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Eleonora Russo @russoel.bsky.social · Aug 18

Thanks @hunglo.bsky.social and Friedrich for involving us in such an interesting project!!

Hung Lo 羅鴻 @hunglo.bsky.social · Aug 15

I'm more than psyched to share that my PhD paper is now out in Neuron! It's also my first paper as both first author and corresponding author, which means even more to me!

Thank my partner Chi-Chieh for her contribution to the most adorable ever graphic abstract 🥰

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Eleonora Russo @russoel.bsky.social · Jun 21

Into population dynamics? Coming to #CNS2025 but not quite ready to head home?

Come join us! at the Symposium on "Neural Population Dynamics and Latent Representations"! 🧠
📆 July 10th
📍 Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa (and online)
👉 Free registration: neurobridge-tne.github.io
#compneuro

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Eleonora Russo @russoel.bsky.social · Jun 21

and with co-organizers @albmazz.bsky.social , Silvestro Micera, Calogero Oddo, @solaiman-shokur.bsky.social, Nicolo Meneghetti, Jacopo Carpaneto.

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Eleonora Russo @russoel.bsky.social · Jun 21

What a line up!! With Lorenzo Gaetano Amato, Demian Battaglia, @durstewitzlab.bsky.social, @engeltatiana.bsky.social,‪ @seanfw.bsky.social‬, Matthieu Gilson, Maurizio Mattia, @leonardopollina.bsky.social‬, Sara Solla.

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Eleonora Russo @russoel.bsky.social · Jun 21

Into population dynamics? Coming to #CNS2025 but not quite ready to head home?

Come join us! at the Symposium on "Neural Population Dynamics and Latent Representations"! 🧠
📆 July 10th
📍 Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa (and online)
👉 Free registration: neurobridge-tne.github.io
#compneuro

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Italian Network of Computational and Theoretical Neuroscience @incn.bsky.social · Jun 6

⏳ One week left to submit your abstract!
Join us in Padova for the 2025 Italian Network of Computational Neuroscience Conference 🧠🇮🇹
📅 Deadline: 14 June
Share your research and engage with the computational neuroscience community!
#INNC2025 #Neuroscience #CallForAbstracts

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Hayley Bounds @hayleybounds.bsky.social · May 15

Excited to share my PhD paper! In it, we use targeted 2-photon optogenetic stimulation to determine how V1 activity is read-out in a detection task. We found that network influence, not visual coding properties, predicted the impact of ensembles on behavior - contradicting our expectations (1/5).

Neuron @cp-neuron.bsky.social · May 15

Online now:

Network influence determines the impact of cortical ensembles on stimulus detection

By photostimulating specific visual cortical ensembles, Bounds et al. discovered that an ensemble’s impact on local neural activity, not its visual encoding properties, predicts its impact on stimulus detection. Their analysis reveals that mice use a generalizable, albeit suboptimal, perceptual readout strategy of summing all V1 activity to detect stimuli.

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · May 10

Because we must build good things while we scream about the bad, I have started a "Data for Good" team @data-for-good-team.bsky.social that partners with organizations needing short-term data science help. We have three projects ongoing & will add more as our capacity grows.
data-for-good-team.org

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Joao Barbosa @jbarbosa.org · May 10

Please RT🙏

Reach out if you want to help understand cognition by modelling, analyzing and/or collect large scale intracortical data from 👩🐒🐁

We're a friendly, diverse group (n>25) w/ this terrace 😎 in the center of Paris! See👇 for + info about the lab

We have funding to support your application!

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Alessandro Torcini @torcini.bsky.social · May 1

Dynamics days europe 2025, Thessaloniki
23-27, June 2025

MS4: Neural Dynamics Across Spatiotemporal Scales: ...
Organisers: T. Manos, A. Torcini, A. Provata, Astero

The program of our MS (25-26/6/2025) is online

#compneurosky #neuroskyence

websites.auth.gr/ddeu2025/

Dynamics Days Europe 2025

XLV Dynamics Days Europe 2025 Thessaloniki, Greece Conference Dates: 23 - 27 June 2025 Conference Venue: Porto Palace Conference Hotel ABOUT Dynamics Days Europe (DDE) is a series of major internation...

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Shervin Safavi @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social · Feb 20

Re-posting is appreciated: We have a fully funded PhD position in CMC lab @cmc-lab.bsky.social (at @tudresden_de). You can use forms.gle/qiAv5NZ871kv... to send your application and find more information. Deadline is April 30. Find more about CMC lab: cmclab.org and email me if you have questions.

