Katharina Wilmes
@k47h4.bsky.social
Adjunct professor in Computational Neuroscience at the Institute of Neuroinformatics, Zürich
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Katharina Wilmes
@k47h4.bsky.social
· Jun 11
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www.ini.uzh.ch
PhD/Postdoc position in Computational Neuroscience at the Institute of Neuroinformatics (UZH and ETH Zürich): we are investigating the neural circuits underlying perception and learning in uncertain environments: www.ini.uzh.ch/en/research/... #PhD #ComputationalNeuroscience #UZHZurich #ETHZurich
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Travel awards are available for undergraduate students looking to attend #Cosyne25! The application is short, and the deadline is Nov 12. @cosynemeeting.bsky.social
Application: shorturl.at/6NEyk
More info: www.cosyne.org/travel-grants
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Application: shorturl.at/6NEyk
More info: www.cosyne.org/travel-grants
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Travel Grants — COSYNE
Apply for COSYNE 2026 Travel Grants to support your participation in Lisbon and Cascais, Portugal. Grants are available for students, postdocs, and PIs, including programs for Childcare, Presenters, N...
www.cosyne.org
October 3, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Travel awards are available for undergraduate students looking to attend #Cosyne25! The application is short, and the deadline is Nov 12. @cosynemeeting.bsky.social
Application: shorturl.at/6NEyk
More info: www.cosyne.org/travel-grants
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Application: shorturl.at/6NEyk
More info: www.cosyne.org/travel-grants
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Awesome 4 year phd in compsys neuro !!
Applications are now open for the SWC Systems Neuroscience PhD Programme.
Join us in London!
🧠 World-class neuroscience training
💰 Fully-funded 4-year programme
🖥️ Close links to @gatsbyucl.bsky.social
Apply by 3 Nov: www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/...
Join us in London!
🧠 World-class neuroscience training
💰 Fully-funded 4-year programme
🖥️ Close links to @gatsbyucl.bsky.social
Apply by 3 Nov: www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/...
September 24, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Awesome 4 year phd in compsys neuro !!
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The detailed schedule for the #BernsteinConference is now available on our website. Check out the Invited Talks and Contributed Talks and start planning your conference visit! 👉 bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...
#BernsteinNetwork #CompNeuro
#BernsteinNetwork #CompNeuro
August 12, 2025 at 7:00 AM
The detailed schedule for the #BernsteinConference is now available on our website. Check out the Invited Talks and Contributed Talks and start planning your conference visit! 👉 bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...
#BernsteinNetwork #CompNeuro
#BernsteinNetwork #CompNeuro
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We were asked to write a commentary on NeuroAI for Nat. Rev. Neuro. with Sadra Sadeh, so here it is: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com
August 8, 2025 at 10:31 AM
We were asked to write a commentary on NeuroAI for Nat. Rev. Neuro. with Sadra Sadeh, so here it is: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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⏳ Register for the #BernsteinConference by July 30 and secure the early-bird fees!
Register here 👉 bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...
Register here 👉 bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...
July 24, 2025 at 7:01 AM
⏳ Register for the #BernsteinConference by July 30 and secure the early-bird fees!
Register here 👉 bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...
Register here 👉 bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...
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Trying to train RNNs in a biol plausible (local) way? Well, try our new method using predictive alignment. Paper just out in Nat. Com. Toshitake Asabuki deserves all the credit!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com
July 23, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Trying to train RNNs in a biol plausible (local) way? Well, try our new method using predictive alignment. Paper just out in Nat. Com. Toshitake Asabuki deserves all the credit!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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1/ Mapping synaptic connectivity between individual neurons is extremely laborious. We developed BRISC, a new method that makes it possible to map inputs onto 100s of neurons in the same animal in a matter of weeks! Led by Alex Becalick and @antblot.bsky.social. 🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Barcoded Rabies In Situ Connectomics for high-throughput reconstruction of neural circuits
Sequencing of oligonucleotide barcodes holds promise as a high-throughput approach for reconstructing synaptic connectivity at scale. Rabies viruses can act as a vehicle for barcode transmission, than...
www.biorxiv.org
July 21, 2025 at 7:58 AM
1/ Mapping synaptic connectivity between individual neurons is extremely laborious. We developed BRISC, a new method that makes it possible to map inputs onto 100s of neurons in the same animal in a matter of weeks! Led by Alex Becalick and @antblot.bsky.social. 🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Together with #AIMS, the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, we have an exciting position to fill: The AIMS - Tübingen Junior Research Chair in Machine Learning for Science! 1/2
July 16, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Together with #AIMS, the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, we have an exciting position to fill: The AIMS - Tübingen Junior Research Chair in Machine Learning for Science! 1/2
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Undecided whether to attend the #BernsteinConference2025 ?
@ackurth.bsky.social and myself put together a stellar lineup for a satellite workshop on the effects of top-down signals on neuronal dynamics! 🧠✨📣
bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...
@ackurth.bsky.social and myself put together a stellar lineup for a satellite workshop on the effects of top-down signals on neuronal dynamics! 🧠✨📣
bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...
