Michael Okun

Computational Neuroscience 3 Weeks, 6-24 July 20206

Applications are open for #CompNeuro, a live, intensive online course. Participants learn to combine modern #MachineLearning and causality frameworks with advanced modeling approaches to tackle real #neuroscience questions.

neuromatch.io/computationa...

When does the Nasa Moon mission launch and who are the Artemis II crew? The first crewed Moon mission in 50 years could launch in February, ahead of a future lunar landing.

The Artemis II mission, taking a crew to the moon (no landing) for the first time since the 1972 Apollo 17 mission, might launch in just a few weeks.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Thanks to all the attendees and presenters at the annual Neuroscience@Nottingham event of @uniofnottingham.bsky.social and @ntuneuro.bsky.social
Special thanks to our external speakers: Peggy Series (Edinburgh) and Vlad Vyazovskiy (Oxford, @vyazovskiy.bsky.social)
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2026 is off with a symbolic milestone for UK universities

2025: A Review of the Year in Neuroscience Enlightening the brain

Just published my review of neuroscience in 2025, on The Spike.

The 10th of these, would you believe?

This year we have foundation models, breakthroughs in using light to understand the brain, a gene therapy, and more

Enjoy!

medium.com/the-spike/20...

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...

Remembering Adam Kampff, neuroscience educator and researcher Kampff’s do-it-yourself approach inspired a generation of neuroscientists.

Adam Kampff prioritized spreading knowledge over publishing flashy papers in prestigious journals, but colleagues say his mark on neuroscience was undeniable. The researcher and educator passed away on 9 December.

By Lauren Schneider

www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...

Characterizing neuronal population geometry with AI equation discovery The visual cortex contains millions of neurons, whose combined activity forms a population code representing visual stimuli. There is, however, a discrepancy between our understanding of this code at ...

1. New preprint resolving a conundrum in systems neuroscience with an AI scientist, and humans Reilly Tilbury, Dabin Kwon, @haydari.bsky.social, @jacobmratliff.bsky.social, @bio-emergent.bsky.social, @carandinilab.net, @kevinjmiller.bsky.social, @neurokim.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The work with bats on barren, 7-acre Latham Island was Nachum Ulanovsky’s most complex undertaking yet.

By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/neuroetholog...

Wealth Inequality in the United States since 1913: Evidence from Capitalized Income Tax Data * Abstract. This paper combines income tax returns with macroeconomic household balance sheets to estimate the distribution of wealth in the United States si

Please make a video about key available evidence for increasing wealth concentration (beyond your points on COVID government borrowing or the Duke of Westminster), perhaps along the lines of doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

This would be very helpful when talking to analytically minded people.

Thank you.

🧠🤖 Computational Neuroscience summer school IMBIZO in Cape Town is open for applications again!
 
💻🧬 3 weeks of intense coursework & projects with support from expert tutors and faculty
 
📈Apply until July 1st!

🔗https://imbizo.africa/

Re-posting is appreciated: We have a fully funded PhD position in CMC lab @cmc-lab.bsky.social (at @tudresden_de). You can use forms.gle/qiAv5NZ871kv... to send your application and find more information. Deadline is April 30. Find more about CMC lab: cmclab.org and email me if you have questions.

Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness
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Paris Circuit Dynamics This two-day conference will bring together leading experts from the Paris region and abroad to discuss the dynamics and neural coding in hippocampal and cortical circuits. The program will focus on ...

Very happy to announce the "Paris Circuit Dynamics Conference 2025: Hippocampal–Cortical Circuits: From structure to computation", on 28 - 29 April 2025 at the Paris Brain Institute.

You are welcome to register and join us!

www.paris-circuits.eu

Save the date!

UK Neural Computation 2025 will be at Imperial College London
9 July: ECR day
10-11 July: main meeting

9 invited speakers, 4 talks from abstracts and many posters

Abstract & registration opening soon

Pls share!

neuralcomputation.uk

Simulating 500 million years of evolution with a language model More than three billion years of evolution have produced an image of biology encoded into the space of natural proteins. Here we show that language models trained at scale on evolutionary data can gen...

