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Thomas Pfeffer

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Neuroscientist / R&D Engineer at Pupil Labs, Berlin

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⏳ Just over 2 weeks left to apply! ⏳

We are looking for talented Cognitive Neuroscientists to join our team at Trinity College Dublin for postdoc positions funded by a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator grant.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV296/r...

www.ktsetsoslab.net/_files/ugd/0...

14.01.2026 12:43 👍 23 🔁 20 💬 2 📌 0

Nice paper. But is it really "seemingly implausible" that you can predict "what you are doing" from "how you move" (even if that is just reconstructed from camera poses)?

02.12.2025 08:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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a man wearing a white shirt and tie smiles in front of a window ALT: a man wearing a white shirt and tie smiles in front of a window

I've been waiting some years to make this joke and now it’s real:

I conned somebody into giving me a faculty job!

I’m starting as a W1 Tenure-Track Professor at Goethe University Frankfurt in a week (lol), in the Faculty of CS and Math

and I'm recruiting PhD students 🤗

23.09.2025 12:58 👍 188 🔁 31 💬 30 📌 3

Amazing, Richard! Very happy for you!

24.09.2025 05:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
A couple stands beside the neon of the Double R Diner in North Bend, WA

A couple stands beside the neon of the Double R Diner in North Bend, WA

RIP David Lynch.

I treasure the way you shaped my view of the world.

Photo taken last month outside the Double R Dinner.

16.01.2025 20:46 👍 477 🔁 28 💬 4 📌 2
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Is the impact of spontaneous movements on early visual cortex species specific? Recent studies in non-human primates do not find pronounced signals related to the animal’s own body movements in the responses of neurons in the visu…

Recent studies found pronounced neuromodulation in the early visual cortex due to locomotion and spontaneous body movements in mice but not in non-human primates. We reconciled this dichotomy in this new open-access feature review @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

18.12.2024 17:50 👍 25 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0

Help bluesky neurohivemind!

If you know of any computational / theoretical work modelling neuromodulators please share it 🙏 if you don't, please retweet!

07.12.2024 18:06 👍 44 🔁 33 💬 13 📌 0

I am a bit afraid the whole Starter Pack business leaves behind trainees — make sure to follow / repost them if their work interests you so their voices are heard #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #compneurosky

21.11.2024 07:45 👍 161 🔁 42 💬 5 📌 4
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I have deleted all of my tweets from X using tweetdelete.net. Well worth the $3.99 fee for one month to remove all 9,609 of them, and super easy to use.

17.11.2024 01:23 👍 75 🔁 10 💬 3 📌 1
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Early selection of task-relevant features through population gating - Nature Communications How the brain selects relevant information in complex and dynamic environments remains poorly understood. Here, the authors reveal that distinct neural populations in rat auditory cortex gate stimuli ...

Happy to post here for the first time and let the world know that we just published a new paper!

Please take a look if you are interested in context-dependent decision making, across-area interactions and low-rank RNN 👇

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

27.10.2023 15:26 👍 29 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 1
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Many researchers in cognitive neuroscience and deep learning seem to assume that inference in the brain is hierarchical. 

Our new Nature Reviews Neuroscience paper questions this assumption and proposes the shallow brain hypothesis.

#neuroskyence #brain

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

27.10.2023 14:17 👍 106 🔁 49 💬 2 📌 1

Check out this new paper! Led by @mehdiazabou.bsky.social and @evadyer.bsky.social, we show that it is possible to get SOTA brain decoding with transfer across individuals and tasks!

The key is a clever way to tokenize spiking data for transformers.

#neuroskyence #brain #neurotech

26.10.2023 13:33 👍 32 🔁 18 💬 2 📌 1
PNAS Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

my first paper ever is out now in PNAS 🎉🔥!! (⁠ ⁠ꈍ⁠ᴗ⁠ꈍ⁠) (w/ Simon van Gaal, @juliaha.bsky.social, @smfleming.bsky.social and @fahrenfort.bsky.social) we introduced a novel method to distinguish between effects in subjective experience from effects in decision-making. let me know what you think!

