Applications are now open for the summer school: 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐝𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐍𝐞𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 🧠 Apply before March 15: www.compneuronrsn.org 📍 Located in beautiful Eresfjord 🇳🇴 🗓️ Between July 6-24 Supported by the @kavlifoundation.org In collaboration with @kavlintnu.bsky.social

A new study fostered by EBRAINS has demonstrated how networks of spiking nanolasers could emulate a key principle of brain function: to imagine things that we cannot directly perceive by sampling from internal models of the world. Read more: ebrains.eu/news-and-eve... @unibe.ch

This week's guest of the Making Connections seminar series is Casey Paquola, talking about multiscale neurodevelopment. As usual, it'll be on Thursday at 15:00 UTC, and here's the link to register: cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

I was this week years old when I realized that all the skeets from the scientists I follow and love are hidden way in the "Quiet posters" feed not in "Following" 😅

Keep science accessible 🧪

Rejecting another Elsevier review request. Hoping my attempt at a dispassionate tone keeps my contempt for Elsevier from leaking through.

Join us in Prague this year 🧪

ASPP will be in Prague this year! #aspp2026 Hands-on python fun + a lovely, supportive community by day, crisp cool staropramen and knedlíky by night - it is going to be peak life 👾💗

That's me! No image, no problem 🤷‍♂️🍎 Y'all are getting distracted by mental movies while we are just staring at a void and getting distracted by anything else ;)

Students need to remember that Inigo Montoya method for emails and greetings: "Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.” Polite Greeting Name Relevant Personal Link Manage Expectations Keep it BRIEF.

You are in science and write Python every day? But you feel you want to understand the Python part a little bit better? Then join us in Prague, Czechia for this year’s summer school ‘Advanced Scientific Programming in Python’. 🧑‍🔬🧑‍💻🧑‍🏫 30st August–06th September 2026. #aspp2026 Apply now: aspp.school

New Journal Club: Neural manifolds are maturing from visualization trick to biological claim. But if population activity lives on low-dimensional manifolds, what constrains the geometry?

Unexpected partial recovery of natural vision observed after intracortical microstimulation in a blind patient medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02... "The unexpected improvement was spontaneous, sustained over time, and independent of the implanted device." #BCI #NeuroTech #blindness

A blind person recovered low vision within a few days of being implanted with a Utah array and receiving electrical stimulation in the visual cortex. An unexpected and exciting discovery by @umh.es researchers 👀🧠 doi.org/10.1093/brai...

“correlation is not cognition” — Guest & Martin (2023). doi.org/10.1007/s421... @olivia.science @andreaeyleen.bsky.social

With most psychedelic drugs, you never know what you're going to get. But this mysterious mushroom from China - without fail - causes users to hallucinate tiny people: crawling up walls, popping out from under furniture and marching under doors. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

🎓Fully-funded PhD studentship in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience!!! Join @seanfw.bsky.social and myself at @tcddublin.bsky.social for a PhD at the intersection of cutting-edge cognitive neuroscience (OPM-MEG) and neuro-AI. 🗓 Deadline: 5 Feb 2026 #neurojobs #neuroscience #compneuro

Come do your PhD with me and @ktsetsos.bsky.social ! It's such an exciting time for cognitive and computational neuroscience at @tcddublin.bsky.social . And in this PhD you get to do both!

So excited to see this lovely paper with @benjyb.bsky.social, @matanmazor.bsky.social and @giuliacabbai.bsky.social published in @nconsc.bsky.social! academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

This Thursday at 3PM (UTC), we'll host @barabasi.bsky.social at the Making Connections seminar series. I'm sure it'll be a very stimulating and inspiring talk, so if you'd like to join, register via the link below: sites.google.com/view/makingc...

Veronika is having the time of her life with that stick 😁

Our new paper (with @biotay.bsky.social) is out and on the cover story of @currentbiology.bsky.social !!!! Veronika, a Carinthian mountain cow flexibly uses a “multi-purpose tool” to scratch herself. A video and more information will follow in the comments. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Vivid imagery is reported faster than weak imagery academic.oup.com/nc/article/2... by @benjyb.bsky.social @matanmazor.bsky.social @giuliacabbai.bsky.social @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social; mental imagery

🚨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...

As #neurotechnology scales toward high-resolution implantable devices, new challenges emerge: how will users calibrate visual implants with thousands of channels? Learn how by reading our paper, co-first-authored with Dr. Xing Chen, now published at Brain Stimulation! tinyurl.com/Large-scale-...

