On top of all the science, attending the school will give you the chance to explore China and the Shanghai region. Citizens from multiple countries (including many Europeans) don’t need a visa to travel and stay in China for up to 30 days. It’s a golden chance :)
Our faculty list for this year includes top computational neuroscience researchers like Gustavo Deco, Rainer Goebel, Tatiana Engel, Naoshige Uchina, Cristina Savin, Xiao-Jing Wang, and many others.
Please repost: Applications for the CSHA Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience Summer School are open! Join us this summer in Suzhou for a fantastic and unique experience. Deadline April 1st: ccnss.net
Interested in cortical wave dynamics? Check out our review on the physics, physiology, and psychology of cortical waves led by J Cruddas with @jchrispang.bsky.social, out now in
@cp-neuron.bsky.social:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
This work by @mariaeckstein.bsky.social et al is a nice example of how progress in psychology can be expedited with machine learning.
How long before this type of approach is expected for models-of-behavior papers? My guess: not long. (If you are a trainee, nudge!)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Fantastic and very comprehensive work, @annhuang42.bsky.social and @kanakarajanphd.bsky.social. We published something on this topic just last year, but at a smaller scale (200 RNNs and only two tasks): journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol.... Perhaps you find it useful, I'll definitely study yours!
For Spanish researchers interested in postdoc positions: my lab at Amsterdam is looking for candidates to apply for a Ramon Areces postdoctoral fellowship, to work for 2 years on compneuro and digital brains. Deadline Feb 23. Please spread the word! More info: www.fundacionareces.es/fundacionare...
Our latest preprint on how regional cellular, molecular, and other forms of heterogeneity shape macroscopic wave dynamics is now out:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
For a full thread, see:
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That looks a lot like my tenure-track years! My personal record was 15 proposals (of different sizes and flavors) rejected consecutively over ~3 years. But the 16th was the charm, and it went better from that moment. We can only learn from it and keep trying 🙂
We recently did just that to validate a method to measure functional inter-area interactions, and it worked like a charm (academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...). It also puts the model results appear early in the story (in our case, in fig 3 of a 11-fig paper).
Both are certainly possible. A modeling at the end serves as a 'postdiction' (a la Abbott) and integration mechanism for the main message of the paper, but I confess I recently had much fun with models first and then having the data analysis reveal whether we were right (i.e. predictive role)
Great work, Nikos!
Starting 2026 on the right foot: my promotion to associate professor finally happened! Thanks to my lab and to the colleagues who significantly helped along the way, especially those who served in the committee and/or provided support letters. Now, to keep working towards new goals!
🔬 We're hiring a Junior Group Leader for Data-Driven Digital Twins/System Models in medicine/life sciences at @uni_goettingen! Perfect opportunity for early-career researchers who want to:
- Lead their own research group
- Work at the intersection of AI, simulation, and biomedicine
Congrats, Juan!!
Very interesting work on extending the usefulness of biophysical neural network models (towards performing tasks, fitting experimental data, or all of the above).
Congrats, well deserved!!
In Spanish this time: si estás en Madrid este viernes y te interesa la mente humana (como arte o como ciencia), no te pierdas el evento de Sciencia en el Hospital 12 de Octubre. Allí te esperamos :)
Chatting with a brain scan --quite interesting work from Tim Kietzmann's lab:
Europe's MSCA postdoctoral fellowships are now attracting many researchers who would have gone to the US. So the payline has dropped below 10% (~1,600 fellowships to 17k applicants). Super tough situation. One more reason to double the next Horizon budget, as proposed by the EU Commission.
Timely by Xiao-Jing Wang
Bifurcations—an underexplored concept in neuroscience—can help explain how small differences in neural circuits give rise to entirely novel functions.
www.thetransmitter.org/neural-dynam...
Really hoping bifurcations are the new manifolds. What a time to be alive 🥲
Surprisingly good 'AI reviewer' tool from @odedrechavi.bsky.social to help you find gaps and improve your manuscripts. I've only run it through a couple of my (published) papers, but the feedback was mostly on point and in line with our ongoing directions for improvements: www.qedscience.com
Oded, this works surprisingly well for a LLM, much better than what I expected (even though the model was not fully confident in my research area). I can see how it could be useful to refine your manuscripts before submission. Congratulations!!
Save the date: October 31, Amsterdam. A fantastic event for those interested in neurotech and neuro-AI, with a twist on how international collaborations can boost these fields. Please spread the word and join us there if you can! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
The Wu Tsai Institute at Yale is hiring another faculty member in neurocomputation. Come work with us in a growing community at the interface of neuroscience and AI!
More info below 👇
Come do a postdoc at the Wu Tsai Institute!
WTI fellows have freedom to work with anyone at the institute, and preference is given to applicants who want to work on interdisciplinary projects with multiple faculty mentors.
If you’re interested to work with me, please reach out!
Congrats!!
Quite a good guideline about how to write a paper, I think: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
