Mattia Chini

@mattiachini.bsky.social

Studying how the brain develops https://www.chinilab.com/

Sounds bad. Also: "where careers depend on novel, significant findings, the same flexibility that produced innocent disagreement at a hackathon has far greater consequences. A researcher who needs a small p-value to complete a story may be swayed by an analytical pipeline that delivers it"

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Differences stemmed from the way researchers defined concepts, to the algorithms they used to analyze the data, to the parameters they employed when implementing the algorithms, note @mattiachini.bsky.social and Gaelle Chapuis. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/reproducibil...

What happens when 18 teams of expert neuroscientists analyze the exact same neurophysiology dataset? You might expect convergence, but that is not what we found. Very grateful for the opportunity to write with Gaëlle Chapuis about one of my favorite projects since I started working in science! 1/n

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A hackathon reveals that disagreement in neuroscience runs deeper than most researchers suspect—even in electrophysiology, a field that prides itself on hard data, write @mattiachini.bsky.social and Gaelle Chapuis. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/reproducibil...

🚨 Registration is NOW OPEN for the Pre-FENS Brainhack (July 5, Barcelona)! 🧠💻 100 spots only — first come, first served ⏳ No FENS registration needed 🙌 Sign up here 👉 pre-fens-brainhack.github.io/brainhack2026/

International Brain Laboratory@intlbrainlab.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🧠💻 Join the Brainhack satellite at #FENS2026 (July 5)! ✨ Open to all - no FENS registration required 📆 Registration opens April 9 ⚠️ Limited to 100 spots (first come, first served) Learn more: pre-fens-brainhack.github.io/brainhack2026/ #Brainhack #OpenScience #Neuroscience

For all the esteemed scholars out there who prefer gaining knowledge the correct way, here’s a summary of our upcoming opinion piece, delivered to you by Jesus himself. But seriously, science communication is about to get a lot worse and better at the same time.

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🚨 Registration is NOW OPEN for the Pre-FENS Brainhack (July 5, Barcelona)! 🧠💻 100 spots only — first come, first served ⏳ No FENS registration needed 🙌 Sign up here 👉 pre-fens-brainhack.github.io/brainhack2026/

International Brain Laboratory@intlbrainlab.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🧠💻 Join the Brainhack satellite at #FENS2026 (July 5)! ✨ Open to all - no FENS registration required 📆 Registration opens April 9 ⚠️ Limited to 100 spots (first come, first served) Learn more: pre-fens-brainhack.github.io/brainhack2026/ #Brainhack #OpenScience #Neuroscience

Final stop for Con2Phys: Barcelona! After two amazing editions at COSYNE and Bernstein, we’re doing one last collaborative team-based hackathon. Open to all, but spots are limited. Registration opens on April 9, put it in your calendar! 👇😱 #Brainhack #OpenScience #Neuroscience #Fens2026

International Brain Laboratory@intlbrainlab.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🧠💻 Join the Brainhack satellite at #FENS2026 (July 5)! ✨ Open to all - no FENS registration required 📆 Registration opens April 9 ⚠️ Limited to 100 spots (first come, first served) Learn more: pre-fens-brainhack.github.io/brainhack2026/ #Brainhack #OpenScience #Neuroscience

Final stop for Con2Phys: Barcelona! After two amazing editions at COSYNE and Bernstein, we’re doing one last collaborative team-based hackathon. Open to all, but spots are limited. Registration opens on April 9, put it in your calendar! 👇😱 #Brainhack #OpenScience #Neuroscience #Fens2026

International Brain Laboratory@intlbrainlab.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🧠💻 Join the Brainhack satellite at #FENS2026 (July 5)! ✨ Open to all - no FENS registration required 📆 Registration opens April 9 ⚠️ Limited to 100 spots (first come, first served) Learn more: pre-fens-brainhack.github.io/brainhack2026/ #Brainhack #OpenScience #Neuroscience

Wanna do neuroscience in Paris but can't find interesting lab? Want to come do a sabbatical but don't know who to collaborate? Check this webpage aggregating ~all the neuroscience labs (+200) in Paris. ⚠️only the information of 'verified' profiles is reliable⚠️ Please retweet 🙏 parisneuro.fr

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New paper out in PLOS Computational Biology! We introduce iSTTC, a robust method to estimate intrinsic neural timescales from single-unit recordings. Congrats to Irina Pochinok for leading the project! Package: github.com/iinnpp/isttc Paper: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

GitHub - iinnpp/isttc: iSTTC: intrinsic neural timescales estimation

iSTTC: intrinsic neural timescales estimation. Contribute to iinnpp/isttc development by creating an account on GitHub.

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New preprint from the lab on synapse development in the nascent neocortical hierarchy! Using mice that label MAGUK proteins developed by Seth Grant we find key differences in the laminar maturation of association and sensory motor cortices, including delayed, cortex-wide maturation of L1 synapses.

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Postdoc position in Paris: come help develop new generation human brain computer interfaces ⚡🧠💻 Interested? Contact me if you have experience with machine learning (e.g. simulation-based inference, RL, generative/diffusion models) or dynamical systems. See below for + details and retweet 🙏

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2 days left to register for the Pre-COSYNE Brainhack 2026 in Lisbon! A great opportunity to meet the community working on research software, while collaborating on reproducible analyses in systems neuroscience.

International Brain Laboratory@intlbrainlab.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Pre-COSYNE Brainhack 2026 – Join Us in Lisbon! March 10–11, 2026 • Lisbon, Portugal pre-cosyne-brainhack.github.io/hackathon2026/ Kick off COSYNE week with two days of hands-on, team-based hacking around real electrophysiology data, open tools, and reproducible workflows. #brainhack #cosyne2026