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mbalazs98.github.io
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Marcus Ghosh
14 days ago
Toy models, just in time for Christmas! Excited to share my first article for
@thetransmitter.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
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Kayson Fakhar
22 days ago
🚨new work with the dream team
@danakarca.bsky.social
@loopyluppi.bsky.social
@fatemehhadaeghi.bsky.social
@stuartoldham.bsky.social
@duncanastle.bsky.social
We use game theory and show the brain is not optimally wired for communication and there’s more to its story:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Our paper on event-based delay learning is now published!
@neworderofjamie.bsky.social
@drtnowotny.bsky.social
TL;DR: It’s now possible to train synaptic delays in large-scale spiking neural networks with high temporal precision—even in recurrent connections.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Efficient event-based delay learning in spiking neural networks - Nature Communications
Inspired by how neurons in the brain communicate, Spiking Neural Networks are gaining attention as efficient models for solving spatiotemporal AI tasks. The authors introduce a training method for syn...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65394-8
about 1 month ago
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Thomas Nowotny
about 1 month ago
Excited to see the paper fully published. It's an important milestone for training SNNs with exact gradients, replacing our earlier tricks of a "delay line augmentation" to capture temporal relationships. Delays can now be learnt alongside weights naturally. Amazing work
@mbalazs98.bsky.social
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Our paper on event-based delay learning is now published!
@neworderofjamie.bsky.social
@drtnowotny.bsky.social
TL;DR: It’s now possible to train synaptic delays in large-scale spiking neural networks with high temporal precision—even in recurrent connections.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Efficient event-based delay learning in spiking neural networks - Nature Communications
Inspired by how neurons in the brain communicate, Spiking Neural Networks are gaining attention as efficient models for solving spatiotemporal AI tasks. The authors introduce a training method for syn...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65394-8
about 1 month ago
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Dan Goodman
about 2 months ago
Talks from
#SNUFA
2025 are now available on YouTube:
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
🤖🧠🧪
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SNUFA 2025 Workshop - YouTube
Spiking neural networks as universal function approximators (SNUFA) online workshop 2025. For more see http://snufa.net/2025/
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL09WqqDbQWHEyTZPLMKEi9-RD6kax0tCR&si=Y-sJeZvIn3O062DG
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Marcus Ghosh
2 months ago
Interested in
#neuroscience
+
#AI
and looking for a PhD position? I can support your application
@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
✅ Check your eligibility (below) ✅ Contact me (DM or email) UK nationals:
www.imperial.ac.uk/life-science...
Otherwise:
www.imperial.ac.uk/study/fees-a...
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Jamie
2 months ago
If you're interested in doing a PhD at Sussex, lots of exciting PhD project ideas at
www.sussex.ac.uk/research/cen...
including several Spiking Neural Network projects with myself and
@drtnowotny.bsky.social
. Funding available via
www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...
or
www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...
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Project suggestions : Sussex AI PhD Programme : ... : AI Research Group : University of Sussex
https://www.sussex.ac.uk/research/centres/ai-research-group/programmes/sussex-ai-phd/project-suggestions
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Happy to share that I'll be talking about neuron position learning on the second day!
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2 months ago
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Jamie
3 months ago
My 1st PhD student Anindya Ghosh has a great new paper out in PLOS comp bio. We combine hoverfly recordings with modelling to show how target motion and optic-flow sensitive neuron outputs are combined together to generate behaviourally relevant sensorimotor responses.
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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Understanding the mechanism of facilitation in hoverfly TSDNs
Author summary Many human sports, including tennis, football, and basketball, rely on the ability to visually detect and respond to the motion of a small, rapidly moving object. Indeed, some sports st...
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012986
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Dan Goodman
4 months ago
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.
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SNUFA 2025
Spiking Neural networks as Universal Function Approximators
https://snufa.net/2025/
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Dan Goodman
4 months ago
Is anarchist science possible? As an experiment, we got together a large group of computational neuroscientists from around the world to work on a single project without top down direction. Read on to find out what happened. 🤖🧠🧪
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Dan Goodman
5 months ago
Spiking neural networks people, this message is for you! The annual SNUFA workshop is now open for abstract submission (deadline Sept 26) and (free) registration. This year's speakers include Elisabetta Chicca, Jason Eshraghian, Tomoki Fukai, Chengcheng Huang, and... you?
snufa.net/2025/
🤖🧠🧪
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SNUFA 2025
Spiking Neural networks as Universal Function Approximators
https://snufa.net/2025/
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Marcus Ghosh
5 months ago
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...
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The Transmitter
6 months ago
Computational sciences can offer a unique opportunity for democratized access and participation, but we are currently falling far short of that goal, writes
@neuromatch.bsky.social
's
@meganakpeters.bsky.social
and Bradley Roberts.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/education/ho...
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How to build a truly global computational neuroscience community
Computational sciences offer an opportunity to increase global access to, and participation in, neuroscience. Neuromatch’s inclusive, scalable model for community building shows how to realize this…
https://www.thetransmitter.org/education/how-to-build-a-truly-global-computational-neuroscience-community/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=org-social&utm_campaign=20250723-perspectives-how-to-build-global-computational-neuroscience-community
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Danyal Akarca
5 months ago
Hiring a post-doc at Imperial in EEE. Broad in scope + flexible on topics: neural networks & new AI accelerators from a HW/SW co-design perspective! w/
@neuralreckoning.bsky.social
@achterbrain.bsky.social
in Intelligent Systems and Networks group. Plz share! 🚀:
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
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Description
Please note that job descriptions are not exhaustive, and you may be asked to take on additional duties that align with the key responsibilities ment...
