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Francesco Battaglia

@battaglialab.bsky.social
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Brain dynamics, memory, sleep, Neurotechnology, critical thinking

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Oscar Chadney @oscar-chadney.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Huge thank you to all involved, it has been a pleasure! @matteoguardamagna.bsky.social @ldescamps.bsky.social @battaglialab.bsky.social 9/9
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Paola Gori Giorgi @paolagorigiorgi.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The new Skala is out!
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Lorentz Center @lorentzcenter.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
This workshop brings together mathematicians, philosophers, computer scientists, and experimental neuroscientists to identify either missing or ill-directed trends in neuroscience and ask new questions toward a new paradigm. bit.ly/4sLmipW @battaglialab.bsky.social @danielkostic.bsky.social
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Daniel Kostic @danielkostic.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Call for Participation: Brain and Organisms: Neuroscience Beyond Computation, which will take place 16–20 March 2026 at the Lorentz Center@omega in Leiden. Registration required. More info: www.lorentzcenter.nl/brain-and-or... @philsci.bsky.social @battaglialab.bsky.social @sfn.org @fens.org
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Paola Gori Giorgi @paolagorigiorgi.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Skala is now available to everyone! Why are we releasing it? Because we’re not just aiming to publish a cool paper — we’re on a mission to bring DFT to chemical accuracy using deep learning. And to make real progress, we need the community’s feedback. #compchem
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Francesco Battaglia @battaglialab.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
@guidomeijer.com has #neuropixels preprocessing worked out for you!
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Guido Meijer @guidomeijer.com · 27/03/2025
Kilosort4 detects a LOT of neurons, I recorded 15k neurons in one year 🤯 Traditionally, one would curate these detected units to see if they are well isolated single neurons. This is not feasible anymore, so today let's look at three options that are out there to automate this process! 🤖👇
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Donders Institute @dondersinst.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Please find this English masters program in Neurophysics. Study the brain, artificial neural networks and complex systems through the lens of mathematical modeling and physics. Radboud University / Donders (Netherlands) is one of Europe’s leading universities in Neuroscience. 1/3
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Francesco Battaglia @battaglialab.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Come study at the @dondersinst.bsky.social Neurophysics Master!
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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
"We are not just products of our genes or our environment, but of their dance across time. The past has shaped our DNA-but the future is ours to shape". Beautiful use of comics for skillful science communication of a complex & nuanced topic, by @dr-appie.bsky.social & @lizahaart.bsky.social. 🧬🧪👇
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Are we born to succeed or are we made to succeed?
Genes and society shape each other. This comic, based on our Nature Human Behaviour article, shows how social inequality leaves genetic traces — and how social structures and genetics are linked acros...
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Michael Gaebler @michaelgaebler.com · 15/01/2025
⏰ Today's the day: please register today (anywhere on earth) if you plan to join us. Very much looking forward to seeing you there!
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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Rick Betzel @richardfbetzel.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Human brain dynamics are shaped by rare long-range connections over and above cortical geometry. Some new results to inform this debate. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Christopher Cover, Alexander J. Poplawsky, et al: Awake rodent fMRI: Gradient-echo echo planar imaging versus compressed-sensing fast low-angle shot direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Saskia Helbling: Inferring laminar origins of MEG signals with optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs): A simulation study direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
THE TOP 50 GUARDIAN HEADLINES 2024 - RANKED! part 1, 50-26 50. How I turned my gap year into an ethical-criminal "dementerprise" 49. Could Trump's war on NATO's "Axis of Woke" save the marmoset? 48. Microdosed and hairless in the bath, I sang old CND protest songs
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Emily Singer @emilysingerneuro.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
I'm excited to share another project we've been working on: The Transmitter's first book, which includes some of our favorite essays from our first ~9 months. Download a copy here: www.thetransmitter.org/transmitter-...
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The Transmitter books
The Transmitter’s first book, “Thinking about neuroscience: Essays from the field,” features a rich collection of writing from researchers Nicole Rust, Anthony Zador and many more.
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Stephen Wild @stephenjwild.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
A few papers I think worth reading. Mostly open access. Causal inference is hard: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Causal inference on human behaviour - Nature Human Behaviour
In this Review, Drew Bailey et al. present an accessible, non-technical overview of key challenges for causal inference in studies of human behaviour as well as methodological solutions to these chall...
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 16/08/2024
🚨Our paper `Reclaiming AI as a theoretical tool for cognitive science' is now forthcoming in the journal Computational Brain & Behaviour. (Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...) Below a thread summary 🧵1/n #metatheory #AGI #AIhype #cogsci #theoreticalpsych #criticalAIliteracy
The idea that human cognition is, or can be understood as, a form of computation is a useful conceptual tool for cognitive science. It was a foundational assumption during the birth of cognitive science as a multidisciplinary field, with Artificial Intelligence (AI) as one of its contributing fields. One conception of Al in this context is as a provider of computational tools (frameworks, concepts, formalisms, models, proofs, simulations, etc.) that support theory building in cognitive science. The contemporary field of Al, however, has taken the theoretical possibility of explaining human cognition as a form of computation to imply the practical feasibility of realising human(-like or -level) cognition in factual computational systems; and, the field frames this realisation as a short-term inevitability. Yet, as we formally prove herein, creating systems with human(-like or -level) cognition is intrinsically computationally intractable.
