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Alessandro Galloni @argalloni.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Really impressive work connecting the clinical manifestations of a neurodevelopmental disorder all the way down to the underlying cellular and synaptic mechanisms. Huge congratulations to Sam @gritz122.bsky.social for the tremendous amount of work that went into this!

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Aaron Milstein @neurosutras.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Excited to share this preprint from @ianoldenburg.bsky.social . To evoke movement with holo stim, you need the right pattern at the right time! Interestingly, the preparatory state before spont motion is not the same as the state permissive for evoked motion. Dig in! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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The Importance of Synchrony in the Neural Control of Movement

Throughout the mammalian cortex, populations of neurons must work together to enact behaviors. While population recordings in motor cortex have revealed many aspects of when neurons fire during behavi...

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Zhiwen Ye @zhiwenneuron.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

1/ Complex behavior demands the sequential coordination of hundreds of muscle groups. The body is mapped topographically in the brain, but does neural activity actually propagate across these maps to organize sequential action? Our new paper in Science: doi.org/10.1126/scie... 🧵

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Speedy, spiraling electrical waves may be key to brain’s information flow Rotating neuronal waves are built into brain anatomy and help coordinate far-flung regions, mouse imaging study suggests www.science.org/content/arti... #neuroscience

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Speedy, spiraling electrical waves may be key to brain’s information flow

Rotating neuronal waves are built into brain anatomy and help coordinate far-flung regions, mouse imaging study suggests

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Alessandro Galloni @argalloni.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Innatera is hiring a Senior Field Application Engineer to join our growing US-based team 🚀 If you like tackling hard problems at the intersection of hardware and AI engineering, and want to work on cool neuromorphic computing tech, check out the job posting: jobs.ashbyhq.com/innatera/0b6...

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Senior Field Application Engineer - USA

About Us: Innatera is a rapidly growing Dutch semiconductor company that develops ultra-efficient neuromorphic processors for AI at the edge. These microprocessors mimic the brain’s mechanisms for pr...

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Aaron Milstein @neurosutras.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I am so proud to share @gritz122.bsky.social my first PhD student's first preprint! This #compneurosky #neuroscience study tackles a controversial question in hippocampal place cell research – do place fields require spatially tuned synaptic inhibition? (1/5) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 22/04/2026

We're hiring for a project on #SpikingNeuralNetworks and #neuromorphic computing, to start in October this year, for 36 months. Can hire at pre- or post-PhD level. Email me informally, or apply at the link below. Share with your networks / anyone who would be interested. 🤖🧠🧪

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Alessandro Galloni @argalloni.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Happy to see the main paper from my postdoc finally out!

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Dan Levenstein @dlevenstein.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Biology is full of coconuts. 🥥

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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Scientists are always doing what's interesting to them, but I think that's the wrong approach. We should be going after all the stuff that bores us. Because it's actually not boring at all once you get into it, and it's precisely the things we think are going to be boring that open our minds.

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Renato Duarte @rcfduarte.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I tracked every keyword in 22 years of Cosyne abstracts to map how computational neuroscience evolved — from Bayesian brains to neural manifolds to LLMs — and where it's heading next.

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22 years of Brain Science: what CoSyNe tells us about the evolution of Neuroscience

Tracking the intellectual DNA of Computational and Systems Neuroscience through its flagship meeting

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Jens E. Pedersen @jegp.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

The field of #neuromorphics is lacking *accessible*, *intuitive*, and *practical* introductions. Ramashish Gaurav, Petruț Antoniu Bogdan, and I are setting out to fix this with a book on Practical Spiking Neural Networks! ✅ Any and all contributions are welcome! 💕 Early access at: snnbook.net

Front page of the website for the book: Practical Spiking Neural Networks

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Sebastian Raschka (rasbt) @rasbt.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

One of the underrated papers this year: "Small Batch Size Training for Language Models: When Vanilla SGD Works, and Why Gradient Accumulation Is Wasteful" (arxiv.org/abs/2507.07101) (I can confirm this holds for RLVR, too! I have some experiments to share soon.)

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Alessandro Galloni @argalloni.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Very neat approach to mapping biological circuits to neuromorphic HW! Had the pleasure of providing some feedback to Suraj Honnuraiah on an earlier draft of the paper, great to see it finally in print! (I actually missed that it already came out in Oct) Link to paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Marcus Ghosh @marcusghosh.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

How does the structure of a neural circuit shape its function? @neuralreckoning.bsky.social & I explore this in our new preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🤖🧠🧪 🧵1/9

A diagram showing 128 neural network architectures.

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Ian Oldenburg @ianoldenburg.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

With Masashi launching his new lab, we’ll be recruiting a new postdoc in the Oldenburg Lab. Work: high-precision multiphoton holography, neural coding, motor cortex circuits, all-optical physiology. If you’re interested, just reach out.

