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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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Alessandro Galloni @argalloni.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Doesn't that imply that the upstream neuron has to 'know' if its message is important in order to increase the rate? But surely importance depends on what info downstream neurons need at a given time, so should be dictated top-down rather than bottom-up

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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 · 26/11/2025

I am still able to login fine, can try submitting an error/bug report on your behalf

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Alessandro Galloni @argalloni.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Maybe it's 'just' a question of figuring out how few neurons can you nudge (and which ones) to get max desynch. Anyway, definitely sound like a cool modelling problem! 😅

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Alessandro Galloni @argalloni.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Interesting, how would one actually do this? (either the isochron or the lyapunov) E.g optogenetics seems more likely to induce synchrony

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Alessandro Galloni @argalloni.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

whereas more global LFP (~0.1-0.5mV amplitude) would have a much smaller direct effect (but maybe still meaningful). Much harder to demonstrate such causal effects in mammals, since manipulating single neurons generally doesn't affect behavior like it does in drosophila

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Alessandro Galloni @argalloni.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Yes, thanks for sharing @stevenflorek.bsky.social! This is a pretty convincing example of eph coupling having causal role (drosophila ppl always have the coolest results!). My guess is that the key variable here is distance, e.g. many neurons might have such effect on their immediate neighbors

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Alessandro Galloni @argalloni.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

E.g. you could argue that hippocampal theta-sweeps would be completely messed up if you jitter the spikes just a little, but the underlying place field would be essentially the same

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Alessandro Galloni @argalloni.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Yes, it's always a question of temp resolution. Saying "spike time matters" implies that that jittering spikes by ~1-2 ms would meaningfully change the computation. "Rate code" implies that computation would only be meaningfully affected by shifting the spike times a much larger amount (eg >10ms)

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Alessandro Galloni @argalloni.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Since this is clearly one of your favorite topics, would be able to point to 1-2 papers / key results that you find to be the most compelling piece(s) of evidence?

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Alessandro Galloni @argalloni.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Lots of insignificant weak things can be measured, showing that something matters causally is extremely difficult. The claim that spike timing matters broadly is only moderately controversial. The claim that ephaptic coupling is causal in some larger circuit computation is much more controversial

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Alessandro Galloni @argalloni.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

💯, I'm confused about what people are actually trying to claim here. Oscillations are important in the sense that *spike timing* matters. I think there is a good amount of data backing that up (e.g. HPC theta). This has nothing to do with any direct effect of the (extremely weak) LFP electric field

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

supportive mentor I could have wished for, and who gave me the time and space to learn and grow, and the intellectual freedom explore my ideas (and the occasional rabbit hole). Will miss all the wonderful colleagues I am leaving behind. Now on to new adventures, see you all back in Europe!

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

Feel incredibly fortunate to have worked alongside @neurosutras.bsky.social over the last few years and proud of all that we achieved. I'm very grateful to all the people who supported my many fellowship applications over the years. Especially grateful to Aaron, who has been the most

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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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Alessandro Galloni @argalloni.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Very cool! Maybe it's just my bad intuition, but I find it surprising that weights can tolerate more extreme quantisation that delays

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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 · 08/11/2025

It's been a pleasure and a privilege, going to really miss working with you and with the rest of the lab!

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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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Alessandro Galloni @argalloni.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Good tips! The only thing I dislike about this workflow is that the ai file with links is no longer self-contained, so harder to share with collaborators. I usually go straight for multi-panel in python (using Gridspec), and only use illustrator for adding the panel letters

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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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