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Jakob Macke @jakhmack.bsky.social · Mar 24

Out now 'in print'--- a true labor of love, in more ways than one. See the paper and press-release below!

Also, go and see @matthijspals.bsky.social's talk at #Cosyne, where he will talk about related/follow up work!

uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/...

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · Feb 5

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

A crowded stadium. Thrilled fans watch from the terraces, fixated by the figures on the brightly-lit court.

Over the noise, the commentator shouts excitedly:
"Hughes conceives a lovely hypothesis. Wilson tests it through repeated observation. Evans adds experimental data then passes back to Hughes, who states the theory in unambiguous terms and the crowd goes wild!!!"

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Eleonora Russo @russoel.bsky.social · Mar 10

Join us in beautiful Tokyo for a great summer school!
IRCN and Chen Institute Joint Course on Neuro-inspired Computation
ircn.jp/en/events/07...

July 2-5, 2025: [Call for Participants] IRCN and Chen Institute Joint Course on Neuro-inspired Computation

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Matteo Carandini @carandinilab.net · Feb 2

It's finally out!

Visual experience orthogonalizes visual cortical responses

Training in a visual task changes V1 tuning curves in odd ways. This effect is explained by a simple convex transformation. It orthogonalizes the population, making it easier to decode.

10.1016/j.celrep.2025.115235

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Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · Jan 31

New preprint: "The geometry of the neural state space of decisions", work by Mauro Monsalve-Mercado, buff.ly/42wVHD5. Surprising results & predictions! (Thread) We analyze neuropixel population recordings in macaque area LIP during a reaction time, random-dot motion 1/

Picture of neural manifolds for the two choices in a decision-making task, depicted in 3D and in 2D

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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · Jan 23

What's the right way to think about modularity in the brain? This devilish 😈 question is a big part of my research now, and it started with this paper with @solarpunkgabs.bsky.social, finally published after the first preprint in 2021! 🤖🧠🧪

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dynamics of specialization in neural modules under resource constraints - Nature Communications

The extent to which structural modularity in neural networks ensures functional specialization remains unclear. Here the authors show that specialization can emerge in neural modules placed under reso...

www.nature.com

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The Viking (Gunnar Blohm) @gunnarblohm.bsky.social · Jan 18

Very cool paper by Emily Oby and colleagues:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Interesting insights into the flexibility (or lack thereof) of neural dynamics for motor control

Dynamical constraints on neural population activity - Nature Neuroscience

Oby, Degenhart, Grigsby and colleagues used a brain–computer interface to challenge monkeys to override their natural time courses of neural activity. They found the time courses to be highly robust, ...

www.nature.com

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Eleonora Russo @russoel.bsky.social · Nov 30

📢PhD position @ Bristol Uni (Ross Purple, Sean Froudist-Walsh) and joint supervision @ Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (Eleonora Russo) on the reinforcement of traumatic memories during sleep using advanced machine learning techniques.

Deadline: 6 Jan. 2025
Detailed project information here 👇

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Eleonora Russo @russoel.bsky.social · Nov 30

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Funded PhD - Decoding the processing of traumatic memories during sleep using machine learning at University of Bristol on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Funded PhD - Decoding the processing of traumatic memories during sleep using machine learning at University of Bristol, listed on FindAPhD.com

www.findaphd.com

Eleonora Russo @russoel.bsky.social · Nov 30

📢PhD position @ Bristol Uni (Ross Purple, Sean Froudist-Walsh) and joint supervision @ Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (Eleonora Russo) on the reinforcement of traumatic memories during sleep using advanced machine learning techniques.

Deadline: 6 Jan. 2025
Detailed project information here 👇

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Eleonora Russo @russoel.bsky.social · Nov 25

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · Nov 25

bioRxiv founder: Please note that bioRxiv introduced automated generation of in-line figure view to address this issue connect.biorxiv.org/news/2022/02...

Print/save all articles with in-line figures

bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

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Jay Hennig @jhennig.bsky.social · Nov 20

Comp neuro PIs -- what was the first grant you got as a PI (collaborative, solo, big, small), and how soon after you started? My ears are open 😅
#neuroai #compneurosky #compneuro

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Eleonora Russo @russoel.bsky.social · Nov 22

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Eleonora Russo @russoel.bsky.social · Nov 18

Hi, I would love to be added as well! thx :)

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