Interested in how modern neural networks can be built, analyzed, and customized to study neuroscience questions? In this Primer, Xiao-Jing Wang and I provide a (hopefully) pedagogical introduction to these ideas, with equations and code authors.elsevier.com/c/1bnzh3BtfGx3…

Excited (and terrified) to start releasing the material for the Math Tools for Neuroscience course I'm teaching this fall at Harvard! Khan academy style videos and tutorials/exercises in Google colab (python) github.com/ebatty/MathToo…

This is fantastic, hugely recommended for any neuroscientists getting into #python and neural #datascience elifesciences.org/labs/f779833b/…

Coming in March: 📈 Benchmarks for latent variable models of neural population activity 📈 neurallatents.github.io We're kicking this off with a modeling competition 🏆💰 Join the mailing list to stay informed! Thanks CosyneMeeting #cosyne21 for helping us spread the word!

So great that anyone can watch the #cosyne21 talks here youtube.com/channel/UCzOTb… (good because I missed a few that I want to check out)

Excited to announce that this is finally up on bioRxiv. Congratulations @najabam @joshuaiglase Eric Trautmann Elom Amematsro , Sean Perkins, Michael Shadlen Larry Abbott & John Cunningham. We hope this will change how you think about both muscles and cortex. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We urgently need mentors (post-docs or faculty) to guide ~2,000 students from around the world with their projects. Time commitment is 3 hours across 3 weeks. Familiarity with comp/systems neuro a must, but python proficiency not required. Sign up here: airtable.com/shrKkehDwIY9iS…

“I think we as scientists embody something fundamentally, beautifully human … I still, idealistically and perhaps naively, believe in beauty because we, or some of us at least, experience it and are moved by it.” — Sliman Bensmaia, PhD, 1973-2023 uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/news…