Our week long atmospheric river ended on a Saturday in Seattle, making this view even more enjoyable.

As usual, here is our meeting recording : www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7W-... Exciting session with tons of data-driven discussion led by Ali Shamsnia on weeks old Neuropixels data.

Tomorrow, at 9AM PST, for our regular meeting for the OpenScope Predictive Processing community project, we will have a presentation on Neuropixels pilot data analysis led by Ali Shamsnia from Farzaneh Najafi's laboratory. Open to all: allenneuraldynamics.github.io/openscope-co...

Weekly sunset run in San Francisco !

Here is our recording from yesterday's meeting. New Neuropixels data for all. youtu.be/Wa1XiVEbJKI. If interested, please weight in on our meeting forum page : github.com/AllenNeuralD...

Tomorrow, at our usual 9AM PST time, we will introduce some of the first entirely public Neuropixels datasets generated for the OpenScope predictive processing community project. Visual and prefrontal cortex. Open to all. To join : allenneuraldynamics.github.io/openscope-co...

Many thanks to Colleen Gillon and Michael Berry who helped start this important effort, among many many others. The new experimental data is now going out session by session for everyone to analyze.

Our weekly meeting for the OpenScope Predictive Processing community project is cancelled for tomorrow. We are currently collectling datasets both on the Neuropixels and SLAP2 platform. At our next meeting, we aim to introduce those datasets to allow analysis by the community.

As usual, here is the recording from our meeting this morning with presentations from Carsen Stringer and Qingqing Zhang : www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmfa...

For our OpenScope community project meeting next week at 9AM PST on Oct 28, Carsen Stringer and Qingqing Zhang from Janelia Research Campus will present their recent bioRxiv paper on temporal vs spatial predictions. Team link and agenda: allenneuraldynamics.github.io/openscope-co... Open to all

Meeting will start in 30 min. Feel free to join at : teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/...

Congratulations to Karel Svoboda and @jshendure.bsky.social on their election to the National Academy of Medicine (@nam.edu)! Election to the Academy is one of the highest honors in health and medicine. #NAMmtg More on their journeys to this achievement: alleninstitute.org/news/karel-s...

Caught it in its last moments …

Next week, our usual weekly predictive processing meeting will be a journal club. Hyeyoung Shin will present our recent shared publication: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Note the different time: Oct 20 at 4PM PST, meeting details : allenneuraldynamics.github.io/openscope-co... Open to All!

Here is our weekly meeting recording for the OpenScope predictive processing project. youtu.be/R2Rau55ymx8?...

Tomorrow, we will meet as usual at 9AM PST time. Our agenda is here : allenneuraldynamics.github.io/openscope-co... We will provide a brief update on ongoing data collection. Then Nicholas Rodriguez, from Karim Oweiss laboratory, will present an update on SLAP2 analysis. Open to All

Here is the meeting recording from our discussion today for the OpenScope community project on predictive processing : www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yuwy... Science in the open.

Tomorrow, as usual, we will meet at 9AM PST on Microsoft Team to discuss the OpenScope community project on predictive processing. The focus will be on SLAP2 dendritic imaging data. allenneuraldynamics.github.io/openscope-co... Agenda and meeting links at the link.

Why do optical illusions work? The culprit may be a group of neurons in the visual cortex that help us fill in missing information. @markjohnpost.bsky.social for @washingtonpost.com dives into the science and how it could help demystify visual hallucinations: www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

Good one this week!

An OpenScope project featured in The Washington Post! www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025... Brain Observatories work. Step by step, we are building them for everyone.

Here is the recording from Farzaneh Najafi presentation today on pure temporal predictions in the visual cortex. youtu.be/MJMDnYNliiA What do you all think ? None ?

Tomorrow , we will host a public presentation from Farzaneh Najafi on her lab recent publication on temporal predictive processing : allenneuraldynamics.github.io/openscope-co... All are welcome to join at 10AM PST time. The Microsoft team link is in the meeting link.

Next week, we will host 2 meetings as part of the OpenScope predictive processing community project. On Tuesday 09/30, 9AM PST, we will finalize our Neuropixels pilot design and provide updates on the review journal submission. allenneuraldynamics.github.io/openscope-co...

