Early-bird registration for "The Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025" ends September 30th A meeting for everyone fascinated by the brain's role in foraging, 3-5 November 2025 at University of Birmingham. Full speaker list, schedule and more now on the website uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanis...

The MRC are looking for a computational neuroscientist (anything from cognition to NeuroAI) to join their Neuroscience & Mental Health Board, to replace me as I step down next year. Drop me a line if you want to know more Deadline September 14th www.ukri.org/who-we-are/w....

The MRC are looking for a computational neuroscientist to join their Neuroscience & Mental Health Board, to replace me as I step down next year. Drop me a line if you want to know more Deadline September 14th www.ukri.org/who-we-are/w....

Closing soon! Abstract submission for The Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025 A multidisciplinary meeting on the neural, behavioural and computational foundations of foraging across species: uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanis... Deadline: August 29

Job Alert!!! We are looking for a motivated postdoc to join a 3-year BBSRC funded project led by my colleague Carl Stevenson (I’m coPI). This multi-disciplinary project will combine in vivo heart rate monitoring and optogenetics with behavioural testing (fear and active avoidance) in rats.

Closing soon! Abstract submission for The Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025 A multidisciplinary meeting on the neural, behavioural and computational foundations of foraging across species: uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanis... Deadline: August 29

My latest column for @thetransmitter.bsky.social - why neural populations are a convenient fiction doi.org/10.53053/FZK...

Great article by @markdhumphries.bsky.social here. Humphries’ work had a significant impact on my thinking. This is precisely what we attempt to do in our recent preprint, and in previous published neural modelling work. I’m sympathetic to the focus on dynamics in coarse graining.

Great essay Mark! I think your definition of grouping by dynamics is very related to Fodor's "information encapsulation" property of modular systems. We explored this a bit in two recent papers which, if you haven't already seen, you might like (in next 2 posts).

So stoked to see this in press! Diverging network architecture of the C. elegans connectome and signaling network journal: journals.aps.org/prxlife/acce... preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2412.14498 1/3

My latest column for @thetransmitter.bsky.social - why neural populations are a convenient fiction doi.org/10.53053/FZK...

Our current approach to defining neural populations is largely arbitrary. We need new methods for grouping cells, ideally by their dynamics, writes @markdhumphries.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...

Abstract submission open for The Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025 (University of Birmingham, 3–5 November) A multidisciplinary event exploring the neural, behavioural and computational foundations of foraging across species: uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanis... Deadline: August 17, 2025

2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department! #neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

Abstract submission open for The Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025 (U. Birmingham, 3-5 November) uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanis... Deadline: August 17 A meeting for all fascinated by the brain's role in foraging Pls share!

Abstract submission open for The Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025 (U. Birmingham, 3-5 November) uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanis... Deadline: August 17 A meeting for all fascinated by the brain's role in foraging Pls share!

Please repost! We're hiring a postdoc to work with me and @salagapan.bsky.social on an exciting interdisciplinary project in human neuroscience and brain-body interactions underlying effortful behavior in health and mood disorders. siplab.gatech.edu/postdoc_ad_2...

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!

Fabulous day at UK Neural Computation 2025! Thanks to today’s invited speakers Jonathan Cornford, Jenny Bizley, Petr Znamenskiy and Flavia Mancini Congratulations to ECR speakers Ian Hawes and Andrea Colins Rodriguez, selected from 80+ outstanding abstract submissions Roll on Day 3! #UKNC25

Fabulous first day of ECR workshops at UK Neural Computation 2025! Great to see and meet so many of the next generation of terrific scientists Thanks to @danakarca.bsky.social for leading on this and @neuralreckoning.bsky.social for the pics #UKNC25

On my way to kick off the ECR day of UK Neural Computation 2025 at Imperial College with @danakarca.bsky.social and @neuralreckoning.bsky.social Looking forward to a fascinating few days of science and catching up with friends old and new! #UKNC25 neuralcomputation.uk/program.html

I am delighted to announce registration and abstract submission is open for "The Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025" to be held at the Edgbaston Park Hotel, University of Birmingham, UK on 3-5th November 2025. uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanis...

Almost last call to register for UK neural computation conference in London July 10-11. Registration deadline is July 1st. We have some great talks and posters as well as a session on funding with ARIA. 🤖🧠🧪 Look forward to seeing you all there. Now click here 👇 neuralcomputation.uk

Closing soon! Register by July 1st for UK Neural Computation 2025 neuralcomputation.uk ECR day: 9 July - careers, grants, starting a lab Main meeting: 10-11 July - 13 speakers, 70+ posters, sandpit Hosted by @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social Sponsors @aria-research.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk

Excited for the UK Neural Computation Conference 2025 @ Imperial, 9th - 11th July! 🚀 World leading scientists working in brain computation - from experimental to modelling, mathematics & ML (+ all combinations thereof). Registration closes 1st July! Plz share: neuralcomputation.uk

Now with fixed link! neuralcomputation.uk/registration...

