I just made an account and voted for this biology laboratory made of LEGO to "promote biological research and inspire more people into the world of biology". They need 10K votes. Reposting and/or voting below would be helpful. 🤗
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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.
For the curious ones. This line explains well how to simulate the deep spiking SNN with exact equivalence:
github.com/kaurarmanjot...
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...
🚨 🔬 PhD positions at Google DeepMind in France 🇫🇷
We are advertising Master Level Intern positions at Google DeepMind within our Frontier AI Unit.
These could lead to co-advised PhD positions with Google DeepMind and French academic institutions.
job-boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/job...
If you work at the intersection of computational neuroscience and machine learning, consider applying for this postdoc position (January 2027 start date):
academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15868
An opportunity to work with a great group of people across Harvard, MIT, and UC Berkeley.
PhD Alert! We’re recruiting for a new, fully-funded #Neuroskyence PhD studentship to model multiple sclerosis in vitro, combining immunology with ephys. Led by the awesome @juliae.bsky.social
Please repost.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Summer school on Neuro AI in Cambridge.
Registration Deadline: 16 Feb 2026
Speaker line up:
G. Bellec
A. Billard
R. Bogacz
R. Ponte Costa
W. Gerstner
M. Giugliano
L. Hunt
M. Sahani
P. Series
P. Tino
www.fens.org/news-activit...
I highly recommend this postdoc position in Paris.
Joao is amazing and it's a unique opportunity to do serious computational/ML analysis with human brain recordings in vivo. 🧪 🧠
These days I drink Iranian tea everyday so I don't forget.
Media coverage of these events have been very poor in my internet bubble so far.
Come join us for this first worshop of a three part series on the computational ingredients of reasoning in minds and AI. Reasoning is a complex term, especially in light of an exploding category of methods in LLMs. These workshops will explore reasoning’s multiple facets.
I always have an issue with self proclaimed "foundation models in X".
A key defining feature of a foundation model is adoption by a community of users. If nobody has built on top of it. It's no foundation
Neuromorphic camera for neural recordings 🤩🤩
So spiking cameras enabling sub millisecond optical imaging. Potentially enabling to record... Spikes? 🐸
Science history is just so ironic sometimes (50 years to close the loop)
Hi thanks for reaching out.
Mostly I don't hire research assistants with a bachelor.
But please write me an email at first.last@tuwien.ac.at, and explain what your intentions are.
I have had existential thoughts about large dt with biological neuron simulations too.
But now I start to wonder: if the model is not fitted on intra cellular recording. Does dt < 1ms make any sense really?
The kind of concept you hear once and you never forget.
If you know what the electrode records. You know what it stimulates.
Applications are open for the 2026 Paris Spring School of Imaging and Electrophysiology! It’s a great way to discover Paris (❤️) while learning a pretty wide range of techniques for neuroscience, in a fantastic environment. Share widely: parisneuro.ovh
Examples of sequences of activity seen in multiple regions of the brain
Sequences are everywhere! In every brain region. And are written in stone.
Invariant Activity Sequences Across the Mouse Brain.
Out today, by Célian Bimbard, with @kenneth-harris.bsky.social.
Based on data by Célian and by @intlbrainlab.bsky.social.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Very important
This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
Congrats 👏🎉
🔬 We're hiring a Junior Group Leader for Data-Driven Digital Twins/System Models in medicine/life sciences at @uni_goettingen! Perfect opportunity for early-career researchers who want to:
- Lead their own research group
- Work at the intersection of AI, simulation, and biomedicine
Our paper on data constrained RNN that generalize to optogenetic perturbations now citable on eLife:
doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
We should just use standardized test scores + grades to admit students into college.
Everything else is way too easy to game, allowing the extremely rich to dominate access to prestigious colleges. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
I've been saying this for a long time, but the data makes it clear.
Is there a version without the pay wall?
Image of robots struggling with a social dilemma.
1/ Why does RL struggle with social dilemmas? How can we ensure that AI learns to cooperate rather than compete?
Introducing our new framework: MUPI (Embedded Universal Predictive Intelligence) which provides a theoretical basis for new cooperative solutions in RL.
Preprint🧵👇
(Paper link below.)
How I contributed to rejecting one of my favorite papers of all times, Yes, I teach it to students daily, and refer to it in lots of papers. Sorry. open.substack.com/pub/kording/...
The big AI labs continue to be infuriatingly opaque about the actual figures for their total electricity and water consumption
The best report I have seen from them so far is this one from Mistral in July, but it still left unanswered questions for me simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/22/...
Desk rejection is ok because it's quick
My initial point was about the moving frontier of knowledge in G2.5 and G3. Locating correctly areas was mind blowing to me.
I got fooled by the primate Brian with a mouse olfactory bulb. I cannot hide my poor knowledge of mouse anatomy. But I will continue to work in comp neuro if you allow me
