Tim Vogels
@tpvogels.bsky.social
Boutique Neurotheory & Snazz Compneuro at IST Austria
In Ireland, data centres used 22% of the country’s total energy in 2024 – more than all urban households combined in that same year. An incredible 80% of Dublin's electricity use can be attributed to data centres. Via the excellent @eurcorrespond.bsky.social. europeancorrespondent.com/en
Gentle reminder to my biosci tweeps that there are graduate students and postdocs in non-STEM disciplines at your University. Their compensation may differ somewhat from what is most familiar to you.
⏰ Last-minute reminder! Only 48 hours left to submit your Poster abstracts and Travel Grant applications for the #BernsteinConference 2026! 🗓️ Deadline: July 1 All information 👉 bit.ly/4rQowo6... #CompNeuro #Neuroskyence #BernsteinNetwork
This is the NIH grant screening disfavored words list published by Nature: media.nature.com/original/mag...
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I spent the last month obsessed with finding colors that can't be displayed on a conventional screen. This is what I found. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/w...
Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can’t Show You
An atlas of the vibrance of the real world
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Heya @cimoore444.bsky.social, tell us the story around that paper again? I remember you told me not having heard of Carl vanVreeswijk's work; thinking everyone knew E and I were tightly locked; not worth a bigger fuss? Then, five years on, it was big news, albeit published by elseone? Story time!
Tim Vogels@tpvogels.bsky.social · 2mo agoThursday PSA: What's the first experimental observation of excitation inhibition balance? Probably (very likely) the (somewhat understated) (& undercited) Moore 1998 JNeurophys paper, Figure 7/ 8, in wich they casually observe E/I interactions, no drama. journals.physiology.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
Thursday PSA: What's the first experimental observation of excitation inhibition balance? Probably (very likely) the (somewhat understated) (& undercited) Moore 1998 JNeurophys paper, Figure 7/ 8, in wich they casually observe E/I interactions, no drama. journals.physiology.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
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With just four molecules, you get a grid cell attractor with functional 2D path integration. With N molecules, you get exponentially many Hebbian assemblies with discrete attractor dynamics. With smart biases between the molecules, you can get any dynamical system. Sequences, motor programs, …
Dendrites!
Everton J Agnes@ejagnes.bsky.social · 4mo agoNew preprint with @sevberg.bsky.social! We map Hopfield-like binary networks onto spiking networks with dendrites … and it works! Same memory capacity, bigger basins of attraction, plus selective recall through dendritic gating, and more. How? Dendrites! See below.
New preprint with @sevberg.bsky.social! We map Hopfield-like binary networks onto spiking networks with dendrites … and it works! Same memory capacity, bigger basins of attraction, plus selective recall through dendritic gating, and more. How? Dendrites! See below.
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*** New paper from the lab in Nature Comms !! *** “Noradrenaline causes a spread of association in the hippocampal cognitive map” by the amazing @reneecabbage.bsky.social in collab. w labs of Jill O’Reilly, Will Clarke, and modeling from Prakriti Parthasarathy and @tpvogels.bsky.social, see below!
Renée Koolschijn@reneecabbage.bsky.social · 5mo agoVery pleased to share that our study “Noradrenaline causes a spread of association in the hippocampal cognitive map” is out in @natcomms.nature.com (my final PhD paper, only 3.5 years post PhD! 🙃) Find the paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Most of us are familiar with the nightingale's song, but did you know there's more to it than just a melody? Read more: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... @danielavallentin.bsky.social @tpvogels.bsky.social @mpiforbi.bsky.social
This paper shows alignment between LLMs and brain data is outperformed by a null model. More evidence for the argument I've been making in talks lately that we shouldn't believe any computational paper that puts less effort into null than main model. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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This is such a cool idea! Not long term "networks" of young profs that create and cement in in-groups and out-groups, but summer schools, tailored to the acute needs of the young PI. Transient, but tailored, tidal and totally timeous, too. Terrific. Try today!
The Viking (Gunnar Blohm)@gunnarblohm.bsky.social · 7mo ago@kordinglab.bsky.social and I ran a summer school last year to help young profs (<5 yrs) in systems/comp neuro thrive. compneurosci.com/Neuro4Pros/i... It was great! Now we want to know if you'd be interested in participating if we did this again this year? Let us know!
...in which @danielavallentin.bsky.social shows: vogels match rivals’ whistles, imitating pitch + duration. W'sm, a vogelsmodel model reveals hierarchical organisation of vogelsongs: Duration constrains pitch, a trade-off. Not all vogels, just nightingales. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Interplay between syllable duration and pitch during whistle matching in wild nightingales
During complex vocal interactions, different features of acoustic stimuli are integrated to produce appropriate vocal responses,1 such as copying soun…
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Deadline for poster submissions in Jan 27!! That totally escaped me!
Federation of European Neuroscience Societies - FENS@fens.org · 7mo ago🌟 Only 6 months until #FENS2026! Soon, the #neuroscience community will come together to exchange ideas and explore the latest breakthroughs in neuroscience. 🧠 📍 Barcelona, Spain 🗓️ 6–10 July 2026 👉 Learn more and join us in #Barcelona: fensforum.org #FENS #FENSForum #NeuroscienceConference
Excited to see the paper fully published. It's an important milestone for training SNNs with exact gradients, replacing our earlier tricks of a "delay line augmentation" to capture temporal relationships. Delays can now be learnt alongside weights naturally. Amazing work @mbalazs98.bsky.social !
