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Vincenzo Marra

@enzomarra.bsky.social
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Neuroscience, bioscience techniques, electronics. enzomarra@mstdn.social Based in the Netherlands.

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Jake Watson @jakefwatson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Our new team studying human circuit function @researchmar.bsky.social is looking for a PhD student! If you or anyone you know would be interested to learn more about this, our plans, previous work, or other positions, visit humancircuits.net or get in touch! #humancircuits
Advert for a 4-year funded PhD position at Hospital del Mar Research Institute, Barcelona. Text reads: "How do human cells and synapses give rise to computations? Can we understand how they change in patient epilepsy?" Background shows a photo of the institute and a human hippocampal slice image
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Saints-Pères Paris Institute for the Neurosciences @sppin-cnrs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
@sppin-cnrs.bsky.social @cnrs.fr is organizing #NeuralNet2026 in Paris on Nov. 25–27 ! Join the 15th annual meeting of GDR NeuralNet @upcite.bsky.social , bringing together researchers working across systems neuroscience, neural data, computational modeling, NeuroAI & data science.
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The Journal of Physiology @jphysiol.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Menghua Li and co-authors used a #photosensitive response mouse model as a potential tool for studying mechanisms of photosensitive #epilepsy and initial screening of anti-epileptic drugs 🧠 💊 Read the study 👇️ physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 05/08/2026
An Analysis from @ptrrupprecht.bsky.social et al investigates the behavior of GCaMP8 variants in spike inference using different algorithms. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Spike inference from calcium imaging data acquired with GCaMP8 indicators - Nature Methods
In this Analysis, Rupprecht et al. investigate the behavior of GCaMP8 variants in spike inference using several different algorithms. They highlight the role of the indicators’ linearity in the infere...
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Matteo Carandini @carandinilab.net · 31/07/2026
The apical dendrite looks great, and does wonders in a slice. What does it do in the living cortex? It depends on the cell. A causal spatial role for apical dendrites in the cortex www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... by @anyiliu.bsky.social with @kenneth-harris.bsky.social and @fedrossi.bsky.social
A cartoon providing a graphical summary of the paper. It is divided in 3 rows.

The top row shows a pyramidal cell and its apical tuft, and shows the two experiments that we ran: optical dendritic pruning (chopping off the apical tuft), and synaptic imaging done in the same neurons where we do somatic imaging. 

The middle row shows the results pertaining to neurons that prefer large stimuli (this is visual cortex): pruning reduced their responses, and the receptive fields of apical synapses are far away from the that of the soma. 

The bottom row shows the results pertaining to neurons that prefer small stimuli: pruning seemed to do nothing to the responses, and the receptive field of apical synapses are right around that of the soma.
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Jake Watson @jakefwatson.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
This was a super team project with Rebecca Morse-Mora, the Peter Jonas lab and scientific services at @istaresearch.bsky.social, enabled by our fantastic collaboration with Prof. Karl Rössler at the @meduniwien.ac.at. We still have a lot to learn about hippocampal function and #humancircuits!! 🔎
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Hippocampal CA3 forms a two-layer network of molecularly distinct cell types in mice and humans
Associational memory is critically dependent on the CA3 recurrent circuit, at the centre of the hippocampal system. While diversity amongst CA3 pyramidal neurons (PNs) has been long reported, the prin...
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Jake Watson @jakefwatson.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
We have a new preprint! By studying neuronal heterogeneity in CA3, we found a weird but powerful new feature in the hippocampal circuitry! 🧠 #neuroskyence 🧵.. Morse-Mora et al. | Hippocampal CA3 forms a two-layer network of molecularly distinct cell types in mice and humans doi.org/10.64898/202...
Mouse hippocampal slice with deep cells labelled blue, patch-clamp recorded cells in yellow, and deep CA3 projections labelled purple
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ellenderlab.bsky.social @ellenderlab.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Interested in where the neuromodulator histamine in the developing brain comes from? 🔗 Read our new full paper (early release): tinyurl.com/bdfchb53 🙌 Congrats to Ricardo and the whole team for all the hard work?! #Neuroscience #Histamine #Striatum#TouretteSyndrome #OCD #JournalOfNeuroscience
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Histamine originating from the BNST modulates corticostriatal synaptic transmission during early postnatal development
The neuromodulator histamine regulates key processes in many circuits of the adult and developing brain, including striatum. However, striatal innervation by histaminergic afferents is very sparse mak...