"Among the generations that we synthesized, we found a bright fluorescent protein at a far distance (58% sequence identity) from known fluorescent proteins, which we estimate is equivalent to simulating five hundred million years of evolution."
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Courses

Check out @thetransmitter.bsky.social's newly launched calendar of advanced neuroscience courses, featuring events all over the world. www.thetransmitter.org/courses/

Eleanor Maguire | 1970 - 2025 | Online-Tribute.com Learning and memory are so fundamental to us, so enmeshed throughout cognition, that ‘solving’ memory, unpacking its neural mechanisms and being able to conceptualise it fully will, I believe, res…

What sad news - Dr. Eleanor Maguire

#neuropsychology #cognition #memory #neuroscience

www.online-tribute.com/EleanorMaguire

Starting 2025 with some splendid northern lights (visible about now in Västerbotten, Sweden)

2024: A Review of the Year in Neuroscience Feeling a bit wired

Cutting it a bit fine, but here’s my review of the year in neuroscience for 2024

The eighth of these, would you believe? We’ve got dark neurons, tiny monkeys, the most complete brain wiring diagram ever constructed, and much more…
Published on The Spike

Enjoy!

medium.com/the-spike/20...

Applications to the 2025 Paris Spring School in Optical Imaging and Electrophysiological Recording in Neuroscience (AKA the Paris Neuro Course) are now open. Deadline on the 1st of February.

The course will run 14-27 May 2025.

parisneuro.ovh

George Soros, Jared Kushner, Ben Shapiro (to give a few examples) - chatGPT manages perfectly fine. So the antisemitic spam theory (which would be a rather strange explanation imho) doesn't seem to pass the empirical test.

Saleem lab

New job alert!
My lab (saleemlab.com) has a new postdoc / senior postdoc opening. They will be part of an exciting research supported by ERC & UKRI, studying vision during navigation. Projects range from purely computational to performing new physiological recordings.

Postdoc position in Bristol in a animal behaviour project lead by the great Emma Robinson, I'm a co-I and we're looking for a computational person keen to do experiments or an experimental person keen to learn some modelling.

www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

The weirdest chatGPT quirk as far as I can remember. Here's my own go:

(From
@EnnyvBeest@mastodon.social)

The talks from the UCL Neuropixels course 2024 are now on YouTube!

We had amazing speakers covering usage, new tools, and discoveries.

Special thanks to @intlbrainlab.bsky.social.

youtube.com/playlist?lis...

More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/neuropixels/...

PhD project!

For those interested in NeuroAI: "Using large scale neural network models to bridge the translational gap from animal models to human insights in autism spectrum and neurodevelopmental disorders"

Apply here: www.ai4biomed.io/research/pro...

Musk made it mostly unusable for this purpose. But there was no good replacement; no place where you could expect most of what you wanted to hear about to show up in your timeline, where you could put up a post and expect most of the people you wanted to reach to see it 4/

large-scale neural recording of 50,000 neurons, showing many diverse activity patterns, and also what the cells look like at various zooms of the maximum projection image of the recording FOV

We wrote a review on analysis methods for large-scale neural recordings www.science.org/stoken/autho... @marius10p.bsky.social #neuroscience 🧪🧠

Anything we missed? Reply w/ your fav method!

Job Vacancy at the University of Nottingham: Research Assistant (fixed term) We seek a predoctoral research assistant to join the Humphries’ group at the University of Nottingham on the Innovate UK-funded project “GEMINI: Platform Informatics For Data-driven Neuromodulation”. ...

We’re seeking a research assistant to work on predicting which Parkinson’s patients would most benefit from deep brain stimulation. In collaboration with Machine Medicine and St George’s Hospital, London

Closes December 4th

Pls share!
jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...