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Bratislav Misic @misicbata.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
A simulated annealing algorithm for randomizing weighted networks” | nature.com/articles/s43... How do we randomize brain connectomes (and other networks) with biological edge weights? @richardfbetzel.bsky.social @natcomputsci.bsky.social ⤵️
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Joao Barbosa @jbarbosa.org · 10/12/2024
(recycled from X) My favorite take on LLM intelligence is by Paul Cisek on the connectionists mailing list: "We are like a bunch of professional magicians (...) wondering: 'Maybe there really is magic? I think it’s not that machines have passed the Turing Test, but rather that we failed it." 🔥
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Alexis Paez @palexis.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
This flexible, Utah Array-like device with sensing and drug delivery all in one seems like it will have a lot of applications. What's next? doi.org/10.1126/scia... #neuroscience #neuroskyence #ephys #neurotech #MATLAB I can't find TDT on here yet.
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Multifunctional hydrogel electronics for closed-loop antiepileptic treatment
Hydrogel electronics enables smart antiseizure management by a closed-loop therapeutic system.
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Gabrielle Girardeau @ggirardeau.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
We have with Bryan Souza a PhD project proposal under shared supervision at the DIM C-BRAINS (listed under NeuREMotion). International undergraduate students, check the program and apply!! (to our or other projects) dim-cbrains.fr/fr/phd-progr... #neuroskyence
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DIM C-BRAINS
Cognition and Brain Revolutions: Artificial Intelligence, Neurogenomics, Society
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bruno decock @brunodecock.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
From war zones to climate disasters, #MSF teams have been there, providing care and support in over 75 countries. This collection of 65 images shows just a fraction of the incredible work our teams are doing every day. www.msf.org/year-picture...
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Saskia de Vries @sejdevries.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Applications are open for our Summer Workshop in the Dynamic Brain!! This is a two week computational neuroscience course for grad students and postdocs. Check it out!! alleninstitute.org/events/summe...
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Summer Workshop on the Dynamic Brain 2025
The Summer Workshop on the Dynamic Brain is an intensive, project-based residential course with a focus on the neurobiology of sensory processing, coding, and neural population dynamics.
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Eric Leonardis @ericleonardis.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
I love how many brain signals that people thought were related to cognition are actually just related to breathing lol nice work everyone this is going great
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Pierre Le Merre @pierrelemerre.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Our new study is out on BioRXiv! tinyurl.com/pfcmap We (@carlenlab.bsky.social lab) mapped the mouse PFC using single-unit activity! We recorded ~23,000 neurons across cortical/subcortical regions and profiled spont. firing patterns to reveal what separates the PFC from other brain regions. 1/n
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A Prefrontal Cortex Map based on Single Neuron Activity
The intrinsic organization underlying the central cognitive role of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) is poorly understood. The work to date has been dominated by cytoarchitecture as a canvas for studies on...
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Yael @yaelniv.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Psychologists and neuroscientists are calling for international pressure towards immediate ceasefire in Israel, Palestine & Lebanon, respect for international humanitarian law, end of the occupation, and release of all hostages. Read & join us by signing here: tinyurl.com/PsychLetter
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Open letter of psychologists and neuroscientists for peace in the Middle East
We, psychologists and neuroscientists from around the world, call the international community to urgently put pressure towards an immediate ceasefire in Israel, Palestine and Lebanon, to demand that t...
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/11/2024
most people want a quick and simple answer to why AI systems encode/exacerbate societal and historical bias/injustice and due to the reductive but common thinking of "bias in, bias out," the obvious culprit often is training data but this is not entirely true 1/
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Ben Hayden @benhayden.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Important paper! www.biorxiv.org/content/bior... Im not sure the Discussion fully delineates its radical implications. No more... * Place cells * Grid cells, splitter cells, border cells * Mirror neurons * Reward neurons * Conflict cells (continued)
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Petra Verdonk she/her @petraverdonk.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
AIVD @aivdnl.bsky.social has arrived, people! Wonderful to see there is an interest in the community of scientists, climate activists, peace activists, and, of course, cat ladies 🐈‍⬛
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Dan Levenstein @dlevenstein.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Time to bring over a thread from when I read Case Vanderwolf’s autobiography. Notice already strong “brain from inside out” vibes… 😉 #neuroskyence
A picture of the cover and preface from Vanderwolf’s book “An odyssey through the brain, behavior and the mind”. A passage is underlined that states that the features of brain activity are related to behavior rather than psychological concepts”
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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Whatever you think about PhD admissions, the following is true: -This is a union-busting attempt in response to BU grad workers' historic contract win. Admin isn't being obtuse here. (I work for the local that reps BU grads.) -This will decimate rankings, faculty recruitment, & general reputation.
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BU suspends admissions to humanities, other Ph.D. programs
The university didn’t announce its decision in a news release and hasn’t fully explained it, but two deans blamed a new grad workers’ union contract for the cutbacks to a dozen programs including Engl...
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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Zotero is great and I think that anyone who needs to organise and cite more than a handful of references should be using it. Here's an intro to Zotero that I made for my undergrad students (but the info is relevant for anyone new to Zotero). Full vid [13 mins]: youtu.be/SlUHjOqVCyU Preview ⬇️
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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Happy to announce! Come join us for a great meeting! Check philandneuro.com and join the society :-) #neuroscience #philosophy
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Linda Chang @iamlindachang.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
In our new PNAS paper, across 21 experiments with 23,000+ participants, we identify a critical distortion that shapes decisions involving tradeoffs: we find that people systematically overweight quantified information in such decisions. Paper (open access): pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2400215121 🧵
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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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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
𝗨𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 It's not just about the neuron/cell level! doi.org/10.1016/j.ti... #neuroscience
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
OK folks, I've started an episodic memory starter pack. By no means a full list so reply below if you're an episodic memory nerd! go.bsky.app/2mtNK43
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Francesco Battaglia @battaglialab.bsky.social · 24/09/2023
Thanks so much. This is how I got in!
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