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SPIKING NEURAL NETWORKS! If you love them, join us at SNUFA24. Free, online workshop, Nov 5-6 (2-6pm CET). Usually ~700 participants. Invited speakers: Chiara Bartolozzi, David Kappel, Anna Levina, Christian Machens Posters + 8 contributed talks selected by participant vote.

A new preprint that revives the theory of continous attractors that may be surprising to you! Despite their mathematical fragility, we show that they are functionally *robust*. No wonder we see approximate continuous attractors in neuroscience often. arxiv.org/abs/2408.00109

AI hardware systems such as NVIDIA's GPUs are a true marvel of technology. Extremely complex structure that also harnesses enormous amounts of energy. That is because modern AI algorithms involve multiple functions, and GPUs implement those over multiple physical components.

📢📢 preprint alert! 🥳🤓 Hippocampal representation hierarchies are cool! And reshape in a smart way during learning! Great job Heloisa Chiossi!! w/ Michele Nardin (he/him), Gašper Tkačik and Jozsef Csicsvari. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Sex or survival—what’s more important? Excited to share our nature paper on how flies resolve this conflict. We found a dopamine-based filter that reduces threat perception, helping flies focus on courtship when close to mating. nature.com/articles/s4158…

My #AI4Neuro magnum opus: Discovery of spiking network model parameters constrained by neural recordings, using simulation-based inference & generative “AI”. (aka the answer to “how the f did you end up in Tübingen?”) Here's what we have in store: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

it's fellowship szn! I spent *a lot* of time applying for postdocs + independent positions last year, and I want to share my notes. In this doc, I list deadlines, pay, and other 🔑 info on bio/theory positions I considered. DM me for advice anytime. docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

We're hiring! Come build models of how the brain learns and simulates a world model. We have several openings at PhD and postdoc levels, including a collab with Georg Keller lab on designing regulatory elements to target distinct neuronal cell types. zenkelab.org/jobs

Proud to share our paper in nature that Andrei and I co-first authored with Tom Mrsic-Flogel SWC We recorded ~15000 neurons across the brain while mice made perceptual decisions to reveal how sensory evidence controls actions through global neural dynamics nature.com/articles/s4158…

#Neuromorphic #computing just got more accessible! Our work on a Neuromorphic Intermediate Representation (NIR) is out in Springer Nature Communications. We demonstrate interoperability with 11 platforms. And more to come! nature.com/articles/s4146… A thread 🧵 1/5

How can we train biophysical neuron models on data or tasks? We built Jaxley, a differentiable, GPU-based biophysics simulator, which makes this possible even when models have thousands of parameters! Led by Michael Deistler, collab with @CellTypist @ppjgoncalves biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Back in 2022, Roxana Zeraati & I organized a Cosyne workshop on neural timescales, and after working on it for the last 2 years together, it's now a review paper! arxiv.org/abs/2409.02684 w/ Anna Levina & Jakob Macke (2nd blogpost to turn into a real review paper this year lol)

I am excited to announce our workshop at the upcoming Bernstein Conference 2024 Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience How much biological inspiration makes a system "neuromorphic"? What can we learn from Neuroscience breakthroughs and Machine Learning success? link: tinyurl.com/5yzskcpd 1/n

🧵on Japan's underrated contributions to neural nets. Shun-ichi Amari UTokyo | 東京大学 RIKEN is another one of my heroes. His 1972 paper on associative memory models modeled Hebbian plasticity using an outer product weight matrix.

The #SNUFA24 final program is out and the event is next Tue-Wed! If you love spiking neural networks, click on the link below to check it out and register (free). snufa.net/2024/

#SNUFA24 starting at 14:00 CET (in just over 2 hours). Say no to doomscrolling, and yes to a free online workshop on spiking neural networks. snufa.net/2024

“Where was I again?” Our study published today nature.com/articles/s4158… reveals brain cells can form a coordinate system for our behaviours. Instead of locating where we are in the world, this coordinate system tells us “where we are” in a sequence of behaviours: 🧵below:

Missed #SNUFA24 spiking neural network workshop last week? No worries, we uploaded all 11 talks and the flash talks to Youtube. Check it out, along with talks from every year since we started in 2020 📺 71 videos, 36k views and 3.4k hours watched so far. youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Registration & Abstract Submission is open for the 2025 "Engram and Ensembles in Learning and Memory" meeting, at Trinity College Dublin in May. Abstract deadline February 14. #EngramsandEnsembles2025 Preliminary Agenda at event website: event.fourwaves.com/engramsensembl…

We are excited to share our work on dynamical constraints on neural population activity, published as a cover article in Nature Neuroscience. It was led by Emily Oby, Alan Degenhart, Erinn M Grigsby, with Aaron Batista and team. nature.com/articles/s4159… (1/n)