As usual, here is today weekly meeting recording for the OpenScope predictive processing community project. youtu.be/xHohtVkmzl0

As usual, we will meet tomorrow morning (9AM PST) to discuss plans for our incoming pilot experiments with Neuropixels recordings. Tomorrow, Dimitri Yatsenko from DataJoint will present on Trippy. allenneuraldynamics.github.io/openscope-co... Open to all! Team link and agenda is in the website

Chickens are smarter than you might think.... youtube.com/shorts/SNMK7...

🧠 Scientists shot lasers into brain cells to uncover how illusions work. This study, published in @natneuro.nature.com, was supported by the @alleninstitute.org’s OpenScope program and could help us better understand neuropsychiatric disorders. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3Kb0Ute #Neuroscience

As usual, here is our weekly meeting recording for the OpenScope predictive processing community project. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-Gw... Next week, @dimitriyatsenko.bsky.social will present on Trippy! allenneuraldynamics.github.io/openscope-co...

Thank you @fox13seattle.bsky.social for sharing a recent #OpenScope study on the science of illusions! @hyeyoungshin.bsky.social shared how this research helps the world better understand how schizophrenia and other mental conditions work. 🧠📈

Open science is more than just datasets. It's also opening access to scientific facilities and pipelines. OpenScope allows researchers from around the world to pitch experiments to be run – at not cost to them – in the Allen Brain Observatory. #OpenScienceWeek 🧠📈 youtu.be/13r9n0pSDLc?...

Tomorrow, as usual at 9AM PST, we will meet to discuss ongoing experiments for the predictive processing project, All are welcome. Meeting agenda and team invite is available here : allenneuraldynamics.github.io/openscope-co...

Scientists shine a laser light on the brain cells that show us illusions  https://www.geekwire.com/2025/laser-light-brain-cells-illusions/

Do you see a white square? A new study, supported by our #OpenScope team, identified the key neural circuit and cell type involved with inferring details that don't exist in illusions like the one below. 🔗 alleninstitute.org/news/scienti... #OpenScienceWeek

As usual, here is our weekly recording from our OpenScope predictive processing community project meeting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwcI...

Tomorrow, our weekly meeting for the predictive processing community project will be a journal club. We will have a presentation from Sophie Skriabine and Maxwell Shinn from Ken Harris and Matteo Carandini lab. They will present their recent paper on Zebra noise. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

No Sunday sunset run this week but a nice Sunday get away

As usual, you can find the recording from our previous meeting for the OpenScope Community project on predictive processing here : allenneuraldynamics.github.io/openscope-co... This week was a presentation from Dr Bosman on their recent bioRxiv publication on prediction context.

Tomorrow, our weekly meeting for the predictive processing community project will be a journal club. Dr Bosman kindly agreed to present their very recent paper www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Open to all! 9AM PST. Link to teams here : allenneuraldynamics.github.io/openscope-co...

Weekly run to the sun. Timing could be better but the scene is new.

NeuroDataReHack participants from all over the world are finishing up 10 exciting projects analyzing open neurophys data on @dandiarchive.org. Thank you @hhmijanelia.bsky.social for being amazing hosts as always! Stay tuned for the workshop report. @chrishalcrow.bsky.social @mcelotto95.bsky.social

As usual, here is our meeting recording for the OpenScope Community project on predictive processing : www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNem... Kind reminder, we will skip the next two weeks and will regroup on August 5th: allenneuraldynamics.github.io/openscope-co...

Tomorrow, we will meet as usual for the OpenScope Community predictive processing project. Agenda and links : allenneuraldynamics.github.io/openscope-co... 9AM PST time, open to all. Note : Meetings on July 22 and 29 are cancelled for a summer break.

Perfect timing of my Sunday sunset run this week.

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... 🧠📈 🧪

OpenScope and Neuropixels technical workshop ongoing !

As usual, here is our weekly meeting recording for the OpenScope community project. www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5db...

Tomorrow, as every years, we are hosting a large group of world-wide scientists, at all levels, for a 3 days event, co-sponsored by the @NIH, @NSF and @alleninstitute. We will open our labs to show how we record neural activity at high throughput across the mouse brain.

As usual, we will meet tomorrow morning for our OpenScope Community project on Predictive Processing. Agenda and meeting link are on our project website : allenneuraldynamics.github.io/openscope-co... 9AM PST time. Open to all.

As usual, here is our weekly recorded meeting for the predictive processing project www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8BF... #ScienceInTheOpen step by step