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Michael Okun

@michael-okun.bsky.social

Associate Professor of (Systems & Computational) Neuroscience @uniofnottingham.bsky.social. Interested in cortical dynamics.

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Mark Haselgrove@markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 2w ago

Assistant Professor (lecturer in old money) job! jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... Full time, permanent positions available in the School of Psychology at the University of Nottingham. Deadline Tuesday 18 August 2026 Please share!

Job Vacancy at the University of Nottingham: Assistant Professor

We’re looking to appoint an Assistant Professor in the School of Psychology who can demonstrate an emerging international research profile which complements and expands upon our existing research stre...

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Michael Okun@michael-okun.bsky.social · 4w ago

If you are at #FENS2026 on the final morning of the conference, and interested in psychedelics' impact on hippocampal activity, please come to our poster: PS07-10AM-670 CLASSICAL PSYCHEDELICS DISRUPT SYNAPTIC AND SPIKING ACTIVITY IN THE MOUSE DORSAL HIPPOCAMPUS

Michael Okun@michael-okun.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Thanks, but your description contradicts my experience. In practice your system heavily interferes with meaningful editorial control over reviewer invitations, which goes to the core of peer-review integrity. This isn't a 'communication shortfall'—it's a systemic choice you made.

Frontiers@frontiersin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

2/3 By design, the Associate Editor’s expertise and reviewer invitations always take precedence. The peer-review system is built to support the editor’s decisions, and you retain the ability to revoke, replace, or invite additional reviewers at any point in the process.

Michael Okun@michael-okun.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

Emily A. Aery Jones@emilyaeryjones.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Excellent new review about the current state-of-the-art in large scale neural recordings from Josh Siegle and @steinmetzneuro.bsky.social: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Large-scale electrophysiology at single-spike resolution - Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Recent advances in large-scale electrophysiology now enable researchers to record from thousands of neurons distributed across the brain. Siegle and Steinmetz describe the principles underlying this t...

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Michael Okun@michael-okun.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Thanks to all the attendees and presenters at the annual Neuroscience@Nottingham event of @uniofnottingham.bsky.social and @ntuneuro.bsky.social Special thanks to our external speakers: Peggy Series (Edinburgh) and Vlad Vyazovskiy (Oxford, @vyazovskiy.bsky.social) sites.google.com/view/nottsne...

N@N 2026

Bringing Nottingham's neuroscience community together

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NTU Neuro@ntuneuro.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🧠 Great turnout at the Neuro @ Notts Annual Event between NTU & UoN! Excellent talks from Martina (extracellular vesicles in ageing) and Elisa (in vitro BBB models), plus posters from Jessica, Zak & Jack. Neuroscience is thriving in Nottingham! #NTU #SHiMR #research #neuroscience #Neuro@Notts

Kenneth Harris@kenneth-harris.bsky.social · 9mo ago

1. New preprint resolving a conundrum in systems neuroscience with an AI scientist, and humans Reilly Tilbury, Dabin Kwon, @haydari.bsky.social, @jacobmratliff.bsky.social, @bio-emergent.bsky.social, @carandinilab.net, @kevinjmiller.bsky.social, @neurokim.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Characterizing neuronal population geometry with AI equation discovery

The visual cortex contains millions of neurons, whose combined activity forms a population code representing visual stimuli. There is, however, a discrepancy between our understanding of this code at ...

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Lisa Schmors@lisaschmors.bsky.social · last yr.

🧠🤖 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/

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Nikolas Karalis@nikolaskaralis.bsky.social · last yr.

Very happy to announce the "Paris Circuit Dynamics Conference 2025: Hippocampal–Cortical Circuits: From structure to computation", on 28 - 29 April 2025 at the Paris Brain Institute. You are welcome to register and join us! www.paris-circuits.eu

Paris Circuit Dynamics

This two-day conference will bring together leading experts from the Paris region and abroad to discuss the dynamics and neural coding in hippocampal and cortical circuits. The program will focus on ...

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Michael Okun@michael-okun.bsky.social · 2y ago

"Among the generations that we synthesized, we found a bright fluorescent protein at a far distance (58% sequence identity) from known fluorescent proteins, which we estimate is equivalent to simulating five hundred million years of evolution." doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Simulating 500 million years of evolution with a language model

More than three billion years of evolution have produced an image of biology encoded into the space of natural proteins. Here we show that language models trained at scale on evolutionary data can gen...

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