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Tom Donoghue @tomdonoghue.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Delighted to share our new publication in @apertureohbm.bsky.social - the "Human Single-Neuron Pipeline" for managing human single-neuron research projects! It's an open-source resource of new & existing tools & resources curated for HSN projects: hsnpipeline.github.io
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HSNPipeline
A pipeline for processing and analyzing human single-neuron data.
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Carmen Sandi @carmensandi10.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Hiring! Please share! Two postdoctoral researchers at EPFL, Lausanne, to join an SNSF-funded project on stress, motivation, immersive VR, physiology, multimodal sensing and translational biomarkers. Details & applications: www.fens.org/careers/job-... www.fens.org/careers/job-...
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Multimodal Human Sensing and Advanced Behavioral Data Analysis - Federation of European Neuroscience Societies
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The Journal of Physiology @jphysiol.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Koen Kole and Maarten H.P. Kole from @nin-knaw.bsky.social observed that robust activity-dependent #mitochondrial calcium dynamics at the #AIS is dispensable for action potential generation 🔬 🧠 📜 Read the #Research: physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...
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Mattia Chini @mattiachini.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
New paper out in PLOS Computational Biology! We introduce iSTTC, a robust method to estimate intrinsic neural timescales from single-unit recordings. Congrats to Irina Pochinok for leading the project! Package: github.com/iinnpp/isttc Paper: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
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GitHub - iinnpp/isttc: iSTTC: intrinsic neural timescales estimation
iSTTC: intrinsic neural timescales estimation. Contribute to iinnpp/isttc development by creating an account on GitHub.
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OpenSourceNeuro @opensourceneuro.com · 13/03/2026
Spikeling v3 feature reveal : a new module ! After current clamp, voltage clamp, calcium imaging, we are implementing an extracellular tetrode recording module ! #Neuroscience #CalciumImaging
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Vincenzo Marra @enzomarra.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
So grateful someone fished out this piece of genius from 8 years ago.
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Vincenzo Marra @enzomarra.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Excellent opportunity!
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Matteo Guardamagna @matteoguardamagna.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
1/7 🧠 My journey into development begins with this work and question: how does the brain's spatial navigation system develop? We found that the neural networks for spatial navigation (tori and rings) are preconfigured and only later anchor gradually to the world with experience! 🧵
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Laetitia Mony @laetitiamony.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
If you are a PhD student or post-doc who wants to learn everything about #electrophysiology or #imaging, consider registering to the Paris Spring school in optical imaging and electrophysiology, that will take place in the center of Paris 11-23 May 2026. Application deadline Feb 2nd parisneuro.ovh
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Paris NeuroCourse | Optical Imaging and Electrophysiological Recording in Neuroscience
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Federation of European Neuroscience Societies - FENS @fens.org · 06/01/2026
🔔 ALBA DIGEST OUT! Supported by @ibroorg.bsky.social, @network-alba.bsky.social released the first edition of the Global Perspectives: Neuroscience & Diversity Digest highlighting lessons from the #ALBA- #IBRO Global Diversity Series. 🌐 👉 buff.ly/OBK3c16
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The Journal of Physiology @jphysiol.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Meha P. Jadhav of @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social et al. investigated ionic conductances driving tonic firing in Purkinje #neurons of larval zebrafish 🐟 🧠 📜 Read the #Research here: physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...
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Siri Leknes @sirileknes.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Please RT 2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD! Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all! We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2025
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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Our new preprint is up! This is the main postdoc work of @wiesner-t.bsky.social focusing on exocytosis along the axon shaft and its regulation by the sub membrane actin-spectrin scaffold: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Read the thread below for a summary of our findings 🧵1/11
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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Check the full preprint and its movies for more details: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Congrats @wiesner-t.bsky.social and the whole team! @inp-marseille.bsky.social @ncis-marseille.bsky.social @univ-amu.fr @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @agencerecherche.bsky.social @neuromarseille.bsky.social 11/11
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Non-synaptic exocytosis along the axon shaft and its regulation by the submembrane periodic skeleton
Neuronal communication relies on signaling molecules transferred via exo- and endocytosis throughout the brain. Historically, studies have focused on vesicle exo- and endocytosis and their release mac...
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Mattia Chini @mattiachini.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
🚨 2 Postdoc openings in Neuroscience – Liège, Belgium 🚨 We are recruiting for a project on brain development & autism that includes: ⚡ Neuropixels recordings ⚡ Opto/chemo ⚡ Behavior ⚡ Neural network modeling If you know someone, tag them or RT for visibility! 🙏 www.fens.org/careers/job-...