Proud of being part of this great paper 🧪

#NEUmap: Large-scale mapping of artificial perceptions for neuroprostheses using spontaneous neuronal activity in macaque and human visual cortex www.brainstimjrnl.com/article/S193... by @lozaneuro.bsky.social et al.; #BCI #NeuroTech #blindness

My new gig is PI of the CANN group at Trinity College Dublin and University of Oxford (50/50). Funded by the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, we'll be recruiting postdocs, PhDs and an RA in Dublin and Oxford soon. So exciting! @oxcin.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @tcdscss.bsky.social

JOB ALERT! 📢 For the scientists who love science communication: we’re hiring at @kurzgesagt.org !🌍 Come join our team, the vibes are impeccable. ✍️ Scriptwriter (Remote) kurzgesagt.org/careers/scri... 🔍 Fact-Checker & Researcher (Munich/Berlin/Remote) kurzgesagt.org/careers/seni...

At the Bernstein Conference 2024, Jeremie Lefebvre and I organized a workshop on the computational consequences of neural heterogeneity. Now, slightly more than a year later, we funneled the emerging discussions into a perspective piece: www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

The Utrecht morning rush hour in the snow did not disappoint!

Happy birthday to #mathematician & #polymath, Mary Fairfax Somerville (1780-1872). 🧮👩🏼‍🔬🔭🎢🐡🧪 #histsci As a young widow she made a name for herself when she won a silver medal in 1811 from the Military College at Marlow math journal. Wallace suggested she read Laplace & finding she understood it as 🧵

Another scientist of unknown birthday: my #linocut of Chinese Han Dynasty #polymath & statesman Zhang Heng (78-139) who invented a seismoscope (simplified seismometer which does not make a record of earth motions) to detect distant earthquakes & indicate their direction 2000 years ago! 🐡🧪⚒️#histsci

Throwback to this Reddit post I saw in 2024 and that I still think about sometimes

My prediction / hope for 2026: this will be the year we start seeing the theoretical neuroscience and #NeuroAI fields start embracing spiking as something beyond a poor man's ReLU. Spikes aren't just the brain's activation function but they are fundamentally different. 1/ 🧠🧪🤖

1/n: A new collaborative preprint from the lab to start the year: "A multi-ring shifter network computes head direction in zebrafish" together with Siyuan Mei, Martin Stemmler and Andreas Herz from the LMU, Munich.

Eigenvalues repulsion in action! Made with #python #numpy #matplotlib two random matrices and a little bit of linear algebra.

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"My New Year's Resolution is to find a principled way to think about all those cell types in the brain" Why friend, you are in luck, because @rgast.bsky.social has just the perspective for you: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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...

Retinotopy constrains the topology of neural manifolds in macaque visual cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.22.695909v1

Proud of our new short paper! We showed that the topology of neural manifolds in V1 in response to simple stimuli is determined by the retinotopic layout 👀🧠🙈

I'll start replying to my emails like this. #science #academia #academic #philosophy #philsky

It's funny that everyone who has *ever* programmed, knows how important attention to detail is. Hours wasted because you made a typo, forgot to add a character, etc. The tiniest thing you literally don't notice is wrong, and your program screams at you and dies. This is a universal experience.

This smells distinctly like collider bias and/or selection bias and/or regression to the mean... You simply can't select teen prodigies, and world class athletes rom databases, and go run regressions without serious consideration of the selection process!

Fully-funded International Neuroscience Doctoral Programme🧠 Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal 🇵🇹 Deadline: Jan 31, 2026 fchampalimaud.org/champalimaud... Research program spans systems/computational/theoretical/clinical/sensory/motor neuroscience, neuroethology, intelligence, and more!!

The Connectome Modulates Critical Brain Dynamics Across Local and Global Scales https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.11.693658v1

A “universal” pattern of cortical brain oscillations may be less ubiquitous than previously proposed. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/brain-waves/...

Finally got the job ad—looking for 2 PhD students to start spring next year: www.gao-unit.com/join-us/ If comp neuro, ML, and AI4Neuro is your thing, or you just nerd out over brain recordings, apply! I'm at neurips. DM me here / on the conference app or email if you want to meet 🏖️🌮

End :) As always, feel free to contact me If you want to discuss or share some insights, which I would love to do here on the #volumeEM @volumeem1.bsky.social community. Here you have the DOI again: doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...