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Katrin Franke
@katrinfranke.bsky.social
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Neuroscience, NeuroAI | https://kfranke.com/ | Senior Scientist at Stanford working at https://enigmaproject.ai/
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 1d
Please spread the word! I am recruiting a PhD student this cycle (Fall 2026 start) to join my team in a new venture: the neuroscience of mood.

If you are curious to learn more, this short talk provides a good overview of why, what and how.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjIK...
Nicole Rust - The representation of mood in the primate insula (May 6, 2025)
YouTube video by Simons Foundation
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Hannes Mehrer @hannesmehrer.bsky.social · 1d
🧠 New preprint: we show that model-guided microstimulation can steer monkey visual behavior.

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2510.03684

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Martin Schrimpf @mschrimpf.bsky.social · 15h
A glimpse at what #NeuroAI brain models might enable: a topographic vision model predicts stimulation patterns that steer complex object recognition behavior in primates. This could be a key 'software' component for visual prosthetic hardware 🧠🤖🧪
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Katrin Franke @katrinfranke.bsky.social · 1d
Our review is out 🎉

We discuss how neural computations in the retina shape behavior, continuing the top-down tradition of Lettvin et al.'s classic bug-detector neurons

Check it out 👀 arevie.ws/46HMEjd @annualreviews.bsky.social w/ coauthors @serenariccitelli.bsky.social @annaintegrated.bsky.social
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Annual Reviews @annualreviews.bsky.social · 8d
The 2025 volume of the Annual Review of Vision Science is now online. The most read article so far is "Behavior-Specific Computations in the Vertebrate Retina" arevie.ws/46HMEjd @serenariccitelli.bsky.social @annaintegrated.bsky.social @katrinfranke.bsky.social

TOC: arevie.ws/3Wklava
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LOOPs_spp2411 @brainloops.bsky.social · 1d
Inspiring Career Session and Discussion at the SPP x SFB1233 Women’s Retreat!

Kristine Krug and @katrinfranke.bsky.social shared motivating reflections on decision-making, research, and life in science followed by a great discussion on career paths and growth. 🧠💬✨

#SPP #FB1233 #WomenInSTEM
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Alexander Mathis @trackingskills.bsky.social · 15d
Understanding behavior requires datasets that capture humans while carrying out complex tasks. The kitchen is an excellent environment for assessing human motor and cognitive function, as many complex actions are naturally exhibited in kitchens from chopping to 🧽!

arxiv.org/abs/2506.01608
EPFL-Smart-Kitchen-30: Densely annotated cooking dataset with 3D kinematics to challenge video and language models
Understanding behavior requires datasets that capture humans while carrying out complex tasks. The kitchen is an excellent environment for assessing human motor and cognitive function, as many complex...
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CL @cllantz.bsky.social · 22d
New funding opportunity from the BRAIN Initiative! Applications due Oct 28!

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
RFA-DA-27-004: BRAIN Initiative: Theories, Models and Methods for Analysis of Complex Data from the Brain (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: BRAIN Initiative: Theories, Models and Methods for Analysis of Complex Data from the Brain (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allo...
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Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · 23d
For those interested in open neuroscience learning tools, check out the preprint for “RetINaBox: A hands-on tool for experimental neuroscience" that a couple students in my lab worked on in collaboration with the Trenholm lab:

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

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RetINaBox: A hands-on learning tool for experimental neuroscience
An exciting aspect of neuroscience research is developing and testing hypotheses via experimentation. However, due to logistical and financial hurdles, this compelling part of neuroscience research is...
www.biorxiv.org
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Tobias Rose @trose-neuro.bsky.social · 29d
BonnBrain 2026 is a go!
March 23–25, Bonn (DZNE, Bonn, Germany).
Apply now: www.bonnbrain.de
Limited slots. Presentations (posters/talks) selected from submitted abstracts.

Keynotes & invited speakers 👇
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Herbert Wu @herbertwu.bsky.social · Sep 4
Super excited to share the first cooperative foraging paradigm in freely interacting mouse pairs! Stable leader and follower roles emerge spontaneously and predict learning. Well-trained mice show stereotyped, role-specific “behavioral motifs” absent in naive animals (1/5)
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Alexander Mathis @trackingskills.bsky.social · Sep 4
Something exciting just left the gym -- meet Arnold the first generalist musculoskeletal control policy!

The human body has 600+ muscles, yet we seamlessly coordinate them for everything from whispering a syllable to felling a forrest. How? www.arxiv.org/abs/2508.18066
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tal boger @talboger.bsky.social · Aug 19
On the left is a rabbit. On the right is an elephant. But guess what: They’re the *same image*, rotated 90°!

