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Axel F meets Samuel Beckett in The Lifestyles of the Rich and Tenured
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/02/25/a...
Breaking News: The Nobel laureate Richard Axel said he was resigning as co-director of a Columbia brain institute over his friendship with Jeffery Epstein.
Excited to be co-organising a #cosyne2026 workshop with Alison Comrie on 'algorithms for learning from scratch'! With a great line-up of speakers, we'll be tackling the question of what processes enable naive biological & artificial agents to adapt to new situations. Info here: tinyurl.com/4u8enf7k
A lot of 1990s photos of Oasis look like this to me.
Get in, dorks. We're ready for round two.
RALLY TO TAKE BACK SCIENCE! 🔬🧪✊
March 7th, 2026 in Washington, DC
Learn more at www.standupforscience.net/ma... (link in our bio.)
The hippocampal map has its own attentional control signal!
Our new study reveals that theta #sweeps can be instantly biased towards behaviourally relevant locations. See 📹 in post 4/6 and preprint here 👉
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Alex Pretti was already restrained when federal agents shot and killed him in Minneapolis, a New York Times analysis of video shows. The footage contradicts the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the shooting.
📣 NeuroDataReHack 2026 applications are open!
Join us July 13-17 at Janelia to explore 450+ open neurophysiology datasets on @dandiarchive.org. Learn to analyze existing data and integrate it into your research.
Free to attend, lodging & meals covered.
Apply by Feb 20: nwb.org/events/hck26...
Introducing a new scientific computing library: syntropy.
Syntropy is a comprehensive package for information theory, aimed at both theoreticians and data analysts working on discrete, continuous, and mixed data.
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github.com/thosvarley/s...
📣 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!
✅ Apply now via the event website (limited spots).
Can humans & animals really use internal maps to take shortcuts?
Tolman famously said yes - based largely on his Sunburst maze.
Our new review & meta-analysis suggests evidence is far weaker than you might think.
🧵👇 doi.org/10.1111/ejn....
@uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social @ejneuroscience.bsky.social
🎉 NeuroConv 0.9.0 is out!
This release brings:
✅ Redesigned TIFF converter for multi-file & volumetric data
✅ Enhanced Miniscope support with auto-aggregation
✅ NWB file repacking for better compression
✅ New behavioral data documentation
Read more: catalystneuro.com/blog/neuroco...
🧠📢 New preprint alert
Large-scale ephys is exploding but spike sorting remains the computational bottleneck. A 2-hr, 6-probe Neuropixels 2.0 Quad Base session can take over a week to sort on a single machine. Here's a better solution. 🧵
#neuroskyence #compneurosky
Check out our new perspective paper in eNeuro! We explore recent advancements and future prospects in open neuroscience, and discuss how open science practices, data sharing, and structural changes can create a more collaborative and transparent scientific ecosystem
www.eneuro.org/content/12/1...
Maybe some scientists should have stayed on twitter....
Our new preprint: The primate hippocampus parses experience into event-aligned neural states, creating a temporal scaffold for organizing behavior.
At #SfN25 ? Come chat at my poster — Wednesday AM (PP14; 414.03).
The Sosa Lab is going to #SfN25 and actively recruiting ✨postdocs✨ with systems neuroscience experience! We study both fundamental memory processes and how memory changes during pregnancy and postpartum.
If you are interested in meeting at SfN, please email me! www.sosaneurolab.com/join/postdoc...
"doxxing" was named after the first person doxed, Robert Dox, 4520 Jacobs Ave, Belview, MN
Want to make publication-ready figures come straight from Python without having to do any manual editing? Are you fed up with axes labels being unreadable during your presentations? Follow this short tutorial including code examples! 👇🧵
I’m pleased to share our new paper, “Hippocampal ripple diversity organizes neuronal reactivation dynamics in the offline brain”, out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social !
With @vitorlds.bsky.social and David Dupret, we show that diversity in ripple current profiles shapes reactivation dynamics
I’m super excited to finally put my recent work with @behrenstimb.bsky.social on bioRxiv, where we develop a new mechanistic theory of how PFC structures adaptive behaviour using attractor dynamics in space and time!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The New York Times piece today about US science is terrible and wrong—in many ways.
I could write a whole article about this, but as one example:
“To close observers, the original crisis began well before any of this…”
No. I’m a close observer of science, and this is incorrect.
The Sosa Lab website is now live!
www.sosaneurolab.com
We will be seeking a postdoctoral researcher to join the growing team! If you are a rodent neuroscientist and interested in doing systems neuro work in the mountains 🏔️, please check out the "Join" page.
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🚨 New preprint! 🚨
Excited and proud (& a little nervous 😅) to share our latest work on the importance of #theta-timescale spiking during #locomotion in #learning. If you care about how organisms learn, buckle up. 🧵👇
📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
💻 code + data 🔗 below 🤩
#neuroskyence
I know there are data repositories like Dandi for ephys, but are there known repositories for behavioral studies? Like where people put trial-wise behavior for individual subjects?
output from a GAM in the linked essay
Simon Wood, the GOAT of generalized additive models & creator of the mgcv #rstats package, has an Annual Review of Statistics essay on GAMs, available open access #statssky #mlsky
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
It’s a death cult and Trump is Jim Jones.
trying this with GPT-5 and charting new frontiers in gaslighting
How We Brought Respectful Debate Back to The Harvard Crimson’s Editorial Board
To us, the solution is deceptively simple. Universities should create environments where students with different views must talk to one another routinely and establish ground rules that ensure they do so without distractions or prejudgment. Illiberalism on college campuses isn’t inevitable. At The Crimson, it took only a few months to radically improve.
I will never understand how American elites managed to convince themselves that uncivil debate — not fascism, not impunity and not widespread indifference to facts — is the defining problem of our time.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...
