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Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · 5d

“Mapping ion channel function” doi.org/10.7554/eLif... isn’t exactly a citation slayer, but it’s still one of my favourites (& my first independent project). Today we push pt 2, where we trace code origin & unite almost all channel models in a common expression. Boom! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

An ion channel omnimodel for standardized biophysical neuron modelling

Biophysical neuron modeling is an indispensable tool in neuroscience research, with the combination of diverse ion channel kinetics and morphologies being used to explain various single-neuron propert...

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Richard Gao @rdgao.bsky.social · 18d

I've been waiting some years to make this joke and now it’s real:

I conned somebody into giving me a faculty job!

I’m starting as a W1 Tenure-Track Professor at Goethe University Frankfurt in a week (lol), in the Faculty of CS and Math

and I'm recruiting PhD students 🤗

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ALT: a man wearing a white shirt and tie smiles in front of a window

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sbi - Simulation-based inference @sbi-devs.bsky.social · Sep 9

From hackathon to release: sbi v0.25 is here! 🎉

What happens when dozens of SBI researchers and practitioners collaborate for a week? New inference methods, new documentation, lots of new embedding networks, a bridge to pyro and a bridge between flow matching and score-based methods 🤯

1/7 🧵

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psteinb.bsky.social @psteinb.bsky.social · Aug 19

Looky Looky! 😍🥳👏
arxiv.org/abs/2508.12939
Super fun project, I ❤️ed coauthoring w/ @sbi-devs.bsky.social.
Great lead by @deismic.bsky.social & @janboelts.bsky.social. Contribs by many talented people @jakhmack.bsky.social. 🙏 to #BenjaminKurtMiller for the kickstart! @helmholtzai.bsky.social

Simulation-Based Inference: A Practical Guide

A central challenge in many areas of science and engineering is to identify model parameters that are consistent with prior knowledge and empirical data. Bayesian inference offers a principled framewo...

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Michael Deistler @deismic.bsky.social · Jun 3

Thanks @francois-rozet.bsky.social! The guide for making these figures is public: github.com/mackelab/fig...

GitHub - mackelab/figure_tutorial: Tutorial for making figures, written by Michael @michaeldeistler

Tutorial for making figures, written by Michael @michaeldeistler - mackelab/figure_tutorial

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François Rozet @francois-rozet.bsky.social · May 23

📢 I am looking for AI post-doc/research/engineer positions in Europe (Paris, London, Zurich, ...) starting 2026. My work revolves around generative modeling and AI for Science, with 4+ publications at top conferences during my PhD. If you are hiring, please reach out! If not, please repost 🔁

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Machine Learning in Science @mackelab.bsky.social · Apr 30

🎓Hiring now! 🧠 Join us at the exciting intersection of ML and Neuroscience! #AI4science
We’re looking for PhDs, Postdocs and Scientific Programmers that want to use deep learning to build, optimize and study mechanistic models of neural computations. Full details: www.mackelab.org/jobs/ 1/5

Jobs - mackelab

The MackeLab is a research group at the Excellence Cluster Machine Learning at Tübingen University!

www.mackelab.org

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Pedro J. Goncalves @ppjgoncalves.bsky.social · Apr 24

Exciting project in Parkinson's disease! Patrik Verstreken's lab (verstrekenlab.sites.vib.be) and my lab are looking for a postdoc to develop and apply ML methods to the analysis of exciting brain-on-chip data. Please spread the word!

More details at: jobs.vib.be/j/110908/pos...

Postdoc position: Computational methods for neurodegeneration research - VIB

About the labs The Verstreken Lab and the Gonçalves Lab are based in Leuven, Belgium and part of the

jobs.vib.be

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sbi - Simulation-based inference @sbi-devs.bsky.social · Apr 4

🎉 Exciting news! We are lauching an sbi office hour!

Join the sbi developers Thursdays 09:45-10:15am CET via Zoom (link: sbi Discord's "office hours" channel).

Get guidance on contributing, explore sbi for your research, or troubleshoot issues. Come chat with us! 🤗

github.com/sbi-dev/sbi/...

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Lukas Groschner @lukasgroschner.bsky.social · Apr 3

We are looking to hire a Senior Scientist or #Postdoc to study brains, biophysics, and behaviour using #Drosophila as a model. Please spread the word!

www.medunigraz.at/en/job-openi...

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psteinb.bsky.social @psteinb.bsky.social · Mar 21

It's been a blast, thanks to @sbi-devs.bsky.social ! This week's hackathon was phenomenal! 🙏 😍 The sbi hackathon welcomed about 25 people in Tübingen with contributions spanning the globe , e.g. 🇺🇸🇯🇵🇧🇪🇩🇪. Wanna see, what we did? Check out the PRs👇
github.com/sbi-dev/sbi/...

Pull requests · sbi-dev/sbi

sbi is a Python package for simulation-based inference, designed to meet the needs of both researchers and practitioners. Whether you need fine-grained control or an easy-to-use interface, sbi has ...

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sbi - Simulation-based inference @sbi-devs.bsky.social · Mar 16

sbi 0.24.0 is out! 🎉 This comes with important new features:
- 🎯 Score-based i.i.d sampling
- 🔀 Simultaneous estimation of multiple discrete and continuous parameters or data.
- 📊: mini-sbibm for quick benchmarking.

