Huge thank you to all involved, it has been a pleasure! @matteoguardamagna.bsky.social @ldescamps.bsky.social @battaglialab.bsky.social 9/9
Francesco Battaglia
@battaglialab.bsky.social
Brain dynamics, memory, sleep, Neurotechnology, critical thinking
This workshop brings together mathematicians, philosophers, computer scientists, and experimental neuroscientists to identify either missing or ill-directed trends in neuroscience and ask new questions toward a new paradigm. bit.ly/4sLmipW @battaglialab.bsky.social @danielkostic.bsky.social
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
Microsoft Research@msftresearch.bsky.social · 10mo agoThe wait is over! Microsoft Research is sharing Skala, the new exchange-correlation functional, marking a major milestone in the accuracy/cost trade-off in DFT. Help us learn from your testing so we can improve. Available on Azure AI Foundry and GitHub. msft.it/6016sFDLY
@guidomeijer.com has #neuropixels preprocessing worked out for you!
Guido Meijer@guidomeijer.com · last yr.Do you do Neuropixel recordings and are you struggling with preprocessing? The Power Pixels pipeline is an easy-to-use pipeline from raw data to neural activity of single neurons in specified brain regions 🧠 Now on bioRxiv! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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! 🤖👇
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
"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. 🧬🧪👇
Are we born to succeed or are we made to succeed?
Genes and society shape each other. This comic, based on our Nature Human Behaviour article, shows how social inequality leaves genetic traces — and how social structures and genetics are linked acros...
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⏰ Today's the day: please register today (anywhere on earth) if you plan to join us. Very much looking forward to seeing you there!
Michael Gaebler@michaelgaebler.com · 2y ago📣 Come join us for the #MindBrainBody Symposium 2025! 📆 March 10-12, 2025 📍 Berlin & online 🔎 mindbrainbody.de Keynotes: - Ivan de Araujo - Nadine Gogolla - Maria Ribeiro @ribeironeuro.bsky.social - Markus Ullsperger - Tor Wager - Veronica Witte @veronicawitte.bsky.social #interoception
"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-...
The Transmitter books
The Transmitter’s first book, “Thinking about neuroscience: Essays from the field,” features a rich collection of writing from researchers Nicole Rust, Anthony Zador and many more.
thetransmitter.org
The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 2y agoThese essays offer the neuroscience community a place to explore the culture and practice of the field; to debate major questions; to examine the craft of neuroscience; and to trace its evolution over time. Download the book now: www.thetransmitter.org/transmitter-...
A few papers I think worth reading. Mostly open access. Causal inference is hard: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Causal inference on human behaviour - Nature Human Behaviour
In this Review, Drew Bailey et al. present an accessible, non-technical overview of key challenges for causal inference in studies of human behaviour as well as methodological solutions to these chall...
nature.com
🚨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 ⤵️
(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.
Multifunctional hydrogel electronics for closed-loop antiepileptic treatment
Hydrogel electronics enables smart antiseizure management by a closed-loop therapeutic system.
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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
DIM C-BRAINS
Cognition and Brain Revolutions: Artificial Intelligence, Neurogenomics, Society
dim-cbrains.fr
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...
Summer Workshop on the Dynamic Brain 2025
The Summer Workshop on the Dynamic Brain is an intensive, project-based residential course with a focus on the neurobiology of sensory processing, coding, and neural population dynamics.
alleninstitute.org
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