(SW2025) Top-down control of neural dynamics – Bernstein Netzwerk Computational Neuroscience
bernstein-network.de
July 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Undecided whether to attend the #BernsteinConference2025 ?
@ackurth.bsky.social and myself put together a stellar lineup for a satellite workshop on the effects of top-down signals on neuronal dynamics! 🧠✨📣
bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...
@ackurth.bsky.social and myself put together a stellar lineup for a satellite workshop on the effects of top-down signals on neuronal dynamics! 🧠✨📣
bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...
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Here is your last reminder that the application deadline for Imbizo.Africa is nearing quickly, the 1st of July, in fact tomorrow. Still the place where diversity is at its best in the world! Tell all who need to hear. #africa #neuro
#Imbizo - Simons Computational Neuroscience Imbizo - #Imbizo
Simons Computational Neuroscience Imbizo summer school in Cape Town, South Africa
Imbizo.Africa
June 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Here is your last reminder that the application deadline for Imbizo.Africa is nearing quickly, the 1st of July, in fact tomorrow. Still the place where diversity is at its best in the world! Tell all who need to hear. #africa #neuro
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⏰ Last minute reminder! Only 48 hours left to submit your contributed talk abstracts for the #BernsteinConference 2025!
🗓️ Deadline: June 17, 15:00 CEST
All information and submission form 👉 bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...
🗓️ Deadline: June 17, 15:00 CEST
All information and submission form 👉 bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...
June 15, 2025 at 1:03 PM
⏰ Last minute reminder! Only 48 hours left to submit your contributed talk abstracts for the #BernsteinConference 2025!
🗓️ Deadline: June 17, 15:00 CEST
All information and submission form 👉 bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...
🗓️ Deadline: June 17, 15:00 CEST
All information and submission form 👉 bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...
PhD/Postdoc position in Computational Neuroscience at the Institute of Neuroinformatics (UZH and ETH Zürich): we are investigating the neural circuits underlying perception and learning in uncertain environments: www.ini.uzh.ch/en/research/... #PhD #ComputationalNeuroscience #UZHZurich #ETHZurich
Open positions
www.ini.uzh.ch
June 11, 2025 at 8:54 AM
PhD/Postdoc position in Computational Neuroscience at the Institute of Neuroinformatics (UZH and ETH Zürich): we are investigating the neural circuits underlying perception and learning in uncertain environments: www.ini.uzh.ch/en/research/... #PhD #ComputationalNeuroscience #UZHZurich #ETHZurich
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I'm excited to announce that my lab's open textbook on Scientific Computing for Cognitive Neuroscience (v1.0) has just gone live! Our goal is to help mend the gap between the computational skills needed by cognitive neuroscience, and typical curricula that don't yet include it. 1/3
June 9, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I'm excited to announce that my lab's open textbook on Scientific Computing for Cognitive Neuroscience (v1.0) has just gone live! Our goal is to help mend the gap between the computational skills needed by cognitive neuroscience, and typical curricula that don't yet include it. 1/3
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🛰️ The selected Satellite Workshops of the #BernsteinConference 2025 are now listed on our website!
Take a look 👉 bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...
Take a look 👉 bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...
June 4, 2025 at 8:02 AM
🛰️ The selected Satellite Workshops of the #BernsteinConference 2025 are now listed on our website!
Take a look 👉 bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...
Take a look 👉 bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...
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How should you combine sensory inputs with your internal predictions? Well, use uncertainty directly computed by your prediction-error circuits. Cool? Check out our Nat. Com. paper with Loreen Hertäg and @k47h4.bsky.social . www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Uncertainty estimation with prediction-error circuits - Nature Communications
How the brain integrates sensory input and predictions to adapt to change is not fully understood. Here authors build a neural network model to show how prediction-error neurons compute uncertainty of...
www.nature.com
March 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
How should you combine sensory inputs with your internal predictions? Well, use uncertainty directly computed by your prediction-error circuits. Cool? Check out our Nat. Com. paper with Loreen Hertäg and @k47h4.bsky.social . www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Abstract submission is open for the 34th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting CNS*2025 in Florence, Italy, July 5-9, 2025!
Submit your abstract latest TOMORROW, March 15th: www.cnsorg.org/cns-2...
Submit your abstract latest TOMORROW, March 15th: www.cnsorg.org/cns-2...
March 14, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Abstract submission is open for the 34th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting CNS*2025 in Florence, Italy, July 5-9, 2025!
Submit your abstract latest TOMORROW, March 15th: www.cnsorg.org/cns-2...
Submit your abstract latest TOMORROW, March 15th: www.cnsorg.org/cns-2...
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📆 updated for 2025: list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP:
google sheet 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
google sheet 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
various computational neuroscience / MEEG / LFP short courses and summer schools
docs.google.com
March 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
📆 updated for 2025: list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP:
google sheet 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
google sheet 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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My lab is looking for a computational neuroscience postdoctoral researcher:
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
Come join us at the @dondersinst.bsky.social!
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
Come join us at the @dondersinst.bsky.social!
