Marius Pachitariu
@marius10p.bsky.social
Lab head @HHMIJanelia neuroscience, deep learning, large-scale recordings #Kilosort, #Suite2p, #Cellpose, #Rastermap, #Facemap
Editor in Chief of Science: AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive.
AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive
There’s a saying in the management world, popularized by NASA administrator Daniel Goldin in the 1990s, that the goal of technological improvements is to make products faster, better, and cheaper. Alt...
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Our Impact Scholars @neuromatch.bsky.social project on 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗿𝗲𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝘃𝘀 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗼𝗽𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝘃𝗶𝘀𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗲𝘅 is out! With 𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝗱𝗿𝗶𝗱-𝗖𝗮𝗿𝘃𝗮𝗷𝗮𝗹 @johnmadridcarvajal.bsky.social, 𝗞𝗮𝘁𝗷𝗮 𝗞𝗮𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗼𝘀𝗸𝗶, 𝗜𝘀𝗵𝗮𝘁𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗦𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗵, 𝗥𝗼𝗵𝗶𝘁 𝗝𝗲𝘀𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗵. 🧠 👉 zenodo.org/records/2064... 🧵👇 1/8
What if part of Huntington's disease wasn't just damage, but a circuit stuck in the wrong pattern? Our new paper, out today in Nature, tests that idea.
HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus will close two of its programs dedicated to rodent work, @thetransmitter.bsky.social has learned. #neuroskyence By @callimcflurry.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/community/ex...
Exclusive: Janelia sunsets rodent work, launches transparent fish project
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus is banking on whole-brain imaging in the Danionella fish to advance neuroscience, but some scientists forced to close their labs say that…
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for "AI" to be profitable, costs need to be aligned with token use rather than subscription, and then everyone needs to use orders of magnitude more tokens. "Agentic" workflows are for making massive token spend palatable by making the point of comparison "20 engineers" despite being the same thing.
Eryk Salvaggio@eryk.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis image from Anthropic goes out to the two guys on here who called me dumb for talking about stochastic flocks
Neuropixels + Optogenetics = Neuropixels Opto Combining high-resolution electrophysiology and optogenetics. 960 sites, 28 emitters, 2 colors. Today in @natmethods.nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s415... Thanks to @wellcometrust.bsky.social, @alleninstitute.org, @hhmijanelia.bsky.social & team.
1/ 🚨🚨Preprint alert! "Perfect" isn't always smart 🧠. Anyone can tell apart two stimuli (including our mice). But how do we extract rules that apply to new stimuli? 🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @marius10p.bsky.social @computingnature.bsky.social #neuroAI #neuroscience #AI
🚨🧠 Our paper is out! We introduce a simple computational model that generates macroscopic, long-timescale dynamics as seen in large-scale neural recordings. #neuroscience #dynamics @marius10p.bsky.social @zhong-lin.bsky.social @hhmijanelia.bsky.social Link: go.nature.com/4tRNjIu
Nature@nature.com · 3mo agoNature research paper: A critical initialization for biological neural networks go.nature.com/4tRNjIu
New preprint with @lingqiz.bsky.social: Neurodata Without Boredom: Benchmarking Agentic AI for Data Reuse arxiv.org/abs/2605.12808 1/10
🚨 Ever wanted a simple way to control the activity of thousands of neurons? We introduce an all-optical raster photostimulation method to do just that! w/ @computingnature.bsky.social @marius10p.bsky.social #FluorescenceFriday #neuroskyence www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/n
We apologize for the delay but our next profile is here! Dr. Ann Kennedy (@antihebbiann.bsky.social) combines theory & biological data to study how internal states shape social behavior by reconfiguring neural circuit dynamics. Follow the link to learn more! www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202...