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Friedemann Zenke @fzenke.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

1/6 New preprint 🚀 How does the cortex learn to represent things and how they move without reconstructing sensory stimuli? We developed a circuit-centric recurrent predictive learning (RPL) model based on JEPAs. 🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025... Led by @atenagm.bsky.social @mshalvagal.bsky.social

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Matthijs Dorst @mattneuro.dorst-lab.org · 26/11/2025

When you join a lab to do some voltage imaging

An old record player set by the side of the road, with a note reading: "does not work but could be fun to fix!"

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Alessandro Galloni @argalloni.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Last week was my last at Rutgers University. After nearly 5 years in the US, I am moving to the Netherlands to join Innatera, a neuromorphic computing startup pushing the boundaries of what we can do with ultra-efficient hardware running SNNs for edge computing.

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Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

There was never any point to having reference letters. That's why we've all started using AI to do this nonesense task. References should only be used for short-listed candidates for important positions/awards, and ideally, be done via a call to get the most honest opinion possible.

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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 13/11/2025

Psst - neuromorphic folks. Did you know that you can solve the SHD dataset with 90% accuracy using only 22 kb of parameter memory by quantising weights and delays? Check out our preprint with @pengfei-sun.bsky.social and @danakarca.bsky.social, or read the TLDR below. 👇🤖🧠🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2510.27434

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Exploiting heterogeneous delays for efficient computation in low-bit neural networks

Neural networks rely on learning synaptic weights. However, this overlooks other neural parameters that can also be learned and may be utilized by the brain. One such parameter is the delay: the brain...

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Pengfei @pengfei-sun.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

With my great advisors and colleagues, @achterbrain.bsky.social @zhe @danakarca.bsky.social @neural-reckoning.org, we show that if heterogeneous axonal delays (imprecise) can capture the essential temporal structure of a task, spiking networks do not need precise synaptic weights to perform well.

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Alessandro Galloni @argalloni.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Really enjoyed reading this short opinion piece by Tim O'Leary. I think it echoes the classic Feynman quote "what I cannot create I do not understand". I think engineering approaches such as neuromorphic computing will prove fundamental to scientific understanding of how biological brains work

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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 03/11/2025

Reminder this is happening this Wed/Thu. Free spiking neural network conference - registration required (see below).

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Eddy Rhodes @eddycurrents.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

My co-authors have yet to move to Bluesky, so I'm pleased to announce our latest work has just been published in @nature.com Neuroscience. Amazing work led by Junheng Li, revealing that falling asleep follows a predictable bifurcation pattern #neuroskyence #sleep www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Falling asleep follows a predictable bifurcation dynamic - Nature Neuroscience

Li et al. propose a conceptual framework to study the phenomenon of falling asleep based on electroencephalogram data. They show that a tipping point marks the brain’s nonlinear wake-to-sleep transiti...

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Ida Momennejad @neuroai.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

MSR NYC is hiring senior researchers in AI, both broadly in AI/ML & in specific areas (post-training, test-time scaling, modular transfer learning, science of deep learning). aka.ms/msrnyc-jobs We're reviewing on a rolling basis, interviews in Nov/Dec. Please apply here: tinyurl.com/MSRNYCjob

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Microsoft Research Lab - New York City - Microsoft Research

Apply for a research position at Microsoft Research New York & collaborate with academia to advance economics research, prediction markets & ML.

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Guido Meijer @guidomeijer.com · 16/10/2025

Want to make publication-ready figures come straight from Python without having to do any manual editing? Are you fed up with axes labels being unreadable during your presentations? Follow this short tutorial including code examples! 👇🧵

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Dr. Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareemcarr.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Check out my new article: vitalstatistics.kareemcarr.com/p/a-simple-e...

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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 01/10/2025

Message for participants of the #SNUFA 2025 spiking neural network workshop. We got almost 60 awesome abstract submissions, and we'd now like your help to select which ones should be offered talks. Follow the "abstract voting" link at snufa.net/2025/ to take part. It should take <15m. Thanks! ❤️

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Spiking Neural networks as Universal Function Approximators

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Fatemeh_Hadaeghi @fatemehhadaeghi.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

A thought-provoking perspective from the visionary @giacomoi.bsky.social, calling for neuromorphic computing to return to its root: fundamental neuroscience; an inspiring vision for the future of NeuroAI 🤩

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Lea Duncker @leaduncker.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Travel awards are available for undergraduate students looking to attend #Cosyne25! The application is short, and the deadline is Nov 12. @cosynemeeting.bsky.social Application: shorturl.at/6NEyk More info: www.cosyne.org/travel-grants (1/2)

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Travel Grants — COSYNE

Apply for COSYNE 2026 Travel Grants to support your participation in Lisbon and Cascais, Portugal. Grants are available for students, postdocs, and PIs, including programs for Childcare, Presenters, N...

