Come learn some programming with a healthy helping of critical thinking; something no genAI can take away from you :)

Also Prague is great fun ;)

I was lucky to be part of ASPP, Bordeaux in 2021. I learned so much, but more importantly it gave me the confidence and skills to keep going afterwards. It really shaped the path I took, including getting involved in MNE-Python. It’s a great opportunity, the people running ASPP are just the best.

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

the median number of authors on a research paper who are familiar with the underlying code: 1

it generally feels like that number will decrease even further, honestly a quite scary development. 😕⬇️

a man wearing mittens and a mask is sitting on a chair Alt: a man wearing mittens and a mask is sitting on a chair

Take off the vibe coding mittens! 😁

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Vibe coding your way through your PhD is like performing surgery with oven mitts. It looks confident and its a great idea right until precision matters and reviewers ask you to justify the implementation choices ;)
If you're in science and program every day, join us ASPP 2026 in Prague aspp.school

Yeah, some people seem to think gatekeeping is good 🫤

For more than a century, the study of brain lesions has been central to understanding cognitive processes and normal brain function (e.g., Broca’s studies).

However, what electrophysiological signatures emerge following a brain lesion?

G'day connection makers. On **April 16th**, we're hosting Georg Northoff telling us about intrinsic timescales. If it sounds interesting, here's the link to register: cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

bionic-vision.org | Research Spotlights | Jan Antolik Prof. Jan Antolik’s path into computational neuroscience began in artificial intelligence, at a time when the field was far from its current prominence. What started as a detour to better understand…

From the AI winter to vision restoration. 👁️ 🧠

@janantolik.bsky.social on building models that take biology seriously and why we still don’t understand how stimulation turns into perception. That gap matters:
www.bionic-vision.org/research-spo...

#BionicVision #NeuroSkyence #CompNeuroSky

GitHub - iinnpp/isttc: iSTTC: intrinsic neural timescales estimation iSTTC: intrinsic neural timescales estimation. Contribute to iinnpp/isttc development by creating an account on GitHub.

New paper out in PLOS Computational Biology!

We introduce iSTTC, a robust method to estimate intrinsic neural timescales from single-unit recordings.

Congrats to Irina Pochinok for leading the project!

Package: github.com/iinnpp/isttc

Paper: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

I'll be presenting our latest preprint "Geometric developmental principles for the emergence of brain-like weighted and directed neuronal networks" and beyond

Tweeprint will follow soon!

doi.org/10.48550/arX...

Poster banner from cosyne 2026

If you are into networks, development, and dynamics don't miss my poster [3-072] this afternoon at #cosyne2026

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Travelling to COSYNE seems to be the perfect opportunity to announce that I started my own lab at RWTH Aachen University earlier this year, funded by NRW's Ministry of Culture and Science through its Return Program. If you are at COSYNE and want to chat please reach out!

Awesome work! 🤠

JND test result of 0.0013

Did I just discover my secret superpower?

What's My JND? 0.0013
Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

1/7 🧠 My journey into development begins with this work and question: how does the brain's spatial navigation system develop? We found that the neural networks for spatial navigation (tori and rings) are preconfigured and only later anchor gradually to the world with experience! 🧵

22 years of Brain Science: what CoSyNe tells us about the evolution of Neuroscience Tracking the intellectual DNA of Computational and Systems Neuroscience through its flagship meeting

I tracked every keyword in 22 years of Cosyne abstracts to map how computational neuroscience evolved — from Bayesian brains to neural manifolds to LLMs — and where it's heading next.

I was a bit frustrated that Iranian regime’s role in this war is being minimized and people’s historical struggle is ignored so I made a game for you to be the people and see where your decisions take you instead:

kuffmode.github.io/mirage/

A drawing on the cover of the journal Neuron. Each section of the fan has a drawing of a mouse. Each mouse has a slightly different pose. The tassel of the fan resembles a neuron.

My first cover of 2026
"Spontaneous behavior is a succession of self-directed tasks"
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
#sciArt #Scicom #illustration #neuroskyence

Stunning 😍

Can electrical microstimulation be used to steer cortical population activity on- and off-manifold? Our new preprint says yes — using data-driven control in macaque PFC. Joint work with @gbarzon.bsky.social, Anandita De, Isaac Moran, Conner Carnahan, and Luca Mazzucato.

Delighted to talk about my experience as a postdoc at Charles University in Prague, CZ, after having started my career in the UK as a Romanian expat. If you want to hear more about the challenges and joys of working and living on the move, don’t hesitate to give this a listen!

How does academic life in the UK compare with that in Czechia, and what can early-career researchers take away from both? And how can personal experiences and mentoring shape the journey of a postdoctoral researcher?

New episode of the Postdoctoral Podcast with Cristina Balaban is out! 🎙️

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Neurons around a recording ephys electrode

Diagram of monkey looking at a screen in a neuroscience experiment

Spike rasters for two units in response to a checkerboard shown in the screen. One is an ON neuron, the other is an OFF neuron

Waveforms of single neurons within a single ephys electrode sorted using K-means clustering.

Just uploaded some of my *hand-crafted* comp-neuro teaching materials, thought they might be useful to someone out there.

It's just some exercise notebooks for data analysis github.com/morales-greg...

Episode #38 in #TheoreticalNeurosciencePodcast: On extracting spiking network models from experiments - with Richard Gao @rdgao.bsky.social

theoreticalneuroscience.no/thn38

How to fit spiking network models to experimental data when there is no unique parameter set giving the best fit.

An array of 9 purple discs on a blue background. Figure from Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt.

A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue.

The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea.

From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt:
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...