Bludgeoning reviewers into submission by the sheer volume of work in a paper now has a name! Daring reviewers to reject a paper against the scale of work and money invested is not a great way to progress science. We build with bricks, not straw: nature.com/articles/54538…

Mapping the brain’s visual world on psychedelics, texture and time. Meet the new #OpenScope projects tackling open questions in neural activity: alleninstitute.org/news/mapping-t… #OpenScience

The 2024 UCL Neuropixels course will take place on 14-16 October. Registration is free. Register today! More info: ucl.ac.uk/neuropixels/tr…

Really glad to have this work identifying the key role of PV-neurons in the ventral hippocampus in gating the anxiolytic actions of the serotonergic psychedelic, DOI, out in Neuron Tata Institute of Fundamental Research sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Gyorgy Buzsaki just wrote an autobiography. The second paragraph starts with "I was 11 years old when I killed my best friend". Fascinating. sfn.org/-/media/SfN/Do…

We grieve the passing of Dr. Yves Frégnac. Yves has shaped the study of cortical processing and plasticity. He heralded interdisciplinarity and was one of the founding fathers of our institute. Our thoughts go to his family and to his friends in the community and beyond. pic.x.com/BGE4QGcg8g

Our school (UoN Life Sciences ) is advertising a teaching-focused position of Assistant Professor in Neuroscience. Application deadline: 7-Nov. jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r…

We’re seeking a research assistant to work on predicting which Parkinson’s patients would most benefit from deep brain stimulation. In collaboration with Machine Medicine and St George’s Hospital, London Closes December 4th Pls RT! jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?r…

Sleep-like state during wakefulness induced by psychedelic 5-MeO-DMT in mice | bioRxiv biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The #NobelPrize in Physics 2024 for Hopfield & Hinton turns out to be a Nobel Prize for plagiarism. They republished methodologies developed in #Ukraine and #Japan by Ivakhnenko and Amari in the 1960s & 1970s, as well as other techniques, without citing the original inventors.

Starting 2025 with some splendid northern lights (visible about now in Västerbotten, Sweden).

📢 Apply now for the 7-week #Mathematics #SummerSchool in London! You will develop mathematics skills and intuition necessary to enter the #TheoreticalNeuroscience or #MachineLearning field. ℹ️ ucl.ac.uk/gatsby/study-a… Please help spread the word!

"Among the generations that we synthesized, we found a bright fluorescent protein at a far distance (58% sequence identity) from known fluorescent proteins, which we estimate is equivalent to simulating five hundred million years of evolution." doi.org/10.1126/scienc…

Save the date! UK Neural Computation 2025 will be at Imperial College London 9 July: ECR day 10-11 July: main meeting 9 invited speakers, 4 talks from abstracts and many posters Abstract & registration opening soon Pls share! neuralcomputation.uk

🚨 Neuromatch Academy Course Applications are OPEN for 2025!! 🚨 Get your application in early to be a student or teaching assistant for this year’s courses. Applications are due Sunday, March 23 at midnight in your local time zone. Apply & learn more: buff.ly/3PaEQys

Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial Brain If you agree with the sentiments please RT. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness academic.oup.com/brain/issue/14…

Check out Neuromatch's flagship course, Computational Neuroscience! This course is in its 6th year and has received rave reviews from students since 2020. Review the course curriculum, and apply as a student or TA before the March 23 deadline: buff.ly/zdozW1S

Join Neuromatch Academy courses for hands-on experience in computational neuroscience, machine learning, and data science with expert mentors. Apply by March 23rd! 🎯 Apply here: neuromatch.io/courses/ #Neuroscience #MachineLearning

🚀We are excited to share that bombcell is now available in Python! 🐍 Automatically sort your units into good/MUA/noise/non-somatic using quality metrics and adjustable classification thresholds. pip install and play around with our toy dataset: 🔗 github.com/Julie-Fabre/bo…

1. New preprint resolving a conundrum in systems neuroscience with an AI scientist, and humans Reilly Tilbury, Dabin Kwon, Ali Haydaroglu, Jacob Ratliff, Valentin Schmutz, Matteo Carandini, Kevin Miller, Kim Stachenfeld (neurokim.bsky.social) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…