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-jobs/description/index.php?jobId=24879
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Danyal Akarca
6 months ago
We had an incredible gathering at UK Neural Computation 2025
@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
last week 🇬🇧 Macron missed out... Some of the UK’s very best at the frontier of comp neuro. Thanks to our sponsors ARIA + Crick & UKNC team:
@markdhumphries.bsky.social
+
@neuralreckoning.bsky.social
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Matteo Saponati
9 months ago
Take our short 5-min anonymous survey on the Neuromorphic field’s current state & future: 📋
tinyurl.com/3jkszrnr
🗓️ Open until May 12, 2025 Results will be shared openly and submitted for publication. Your input will help us understand how interdisciplinary trends are shaping the field.
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Neuromorphic Questionnaire
This form collects valuable information from the Neuromorphic Community as part of a project led by Matteo Saponati, Laura Kriener, Sebastian Billaudelle, Filippo Moro, and Melika Payvand. The goal is...
https://tinyurl.com/3jkszrnr
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My talk on event-based delay learning at
#NICE2025
is now available at:
flagship.kip.uni-heidelberg.de/jss/HBPm?mI=...
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https://flagship.kip.uni-heidelberg.de/jss/HBPm?mI=263&publicVideoID=9935
9 months ago
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Jamie
10 months ago
Really great preprint by my (first!) PhD student Anindya Ghosh
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
. Also, if you happen to be
@cosynemeeting.bsky.social
, you can talk to the man himself about it at a late night poster session!
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INCF
10 months ago
Abstract submission is open for the 34th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting CNS*2025 in Florence, Italy, July 5-9, 2025! Submit your abstract latest March 15th:
www.cnsorg.org/cns-2...
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Jamie
10 months ago
@drtnowotny.bsky.social
and I are again participating in Google Summer of Code under the
@incforg.bsky.social
. We have 3 paid projects involving GeNN for contributors with a range of skills and experience levels. If you're interested, please get in touch via the forums linked from the thread:
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Neuromatch
11 months ago
🚨 Neuromatch Academy Course Applications are OPEN for 2025!! 🚨 Get your application in early to be a student or teaching assistant for this year’s courses! Applications are due Sunday, March 23. Apply & learn more:
neuromatch.io/courses/
#mlsky
#compneurosky
#ai
#climatesolutions
#ScienceEdu
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Stephen Curry
11 months ago
Now almost 450 signatories to my open letter calling on the
@royalsociety.org
to stand up for its values & deal with the widespread concerns raised by Elon Musk's Fellowship. Please consider signing & sharing:
forms.gle/miDciq35oxyw...
List of signatories here:
occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...
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Open letter to the President of the Royal Society – time to stand up for your values
If you wish to show your support for the letter below regarding apparent inaction by the Royal Society in the face of breaches of its code of conduct by Elon Musk FRS, please sign below. I invite anyo...
https://forms.gle/miDciq35oxywMEWt5
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Yorgos
11 months ago
Hot off the press!💥
arxiv.org/abs/2502.00407
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Danyal Akarca
12 months ago
We are hosting UKNC 2025 @ imperial! 💥 Fantastic set of speakers, see at
neuralcomputation.uk
Super exciting time to be working at the intersection of comp neuro/AI & applications. Save the dates: 9th July - ECR day 10th & 11th July - Main event Any questions get in touch! Plz share!
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Dan Goodman
12 months ago
What's the right way to think about modularity in the brain? This devilish 😈 question is a big part of my research now, and it started with this paper with
@solarpunkgabs.bsky.social
, finally published after the first preprint in 2021! 🤖🧠🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Dynamics of specialization in neural modules under resource constraints - Nature Communications
The extent to which structural modularity in neural networks ensures functional specialization remains unclear. Here the authors show that specialization can emerge in neural modules placed under reso...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-55188-9
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New preprint out with
@drtnowotny.bsky.social
and
@neworderofjamie.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2501.07331
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Efficient Event-based Delay Learning in Spiking Neural Networks
Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are attracting increased attention as a more energy-efficient alternative to traditional Artificial Neural Networks. Spiking neurons are stateful and intrinsically recur...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.07331
12 months ago
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Thomas Nowotny
12 months ago
Just out in J Neuromorph Comput & Eng: Loss shaping enhances exact gradient learning with Eventprop in Spiking Neural Networks
doi.org/10.1088/2634...
. With
@neworderofjamie.bsky.social
. We report how Eventprop scales to harder learning tasks. TL;DR: It works great but not without extra effort. 🧪🧵
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Loss shaping enhances exact gradient learning with Eventprop in spiking neural networks - IOPscienceSearch
Loss shaping enhances exact gradient learning with Eventprop in spiking neural networks, Nowotny, Thomas, Turner, James P, Knight, James C
https://doi.org/10.1088/2634-4386/ada852
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Jamie
12 months ago
More exciting opportunities for fully-funded PhDs with
@sussexai.bsky.social
on topics including Event-based machine learning and neuromorphic computing with me and
@drtnowotny.bsky.social
.
www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...
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EPSRC Science and Engineering studentships : University of Sussex
https://www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-funding/phd-funding/view/1818-EPSRC-Science-and-Engineering-studentships
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Dan Goodman
12 months ago
Friedemann Zenke has joined Bluesky
@fzenke.bsky.social
. This gives me an opportunity to repost my spiking neurons and neuromorphic starter pack. I've been quietly adding names to it, but I'm sure there are people I've missed so let me know to add you/someone else! 🤖🧠🧪
go.bsky.app/46Eu9GG
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Jamie
about 1 year ago
First paper by our excellent PhD student
@mbalazs98.bsky.social
on trying to unpick the relation between delay learning and structural plasticity in SNNs and visualise what gets learned
www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
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Frontiers | Learning delays through gradients and structure: emergence of spatiotemporal patterns in spiking neural networks
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fncom.2024.1460309
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