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
📢📢 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
"I saw what open, rigorous, and collaborative science could look like. I saw people I wanted to become, and a path I hadn't known was there." - Kirollus Abdallah, Eygpt
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:
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🔬🧠 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
Planyourscience.com now applauds the good changes you make - and pushes back on the less good one.
@sebastianseung.bsky.social Did you follow through on your plan to visit Epstein island?
Hey @eboyden3.bsky.social care to explain?
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 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12...
High performance sorting of motor unit action potentials with EMUsort www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01...
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.
Still beta-testing the app that helps people plan science, make it super clear, design their todos, and write a first version of the paper. Feeling overwhelmed by the countless aspects of doing science? Try this (for free): planyourscience.com
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...
Yes! More generally for affective and/or very salient outcomes, everything could be different. We only measured visual cortex in benign "daily life" scenarios.
Another way to think of it is novel items/situations versus novel temporal order of familiar items. However, it could be different in non-sensory brain areas, or in other species, or in other modalities.
New work from the lab, mismatch responses consistent with spatial but not temporal predictive coding theory.
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/...
TetO‐jGCaMP8s is a drop in replacement for the @crisniell.bsky.social mice with all the nice properties of 8s. High, dense expression, and doesn't have the aberrant activity. Was used here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
💻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...
🧠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-...
Your brain learns for you even when you're not actively learning. Maybe. (in mice).
Our paper on NHP neuropixels is finally out in Nat Neuro! These probes have already been transformative and will usher in a new era of primate neuroscience. I am extremely proud to have played a very small role in this project. I can't wait to see what our community discovers. tinyurl.com/54u3hrj8
AI doesn't have to be shit
🚶Aimlessly wandering around a city or exploring the new mall may seem unproductive, but new research led by @zh0ng0.bsky.social @marius10p.bsky.social @computingnature.bsky.social suggests it could play an important role in how our brains learn. 🧠
🔗 www.janelia.org/news/zoning-...
Everyone in the lab is raving about Cellpose-SAM. Segmenting the previously unsegmentable across a range of different cell types and markers.
