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Auguste Schulz

@auschulz.bsky.social
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CEO of KI macht Schule gGmbH Previously @mackelab.bsky.social - machine learning in (neuro)science.

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Roxana Zeraati @roxana-zeraati.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Our paper "Neural timescales from a computational perspective" is finally out in @natneuro.nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41... We discuss how computational models and methods can distill empirical observations on neural timescales into quantitative, testable theories of brain computation.
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Neural timescales from a computational perspective - Nature Neuroscience
This review integrates computational approaches to provide a unified view on how data analysis methods, biophysical mechanistic models and machine learning approaches can help to uncover the origins a...
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Richard Gao @rdgao.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Finally got the job ad—looking for 2 PhD students to start spring next year: www.gao-unit.com/join-us/ If comp neuro, ML, and AI4Neuro is your thing, or you just nerd out over brain recordings, apply! I'm at neurips. DM me here / on the conference app or email if you want to meet 🏖️🌮
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Machine Learning in Science @mackelab.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
MackeLab has grown! 🎉 Warm welcome to 5(!) brilliant and fun new PhD students / research scientists who joined our lab in the past year — we can’t wait to do great science and already have good times together! 🤖🧠 Meet them in the thread 👇 1/7
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The Viking (Gunnar Blohm) @gunnarblohm.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Having fun facilitating this amazing group of young Profs at the #Neuro4Pros workshop with @kordinglab.bsky.social and @meganakpeters.bsky.social, @yaelniv.bsky.social, and Hannah Bayer. Watch out world: this is the next generation of leaders! compneurosci.com/Neuro4Pros/i...
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Machine Learning in Science @mackelab.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
New preprint: SBI with foundation models! Tired of training or tuning your inference network, or waiting for your simulations to finish? Our method NPE-PF can help: It provides training-free simulation-based inference, achieving competitive performance with orders of magnitude fewer simulations! ⚡️
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Alexander von Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft @hiigberlin.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
25.6., 19 Uhr: #Wissen für alle!? Im #DigitalerSalon diskutieren Sascha Friesike (@weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social‬), @auschulz.bsky.social und Lennart Glaser, wie #Wissenstransfer in einer immer komplexer werdenden Welt gelingen kann. 👉 Live am HIIG & im Stream: www.hiig.de/events/digit...
Satellitenaufnahme einer Flusslandschaft mit darübergelegtem Text:
„Monatliche Talkreihe – Wissen für alle!? – 25.06.2025 · 19:00 Uhr · Online · HIIG“.
Oben rechts steht „Digitaler Salon“. Unten rechts ein Pfeilsymbol als Weiterleitung.Grafik mit der Frage: „Wie kann komplexes Wissen verständlich vermittelt werden?“
Darunter zwei Stichpunkte:
– Wissenstransfer soll helfen, komplizierte Sachverhalte und Zusammenhänge auch außerhalb der Fachwelt zugänglicher zu machen.
– Doch wie viel Vereinfachung ist erlaubt? Können und sollten alle Expert*innen für alles sein?
Unten links steht „Digitaler Salon“, unten rechts „2/3“.
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Pedro J. Goncalves @ppjgoncalves.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Exciting project in Parkinson's disease! Patrik Verstreken's lab (verstrekenlab.sites.vib.be) and my lab are looking for a postdoc to develop and apply ML methods to the analysis of exciting brain-on-chip data. Please spread the word! More details at: jobs.vib.be/j/110908/pos...
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Postdoc position: Computational methods for neurodegeneration research - VIB
About the labs The Verstreken Lab and the Gonçalves Lab are based in Leuven, Belgium and part of the
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Patrick Mineault @patrickmineault.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Crowdsourcing this: what are the best examples of scaling laws in foundation models for neuroscience? My top 3 examples: Ctrl+Labs, Sato et al., Mineault et al. @colehurwitz.bsky.social , @mehdiazabou.bsky.social , @nandahkrishna.bsky.social , @averyryoo.bsky.social, @tyrellturing.bsky.social ?
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Auguste Schulz @auschulz.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Thanks so much for the shout-out, and congrats on your exciting work!! 🎉 🙂 Also, a good reminder to share that our work is now out in Cell Reports 🙏🎊 ⬇️ www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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Modeling conditional distributions of neural and behavioral data with masked variational autoencoders
Schulz et al. demonstrate how neural encoding and decoding can be cast as computing conditional distributions and how to modify variational autoencoders (VAEs) to calculate such distributions. The pro...
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Cole Hurwitz @colehurwitz.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Another step toward a foundation model of the mouse brain: "Neural Encoding and Decoding at Scale (NEDS)" Trained on neural and behavioral data from 70+ mice, NEDS achieves state-of-the-art prediction of behavior (decoding) and neural responses (encoding) on held-out animals. 🐀
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Tom Donoghue @tomdonoghue.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
It seems as good a time as any to share that I've accepted a new job as Lecturer of Cognitive Neuroscience (equivalent to assistant prof) at the University of Manchester in the UK! I dusted off the blog to say a bit more about why I'm excited for this move: tomdonoghue.github.io/ms/2025/04/1...
