurons change, but behavior doesn’t: Excitability changes driving representational drift New preprint of work with Christian Machens: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New preprint for #neuromorphic and #SpikingNeuralNetwork folk (with @pengfei-sun.bsky.social). arxiv.org/abs/2507.16043 Surrogate gradients are popular for training SNNs, but some worry whether they really learn complex temporal spike codes. TLDR: we tested this, and yes they can! 🧵👇 🤖🧠🧪

Neural activity flows through cortical subnetworks during speech production www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Better version of the meme.

Thank you everyone for your suggestions! This turned out to be a very useful resource. For those interested, you can see a compiled version of the suggestions from this thread here: tinyurl.com/kaz445jh (The wiki page will be updated as we find more resources.) 🧠🤖 , 🧠📈

This should be the headline: Scientist came up withan anti-cheating procedure to not let reviewers ruin their works by spendig seconds to review a study that took ages to finish! 🧠🧪🤖 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The Ndlab is moving to the ETH Zurich and is hiring! We are opening two PhD positions in our lab at the prestigious institute of Neuroinformatics! Check it out: ndlab.ch #ComputationalNeuroscience #PhDpositions #ETHZurich #Ndlab #JobAlert

We also have a open Postdoc position in human brain electrophysiology in collaboration with Prof. Maxime Baud at the University of Bern, check it out: ndlab.ch #JobAlert #PostDoc #EEG #MachineLearning

Reading comprehension in L1 and L2 readers: neurocomputational mechanisms revealed through large language models www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I loved @bingbrunton.bsky.social lecture series and I think they’re quite accessible to a broad audience: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Some numbers seem to show up everywhere. Think of 10, 12, 24, 36... Others—like 26 or 34—don’t get the same attention.Why? In our new paper with @standehaene.bsky.social and @mathiassablemeyer.bsky.social, we argue it's because of how the mind builds number concepts. 🧵 doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

New paper out today in Topics in Cognitive Science! 🧠⚡ Time Slows Down in the Future: Aging and the Brain Rhythms of Language onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New paper out today in Cognitive Neuroscience! Proposing an explicit, causal-mechanistic, falsifiable and empirically grounded neural code for natural language syntax, and its innate basis. ROSE: A Universal Neural Grammar www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Vibrotactile speech cues are associated with enhanced auditory processing in middle and superior temporal gyri www.nature.com/articles/s41... fNIRS study 1:Find ROI sensitive to auditory-only SPIN 2:Assess audio-tactile response (oxygenation changes). 3: Ask: are these greater than unisensory ones?

And with the risk of loosing platforms like stack overflow!

Do you study neural systems with feedback at different temporal-, spatial-, hierarchical-, data-, or computational- scales? Have you submitted your abstract to the "Neurocybernetics at Scale" symposium? Due to multiple requests, new abstract submission deadline is 18 July! #AI4Science #cybernetics

People asked me often over the years... now it's over but finally sharing it: Course manual — including readings, instructions on how to write essays and give presentations — for the course AI as a Science that I taught from 2020/21 to 2024/25 in the School of AI. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Thanks a lot for the post! Some thoughts: claude.ai/public/artif...