Amirreza Bahramani
@amir137.bsky.social
Systems Neuroscience PhD Student at @SainsburyWellcome.bsky.social, UCL Data Scientist at @neuroinformatics.dev
All BrainGlobe atlases now have Neuroglancer links so that you can explore atlases in the browser without needing to download them first! All links here: brainglobe.info/documentatio... Here you can view our Eurasian Blackcap atlas: neuroglancer-demo.appspot.com#!https://bra...
Inspiring story—but incomplete. The article overlooks the fact that limiting scientific exchange is itself part of US policy toward Iran. Imposed war, travel bans, sanctions, and exclusion from programmes like Neuromatch make that bridge almost impossible to cross right now.
The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · last wk.After meeting at an SfN social, neuroscientists Arash Fassihi, Gily Ginosar, Noga Larry and Abdulraheem Nashef organized the Middle Eastern Systems Neuroscience Symposium, hoping to build a community that can transcend political barriers through scientific connection. #neuroskyence bit.ly/4g0sZkk
How does sleep consolidate muscle memories? New research from @mstephensonjones.bsky.social lab & @gatsbyucl.bsky.social in @natneuro.nature.com reveals that motor-skill memories are replayed in the striatum during sleep, independently of the hippocampus. www.sainsburywellcome.org/blog/muscle-...
Muscle memories: how does sleep produce consolidation? | Sainsbury Wellcome Centre
Sleep not only makes us feel better, but it’s vital for helping us form memories and learn new skills. For many years, neuroscientists have studied how the brain consolidates episodic memories during ...
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1/ The world's songbirds sing in just 8 basic sounds. And where a bird lives decides which ones it uses. My first PhD paper is out now in @science.org (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aee6239) Here is what we found:
1/4 This is a great paper by @lorenzoposani.com et al. It captures many important patterns in the IBL BWM dataset, shows what can be learned from open-access neural data, and surveys many useful analyses. But it also left me with a few thoughts... 🧵 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Rarely categorical, highly separable representations along the cortical hierarchy - Nature
Cortical circuits prioritize diversity over categorical structure, supporting a computational regime geared towards high-dimensional, highly separable neural representations.
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“move from preprint to peer-reviewed publication leaves the central claims of most abstracts intact, indicating preprints are a reliable source…papers that were never posted as preprints were retracted at roughly twice the rate of those that were…” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Tracking claim changes from preprint to publication across 72,644 biomedical studies using large language models
Preprints now disseminate a large share of biomedical research before peer review. Because they have not yet passed peer review, some scientists regard preprint claims as unverified or potentially unr...
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Glad to be part of this! It was great seeing people enjoy neurons up close under the microscope!
Sainsbury Wellcome Centre@sainsburywellcome.bsky.social · last mo.It was fantastic to be part of the recent @ucllifesciences.bsky.social Science Fair. We had a great time talking brains, neurons and neuroscience with visitors! A big thank you to our PhD student volunteers @amir137.bsky.social, Barnopriyo Dutta and Tianyi Zeng 🙌
SWC & @gatsbyucl.bsky.social are inviting expressions of interest from early career researchers seeking to establish an independent research group in mechanistic theories of neural computation or learning via external fellowship. Please share with your networks and colleagues! Apply by 16 July.
Fellowship Sponsorship | Sainsbury Wellcome Centre
The Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour & Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London, are looking to sponsor early career researchers in theoretical or c...
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"Support academic institutions under attack" A short correspondence with @sepikeshavarzi.bsky.social and @roozbehkiani.bsky.social -- Defending academic life is not peripheral to the mission of science. It is part of it. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Support academic institutions under attack
Letter to the Editor
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Excited to be a part of this! So many cool atlases are going to be packaged and released soon!
BrainGlobe@brainglobe.info · 3mo agoWe've started an effort to bring every 3D (non-human) anatomical atlas that exists into BrainGlobe. Get in touch if there's an atlas we've missed, or you think there's a specific atlas we should prioritise. Read more in our blog: brainglobe.info/blog/the-sys...
Calling all neuroscience postdocs! Come and share your work with the London neuroscience community. No CVs, publication records or recommendation letters needed. Learn more about SWC’s Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series and apply by 30 June: www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/...
For many Iranian students, Neuromatch was one of the few bridges to the international neuroscience community. Iranian students and TAs have contributed so much to it. Many of us, including me, found neuroscience through Neuromatch. This decision by Trump’s gov is cruel, unjust and a loss for science
Neuromatch@neuromatch.bsky.social · 3mo agoWe have difficult news to share. Neuromatch's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) license renewal, which has allowed us to include participants residing in Iran since 2020, has been denied by the United States Government.
This is the first of many collaborations to build novel anatomical atlases. We want to expand advanced computational anatomy to new fields. If this sounds interesting, get in touch!