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New Leaf on an Old Page (I got a job!)
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Avery HW Ryoo @averyryoo.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Very late, but had a 🔥 time at my first Cosyne presenting my work with @nandahkrishna.bsky.social, Ximeng Mao, @mattperich.bsky.social, and @glajoie.bsky.social on real-time neural decoding with hybrid SSMs. Keep an eye out for a preprint (hopefully) soon 👀 #Cosyne2025 @cosynemeeting.bsky.social
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Katrin Franke @katrinfranke.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
I'll be giving a talk at this👇workshop tomorrow #Cosyne2025 @cosynemeeting.bsky.social In response to the @thetransmitter.bsky.social article by @tyrellturing.bsky.social & Eva Dyer (tinyurl.com/veb7p88f) I'll be talking about: How do "foundation"/AI models help us (experimenters) study the brain?
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Accepting “bitter lesson” and embracing brain’s complexity
To gain insight into complex neural data, we must move toward a data-driven regime, employing large models trained on vast amounts of data. Experts weigh in.
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Katrin Franke @katrinfranke.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Two more days until our workshop 🥳@cosynemeeting.bsky.social #Cosyne2025 Object-centric neural representations across species 🐒🐁🕷️🐝🖥️ Check out our homepage: toliaslab.org/workshop/cos... Excellent speakers include @dyamins.bsky.social @hansopdebeeck.bsky.social & many more 🙌
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Cosyne 2025 Object Centric Workshop
Website for the object centric workshop at 2025 COSYNE
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Auguste Schulz @auschulz.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Looking forward to presenting our work on Latent Diffusion for Neural Spiking data tonight—Poster 1-108 & experience discussions on scaling in neuroscience firsthand at the foundation model workshop, where I'll talk both about our work on masked VAEs & latent diffusion for neural & behavioral data
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Machine Learning in Science @mackelab.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
The @mackelab.bsky.social is represented at @cosynemeeting.bsky.social #cosyne2025 in Montreal with 3 posters, 2 workshop talks, and a main conference contributed talk (for the very first time in Mackelab history 🎉)!
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Federico D’Agostino @fededagos.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 We’ve just launched openretina, an open-source framework for collaborative retina modeling across datasets and species. A 🧵👇 (1/9)
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sbi - Simulation-based inference @sbi-devs.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
sbi 0.24.0 is out! 🎉 This comes with important new features: - 🎯 Score-based i.i.d sampling - 🔀 Simultaneous estimation of multiple discrete and continuous parameters or data. - 📊: mini-sbibm for quick benchmarking. Just in time for our 1-week SBI hackathon starting tomorrow---stay tuned for more!
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NERF @nerflabs.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
New work co-led by @ppjgoncalves.bsky.social introduces a powerful new approach to model conditional distributions of neural and behavioral data using masked variational autoencoders. Congratulations to @auschulz.bsky.social‬ et al. www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/…
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Adriana Guatame-García @adriguatame.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬
There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience.
No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent.
And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted.
... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.
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Çağatay Yıldız @cgtyyldz.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
For our "Automated Assessment of Teaching Quality" project, we are looking for two PhD students: one in educational/cognitive sciences or a related domain (uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...) and one in machine learning (uni-tuebingen.de/en/faculties...). Please apply and reach me out for details!
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PhD Position (m/f/d) in AI-Supported Analysis and Enhancement of Teaching Quality
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Jan-Matthis Lueckmann @janmatthis.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
⚡️ Excited to introduce ZAPBench, our #ICLR2025 spotlight: The Zebrafish Activity Prediction Benchmark measures progress in predicting neural activity within an entire vertebrate brain (70k+ neurons!) Explore interactive visualizations, datasets, code + paper: google-research.github.io/zapbench 🧠🧪
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ZAPBench
ZAPBench evaluates how well different models can predict the activity of over 70,000 neurons in a novel larval zebrafish dataset.
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Shervin Safavi @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Re-posting is appreciated: We have a fully funded PhD position in CMC lab @cmc-lab.bsky.social (at @tudresden_de). You can use forms.gle/qiAv5NZ871kv... to send your application and find more information. Deadline is April 30. Find more about CMC lab: cmclab.org and email me if you have questions.
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Wieland Brendel @wielandbrendel.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
🚀 We’re hiring! Join Bernhard Schölkopf & me at @ellisinsttue.bsky.social to push the frontier of #AI in education! We’re building cutting-edge, open-source AI tutoring models for high-quality, adaptive learning for all pupils with support from the Hector Foundation. 👉 forms.gle/sxvXbJhZSccr...
Hiring announcement: ELLIS Institute Tübingen is looking for ML Researchers & Engineers for Open-Source AI Tutoring (m/f/d). The image features a white background with bold black text and the colorful ELLIS logo at the bottom.
