Children exhibit visual understanding from limited experience, orders of magnitude less than our best models.

We introduce the Zero-shot World Model (ZWM). Trained on a single child's visual experience, BabyZWM rapidly generates competence across diverse benchmarks with no task-specific training. 🧵

Wanna do neuroscience in Paris but can't find interesting lab?

Want to come do a sabbatical but don't know who to collaborate?

Check this webpage aggregating ~all the neuroscience labs (+200) in Paris.

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New paper from Brandon Pratt, @chrisjdallmann.bsky.social, and colleagues on how hair plate proprioceptors sense joint limits and contribute to sensorimotor control of walking.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thanks, Mark! Same with your recent work - I wasn’t aware of it before you commented on our work here. Maybe they’ll appear in the same issue of Neuron 🙌🏻

The paper is open-access and available here: 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.n...

Amazing collaboration led by Jiakun Fu, and the labs of @andreastolias.bsky.social, @sinzlab.bsky.social, Ralf Haefner, Jan Antolik & many more.

These results converge with Deveau et al. (www.cell.com/neuron/full...) on temporal sequence filtering and Lange et al. (www.science.org/doi/10.1126...) on learning-induced redundancy. A consistent picture emerges: (early) visual cortex actively infers the statistical structure of the natural world.

The key result ⚡ V1 neurons are facilitated by surrounds that complete their optimal center feature according to natural scene statistics, and suppressed by surrounds that disrupt it — a principle explained by hierarchical Bayesian inference and conserved across mouse and macaque

New paper out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social 🎉

What determines contextual modulation in V1? Why does the visual surround sometimes facilitate and sometimes suppress a neuron's response to its preferred stimulus?

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We're hiring a Scientific Director for our AI Methods & Software Hub in Tübingen! This is a unique opportunity to build and lead a central hub at the intersection of cutting-edge ML research and scientific applications. Deadline: 30 April 2026. More info: uni-tuebingen.de/en/128980#c2...

Spontaneous behavior is a succession of self-directed tasks Weinreb et al. reveal a hierarchy of timescales in mouse behavior, including low-level syllables and high-level behavioral states. States and syllables are encoded in different brain areas. Prefrontal...

Have you ever wondered why mice do what they do when they are free to do whatever they want? Check out our latest (and this slightly delayed thread about our recent paper, led by Caleb Weinreb and friends...) www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

🧵 New preprint led by @bingbrunton.bsky.social, @elliottabe.bsky.social, @lawrencehu.bsky.social

We gave a worm brain control of a fly body and it walked

What did we learn? Nothing, other than deep reinforcement learning is effective

We call it the digital sphinx

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

A remarkable journey of resilience and transformation, from the chaotic corridors of group homes to the halls of Columbia and Stanford, EMERGENCE is a coming-of-age tale where heartbreak and humor meet the scientific wonder of modern artificial intelligence.

🔗 Preorder: tinyurl.com/fzcxb5ea

Sleep spindles promote hippocampal network downregulation during sleep Sleep is thought to globally downregulate neuronal network activity and synaptic connections enhanced during prior wakefulness and, in parallel, to up…

@currentbiology.bsky.social
I am very happy to share our latest paper, just published in @currentbiology.bsky.social! In collaboration with Olga Garaschuk's lab, we used in vivo 2P calcium imaging to investigate the role of sleep spindles in the hippocampus. 🧠💤
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

After 5 years of developing, a new preprint from the lab - introducing our workflow for comparative insect connectomics, aimed at democratizing connectomics. @erc.europa.eu @lundvision.bsky.social @biologylu.bsky.social Read it here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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👁️The retina — strikingly conserved across vertebrates, but an oddity among bilaterians!

So how did it evolve?

With @mikebok.bsky.social, @neurofishh.bsky.social and @denilsson.bsky.social, we argue that retinal complexity may 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑦𝑒 𝑖𝑡𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Congrats George!

🚨 We're hiring: Research Coordinator for CRC Robust Vision
@unituebingen.bsky.social

Take a leading role in our DFG funded consortium in neuroscience, ML & CV

MSc/PhD + science mgmt. Apply by Mar 15 👇 join our team w/ @jakhmack.bsky.social @bethgelab.bsky.social

uni-tuebingen.de/en/universit...

I have been using Claude Code recently, and I’m now convinced that LLM coding agents can solve one of the biggest problems in neuroscience: technical debt.

