Call for Participation: Brain and Organisms: Neuroscience Beyond Computation, which will take place 16–20 March 2026 at the Lorentz Center@omega in Leiden. Registration required. More info: www.lorentzcenter.nl/brain-and-or... @philsci.bsky.social @battaglialab.bsky.social @sfn.org @fens.org

Skala is now available to everyone! Why are we releasing it? Because we’re not just aiming to publish a cool paper — we’re on a mission to bring DFT to chemical accuracy using deep learning. And to make real progress, we need the community’s feedback. #compchem

@guidomeijer.com has #neuropixels preprocessing worked out for you!

I’m hearing rumors that thousands of people are calling the ICE tip line to report little green men and other aliens from outer space. That’s not why ICE set up this number, so you should absolutely NOT call that tip line to report those types of aliens. 👽 I repeat—do NOT call the below number! ☎️

don’t forget: waymos and other robotaxis are surveillance devices on wheels that police are increasingly tapping for footage

Kilosort4 detects a LOT of neurons, I recorded 15k neurons in one year 🤯 Traditionally, one would curate these detected units to see if they are well isolated single neurons. This is not feasible anymore, so today let's look at three options that are out there to automate this process! 🤖👇

"Urgent plea to Dutch higher education institutions: Cut ties with genocide and refuse police on campus!" openletter.earth/nederlandse-...

Please find this English masters program in Neurophysics. Study the brain, artificial neural networks and complex systems through the lens of mathematical modeling and physics. Radboud University / Donders (Netherlands) is one of Europe’s leading universities in Neuroscience. 1/3

Come study at the @dondersinst.bsky.social Neurophysics Master!

"We are not just products of our genes or our environment, but of their dance across time. The past has shaped our DNA-but the future is ours to shape". Beautiful use of comics for skillful science communication of a complex & nuanced topic, by @dr-appie.bsky.social & @lizahaart.bsky.social. 🧬🧪👇

Trump is the author of this hell but he writex it with tools preserved, expanded, and ultimately sustained by first Obama and later Biden. Detaining a legal permanent resident for campus protest, under the flimsy pretense of aiding terror, can only be done with tools Bush built & Obama sustained.

I have a theory about why, beyond just being people, much of US scientific leadership was caught so flat-footed and is displaying Neville Chamberlain-tier wet kleenex resolve in defense of our institutions and values.

A core problem here is that like many things, the public discourse is totally playing on the right's terms. It's not "DEI" to research gender/racial inequality. DEI is a propaganda phrase to denote unnecessary excess in the mind of the public, like HR trainings. That's not what they're eliminating.

DEI is when a woman or non-white person who is qualified for a job receives that job. The meritocracy is when a 19 year old gets to run the United States government because he posted the dankest memes

“Unreliable” by Csaba Szabo – book review and excerpt forbetterscience.com/2025/02/03/u...

⏰ Today's the day: please register today (anywhere on earth) if you plan to join us. Very much looking forward to seeing you there!

"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Human brain dynamics are shaped by rare long-range connections over and above cortical geometry. Some new results to inform this debate. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Christopher Cover, Alexander J. Poplawsky, et al: Awake rodent fMRI: Gradient-echo echo planar imaging versus compressed-sensing fast low-angle shot direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Saskia Helbling: Inferring laminar origins of MEG signals with optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs): A simulation study direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

THE TOP 50 GUARDIAN HEADLINES 2024 - RANKED! part 1, 50-26 50. How I turned my gap year into an ethical-criminal "dementerprise" 49. Could Trump's war on NATO's "Axis of Woke" save the marmoset? 48. Microdosed and hairless in the bath, I sang old CND protest songs

I'm excited to share another project we've been working on: The Transmitter's first book, which includes some of our favorite essays from our first ~9 months. Download a copy here: www.thetransmitter.org/transmitter-...

