Slightly surprised that @kordinglab.bsky.social are still printing their simulations out on paper to be honest.

1/11 Happy to share our TICS paper on using the flexibility of one of the most basic cognitive functions, perception, to understand one of the most complex cognitive dysfunctions, psychiatric conditions (also my first formal work in computational psychiatry 🎉) 📄: www.cell.com/trends/cogni... 🧵 : 👇

What does a multimodal electrode look like to you? This is what it looks like to us - it’s electrical⚡️, optical 💡 and fluidic💧. Amazing work by Xin Mu, Wesley Sacher and Homeira Moradi Chameh. We also made the cover 🥳! 🔗 to 📄 : www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nature research paper: A mosaic of whole-body representations on the human precentral gyrus go.nature.com/44k08Ru

How are the fluctuations in electric field organized across the whole brain? We analyzed the 3.4 M samples from the international brain lab using a combination of deep learning and graph theory. We found a surprising structure made of communities and landmarks. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

I am excited to share my first paper, showing that episodic memory formation is theta rhythmic, is now published in Nature Human Behavior! Check it out here: rdcu.be/e6pzS. Thanks to my PI, Katherine Duncan, and to my collaborators for their support on this journey! Stay tuned for iEEG follow up 🧠

New paper out from the Duncan Lab in Nature Human Behaviour! Congratulations to lead author Thomas Biba @tbiba.bsky.social for all his hard work through the peaks and troughs, seeing this through to publication! Big thanks to our collaborators! @lexidecker.bsky.social @tvaliante.bsky.social

New paper alert! 🚨 We found that the brain's compass is remarkably stable at two scales 1️⃣ the system maintains its internal organization for weeks 2️⃣ It "remembers" its orientation for weeks, even after a single visit This may be key to how the brain aligns its other maps. Paper: rdcu.be/e3waP

🚨 new work from the lab on how eye movements 👀 versus orofacial movements influence 🐭 visual cortex activity 🧠 #neuroscience #behavior #neuroAI

13% success rates at #CIHR, is a really 87% fail rate for>4000 scientists. At a time when 🇨🇦 is investing millions to recruit more scientist into a broken funding environment. 🇨🇦, U need a strong science foundation 2 attract success. #CIHR, fix your science foundation, it is eroding in real time

Intelligence and consciousness. @anilseth.bsky.social, brief, clear and to the point: "intelligence is about doing and consciousness is about being" www.noemamag.com/the-mytholog...

New eLife paper is out! We explore the link btw 2-phase perception/generation learning methods like wake-sleep, and what may happen in the brain under on psychedelics. Turns out hallucinations are consistent with hijacking phasic learning, essentially running both wake and sleep phases at once.

Are you thinking about doing neuroscience outreach but want to make it more exciting or hands on? Check out RetINaBox! (A collab led by the Trenholm lab) We tried to bring the experience of experimental neuroscience to a classroom setting: www.eneuro.org/content/13/1... #neuroscience 🧪

Wonderful article about our recent paper in @pnasnexus.org! Thanks, @sachapfeiffer.bsky.social and @mickbonner.bsky.social! @yikai-tang.bsky.social @uoftpsychology.bsky.social @artsci.utoronto.ca @utoronto.ca

My thoughts on the matter: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Wonderful and inspiring opening session at the CIFAR/TWCF Winter School for the Neuroscience of Consciousness, here in beautiful wintery Montebello, in Quebec. All of the participants gave 60 second intros to themselves and their interests. What a great group of people.

In this piece for @thetransmitter.bsky.social, I argue that ecological neuroscience should leverage generative video and interactive models to simulate the world from animals' perspectives. The technological building blocks are almost here - we just need to align them for this application. 🧠🤖

🧠📢 New preprint alert Large-scale ephys is exploding but spike sorting remains the computational bottleneck. A 2-hr, 6-probe Neuropixels 2.0 Quad Base session can take over a week to sort on a single machine. Here's a better solution. 🧵 #neuroskyence #compneurosky

Lossy WavPack compression (up to 7× reduction) has minimal impact on sorting accuracy. This offers major storage savings without sacrificing quality.