February 12, 2025 at 8:56 AM
My lab is looking for a computational neuroscience postdoctoral researcher:
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
Come join us at the @dondersinst.bsky.social!
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
Come join us at the @dondersinst.bsky.social!
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at the moment, lots of people from around here are looking for jobs. behavioral/cognitive/systems neuro, experimental/computational – if you are hiring, feel free to send me ads and I will distribute. 🙂
February 11, 2025 at 8:55 AM
at the moment, lots of people from around here are looking for jobs. behavioral/cognitive/systems neuro, experimental/computational – if you are hiring, feel free to send me ads and I will distribute. 🙂
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RA positions with potential PhD continuation are now open! We're seeking two candidates with slice patch clamp or programming skills for the projects outlined in the advert: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50040/
Apply by 21 February!
Apply by 21 February!
📣 Opportunity Alert! We have two PhD positions in our lab at Cambridge University starting in Autumn 2025. Exceptional candidates may join earlier as RAs and receive PhD funding if scholarship applications are unsuccessful (RA advert coming soon!).
Details here: www.keshavarzilab.com/blog/phd-pos...
Details here: www.keshavarzilab.com/blog/phd-pos...
January 26, 2025 at 1:37 PM
RA positions with potential PhD continuation are now open! We're seeking two candidates with slice patch clamp or programming skills for the projects outlined in the advert: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50040/
Apply by 21 February!
Apply by 21 February!
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Curious how place cells adapt to uncertainty in reward location? We found that predictable changes boost “reward place cells” & warp hippocampal maps. Check out our new preprint: with Feng Xuan, Jack Mellor, Peter Dayan and Dan Dombeck: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Navigating uncertainty: reward location variability induces reorganization of hippocampal spatial representations
Navigating uncertainty is crucial for survival, with the location and availability of reward varying in different and unsignalled ways. Hippocampal place cell populations over-represent salient locati...
www.biorxiv.org
January 7, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Curious how place cells adapt to uncertainty in reward location? We found that predictable changes boost “reward place cells” & warp hippocampal maps. Check out our new preprint: with Feng Xuan, Jack Mellor, Peter Dayan and Dan Dombeck: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Interested in theoretical neuroscience or machine learning but come from a non-quantitative background? This summer school is for you! Learn the foundational theory needed to excel in a quantitative PhD in 7 weeks. Apply by feb 7!
📢 Apply now for the 7-week #Mathematics #SummerSchool in London!
You will develop mathematics skills and intuition necessary to enter the #TheoreticalNeuroscience or #MachineLearning field.
ℹ️ www.ucl.ac.uk/gatsby/study-and-work/gatsby-bridging-programme
Please help spread the word!
You will develop mathematics skills and intuition necessary to enter the #TheoreticalNeuroscience or #MachineLearning field.
ℹ️ www.ucl.ac.uk/gatsby/study-and-work/gatsby-bridging-programme
Please help spread the word!
January 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Interested in theoretical neuroscience or machine learning but come from a non-quantitative background? This summer school is for you! Learn the foundational theory needed to excel in a quantitative PhD in 7 weeks. Apply by feb 7!
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Super excited about NeurIPS@Paris! Tomorrow, I will give a talk on our generalization of the neural tangent kernel to surrogate gradient learning.
If you cannot make it to Paris, check out our work here: openreview.net/forum?id=kfd...
@neuripsconf.bsky.social
#NeurIPS2024
If you cannot make it to Paris, check out our work here: openreview.net/forum?id=kfd...
@neuripsconf.bsky.social
#NeurIPS2024
December 3, 2024 at 9:51 PM
Super excited about NeurIPS@Paris! Tomorrow, I will give a talk on our generalization of the neural tangent kernel to surrogate gradient learning.
If you cannot make it to Paris, check out our work here: openreview.net/forum?id=kfd...
@neuripsconf.bsky.social
#NeurIPS2024
If you cannot make it to Paris, check out our work here: openreview.net/forum?id=kfd...
@neuripsconf.bsky.social
#NeurIPS2024
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🚨Preprint alert🚨
In an amazing collaboration with @lucasgruaz.bsky.social, S Becker, & J Brea, we explored a major puzzle in #neuroscience & #psychology:
**What are the merits of curiosity?** 🧠🧑🔬🧪
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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In an amazing collaboration with @lucasgruaz.bsky.social, S Becker, & J Brea, we explored a major puzzle in #neuroscience & #psychology:
**What are the merits of curiosity?** 🧠🧑🔬🧪
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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OSF
osf.io
November 18, 2024 at 2:03 PM
🚨Preprint alert🚨
In an amazing collaboration with @lucasgruaz.bsky.social, S Becker, & J Brea, we explored a major puzzle in #neuroscience & #psychology:
**What are the merits of curiosity?** 🧠🧑🔬🧪
osf.io/preprints/ps...
1/7
In an amazing collaboration with @lucasgruaz.bsky.social, S Becker, & J Brea, we explored a major puzzle in #neuroscience & #psychology:
**What are the merits of curiosity?** 🧠🧑🔬🧪
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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