Jaime de la Rocha
@jrochav.bsky.social
Neuroscientist. Group Leader in the Brain Circuits and Behavior Lab at IDIBAPS, Barcelona. Interested in decision making, working memory and reinforcement learning. Fascinated by animal behavior.
Last weeks to register to the superb FENS Satellite about decision making organized by the @barccsyn.bsky.social community in Barcelona. The meeting will be on Sun July 5th, just before the FENS Annual Forum. Check the speakers line up! It is veery nice 😁 barccsyn.org/meetings/sat...
BARCCSYN FENS Satellite — BARCCSYN – Barcelona Computational, Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience Community
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The barccsyn.org community in Barcelona is organizing a nice FENS Satellite (Sun 5.07). Check the great speakers that will present both experimental and modeling work. And remember: you can bring your poster. If you want to (finally!) understand how the brain works 🥸, come and find out. #FENS2026
A few years ago we dreamed about having an automated system in which our animals could live in and train on any behavioral task 24/7 w/o any human intervention. Today, we are very happy to share the Training Village (TV), an open system that can be used to train mice/rats in almost any task (1/4).
Balma Serrano Porcar@balmaserrano.bsky.social · 7mo agoI am very excited to share my first preprint🎉 The pandemic kicked off strongly during the first year of my PhD, and I had to stop the behavioral experiments when mice were starting to understand the task. At the BCB Lab, this showed us that training automation could be a real game changer (🧵1/10)
🚨Excited to share my first @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social🚨 with the amazing Smith lab, @jbarbosa.org and Albert Compte who made this work possible. We show that 🐒prefrontal hemispheres combine redundancy (for precision) & weak connections (for capacity) for supporting spatial working memory (WM). 1/🧵
bioRxivpreprint@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 2y agoRedundant, weakly connected prefrontal hemispheres balance precision and capacity in spatial working memory https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.15.633176v1
Want to make publication-ready figures come straight from Python without having to do any manual editing? Are you fed up with axes labels being unreadable during your presentations? Follow this short tutorial including code examples! 👇🧵
Madrid: Thousands demostrating against the Israeli team’s participation in Spain’s cycling ride They have torn down the barriers and the stage has been suspended The Genocide Convention obligates to prevent and punish The states are not doing it, the people are demanding it
These horrible pics taken by a Spanish physician in Jan Yunis document well many of the victims of the masacres perpetrated by the IDF over just three months in Gaza. Until when will this craziness continue? When will Israelis react to the suffering of the children in Gaza? issuu.com/prisarevista...
Informe del doctor Raúl Incertis desde Gaza
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📣📣 PhD Position opening 📣📣 We are looking for candidates for a 4 year PhD position in the Brain Circuits and Behavior Lab to investigate the circuit mechanisms of working memory (please RT).
youtu.be/fgsK7noLGOM?... Heartbreaking. Maddening. How many more of these testimonies we need to hear before we believe this conflict has all the elements of a genocide?
Surgeon breaks down in parliament explaining how IDF drones target children
YouTube video by PoliticsJOE
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Juristas por Palestina exige al Estado español que abandone la “pasividad cómplice” ante el genocidio en Gaza @juristasxpalestina.bsky.social www.eldiario.es/politica/jur...
Juristas por Palestina exige al Estado español que abandone la "pasividad cómplice" ante el genocidio en Gaza
La plataforma recuerda que el Derecho Internacional establece que se deben "detener exportaciones militares, aplicar sanciones, suspender colaboraciones con empresas implicadas y garantizar la protecc...
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This is very brave! Thanks Avner Wishnitzer for speaking up. I wonder what your colleagues, our colleagues, in Israeli academic institutions think about this. "Ask about Gaza, speak about Gaza, oppose the killing. Choose life." www.pressenza.com/2025/07/one-...
One day they will tell what happened there
By Avner Wishnitzer. Avner is a co-founder of Combatants for Peace and a professor of history at Tel Aviv University. We reprint with his permission this
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👨💻 Open PI position in our institute 👨💻 !! If you are an expert in Computational Neuroscience and want to start your lab in Bordeaux, contact us ! www.fens.org/careers/job-... @neuromagendie.bsky.social @neurobordeaux.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... I'm ashamed by the response of the European leaders. Who has been the agressor here? why is this such a difficult question to answer?
Western leaders call for diplomacy, but they won’t stop this war – they refuse to even name its cause | Nesrine Malik
The political centre sees the US and Israel’s war on Iran as a crisis to be managed, while the gap between their detached politics and bloody rhetoric widens, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m... When is this massacre going to stop? What else has to happen for the international community to take action? And then they say they use human shields. This is unbearable.
Israeli airstrike kills nine of Gaza doctor’s 10 children
Dr Alaa al-Najjar was on duty at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis when she received her children’s bodies
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Excited to announce multiple #PhD & #Postdoc positions opening in my lab over the next three years as part of the #ERC Starting grant DIVERSE! Reposts appreciated 😊 #neuroscience #neuroskyence
Memorable concierto de @muguruzafm.bsky.social en Madrid, 15.000 personas unidas por la música y el compromiso “Free Palestine” ⤵️
Our Barcelona-based summer school, BAMB! (bambschool.org) just opened applications! Come join us: 15-24th July, to learn how to model behavioral data using RL, Bayesian, latent variable models, RNNs, DDMs & more! #BAMB2025
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Course philosophy Our goal is to teach advanced techniques in model-based analysis of behavior (humans and other animals) to cognitive and computational neuroscientists at PhD and early career levels...
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Fabulous #FKNE meeting in Lithuania last week - shaping the future of #neuroscience with visionary, challenging and community building frontier researchers! @fkne-scholars.bsky.social @fens.org @kavlifoundation.bsky.social
Really happy to see this is out. 👏👏 Great team effort, from a couple of generations from 2 labs. I love how this fine understanding of the motor responses was possible thanks to some of our previous work carefully dissecting other aspects of the task (i.e. history effects and RTs). More to come! 🎉
Manuel Molano-Mazón@molanomazon.bsky.social · 2y agoExcited to share our new @naturecomms.bsky.social paper with @alexgaduca.bsky.social Jordi Pastor, @hernandez-navarro.bsky.social , Lejla Bektic, Debora Lombardo, @jrochav.bsky.social , and @alexhyafil.bsky.social ! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