Energy efficiency drives evolution, and humans may have evolved pleasure-based signals to optimize actions. Does this extend to aesthetic pleasure? Yes! Strong evidence in silico and humans, out in PNAS Nexus: tinyurl.com/3kbu8xw4 With Yikai Tang and Wil Cunningham. @uoftpsychology.bsky.social

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 🏖️🌮

We are opening a FACULTY POSITION (tenure track, permanent) in the University of Cambridge at the interface of control and biology, interpreted broadly. Theorists and wet lab quantitative biologists with backgrounds in control, EE, applied math, ... apply by Jan 28! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...

hey I'm reposting this for no reason at all today... www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

A study in Nature Communications identifies BNST theta and prefrontal BNST coherence as intracranial biomarkers predicting depression outcomes after deep brain stimulation. Lower activity predicted better long-term benefit, linking brain circuits to emotional bias and anxiety. 🧪

It was incredible to be part of #purpleday yesterday! 💜 Each year, this important day continues to grow bigger and stronger, bringing more awareness and support for the 1-in-100 people living with epilepsy. @kbi-uhn.bsky.social @uhnresearch.bsky.social @tvaliante.bsky.social

Happy to share this work putting forth the first #computational model of #developing #embrionic cortical circuits. Phenomenal team coordination by Fernando Garcia Moreno @achucarro.bsky.social. @kbi-uhn.bsky.social @kcnhub.bsky.social

I’m not “abandoning my diet”; I’m “supporting my country.”

New brain aging study is out today in Nature The largest single-cell RNA seq dataset of mouse brain aging reveals incredible insights and could pave the way for future therapies to slow or manage the impacts of the aging process. 🧵 #studyBRAIN

Just bumping this up for those who may have missed earlier announcements-- we have a new PI position in the Neuroscience & Mental Health program here at SickKids. Neural and glial mechanisms in cognition.

We are proud to support this trial through our our extensive academic and clinical programs affiliated with @uoft.bsky.social @uhnresearch.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/uhnt...

Congrats to Sam Mestern, Ph.D. student at @westernu.bsky.social, for winning the MapMySpikes challenge! His tool, PatchOTDA, excelled in mapping electrophysiological data to molecular properties. 🧠📈 More on his tool and the MapMySpikes challenge: alleninstitute.org/news/canadia...

Three UHN research projects have received over $4M through the Ontario Research Fund, part of a $92M investment in Ontario research! Learn how this funding advances: ▶️#MRI tech ▶️#AI for donor lungs ▶️Muscle & joint #health Congrats to the awardees! 🔗 www.uhnresearch.ca/news/investi...

Hopfield and Hinton @nobelprize.bsky.social lecture today John J. Hopfield: Physics is a point of view Geoffrey Hinton: Boltzmann Machines www.youtube.com/live/lPIVl5e...

Grateful for these two and that they find such joy in one another!! Photo cred @samravaliante.bsky.social

Holiday festivities have begun. Grateful for my amazing lab for making each year fun, and exciting!!

Done Christmas Shopping? Or need inspiration what open MRI tools to get for your loved ones? After Black Friday and Cyber Monday, there is 🥁 #MRITogether Tuesday (and Wednesday-Thursday-Friday 😉). There is still time to register for our free online event mritogether.esmrmb.org/24m/registra...

Thank you to the global community for citing, sharing, and building on this work! 🙏 Read the paper here: nature.com/articles/s41... Stay tuned for MedSAM2, set to be released next month, offering enhanced efficiency and accuracy for medical video and 3D image segmentation.

thanks @haoyin.bsky.social 🙏🙏

An early Thanksgiving gift to you all… a new preprint, representing the final piece of my postdoc work at @kbi-uhn.bsky.social @kcnhub.bsky.social @uhnresearch.bsky.social with @tvaliante.bsky.social. Full description to come next week 😀 #neuroskyence #compneuro www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Oh I know this guy. I listen to him all the time. But more importantly, you should see what his colleagues have to say about "To Keep or Not to Keep"

Also for those with broader brain health related interests where you get to play with these toys! If it sounds interesting, let’s chat at ACNP in Phoenix!

I am giving a 2-day #advanced #course on #astrocyte multiscale #models at the University of #Padua IT on April 10--11, 2025 #EMBO. An excellent opportunity to learn how to include #neuron-#glia #interactions in your models, from molecules to networks. Info & Registration: tinyurl.com/yx3m6acy

The most fun paper I have ever written. Great theory, too. Read it if you want to understand the American Psyche.

Wow one of the best videos of basic hippocampal anatomy for the human brain. Very helpful for those curious to see where memories for events and episodes are first stored in the brain:

When the conference doors close, these scientists rock out. A "skinny-tie rock" show by the band Pavlov’s Dogz has become tradition at the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting. www.thetransmitter.org/community/wh...

A potential role for the thalamus in demixing cortical signals while providing a low-dimensional pathway for cortico-cortical communication New paper from Halassa lab in Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41...