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2 Postdoc Positions in Systems Neuroscience - Federation of European Neuroscience Societies
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Tobias Rose @trose-neuro.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
BonnBrain 2026 is a go! March 23–25, Bonn (DZNE, Bonn, Germany). Apply now: www.bonnbrain.de Limited slots. Presentations (posters/talks) selected from submitted abstracts. Keynotes & invited speakers 👇
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Bonn Brain Conference
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Cell Physiology Workshop Liverpool @cpw-liverpool.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
#CPW2025 is now over, but we're already planning for #CPW2026 🦑🧠🫀🔬 To receive updates & find out when applications open for next year's Cell Physiology Workshop in Liverpool, go here: forms.office.com/e/PTh5qMvmUM Please share the link with your electrophysiology trainees. 🙂
Group photo from CPW2025 in the teaching lab
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Mattia Chini @mattiachini.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Thanks to the support of the F.R.S. - FNRS, I’m hiring two postdocs to help kickstart the lab. Informal inquiries are welcome via socials or email. More about the two postdoc positions and how to apply: www.chinilab.com/opportunitie... RT for visibility are greatly appreciated! 🙏
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Chini Lab
Chini Lab at GIGA–ULiège. We study how neural activity emerges in early development from a systems neuroscience perspective.
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RainbowLabCVS-UoL @rainbowlabuol.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Cannot believe that week one of the @cpw-liverpool.bsky.social is nearly over! A brilliant week so far! Thank you to everyone who has contributed so far, especially to the @biologists.bsky.social for their funding of our 40th workshop!
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Eelke Snoeren @eelkesnoeren.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Do you have experience turning amateur data analysis scripts into robust, scalable code? I’m hiring (hourly pay) to professionalize Python scripts for scientific data analysis, making them reusable across multiple datasets. Tromsø/Norway-based candidates preferred, but all are welcome! DM me!
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Laura Dugué @lauradugue.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
🚨PhD student position in #cognitive_psychology and #neuroscience, on a project directed by André Knops and in collaboration with the Dugué Lab! @upcite.bsky.social | @cnrs.fr Funded by the @agencerecherche.bsky.social (Agence nationale de la recherche) www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...
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Université Paris Cité hiring Doctoral Student in Paris, Île-de-France, France | LinkedIn
Posted 1:38:05 PM. PhD Student Position at University Paris CitéIn the context of a collaborative project involving…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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Matteo Carandini @carandinilab.net · 23/07/2025
The Commission is pushing for a massive increase in funding for Horizon Europe 2028-2034. If I understand correctly, Pillar I, which includes @erc.europa.eu and Marie Sklodowska Curie fellowships, would go from the current €25 billion to €44 billion. Let's hope it happens!
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Athina Tzovara @athinatzovara.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
We are hiring! We have open PhD and postdoc positions in Bern. Join us to study sleep/wake circuits, and/or auditory functions with iEEG/EEG #iEEG #Neurojobs Postdoc: neuro.inf.unibe.ch/menu/announc... PhD: neuro.inf.unibe.ch/menu/announc...
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Open positions
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Daniela Barillà @danielabarilla.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Just few days left to register for this chromosome biology fête! 🧬🧬🧬 ⏳📆 16 July www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/f... @vslioy.bsky.social @damelab.bsky.social @graingerlab.bsky.social @biochemsoc.bsky.social @biophychrom.bsky.social
Poster advertising the Biology and Physics of Prokaryotic Chromosomes conference that will be held in York, 16-19 September 2025.
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Ricardo Henriques @henriqueslab.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Scientific coders 🧑‍🔬🧑‍💻 #RxivMaker v1.2 now has a #VSCode extension to manage citations and for syntax highlighting of #RxivMarkdown 💽: github.com/HenriquesLab... 📰: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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Laetitia Mony @laetitiamony.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
I am happy to announce the publication of our latest work on #photopharma of GluN2B NMDA receptors: www.embopress.org/doi/full/10..... I am very grateful to all the authors for their involvement in the work (@cecilecharrier.bsky.social, @cecidoso.bsky.social and all the blueskyless people). #iGluRs
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Optochemical profiling of NMDAR molecular diversity at synaptic and extrasynaptic sites | The EMBO Journal
imageimageNMDA receptors (NMDARs) play key roles in brain development and plasticity, and exist as multiple subtypes, whose individual characterization remains challenging in native tissues. This stud...
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Konrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Attractors are usually not mechanisms - new blog post: open.substack.com/pub/kording/...
