Seems that American Catholicism is to Catholicism what American beer is to beer.

Thanks to the amazing work by @uwescience.bsky.social's Noah Benson, NeuroHackademy now has a beautiful new website, with an emphasis on improved accessibility: neurohackademy.org

The MyST AnyWidget Directive Authors of MyST Markdown can now embed interactive JavaScript widgets directly in content using the new {anywidget} directive.

New in MyST Markdown: the {𝗮𝗻𝘆𝘄𝗶𝗱𝗴𝗲𝘁} directive lets you drop interactive JS widgets into any Jupyter Book or article, no kernel needed!

Same interface as anywidget in notebooks. Built at SciPy 2024, now upstream in mystmd.

Read more:
#Jupyter #MyST #OpenSource
medium.com/@stevejpurve...

Sadly, applications to the Advanced Python summer school have dropped significantly over the past 2 years.

Plus, there'll be no external funding for the 1st time in *17 years*.

Likely all because of GenAI - but programming skills still matter🔥

Deadline May 3, please help by sharing:
aspp.school

We tracked a zebrafish tail tip for 30h of light-sheet imaging.
It didn’t exist at t=0.

LiLiTTool: CoTracker3 + object detection → real-time microscope steering.
3D, multi-ROI, open source.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#bioimaging #lightsheet
thanks @jytinevez.bsky.social

In theory, the brain is a prediction computation representation information machine.

In reality, the brain is an anticipatory collective of dynamic living cells.

Do our metaphors matter for understanding brains?
Romain @romainbrette.bsky.social says yes...

braininspired.co/podcast/235/

When recording experimental data, have you ever:
1) overwritten data?
2) changed the experiment and forgot when?
3) had a student leave the lab leaving a mess of dataset?
4) noticed how everyone has their own way to transfer data?

We published a solution: LSLAutoBIDS - open science by design.

🧵

losing contact with the earth for 40 minutes sounds nice

Here’s another example. I don’t know how to code, but I used AI to make a bathroom pass app. I explained to ChatGPT that I wanted a pass system in which a student scanned a code and received an email pass, and that I needed a spreadsheet at the end of the day that told me when and where students had gone. I asked ChatGPT to write it for Google’s Apps Script, so I was able to create the app without any conceptual knowledge of what I was doing. This does raise some issues concerning accuracy and especially long-term maintenance. I am trying to be more intentional about what AI generates. I appreciate that AI lets me build things I couldn’t have otherwise; I just want to be thoughtful about how I use it.

Honeychile if the issues raised for you by vibecoding a digital surveillance app for children's visits to the bathroom have to do with "long term maintenance", you could be making a hell of a lot more money at Palantir.

‘The Brain, In Theory,’ an excerpt In his new book, Brette pushes back against theories that describe the brain as a “biological computer.” In this excerpt from Chapter 4, he challenges equating brain evolution with programming…

"The Brain, In Theory" is out today!

A short excerpt in The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social

www.thetransmitter.org/theoretical-...

🔍 What happens when you give middle-schoolers unrestricted access to ChatGPT for science tasks?

Findings from our new paper led by Rania Abdelghani w/ @koumurayama.bsky.social @celestekidd.bsky.social Hélène Sauzéon 🧵👇

Chemical Reaction Networks Learn Better than Spiking Neural Networks We mathematically prove that chemical reaction networks without hidden layers can solve tasks for which spiking neural networks require hidden layers. Our proof uses the deterministic mass-action kine...

This is satisfyingly niche. Shots fired by the chemical reaction networks community.

arxiv.org/abs/2603.12060

The author describes a seemingly simple problem in algebra, for which the lowest integer solutions exceed 10^79.

The author describes a seemingly simple problem in algebra, for which the lowest integer solutions exceed 10^79.

Enjoying @richardelwes.bsky.social ‘s Huge Numbers, which contains mind blowing items such as this:

I used AI. It worked. I hated it. I used Claude Code to build a tool I needed. It worked great, but I was miserable. I need to reckon with what it means.

As a research project, I built a needed tool with Claude Code. I though it would be a disaster, but It wasn't. I have some complicated feelings about it.

