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Vision & Motion. Stability & Plasticity. Professor at University of Bonn. www.troselab.de
pinned post!
BonnBrain 2026 is a go! March 23–25, Bonn (DZNE, Bonn, Germany). Apply now:
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Limited slots. Presentations (posters/talks) selected from submitted abstracts. Keynotes & invited speakers 👇
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Last chance to join
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and my lab as a postdoc for a (ok - I am biased...) extremely cool active vision project at the Neuro-AI interface:
www.fens.org/careers/job-...
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Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/d) - Systems Neuroscience / NeuroAI, Freely Moving Mouse Vision, Miniature Two-Photon, Deep Network Models - Federation of European Neuroscience Societies
https://www.fens.org/careers/job-market/job/125885
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Very cool
@braininspired.bsky.social
episode! Important for anyone considering "naturalistic" behavior and what “ecological” and "affordance" actually mean in neuroscience... (or why it may not be enough to just switch the PowerPoint Marr intro with a Gibson intro)
braininspired.co/podcast/232/
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BI 232 How Should Neuroscience Integrate with Ecological Psychology? | Brain Inspired
https://braininspired.co/podcast/232/
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Michael Bok
6 days ago
From our new paper out now in
@currentbiology.bsky.social
:
www.cell.com/current-biol...
w/
@neurofishh.bsky.social
@gkafetzis.bsky.social
@denilsson.bsky.social
Looking across animals, the vertebrate eye is an obvious outlier. Why is it so different that other highly visual animals?
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Kevin Mitchell
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Pace of ecology drives the tempo of visual perception across the animal kingdom
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- new paper with Clinton Haarlem, Cliodhna Hynes and colleagues Different species see the world as fast as they need to...
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Pace of ecology drives the tempo of visual perception across the animal kingdom - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Using phylogenetic comparative methods across 237 species from disparate phyla, the authors show that species with fast-paced ecologies have higher temporal resolution of perception.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-026-02994-7
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International Brain Research Organization
about 1 month ago
Build hands-on skills in optical & electrophysiological methods at the TENSS 2026 course & advance your skills in modern systems #neuroscience 🔗 Apply by 1 Mar:
https://ibro.org/training-opportunity/perc4_romania/
#neuroscience
#IBROinAsiaPacific
#IBROinUSCanada
#IBROinAfrica
#IBROinLatAm
#IBROinEurope
#training
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Ann Kennedy
11 days ago
You have until March 3rd to apply for the Cajal summer school on Quantitative Approaches to Behavior and VR at Champalimaud! Come surf and track animals with us 🏄🪰🐟🚶
cajal-training.org/on-site/quan...
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Quantitative Approaches to Behavior and Virtual Reality - CAJAL
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https://cajal-training.org/on-site/quantitative-approaches-to-behaviour-and-virtual-reality-2026/
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Jesper Sjöström
14 days ago
🧪🧠 New preprint: helping resolve a decades-long debate in synaptic plasticity NMDA receptors are central to Hebbian learning. Yet for >30 years, the existence and function of presynaptic NMDA receptors have remained controversial. 📄
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https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.02.14.705915
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Andrew Straw
14 days ago
Using our bee-tracking drone, we discovered that honey bees 🐝 have highly precise and individual routes. Now published at
@currentbiology.bsky.social
:
doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
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Open Ephys
about 1 month ago
We’re excited to team up once again with advanced training courses to help students with hands-on training about open source tools and methods for behavioral neuroscience. Don’t forget to apply! Links below.
#OpenEphys
#OEdu
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Katie Mack
18 days ago
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
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Sanja Mikulovic
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Thrilled to share that our first study on the hippocampus’ role in helping behavior in mice is now published in
@cp-cellreports.bsky.social
! This work was driven by an amazing team in my lab, and marks an important milestone for more exciting studies to come!
