Join us at TENSS 2026 to open black boxes, explain how things/brains work and debate the impact (or lack or it) of various new technologies on understanding of the brain and on society. tenss.ro Apply by: March 15th!
Excited to announce our new study in which we convert mouse neural responses into natural language (English) descriptions of odorants. Comments, suggestions are highly appreciated as always: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
A great poet once said, “It ain’t where you’re from, it’s where you’re at.” For developing brain cells, it’s both! Published in @cp-neuron.bsky.social, Stan Kerstjens & @tonyzador.bsky.social put forward a new theory for how the brain organizes itself during development. www.cshl.edu/a-new-theory...
1/n: A new collaborative preprint from the lab to start the year: "A multi-ring shifter network computes head direction in zebrafish" together with Siyuan Mei, Martin Stemmler and Andreas Herz from the LMU, Munich.
First preprint from the lab! Using intracellular recordings & analysis of 2-photon imaging data, we show that spiking & neuromodulatory input during experience drive a reorganization of visuomotor inputs in V1 layer 2/3 neurons, consistent with enhanced visuomotor cancellation - bioRxiv link below.
We think cortex might function like a JEPA. It looks like prediction errors in layer 2/3 are not computed against input (as is the idea in predictive processing), but against a representation in latent space (i.e. like in a JEPA arxiv.org/abs/2301.08243 or RPL doi.org/10.1101/2025...).
DNN models of the brain are getting bigger. Are we replacing one complicated system in vivo with another in silico?
In new work, we seek the *smallest* DNN models of visual cortex, balancing prediction with parsimony.
It turns out these compact models are surprisingly small!
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Adam Kampff’s passion for understanding and explaining the world was unmatched. Living by example and not ever compromising on his dreams, Adam was uncanny in making people realize they can learn and understand anything and everything. Keep his dream alive!
In his own words: tinyurl.com/ye29csw3
Come join us as a CSHL-Simons Fellow!
supporting bold research programs aimed at tackling fundamental questions across all Neuroscience areas, from NeuroAI to brain body interactions. CSHL Fellows are appointed for 3-5 years and direct their own research groups.
www.cshl.edu/about-us/car...
Apply to the new CSHL grad program in BioAI/neuroAI!
(Masters degree or equivalent required in a quantitative area such as computer science, physics, mathematics, or engineering)
www.cshl.edu/phd-program/...
Human intelligence is overrated and not a useful yardstick for AI - a polemic. markusmeister.com/2025/09/15/w...
1/ Mapping synaptic connectivity between individual neurons is extremely laborious. We developed BRISC, a new method that makes it possible to map inputs onto 100s of neurons in the same animal in a matter of weeks! Led by Alex Becalick and @antblot.bsky.social. 🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Hi Weijian - it would be great if you could join next year - we were indeed discussing having 2p miniscopes on site as well :)
@trose-neuro.bsky.social @daniobrain.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @olveczky.bsky.social @benjulab.bsky.social @jvoigts.bsky.social @asheshdhawale.bsky.social @danielavallentin.bsky.social @andreasjkeller.bsky.social
...all due to passion and the enthusiasm of the wonderful TAs and lecturers that make TENSS happen (only some with handles here): @pgupta-cshl.bsky.social @open-ephys.org @antblot.bsky.social @brunopichler.bsky.social @mtkostecki.bsky.social @neuroetho.bsky.social @alecamera.bsky.social
the 2025 TENSSies...juggernaut joy, enthusiasm, curiosity, playfulness and journey of discovery.
ongoing...a new edition of TENSS (www.tenss.ro). thanks to the wonderful people that make it happen yet again!
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BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Inching closer to understanding the physical, neural and perceptual odor spaces. Check out our progress on high-throughput mapping of odorant receptors (OR) to glomeruli and odor responses at the @achems.bsky.social poster tomorrow from Zarmeena, Kira, Walter and @alexkoulakov.bsky.social.
Published an op-ed for @cnn.com: “Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger.”
A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...
Our first look at midbrain PAG’s role in singing mouse vocal control. When near each other, these mice produce two divergent vocal modes. Same circuits for USVs and Songs—or different ones? Bets were made..some of us bought beers for others! Led by @xmikezheng20.bsky.social & Clifford Harpole. 👇🏽
We also note that in land vertebrates evolution has invented a parallel pathway (tufted cells-to-AON and striatum) whose responses resemble more closely those of first-order neurons. This representation may improve odor intensity decoding and localization, albeit with higher energy costs. 3/3
We analyze two plausible decoding schemes (firing rate versus spike timing) by which downstream neural circuits can read-out concentration information, ponder on their constraints, and raise experimentally testable hypotheses. 2/3