SWC/GCNU Neuroinformatics Unit@neuroinformatics.dev · 3mo agoNew NIU paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social, in collaboration with @neuroweiler.bsky.social and colleagues at the University of Oldenburg. We built the first anatomical atlas for the Eurasian blackcap. Paper: www.cell.com/current-biol... More details: brainglobe.info/projects/bla...
A migratory bird brain, the Eurasian blackcap, has been mapped for the first time using high-resolution light microscopy. The open-source software tools developed form a foundation for new brain atlases to be built for any species, providing a valuable resource.
Going from neural activity to blood flow just became easier! Two brainwide populations, each with its neurovascular coupling. (But going backwards... is now a tad more complicated.) By @agnesland.bsky.social & team. Thanks @intlbrainlab.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social @simonsfoundation.org
Agnès Landemard@agnesland.bsky.social · 4mo agoHow does blood flow relate to brain activity? We discovered that it reflects two neural populations affected oppositely by arousal. Together, they explain neurovascular coupling in all brain regions and brain states! Out today in Nature: rdcu.be/fdC2A @uclbrainscience.bsky.social
New preprint! 🧠 How do RNNs learn abstract rules from sequences, independent of specific stimuli? By Vezha Boboeva, with Alberto Pezzotta & George Dimitriadis "From sequences to schemas: low-rank recurrent dynamics underlie abstract relational representations" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
As U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran enter their sixth week, the nation’s academic institutions are increasingly under fire. https://scim.ag/4ceEkdK
As war escalates, Iran’s universities face increasing fire
Attacks have destroyed or damaged a wide range of academic and commercial research centers
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The US/Iran war and escalating rhetoric are already disrupting civilian life and academic infrastructure across the region. We drafted a letter in defense of academic life, and to mobilize concrete support for affected students, scholars, and collaborations. Please check Sepi’s message and sign.
Protect Academic Life in Iran
We, the undersigned academics and researchers from around the world, express our profound concern over recent military strikes on Iran, the retaliatory responses, and the reported impact on civilian l...
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Sepiedeh Keshavarzi @sepikeshavarzi.bsky.social · 4mo agoWhen universities and research institutions become military targets, academics cannot remain silent. I co-initiated an open letter calling for global academic solidarity and support for affected students and scholars. Please share. to read and sign: sites.google.com/view/protect...
Academic friends, It's beyond heartbreaking to watch what's unfolding in Iran & the region. A few of us drafted an open letter calling for protection of civilians & of educational, research, medical & cultural institutions. Please read & sign if you agree: sites.google.com/view/protect... #IranWar
Protect Academic Life in Iran
We, the undersigned academics and researchers from around the world, express our profound concern over recent military strikes on Iran, the retaliatory responses, and the reported impact on civilian l...
sites.google.com
When universities and research institutions become military targets, academics cannot remain silent. I co-initiated an open letter calling for global academic solidarity and support for affected students and scholars. Please share. to read and sign: sites.google.com/view/protect...
Last night, US/Israeli strikes bombed Sharif University, my alma mater, heavily damaging the IT Center, Philosophy of Science building, EE, and more. Trump spoke of sending Iran "back to the Stone Age." That is the goal of this war. Scientists worldwide should speak up against these atrocities.
... But I only study rats and viruses. They will come for you, too, in time. He promised to send the country back to the Stone Age, where there was no Institut Pasteur. Or maybe the war criminal has 'credible' intel that the Ayatollah was living under the institute...
The US/Israeli attack on the Pasteur Institute of Iran, one of the country’s oldest and most important biomedical and vaccine centers, is a disaster for Iranians and their public health. Destroying medical institutions that protect civilian life is barbaric. These are obvious war crimes.
More than any other time, this year it feels like we have to mark Nowruz. This year we welcome Spring with heavy hearts, but we still welcome it. May the turning of the season remind us that nothing stays frozen forever. With hope for peace, freedom, sanity & justice - Happy Spring, happy Nowruz🌱🪻
Today I received a note from a grad student who lives in Tehran. Her note gives you firsthand experience of what it’s like to live in a city that is being bombed, and what it’s like to be young and feel despair about your future. rezashadmehr.blogspot.com/2026/03/hope...
Hopeless in Tehran
Essays on neuroscience
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Israeli attack caused ‘Black rain’ in Tehran — what are the health effects? www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Black rain’ in Tehran — what are the health effects?
Toxic smoke from burning oil depots has blanketed Iran’s capital following missile strikes.
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These are the graves of more than 160 schoolchildren killed by US and Israel attacks on Iran. They say they are bringing freedom to the Iranian people. This is what that “freedom” looks like.
Thrilled to finally share this work! 🧠🔊 Using a new reinforcement-free task we show mice (like humans) extract abstract structure from sound (unsupervised) & dCA1 is causally required by building factorised, orthogonal subspaces of abstract rules. Led by Dammy Onih! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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