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Aman Saleem @amansaleem.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
After just sharing the first scientific thread... I'm wondering what it is called here. What is the equivalent of a Tweetprint? I'm a bit late in the game here, anything picking steam? Skeetprint? If there isn't any... I kind of like "science flutter"
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Auguste Schulz @auschulz.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
1) Some exciting science in turbulent times: How do mice distinguish self-generated vs. object-generated looming stimuli? Our new study combines VR and neural recordings from superior colliculus (SC) 🧠🐭 to explore this question. Check out our preprint doi.org/10.1101/2024... 🧵
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Auguste Schulz @auschulz.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Amazing!! So well deserved 🎈🚀🍀💛
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ML for Science @ml4science.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
With “Tübingen Women in Machine Learning”, Claire Vernade and her team have created a local community. Their aim is to empower women and make them more visible. Read more on our blog: www.machinelearningforscience.de/en/a-network... @twiml.bsky.social #TWiML #WiML
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A network for women to support each other
There are still far fewer women than men working in the field of machine learning. With "TWiML", Claire Vernade has fostered a community for women in Tübingen.
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ML for Science @ml4science.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Can we build neural networks whose structure and computational abilities match a real brain? We are not quite there yet, but recent work by @lappalainenjk.bsky.social et al. shows a strategy for getting closer to this goal. Read more on our blog: www.machinelearningforscience.de/en/improving...
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How a tiny animal helps us improve brain simulations with AI
Can we build neural networks whose structure and computational abilities match a real brain? We are not quite there yet, but our new paper shows a strategy for getting closer to this goal.
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Lukas Heinrich @lukasheinrich.com · 15/12/2024
And next proud advisor moment: @annalenakofler.bsky.social talking about her masters thesis project we worked on while she was still at TUM.
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Kyle Cranmer @kylecranmer.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Great talk by @annalenakofler.bsky.social Flow Annealed Importance Sampling Bootstrap meets Differentiable Particle Physics ml4physicalsciences.github.io/2024/files/N...
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Scientists - consider writing up your research for Frontiers for Young Minds (if you are brave enough to face kid reviewers 😉). Here's how: kids.frontiersin.org/participate/... Like Liza Fazio! @lkfazio.bsky.social Or Yann LeCun! @ylecun.bsky.social kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
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Will Learning Machines Take Over the World?
Learning is an integral part of our lives, and the lives of all animals, but do you realize how wondrous our learning ability is? When we try to build machines that can learn, we are faced with deep q...
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Alfredo Canziani @alfcnz.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Inferring stochastic low-rank recurrent neural networks from neural data @matthijspals.bsky.social
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Guy Moss @gmoss13.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
@vetterj.bsky.social and I are excited to present our work at #NeurIPS2024! We present Sourcerer: a maximum-entropy, sample-based solution to source distribution estimation. Paper: openreview.net/forum?id=0cg... Code: github.com/mackelab/sou... (1/8)
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Sourcerer: Sample-based Maximum Entropy Source Distribution Estimation
Scientific modeling applications often require estimating a distribution of parameters consistent with a dataset of observations - an inference task also known as source distribution estimation....
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Cole Hurwitz @colehurwitz.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Ported over from X! What will a foundation model for the brain look like? 🧠 We argue that it must be able to solve a diverse set of tasks across multiple brain regions and animals. Check out our NeurIPS paper which introduces a multi-region, multi-animal, multi-task model arxiv.org/abs/2407.14668
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Auguste Schulz @auschulz.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
1) With our @neuripsconf.bsky.social poster happening tomorrow, it's about time to introduce our Spotlight paper 🔦, co-lead with @jkapoor.bsky.social: Latent Diffusion for Neural Spiking data (LDNS), a latent variable model (LVM) which addresses 3 goals simultaneously:
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Machine Learning in Science @mackelab.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
@jkapoor.bsky.social and @auschulz.bsky.social introduce LDNS, a diffusion-based latent variable model to generate diverse neural spiking data flexibly conditioned on external variables Poster #4010 (East; Wed 11 Dec 11PT) ➡️ openreview.net/forum?id=ZX6... 3/4
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Chethan Pandarinath @chethanp.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
How can we build BCIs that operate robustly in the face of nonstationarities? Our @neuripsconf.bsky.social Datasets and Benchmarks paper introduces the Few-shot Algorithms for Consistent Neural Decoding (FALCON) Benchmark! Led by Brianna Karpowicz and @joelye.bsky.social
the Few-shot Algorithms for Consistent Neural Decoding (FALCON) Benchmark
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A Erdem Sagtekin @aesagtekin.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
This list likely reflects mainly my interests and circle, and I’m sure I’ve missed many people, but I gave it a try: (I’ll be slowly editing it until it reaches 150/150) go.bsky.app/7VFUkdn (also, I tried but couldn't remove my profile...)
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