🎉 *extremely* excited to share our human single neuron + movie dataset is out in #ScientificData! 📄 Human neuron activity during an 83-minute movie from 2,286 neurons and 29 patients 🔗https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-026-07955-0 1st public dataset from @humansingleneuron.bsky.social!🧵

𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘩𝘺𝘱𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘣? 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘄! 🎉 📄 Paper: doi.org/10.64898/202... 💻 Colab notebook: colab.research.google.com/drive/1k9411... 🗂️ Code: github.com/yongrong-qiu... (1/🧵)

What does it really mean to become a parent in academia? In our special episode, two mothers engage in a reflective and honest conversation about their experiences of becoming mothers while pursuing academic careers. 🎙️ Listen now: linktr.ee/i_am_scientist #WomenInScience

Excited to present at #NeurIPS this week on my work building biophysical models of the outer retina! If you’re around come check it out or just say hi, poster #2015, Friday 11-2🎉 You can find the full paper here: openreview.net/forum?id=ayj... In brief🧵:

Excited to share that our paper got accepted @NeurIPS! 🎉 We introduce TRACE, a new contrastive learning method for visualizing multi-trial neural time-series data. 📊 2D visualizations revealing biological patterns 🔍 Automatic artifact detection 🔬 Works for calcium imaging & electrophysiology data

“If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together.” 🌍 This motto shaped the past 3 days at the “Forum Connect & Exchange“ in Bonn. Our South African–German project on AI for epilepsy diagnosis is among the 9 international initiatives funded by the @dfg.de 🇿🇦🇩🇪

The Deep Learning Indaba in Kigali, Rwanda has been a great experience! I feel honored that I was invited to give a talk at the NeuroAI workshop and join the panel discussion🧠🤖 I’m leaving with new ideas, new perspectives, and new colleagues and friends 🌍 @deeplearningindaba.bsky.social

Meet Mila at Deep Learning Indaba 2025! Our team is excited to connect with you at this year’s event! Drop by our booth to meet our students, exchange ideas, and dive into the groundbreaking projects we’re bringing to life.

🤔 Did you know that LLMs charge per token? 🌍 And that non-English text get separated into more tokens? 💸 This creates higher costs for LLM input for non-English text! How can we change this??? 🎓 I learned that at the @deeplearningindaba.bsky.social tutorial on LLMs

Deeply impressed by the first keynote lecture at the @deeplearningindaba.bsky.social in Rwanda 🇷🇼 Verena Rieser from Google DeepMind talked about aligning AI with diverse views on what’s safe to build AI systems that benefit all and focus on long-term wellbeing 🤖🫂 #DLI2025

🧠🤖 Computational Neuroscience summer school IMBIZO in Cape Town is open for applications again!   💻🧬 3 weeks of intense coursework & projects with support from expert tutors and faculty   📈Apply until July 1st! 🔗https://imbizo.africa/

🎙️ New episode for “I am scientist” podcast 🗣️ First *English* episode with @philipphubert.bsky.social & me 💻 We talk about the right mindset for a successful PhD & about things that helped us mentally along the way ➡️ The kind of resource I wish I had when I started Thanks for sharing Patrik!

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I had the pleasure of being interviewed on the @i-am-scientist.bsky.social podcast by @lisaschmors.bsky.social and @philipphubert.bsky.social . I talk about how I ended up writing my newsletter (path2phd.substack.com) and the people who supported me all along. Enjoy!

🎧 New podcast episode out! 💌 Writing emails to people that you don't know - but you would like to work with - can open unexpected doors for young scientists! 👩‍👦‍👦 Julia shares how she conducted research at prestigious institutions world wide, while being a mum of two kids! Very inspiring story ✨

@i-am-scientist.bsky.social · last yr.

🎙️NEUE PODCAST FOLGE: Emotionsforschung mit Julia Ditzer Von Dresden nach Yale, Stanford & UCLA - wie sie als alleinerziehende Mutter forscht & was wir über Emotionen lernen können 🧠 Hier geht’s zur Folge: linktr.ee/i_am_scientist #Wisskomm #PhDlife

Team appreciation Tuesday @hertie-ai.bsky.social! 🥳 Congrats to both of us Dr. Jan @janlause.bsky.social 🥰 hertie.ai/team-appreci...

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Diesmal saßen wir auf der anderen Seite! 🎙️🤯 Letzte Woche hat Christine Vallbracht uns für Forschung & Lehre interviewt – eine spannende Erfahrung, selbst die Fragen zu beantworten! 🎤👀 Neugierig auf Einblicke hinter die Kulissen? Hier geht’s zum Artikel: www.forschung-und-lehre.de/karriere/pro...

