These are all over cape town, dietes grandiflora, can't go anywhere without seeing them!
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These are all over cape town, dietes grandiflora, can't go anywhere without seeing them!
Dr. Athena Akrami is talking about Hopfield Networks.
We concluded Cycle 2 with a bang on Saturday! 💥
Dr. @athenaakrami.bsky.social delivered an incredible lecture on Hopfield networks and attractor dynamics. From memory storage and neural attractors to prior experience, it was the perfect end to the week.🧠📉
@simonsfoundation.org @ibroorg.bsky.social
Sunset form Chapmans Peak
A walk towards the wreck of the kakapo, Noordhoek, South Africa
Surfing team before their lesson.
Penguin team!
Recharged and ready!🔋
After a massive first week and a well-deserved day off surfing🏄♂️ and visiting the penguins🐧, we are back in the classroom.
We are thrilled to kick off Cycle 2 today with Prof. Adrienne Fairhall as our Academic Director.
@ibroorg.bsky.social @simonsfoundation.org #imbizo2026
@arifahamid.bsky.social kicking off Imbizo 2026 in Cape Town! Time for comp neuro epicness in Africa!
@simonsfoundation.org @imbizo.bsky.social @ibroorg.bsky.social
All across the US right now, people should be asking themselves just once question: "are we the baddies?". Yes. I'm afraid that you are now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToKc...
For your enjoyment (by @jagarikin)
We’re so grateful to the patients and their families for the gift tissue, and to the clinical teams, collaborators, and funders who made this possible.
This slow timeline creates developmentally distinct electrophysiological types that likely shape cognition across life stages.
While mouse neurons reach functional maturity within weeks, human neurons take decades, proceeding 2–6x slower than brain growth alone would predict.
I’m incredibly stoked to announce our latest preprint led by Thijs Verhoog, where we show that human cortical neurons mature hundreds of times slower than mouse neurons, only reaching functional maturity well into the third decade of life.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Read more about our work describing one way tapeworm larvae might cause seizures:
elifesciences.org/digests/8817...
If a human accidentally eats the eggs of the tapeworm, they form larvae in the brain. This is a major cause of seizures in endemic areas, such as some parts of Zambia where these larvae were harvested. Big thanks to our Evans Mwape (UNZA) and Sarah Gabriel (Ghent Uni).
And start searching around for your intestinal wall to plug into with their little suckers.
If they sense some bile in your intestine their head and neck pop out.
Don't forget to cook your pork.
Look at these beautiful pig tapeworm larvae (Taenia solium)!
🎉🚨 Extended Application Deadline! Now July 16, 2025!
If you want to learn about the brain💻🧠in the amazing Noordhoek, Cape Town🇿🇦, apply.
What to Do Next: Finalise and submit applications before the deadline: imbizo.africa/apply/
Please spread the news. Don’t miss out!
“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.”
- Antonio Gramsci
one of the coolest things in my life 😆: listen to the spikes from cockroach leg + do spike sorting on them + plot the neural activity on #imbizo 2025 t-shirt!! 🆒🆒🆒 @imbizo.bsky.social
Dr. Dan Wetmore giving a lecture
Students at Imbizo working hard on their presentation
Student presentation on designing ML solutions to understand cardiac rhythms
Student presentation on designing ML solutions to sleep paralysis
🎉 Exciting day at #Imbizo2025! Dr. Dan Wetmore & Dr. Garrick Orchard from Meta’s Reality Labs shared their industrial insights on designing top-notch AI/ML experiments, including innovative BCI applications 🤖💡 Students showcased creative solutions for EMG, sleep, wind, epilepsy monitoring & more! 🌟
This is just so spot on.
Today's lunchtime reading brings simultanuously the most enjoyable and confusing read in a while, by @tyrellturing.bsky.social and @kordinglab.bsky.social
It's redundant dummies, that's the whole point!
physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
New "kid" on the block being @arifahamid.bsky.social (left). @joeraimondo.bsky.social (right) was supposed to have retired as well, but by his local proximity, he still gets to hang out! NOT fair.
@therealdrdukes.bsky.social, founding president of @blackinneuro.bsky.social sharing the highs and lows of her inspirational journey, and the importance of building community in neuroscience at @imbizo.bsky.social. @ibroorg.bsky.social @simonsfoundation.org
Just gave my lecture at @imbizo.bsky.social summer school today. What an amazing school both in terms of science and social impact --and the place is breathtaking! Now, time to enjoy the summer time with @therealdrdukes.bsky.social, @arifahamid.bsky.social, and all the students and tutors 🏖️
Annual cockroach spike 🪳 fun at the @imbizo.bsky.social! @simonsfoundation.org @ibroorg.bsky.social @backyardbrains.bsky.social
My patch peeps will get this
Patching with an Axoclamp 200B and a Tektronix oscilloscope 💖 The dials were perfect, the switches were all analog and the bridge balance setting was totally by vibes. I had 6 of them on a 6-patch rig and it was glorious when I got all 6 perfect cells 💕
A poster advertising the TREND CAMINA summer school.
Join us in Zambia for the third TReND-CaMinA course: computational neuroscience & machine learning in Africa.
📆Applications open until 15.01.
🧠🧪
trendinafrica.org/trend-camina/
I wish we could get Edward Tufte over here on Bsky.
Is basic science undervalued? David Glanzman (UCLA) talks about the decline of 'middle class' labs and that "there is no empirical evidence that the translational approach accomplishes this [cures] any better than the traditional one. Claims to the contrary at this point are mere propaganda."
