For those traveling to #cosyne2026, sad to miss catching up this year, but here's two posters you should check out:
1) Complementary roles of spatial tuning and population geometry in place- vs. memory-guided navigation
w/ @audiodrome.bsky.social @apeyrache.bsky.social @tyrellturing.bsky.social.
Phenomenal work!
1/N: Dear cognitive map fans, I’d like to share a model I’ve been working on for a while (clearing backlog :). I show how a vector navigation architecture (VNA) and a “positional inference network” (PIN) can build Universal Cognitive Maps (UCMs) for abstract spaces.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Recurrent cortical networks encode natural sensory statistics via sequence filtering
www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...
#neuroscience
Excited to share our new paper to be published in Neuron!
With Valentin Schmutz @bio-emergent.bsky.social and Wulfram Gerstner @gerstnerlab.bsky.social, we explore how circuit structure in RNNs shapes network computation and single-neuron responses.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🏆️ The winners of the #BrainPrize2026 have been announced!
🌟 The @lundbeckfonden.bsky.social @brainprize.org has been awarded to Prof. Patrik Ernfors and Prof. David Ginty for their discoveries on how the nervous system detects and processes touch and pain.
👉 buff.ly/CHkXW5t
#BrainPrize2026
Finally getting on top of new papers and god there are so many good ones. This from Lykken, Kanter, @edvardmoser.bsky.social & @m-bmoser.bsky.social is brilliant. Neuropixels showing differential phase shifts across grid modules drive place cell remapping. Elegant grid-to-place transformation story.
Nature research paper: Compact deep neural network models of the visual cortex
go.nature.com/3OKRXZU
Highly recommended for everyone working with neural data!
Insightful angle for mechanistic interpretability!
doi.org/10.48550/arX...
Neurons around a recording ephys electrode
Diagram of monkey looking at a screen in a neuroscience experiment
Spike rasters for two units in response to a checkerboard shown in the screen. One is an ON neuron, the other is an OFF neuron
Waveforms of single neurons within a single ephys electrode sorted using K-means clustering.
Just uploaded some of my *hand-crafted* comp-neuro teaching materials, thought they might be useful to someone out there.
It's just some exercise notebooks for data analysis github.com/morales-greg...
Legendary!
Mission: record hippocampal place cells in zero gravity
Crew: 3 rats with electrode arrays
Vehicle: Space Shuttle Columbia
Status: data now publicly available on DANDI, 28 years later
The ratstronauts' mission is finally complete. 🐀🚀 h/t NASA
about.dandiarchive.org/blog/2026/02...
We have PhD positions and Post Doc positions available! www.med.uio.no/imb/english/... Please apply if you are interested in human invasive intracranial recordings or applied machine learning in a neuroscientific context.
Deadlines 1st of March (Sunday!) and 4th of March.
Please RT!
I actually couldn't believe it was JUST seven years ago, feels like I've been doing these implants all my life 😅
Just found this image of a DOWN state in posterior parietal cortex I recorded 7 years ago with my first linear probe, I distinctly remember I couldn't believe my own eyes 😵💫
This paper on how the brain may do gradient descent is very cool: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Where in the brain does DANDI have data? Now you can find out. DANDI Atlas maps datasets onto the Allen CCF mouse brain atlas in interactive 3D. Explore 47 dandisets across 353 brain regions.
atlas.dandiarchive.org
Learn more: about.dandiarchive.org/blog/2026/02...
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
We had a lot of fun working on this project (led by Itzel Ishida, not on bluesky). Some interesting highlights from the paper -
Why can't you remember being a toddler? Or can you?
Nice feature in Time of our lab's work on infantile amnesia at @tcddublin.bsky.social
Also of the labs of @sarahdpower.bsky.social at MPI Berlin, @franklandlab.bsky.social at Sick Kids, and Nick Turk-Browne at Yale.
time.com/7380496/why-...
🚨JOB alert🚨
We have three (yes, THREE) 🌟lectureships🌟 advertised in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol.
Broad remit, including #AnimalBehaviour & #GlobalChangeBiology
⏱️Deadline: 8th March 2026
🙏Please circulate widely
😊Come join us!
Full #job details: tinyurl.com/y3us95rc
Brain Mapping: Redefining borders in the sensorimotor cortex
🔗 buff.ly/UDspPwy
A half-century old question may have its final answer. Using high-resolution #Mini2P microscopes, we find no evidence of local topography in #PlaceCells. Place fields of neighbouring cells are no more similar than those of randomly selected cells. 🧠🗺️ Out now in @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
New preprint out 🎉
What happens to the hippocampal “place code” when an animal is actively engaged in a task?
The answer surprised us (and might surprise you too!).
Let's dive in ⬇️
Link:
"Hippocampal trace coding dominates and disrupts place coding" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
📢 Applications are open! This meeting brings together scientists using data-driven #AI to analyze + model neural circuits and uncover how the brain performs complex computations. 🧠
Apply by May 28 ➡️ janelia.news/NAI26
@computingnature.bsky.social @sinzlab.bsky.social @srinituraga.bsky.social
The Google Summer of Code and Neuroinformatics Unit logos next to each other.
Do you want to spend the summer being paid to contribute to open source neuroscience software?
We are taking part in Google Summer of Code again, offering paid, remote placements to work on one of our tools. Open to (nearly) everyone worldwide.
More details: neuroinformatics.dev/get-involved...
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...
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