Just back from AREADNE, a conference on the Encoding and Decoding of Neural Ensembles, in Milos, Greece. It was an incredible week of sea, sun, and science. It emphasised to me again that science isn't just the methods, analyses, or results. It's the sharing, talking, listening, and being inspired.

Just back from AREADNE, a conference on the Encoding and Decoding of Neural Ensembles, in Milos, Greece. It was an incredible week of sea, sun, and science. It emphasised to me again that science isn't just the methods, analyses, or results. It's the sharing, talking, listening, and being inspired.

Appreciation post for my incredible supervisor Cian O'Donnell @cianodonnell.bsky.social. Such an inspiration & wonderful mentor as Supervisor & School Research Director. He organised a brilliant ISRC Discovery Day today @ulsteruni.bsky.social, showcasing the breadth & depth of our research.

Beautiful beaches of Donegal | Tránna áille Dhún na nGall Dooey Carrickfinn Silver Strand Murvagh

Really excited to share a new preprint! 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘆 𝗿𝗼𝗯𝘂𝘀𝘁 & 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗯𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗲? We explore how! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We built Connectome-based Neural Networks (CoNNs) using Drosophila wiring (larva&adult) & compared with random networks with same sparsity.

Excited to read this! Non-random brain connectome wiring enables robust and efficient neural network function under high sparsity www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Non-random brain connectome wiring enables robust and efficient neural network function under high sparsity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.30.715411v1

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.

Region- and layer-specific glutamatergic synapse development in the nascent cortical hierarchy https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.17.706315v1

Lovely time today at the 2nd All-Ireland Computational Neuroscience Symposium at Queens U Belfast. It's a small but growing community on the island. imo the talks were all genuinely great and I'm really excited for the future Round 3 back in Dublin next August apparently if anyone wants to join! ☘️🧠

@camneuro.bsky.social our amazing PhD student James McAllister is giving a talk at 2pm in CBL on drosophila-larva connectome-based recurrent neural networks talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/2...

Delighted @jajmca.bsky.social's abstract was accepted for COSYNE 2025, for his work on linking neural circuit structure to function via drosophila-connectome-based reservoir computing. With @conjh.bsky.social, John Wade and myself.