A few papers I think worth reading. Mostly open access. Causal inference is hard: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨Our paper `Reclaiming AI as a theoretical tool for cognitive science' is now forthcoming in the journal Computational Brain & Behaviour. (Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...) Below a thread summary 🧵1/n #metatheory #AGI #AIhype #cogsci #theoreticalpsych #criticalAIliteracy

A simulated annealing algorithm for randomizing weighted networks” | nature.com/articles/s43... How do we randomize brain connectomes (and other networks) with biological edge weights? @richardfbetzel.bsky.social @natcomputsci.bsky.social ⤵️

6 students and staff of Radboud University arrested by Nijmegen police on a bus for wearing a keffiyeh. A new low in the repression of the Palestine movement. Sign the open letter docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I’ve had a guy who literally never made a Bluesky account before, only posted on his own page and followed less than 60 people get banned in one day on here and then when he made a new account get banned again… I’m assuming it is due to people searching Gaza and mass reporting new accounts

(recycled from X) My favorite take on LLM intelligence is by Paul Cisek on the connectionists mailing list: "We are like a bunch of professional magicians (...) wondering: 'Maybe there really is magic? I think it’s not that machines have passed the Turing Test, but rather that we failed it." 🔥

This flexible, Utah Array-like device with sensing and drug delivery all in one seems like it will have a lot of applications. What's next? doi.org/10.1126/scia... #neuroscience #neuroskyence #ephys #neurotech #MATLAB I can't find TDT on here yet.

We have with Bryan Souza a PhD project proposal under shared supervision at the DIM C-BRAINS (listed under NeuREMotion). International undergraduate students, check the program and apply!! (to our or other projects) dim-cbrains.fr/fr/phd-progr... #neuroskyence

From war zones to climate disasters, #MSF teams have been there, providing care and support in over 75 countries. This collection of 65 images shows just a fraction of the incredible work our teams are doing every day. www.msf.org/year-picture...

Applications are open for our Summer Workshop in the Dynamic Brain!! This is a two week computational neuroscience course for grad students and postdocs. Check it out!! alleninstitute.org/events/summe...

I love how many brain signals that people thought were related to cognition are actually just related to breathing lol nice work everyone this is going great

Our new study is out on BioRXiv! tinyurl.com/pfcmap We (@carlenlab.bsky.social lab) mapped the mouse PFC using single-unit activity! We recorded ~23,000 neurons across cortical/subcortical regions and profiled spont. firing patterns to reveal what separates the PFC from other brain regions. 1/n

Psychologists and neuroscientists are calling for international pressure towards immediate ceasefire in Israel, Palestine & Lebanon, respect for international humanitarian law, end of the occupation, and release of all hostages. Read & join us by signing here: tinyurl.com/PsychLetter

REMINDER: Those choosing to live in subsidized suburbs for a bigger house and yard are NOT also entitled to free-flow car traffic capacity (aka an “easy car commute”) into the city at the expense of the taxes, health, safety (hint: bike-lanes) & quality of life of city-dwellers. HT Ian Lockwood.

most people want a quick and simple answer to why AI systems encode/exacerbate societal and historical bias/injustice and due to the reductive but common thinking of "bias in, bias out," the obvious culprit often is training data but this is not entirely true 1/

Important paper! www.biorxiv.org/content/bior... Im not sure the Discussion fully delineates its radical implications. No more... * Place cells * Grid cells, splitter cells, border cells * Mirror neurons * Reward neurons * Conflict cells (continued)

A reminder today, as US politicians including the President fall over one another to attack the ICC over arrest warrants and defend Netanyahu…

AIVD @aivdnl.bsky.social has arrived, people! Wonderful to see there is an interest in the community of scientists, climate activists, peace activists, and, of course, cat ladies 🐈‍⬛

Time to bring over a thread from when I read Case Vanderwolf’s autobiography. Notice already strong “brain from inside out” vibes… 😉 #neuroskyence

Whatever you think about PhD admissions, the following is true: -This is a union-busting attempt in response to BU grad workers' historic contract win. Admin isn't being obtuse here. (I work for the local that reps BU grads.) -This will decimate rankings, faculty recruitment, & general reputation.

The Onion should buy Elsevier next

Zotero is great and I think that anyone who needs to organise and cite more than a handful of references should be using it. Here's an intro to Zotero that I made for my undergrad students (but the info is relevant for anyone new to Zotero). Full vid [13 mins]: youtu.be/SlUHjOqVCyU Preview ⬇️

Neo-Nazis marching on the streets of #Berlin undisturbed by police. They were registered as a 'counter-demonstration' & allowed to walk 400m behind a queer-feminist protest on the same route. They even brought their kids out. That's how comfortable neo-Nazis are in #Germany today. /Jüdisches Forum

The TLDR of German politics 2024 is that the German police is fine with beating up Jewish anti-Zionists in the name of 'fighting anti-semitism' while permitting literal neo-Nazis to march behind a queer protest