Simon Schultz

The strongest version of this illusion I’ve seen! Absolute head-wrecker!

Just remember that if something were to accidentally happen to Dad’s fishes, you would have to rush around trying to find fish that looked very similar before he got back. And distract him when he looks at them too closely - “why does my favourite fish have this spot on its tail, it didn’t before…”

Great stuff Edvard. It is nice to see a question actually get nailed down - rare in our business!

Will do :-)!

Good luck! So many opportunities in China right now, but at the same time so competitive. I’m about to publish a paper with my collaborators in Suzhou - they definitely have access to resources I can only dream of here. I want to go back this year and visit more of the Suzhou gardens.

Oh, you are a former patcher … what are you doing now, Wei? I have been too absent from bluesky, I missed the updates.

Cognitive offloading

野ざらしを
心に風の
しむ身かな

- a less sanguine Bashō take on the Brexit wanderings

I was just interviewed on BBC Radio London by Jumoké Fashola, about neurotechnology (in general, but motivated by the recent London clinical trial of the neuralink implant and discussing ethics and future prospects). 15:42-15:57 or so, Fri 13th 2026.

Oops

Of course, it might come down in the end to the difference between being famous and infamous 😉.

Apparently professionalism is overrated. 🤔

I gave up X a long time ago. But I do find the level of engagement here pretty low. Maybe I don’t shitpost enough.

Frontiers | Synergy mediates long-range correlations in the visual cortex near criticality Long-range correlations are a key signature of systems operating near criticality, indicating spatially-extended interactions across large distances. These e...

Now published:
Rajpal et al, Synergy mediates long-range correlations in the visual cortex near criticality.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/com...

And a photo with Kate after the talk

On my way back from Glasgow after a very interesting day talking to the Psychology and Neuroscience crowd there.

Description Please note that job descriptions are not exhaustive, and you may be asked to take on additional duties that align with the key responsibilities ment...

There is a new Postdoctoral Research Associate position available in my group, to work on computational analysis of human neuroimaging workflows to develop robust, interpretable and scalable biomarkers of cognitive brain health.

Closing date 10th Feb 2026.

www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

An updated version of the following paper is now available on bioRxiv:
Early spatial and contextual coding deficits in hippocampal CA1 precede performance decline in an Alzheimer's disease model.
Yimei Li, Mary Ann Go, Hualong Zhang, Simon R Schultz.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

1st of March

Description Please note that job descriptions are not exhaustive, and you may be asked to take on additional duties that align with the key responsibilities ment...

There is a new Postdoctoral Research Associate position available in my group, to work on computational analysis of human neuroimaging workflows to develop robust, interpretable and scalable biomarkers of cognitive brain health.

Closing date 10th Feb 2026.

www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

16 months? That is just nuts. The field will have passed you by in that time.

On the cover of JBO

Ultra-wide-field, deep, adaptive two-photon microscopy Observing the activity patterns of large neural populations throughout the brain is essential for understanding brain function. However, capturing neural interactions across widely distributed brain r...

A new version of our 2p mesoscope paper is up on biorxiv:
Yang et al, Ultra-wide-field, deep, adaptive two-photon microscopy.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Astrocytes and neurons exhibit partially shared but distinct composite receptive fields for natural stimuli | Journal of Neurophysiology | American Physiological Society Astrocytes are increasingly recognized as active participants in sensory processing, but whether they show selective responses to stimulus features, analogous to neuronal receptive fields, is not yet ...

Lu, Schultz, Kozlov, Astrocytes and neurons exhibit partially shared but distinct composite receptive fields for natural stimuli
Now published in J Neurophys
journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Now out:
Longitudinal three-photon imaging for tracking amyloid plaques and vascular degeneration in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease
Eline Stas, Mengke Yang, Simon Schultz, Mary Ann Go
J Biomed Optics

www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/jou...

You can very clearly see why someone whose job it is to protect war criminals would need this pulled from the airwaves: It’s visible proof the Trump administration is operating concentration camps.

Just think, Dan: you could have a ton of MDPI papers on your CV. What are you waiting for?

Very sorry to hear this!

A new paper from my colleagues here at Imperial - 100 Hz volumetric scattering-mitigated light field calcium imaging.

I love your work over the past few years, Iris. Please keep it up!