Spiking NN fans - the #SNUFA workshop (Nov 5-6) agenda is finalised and online now. Make sure to register (free) soon. (Note you can register for either day and come to both.) Agenda: snufa.net/2025/ Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/snufa-2025... Thanks to all who voted on abstracts! 🤖🧠🧪

Message for participants of the #SNUFA 2025 spiking neural network workshop. We got almost 60 awesome abstract submissions, and we'd now like your help to select which ones should be offered talks. Follow the "abstract voting" link at snufa.net/2025/ to take part. It should take <15m. Thanks! ❤️

Interested in doing a Ph.D. to work on building models of the brain/behavior? Consider applying to graduate schools at CU Anschutz: 1. Neuroscience www.cuanschutz.edu/graduate-pro... 2. Bioengineering engineering.ucdenver.edu/bioengineeri... You could work with several comp neuro PIs, including me.

I’m super excited to finally put my recent work with @behrenstimb.bsky.social on bioRxiv, where we develop a new mechanistic theory of how PFC structures adaptive behaviour using attractor dynamics in space and time! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Truly honored (and a little overwhelmed) to see our work featured in The Transmitter's "This Paper Changed My Life." Huge thanks to @neural-reckoning.org for the kind words - and to our amazing community that keeps pushing spiking neural network research forward 🙏

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.

I am happy to finally share this preprint of my PhD project in @guillaumediss.bsky.social lab at the FMI in Basel. We used ddPCA to map the genetic architecture of the entire human bZIP interaction network. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Thanks to all our co-authors for the great collaboration!

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/ 🤖🧠🧪

We're hiring,, of interest to people in spiking neural networks and neuromorphic particularly. See below. 👇 Note the deadline for applications is very soon! Apologies for this but various admin necessities made it unavoidable.

Ditching months-long delays for fast, constructive feedback. This interview with @solygamagda.bsky.social dives into the experience of publishing with eLife and what it could mean for a more open and efficient future in science.

There might be a bit of misconception here. What the paper very convincingly shows is that visual cortex does not compute global oddball prediction errors and does not receive any top-down predictions that could be used to compute such prediction errors.

Got prov. approval for 2 major grants in Neuro-AI & Dynamical Systems Reconstruction, on learning & inference in non-stationary environments, out-of-domain generalization, and DS foundation models. To all AI/math/DS enthusiasts: Expect job announcements (PhD/PostDoc) soon! Feel free to get in touch.

Here is your last reminder that the application deadline for Imbizo.Africa is nearing quickly, the 1st of July, in fact tomorrow. Still the place where diversity is at its best in the world! Tell all who need to hear. #africa #neuro

My latest Aronov lab paper is now published @Nature! When a chickadee looks at a distant location, the same place cells activate as if it were actually there 👁️ The hippocampus encodes where the bird is looking, AND what it expects to see next -- enabling spatial reasoning from afar bit.ly/3HvWSum

How does in-context learning emerge in attention models during gradient descent training? Sharing our new Spotlight paper @icmlconf.bsky.social: Training Dynamics of In-Context Learning in Linear Attention arxiv.org/abs/2501.16265 Led by Yedi Zhang with @aaditya6284.bsky.social and Peter Latham

The deadline for the VIB.AI group leader positions is approaching - send in your CV and short research plan before 14th June to start your BioML research lab in Leuven or Ghent

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...

In a @elife.bsky.social study, FMI researchers show that memory storage may rely on dynamic interplay between excitatory and inhibitory neurons — challenging the idea of stable activity patterns in memory networks. www.fmi.ch/news-events/...

1/6 Why does the brain maintain such precise excitatory-inhibitory balance? Our new preprint explores a provocative idea: Small, targeted deviations from this balance may serve a purpose: to encode local error signals for learning. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... led by @jrbch.bsky.social

*** Come join us !! We are recruiting !! *** How does the brain generate beliefs that go beyond direct experience? How do these mechanisms go awry in psychosis? The Barron lab tinyurl.com/bdf4drjf @MRCBNDU @NDCNOxford are recruiting a new postdoc tinyurl.com/ut4vbwt4 to work in mouse models

Your opportunity to apply for the #LakeConference on Neural Coding & Dynamics is going to set sail soon! 🛥️ Apply by May 23 to join us for this intimate, interactive conference. 📆 Sep. 28 to Oct. 2 📍 Seattle, USA 🧠📈 All career stages welcomed More info: alleninstitute.org/events/lake-...

I'm excited to share that the last chapter of my PhD thesis is now published in Nature! 🍾 What drives serotonin neurons? We think it's the expectation of future reward and --- critically --- how fast this expectation is increasing. 📈 doi.org/10.1038/s415... 1/6

How should you combine sensory inputs with your internal predictions? Well, use uncertainty directly computed by your prediction-error circuits. Cool? Check out our Nat. Com. paper with Loreen Hertäg and @k47h4.bsky.social . www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congrats to Julian Rossbroich on his PhD defense! 🎉 Julian's theoretical research suggests that inhibitory microcircuits help the brain balance excitation and inhibition for more efficient learning 🧠

The Clopath Lab has a fully funded PhD position open for Oct in Computational Neuroscience at Imperial College London. If you are interested, just send us an informal e-mail!

⚡️ Excited to introduce ZAPBench, our #ICLR2025 spotlight: The Zebrafish Activity Prediction Benchmark measures progress in predicting neural activity within an entire vertebrate brain (70k+ neurons!) Explore interactive visualizations, datasets, code + paper: google-research.github.io/zapbench 🧠🧪

Just in case you - as we did - were wondering whether humans would have any of these pesky visuomotor mismatch responses certain people have seen in mice...

Sam Gershman writes beautifully about how theory-free neuroscience prevents the field from reaching its promise. Beautiful and true. Most folks do not test hypotheses. Running a NHST does not a hypothesis make. www.thetransmitter.org/theoretical-...

My lab is looking for a computational neuroscience postdoctoral researcher: www.ru.nl/en/working-a... Come join us at the @dondersinst.bsky.social!

Grid cells have a geometry in time. Thanks to @azvollan.bsky.social l & @rjgardner.bsky.social for this heroic discovery. @ercresearch.bsky.social #KiloNeurons @m-bmoser.bsky.social @kavlintnu.bsky.social @nature.com @kavlifoundation.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We're hiring! Join Meta Reality Lab's EMG Wristband foundational research team! ⚡️ We're seeking research scientists with systems neuro/ML/AI/BCI/EE backgrounds, with skills on a spectrum from modeling to experimental expertise, as well as generalists who excel in both areas.

Super excited to be making this a permanent thing. It has been an exciting ride so far!!! Thanks so much to @plantevolution.bsky.social for sharing it with me for the last year and great news that you are staying with @elife.bsky.social, going forward.

Permanent position for a Linux Systems Engineer: Are you fond of scientific computing and/Linux/HPC and would enjoy working in a vibrant research environment? Have a look at our job opening: www.fmi.ch/education-ca...

Now published in @elife.bsky.social doi.org/10.7554/eLif... a fun collaboration with @clairemb90.bsky.social and Rainer Friedrich

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

Long time coming. A very cool project that showcases the advantages of single neuron adaptation in RNNs. #PLOSCompBio: Neural networks with optimized single-neuron adaptation uncover biologically plausible regulari ... dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour... Props to V. Geadah and co-authors!