Did you ever think about starting your own #podcast? 🎙️ Read about our story here www.forschung-und-lehre.de/karriere/pro... We're also sharing 📱 Our favorite free tools + software 📈 How we grew a listener base 🔥 Tips for getting started Our podcast: @i-am-scientist.bsky.social #sciencepodcast

Interview-Podcast mit Tipps für die Promotion

Drei Menschen, drei Promotionen, ein Podcast. Mit "I am Scientist" begleiten Daniel Hölle, Philipp Hubert und Lisa Schmors Promovierende – nicht nur.

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If you sometimes feel lost or burned out during your PhD, you are not alone 🫂 Listen to our latest episode to get advice and honest insights 🎧 (stoked for our first episode in English - long overdue 😁)

@i-am-scientist.bsky.social · 2y ago

In our latest episode we talked to Dr. Hanna Krynska about burnout, self-criticism & mental health during the Ph.D. 🧠 🎧 Listen now for practical advice & honest insights. ⚠️ Content warning: Mental health & suicidal thoughts. 🔗 linktr.ee/i_am_scientist #MentalHealth #Academia

Our science podcast is on Bluesky now 👏 I’ll be managing this account, so please leave a like, leave a follow 🙂‍↕️ Thanks - and enjoy your Sunday🫡

@i-am-scientist.bsky.social · 2y ago

Wusstet ihr, dass Enten und Schmetterlinge Freunde sind? 🦆🦋 Ab jetzt flattern wir auch auf Bluesky! 🎧 Im Wissenschaftspodcast I AM SCIENTIST geht es um den Forschungsalltag von Promovierenden - mit allen Höhen 📈, Tiefen 📉 und "Aha!"-Momenten 💡 Zum Podcast geht's hier: linktr.ee/i_am_scientist

Bluesky is great and all, but who else misses the bookmark function? It’s the one thing I used religiously used to save papers and threads, and now I’m lost without it 🥲 Anyone else?

What did I actually do in my PhD? 📊 Excited to share that @maxplanckcampus.bsky.social published a blog post about my work at the intersection of machine learning and neuroscience 🤖🧠 ➕snapshot from one of my favorite moments: presenting my research during sunset 🌅 at on a beautiful Greek island

Scholar Spotlight: Lisa Schmors

Lisa integrates machine learning and neuroscience to study how brain states and neural mechanisms process sensory information. A key achievement in her journey is developing a data-efficient vision mo...

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1) With our @neuripsconf.bsky.social poster happening tomorrow, it's about time to introduce our Spotlight paper 🔦, co-lead with @jkapoor.bsky.social: Latent Diffusion for Neural Spiking data (LDNS), a latent variable model (LVM) which addresses 3 goals simultaneously:

**The ultimate systems #neuroscience paper!** Recording every spike, every stimulus, every action during person's first half of life to predict second half? The future of papers and neuro, are we almost there yet? That would great discussion to have online. www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...

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Darius Valevicius@dariusliutas.bsky.social · 2y ago

There should be an open repository - like bioRxiv, but much more casual - where people can document their failed projects that aren't worth the trouble of trying to publish. A massive graveyard of hypotheses with rich indexing, focusing on methodological choices. #neuroskyence #psychscisky #science

hi everyone!! let's try this optimal transport again 🙃

"If neuroscience is to meaningfully contribute to AI safety, we need to dramatically accelerate our ability to record, analyze, simulate, and understand neural systems." 💯

Patrick Mineault@patrickmineault.bsky.social · 2y ago

I wrote a TL;DR on our NeuroAI Safety roadmap. Get the gist of our 92-page roadmap in a 7-minute read. Featuring Marvin the adversarial chihuahua. www.neuroai.science/p/neuroai-fo...

Will simply scaling up LLMs get us to AGI? My feature for Nature, w/ inputs from @fchollet.bsky.social @rao2z.bsky.social @yoshuabengio.bsky.social @melaniemitchell.bsky.social @dileeplearning.bsky.social @andrewgwils.bsky.social, Raia Hadsell, Keyon Vafa, Karl Friston www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How close is AI to human-level intelligence?

Large language models such as OpenAI’s o1 have electrified the debate over achieving artificial general intelligence, or AGI. But they are unlikely to reach this milestone on their own.

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🦋 Can we start calling posts "flaps" instead of "tweets"? That way, we can "re-flap" and call replies "flapbacks"! 🐦 Lunch brainstorming w/ @janlause.bsky.social @ritagonmar.bsky.social @seelio.bsky.social

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Our new work “Temporal encoding in deep reinforcement learning agents” is now published! We zoomed in on the representation of time in brains and machines, and asked how it linked to behavior. w/ Ann Zixiang Huang, @tyrellturing.bsky.social nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵(0/10)

Temporal encoding in deep reinforcement learning agents - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Temporal encoding in deep reinforcement learning agents

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Hello, Bluesky! 🦋 Excited to join and share that I just finished my PhD 🎓 Grateful for all I’ve learned, the support I’ve received, and the 825 coffees that fueled me ☕️ Special thanks to my supervisors, especially @celltypist.bsky.social, for their guidance 🧠🤖 Looking forward to connecting! 🤝