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Lea Duncker @leaduncker.bsky.social · 5d

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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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...

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Tim Behrens @behrenstimb.bsky.social · 14d

Awesome 4 year phd in compsys neuro !!

Sainsbury Wellcome Centre @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social · 15d

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/...

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Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience @bernsteinneuro.bsky.social · Aug 12

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

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Claudia Clopath Lab @clopathlab.bsky.social · Aug 8

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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Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience @bernsteinneuro.bsky.social · Jul 24

⏳ Register for the #BernsteinConference by July 30 and secure the early-bird fees!

Register here 👉 bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...

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Claudia Clopath Lab @clopathlab.bsky.social · Jul 23

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...

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Petr Znamenskiy @petrznam.bsky.social · Jul 21

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...

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...

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ML for Science @ml4science.bsky.social · Jul 16

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

Formulas and numbers from the field of machine learning written in white chalk on a blackboard

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Aitor Morales-Gregorio @aitormg.bsky.social · Jul 10

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...

(SW2025) Top-down control of neural dynamics – Bernstein Netzwerk Computational Neuroscience

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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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Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience @bernsteinneuro.bsky.social · Jun 15

⏰ 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...

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Katharina Wilmes @k47h4.bsky.social · Jun 11

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

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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · Jun 9

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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Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience @bernsteinneuro.bsky.social · Jun 4

🛰️ The selected Satellite Workshops of the #BernsteinConference 2025 are now listed on our website!

Take a look 👉 bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...

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Claudia Clopath Lab @clopathlab.bsky.social · Mar 28

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...

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INCF @incforg.bsky.social · Mar 14

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...

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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · Mar 10

📆 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...

various computational neuroscience / MEEG / LFP short courses and summer schools

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Fleur Zeldenrust @fleurzeldenrust.bsky.social · Feb 12

My lab is looking for a computational neuroscience postdoctoral researcher:
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
Come join us at the @dondersinst.bsky.social!

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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · Feb 11

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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Sepiedeh Keshavarzi @sepikeshavarzi.bsky.social · Jan 26

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!

Sepiedeh Keshavarzi @sepikeshavarzi.bsky.social · Nov 13

📣 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...

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Charline Tessereau @chrltsr.bsky.social · Jan 7

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...

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Agostina Palmigiano @apalmigiano.bsky.social · Jan 6

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!

Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit @gatsbyucl.bsky.social · Jan 6

📢 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!

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Luke Eilers @luke-eilers.bsky.social · Dec 3

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

Schematic explaining the generalization of the neural tangent kernel

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Alireza Modirshanechi @modirshanechi.bsky.social · Nov 18

🚨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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