#PintofScienceUK 2026 is now live! We bring science to the pub! Find all the awesome events organized by various teams at #UCL here (pintofscience.co.uk/organisation...), and make sure to secure a ticket while they last!
Posts by Enny van Beest
Just over a week left to apply to apply to the Neuroinformatics Unit Open Software Summer School, August 17-28 2026 in London, UK!
Bringing together researchers and open source developers of ephys, behaviour and image analysis tools.
Deadline Feb 15th.
neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar...
Turns out deep neural networks are better at extracting relevant features than I am...
Meet "DeepUnitMatch", a DNN version of our neuron tracking tool:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
It has been a privilage to continue the collaboration with Célian, and cosupervise the talented Suyash & Wentao!
Good morning #SfN. Want to chat about chronic Neuropixels or tracking? Find me today at the #Neuropixels booth (3731) from 11 to 12! And if you're still around tomorrow afternoon, come talk about distributed coding in navigation at my poster tomorrow afternoon (RR16).
All talks of the 2025 UCL #Neuropixels course are now available: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
For more information on the course see the website: www.ucl.ac.uk/neuropixels/...
And for those at #SfN, come say hi at the #Neuropixels booth (Number 3731) or at my Poster 👋.
Happy Neuropixeling!
I think it's all very exciting! But for those who attended this course before, the analysis is a new addition, so probably that day!
Join the 2025 UCL Neuropixels course (free and online!),
22-24th of October:
Day 1 and 2: Get started with the basics and the latest updates on hardware & software.
Day 3: Focus on how to analyse the many neurons you recorded.
More info and to register:
www.ucl.ac.uk/neuropixels/...
Introducing our new favorite stimulus. A few minutes are enough to map the visual preferences of thousands of neurons.
Mapping the visual cortex with Zebra noise and wavelets
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
By Sophie Skriabine and Max Shinn, with Samuel Picard and
@kenneth-harris.bsky.social
Glad to see my PhD work out! Thanks to all my collaborators and to Kenneth and Matteo for making this possible!
New by Agnès Landemard (@agnesland.bsky.social) & co
Brainwide blood volume reflects opposing neural populations
Brainwide fluctuations in blood volume arise from two populations with opposite relation to brain state and distinct relationships to blood supply
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Can large language models be more human? Professor Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh tells all about it at #pint25
Many of us use 2p scopes to image 3D volumes of brain. But then we analyze the data plane by plane, resulting in duplicated neurons, missed neurons, and low s/n. Let's go 3D!
Suite3D: Volumetric cell detection for two-photon microscopy
by @haydari.bsky.social & team.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Brain/behaviour people - come to beautiful Scotland - we are recruiting in psychology and neuroscience across all grades! Closes May 12. Details below, and please re-post 🙏
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
More about us here: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/psyc...
#neuroskyence #neurojobs
Two neurons in front of a Neuropixels probe. One neuron says to the other: "Don't look, but I think we're being followed!".
Our paper describing UnitMatch software "tracking neurons across days with high-density probes", appeared in this month's issue of #NatureMethods. Missed it? Read it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Tickets for @pintofscience.uk are now available! Come join us for one of the #beautiful-minds events at the George IV in Chiswick - London, for example this one on human-like AI! More information: pintofscience.co.uk/event/human-.... Tickets for this event are popular, so don't wait too long! 🍻🧠🤖
If you're at #cosyne2025 drop by our poster [2-011] on 'Tracking neurons in chronic ephys recordings with Deep Neural Networks', March 28th, 1.15pm at Square Dorchester! A collaborative effort of presenter Wentao Qiu, Suyash Agarwal, Kenneth Harris, supervised by Célian Bimbard and myself.
Het lijkt er toch steeds meer op dat Eppo Bruins de meest incompetente en opportunistische minister van OCW is die Nederland in mensenheugenis heeft gehad. Eerst een sector helemaal in crisis storten, en dan, terwijl er een miljard bezuinigd wordt, >
Applications are now open! 3-week courses: Comp Neuro and Deep Learning. 2-week courses: NeuroAI and Comp Tools for Climate Science.
🚨 Neuromatch Academy Course Applications are OPEN for 2025!! 🚨
Get your application in early to be a student or teaching assistant for this year’s courses!
Applications are due Sunday, March 23.
Apply & learn more: neuromatch.io/courses/
#mlsky #compneurosky #ai #climatesolutions #ScienceEdu 🧪
I think the best part of working in an international environment are the yearly discussions on Pancake day. "Who invented the pancake?" And "should it be waffle day instead, like in part of the Netherlands" cause some serious debates!
A rotating 3D-rendered volume showing ocular dominance columns as vertically extending structures (red) in the mouse visual cortex
Can the mouse visual cortex harbor a functional organization for stimulus features? TLDR: Yes, we found ocular dominance columns in this tiny cortical region! Check our paper, open access in @naturecomms.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... and/or read the 🧵 below. @mpiforbi.bsky.social (1/7)
Are you a researcher planning to apply for Wellcome funding in the next two years?
We’re offering researchers the opportunity to observe a Wellcome funding advisory committee and learn how grant applications are assessed.
Learn more ⤵️
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A Neuropixels Opto probe with 3 blue emitters and 3 red emitters lighting up in succession, with corresponding neural activity in different layers of the cortex.
Neuropixels and Optogenetics are delighted to announce the birth of
Neuropixels Opto
Combining high-resolution electrophysiology and optogenetics
Today in bioRxiv
960 sites, 28 emitters, 2 colors
By Lakunina, @karolinazsocha.bsky.social, Ladd, et al
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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