The Artemis II mission, taking a crew to the moon (no landing) for the first time since the 1972 Apollo 17 mission, might launch in just a few weeks. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Thanks to all the attendees and presenters at the annual Neuroscience@Nottingham event of @uniofnottingham.bsky.social and @ntuneuro.bsky.social Special thanks to our external speakers: Peggy Series (Edinburgh) and Vlad Vyazovskiy (Oxford, @vyazovskiy.bsky.social) sites.google.com/view/nottsne...

2026 is off with a symbolic milestone for UK universities

Just published my review of neuroscience in 2025, on The Spike. The 10th of these, would you believe? This year we have foundation models, breakthroughs in using light to understand the brain, a gene therapy, and more Enjoy! medium.com/the-spike/20...

Sequences are everywhere! In every brain region. And are written in stone. Invariant Activity Sequences Across the Mouse Brain. Out today, by Célian Bimbard, with @kenneth-harris.bsky.social. Based on data by Célian and by @intlbrainlab.bsky.social. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Adam Kampff prioritized spreading knowledge over publishing flashy papers in prestigious journals, but colleagues say his mark on neuroscience was undeniable. The researcher and educator passed away on 9 December. By Lauren Schneider www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...

1. New preprint resolving a conundrum in systems neuroscience with an AI scientist, and humans Reilly Tilbury, Dabin Kwon, @haydari.bsky.social, @jacobmratliff.bsky.social, @bio-emergent.bsky.social, @carandinilab.net, @kevinjmiller.bsky.social, @neurokim.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The work with bats on barren, 7-acre Latham Island was Nachum Ulanovsky’s most complex undertaking yet. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/neuroetholog...

🧠🤖 Computational Neuroscience summer school IMBIZO in Cape Town is open for applications again!   💻🧬 3 weeks of intense coursework & projects with support from expert tutors and faculty   📈Apply until July 1st! 🔗https://imbizo.africa/

Re-posting is appreciated: We have a fully funded PhD position in CMC lab @cmc-lab.bsky.social (at @tudresden_de). You can use forms.gle/qiAv5NZ871kv... to send your application and find more information. Deadline is April 30. Find more about CMC lab: cmclab.org and email me if you have questions.

Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

Very happy to announce the "Paris Circuit Dynamics Conference 2025: Hippocampal–Cortical Circuits: From structure to computation", on 28 - 29 April 2025 at the Paris Brain Institute. You are welcome to register and join us! www.paris-circuits.eu

Save the date! UK Neural Computation 2025 will be at Imperial College London 9 July: ECR day 10-11 July: main meeting 9 invited speakers, 4 talks from abstracts and many posters Abstract & registration opening soon Pls share! neuralcomputation.uk

"Among the generations that we synthesized, we found a bright fluorescent protein at a far distance (58% sequence identity) from known fluorescent proteins, which we estimate is equivalent to simulating five hundred million years of evolution." doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Check out @thetransmitter.bsky.social's newly launched calendar of advanced neuroscience courses, featuring events all over the world. www.thetransmitter.org/courses/

What sad news - Dr. Eleanor Maguire #neuropsychology #cognition #memory #neuroscience www.online-tribute.com/EleanorMaguire

Starting 2025 with some splendid northern lights (visible about now in Västerbotten, Sweden)

Cutting it a bit fine, but here’s my review of the year in neuroscience for 2024 The eighth of these, would you believe? We’ve got dark neurons, tiny monkeys, the most complete brain wiring diagram ever constructed, and much more… Published on The Spike Enjoy! medium.com/the-spike/20...

Applications to the 2025 Paris Spring School in Optical Imaging and Electrophysiological Recording in Neuroscience (AKA the Paris Neuro Course) are now open. Deadline on the 1st of February. The course will run 14-27 May 2025. parisneuro.ovh

New job alert! My lab (saleemlab.com) has a new postdoc / senior postdoc opening. They will be part of an exciting research supported by ERC & UKRI, studying vision during navigation. Projects range from purely computational to performing new physiological recordings.

Postdoc position in Bristol in a animal behaviour project lead by the great Emma Robinson, I'm a co-I and we're looking for a computational person keen to do experiments or an experimental person keen to learn some modelling. www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

The weirdest chatGPT quirk as far as I can remember. Here's my own go:

(From @[email protected]) The talks from the UCL Neuropixels course 2024 are now on YouTube! We had amazing speakers covering usage, new tools, and discoveries. Special thanks to @intlbrainlab.bsky.social. youtube.com/playlist?lis... More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/neuropixels/...

PhD project! For those interested in NeuroAI: "Using large scale neural network models to bridge the translational gap from animal models to human insights in autism spectrum and neurodevelopmental disorders" Apply here: www.ai4biomed.io/research/pro...

Musk made it mostly unusable for this purpose. But there was no good replacement; no place where you could expect most of what you wanted to hear about to show up in your timeline, where you could put up a post and expect most of the people you wanted to reach to see it 4/

We wrote a review on analysis methods for large-scale neural recordings www.science.org/stoken/autho... @marius10p.bsky.social #neuroscience 🧪🧠 Anything we missed? Reply w/ your fav method!

We’re seeking a research assistant to work on predicting which Parkinson’s patients would most benefit from deep brain stimulation. In collaboration with Machine Medicine and St George’s Hospital, London Closes December 4th Pls share! jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Our school is advertising a teaching-focused position of Assistant Professor in Neuroscience. Application deadline: 7-Nov. jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

We grieve the passing of Dr. Yves Frégnac. Yves has shaped the study of cortical processing and plasticity. He heralded interdisciplinarity and was one of the founding fathers of our institute. Our thoughts go to his family and to his friends in the community and beyond.

OK, my first bsky post is... Submit your abstracts for the SNUFA spiking neural network conference by this Friday! The conference is free, online and usually has around 700 highly engaged participants. Talks are selected by participant interest. Please do signal boost this! snufa.net/2024/

We’re excited to welcome @markdhumphries.bsky.social, author of “The Spike,” as our new columnist. Check out his first piece, in which he explores how averaging is a convenient fiction of neuroscience. www.thetransmitter.org/neural-codin...

Just created a list with the sensorimotor people I was following/followed me (inclusion criteria slightly generous) Let me know if you want to be added, and repost (?) to spread the word go.bsky.app/U4oyFgw

Please share: Full-time permanent Assistant Professor position at the School of Psychology, University of Nottingham: jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... Also, two admin roles: jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Aurora borealis 5 minute walk from home

Exciting preprint of Jason Manley et al. (Alipasha Vaziri's lab) extending the findings of C. Stringer & M. Pachitariu et al. (Science/Nature 2019) from 10,000 to 1 million cortical neurons. #compneurosky

A 4-year fully funded PhD studentship (for UK and international students) is available in my lab to study the systems neuroscience of classical psychedelic compounds. Application deadline: 16-Jan. Further details: sites.google.com/view/lcdl/me... #neuroskyence #compneuro #neurojobs

We are presenting a couple of posters at #SfN2023 this (Sunday) afternoon, dealing with the structure of firing rate changes in brain state transitions of several kinds, particularly those driven by psychedelics. Please feel welcome to stop by (D9-10). #neuroskyence

Dr Taras Dobko, Rector of Ukrainian Catholic University talks at U of Nottingham 🇺🇦

Brain state transitions primarily impact the spontaneous rate of slow-firing neurons - now out in CellReports doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... #neuroskyence #compneuro