New preprint (well, very updated). 🤖🧠🧪 We find that an abstract model of neuromodulation lets spiking neural networks perform much better, particularly in challenging noisy environments, using less energy. Relevant to #neuroscience and #neuromorphic computing. 🧵👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Neuromodulation enhances the capability and efficiency of spiking neural networks

Spiking neurons underlie the brain’s extreme energy efficiency, and therefore have great potential in neuromorphic computing, although realising this efficiency in practice has proven challenging. We ...

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Had a great time teaching on this years @trendcamina.bsky.social summer school in Kenya! With @skuechenhoff.bsky.social, @sejdevries.bsky.social, @tomnotgeorge.bsky.social, @jsoldadomagraner.bsky.social, @akoumoundourou.bsky.social and many more.

Our next workshop will be at @imperial-ix.bsky.social -> 16.07 from 16:00 With a talk and discussion hosted by @sdrsd.bsky.social Registration is free, but required! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand... See you there

Marcus Ghosh@marcusghosh.bsky.social · 5mo ago

How can we build better experiment-theory collaborations in neuroscience? We're hosting a series of 6 in-person, interactive workshops to discuss this. Come along! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand...

If you're in London and want to sit in air conditioning (so I am told) tomorrow afternoon, you can also get a free lecture out of it! Come join me to talk about consciousness, neuroscience, & adversarial collaborations tomorrow afternoon at the Crick! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand...

Understanding the brain in theory and practice

A series of interactive workshops on building better experiment-theory collaborations in neuroscience.

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New neuromorphic/SNN paper with @pengfei-sun.bsky.social Zhe Su, @achterbrain.bsky.social @giacomoi.bsky.social and @danakarca.bsky.social: www.nature.com/articles/s42... Long story short: neat trick to augment SNNs with a tiny memory buffer to improve performance at low energy/param cost. 🤖🧠🧪

Our next workshop will be at the @crick.ac.uk -> 25.06 from 16:00 With a talk and discussion hosted by @meganakpeters.bsky.social Registration is free, but required! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand... See you there

Marcus Ghosh@marcusghosh.bsky.social · 5mo ago

How can we build better experiment-theory collaborations in neuroscience? We're hosting a series of 6 in-person, interactive workshops to discuss this. Come along! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand...

Really enjoyed teaching students as part of the African Computational Neuroscience Educational Initiative (www.acnei.org)! Looking forward to @trendcamina.bsky.social soon too

Excited to be a part of this! If you'll be at OHBM come along @ohbmofficial.bsky.social @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social

Kayson Fakhar@kayson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We're organizing a full-day Neuro-AI workshop at OHBM with a 90-minute-long hands-on session to cover all the nitty-gritty of it. If you're around, come join us. Besides the practical aspects, we have a stellar line-up of speakers to learn from and discuss with: kuffmode.github.io/OHBM2026Neur...

Some incredibly exciting news that still feels a bit surreal: I am starting my research group @mpicybernetics.bsky.social! The best part? We are hiring at all levels! Curious about the science we plan to tackle, read along :) #NeuroSky

Our next workshop will be on May 14th - hosted by @flor-iacaruso.bsky.social Come along for some great discussion on building better experiment-theory collaborations in neuroscience! Registration is free, but required

Marcus Ghosh@marcusghosh.bsky.social · 5mo ago

How can we build better experiment-theory collaborations in neuroscience? We're hosting a series of 6 in-person, interactive workshops to discuss this. Come along! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand...

Next meeting in this series is this Thursday 4.30pm at Crick institute with Caswell Barry @caswell.bsky.social presenting work on place and grid cells, and how to integrate theory and experiment better. Free registration, free food and free thinking. 😉

Marcus Ghosh@marcusghosh.bsky.social · 5mo ago

How can we build better experiment-theory collaborations in neuroscience? We're hosting a series of 6 in-person, interactive workshops to discuss this. Come along! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand...

Had great fun discussing some recent work and the value of toy models in neuroscience last night! Our next workshop will be: * 16.04 * 16-20:30 * At the Crick Sign up (for free) and come along! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand...

Marcus Ghosh@marcusghosh.bsky.social · 5mo ago

How can we build better experiment-theory collaborations in neuroscience? We're hosting a series of 6 in-person, interactive workshops to discuss this. Come along! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand...

If you're in London next Thursday afternoon/evening, come along to our seminar/workshop on how to get theory and experiment working together better in neuroscience. There'll be a short talk by @marcusghosh.bsky.social on "A taxonomy of recurrence" (see below) and a long discussion with free food.

How can we build better experiment-theory collaborations in neuroscience? We're hosting a series of 6 in-person, interactive workshops to discuss this. Come along! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand...

If you want to tackle the "biggest problem holding neuroscience back right now" - comparing mechanisms of cognition across species - join us in @ox.ac.uk and @tcddublin.bsky.social . Please share! 3x Job Details below: (fantastic article @suthanalab.bsky.social ) #neuroskyence #neurojobs

Nanthia Suthana@suthanalab.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The biggest problem holding neuroscience back right now isn’t data or tools, thanks in large part to the BRAIN Initiative. It’s fragmentation across species. I wrote this to hopefully spark discussion around an issue that can only be solved as a community👇 www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...

