Very happy to share our new review on visual computation in the cephalopod brain, with @vangeliqueallen.bsky.social, out now! We discuss exciting recent advances in understanding how the radically different brain of cephalopods processes the visual scene. 🐙🔬👀 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Excited to see the OpenRetina project out! 🚀 A collaborative framework for training, benchmarking, and interpreting retinal neural network models across datasets and species. If you work in computational neuroscience, vision, or ML, check it out. We'd love to see the community use and extend it. 👁️🤖

Thomas Zenkel@thomaszen.bsky.social · 2w ago

📣 Our paper introducing openretina, a collaborative framework for retina modelling across datasets and species, is now published as an eLife Reviewed Preprint. Paper: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... Code: github.com/open-retina/... Docs: open-retina.org

Ecological Visual Processing in the Mouse - with @michaelgoard.bsky.social @crisniell.bsky.social @mbeyeler.bsky.social Visual computations that are engaged in ecological contexts: active sensing, motion processing, scene analysis, distance estimation, and spatial perception. doi.org/10.1146/annu...

great 2h discussion on neuroscience and simulation -- very introductory.

Protocol Labs@protocollabs.bsky.social · last mo.

Konrad Kording argues that the best way to understand the brain may be to read its wiring directly rather than infer it from the outside. @kordinglab.bsky.social joins @juanbenet.bsky.social for Ep 5 of the Juan Benet Podcast. Full episode: youtu.be/FHQfmJEpRmU

Great talk on the evolution of the vertebrate eye. Glad to have contributed a small part to this work and excited to see it shared with a broader audience.

Tom Baden@neurofishh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Delighted that a new online talk is up for viewz on Youtube: "Evolution of the Vertebrate Eye". Thanks to Marion Silies and Luisa Ramirez for hosting! www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrYJ....

New Preprint Alert 🚨: On-Off coding is a latent and intrinsic property of the vertebrate visual circuits! Check out the 🧵⬇️

Tom Baden@neurofishh.bsky.social · 3mo ago

How is the ON and OFF pathway split in the visual system? 🤔 The textbook standard, that bipolar cells are separated simply by the glutamate receptors they express, might be due for an update....a short 🧵

Check out our new preprint on how retinal inputs are organized in the mouse superior colliculus: we reveal laminar, functionally distinct response types and capture them in a deep “digital twin” that predicts responses to new stimuli 🧠✨ Preprint, code and model 👇

Lisa Schmors@lisaschmors.bsky.social · 3mo ago

𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘩𝘺𝘱𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘣? 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘄! 🎉 📄 Paper: doi.org/10.64898/202... 💻 Colab notebook: colab.research.google.com/drive/1k9411... 🗂️ Code: github.com/yongrong-qiu... (1/🧵)

New paper out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social 🎉 What determines contextual modulation in V1? Why does the visual surround sometimes facilitate and sometimes suppress a neuron's response to its preferred stimulus?

🧵 New preprint led by @bingbrunton.bsky.social, @elliottabe.bsky.social, @lawrencehu.bsky.social We gave a worm brain control of a fly body and it walked What did we learn? Nothing, other than deep reinforcement learning is effective We call it the digital sphinx www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Vision Science makes the front page of NYT!! featuring work from @neurofishh.bsky.social and @denilsson.bsky.social with comments from Berkeley's own @karthikshekhar.bsky.social #visionscience www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/s...

The Rise of Eyes Began With Just One

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We’re excited to share ALL-GCL: a large-scale dataset of 2P Ca²⁺ imaging from 80,000+ cells in the mouse retinal ganglion cell layer, collected over 9 years. Includes rich metadata, shared stimuli & cell-type assignments designed for type-specific analyses, modeling, and ML. 📄: tinyurl.com/ymn53frf

A large-scale dataset of functional mouse ganglion cell layer responses

We present the All-GCL dataset, a large-scale resource of functional two-photon Ca2+-imaging recordings with rich meta-data information from more than 80,000 cells in the ganglion cell layer (GCL) of ...

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Very excited to present our work tonight @NeurIPS. You will find me in the Exhibit Hall C,D,E #2014 4:30 p.m. PST — 7:30 p.m. PST!

Lisa Schmors@lisaschmors.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Excited to share that our paper got accepted @NeurIPS! 🎉 We introduce TRACE, a new contrastive learning method for visualizing multi-trial neural time-series data. 📊 2D visualizations revealing biological patterns 🔍 Automatic artifact detection 🔬 Works for calcium imaging & electrophysiology data

Eine neue Software ermöglicht Gehirnsimulationen, die sowohl detailliert die Prozesse im Gehirn imitieren als auch anspruchsvolle kognitive Aufgaben lösen können. Entwickelt wurde das Programm von einem Forschungsteam am Exzellenzcluster @ ml4science.bsky.social der Universität Tübingen.

