Excited to share that our study on how cell-type-specific synaptic scaling mechanisms regulate memory representations in associative learning is now published! www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

Cell-type-specific synaptic scaling mechanisms differentially contribute to associative learning

Excitatory synaptic scaling regulates network dynamics by proportionally adjusting excitatory synaptic strengths after sensory perturbations. During associative learning, blocking excitatory scaling i...

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Incredibly grateful to @cmiehl.bsky.social and @gjorjulijana.bsky.social for their thoughtful and spot-on Preview "Novelty beyond counting" of our recent work in Neuron with @modirshanechi.bsky.social and @gerstnerlab.bsky.social! 🧠✨ It's a real honor 🙏 www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Some incredibly exciting news that still feels a bit surreal: I am starting my research group @mpicybernetics.bsky.social! The best part? We are hiring at all levels! Curious about the science we plan to tackle, read along :) #NeuroSky

"Too many scientists are willing to collaborate with Trumpism in the mistaken assumption that obedience will save their own necks." www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The Rise of the Vichy Scientists

Too many scientists are willing to collaborate with Trumpism in the mistaken assumption that obedience will save their own necks.

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Writing out a conversation I’ve been having a lot at this conference: Things in US science are far, far worse than people know. Far worse than even other scientists know. 1/

CHICAGO! Join your local March 7th rally to take back our science! Learn more at standupforscience.net/march7 #rally #March7 #ImpeachRFKJr #science #standupforscience

Excited to share our new work from @kenmiller.bsky.social lab! How do different cell types, interacting via recurrent connections, give rise to context-dependent processing and circuit stability, and what dynamical signatures reveal their individual roles? (1/11) doi.org/10.64898/2026.02.06.704473

Here, @philipcball.bsky.social sums up the whole ugly Epstein mess and why it matters (along multiple dimensions). Reading it was therapeutic.

Philip Ball@philipcball.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Just added this to my WordPress site, so it's free to read. homunculusmusic.wordpress.com/2026/02/14/e...

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

A special year for the Cajal Course in Computational Neuroscience: the BRAIN Prize winners Haim Sompolinsky and Larry Abbott will join us as keynote speakers. And we will bring you the same great roster of instructors as every year. Applications are now open! cajal-training.org/on-site/comp...

The Brain Prize Course - Computational and Theoretical Neuroscience - CAJAL

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We are very excited to announce that our new preprint with Saleh Esteki, @stefanofusi.bsky.social, and @roozbehkiani.bsky.social is now available on biorxiv! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6.... We investigated how reward context is learned, represented, and updated to bias decisions. Thread 🧵👇! 1/13

Incredible piece on Oliver Sacks. If you were ever awed at his supposedly true stories (I remember being stunned by the account of the autistic twins who rattled off large prime numbers), read this. He told wonderful stories, but they were in large part fiction. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Oliver Sacks Put Himself Into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost?

The scientist was famous for linking healing with storytelling. Sometimes that meant reshaping patients’ reality.

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Finally got the job ad—looking for 2 PhD students to start spring next year: www.gao-unit.com/join-us/ If comp neuro, ML, and AI4Neuro is your thing, or you just nerd out over brain recordings, apply! I'm at neurips. DM me here / on the conference app or email if you want to meet 🏖️🌮

Reminder if you missed #SNUFA spiking neural network and neuromorphic workshop earlier this month, all our talks were recorded and are now available to watch. 🤖🧠🧪 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

SNUFA 2025 Workshop - YouTube

Spiking neural networks as universal function approximators (SNUFA) online workshop 2025. For more see http://snufa.net/2025/

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I'm presenting our recent preprint on "Assembly-based computations through contextual dendritic gating of plasticity" at the online workshop SNUFA tomorrow at 2:55pm (CET). They have a really cool lineup, check the agenda and the (free) registration link below 👇

Dan Goodman@neural-reckoning.org · 10mo ago

Spiking NN fans - the #SNUFA workshop (Nov 5-6) agenda is finalised and online now. Make sure to register (free) soon. (Note you can register for either day and come to both.) Agenda: snufa.net/2025/ Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/snufa-2025... Thanks to all who voted on abstracts! 🤖🧠🧪

After 13 years in the US, I’ve made the difficult decision to leave. Having packed up everything and rethought about priorities, rather painstakingly, while I’m sad to leave the life I’ve made here, I’m also relieved that I won’t have to plan my life around immigration policies anymore.