Had a great week teaching at The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in Cape Town! With fellows from @schmidtsciences.bsky.social

PhD opportunity in "The role of neural development in multimodal intelligence" with me, @marcusghosh.bsky.social and @flor-iacaruso.bsky.social. Read details below 👇. Note there's a very short window for applying (deadline Feb 27). 🤖🧠🧪 www.imperial.ac.uk/school-of-co...

PhD opportunities

The School of Convergence Science at Imperial College London is inviting applications for fully funded PhD studentships on research projects that sup...

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I’m a bit late to reading this article by @marcusghosh.bsky.social in the @thetransmitter.bsky.social I really enjoyed it. I’m definitely pro toy mathematical models, I believe they can be informative and push research forward.

Marcus Ghosh@marcusghosh.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Toy models, just in time for Christmas! Excited to share my first article for @thetransmitter.bsky.social #neuroskyence

Happy to share our preprint with @neworderofjamie.bsky.social , @danakarca.bsky.social and @drtnowotny.bsky.social ! We’ve been working on a neuron position learning algorithm by coupling space and time! See manuscript below 👇

Come do your PhD with me and @ktsetsos.bsky.social ! It's such an exciting time for cognitive and computational neuroscience at @tcddublin.bsky.social . And in this PhD you get to do both!

Konstantinos Tsetsos@ktsetsos.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🎓Fully-funded PhD studentship in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience!!! Join @seanfw.bsky.social and myself at @tcddublin.bsky.social for a PhD at the intersection of cutting-edge cognitive neuroscience (OPM-MEG) and neuro-AI. 🗓 Deadline: 5 Feb 2026 #neurojobs #neuroscience #compneuro

For the first Learning Club @cmc-lab.bsky.social in 2026, @marcusghosh.bsky.social on Jan 15, Thu, 2pm CET, will tell us about his recent paper (👇) [joint work w/ @neural-reckoning.org]. Want to attend, send an empty email to virtual talk-link-request@cmclab.org to get the link!

Marcus Ghosh@marcusghosh.bsky.social · last yr.

How does the structure of a neural circuit shape its function? @neuralreckoning.bsky.social & I explore this in our new preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🤖🧠🧪 🧵1/9

Just published my review of neuroscience in 2025, on The Spike. The 10th of these, would you believe? This year we have foundation models, breakthroughs in using light to understand the brain, a gene therapy, and more Enjoy! medium.com/the-spike/20...

2025: A Review of the Year in Neuroscience

Enlightening the brain

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Adam Kampff prioritized spreading knowledge over publishing flashy papers in prestigious journals, but colleagues say his mark on neuroscience was undeniable. The researcher and educator passed away on 9 December. By Lauren Schneider www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...

Remembering Adam Kampff, neuroscience educator and researcher

Kampff’s do-it-yourself approach inspired a generation of neuroscientists.

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Toy models, just in time for Christmas! Excited to share my first article for @thetransmitter.bsky.social #neuroskyence

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Amid the rise of billion-parameter models, I argue that toy models, with just a few neurons, remain essential—and may be all neuroscience needs, writes @marcusghosh.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/theoretical-...

I'm excited to be teaching with @trendcamina.bsky.social again this summer. Come along!

TReND-CaMinA@trendcamina.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Applications Are Open! 🥳 #TReNDCaMinA Summer School 2026 | 29 Jun–15 Jul Dedan Kimathi University of Technology, Kenya For applicants in African countries with backgrounds in neuroscience, medicine, Computer Science, engineering, & related fields. Apply 👉 trendinafrica.org/trend-camina/

🚨new work with the dream team @danakarca.bsky.social @loopyluppi.bsky.social @fatemehhadaeghi.bsky.social @stuartoldham.bsky.social @duncanastle.bsky.social We use game theory and show the brain is not optimally wired for communication and there’s more to its story: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Adam was a truly inspiring scientist. He made neuroscience fun and exciting, and made everything seem possible. The Behaviour and Neural Systems course was formative for many of us. The photo below is from my time @champalimaudr.bsky.social in 2016.

Champalimaud Research@champalimaudr.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Today we honour the memory of Adam Kampff, whose passing leaves an immense void in our community. We are profoundly grateful to Adam. The best way to honour him is to continue innovating, collaborating, and sharing generously, as he taught us. Thank you, Adam Kampff.

Finally got the job ad—looking for 2 PhD students to start spring next year: www.gao-unit.com/join-us/ If comp neuro, ML, and AI4Neuro is your thing, or you just nerd out over brain recordings, apply! I'm at neurips. DM me here / on the conference app or email if you want to meet 🏖️🌮

📍Excited to share that our paper was selected as a Spotlight at #NeurIPS2025! arxiv.org/pdf/2410.03972 It started from a question I kept running into: When do RNNs trained on the same task converge/diverge in their solutions? 🧵⬇️

We're almost at the end of the year, and that means an end-of-year review! Send me your favorite NeuroAI papers of the year (preprints or published, late last year is fine too).