The state of our brain shapes what we see. @dgonschorek.bsky.social & @teuler.bsky.social explore a @plosbiology.org study showing that #brain state-dependent release of #histamine modulates the very first stage of #vision – the #retina 🧪 Paper: plos.io/49K0Qv8 Primer: plos.io/3LupFkL

Scientists discover the secret behind the shrew’s amazing ability to shrink their brains 🧠 The clever trick sheds unwanted weight without compromising too much on cognition. Find the 5-letter word 👇 Study by @cecibaldoni.bsky.social Dechmann Lab #shrewcrew et al www.ab.mpg.de/743885/news_...

Rare seasonal brain shrinkage in shrews is driven by water loss, not cell death

Common shrews are one of only a handful of mammals known to flexibly shrink and regrow their brains. This rare seasonal cycle, known as Dehnel’s phenomenon, has puzzled scientists for decades. A study...

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🔵Tübingen SNS 2025🔵 Registration is still open for the #SNS2025 event on 6-7 October! Join us for plenary lectures 🗣️, poster sessions📊and social events 👥 about system neuroscience!🧠 Registration at meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025

Thrilled to share this work, long time in the making! Carried through creatively by @siddjakes.bsky.social after initial design & piloting by @trackingskills.bsky.social, with help from @trackingactions.bsky.social. Modeling in collaboration with Massimo Vergassola & Nicola Rigolli.

Mice navigate scent trails using predictive policies

Animals actively sense their environment to extract features of interest to guide behaviors. For mammals, odors are prominent environmental features which are sampled by active modulation of sniffing ...

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Strengthening European Ties: Institut de la Vision in Paris visits the IOR in Tübingen. This meeting was the first of its kind between the 2 internationally renowned institutes in vision and ophthalmology. @unituebingen.bsky.social @tueneurocampus.bsky.social www.eye-tuebingen.de?tx_news_pi1%...

Strengthening European Ties: Institut de la Vision in Paris visits the Institute of Ophthalmic Research in Tübingen

This meeting marked the first of its kind between the two institutions.

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If you submitted a paper to #ICML2025 and want to know how well your score compares overall, here is a good resource to keep track of your chances of getting it accepted this year. Fingers crossed for everyone! papercopilot.com/statistics/i...

Thus new review by Jennifer Hoy (University of Nevada) and Karl Farrow (NERF) takes a deep dive into the role of the superior colliculus. https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00052-1 Beautifully illustrated by Pia Rachedi + open access @farrowlab.bsky.social

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 We’ve just launched openretina, an open-source framework for collaborative retina modeling across datasets and species. A 🧵👇 (1/9)

𝗡𝗲𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝘂𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 Excellent short piece about causation in the brain by @neurograce.bsky.social In a complex system talking about necessary and sufficient is not productive. www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...

Claims of necessity, sufficiency don’t work well for studies of complex systems

Early studies on necessary and sufficient neural populations were done on simple invertebrate circuits. Does this logic work for complex outputs?

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Seeking input: A standardized nomenclature for the rods and cones of the vertebrate retina A number of us have been working on a proposal to bring various disconnected naming systems for the vertebrate rods and cones across species into alignment. The basic proposal looks like this:

The results in a publication of an important scientific collaboration between IOR in Tübingen and the IdV in Paris! With the first detailed analysis of the modulatory effects of nitric oxide on retinal ganglion cells. @unituebingen.bsky.social @tueneurocampus.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Nitric oxide modulates contrast suppression in a subset of mouse retinal ganglion cells

Nitric oxide is a type-selective neuromodulator affecting the temporal, but not the spatial response kinetics of a specific subset of mouse retinal ganglion cells.

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I've added a new summary to the top of the Kickstarter, thanks to the advice of the excellent @matthewkressel.net. I think what I'm seeing right now is that I may need to clarify the importance of what's been happening in neuroscience. Refining the message! www.kickstarter.com/projects/454...

AI: How We Got Here—A Neuroscience Perspective

A deep dive into the research of neuroscientists, who have uncovered a stunning way of interpreting AI progress

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Our paper on how the neuromodulator nitric oxide modulates a subset of mouse retinal ganglion cells is finally published in @elife.bsky.social doi.org/10.7554/eLif... Great work by @dgonschorek.bsky.social together with the lab of @oliviermarre.bsky.social and @matigoldin.bsky.social, ...