Two-photon calcium imaging at 24,000 lines/s, with the resonant axis spanning 4x what other systems can do. Inertia-free. Diffraction-limited. No tradeoffs. Che-Hang Yu developed a 4x angle multiplier for laser scanning. His paper is out today: opg.optica.org/optica/fullt... 1/n #fluorescenceFriday
👋 Neuromatch is looking for more TAs to help facilitate comp neuro + neuroAI learning this summer! You'll get to work with students from around the world and share your expertise with the global community 🧠 🌎 🤖 🌍💻 🌏 #cosyne2026 #neuroscience
Neuromatch@neuromatch.bsky.social · 5mo ago📣 We've extended the application deadline for #Neuromatch and #Climatematch Academy Students and Teaching Assistants by one week! 🚨 📅 New deadline: March 22, midnight in your local time. ➡️ Apply now: portal.neuromatchacademy.org/sign-in Tag someone who almost missed out! #TA #SummerSchool
📢📢 Announcing this year's conference on the Mathematics of Neuroscience & AI (Rome, 9-12th June). We’ve got a stellar line-up and venue, and invite everyone to join: www.neuromonster.org
Applications for July #CompNeuro, #DeepLearning, #NeuroAI & #ClimateScience are open. Learn in small collaborative pods with a dedicated TA, build real research skills, and join 13,000+ alumni worldwide. ➡️ Apply by 15 March: neuromatch.io/courses/
🔬🧠 Releasing the 1.0 version of #Suite2p and THE PAPER w/ @marius10p.bsky.social! Now with GPU acceleration. Want to use Suite2p but don’t have 100,000 neuron recordings? We show you how to get those with a standard 2p microscope #neuroscience #imaging #neuroAI www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
🚨 new work from the lab on how eye movements 👀 versus orofacial movements influence 🐭 visual cortex activity 🧠 #neuroscience #behavior #neuroAI
Atika Syeda@atika-syeda.bsky.social · 6mo agoExcited to share “Orofacial behaviors, not eye movements, govern neural activity in mouse visual cortex” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Summary below...
Excited to share “Orofacial behaviors, not eye movements, govern neural activity in mouse visual cortex” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Summary below...
A System for Live Sorting of Neuronal Spiking Activity from Large-scale Recordings https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.29.696938v1
High performance sorting of motor unit action potentials with EMUsort https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.06.697952v1
I have so many issues with this podcast with @earlkmiller.bsky.social . I think that this podcast nicely shows why I have trouble with such approaches. Lets go through some of the claims.
Earl K. Miller@earlkmiller.bsky.social · 9mo agoGiant Shoulders podcast: Meet the MIT Neuroscientist Proving Brainwaves are the Secret to Consciousness. youtu.be/7OFb-NG3jIw #neuroscience
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Even colleagues who should know better are claiming that we are halting animal research. No, we're not. Now this NYT opinion piece appears (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o... You can't just move everything to cell culture, organoids, and computers. Even this NYT piece admits that. 1/3
Is visual cortex more like chatGPT or a masked autoencoder? Come to my BCCN seminar tomorrow at 10am ET on zoom (or read the paper) to find out! #neuroscience Zoom: urldefense.com/v3/__https:/... Paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Qingqing Zhang@qqzhang.bsky.social · 11mo agoDoes predictive coding work in SPACE or in TIME? Most neuroscientists assume TIME, i.e. neurons predict their future sensory inputs. We show that in visual cortex predictive coding actually works across SPACE, just like the original Rao+Ballard theory #neuroscience www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
New work from the lab, mismatch responses consistent with spatial but not temporal predictive coding theory.
Qingqing Zhang@qqzhang.bsky.social · 11mo agoDoes predictive coding work in SPACE or in TIME? Most neuroscientists assume TIME, i.e. neurons predict their future sensory inputs. We show that in visual cortex predictive coding actually works across SPACE, just like the original Rao+Ballard theory #neuroscience www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
Does predictive coding work in SPACE or in TIME? Most neuroscientists assume TIME, i.e. neurons predict their future sensory inputs. We show that in visual cortex predictive coding actually works across SPACE, just like the original Rao+Ballard theory #neuroscience www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
💻A new class of simplified ‘minimodels’ developed by Fengtong Du, Miguel Angel Núñez-Ochoa, @marius10p.bsky.social & @computingnature.bsky.social can predict the visual responses of individual neurons in the primary visual cortex, helping shed light on how we see.👀 ➡️ www.janelia.org/news/new-com...
Doing this might make you smarter ... (www.vice.com/en/article/d...) News coverage of our study on unsupervised learning in mice by @zhong-lin.bsky.social + @marius10p.bsky.social #neuroscience #AI www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Doing This Might Actually Make You Smarter
You’re scrolling through TikTok with the sound off. Waiting in line for a coffee. Watching a guy try to parallel park for the third time...
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🧠Zoning out could be beneficial—and may actually help us learn faster. 🥼New research led by @zhong-lin.bsky.social @marius10p.bsky.social @computingnature.bsky.social 🔗 www.janelia.org/news/zoning-...
Zoning out could be beneficial—and may actually help us learn faster
Actions that may seem unproductive – like aimlessly wandering around a city or exploring a new mall – could play an important role in how our brains learn, according research from HHMI’s Janelia...
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