It's been a long road getting to this point, but today marks an important moment in our efforts to ensure that everyone in South Africa is supported through life's final journey with compassionate care, dignity and the freedom to choose their own path. iol.co.za/news/south-a...

We concluded Cycle 2 with a bang on Saturday! 💥 Dr. @athenaakrami.bsky.social delivered an incredible lecture on Hopfield networks and attractor dynamics. From memory storage and neural attractors to prior experience, it was the perfect end to the week.🧠📉 @simonsfoundation.org @ibroorg.bsky.social

Recharged and ready!🔋 After a massive first week and a well-deserved day off surfing🏄‍♂️ and visiting the penguins🐧, we are back in the classroom. We are thrilled to kick off Cycle 2 today with Prof. Adrienne Fairhall as our Academic Director. @ibroorg.bsky.social @simonsfoundation.org #imbizo2026

@arifahamid.bsky.social kicking off Imbizo 2026 in Cape Town! Time for comp neuro epicness in Africa! @simonsfoundation.org @imbizo.bsky.social @ibroorg.bsky.social

All across the US right now, people should be asking themselves just once question: "are we the baddies?". Yes. I'm afraid that you are now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToKc...

Mitchell and Webb: "Are we the baddies?"

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For your enjoyment (by @jagarikin)

I’m incredibly stoked to announce our latest preprint led by Thijs Verhoog, where we show that human cortical neurons mature hundreds of times slower than mouse neurons, only reaching functional maturity well into the third decade of life. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Look at these beautiful pig tapeworm larvae (Taenia solium)!

🎉🚨 Extended Application Deadline! Now July 16, 2025! If you want to learn about the brain💻🧠in the amazing Noordhoek, Cape Town🇿🇦, apply. What to Do Next: Finalise and submit applications before the deadline: imbizo.africa/apply/ Please spread the news. Don’t miss out!

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” - Antonio Gramsci

one of the coolest things in my life 😆: listen to the spikes from cockroach leg + do spike sorting on them + plot the neural activity on #imbizo 2025 t-shirt!! 🆒🆒🆒 @imbizo.bsky.social

Joe Raimondo@joeraimondo.bsky.social · 2y ago

Annual cockroach spike 🪳 fun at the @imbizo.bsky.social! @simonsfoundation.org @ibroorg.bsky.social @backyardbrains.bsky.social

🎉 Exciting day at #Imbizo2025! Dr. Dan Wetmore & Dr. Garrick Orchard from Meta’s Reality Labs shared their industrial insights on designing top-notch AI/ML experiments, including innovative BCI applications 🤖💡 Students showcased creative solutions for EMG, sleep, wind, epilepsy monitoring & more! 🌟

This is just so spot on.

Grace Lindsay@neurograce.bsky.social · 2y ago

I wrote about the concept of agency (both human and artificial) in the year 2025. gracewlindsay.com/2025/01/24/2...

Today's lunchtime reading brings simultanuously the most enjoyable and confusing read in a while, by @tyrellturing.bsky.social and @kordinglab.bsky.social It's redundant dummies, that's the whole point! physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The study of plasticity has always been about gradients

Abstract figure legend This figure illustrates our central point in this paper using a well-known meme. That central point is that the physiological study of synaptic plasticity and learning has alwa...

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New "kid" on the block being @arifahamid.bsky.social (left). @joeraimondo.bsky.social (right) was supposed to have retired as well, but by his local proximity, he still gets to hang out! NOT fair.

@therealdrdukes.bsky.social, founding president of @blackinneuro.bsky.social sharing the highs and lows of her inspirational journey, and the importance of building community in neuroscience at @imbizo.bsky.social. @ibroorg.bsky.social @simonsfoundation.org

Just gave my lecture at @imbizo.bsky.social summer school today. What an amazing school both in terms of science and social impact --and the place is breathtaking! Now, time to enjoy the summer time with @therealdrdukes.bsky.social, @arifahamid.bsky.social, and all the students and tutors 🏖️

Annual cockroach spike 🪳 fun at the @imbizo.bsky.social! @simonsfoundation.org @ibroorg.bsky.social @backyardbrains.bsky.social

My patch peeps will get this Patching with an Axoclamp 200B and a Tektronix oscilloscope 💖 The dials were perfect, the switches were all analog and the bridge balance setting was totally by vibes. I had 6 of them on a 6-patch rig and it was glorious when I got all 6 perfect cells 💕

Erin McKean@emckean.bsky.social · 2y ago

what’s your favorite instance of haptic nostalgia—the poignant memory of the physicality of an obsolete thing—like dialing a rotary phone, shifting gears in a manual transmission, opening a soda can with a pull ring?

Join us in Zambia for the third TReND-CaMinA course: computational neuroscience & machine learning in Africa. 📆Applications open until 15.01. 🧠🧪 trendinafrica.org/trend-camina/

I wish we could get Edward Tufte over here on Bsky.

Conrad Hackett@conradhackett.bsky.social · 2y ago

Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction Graphic from Edward Tufte More graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d... 🧪

Is basic science undervalued? David Glanzman (UCLA) talks about the decline of 'middle class' labs and that "there is no empirical evidence that the translational approach accomplishes this [cures] any better than the traditional one. Claims to the contrary at this point are mere propaganda."

Are you building a patch-clamp setup, and would like a cheap heating system? Have you ever wondered how temperature changes the membrane properties of MSNs? Then you might like our latest paper, out now! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A low-cost perfusion heating system for slice electrophysiology - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - A low-cost perfusion heating system for slice electrophysiology

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Three crazy, wonderful days in Accra, Ghana, setting up a patch rig and fluorescent scope for Tom Tagoe...including our first spikes in West Africa!