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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Neuronal networks in the dorsal hippocampus causally regulate rescue behavior in mice
dos Santos Correa et al. show that exposure to a stressful context promotes the acquisition of rescue behavior in mice and that the dorsal hippocampus is required for this learning. Calcium imaging re...
https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(26)00001-X
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Alexander Schakowski
about 1 month ago
Very happy to see our ice-fishing paper on the cover of
@science.org
this week! 🎣🎉 We tracked large groups of Finnish competitive ice-fishers to study how social foragers use social information when searching for resources. 🐟 Link:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
(contact me for open access)
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https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ady1055
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Federation of European Neuroscience Societies - FENS
about 1 month ago
🌟 Applications are open for the 'Transatlantic Behavioural
#Neuroscience
School 2026' organised by Nencki Open Lab! 📍 Mikołajki, Poland 🗓️ 11–22 August 2026 Good news:
#FENS
#TravelGrants
and fee waivers are available! 💶 👉 Apply by 15 March 2026:
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Edvard I Moser
about 1 month ago
The hippocampal map has its own attentional control signal! Our new study reveals that theta
#sweeps
can be instantly biased towards behaviourally relevant locations. See 📹 in post 4/6 and preprint here 👉
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Attention-like regulation of theta sweeps in the brain's spatial navigation circuit
Spatial attention supports navigation by prioritizing information from selected locations. A candidate neural mechanism is provided by theta-paced sweeps in grid- and place-cell population activity, which sample nearby space in a left-right-alternating pattern coordinated by parasubicular direction signals. During exploration, this alternation promotes uniform spatial coverage, but whether sweeps can be flexibly tuned to locations of particular interest remains unclear. Using large-scale Neuropixels recordings in freely-behaving rats, we show that sweeps and direction signals are rapidly and dynamically modulated: they track moving targets during pursuit, precede orienting responses during immobility, and reverse during backward locomotion — without prior spatial learning. Similar modulation occurs during REM sleep. Canonical head-direction signals remain head-aligned. These findings identify sweeps as a flexible, attention-like mechanism for selectively sampling allocentric cognitive maps. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest. European Research Council, Synergy Grant 951319 (EIM) The Research Council of Norway, Centre of Neural Computation 223262 (EIM, MBM), Centre for Algorithms in the Cortex 332640 (EIM, MBM), National Infrastructure grant (NORBRAIN, 295721 and 350201) The Kavli Foundation, https://ror.org/00kztt736 Ministry of Science and Education, Norway (EIM, MBM) Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences; NTNU, Norway (AZV)
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.27.702083v1
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Our latest paper is out in Nature 🥳 We investigated the underlying neuromodulatory regulation of aggressive behavior in the nematode Pristionchus pacificus 🪱🧠🔬 And we show that novel behaviors can evolve through changes of single neuron function by switches in neuromodulator-receptor expression. 👇
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Predatory aggression evolved through adaptations to noradrenergic circuits - Nature
Noradrenergic circuits support and balance aggressive behavioural states in predatory nematodes, distinguish predatory from non-predatory nematode species and are associated with the evolution of comp...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-10009-x
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Brandy Schillace
about 1 month ago
This line… “There is no suggestion that Veronika’s skills are evidence of the evolution of an ominous new species of super-cow.”
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows
Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in different ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jan/19/back-scratching-cow-veronika-bovine-intelligence?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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eLife
about 2 months ago
A new community-driven lab handbook for reducing conflict and creating more positive and equitable work environments gets strong support from a survey of 200 researchers.
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Roddy Grieves
about 2 months ago
Can humans & animals really use internal maps to take shortcuts? Tolman famously said yes - based largely on his Sunburst maze. Our new review & meta-analysis suggests evidence is far weaker than you might think. 🧵👇
doi.org/10.1111/ejn....
@uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social
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Tolman's Sunburst Maze 80 Years on: A Meta‐Analysis Reveals Poor Replicability and Little Evidence for Shortcutting
In 1946, Tolman et al. reported that rats could take a novel shortcut to a goal after training on an indirect route, supporting the Cognitive Map theory. However, a review of subsequent Sunburst maze...
https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.70365
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Horst Obenhaus
about 2 months ago
Track everything you want - with OCTRON 💙
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Simon Schultz
about 2 months ago
A new version of our 2p mesoscope paper is up on biorxiv: Yang et al, Ultra-wide-field, deep, adaptive two-photon microscopy.
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Ultra-wide-field, deep, adaptive two-photon microscopy
Observing the activity patterns of large neural populations throughout the brain is essential for understanding brain function. However, capturing neural interactions across widely distributed brain r...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.07.658419v3.abstract
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bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition
about 2 months ago
A view of bird's eyes -- Pigeons lock their eyes in place during flight
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.07.698303v1
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Portugues Lab
about 2 months ago
1/6: New publication from the lab: “Plastic landmark anchoring in zebrafish compass neurons” by Ryosuke Tanaka (
@ryosuketanaka.bsky.social
) and Ruben is available here:
rdcu.be/eX1L4
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Plastic landmark anchoring in zebrafish compass neurons
Nature - Using two-photon microscopy with a panoramic virtual reality setup, how head direction cells in larval zebrafish integrate visual landmarks and optic flow to track orientation is revealed.
https://rdcu.be/eX1L4
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The Transmitter
2 months ago
Generative AI systems are being built primarily for entertainment, design and communication, but their potential for neuroscience is vast.
