I tracked every keyword in 22 years of Cosyne abstracts to map how computational neuroscience evolved — from Bayesian brains to neural manifolds to LLMs — and where it's heading next.
fly circuit diagram
When a fly lands on your arm, how does your nervous system decide where to swat?
By reconstructing tactile axons in a Drosophila connectome, we found a leg somatotopic map and downstream circuits that sample the map to initiate targeted grooming
Led by Leila Elabbady, PhD
doi.org/10.64898/202...
A central somatotopic map of the fly leg supports spatially targeted grooming https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.27.708590v1
From @bdpedigo.bsky.social: a super efficient, highly reliable, and very generalizable method for mesh structure classification, applied here to spine detection across basically every synapse onto a cell in the MICRoNS dataset.
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TODAY at #SfN25 - join us for a nanosymposium exploring insights from the from the Machine Intelligence From Cortical Networks (MICrONS) Project.
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Don't miss our first talks at #SfN25!
Join us at #SfN25 for a nanosymposium exploring insights from the from the Machine Intelligence From Cortical Networks (MICrONS) Project.
📅 Saturday, November 15
🕐 1:00–2:45pm
📍 SDCC Room 30
this looks like it hasn't been maintained in a while, but maybe the timing matches what you're seeing compared to RSpectra? github.com/u1234x1234/p...
scikit-learn.org/stable/modul... this is also often quite fast, but you definitely found the go-to (sparse.linalg.svds). How much worse is it? I remember seeing a stackoverflow or github thread on this but I'm struggling to dig it up again
Great to see the MICrONS data out, congratulations to the huge team who created this amazing data!
If you have a scientific question about the data, there are resources available (including annotation and proofreading work) to help you! Submit a request to VORTEX: www.microns-explorer.org/vortex
The mind is like a symphony - it works better when the activity is synchronized. Growing evidence suggests that inhibitory neurons work together to "gain control."
Learn more in this excellent review by Katie Moisse in @thetransmitter.bsky.social.
🔗 www.thetransmitter.org/connectome/i...
How does the brain work?
Scientists are closer to the answer with the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date. 🧵
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car pushing through a crowd of people for no good reason at pike place
Mayor Harrell today on Pike Place: "I have a vision for our connected waterfront and Pike Place Market as one of the greatest pedestrian experiences in the country – where market patrons, visitors from out of town, and downtown residents do not have to worry about vehicle traffic." 1/2
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The Kebschull and @rezakalhor.bsky.social labs are recruiting a joint postdoc for an exciting project at the interface of phylodynamics and neuroscience. Come join us at JHU BME. Spread the word, and contact us if you are interested. #hiring 🧪🧠. More on www.kebschull-lab.org and below.
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Render of a spiny neuron in mouse visual cortex from www.microns-explorer.org
This is a map of Seattle's streetcar network in 1941. Same hills.