Labs generate tons of low-quality code bc the incentive structure rewards short-term productivity over longer-term concerns like 1/

I’ve been using Spikeling in teaching and outreach for the past 4 years, and it’s been a really effective way to make neuroscience concepts more approachable and engaging.

Hands-on tools like this really help move neuroscience teaching forward 🧠⚡

Have a look 👇

For this new year, we are proud to announce the launch of Spikeling v3 !

Spikeling is an Open-Source neuroscience education platform that brings a patch-clamp-style electrophysiology workflow into the classroom.

#Neuroscience #OpenScience #OpenHardware #Education

Marine Biological Laboratory Explores Human Memory With AI and Virtual Reality The lab in Massachusetts is studying molecular mechanisms of human memory function powered by NVIDIA RTX GPUs, HP Z Workstations and virtual-reality technology.

Nice feature from NVIDIA on #syGlass at the MBL! Exciting to see AI, RTX GPUs, and VR coming together to explore massive 3D brain datasets, with high school students contributing to ongoing, cutting-edge neuroscience research.
@mblscience.bsky.social

blogs.nvidia.com/blog/mbl-hum...

Ever wanted to know how the visual system of a long distance migratory moth looks like? Then you'll find your answers in our new paper. Finally out, after about a decade of collecting data by a group af amazing co-authors. Find it here, open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Lindsay Lab - Postdoc Position Artificial neural networks applied to psychology, neuroscience, and climate change

Spread the word: I'm looking to hire a postdoc to explore the concept of attention (as studied in psych/neuro, not the transformer mechanism) in large Vision-Language Models. More details here: lindsay-lab.github.io/2025/12/08/p...
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Thanks to the team:
@Jonathan Oesterle @thomaszen.bsky.social @fededagos.bsky.social @teuler.bsky.social @philipp.hertie.ai @katrinfranke.bsky.social @Timm Schubert @Zhijian Zhao @nadinedyszkant.bsky.social @Klaudia Szatko @Chenchen Cai @florentyna-d.bsky.social @tom-sk.bsky.social @Ryan Arlinghaus

📦Dataset: huggingface.co/datasets/eul...
💻Code: github.com/eulerlab/all...
🧠GCL Classifier: github.com/eulerlab/gcl...
🤖DataJoint Database: github.com/eulerlab/dji...

A large-scale dataset of functional mouse ganglion cell layer responses We present the All-GCL dataset, a large-scale resource of functional two-photon Ca2+-imaging recordings with rich meta-data information from more than 80,000 cells in the ganglion cell layer (GCL) of ...

We’re excited to share ALL-GCL: a large-scale dataset of 2P Ca²⁺ imaging from 80,000+ cells in the mouse retinal ganglion cell layer, collected over 9 years. Includes rich metadata, shared stimuli & cell-type assignments designed for type-specific analyses, modeling, and ML.

📄: tinyurl.com/ymn53frf

Why isn’t modern AI built around principles from cognitive science? First post in a series on cognitive science and AI

Why isn’t modern AI built around principles from cognitive science or neuroscience? Starting a substack (infinitefaculty.substack.com/p/why-isnt-m...) by writing down my thoughts on that question: as part of a first series of posts giving my current thoughts on the relation between these fields. 1/3

Schematic of how ER-EPG plasticity enables the bump of activity in EPGs to accurately track visual cues. As a fly makes a counter-clockwise turn (top to bottom) it will view visual cues (e.g. the sun) from a new angle and the EPG activity bump (red) will swing clockwise around the network by integrating self motion signals with these visual inputs. When the fly faces a different angle, distinct visual ER neurons are active. Plasticity forms a trough of weak synapses (large circles - strong synapses, small circles - weak synapses) that allow ER neurons with distinct visual tuning to move the EPG bump via disinhibition.

*First preprint from our lab* !!!!!
How does the brain learn to anchor its internal sense of direction to the outside world? 🧭
led by Mark Plitt @markplitt.bsky.social & Dan Turner-Evans, w/ Vivek Jayaraman:
“Octopamine instructs head direction plasticity” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Hierarchical organization of mechano-nociceptive pathways revealed by activity labeling Noxious mechanical stimuli give rise to distinct percepts, from sharp cutaneous pain to diffuse visceral discomfort, yet the nociceptor ensembles that underlie these differences remain poorly defined....

Not all pain is created equal: stepping on a nail feels different from a stomachache. We know there are many nociceptor types, but a key question remains: how is mechanical pain encoded across the body by those sensory neurons? Our new work helps answer this. 1/8
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...