In @currentbiology.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I show how these images—known as “visual anagrams”—can help solve a longstanding problem in cognitive science. bit.ly/45BVnCZ
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Marla Feller @mfeller.bsky.social · Aug 20
Come join our new Department of Neuroscience @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05041
Assistant Professor - Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Neuroscience - Department of Neuroscience
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · Aug 15
Shag carpet or frog photoreceptor outer segments! 🐸🧪

Taken during the visual neuroscience course @mblscience.bsky.social
An image of frog rod photoreceptor outer segments. They look round and soft, like a shag carpet.
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Joao Barbosa @jbarbosa.org · Aug 10
Sad to miss #CCN2025. It will be the 1st conference where a PhD working w/ me will speak 😭

go see Lubna's talk (Friday) about distributed neural correlates of flexible decision making in 🐒,

work done in collaboration w/ @scottbrincat.bsky.social @siegellab.bsky.social & @earlkmiller.bsky.social
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Roxana Zeraati @roxana-zeraati.bsky.social · Aug 9
Looking forward to attending #CCN2025 for the first time and presenting the first steps of my postdoc project! If you’re interested in how learning the temporal structure of the environment affects foraging decisions and how we’re testing this in a naturalistic experiment come by poster B90, Wed.
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Shervin Safavi @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social · Aug 9
Excited about #CCN2025 and sharing our research in @cmc-lab.bsky.social!
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CMC lab @cmc-lab.bsky.social · Aug 9
We are heading to #CCN2025 in Amsterdam with 3 awesome posters! Thread below 👇

B71, Wed, 1pm-4pm: 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=8...
B90, Wed, 1pm-4pm: 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=o...
C169, Fri, 2pm-5pm: 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=l...
Poster Presentation
2025.ccneuro.org
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Mora Ogando @moraogando.bsky.social · Aug 5
Thrilled to share our new Adesnik lab paper!!
Using holography in excitatory & inhibitory neurons, we reveal how a single cortical circuit can both complete and cancel predictable sensory activity, sharpening representations
📄https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.02.668307v1
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · Aug 4
Neural manifold properties can help us understand how animal brains deal with competing and multifaceted information, execute flexible behaviors and reuse common computations, writes @mattperich.bsky.social.

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/neural-dynam...
Neural population-based approaches have opened new windows into neural computations and behavior
Neural manifold properties can help us understand how animal brains deal with complex information, execute flexible behaviors and reuse common computations.
www.thetransmitter.org
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Matt Perich @mattperich.bsky.social · Aug 4
📰 I really enjoyed writing this article with @thetransmitter.bsky.social! In it, I summarize parts of our recent perspective article on neural manifolds (www.nature.com/articles/s41...), with a focus on highlighting just a few cool insights into the brain we've already seen at the population level.
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · Aug 4
Neural manifold properties can help us understand how animal brains deal with competing and multifaceted information, execute flexible behaviors and reuse common computations, writes @mattperich.bsky.social.

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/neural-dynam...
Neural population-based approaches have opened new windows into neural computations and behavior
Neural manifold properties can help us understand how animal brains deal with complex information, execute flexible behaviors and reuse common computations.
www.thetransmitter.org
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Data on the Brain & Mind @NeurIPS2025 @dataonbrainmind.bsky.social · Aug 4
🚨 Excited to announce our #NeurIPS2025 Workshop: Data on the Brain & Mind

📣 Call for: Findings (4- or 8-page) + Tutorials tracks

🎙️ Speakers include @dyamins.bsky.social @lauragwilliams.bsky.social @cpehlevan.bsky.social

🌐 Learn more: data-brain-mind.github.io
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Miranda Scalabrino, PhD @icanhasmiranda.bsky.social · Aug 5
1. There is a “Photoreceptors & Retina Circuitry” nano symposium at @sfn.org this year!

2. I’ll be presenting research from my lab in said nano symposium!
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Hope Kean @hopekean.bsky.social · Aug 3
Is the Language of Thought == Language? A Thread 🧵
New Preprint (link: tinyurl.com/LangLOT) with @alexanderfung.bsky.social, Paris Jaggers, Jason Chen, Josh Rule, Yael Benn, @joshtenenbaum.bsky.social, ‪@spiantado.bsky.social‬, Rosemary Varley, @evfedorenko.bsky.social
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Evidence from Formal Logical Reasoning Reveals that the Language of Thought is not Natural Language
Humans are endowed with a powerful capacity for both inductive and deductive logical thought: we easily form generalizations based on a few examples and draw conclusions from known premises. Humans al...
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