Because it's my writing era 😆 This was actually posted 3 days ago. If you're interested in neuroscience, neurotechnology, computer science, data and AI ethics, history, and art, welcome to my world. I'll be writing more about them.

AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...

That feeling when you get phase 2 of your grant rejected, and it’s followed up the next day by an email saying they are axing the whole programme. I guess I should be relieved that it wasn’t a judgement on us?

New preprint from the lab. Eline Stas et al, "Longitudinal three-photon imaging for tracking amyloid plaques and vascular degeneration in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease". www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Are you interested in our work on complex physical systems and applications (to neural systems)? Wanna join us in Sydney? 🐨 🦘 We have two open positions: 1. Postdoc position: usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA... 2. Fully-funded PhD position: www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...

Thank you everyone for your suggestions! This turned out to be a very useful resource. For those interested, you can see a compiled version of the suggestions from this thread here: tinyurl.com/kaz445jh (The wiki page will be updated as we find more resources.) 🧠🤖 , 🧠📈

i'm sorry my review is late i meant to read it weeks ago but the writing was actively hostile to comprehension each paragraph a slow erosion of my will to live

Has anyone got any experience with gcamp8 transgenic mice yet? Eg the Thy1-GCaMP8s line? janelia.figshare.com/articles/dat...

The second of the hippocampus-inspired paintings by @anjiolina.bsky.social just came back from framing. I’m very happy with how it turned out.

The only good use I've managed to find for generative AI is rewriting my paper abstracts in quatrain. The Mind's Decay, A Fading Light

New preprint from my lab: Mary Ann Go et al, Amyloid pathology reduces dynamic range and disrupts neural coding in a mouse model of Alzheimer's Disease. We used 2p imaging in mice running on an air levitated platform to study AD. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Another preprint coming here soon (whenever it gets through biorxiv processing).

Hippocampal research in Australia #neuroskyence

A new review from us on three photon microscopy is up. (Article should be open access, but that may take a day or so to filter through). MA Go, M Yang, SR Schultz, "Advantages of three-photon live imaging for deep tissue analysis". www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Imperial is hosting a workshop on volumetric imaging of neural circuit connectivity and dynamics on Jul 22nd. opticalneurophysiology.org?page_id=420 This international workshop brings together innovators and users of volumetric neural imaging technologies, with a particular focus on voltage imaging.

My hippocampus abstract painting. Sold to @simonschultz.bsky.social. I'm open for art commissions! #neuroscience #neuroskyence #neuroart #art

The second of the hippocampus-inspired paintings by @anjiolina.bsky.social just came back from framing. I’m very happy with how it turned out.

Hi everyone I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing

The video snippet in a form that will play on bluesky, thanks to Peter for kindly fixing it for me. 7x2mm fov at 6.36 Hz.

Another new manuscript deposited on BioRxiv: Ultra-wide-field, deep, adaptive two-photon microscopy. The first author is Mengke Yang, and this is a collaboration between my group and Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering. 2P imaging over a 50 mm^2 fov! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I asked gpt 4o to visualise the brain areas involved in consciousness according to IIT and GNWT. turns out it knows as much about neuroscience as the average AI researcher... #neurosci #consci #philsci #neuroskyence

one particularly damning graph of tech company energy use from the excellent @ketanjoshi.co blog post below Also note that e.g. Amazon has stopped publishing estimates of their energy use as of the last two years. I wonder why? 🙄

If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, then you’re not in business. You’re in organized crime.

This is the other hippocampal painting by @anjiolina.bsky.social - I am taking it down to have it framed now. I really like this one. (As I mentioned before, she does neuro-inspired artworks on commission; if you are interested, contact her directly here or via instagram @neuronakaya).

The reproducibility crisis in AI research … otherwise known as a massive citation bubble.

Just one university - UCL - employs almost twice as many people as there are working in fishing boats.

Revision uploaded to one of our papers on biorxiv, following very useful comments from Julija Krupic and Marc Aurel Busche. Note new title. Amyloid-disrupted hippocampal spatial tuning and splitter cell activity leads to memory deficits in a spatial alternation task www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I semi-commissioned this artwork some time ago … you may have seen it on the wall behind me in zoom meetings. There is another (possibly even nicer) that will be revealed when I have had it framed. The artist, see below, is trying to drum up work to pay her school fees.

Our paper on two-photon microscopy using a new fibre-based picosecond laser source just appeared in Biomedical Optics Express. (Krawczyk et al, lead PI is Tim Runcorn). opg.optica.org/boe/fulltext...

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*** Come join us !! We are recruiting !! *** How does the brain generate beliefs that go beyond direct experience? How do these mechanisms go awry in psychosis? The Barron lab tinyurl.com/bdf4drjf @MRCBNDU @NDCNOxford are recruiting a new postdoc tinyurl.com/ut4vbwt4 to work in mouse models

Please read our new preprint!!! We’re really proud of this work. Thanks in particular to Francesco and Rufus for the huge amount of effort put in over some years. Francesco’s thread below summarises it well.

Don’t panic, know where your towel is, and don’t take your auditory system along to a Disaster Area concert.

Further faculty positions now open in the Dept of Bioengineering at Imperial, this time at senior (associate/full Professor) level. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

New preprint on arXiv: Krawycz et al, Two-photon microscopy using picosecond pulses from four-wave mixing in a Yb-doped photonic crystal fiber. From Tim Runcorn's group, 790 nm fibre laser is quite efficient (cf to fs Ti:Sa) for 2p excitation at picosecond pulse durations. arxiv.org/abs/2504.01621

We’re recruiting for 5 faculty positions in cognitive neuroscience, psychology & animal neuroscience! Exciting science going on @UofG, Glasgow is an amazing and green city with the friendliest people, and you’ll have the stunning highlands on your doorstep! tinyurl.com/mbn6yf56 Please repost!

The core argument here is unanswerable. For liberal democratic countries, buying American weapons is a security risk. It must be avoided at all costs.

Appications are now open for up to three Faculty positions in the Dept of Bioengineering at Imperial College London, across all areas of bioengineering. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

So the ARC Laureate scheme is being axed. This seems to be a bit of a step backwards, as none of the replacements are specifically focused on bringing researchers back from overseas.

Vittani, Lee, Wang, Hiraoka, et al. KI mouse expressing red fluorescent blood In situ SpyTag/Catcher attachment of biosensor ECS SpyCatcher to capture BBB leak doi.org/10.1101/2025... We hope this method is useful to a wide range of the biology community.

So on March 9, a French scientist, on a visa to attend a conference in Houston, was denied entry to the US and subsequently expelled because his phone had messages decrying scientific policies put forward by the Trump administration: www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

Does anyone have a copy of the questionnaire that UK-based holders of US federal funding awards (aka the Budget Data Request) are now being asked to complete? DM or email me please.

I mean, if they've mortgaged themselves by borrowing against their paper wealth, and that paper wealth drops precipitously via boycotts such that they are underwater on their loans, then you can definitely hurt them. There's a reason why a certain fashy billionaire is panicking right about now.

So much awful and stupid news coming out of the USA.

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On my way back to Tokyo after visiting the International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (IIIS) in Tsukuba. Amazing place, it really shows what a collective effort applying different techniques to one problem can do. wpi-iiis.tsukuba.ac.jp/japanese/

Oof. Francis Collins gone.

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