@shahabbakht.bsky.social
explores how this technology could help capture an animal’s ecological experience.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/artificial-i...
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Seeing the world as animals do: How to leverage generative AI for ecological neuroscience
Generative artificial intelligence will offer a new way to see, simulate and hypothesize about how animals experience their worlds. In doing so, it could help bridge the long-standing gap between…
https://www.thetransmitter.org/artificial-intelligence/seeing-the-world-as-animals-do-how-to-leverage-generative-ai-for-ecological-neuroscience/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=org-social&utm_campaign=20251218-perspectives-how-to-leverage-generative-AI-ecological-neuroscience-rp
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Carl T. Bergstrom
3 months ago
Even the the damn twitter card for this Nature Scientific Reports is clearly AI Slop.
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3 months ago
Our paper showing the first ever recordings of spiking activity from neurons in the human lateral geniculate nucleus has just been published in Nature Communications! Congrats to the whole team.
#neuroskyence
@nin-knaw.bsky.social
@uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Effects of eye closure on the spiking activity of human lateral geniculate neurons - Nature Communications
The LGN is a critical stage between the retina and visual cortex, but the properties of human LGN neurons are not fully understood. Here the authors report that they closely resemble those in monkeys ...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65383-x
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Sepiedeh Keshavarzi
3 months ago
📢 We are organising the Senses in Motion conference for the third time, and we are now accepting abstracts for posters or talks. Deadline for abstracts: 19 December Conference dates: 18–21 May 2026 Location: Harnack House, Berlin Register via this page👇
sensesinmotion.org
#neuroskyence
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Looking for a postdoc to understand dynamic vision in action in freely moving mice? Get in touch! This is a
@erc.europa.eu
postdoc in a project between us and
@sinzlab.bsky.social
: miniature 2-photon, rich behavior tracking, and deep learning models linking natural behavior to cortical activity|RT
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For two weeks now,
@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social
and
@cloudflare.social
have serious doubts about my humanity. While I share the fundamental concern, I have come to appreciate reading preprints on my mac - which is broken for me, currently.
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Samuel Eckmann
3 months ago
BTSP in visual cortex
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Leveling up my professorial game with decades-old brain models, rescued from the local school before they hit the bin. 🧠♻️
3 months ago
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Kenneth Harris
4 months ago
1. New preprint resolving a conundrum in systems neuroscience with an AI scientist, and humans Reilly Tilbury, Dabin Kwon,
@haydari.bsky.social
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@jacobmratliff.bsky.social
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@bio-emergent.bsky.social
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Characterizing neuronal population geometry with AI equation discovery
The visual cortex contains millions of neurons, whose combined activity forms a population code representing visual stimuli. There is, however, a discrepancy between our understanding of this code at ...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.12.688086v1
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Andrew MacAskill
4 months ago
Congrats to Ella for her new paper! She asked a really interesting question about how the brain represents uncertainty during hidden state inference, and in a lovely crossover with theoretical work, she shows that in mice, acetylcholine dynamics play a crucial role.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Acetylcholine reflects uncertainty during hidden state inference
To act adaptively, animals must infer features of the environment that cannot be observed directly, such as which option is currently rewarding, or which context they are in. These internal estimates,...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.12.688036v1
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A tissue-selective surgical drill bit - interesting engineering. Could be helpful
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Surgify Halo™
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How did I not know about this super-useful site for customized 3D-printable thread adapters? HT to
@leon-kremers.bsky.social
:
brainright.com/adapt-o-matic/
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Jay’s Adapt~O~Matic – BrainRight
https://brainright.com/adapt-o-matic/
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Very sneaky! But appreciated.
#Cosyne2026
@cosynemeeting.bsky.social
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Adrien Peyrache
5 months ago
🚨new paper: the head-direction circuit as a model of primary thalamocortical system. Check this out 👇 kudos to
@adrian-du.bsky.social
for the huge amount of work put into this opinion piece, starting with the beautiful figures comparing the different thalamocortical systems 🤩
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IMPRS for Brain and Behavior
5 months ago
📢Only 4 weeks left to apply! Join our IMPRS for Brain&Behavior to pursue a
#PhD
in
#neuroethology
. Learn how brain circuits are linked to interesting animal behaviors! 📅 Deadline: October 31, 2025 🔗 imprs-brain-behavior.mpg.de
#neuroscience
#neurojobs
#sciencejobs
#PhDOffers
#FundedPhD
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Kris Jensen
5 months ago
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...
