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Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe check out the associated website. icg-explorer.org. I know I know, it's not fully integrated with ICG1, but these things are difficult.

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Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations Juan! Exciting news!

Juan Gallego @juangallego.bsky.social · 1d

🚨Big news!🚨
The lab is relocating to Lisbon, joining a great team of experimental and theoretical neuroscientists, and the Neurotechnology Warehouse, a new initiative to bridge basic and translational research.

I'll be sharing postdoc openings soon. Come join us in this new incarnation of the lab!

Champalimaud Research @champalimaudr.bsky.social · 2d

🧠🎼 What does it take to restore movement? Neuroscientist and engineer, @juangallego.bsky.social, joins the new Centre for Restorative Neurotechnology at the Champalimaud Foundation.

🔗 Find out more in this interview: www.fchampalimaud.org/news/juan-al...

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Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · 1d

...which is to say, maybe peops *use* the paper and page, but forget to cite, 'cuz it's so early in the scientific process? Anyway, the old & *new* work, in which we compare the line-by-line code tons of models, & rewrite them in a unified expression makes me so happy. Check it out: icg-explorer.org

Ion Channel Genealogy Visualizer

Interactive visualization and analysis of ion channel models from ModelDB and ICG databases

icg-explorer.org

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Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · 1d

Some addendum here. The '17 elife paper only has 43 citations in 8 years :( but the associated ionchannelmodels.org had 900+ unique visitors in 2024. Some 180 of them used the "compare ion channel models" function, pretty deep into the page. Every two days someone used a service we didn't advertise!

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 2d

What Americans Die from?

And what the media reports on...

Our World in Data ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...

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Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · 2d

The working title of this project was “super models”, but we chickened out in carrying that terminology through. We were worried anyone was gonna think we were making fun of human supermodels, or worse, ion channels!! And we weren’t sure blue steel was the right association for a CA++ channel…

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Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · 2d

“Mapping ion channel function” doi.org/10.7554/eLif... isn’t exactly a citation slayer, but it’s still one of my favourites (& my first independent project). Today we push pt 2, where we trace code origin & unite almost all channel models in a common expression. Boom! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

An ion channel omnimodel for standardized biophysical neuron modelling

Biophysical neuron modeling is an indispensable tool in neuroscience research, with the combination of diverse ion channel kinetics and morphologies being used to explain various single-neuron propert...

www.biorxiv.org

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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 9d

No more Paris-Wien/Berlin night trains

"Die ÖBB bedauern, dass nach dem Rückzug der französischen Partner, die beiden Nachtzugverbindungen ab 14. Dez 2025 nicht mehr angeboten werden können." - SNCF, this is you presse-oebb.at/news-oebb-be...

My analysis in English:
jonworth.eu/sncfs-half-h...

SNCF's half hearted effort to support international night trains in danger of hitting the buffers - Jon Worth

In December 2023 the Paris-Berlin night train re-started after a 9 year hiatus. Operated as a Nighjet service by ÖBB, SNCF provided motive power for the train from Mannheim to Paris. They even put SNC...

jonworth.eu

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Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · 16d

"How many disco balls have you purchased in your life time?"

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Greg Jefferis @jefferis.bsky.social · Aug 21

Neuronal diversity is written in transcriptional codes 🧬. But what is the logic of these codes that define cell types and wiring patterns?
To find out we built a #scRNAseq developmental atlas of the Drosophila nerve cord and linked it to the #connectome 🪰🧠
#preprint thread ⬇️1/8

ALT text: A UMAP representation of a single cell RNAseq dataset from the Drosophila ventral nerve cord as well as images of the Drosophila nerve cord connectome and different stages of fly development.

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Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · Aug 21

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war

Figures from classified IDF database listed 8,900 named fighters as dead or probably dead in May, as overall death toll reached 53,000

www.theguardian.com

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · Aug 21

Involuntary memory retrieval is a common phenomenon in autobiographical #memory, and a symptom of #PTSD. This study reveals the neural mechanism of #InvoluntaryMemory, showing that involuntary & voluntary memories rely on distinct neural processes @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4oQkb3e

Distinct theta signatures of involuntary and voluntary memory retrieval. A. Left, top: time course of theta power in significant electrodes. T-sum values above zero indicate significant time points. Left, bottom: time-frequency plot of theta-band activity as mean across all significant electrodes. Time-frequency plots are only displayed for illustrative purposes and were not used for inference statistics. Right: topographical plot of significant electrode clusters. Significant electrodes are highlighted as bold dots. B. Source localization of significant theta-band cluster and bar plot depicting mean theta-power of full-hits (FH) and correct rejections (CR) within source localized clusters. C. Corresponding time-frequency analysis for voluntary retrieval. D. Source localization of significant theta-band clusters during voluntary retrieval and bar plots illustrating mean theta-power of full-hits and correct rejections within source localized clusters.

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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · Jul 24

Almost every major university financial fraud is done by administrators...yet note the difference between the comically instrusive surveillance and accountability for faculty over every dollar vs the complete lack of oversight for management spending (or stealing).

lfpress.com/news/local-n...

LHSC names 5 former executives in $60M fraud lawsuits

LHSC contends a former executive masterminded a "fraudulent scheme" and he and others used funds they obtained to buy properties

lfpress.com

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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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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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Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · Jul 6

then lettuce rejoice where we at

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Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · Jul 7

Arrived in Okinawa last night for teaching at the #OIST summer school. So far so good, almost as pretty as the #imbizo ;) Looking forward to a week of science!

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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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Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · Jun 22

youtu.be/4VrLQXR7mKU?...

“I’m Not a Robot” (2025 Academy Award Winner) | The New Yorker Screening Room

YouTube video by The New Yorker

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Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · Jun 18

me too!!!! Arg!

Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · Jun 18

Hey @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social your verification of my humanity is stuck in a forever loop, and it kinda ..... if my frustration is any measure of my humanity then I am defos HUMAN. Ayee!

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Kepano Kolohe @alala55.bsky.social · Jun 15

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Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · Jun 3

Right!! 🤦‍♂️ Ic Ould have linked to that, it's on YouTube! Thanks!

"Hey if you want this story in spoken word, check out my talk from a few weeks ago www.youtube.com/live/-ScGSH-... 😅

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Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · Jun 3

Who says science can't be ~ ?

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Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · Jun 2

We used BRIAN for parts of it ❤️❤️, specifically the prototype of pong. (Figure 4E) 🙏🏼🙏🏼Thank you for your contribution.

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