Registration for UK Neural Computation 2025 closing soon - 1st July neuralcomputation.uk/registration... ECR day: 9 July, ~30 free places Main meeting: 10-11 July Pls share! Sponsors @aria-research.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk Organisers: @danakarca.bsky.social @neuralreckoning.bsky.social & me

It's publication day for 📘Elusive Cures. What a moment! 1st book, 1st time on Mindscape (which, as many of you know, is one of my favorite podcasts). Here, @seanmcarroll.bsky.social and I have a wide-ranging conversation around: Why are brain and mental disorders so hard to understand and treat?

The Transmitter is honored to have won four Gold and two Silver National ASBPE's Azbee Awards of Excellence! bit.ly/3Fd2t87 Congratulations to all the winners, and thank you to the neuroscience community for your continued support!

Terrific example of psychology done rigorously! Well done all; and great to see the outcome of all those people toing and froing outside my office under Dani Ropar’s watchful eye…

Excited to share my PhD paper! In it, we use targeted 2-photon optogenetic stimulation to determine how V1 activity is read-out in a detection task. We found that network influence, not visual coding properties, predicted the impact of ensembles on behavior - contradicting our expectations (1/5).

🧠What do random neural networks have in common with the motor cortex? Turns out, a lot! Both exhibit similar low‑dimensional dynamics across sensorimotor tasks.👇🧵

"Researchers recruited to work in the UK have to fund a £1,035 annual immigration health surcharge, which must be paid in full in advance, as well as up to £1,519 in visa fees. For a family of four, the upfront costs can total almost £30,000."

Because we must build good things while we scream about the bad, I have started a "Data for Good" team @data-for-good-team.bsky.social that partners with organizations needing short-term data science help. We have three projects ongoing & will add more as our capacity grows. data-for-good-team.org

Just look what was waiting for me when I came back from my run. Elusive Cures is now a REAL BOOK!! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Registration is open for UK Neural Computation 2025 10th/11th July! We are offering 8 conference fellowships to support attendance. ***Abstract submission deadline is 12th May!*** neuralcomputation.uk/submission.h... Register here: neuralcomputation.uk/registration... Any q's - get in touch!

Basal ganglia output is a formidable bottleneck Striatum neurons project to output nuclei in a ratio ~16:1; but their targets outnumber them by up to 150 to 1. New paper from me, on how I got to those numbers & the model of basal ganglia output they imply www.eneuro.org/content/12/4...

📢 We have an opportunity for students to join our PhD programme in Theoretical Neuroscience and Machine Learning this September. Application deadline is 27 May 2025. Information & how to apply: www.ucl.ac.uk/gatsby/study-and-work/gatsby-unit-phd-programme

We are super happy to announce the third Workshop of Ideas in Neuroscience! We will once again look critically at assumptions of modern neuroscience: what does it mean that the brain encodes information? Is this a useful approach, or a metaphor that blurs our vision?

Basal ganglia output is a formidable bottleneck Striatum neurons project to output nuclei in a ratio ~16:1; but their targets outnumber them by up to 150 to 1. New paper from me, on how I got to those numbers & the model of basal ganglia output they imply www.eneuro.org/content/12/4...

Conference Fellowships for the UK Neural Computation meeting are now available, to support presenting authors; sponsored by @aria-research.bsky.social Includes fee waiver and attendance expenses Apply here by May 23rd neuralcomputation.uk/fellowships.... p.s. UKNC abstracts due by May 12th!

Useful idea here to talk of “converging evidence” rather than “scientific consensus” Not least because some read “consensus” as a conspiracy to silence alternative voices We’ve other names for similar ideas - Edward Wilson’s “consilience”, “triangulation” - but none so transparent

Registration open for UK Neural Computation 2025 @Imperial neuralcomputation.uk/registration... ECR day: 9 July, ~30 free places Main meeting: 10-11 July Pls share! Sponsors @aria-research.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk Organisers: @danakarca.bsky.social @neuralreckoning.bsky.social & me

Does your research involve comparing experimental conditions? Then our latest publication is for you: We developed generalized contrastive PCA (gcPCA), a tool for comparing high-dimensional datasets. 🧠📊 doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012747 This tool was born out of necessity, here is the story. 🧵 1/

The preliminary program for the 2026 Basal Ganglia Gordon Research Conference is up! www.grc.org/basal-gangli... Super excited about this program and to move the meeting to Europe for the first time - come join us in Tuscany!

Registration open for UK Neural Computation 2025 @Imperial neuralcomputation.uk/registration... ECR day: 9 July, ~30 free places Main meeting: 10-11 July Pls share! Sponsors @aria-research.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk Organisers: @danakarca.bsky.social @neuralreckoning.bsky.social & me

My lab is hiring a pre-doctoral research assistant to work on the neural computations of foraging, seeking common cross-species algorithms. A BBSRC-funded project in collaboration with Matt Apps (Birmingham) & Nathan Lepora (Bristol) Closes May 5th Pls share! jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

My lab is hiring a pre-doctoral research assistant to work on the neural computations of foraging, seeking common cross-species algorithms. A BBSRC-funded project in collaboration with Matt Apps (Birmingham) & Nathan Lepora (Bristol) Closes May 5th Pls share! jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Cognitive scientists who work across levels of analysis should be called Marr's Rovers