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SfN Journals @sfnjournals.bsky.social · 8d

#JNeurosci: Kashefi et al. dissociate between the “what” and “how” components of motor sequence learning and provides evidence for the development of motoric sequence representations that guide optimal movement execution.
https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0299-25.2025

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Samuel Eckmann @samueleckmann.bsky.social · 3d

Neuromorphic Computing, NeuroAI, Computational Neuroscience

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Neuromorphic is dead. Long live neuromorphic

In this NeuroView, Giacomo Indiveri discusses the origins and evolution of neuromorphic engineering, reflects on recent shifts toward digital and AI-c…

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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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Butt Lab - Oxford @interneuron.bsky.social · 20d

A rather 'unique' paper from our lab is online in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social now. Unique in the sense that I don't think anyone else will be rushing to optotag cortical interneurons in the early postnatal brain... because it is nigh on impossible!

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GABAergic circuits reflect different requirements for sensory integration in postnatal mouse neocortex

Information transfer in mammalian cerebral cortex is dependent on GABAergic interneuron circuits that are widely assumed to be uniform across the neoc…

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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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Abhilasha Joshi, PhD @rhythmicspikes.bsky.social · 21d

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🚨 New preprint! 🚨

Excited and proud (& a little nervous 😅) to share our latest work on the importance of #theta-timescale spiking during #locomotion in #learning. If you care about how organisms learn, buckle up. 🧵👇

📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
💻 code + data 🔗 below 🤩

#neuroskyence

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Samuel Eckmann @samueleckmann.bsky.social · 21d

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Recurrent pattern completion drives the neocortical representation of sensory inference - Nature Neuroscience

Neurons that respond emergently to illusory contours drive pattern completion in V1. Pattern completion in lower cortical areas may therefore mediate perceptual inference by selectively reinforcing ac...

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Adrien Peyrache @apeyrache.bsky.social · 21d

« Diverse calcium dynamics underlie place field formation in hippocampal CA1 pyramidal cells. »

A fundamental study now published @elife.bsky.social

elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

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John Pearson @jmxpearson.bsky.social · 24d

Didn’t want to hijack someone else’s thread, but also: what’s the alternative? Sure, evolution produces sufficient not optimal solutions. Cool. How do we model that? Or if you don’t care about modeling, what predictions does that make that we can test experimentally?

John Pearson @jmxpearson.bsky.social · 24d

I mean, efficient coding and optimal control work *far* better than they have a right to, and they generate predictions. They are not falsifiable hypotheses except in the narrowest sense, but they are programs that can identify parsimonious principles for explaining real observations.

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 24d

Eliezer Yudkowsky, quoted in the NY Times.

For anyone who has followed the "AI Safety" / "Less Wrong" discussions, this is...well, something.

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Samuel Eckmann @samueleckmann.bsky.social · Sep 8

M1, not so low-d after all:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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mchurchland.bsky.social @mchurchland.bsky.social · Sep 8

Of potential interest to those keen on motor control and/or multi-task networks. Congrats to Elom and Eric.
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Motor cortex flexibly deploys a high-dimensional repertoire of subskills

Skilled movement often requires flexibly combining multiple subskills, each requiring dedicated control strategies and underlying computations. How the motor system achieves such versatility remains u...

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Samuel Eckmann @samueleckmann.bsky.social · Sep 3

Everything Everywhere ...

International Brain Laboratory @intlbrainlab.bsky.social · Sep 3

Two flagship papers from the International Brain Laboratory, now out in ‪@Nature.com‬:
🧠 Brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09235-0
🧠 Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09226-1 +

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Aug 26

Hippocampal theta sweeps indicate goal direction https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.21.671551v1

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Samuel Eckmann @samueleckmann.bsky.social · Aug 20

true, but also easier said than done 😬

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Samuel Eckmann @samueleckmann.bsky.social · Aug 20

„it is important that the theorist’s
tendency towards reductionism does not cloud out the complexity
of the living brain“

Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · Aug 20

I wrote a Comment on neurotheory, and now you can read it!

Some thoughts on where neurotheory has and has not taken root within the neuroscience community, how it has shaped those subfields, and where we theorists might look next for fresh adventures.

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

Theoretical neuroscience has room to grow

Nature Reviews Neuroscience - The goal of theoretical neuroscience is to uncover principles of neural computation through careful design and interpretation of mathematical models. Here, I examine...

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GerstnerLab @gerstnerlab.bsky.social · Aug 8

Is it possible to go from spikes to rates without averaging?

We show how to exactly map recurrent spiking networks into recurrent rate networks, with the same number of neurons. No temporal or spatial averaging needed!

Presented at Gatsby Neural Dynamics Workshop, London.

From Spikes To Rates

YouTube video by Gerstner Lab

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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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katja heuer @k4tj4.bsky.social · Jul 27

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To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised!

🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · Aug 1

Director at Max Planck - a unique position! The Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships is open now and can be submitted by the 31st of October 2025. ➡️ mpg.de/directors - Please share the Open Call among potential candidates.

Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships:
Expressions of interest can be submitted until 31 October 2025.

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Aug 3

Feature-specific inhibitory connectivity augments the accuracy of cortical representations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.02.668307v1

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Samuel Eckmann @samueleckmann.bsky.social · Jul 28

What do you have in mind as evidence that speaks against this? Generally broadly tuned inhibition?

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Samuel Eckmann @samueleckmann.bsky.social · Jul 24

'Unlike in artificial neural networks, learning in biological networks is thought to modify synaptic weights but not signs ... here, we demonstrate experience-dependent sign switching at glutamate and GABA co-releasing synapses'

bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Jul 24

Synaptic sign switching mediates online dopamine updates https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.23.666367v1

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Samuel Eckmann @samueleckmann.bsky.social · Jul 22

This is a nice history lesson on inhibitory plasticity. Not sure I agree about the present and future though ;)

Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · Jul 21

I now had a chance to listen to it and it’s not entirely terrible. Gaute’s voice is actually quite soothing and his questions are good. You might not immediately die while listening to this. Thanks @gauteeinevoll.bsky.social for cutting out all the bits that would’ve gotten me fired.

Gaute Einevoll @gauteeinevoll.bsky.social · Jul 19

Episode #30 in #TheoreticalNeurosciencePodcast: On co-dependent excitatory and inhibitory plasticity – with Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social

theoreticalneuroscience.no/thn30

How can excitatory and inhibitory synaptic plasticity, co-exist in spiking neural network models? With co-dependence!

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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. 🧵

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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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