Balázs@mbalazs98.bsky.social · 8mo agoOur paper on event-based delay learning is now published! @neworderofjamie.bsky.social @drtnowotny.bsky.social TL;DR: It’s now possible to train synaptic delays in large-scale spiking neural networks with high temporal precision—even in recurrent connections. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
13 yrs ago some crusty prof asked me if I were "able to teach quantum chromo dynamics" during a faculty interview, as a means to disqualify me (his preferred candidate got the job, surprise!). These days, I am subjugated vicariously, when my postdocs experience the same BS. WTAF. So infuriating.
Last of my fave books back on a shelf, after 5 years in a box. I wouldn’t have thought it takes a full grant cycle to move but here we are. And there’s still more boxes. Of garbage. Mostly. But could not be happier to have the books back
"Spiking Networks Hate It! Find Out the One Plasticity Trick They Don’t Want You to Know! Never stabilise models by hand again." - I woke up thinking we missed an opportunity with the title of this one. :/ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Also: It snowed in Vienna, 10cm white fluffies! Happy Sunday!
Inhibitory Plasticity Balances Excitation and Inhibition in Sensory Pathways and Memory Networks
Plasticity at inhibitory synapses maintains balanced excitatory and inhibitory synaptic inputs at cortical neurons.
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...and when I say @worldwideneuro.bsky.social, I really mean @bozelosp.bsky.social, obvs. Also, ...there is an all new front end for worldwideneuro coming soon. Stay tuned!
Tim Vogels@tpvogels.bsky.social · 9mo agoHere is the product of a collab between @thetransmitter.bsky.social, @worldwideneuro.bsky.social & @moritzstefaner.bsky.social A portrait of the #StateofNeuro 2025: Text mining of (publicly available) neuro resources: Easy in concept, tricky in realisation, made possible by @simonsfoundation.org 🙏
Here is the product of a collab between @thetransmitter.bsky.social, @worldwideneuro.bsky.social & @moritzstefaner.bsky.social A portrait of the #StateofNeuro 2025: Text mining of (publicly available) neuro resources: Easy in concept, tricky in realisation, made possible by @simonsfoundation.org 🙏
The State of Neuroscience 2025
The Transmitter presents a portrait of the field through four lenses: its focus, its output, its people and its funding.
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I just found this stub in a jacket that I guess I have not worn in twenty three years? 12 bucks for Lali Puna, sweat and spit and all, at the (tiny) Middle East downstairs on Mass Ave. Those were the days. So so good.
Maybe check out the associated website. icg-explorer.org. I know I know, it's not fully integrated with ICG1, but these things are difficult.
Ion Channel Genealogy Visualizer
Interactive visualization and analysis of ion channel models from ModelDB and ICG databases
icg-explorer.org
Tim Vogels@tpvogels.bsky.social · 10mo ago“Mapping ion channel function” doi.org/10.7554/eLif... isn’t exactly a citation slayer, but it’s still one of my favourites (& my first independent project). Today we push pt 2, where we trace code origin & unite almost all channel models in a common expression. Boom! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Some addendum here. The '17 elife paper only has 43 citations in 8 years :( but the associated ionchannelmodels.org had 900+ unique visitors in 2024. Some 180 of them used the "compare ion channel models" function, pretty deep into the page. Every two days someone used a service we didn't advertise!
ICGenealogy - the ion channel model database
A comprehensive and interactive ion channel model database for computational neuroscientists.
ionchannelmodels.org
Tim Vogels@tpvogels.bsky.social · 10mo ago“Mapping ion channel function” doi.org/10.7554/eLif... isn’t exactly a citation slayer, but it’s still one of my favourites (& my first independent project). Today we push pt 2, where we trace code origin & unite almost all channel models in a common expression. Boom! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
What Americans Die from? And what the media reports on... Our World in Data ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...
The working title of this project was “super models”, but we chickened out in carrying that terminology through. We were worried anyone was gonna think we were making fun of human supermodels, or worse, ion channels!! And we weren’t sure blue steel was the right association for a CA++ channel…
a man wearing a pajama shirt with penguins on it is looking at the camera .
ALT: a man wearing a pajama shirt with penguins on it is looking at the camera .
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Tim Vogels@tpvogels.bsky.social · 10mo ago“Mapping ion channel function” doi.org/10.7554/eLif... isn’t exactly a citation slayer, but it’s still one of my favourites (& my first independent project). Today we push pt 2, where we trace code origin & unite almost all channel models in a common expression. Boom! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
“Mapping ion channel function” doi.org/10.7554/eLif... isn’t exactly a citation slayer, but it’s still one of my favourites (& my first independent project). Today we push pt 2, where we trace code origin & unite almost all channel models in a common expression. Boom! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
An ion channel omnimodel for standardized biophysical neuron modelling
Biophysical neuron modeling is an indispensable tool in neuroscience research, with the combination of diverse ion channel kinetics and morphologies being used to explain various single-neuron propert...
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