Enny van Beest
@ennyvb.bsky.social
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Senior Research Fellow @UCL https://ennyvanbeest.github.io/ Studying sensory guided behavior and developing analytical tools. Music enthusiast in my free time (soprano/keys)
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Our paper describing UnitMatch software "tracking neurons across days with high-density probes", appeared in this month's issue of #NatureMethods. Missed it? Read it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Two neurons in front of a Neuropixels probe. One neuron says to the other: "Don't look, but I think we're being followed!".
ennyvb.bsky.social
Join the 2025 UCL Neuropixels course (free and online!),
22-24th of October:
Day 1 and 2: Get started with the basics and the latest updates on hardware & software.
Day 3: Focus on how to analyse the many neurons you recorded.
More info and to register:
www.ucl.ac.uk/neuropixels/...
2025 Neuropixels course
A free online course on Neuropixels, 22-24 October 2025
www.ucl.ac.uk
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carandinilab.net
Introducing our new favorite stimulus. A few minutes are enough to map the visual preferences of thousands of neurons.

Mapping the visual cortex with Zebra noise and wavelets
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

By Sophie Skriabine and Max Shinn, with Samuel Picard and
@kenneth-harris.bsky.social
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timothysit.bsky.social
Glad to see my PhD work out! Thanks to all my collaborators and to Kenneth and Matteo for making this possible!
carandinilab.net
A new study led by @timothysit.bsky.social reveals that different layers of mouse V1 integrate visual and non-visual signals differently.

Activity is dominated by vision (or spontaneous fluctuations) in L2/3 and by movement in L5. This leads to different geometries.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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carandinilab.net
New by Agnès Landemard (@agnesland.bsky.social‬) & co

Brainwide blood volume reflects opposing neural populations

Brainwide fluctuations in blood volume arise from two populations with opposite relation to brain state and distinct relationships to blood supply

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
ennyvb.bsky.social
Can large language models be more human? Professor Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh tells all about it at #pint25
ennyvb.bsky.social
Kicking of #pint25 at the George IV on the brain and artificial intelligence by Kenneth Harris!
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carandinilab.net
Many of us use 2p scopes to image 3D volumes of brain. But then we analyze the data plane by plane, resulting in duplicated neurons, missed neurons, and low s/n. Let's go 3D!

Suite3D: Volumetric cell detection for two-photon microscopy
by @haydari.bsky.social & team.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
ennyvb.bsky.social
Our paper describing UnitMatch software "tracking neurons across days with high-density probes", appeared in this month's issue of #NatureMethods. Missed it? Read it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Two neurons in front of a Neuropixels probe. One neuron says to the other: "Don't look, but I think we're being followed!".
ennyvb.bsky.social
Tickets for @pintofscience.uk are now available! Come join us for one of the #beautiful-minds events at the George IV in Chiswick - London, for example this one on human-like AI! More information: pintofscience.co.uk/event/human-.... Tickets for this event are popular, so don't wait too long! 🍻🧠🤖
Human-Like Artificial Intelligence
Can machines ever really think like us? From brains to bots, we’re diving into the science behind human-like AI. Whether you're team ‘wow, scary smart!’ or…
pintofscience.co.uk
ennyvb.bsky.social
If you're at #cosyne2025 drop by our poster [2-011] on 'Tracking neurons in chronic ephys recordings with Deep Neural Networks', March 28th, 1.15pm at Square Dorchester! A collaborative effort of presenter Wentao Qiu, Suyash Agarwal, Kenneth Harris, supervised by Célian Bimbard and myself.
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ingridrobeyns.bsky.social
Het lijkt er toch steeds meer op dat Eppo Bruins de meest incompetente en opportunistische minister van OCW is die Nederland in mensenheugenis heeft gehad. Eerst een sector helemaal in crisis storten, en dan, terwijl er een miljard bezuinigd wordt, >
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neuromatch.bsky.social
🚨 Neuromatch Academy Course Applications are OPEN for 2025!! 🚨

Get your application in early to be a student or teaching assistant for this year’s courses!

Applications are due Sunday, March 23.

Apply & learn more: neuromatch.io/courses/

#mlsky #compneurosky #ai #climatesolutions #ScienceEdu 🧪
Applications are now open! 3-week courses: Comp Neuro and Deep Learning. 2-week courses: NeuroAI and Comp Tools for Climate Science.
ennyvb.bsky.social
I think the best part of working in an international environment are the yearly discussions on Pancake day. "Who invented the pancake?" And "should it be waffle day instead, like in part of the Netherlands" cause some serious debates!
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xpieter.bsky.social
Can the mouse visual cortex harbor a functional organization for stimulus features? TLDR: Yes, we found ocular dominance columns in this tiny cortical region! Check our paper, open access in @naturecomms.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... and/or read the 🧵 below. @mpiforbi.bsky.social (1/7)
A rotating 3D-rendered volume showing ocular dominance columns as vertically extending structures (red) in the mouse visual cortex
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carandinilab.net
Neuropixels and Optogenetics are delighted to announce the birth of

Neuropixels Opto

Combining high-resolution electrophysiology and optogenetics

Today in bioRxiv

960 sites, 28 emitters, 2 colors

By Lakunina, @karolinazsocha.bsky.social, Ladd, et al

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

(1/2)
A Neuropixels Opto probe with 3 blue emitters and 3 red emitters lighting up in succession, with corresponding neural activity in different layers of the cortex.