Marcel Stimberg

160 - SciOp.net feat. Jonny and Jez (part 1)

We’re talking with @jo.nny.rip and Jez about SciOp, a torrent-focused data preservation project that encourages academics to help with the act of making data available. It’s distributed, it’s robust, and SciOp is working on making it easy to do.

Recreating Ed Hawkins' climate spiral visualization in a Jupyter Notebook on notebook.link 🎨

The notebook uses NASA GISTEMP v4 monthly temperature anomalies from 1980 to 2025, and the p5.js JupyterLite kernel for ad-hoc visualizations 💡

➡️ Try it in your browser: notebook.link/@jtp/paintin...

Humanity runs on spite lmao

Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

London #neuroscience people you may like this. We're hosting a series of talks at Imperial & Crick on how to get experiment and theory working together better. Each session will have a talk around this and extended networking / group discussion on the questions raised. Plus, free food!

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GitHub - kaurarmanjot445-sys/snn-mnist-conversion: Time-to-first-spike SNN conversion for MNIST - exact gradient equivalence implementation Time-to-first-spike SNN conversion for MNIST - exact gradient equivalence implementation - kaurarmanjot445-sys/snn-mnist-conversion

Very refreshing interaction with the undergrad student form India @kaurarmanjot445.bsky.social ! 🧪 🧠

She was interested in our math equivalence between spike timing and deep relu nets

With a short call and few emails she reproduced the work and open sourced a turorial
github.com/kaurarmanjot...

How can we build better experiment-theory collaborations in neuroscience?

We're hosting a series of 6 in-person, interactive workshops to discuss this.

Come along!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand...

Excited to share our new preprint exploring how Paramecium achieves diverse flow functions, i.e. feeding and swimming, simultaneously. This work was spearheaded by our ExM expert, PhD student Daphne Laan @daphnelaan.bsky.social :
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

JupyterLite Officially Joins Project Jupyter! We are thrilled to announce that JupyterLite is now an official part of Project Jupyter. This milestone marks a significant step forward…

🎉 JupyterLite is now part of Project Jupyter!

Run Jupyter notebooks directly in your browser: no server, no setup.

Many thanks to the JupyterLite contributors and supporters like QuantStack, Bloomberg and the Gates Foundation.

🔗 blog.jupyter.org/jupyterlite-...

Online workshop: Practical introduction to neuronal modeling with DendroTweaks and Dendrify

Join us for a free online workshop on neuronal modeling with #DendroTweaks and #Dendrify!

📅 When: Late April 2026 (exact schedule TBA)
🔗 Register here: forms.gle/txUzajvPBzDc...

#neuroskyence #compneurosky

Imagine! I mean, imagine how hard it is for a quadratic equation to understand itself! Imagine how hard it is for that statement to have any meaning whatsoever!

Our grad-level "Deep Learning" course (MIT's 6.7960) is now freely available online through OpenCourseWare: ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-79...

Lecture videos, psets, and readings are all provided.

Had a lot of fun teaching this with @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social and @jeremybernste.in!

PhD opportunities The School of Convergence Science at Imperial College London is inviting applications for fully funded PhD studentships on research projects that sup...

PhD opportunity in "The role of neural development in multimodal intelligence" with me, @marcusghosh.bsky.social and @flor-iacaruso.bsky.social. Read details below 👇.

Note there's a very short window for applying (deadline Feb 27).

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www.imperial.ac.uk/school-of-co...

An overview of the Open Software Summer School 2026 schedule. There are two tracks in the first week, "Animals in Motion" and "Large Array Data". "BrainGlobe" and "Extracellular Electrophysiology" will be run in the second week.

Applications to our summer school have been extended for two weeks!

If you want to learn about open-source tools for neuroscience, please join us in London this August.

Deadline Feb 15th.

Full details: neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar...

Fellowships We welcome applications from outstanding researchers applying for external fellowship funding.

Interested in a fellowship in London? Come and join me in my department. The department is EE but research topics can be very wide: happy to host people with any overlapping interests in NeuroAI/SNNs/etc. More info on available fellowships and timelines here: www.imperial.ac.uk/electrical-e...

Speaking from the scientific code mines, we are drowning in vibe code. The ideal of "a commons of rigorously audited, collectively developed open source tools" is dead. We're back to the bad old days of private, single-use black box scripts - except this time not even the author understands them.

Just like democracies are being put to the test around the world (and succumbing sooner than we hoped), our ideals of research integrity and scientific rigor are being tested by ever-invasive AI tools. I am not hopeful science will survive this unscathed. We'll need to rethink a lot of what we do.

Postdoc position in Paris: come help develop new generation human brain computer interfaces ⚡🧠💻

Interested? Contact me if you have experience with machine learning (e.g. simulation-based inference, RL, generative/diffusion models) or dynamical systems.

See below for + details and retweet 🙏

Release mystmd@1.8.0 · jupyter-book/mystmd This brings in new functionality for execution concurrency, allowing you to control how many notebooks are executed in parallel during build in case you have notebooks that depend on one another or...

We're proud to announce a new release of the Jupyter Book stack! This brings in a number of fixes and UI improvements! Check out release notes for each here:

mystmd 1.8: github.com/jupyter-book...
myst-theme 1.1: github.com/jupyter-book...
jupyter-book 2.1.1: github.com/jupyter-book...

On Evaluating Cognitive Capabilities in Machines (and Other "Alien" Intelligences) (Apologies for the length of this post, which means it gets cut off in the email version.

My latest on Substack -- a write-up of the talk I gave at NeurIPS in December.

aiguide.substack.com/p/on-evaluat...

Front page of the website for the book: Practical Spiking Neural Networks

The field of #neuromorphics is lacking *accessible*, *intuitive*, and *practical* introductions. Ramashish Gaurav, Petruț Antoniu Bogdan, and I are setting out to fix this with a book on Practical Spiking Neural Networks! ✅

Any and all contributions are welcome! 💕

Early access at: snnbook.net

We've shipped a major update to the JOSS submission scope requirements, affecting what is eligible for submission and what information we require from authors.

You can read more about the changes and our motivations here: blog.joss.theoj.org/2026/01/prep... #joss #opensource #openscience

How heterogeneity shapes dynamics and computation in the brain No two neurons are the same, yet models often treat neural populations as pools of identical and interchangeable elements. Here, Dahmen et al. highlight recent theoretical advances that reveal the imp...

At the Bernstein Conference 2024, Jeremie Lefebvre and I organized a workshop on the computational consequences of neural heterogeneity. Now, slightly more than a year later, we funneled the emerging discussions into a perspective piece: www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Just published my annual predictions update, tracking from Jan 1st 2018, with new commentary and new ten year predictions. It is long. rodneybrooks.com/predictions-...

Looks like a really interesting collection of essays. David Edgerton's in particular looks great (and I never knew he was taught by the great Margaret Gowing, but that makes a lot of sense).
turia.uv.es/index.php/Me...

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PREPRINT OUT ✨ "hack" your microscope to work as a 3D printer! print micrometer sized features at cm scale. a method for easy and cheap microfabrication, with a focus on biological applications. THREAD ↓
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party.

Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar

I think this is what is shown already, no? Y axis institution and X axis nationality.