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Attractors are usually not mechanisms
The mathematical objects can not be. And the "attractor models" have not been established as mechanisms in mammals
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Eelke Snoeren @eelkesnoeren.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
🚨 New Article Alert! 🚨 Our latest research reveals how long-term consumption of a cafeteria (CAF) diet impacts the ventral tegmental area in rats. 🍔🍟🍩#Neuroskyence @uitnorgesarktiske.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Behavioral and neural alterations of the ventral tegmental area by exposure to junk food in rats
The brain reward system is essential for regulating appetitive and consummatory behaviors in response to various incentive stimuli. Junk food, charact…
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Evelina Tutucci @anilevetu.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
www.nature.com/articles/s41... #spatialbiology #imagingtools #fluorescencemicroscopy
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Genetically encoded affinity reagents are a toolkit for visualizing and manipulating endogenous protein function in vivo - Nature Communications
Probing endogenous protein localization and function in vivo remains challenging due to laborious gene targeting and monofunctional alleles. Here, using a toolkit consisting of genetically-encoded epi...
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Cian O'Donnell @cianodonnell.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
a 'provocative anecdotal data observation' paper type would be useful I think. 1-pagers.
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Andrew Plested @andrewplested.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
One last reminder, into the last couple of days! Not so many applications from ion channel people- what are you waiting for patch clampers? 😀
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Anne Urai @anne-urai.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Come work in my dept! We are hiring a lecturer in psychology (ideally speaking Dutch) @leidenpsychology.bsky.social www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3529...
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Docent Psychologie
De Sectie Cognitieve Psychologie van het Instituut Psychologie van de Faculteit Sociale Wetenschappen heeft een vacature voor Docent Psychologie Dit ga je doen Als docent psychologie ga je onderwijs v...
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Mark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Now with fixed link! neuralcomputation.uk/registration...
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Registration |
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Cian O'Donnell @cianodonnell.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
if you are curious about - Computational neuroscience - Neurotechnology - Neuro-inspired AI consider attending our 7-day ISRC CN3 summer school @ulsteruni.bsky.social in the great city of Derry, Northern Ireland, UK from 25th Aug-1st Sep 2025. In-person or online. www.ulster.ac.uk/conference/i...
Photograph of the Peace Bridge in Derry/Londonderry, with the Guildhall visible in the background.Photo of Ulster University campus in Derry/Londonderry.Multi-colour logo for the summer school.
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Altered GluN2A levels reduce the emergence of seizure-like events in a rat model of GRIN2A haploinsufficiency www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
New from The Strain Team: 🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊 Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗). Gross! 😀 1/n #ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky
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Spinger Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing
Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro
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Dimitri Kullmann @neurotrash.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Postdoc job opportunity to study cortical oscillations – spread the word – url.td/k10p8
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Martin Weigert @maweigert.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Spotiflow allows training detection models that generalize across imaging conditions w/o manual parameter tuning. Since the preprint we added lots of things, fast inference for large volumes + many use cases. Check it out at github.com/weigertlab/spotiflow . We hope it will be useful for people!
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GitHub - weigertlab/spotiflow: Accurate and efficient spot detection for microscopy data
Accurate and efficient spot detection for microscopy data - weigertlab/spotiflow
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Vincenzo Marra @enzomarra.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Highly recommend! Excellent PI and environment! A chance to work on a promising approach to treating epilepsy alongside experts in the field.
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Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
We just pushed “Memory by a 1000 rules” onto bioRxiv, where we use clever #ML to find #plasticity quadruplets (EE, EI, IE, II) that learn basic stability in spiking nets. Why is it cool? We find 1000s!! of solutions, and they don’t just stabilise. They #memorise! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Memory by a thousand rules: Automated discovery of functional multi-type plasticity rules reveals variety & degeneracy at the heart of learning
Synaptic plasticity is the basis of learning and memory, but the link between synaptic changes and neural function remains elusive. Here, we used automated search algorithms to obtain thousands of str...
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The Journal of Physiology @jphysiol.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Igor Delvendahl of uzh-ch.bsky.social & uni-freiburg.de‬ et al. observed that MicroRNA-138-5p suppresses excitatory synaptic strength at the #cerebellar input layer 🧠 🧲 📜 Read the #Research here: physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...
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turrigiano.bsky.social @turrigiano.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Wonderful thread by Wei Wen on her tour-de-force that just came out in PNAS. If you are curious about how different forms of homeostatic plasticity cooperate to control circuit features, this thread is for you!
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