Boids Explorer — interactive explainer Explore Reynolds' Boids model of collective motion: tune separation, alignment, and cohesion weights to watch emergent flocking arise from three simple local rules — a classic inspiration for swarm in...

And now some collective-motion interactive demonstration tools for the classic "swarming" motion models. First up, Reynolds' "Boids" with a visualizer including a phase diagram based on @icouzin.bsky.social's 2002 JTB paper.
tpavlic.github.io/asu-bioinspi...

napari 0.7.0 Mon, Mar 23, 2026 We’re happy to announce the release of napari 0.7.0! napari is a fast, interactive, multi-dimensional image viewer for Python. It’s designed for browsing, annotating, and analyzing…

napari 0.7.0 is available now! 🚀🎉

It's a BIG release so read the full release notes, with highlights: napari.org/stable/relea...

We want to thank everyone who has worked incredibly hard on this release including our 11 new brilliant contributors 🤩 and the community for their support and feedback!

Man who talked down hospital bomber says would-be attacker asked for a cuddle Nathan Newby set to receive George Medal for stopping a potential atrocity with an act of kindness

More Nathan Newby's please, would sort this world right out. And as a Leeds born woman, I hope that man never has to buy his own pint in the city again.

I made a tiny tool for quickly sharing small datasets (< ~1000 rows) without uploading any data to a server.

🔗 ziptbl.com

It compresses the data into the link itself, so there’s no account, hosting, or storage layer involved.

Here's Florence Nightingale's famous 📊 data:
ziptbl.com#d=eNpdlE-LGz...

Git Remote Helpers Git can talk to anything if you write the right helper.

Nerd sniped by Bastien Guerry of @softwareheritage.org into writing about git remote helpers: nesbitt.io/2026/03/18/g...

Note from Otto Warburg asking for money.

Otto Warburg's grant application: "I need 10,000 marks".

A flexible framework for structural plasticity in GPU-accelerated sparse spiking neural networks A flexible framework for structural plasticity in GPU-accelerated sparse spiking neural networks, Knight, James C, Senk, Johanna, Nowotny, Thomas

New paper out at iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... with @jsenk.bsky.social & @drtnowotny.bsky.social. We present what I think is the first framework for flexibly implementing GPU-accelerated structural plasticity rules (in GeNN obvs!) and demonstrate it with DEEP-R & topographic map formation.

Hot off the presses! 🖨️

If you are interested in the why & what for, check out the blog post.

Excited to share my first PhD project: LabConstrictor 📒🐍
Have you ever created a Jupyter notebook with all your love 🫶, only for others to be unable to install it 🥲? LabConstrictor, comes to solve this!
Check out how it works in the preprint 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2603.107... or follow this thread ⬇️

An algorithm underlying directional hearing in fish Veith et al. show how a fish—Danionella cerebrum—can reliably startle away from sound. It uses the relative phase between particle motion and pressure to infer the direction of sound. This sensorimoto...

How do fish localize sound without interaural cues? @johve.bsky.social et al. found a behavioral algorithm for directional hearing that predicts behavior from a pressure/motion phase comparison and accounts for how this relationship varies with distance. www.cell.com/current-biol...

The nicest article about JPEG compression, by @sophielwang.bsky.social The moment there are color stats involved, I’m in.

It’s so well done it makes me think we need some kind of online library where articles like this get preserved.

www.sophielwang.com/blog/jpeg

160 - SciOp.net feat. Jonny and Jez (part 1)

We’re talking with @jo.nny.rip and Jez about SciOp, a torrent-focused data preservation project that encourages academics to help with the act of making data available. It’s distributed, it’s robust, and SciOp is working on making it easy to do.

Recreating Ed Hawkins' climate spiral visualization in a Jupyter Notebook on notebook.link 🎨

The notebook uses NASA GISTEMP v4 monthly temperature anomalies from 1980 to 2025, and the p5.js JupyterLite kernel for ad-hoc visualizations 💡

➡️ Try it in your browser: notebook.link/@jtp/paintin...

Humanity runs on spite lmao

Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

London #neuroscience people you may like this. We're hosting a series of talks at Imperial & Crick on how to get experiment and theory working together better. Each session will have a talk around this and extended networking / group discussion on the questions raised. Plus, free food!

🤖🧠🧪