26.10.2023 09:42 👍 60 🔁 24 💬 2 📌 3
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New preprint:

"Tracking the distance to criticality in systems with unknown noise"

By Brendan Harris, w/ Leonardo Gollo.

We identify new, noise-robust time-series features for tracking the distance to criticality

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2310.14791
Code: github.com/brendanjohnh...

#ComplexSystems

25.10.2023 01:55 👍 21 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 0
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40 Hz Steady-State Responses in Human Auditory Cortex Depend on GABAergic Neuronal Inhibition https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.20.563259v1 The 40 Hz auditory steady-state response (ASSR), an oscillatory brain response to periodically modul

40 Hz Steady-State Responses in Human Auditory Cortex Depend on GABAergic Neuronal Inhibition https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.20.563259v1

21.10.2023 02:15 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Non-invasive temporal interference electrical stimulation of the human hippocampus - Nature Neurosci... Electrical deep brain stimulation therapy is limited by the risks of inserting electrodes into the brain. Here the authors report non-invasive deep brain stimulation in the human hippocampus using tem...

Interesting work
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

20.10.2023 03:07 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 2
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Is ketamine as good as placebo or as good as ECT? Two recent RCTs investigating the use of ketamine in the treatment of depression raise interesting questions for us to reflect on.

Now that this fascinating trial of ketamine masked by anesthesia has been published in Nature Mental Health, time to repost my blog post discussing this study back when it was published as a pre-print.

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

awaisaftab.substack.com/p/is-ketamin...

19.10.2023 22:47 👍 15 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
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Towards a biologically annotated brain connectome - Nature Reviews Neuroscience High-resolution maps of biological annotations in the brain are increasingly generated and shared. In this Review, Bazinet and colleagues discuss how brain connectomes can be enriched with biological ...

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Towards a biologically annotated brain connectome
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...

19.10.2023 01:22 👍 29 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 0
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BlueSky Invites Please fill out this form if (1) you’d like to donate invite codes to scientists, clinicians, academics, other researchers or scholars or (2) you’re a member of one of these communities and would ...

Just hit 8035 code sent! Thank you all so much for donating codes and spreading the word to get more researchers and clinicians here.

There are ~850 codes left to distribute, and I just cleared the request list. If you know anyone looking to join bsky, send them my way! 🧪

forms.gle/ZyYhpa5MHT66...

14.10.2023 20:04 👍 185 🔁 97 💬 11 📌 16

Nice change of pace putting the multi-channel #MEG #EEG data aside for a moment and looking at two inconspicuous 1-D signals that share more dynamics than we thought. Learned some things about respiration from @danlikesbrains.bsky.social along the way! wdyt? #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky

08.10.2023 10:08 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

The link between respiration and arousal is a bit more puzzling than widely assumed, as pointed out in the great review by non-blue Martin Schaefer and others from @odorjohan.bsky.social 's lab. Led by @ckeitelsci.bsky.social, we try to advance things a little with pupillometry.

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08.10.2023 06:25 👍 32 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 2

I will probably hire one PhD student for science of science and one to fit big models to neural data/ neuroAI. Relevant prior experience and love for nerding out/ building algorithms and math will be needed.

04.10.2023 12:00 👍 20 🔁 20 💬 0 📌 0

Has anyone here seriously considered leaving science?

Why did you stay?

03.10.2023 06:22 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

The German research foundation (DFG) now explicitly allows the use of generative AI (e.g. ChatGPT) for grant applications & scientific publications, as long as the scientist is transparent about their use. GenAI for grant reviews is prohibited given their confidentiality.
www.dfg.de/en/service/p...

02.10.2023 07:44 👍 18 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 2

#neurojobs #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence

06.09.2023 17:03 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0

Most academics know that MDPI is not the most reputable publisher but this is particularly grim: a special issue in which 27th of the 28th papers are authored by the two guest editors.

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/processes/special_issues/Biologics_Botanicals

22.09.2023 22:30 👍 241 🔁 93 💬 14 📌 24