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Mattia Chini @mattiachini.bsky.social · 5d

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 · 5d

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 · 5d

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 · 15d

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 🤗

a man wearing a white shirt and tie smiles in front of a window

ALT: a man wearing a white shirt and tie smiles in front of a window

media.tenor.com

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Mattia Chini @mattiachini.bsky.social · 16d

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 · 16d

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

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Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 20d

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 · 22d

🚨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 · 21d

🚨 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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Alessandro Gozzi @gozziale.bsky.social · 28d

🚨 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!
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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! 😃

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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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Mattia Chini @mattiachini.bsky.social · Aug 27

Thanks to the support of the F.R.S. - FNRS, I’m hiring two postdocs to help kickstart the lab. Informal inquiries are welcome via socials or email.

More about the two postdoc positions and how to apply: www.chinilab.com/opportunitie...

RT for visibility are greatly appreciated! 🙏

Chini Lab

Chini Lab at GIGA–ULiège. We study how neural activity emerges in early development from a systems neuroscience perspective.

www.chinilab.com

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Mattia Chini @mattiachini.bsky.social · Aug 27

I am thrilled to share that this winter I will be starting my lab in the GIGA Institute of @universitedeliege.bsky.social!

The lab will study early brain development at the intersection of systems and computational neuroscience.

🌐 You can find out more on the lab website: www.chinilab.com

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Chini Lab

Chini Lab at GIGA–ULiège. We study how neural activity emerges in early development from a systems neuroscience perspective.

www.chinilab.com

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Mattia Chini @mattiachini.bsky.social · Aug 26

A pretty broad sample: "333 open-access journals published during January 2019 by BioMed Central" ... "with mandatory data availability statement". There wasn't a focus on a particular discipline.
It totally matches my personal experience.

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Mattia Chini @mattiachini.bsky.social · Aug 15

The state of pseudo data-sharing.

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Belgian Society for Neuroscience @belgianneuro.bsky.social · Aug 7

📢 2 weeks left for Abstract submission !
Join us at the 16th BSN Meeting – Oct 20, 2025 at KU Leuven 🧠

🔗 Submit now: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
📍 Deadline: August 20th, 2025

#BSN2025 #Neuroscience #CallForAbstracts

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Mattia Chini @mattiachini.bsky.social · Aug 7

Spicy

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Mattia Chini @mattiachini.bsky.social · Aug 5

Our first project on intrinsic neural timescales (ITs) is out! 😱🥳
We developed a new method to estimate ITs from single-unit data, which generalizes and improves the current state-of-the-art approaches.
Plus, why estimating ITs on trial-based data is dangerous ☠️
Read it all here below 👇

Irina Pochinok @irinapochinok.bsky.social · Aug 5

New preprint is out! We present iSTTC, a robust method for estimating intrinsic neural timescales (ITs) from single-unit activity. It’s accurate, stable, and works even when data is sparse.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

iSTTC: a robust method for accurate estimation of intrinsic neural timescales from single-unit recordings

Intrinsic neural timescales (ITs) are an emerging measure of how neural circuits integrate information over time. ITs are dynamically regulated by behavioral context and cognitive demands, making them...

doi.org

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Irina Pochinok @irinapochinok.bsky.social · Aug 5

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We implemented iSTTC to tackle challenges in our own sparse, developmental datasets, and it’s working beautifully. We hope it helps others working with tricky spiking data. Try it yourself github.com/iinnpp/isttc!

GitHub - iinnpp/isttc: iSTTC: intrinsic neural timescales estimation

iSTTC: intrinsic neural timescales estimation. Contribute to iinnpp/isttc development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Mattia Chini @mattiachini.bsky.social · Aug 1

"people use it very differently".. this applies to so many concepts in neuroscience!
We (@irinapochinok.bsky.social and Simon Musall) put together a #BernsteinConference Workshop on exactly this and @juangallego.bsky.social will be one of our speakers!
@bernsteinneuro.bsky.social
shorturl.at/4kV00

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Mattia Chini @mattiachini.bsky.social · Jul 31

48" vertical like MJ

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Baptiste Libé-Philippot @blibep.bsky.social · Jul 30

🧠 Opportunity for a post-doctoral position on human neurobiology, funded by the @erc.europa.eu!
🧫You want to use human pluripotent stem cell based models to understand the evolution of human cerebellar neurons and disorders, this position is for you!
🔗Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Postdoctoral researcher in human neurobiology (M/F)

emploi.cnrs.fr

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