Episode #29 in #TheoreticalNeurosciencePodcast: On the philosophy of simplification in computational neuroscience - with Mazviita Chirimuuta and Terrence Sejnowski theoreticalneuroscience.no/thn29 What are the pitfalls when simplifying? Panel debate at FENS meeting in Oslo.

A piece of neuroscience history. The original "Oslo chamber", possibly the first one to be used for holding brain slices.

Excited that our work is out together with the amazing CoenCagli_Lab and Adam Kohn! We demonstrate how neural co-variability in the visual cortex encodes uncertainty about natural scenes and is adaptively modulated by spatial context! (1/7) Paper link: bit.ly/3IXiU9M

New preprint! tl;dr — We ran around late at night to record wild rats in NYC and figured out how to quantify their behavior and environment. 🧵 w/ Dima Batenkov, Ahmed El Hady, Emily Mackevicius biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

1 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 Roberto Toro [email protected] r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025.0…

Glad studies like this are coming out. Corticocortical and corticohippocampal interactions during sleep and urethane are very different, despite coarse similarity when areas are examined in isolation.

🚨New paper🚨 Excited to share this collaborative paper exploring nucleus reuniens correlates of fear conditioning in both rats and humans! Congrats Tuğçe Tuna Flávio Mourão Michael Totty Muhammad Badarnee and Moh Milad!! rdcu.be/eyTPs

These lovely neurons made it to the journal cover! nature.com/nprot/volumes/… With Alanna Watt and Jesper Sjöström @pjsjostrom.bsky.social in Nature Protocols.

PV and SOM cells play distinct causal roles in controlling network oscillations and stability dlvr.it/TMQXKp

Planning your first scientific project as the term is about to start? Teaching a project based course? I am working on an app that should help. planyourscience.com Still looking for feedback. Much simpler than any previous version. Works on mobile. Good science, much AI.

Annoucing next online Dendritic Integration symposium December 11th, 2025 Columbia University Neurotechnology Center. Online, free registration, great speakers! ntc.columbia.edu/dendritic-inte…

Really sorry to lose one of the best scientists I met. A. James Hudspeth, neuroscientist who unlocked secrets of hearing, has died - News rockefeller.edu/news/38152-a-j…

Our latest book on the mathematical principles of deep learning and intelligence has been released publicly at: ma-lab-berkeley.github.io/deep-represent… It also comes with a customized Chatbot that helps readers study and a Chinese version translated mainly by AI. This is an open-source project.

Differential kinematic coding in sensorimotor striatum across behavioral domains reflects different contributions to movement nature.com/articles/s4159…

Time-compressed theta sequences, representational drift, and flickering between alternate representations are fascinating network phenomena. Now we reveal what they have in common and how and when they emerge and express via generative processes: rdcu.be/eCGWt 1/5

Nature research paper: A compressed hierarchy for visual form processing in the tree shrew go.nature.com/3UPpwde

Direction of motion decoding in mouse V1: Neuron predictive power relates to functional connectivity organization biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_neursci

Compositional neural dynamics during reaching biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_neursci

I'm also on the academic job market this Fall looking to start my own lab working at the intersection of molecular, systems, and computational neuroscience. If you think my work may be a good fit for you department, please reach out! mictott.github.io

Nature Communications Thalamus enables active dendritic coupling of inputs arriving at different cortical layers nature.com/articles/s4146…