Spiking NN fans - the #SNUFA workshop (Nov 5-6) agenda is finalised and online now. Make sure to register (free) soon. (Note you can register for either day and come to both.) Agenda: snufa.net/2025/ Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/snufa-2025... Thanks to all who voted on abstracts! 🤖🧠🧪

📢 🚨 Technical Assistant Opportunity in Neuroscience 📢 🚨 Join us at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social and support research on how neural circuits 🧠 drive adaptive behavior! ⏳ Deadline: 15. November 2025 Learn more and apply: www.fens.org/careers/job-...

This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥 We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪 Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇 open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...

Hi #Neuroscience, Exciting news—I’m recruiting a PhD student to join my lab and study neuroscience in larval zebrafish 🧠🐟 Microscopy expertise is a big plus! Link: drive.google.com/file/d/1Wb4h...

Thrilled to share our new Adesnik lab paper!! Using holography in excitatory & inhibitory neurons, we reveal how a single cortical circuit can both complete and cancel predictable sensory activity, sharpening representations 📄https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.02.668307v1 🧵

1/N What are the organizational principles underlying crossmodal cortical connections? We address this in this new preprint, led by @alexegeaweiss.bsky.social & ‪@bturner-bridger.bsky.social‬ in collab w/ ‪@petrznam.bsky.social‬ @crick.ac.uk www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Very happy to share this preprint from the lab led by @cmiehl.bsky.social, Sebastian and Maurycy on how to flexibly learn with nonlinear dendrites and inhibitory context-dependent gating, putting biological detail in ANNs. Check out Christoph's post below for a preview or the paper for more details!

Christoph Miehl@cmiehl.bsky.social · last yr.

Excited to share our new preprint in which we propose a biologically plausible mechanistic solution to the problem of how the brain can flexibly learn and store new representations without forgetting previously learned information. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Detailed 🧵 below 👇 1/12

Excited to share our new preprint in which we propose a biologically plausible mechanistic solution to the problem of how the brain can flexibly learn and store new representations without forgetting previously learned information. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Detailed 🧵 below 👇 1/12

Assembly-based computations through contextual dendritic gating of plasticity

Neuronal assemblies — groups of strongly connected neurons — are considered the basic building blocks of perception and memory in the brain by encoding representations of specific concepts. Despite re...

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Excited to share my PhD paper! In it, we use targeted 2-photon optogenetic stimulation to determine how V1 activity is read-out in a detection task. We found that network influence, not visual coding properties, predicted the impact of ensembles on behavior - contradicting our expectations (1/5).

Neuron@cp-neuron.bsky.social · last yr.

Online now:

Come join us at the GRS on Inhibition in the CNS 5-6 July. Perfect opportunity for early career researchers to network & learn about 🔥 topics in research on inhibition! We have a workshop on computational modeling inhibitory circuits targeted to both experimenalists and theorists. Details below 👇

Nicole Vissers@nicolevissers1.bsky.social · last yr.

We’re excited to share the full lineup for the Gordon Research Conferences on Inhibition in the CNS. It’s the perfect opportunity to network, explore cutting-edge research, and share your own work with a vibrant community. Applications are still open! Feel free to reach out with any questions!

Happy to share our new preprint! We show how cell-type-specific synaptic scaling mechanisms shape memory representations during associative learning and highlight a critical role of top-down inputs in modulating this process. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Cell-type-specific synaptic scaling mechanisms differentially contribute to associative learning

Excitatory synaptic scaling regulates network dynamics by proportionally adjusting excitatory synaptic strengths after sensory perturbations. During associative learning, blocking excitatory scaling i...

biorxiv.org

Got a radical idea that doesn’t fit the mold? #HFSP supports bold, high-risk postdoctoral research in #LifeSciences 🧪 Challenge the norm. Go international. Think beyond disciplines 💪 Apply now! 💥 Deadline May 15 | Initiate LOI by May 7 🔗zurl.co/gtbWu #sts

In our first “Postdoc perspectives” essay, @fleabrained.bsky.social and @maribel-patino.bsky.social explain how grassroots organizations led by trainees are stepping up to provide career and mentorship guidance for neuroscience students from marginalized backgrounds. #neuroskyence bit.ly/4csFx0B

As federal funders desert mentorship programs for marginalized students, trainee-led initiatives fill the gap

Grassroots organizations, led by graduate students and postdoctoral researchers, are stepping up to provide neuroscience career training and guidance for students from marginalized backgrounds—and…

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Science is under threat in the US. @elife.bsky.social have commissioned a series of articles discussing the implications and what we can do. The first three articles are now live. More to follow: elifesciences.org/articles/106... elifesciences.org/articles/106... elifesciences.org/articles/106...

Science Under Threat in the United States: How scientists and institutions should respond

Individual researchers and university leaders need to make the case for science to their elected representatives and to the public at large.

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