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Tahnée Engelen
5 months ago
Germans speak better Dutch when they’ve consumed alcohol 🍺
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PessoaBrain
6 months ago
𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻-𝘄𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 Spatially distributed and regionally unbound cellular resolution brain-wide processing loops in mice 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀? Dynamical processing winding through most brain regions. Looks like a must read.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Spatially distributed and regionally unbound cellular resolution brain-wide processing loops in mice
Until recently, it has been possible to examine activity in the brain globally through regional averaging or locally at cellular resolution. These studies characterized regions as functionally homogen...
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BonnBrain 2026 is a go! March 23–25, Bonn (DZNE, Bonn, Germany). Apply now:
www.bonnbrain.de
Limited slots. Presentations (posters/talks) selected from submitted abstracts. Keynotes & invited speakers 👇
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The Transmitter
6 months ago
“Competent prose generated by a machine, I’ve come to realize, might not be what science actually needs.” ? By Tim Requarth
#neuroskyence
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From bench to bot: Why AI-powered writing may not deliver on its promise
Efficiency isn’t everything. The cognitive work of struggling with prose may be a crucial part of what drives scientific progress.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/from-bench-to-bot/from-bench-to-bot-why-ai-powered-writing-may-not-deliver-on-its-promise/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=org-social&utm_campaign=20250902-perspectives-bench-to-bot-why-AI-powered-writing-may-not-deliver
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Craig Kaplan
6 months ago
Look at this crazy thing!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature
In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same moth...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09425-w
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Matteo Carandini
6 months ago
The two key studies of the International Brain Laboratory
@intlbrainlab.bsky.social
are out today! A brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour - Nature
The International Brain Laboratory presents a brain-wide electrophysiological map obtained from pooling data from 12 laboratories that performed the same standardized perceptual decision-making task i...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09235-0
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Open Ephys
6 months ago
pyPhotometry v2 is now in our store!
🚀 ⚡Output current of the 2 onboard LED drivers increased to 300 mA 🔦🔦 2 alternative LED digital output channels to trigger external optical hardware that have integrated LED drivers 🔌Additional connections to the pyBoard for expansion
#OpenEphys
#pyPhotometry
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pyPhotometry V2 — Open Ephys
SKU: OEPS-8011 pyPhotometry is an open source system for fiber photometry data acquisition . Version 2 includes: 2x Analog inputs for photometry signals. The system supports time-division mul...
https://open-ephys.org/pycontrol/oeps-8011
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Bence Ölveczky
6 months ago
Wrote a eulogy for the yellow letters in my office window.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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My Lab Displayed A Message of Solidarity on Our Windows. Harvard Took It Down. | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
If we continue down this path, we risk not only Harvard’s future as an institution of free inquiry and expression but also its integrity and trustworthiness.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/8/25/olveczky-harvard-blm-sign/
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Heather Randell
7 months ago
This, from
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social
, perfectly sums up the quandary that educators find ourselves in: “AI hollows out the foundation of learning because it strips you, gets rid of the mistakes, it gets rid of the opportunities for serendipity.” Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...
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Opinion | A.I. Is Fueling a ‘Poverty of Imagination.’ Here’s How We Can Fix It.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/opinion/ai-college-classrooms-chatgpt.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dk8.jXdL.KzVN73bWctZU&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Nature
7 months ago
Nature research paper: In situ light-field imaging of octopus locomotion reveals simplified control
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In situ light-field imaging of octopus locomotion reveals simplified control - Nature
Using an advanced imaging system called EyeRIS, locomotion in deep-sea octopuses could be studied, revealing simplified crawling patterns that could inspire the design of robots.
https://go.nature.com/47iyg2M
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Blake Richards
8 months ago
1/3) This may be a very important paper, it suggests that there are no prediction error encoding neurons in sensory areas of cortex:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
I personally am a big fan of the idea that cortical regions (allo and neo) are doing sequence prediction. But... 🧠📈 🧪
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Sensory responses of visual cortical neurons are not prediction errors
Predictive coding is theorized to be a ubiquitous cortical process to explain sensory responses. It asserts that the brain continuously predicts sensory information and imposes those predictions on lo...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.02.616378v3.abstract
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