Just in time for our 1-week SBI hackathon starting tomorrow---stay tuned for more!

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Jan-Matthis Lueckmann @janmatthis.bsky.social · Mar 4

⚡️ Excited to introduce ZAPBench, our #ICLR2025 spotlight: The Zebrafish Activity Prediction Benchmark measures progress in predicting neural activity within an entire vertebrate brain (70k+ neurons!)

Explore interactive visualizations, datasets, code + paper: google-research.github.io/zapbench

🧠🧪

ZAPBench

ZAPBench evaluates how well different models can predict the activity of over 70,000 neurons in a novel larval zebrafish dataset.

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Michael Deistler @deismic.bsky.social · Feb 28

Together with @dendritesgr.bsky.social, we’ll be hosting a tutorial on constructing and optimizing biophysical models (via Jaxley & DendroTweaks) 🚀

Join us in Florence if you like dendrites, biophysics, or optimization!

Roman Makarov @roman-makarov.bsky.social · Feb 26

We are thrilled to host a tutorial on biophysical modeling with Jaxley & DendroTweaks at #CNS2025! 📍 Florence, July 5 — looking forward to seeing you there! www.cnsorg.org/cns-2025 @cnsorg.bsky.social

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Auguste Schulz @auschulz.bsky.social · Feb 3

1) Some exciting science in turbulent times:

How do mice distinguish self-generated vs. object-generated looming stimuli? Our new study combines VR and neural recordings from superior colliculus (SC) 🧠🐭 to explore this question.

Check out our preprint doi.org/10.1101/2024... 🧵

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Spiros Chavlis @spiroschav.bsky.social · Jan 31

🚀 Excited to share my latest paper! 📄✨ This project started at the beginning of the pandemic and took longer than expected, but that’s the beauty of science! 🧬🔬 Check it out in the following threads! #PandemicProjects

My post comes a bit late because of TAing duties in @imbizo.bsky.social🇿🇦(1/14)

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sbi - Simulation-based inference @sbi-devs.bsky.social · Jan 28

🙏 Please help us improve the SBI toolbox! 🙏

In preparation for the upcoming SBI Hackathon, we’re running a user study to learn what you like, what we can improve, and how we can grow.

👉 Please share your thoughts here: forms.gle/foHK7myV2oaK...

Your input will make a big difference—thank you! 🙌

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sbi - Simulation-based inference @sbi-devs.bsky.social · Dec 30

🎉 Just in time for the end of the year, we’ve released a new version of sbi!

📦 v0.23.3 comes packed with exciting features, bug fixes, and docs updates to make sbi smoother and more robust. Check it out! 👇

🔗 Full changelog: github.com/sbi-dev/sbi/...

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Timothy O'Leary @timothyoleary.bsky.social · Dec 17

Apropos of never ending discussions about whether ANNs are "good" models of the nervous system, here is a slide I present to masters students showing a network that is found in motor control circuits *across phyla* (that's pretty ubiquitous!) I ask them to guess what it does...

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Michael Deistler @deismic.bsky.social · Dec 3

The SBI package has a public discord server now! 🌍 It is open for users or (aspiring) contributors, or for researchers interested in simulations or Bayesian inference with neural networks. See you there! 👋

sbi - Simulation-based inference @sbi-devs.bsky.social · Dec 3

We are launching an SBI Discord Server! 🎉

We want to use this server to further build a community around SBI, i.e., for sharing insights, questions and events around simulation-based inference in general and the sbi package in particular.

You are all invited to join! 🤗 github.com/sbi-dev/sbi/...

SBI Discord Server 🤖 · sbi-dev sbi · Discussion #1318

Dear all, we are launching an SBI Discord Server! 🎉 We want to use this server to further build a community around SBI, i.e., for sharing insights, questions and events around SBI in general and th...

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Michael Deistler @deismic.bsky.social · Nov 28

Yes, I think there is a typo in the email address. It should [email protected] (with a dash after `link`). See you there!

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Michael Deistler @deismic.bsky.social · Nov 28

Thanks for the invite Shervin! There might be a typo in the email address, I think it should be [email protected]

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Michael Deistler @deismic.bsky.social · Nov 28

I will talk about our efforts to train biophysically detailed neuron models at the CMC Learning Club today (2pm CET). Zoom link sent upon empty email to [email protected]. Thanks a lot @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social for organizing this!

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Michael Deistler @deismic.bsky.social · Nov 27

It has been almost 5 years since our first mini-hackathon to kickstart the sbi toolbox. Since then, it has seen lots of major updates, many of them driven by new contributors 🚀 We have now written an updated paper to reflect the current state of contributors & features of the toolbox. Check it out!

sbi - Simulation-based inference @sbi-devs.bsky.social · Nov 27

The sbi package is growing into a community project 🌍 To reflect this and the many algorithms, neural nets, and diagnostics that have been added since its initial release, we have written a new software paper 📝 Check it out, and reach out if you want to get involved: arxiv.org/abs/2411.17337

sbi reloaded: a toolkit for simulation-based inference workflows

Scientists and engineers use simulators to model empirically observed phenomena. However, tuning the parameters of a simulator to ensure its outputs match observed data presents a significant challeng...

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Michael Deistler @deismic.bsky.social · Nov 25

Awesome list! Could you add me and @jaxleyverse.bsky.social? I work on biophysical modelling of neurons and networks. Thanks a ton!

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