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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 7d

Message for participants of the #SNUFA 2025 spiking neural network workshop. We got almost 60 awesome abstract submissions, and we'd now like your help to select which ones should be offered talks. Follow the "abstract voting" link at snufa.net/2025/ to take part. It should take <15m. Thanks! ❤️

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Spiking Neural networks as Universal Function Approximators

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Laureline Logiaco @laurelinelogiaco.bsky.social · 11d

Interested in doing a Ph.D. to work on building models of the brain/behavior? Consider applying to graduate schools at CU Anschutz:
1. Neuroscience www.cuanschutz.edu/graduate-pro...
2. Bioengineering engineering.ucdenver.edu/bioengineeri...

You could work with several comp neuro PIs, including me.

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Kris Jensen @kristorpjensen.bsky.social · 14d

I’m super excited to finally put my recent work with @behrenstimb.bsky.social on bioRxiv, where we develop a new mechanistic theory of how PFC structures adaptive behaviour using attractor dynamics in space and time!

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

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Friedemann Zenke @fzenke.bsky.social · 21d

Truly honored (and a little overwhelmed) to see our work featured in The Transmitter's "This Paper Changed My Life." Huge thanks to @neural-reckoning.org for the kind words - and to our amazing community that keeps pushing spiking neural network research forward 🙏

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 21d

In our latest “This paper changed my life,” @neural-reckoning.org explains how @fzenke.bsky.social's 2019 paper, and its related coding tutorial SpyTorch, made it possible to apply modern machine learning to spiking neural networks.

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/this-paper-c...

This paper changed my life: Dan Goodman on a paper that reignited the field of spiking neural networks

Friedemann Zenke’s 2019 paper, and its related coding tutorial SpyTorch, made it possible to apply modern machine learning to spiking neural networks. The innovation reinvigorated the field.

www.thetransmitter.org

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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 22d

Submissions (short!) due for SNUFA spiking neural networks conference in <2 weeks! 🤖🧠🧪

forms.cloud.microsoft/e/XkZLavhaJe

More info at snufa.net/2025/

Note that we normally get around 700 participants and recordings go on YouTube and get 100s-1000s views.

Please repost.

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Spiking Neural networks as Universal Function Approximators

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Alexandra Bendel @alexbendel.bsky.social · Aug 25

I am happy to finally share this preprint of my PhD project in @guillaumediss.bsky.social lab at the FMI in Basel.
We used ddPCA to map the genetic architecture of the entire human bZIP interaction network.

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

Thanks to all our co-authors for the great collaboration!

The genetic architecture of the human bZIP family

Generative biology holds the promise to transform our ability to design and understand living systems by creating novel proteins, pathways, and organisms with tailored functions that address challenge...

www.biorxiv.org

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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · Aug 7

Spiking neural networks people, this message is for you!

The annual SNUFA workshop is now open for abstract submission (deadline Sept 26) and (free) registration. This year's speakers include Elisabetta Chicca, Jason Eshraghian, Tomoki Fukai, Chengcheng Huang, and... you?

snufa.net/2025/

🤖🧠🧪

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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · Jul 25

We're hiring,, of interest to people in spiking neural networks and neuromorphic particularly. See below. 👇

Note the deadline for applications is very soon! Apologies for this but various admin necessities made it unavoidable.

Danyal @danakarca.bsky.social · Jul 25

Hiring a post-doc at Imperial in EEE. Broad in scope + flexible on topics: neural networks & new AI accelerators from a HW/SW co-design perspective!

w/ @neuralreckoning.bsky.social @achterbrain.bsky.social in Intelligent Systems and Networks group.

Plz share! 🚀: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

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Please note that job descriptions are not exhaustive, and you may be asked to take on additional duties that align with the key responsibilities ment...

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eLife @elife.bsky.social · Jul 21

Ditching months-long delays for fast, constructive feedback.

This interview with @solygamagda.bsky.social dives into the experience of publishing with eLife and what it could mean for a more open and efficient future in science.

Publishing with eLife: “the future of science lies in greater transparency”

Neuroscientist Magdalena Solyga shares her latest study and her experience publishing with eLife.

buff.ly

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Georg Keller @georgkeller.bsky.social · Jul 14

There might be a bit of misconception here. What the paper very convincingly shows is that visual cortex does not compute global oddball prediction errors and does not receive any top-down predictions that could be used to compute such prediction errors.

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DurstewitzLab @durstewitzlab.bsky.social · Jul 13

Got prov. approval for 2 major grants in Neuro-AI & Dynamical Systems Reconstruction, on learning & inference in non-stationary environments, out-of-domain generalization, and DS foundation models. To all AI/math/DS enthusiasts: Expect job announcements (PhD/PostDoc) soon! Feel free to get in touch.

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Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · Jun 30

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

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Hannah Payne @hannahpayne.bsky.social · Jun 11

My latest Aronov lab paper is now published @Nature!

When a chickadee looks at a distant location, the same place cells activate as if it were actually there 👁️

The hippocampus encodes where the bird is looking, AND what it expects to see next -- enabling spatial reasoning from afar

bit.ly/3HvWSum

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Friedemann Zenke @fzenke.bsky.social · Jun 5

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Andrew Saxe @saxelab.bsky.social · Jun 4

How does in-context learning emerge in attention models during gradient descent training?

Sharing our new Spotlight paper @icmlconf.bsky.social: Training Dynamics of In-Context Learning in Linear Attention
arxiv.org/abs/2501.16265

Led by Yedi Zhang with @aaditya6284.bsky.social and Peter Latham

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Stein Aerts @steinaerts.bsky.social · Jun 4

The deadline for the VIB.AI group leader positions is approaching - send in your CV and short research plan before 14th June to start your BioML research lab in Leuven or Ghent

VIB.AI @vibai.bsky.social · Jun 4

We want to connect:
To link model builders with data generators.
To bring together scientists asking why cells behave the way they do, and others figuring out how to model that behavior.

If you're working on AI in biology, consider joining!
https://tinyurl.com/y35m6khy

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Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · Jun 2

We just pushed “Memory by a 1000 rules” onto bioRxiv, where we use clever #ML to find #plasticity quadruplets (EE, EI, IE, II) that learn basic stability in spiking nets. Why is it cool? We find 1000s!! of solutions, and they don’t just stabilise. They #memorise! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Memory by a thousand rules: Automated discovery of functional multi-type plasticity rules reveals variety & degeneracy at the heart of learning

Synaptic plasticity is the basis of learning and memory, but the link between synaptic changes and neural function remains elusive. Here, we used automated search algorithms to obtain thousands of str...

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FMI science @fmiscience.bsky.social · May 28

In a @elife.bsky.social study, FMI researchers show that memory storage may rely on dynamic interplay between excitatory and inhibitory neurons — challenging the idea of stable activity patterns in memory networks. www.fmi.ch/news-events/...

How brain networks balance learning and memory

FMI researchers have provided new insights into how the brain organizes and processes memories, thanks to a study that looks at the balance between excitatory and inhibitory neurons. Memory networks h...

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Friedemann Zenke @fzenke.bsky.social · May 28

Absolutely. The idea is that in addition to the very important role of keeping this delicate equilibrium, deviations from balance could serve yet another purpose.

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