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Kris Jensen @kristorpjensen.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

I’m super excited to finally put my recent work with @behrenstimb.bsky.social on bioRxiv, where we develop a new mechanistic theory of how PFC structures adaptive behaviour using attractor dynamics in space and time! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Alessandro Galloni @argalloni.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Hey ephys friends! I've been teaching electrophysiology for a few years now, and this summer while teaching at CSHL I started building an interactive simulation of a full patch-clamp amplifier circuit to help explain electronics to my students. Sharing it here in case anyone finds it useful!

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Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

The CTRL-Labs decoding model paper is out! Saw this presented at Cosyne this year, very cool to see it out. I would say this is the clearest demonstration of scaling laws in neural decoding to-date. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧠📈 🧪

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A generic non-invasive neuromotor interface for human-computer interaction - Nature

A high-bandwidth neuromotor interface offers performant out-of-the-box generalization across people.

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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 18/09/2025

New preprint! What happens if you add neuromodulation to spiking neural networks and let them go wild with it? TLDR: it can improve performance especially in challenging sensory processing tasks. Explainer thread below. 🤖🧠🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Neuromodulation enhances dynamic sensory processing in spiking neural network models

Neuromodulators allow circuits to dynamically change their biophysical properties in a context-sensitive way. In addition to their role in learning, neuromodulators have been suggested to play a role ...

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Harsha Gurnani @harshag.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Job post alert!👩‍🔬 Postdoctoral fellow in CompNeuro/ML in the Artificial and Biological Computation lab at NYU (csavin.wixsite.com/savinlab). Exciting opening in the Data and Theory team in the new Simons Collaboration in Ecological Neuroscience! www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/04/24/s... #neuroskyence

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Simons Foundation Launches Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience

Simons Foundation Launches Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience on Simons Foundation

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Dan Levenstein @dlevenstein.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

The shitty first draft is and always will be the number one strategy for writing well. Editing is a craft you can hone. Writing from scratch is a different dumpster fire every time you put a pen to a blank page.

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Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Dear universities, I am begging you to stop requiring letters of recommendation for master's programmes. You and I both know you don't read them, so stop asking for them. Instead, have applicants list a name and get in touch if it's a borderline case. Signed, Everyone.

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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 24/07/2025

New preprint for #neuromorphic and #SpikingNeuralNetwork folk (with @pengfei-sun.bsky.social). arxiv.org/abs/2507.16043 Surrogate gradients are popular for training SNNs, but some worry whether they really learn complex temporal spike codes. TLDR: we tested this, and yes they can! 🧵👇 🤖🧠🧪

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Beyond Rate Coding: Surrogate Gradients Enable Spike Timing Learning in Spiking Neural Networks

We investigate the extent to which Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) trained with Surrogate Gradient Descent (Surrogate GD), with and without delay learning, can learn from precise spike timing beyond fi...

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Tim Kietzmann @timkietzmann.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Exciting new preprint from the lab: “Adopting a human developmental visual diet yields robust, shape-based AI vision”. A most wonderful case where brain inspiration massively improved AI solutions. Work with @zejinlu.bsky.social @sushrutthorat.bsky.social and Radek Cichy arxiv.org/abs/2507.03168

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Dan Levenstein @dlevenstein.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

I’m reminded of one of my favorite quotes from Eve Marder: "The process of turning a word model into a formal mathematical model invariably forces the experimentalist to confront his or her hidden assumptions." The point isn’t to capture all the richness, it’s to put your money where your mouth is.

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Kanaka Rajan @kanakarajanphd.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

(1/7) New preprint from Rajan lab! 🧠🤖 @ryanpaulbadman1.bsky.social & Riley Simmons-Edler show–through cog sci, neuro & ethology–how an AI agent with fewer ‘neurons’ than an insect can forage, find safety & dodge predators in a virtual world. Here's what we built Preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2506.06981

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Alessandro Galloni @argalloni.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

The recent work I presented at Cosyne this year is now out on bioRxiv! Combining bio-plausible credit assignment using (apical) dendrites, realistic E/I cell types, and BTSP-based synaptic plasticity. One small step closer to understanding learning in the brain! Check out the summary here 👇

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Takaki Komiyama @takakikomiyama.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Our paper is out in Nature. By examining various inputs to the motor cortex during learning, we found that thalamic inputs learn to activate the cortical neurons encoding the movement being learned. Tour de force by Assaf in collab with Felix and Marcus. Congrats! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Motor learning refines thalamic influence on motor cortex - Nature

Imaging and optogenetics in mice provide insight into the interplay between the primary motor cortex and the motor thalamus during learning, showing that thalamic inputs have a key role in the executi...

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Alessandro Galloni @argalloni.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

This is an amazing set of experiments, we're clearly living in the golden age of connectomics and structure/function mapping. Congrats to the whole team!

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Dan Levenstein @dlevenstein.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

“My job is to carve off a sliver of the ineffable, and to eff it.” www.experimental-history.com/p/28-slightl...

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