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Mattia Chini

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Studying how the brain develops https://www.chinilab.com/

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Mattia Chini @mattiachini.bsky.social · 23d

🚨 2 Postdoc openings in Neuroscience – Liège, Belgium 🚨

We are recruiting for a project on brain development & autism that includes:

⚡ Neuropixels recordings
⚡ Opto/chemo
⚡ Behavior
⚡ Neural network modeling

If you know someone, tag them or RT for visibility! 🙏
www.fens.org/careers/job-...

2 Postdoc Positions in Systems Neuroscience - Federation of European Neuroscience Societies

www.fens.org

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Mattia Chini @mattiachini.bsky.social · 21m

I guess I could have argumented better what I wanted to say but.. character limits 😀
I hope it's understandable

Mattia Chini @mattiachini.bsky.social · 21m

2/2
"Is it [..] different from the evidence that if you filter a signal in a specific band you get some nonzero number even if you don't have a pure oscillation?"
I think that's it, but surprising (to me) how strong the effect is! And it's very common to ignore it and misinterpret freq-specific FC.

Mattia Chini @mattiachini.bsky.social · 25m

1/2
Thank you, the comment is only visible if you sign into the platform, that's probably why I couldn't see it before!
First of all, I love the comments. I wish more people took the time to discuss papers openly like you do.

Mattia Chini @mattiachini.bsky.social · 1h

also, I feel guilty to have tried to convince you to use LinkedIn for science stuff. I saw the paper there and tried to repost it with the meme. Not possible 🤮👎

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Mattia Chini @mattiachini.bsky.social · 1h

most normal Ja celebration 😂

Mattia Chini @mattiachini.bsky.social · 1h

Feynman said it best!

Mattia Chini @mattiachini.bsky.social · 2h

I can't follow the link

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Mattia Chini @mattiachini.bsky.social · 3h

www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

Functional connectivity is dominated by aperiodic, rather than oscillatory, coupling

Functional connectivity (FC) has attracted significant interest in the identification of specific circuits underlying brain (dys-)function. Classical analyses to estimate FC ( i.e ., filtering electro...

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Mattia Chini @mattiachini.bsky.social · 3h

there must be a better way of doing this, somebody please help me out 😂

Mattia Chini @mattiachini.bsky.social · 17h

love the colored pencils. you have to make those grant applications colorful!

Mattia Chini @mattiachini.bsky.social · 6d

And a shoutout also to the "local" volunteers that made the whole logistics of the PhD symposium run super smoothly!

Mattia Chini @mattiachini.bsky.social · 6d

I hope we managed to sow some (healthy!) distrust about the literature, and some renewed attention towards the details in the "methods" section.
More to come about this very soon! 👀

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Mattia Chini @mattiachini.bsky.social · 6d

This year's #BernsteinConference was a blast! So many cool discussions, so many faces I was happy to see again, so many interesting new people to meet etc.
Within this, my highlight was the PhD hackathon organized with @irinapochinok.bsky.social
We had a full house of super bright students!
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Richard Gao @rdgao.bsky.social · 16d

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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Mattia Chini @mattiachini.bsky.social · 18d

Thank you Valerie, way too kind!!
Maybe it will soon be a good time to bring back some of the projects that we discussed a while ago 👀

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Mattia Chini @mattiachini.bsky.social · 18d

Thank you Adema, would love to pick you up on the offer!

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Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 21d

And we are live!

Excited to announce the 2025 Multi-Agent Behavior Challenge on cross-lab supervised action recognition in mice 🐁🐀🖱️

Running on Kaggle until December 15th, with a $50,000 prize pool going to the top five submissions!

www.kaggle.com/competitions...

https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/MABe-mouse-behavior-detection

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Adrien Peyrache @apeyrache.bsky.social · 23d

🚨New preprint alert!

The thalamus has long been seen as a relay of sensory signals to cortex.
But could it also generate its own structured activity?
Our study explores this question in the head-direction (HD) system.

Some explanation 🧵👇 1/13

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Coherent dynamics of thalamic head-direction neurons irrespective of input

While the thalamus is known to relay and modulate sensory signals to the cortex, whether it also participates in active computation and intrinsic signal generation remains unresolved. The anterodorsal...

www.biorxiv.org

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Mattia Chini @mattiachini.bsky.social · 23d

2 Postdoc Positions in Systems Neuroscience - Federation of European Neuroscience Societies

www.fens.org

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Alessandro Gozzi @gozziale.bsky.social · 29d

🚨 Excited to share the latest preprint form the lab ➡️https://tinyurl.com/32d3be9f

Here we tackle a long-standing chicken-or-egg 🐣🥚question in #autism and developmental neuroscience

➡️ Is excitation–inhibition (E:I) imbalance a "cause" or a "consequence" of #autism?

Check out what we found!
🧵1/n

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Yanliang Shi @shiyanliang.bsky.social · Sep 2

Excited to share our new preprint on the brain-wide organization of intrinsic timescales at single neuron resolution. Work w/ @roxana-zeraati.bsky.social, @intlbrainlab.bsky.social, Anna Levina, @engeltatiana.bsky.social : www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Mattia Chini @mattiachini.bsky.social · Sep 2

Thank you Roxana! 😃

Mattia Chini @mattiachini.bsky.social · Aug 28

of course Buszaki has a review on this:

Mattia Chini @mattiachini.bsky.social · Aug 28

Human ripples are... very slow? 🤔
Is this a well-known fact?
Plot taken from the recent @nature.com paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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