What does it take to successfully run a large, scientific international collaboration? We share 20 lessons from the International Brain Laboratory on governance, credit, reproducibility, infrastructure, and open science. authors.elsevier.com/a/1miug3BtfH...
New in Nature Neuroscience: We developed a flexible model that reveals how animals learn tasks—uncovering stages, sudden insights, and gradual improvements unique to each animal.
Learning isn't monotonic, and our model captures that complexity 🐭📊
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Screenshots of Lightning Pose 3D app
🎉 Excited to announce Lightning Pose 3D!
A complete redesign of our app with powerful new features: calibration-aware labeling for multiview data, state-of-the-art multiview transformer models for training & inference, an interactive video viewer, and continued support for single-view projects.
This year’s Brainhack draws inspiration from CON²PHYS: same dataset, same questions, many truths? Expect hacking sessions, mini-presentations, discussions on reproducibility and a welcoming environment for all skill levels. Apply now (limited spots): pre-cosyne-brainhack.github.io/hackathon202...
Pre-COSYNE Brainhack 2026 – Join Us in Lisbon!
March 10–11, 2026 • Lisbon, Portugal
pre-cosyne-brainhack.github.io/hackathon2026/
Kick off COSYNE week with two days of hands-on, team-based hacking around real electrophysiology data, open tools, and reproducible workflows. #brainhack #cosyne2026
We can help with your Neuropixels recordings, multiphoton imaging, data processing, visualisation, management, and more. Applications are due November 1st! www.internationalbrainlab.com/ibl-core-apply
Want to collaborate with the International Brain Laboratory on your own project? We have funding to work with groups anywhere in the world to do new large-scale projects and we are looking for new partners! Learn more and apply: www.internationalbrainlab.com/ibl-core-apply
These papers show what collaborative science can achieve: standardized methods, open data, and shared tools driving new insights into the brain. The next discoveries are ahead. Come join us!
#Neuroscience #OpenScience #Collaboration
If you have a project idea (experiment or theory!) please apply to become an IBL partner: internationalbrainlab.com/ibl-core-apply +
IBL’s next phase is to work with new partners. We have funding to support groups anywhere in the world to do new large-scale projects. We can help you with Neuropixel recordings, multiphoton imaging, data processing, visualisation, data management, and more. +
These studies are just the beginning. The same infrastructure is now powering many new projects, such as this study by Jean-Paul Noel & colleagues on autism:
🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41... +
We discovered that decisions arise from many brain areas working together—including regions previously overlooked by scientists—to integrate current evidence with beliefs from prior choices. We establish large-scale, collaborative science as a tool to unlock the brain’s secrets +
Twenty labs collaborated to build:
- Recordings from the entire mouse brain during a behavioral task (data.internationalbrainlab.org)
- Open and reproducible workflows and data standards
- An organisational structure enabling scientific discovery among distributed groups +
Two flagship papers from the International Brain Laboratory, now out in @Nature.com:
🧠 Brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09235-0
🧠 Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09226-1 +
Hear directly from our amazing team members: A conversation with research software engineers at the International Brain Laboratory: Patterns www.cell.com/patterns/ful...
Excited to announce the Foundation Models for the Brain and Body workshop at #NeurIPS2025! 🧠📈 🧪
We invite short papers or interactive demos on AI for neural, physiological or behavioral data.
Submit by Aug 22 👉 brainbodyfm-workshop.github.io
Thrilled to share our state-of-the-art method for in vivo cell-type classification and brain region localization, NEMO, which is now now a spotlight at @iclr-conf.bsky.social !
We use NEMO to characterize the electrophysiological diversity of cell-types across the entire mouse brain. 🐭 🧪 🧠
Another step toward a foundation model of the mouse brain: "Neural Encoding and Decoding at Scale (NEDS)"
Trained on neural and behavioral data from 70+ mice, NEDS achieves state-of-the-art prediction of behavior (decoding) and neural responses (encoding) on held-out animals. 🐀
Ported over from X!
What will a foundation model for the brain look like? 🧠
We argue that it must be able to solve a diverse set of tasks across multiple brain regions and animals.
Check out our NeurIPS paper which introduces a multi-region, multi-animal, multi-task model arxiv.org/abs/2407.14668
Come see us at #sfn #sfn2023 #sfn23 sites.google.com/internationa...
Neuropixels insertions shown on a mouse brain
Going to SfN this year? Join us for a workshop on how to use the IBL Brainwide Map dataset to test your own hypotheses! For more information and to register, visit internationalbrainlab.org/sfn2023 #Neuroscience #compneuro #sfn2023
