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James McAllister

@jajmca.bsky.social
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Postdoc at Trinity College Dublin and Oxford University. Computational and Theoretical Neuroscience.

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James McAllister @jajmca.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Huge thanks to the very best supervisors 🙏🏻🎉 I am Cian's biggest admirer and am so grateful for all his support, encouragement and insight, as well as John and Conor's @conjh.bsky.social. Doing a PhD and science with them has been one of the best experiences, and I aspire to be like them!
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James McAllister @jajmca.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Just back from AREADNE, a conference on the Encoding and Decoding of Neural Ensembles, in Milos, Greece. It was an incredible week of sea, sun, and science. It emphasised to me again that science isn't just the methods, analyses, or results. It's the sharing, talking, listening, and being inspired.
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James McAllister @jajmca.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Just back from AREADNE, a conference on the Encoding and Decoding of Neural Ensembles, in Milos, Greece. It was an incredible week of sea, sun, and science. It emphasised to me again that science isn't just the methods, analyses, or results. It's the sharing, talking, listening, and being inspired.
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James McAllister @jajmca.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Appreciation post for my incredible supervisor Cian O'Donnell @cianodonnell.bsky.social. Such an inspiration & wonderful mentor as Supervisor & School Research Director. He organised a brilliant ISRC Discovery Day today @ulsteruni.bsky.social, showcasing the breadth & depth of our research.
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James McAllister @jajmca.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Beautiful beaches of Donegal | Tránna áille Dhún na nGall Dooey Carrickfinn Silver Strand Murvagh
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James McAllister @jajmca.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Really excited to share a new preprint! 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘆 𝗿𝗼𝗯𝘂𝘀𝘁 & 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗯𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗲? We explore how! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We built Connectome-based Neural Networks (CoNNs) using Drosophila wiring (larva&adult) & compared with random networks with same sparsity.
Constructing connectome-based neural networks
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Rick Betzel @richardfbetzel.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Excited to read this! Non-random brain connectome wiring enables robust and efficient neural network function under high sparsity www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Non-random brain connectome wiring enables robust and efficient neural network function under high sparsity www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Paul Anastasiades @panastasiades.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
New preprint from the lab on synapse development in the nascent neocortical hierarchy! Using mice that label MAGUK proteins developed by Seth Grant we find key differences in the laminar maturation of association and sensory motor cortices, including delayed, cortex-wide maturation of L1 synapses.
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Region- and layer-specific glutamatergic synapse development in the nascent cortical hierarchy www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Cian O'Donnell @cianodonnell.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Lovely time today at the 2nd All-Ireland Computational Neuroscience Symposium at Queens U Belfast. It's a small but growing community on the island. imo the talks were all genuinely great and I'm really excited for the future Round 3 back in Dublin next August apparently if anyone wants to join! ☘️🧠
Photo of James McAllister from Ulster University giving a presentation on his work on brain-inspired reservoir computing
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Cian O'Donnell @cianodonnell.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
@camneuro.bsky.social our amazing PhD student James McAllister is giving a talk at 2pm in CBL on drosophila-larva connectome-based recurrent neural networks talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/2...
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talks.cam : Connectome-based Echo State Networks
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Cian O'Donnell @cianodonnell.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Delighted @jajmca.bsky.social's abstract was accepted for COSYNE 2025, for his work on linking neural circuit structure to function via drosophila-connectome-based reservoir computing. With @conjh.bsky.social, John Wade and myself.
Schematic diagram of reservoir computing neural network, with drosophila larva connectome overlaid as reservoir connectivity.
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