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Katrin Franke

@katrinfranke.bsky.social
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Neuroscience, NeuroAI | kfranke.com | Senior Scientist at Stanford working at enigmaproject.ai

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 17/06/2026
“motor cortex that may have some specialization, ‘but it’s still integrating parts of the body in a way that probably promotes meaningful, ethologically relevant behavior patterns,’- Graziano said This is reminiscent of our and @katrinfranke.bsky.social findings in visual cortex.
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Jan Lause @janlause.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Meet Eyewire II: a new connectomic resource for the mouse retina. ~1 mm² of retina at nanometer resolution, with synapses and circuits of ca. 100,000 neurons, plus visual responses from the ~400 neurons shown in the video! Preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202... Data: eyewire.ai 🧠📈 🧠💻🧪 #VisionScience
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Marla Feller @mfeller.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
what an incredible achievement and resource for retina researchers. We use it, we love it — it is a game changer for all of us who love retinal circuits. Kudos.
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Journey from Eye to Galaxy for National Space Day
ALT: Journey from Eye to Galaxy for National Space Day
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Roxana Zeraati @roxana-zeraati.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Some incredibly exciting news that still feels a bit surreal: I am starting my research group @mpicybernetics.bsky.social! The best part? We are hiring at all levels! Curious about the science we plan to tackle, read along :) #NeuroSky
An illustration of different species, from worms to humans, foraging, indicating the main topic of our research group.
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Edvard I Moser @edvardmoser.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Is spatial navigation innate 🧠? Using #NeuroPixels we show that the #torus 🍩 underlying the #GridCell map exists already on day 10 in rats — before pups open eyes and ears and before they start upright walking. 🧵1:4 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 11/06/2025
Can #AI become a true scientist? @ninamiolane.bsky.social explores how new technologies are reshaping scientific discovery, and why human expertise remains essential as we enter a new era of research powered by intelligent algorithms. 🧪‬ plos.io/4kZi0aB
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The fifth era of science: Artificial scientific intelligence
Can AI become a true scientist? This Perspective explores how new technologies are reshaping scientific discovery, and why human expertise remains essential as we enter a new era of research powered b...
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Fatih Dinc @fatihdinc.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Wow! What a great perspective! Congrats @ninamiolane.bsky.social !
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Michael W. Cole @mwcole.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Why do our visual systems have “shortcut” connections (V1-V4)? What do they add beyond the classic hierarchical (V1-V2-V3-V4) pathway? 

The lab’s latest study takes activity flow modeling to the next level to answer this question, led by @alextzalav.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/n
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SP Arun @sparuniisc.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Preprint alert! We've done the first ever wireless brain recordings from the high-level visual & motor regions (IT/PMv/PFC) in monkeys engaged in natural behaviors as well as during controlled screen-based tasks. Read below for a lay summary and the link for details! 1/8
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Fabian Sinz @sinzlab.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
The dataset that we’re releasing today is among the largest ever released in neuroscience: • 3.1M segmented neurons • 78 mice • 328 sessions • 150B+ neural tokens • Naturalistic + parametric visual stimuli • Behavioral data
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Katrin Franke @katrinfranke.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Super excited to see OmniMouse released 🧠🐭 One model of mouse visual cortex w/ single neuron resolution, queryable for encoding, decoding, forecasting, & behavior-conditioned prediction >2M neurons 78 mice 328 sessions. Data + models on @hf.co Congrats to the team 🎉
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Fabian Sinz @sinzlab.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
🚀 OmniMouse is at ICLR: Poster: Friday, April 24, 3:15PM, P3-#1808 📄 Paper: openreview.net/forum?id=mEw4lhAn0F 📝 Blog: tinyurl.com/7bjyrhk8 📊 Data: tinyurl.com/2txa9b6t 💻 Code: github.com/enigma-brain/omnimouse 🤗 Model: hf.co/the-enigma-project/omnimouse 🤗 Data: tinyurl.com/bp685dv9
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Fabian Sinz @sinzlab.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
🧠Introducing OmniMouse: One of the largest datasets in neuroscience along with a systematic study of scaling properties of brain models Co-led by 🤩 K. Willeke, @pollytur.bsky.social and @alexrgil14.bsky.social Models trained on up to 3M neurons, >150B tokens
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Katrin Franke @katrinfranke.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
New preprint @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social 🎉 We map the functional organization of retinal input to the 🐭 superior colliculus & capture it in a dynamic "digital twin" that generalizes to unseen stimuli Probe it with your own stimuli via Colab to test hypotheses in silico👇 Amazing team effort 🙌
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Lisa Schmors @lisaschmors.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
𝗨𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹 𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝘃𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗹𝗮𝗯 𝗯𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗵: The trained digital twin model lets you feed in any stimulus you're curious about and generate your own neural responses. Feed in your own stimulus and see what the model predicts 👇 💻 Colab notebook: colab.research.google.com/drive/1k9411... (4/🧵)
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Lisa Schmors @lisaschmors.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘩𝘺𝘱𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘣? 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘄! 🎉 📄 Paper: doi.org/10.64898/202... 💻 Colab notebook: colab.research.google.com/drive/1k9411... 🗂️ Code: github.com/yongrong-qiu... (1/🧵)
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Khai Loong Aw @khaiaw.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Children exhibit visual understanding from limited experience, orders of magnitude less than our best models. We introduce the Zero-shot World Model (ZWM). Trained on a single child's visual experience, BabyZWM rapidly generates competence across diverse benchmarks with no task-specific training. 🧵
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Joao Barbosa @jbarbosa.org · 03/04/2026
Wanna do neuroscience in Paris but can't find interesting lab? Want to come do a sabbatical but don't know who to collaborate? Check this webpage aggregating ~all the neuroscience labs (+200) in Paris. ⚠️only the information of 'verified' profiles is reliable⚠️ Please retweet 🙏 parisneuro.fr
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John Tuthill @tuthill.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
New paper from Brandon Pratt, @chrisjdallmann.bsky.social, and colleagues on how hair plate proprioceptors sense joint limits and contribute to sensorimotor control of walking. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Katrin Franke @katrinfranke.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
New paper out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social 🎉 What determines contextual modulation in V1? Why does the visual surround sometimes facilitate and sometimes suppress a neuron's response to its preferred stimulus?
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ML for Science @ml4science.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
We're hiring a Scientific Director for our AI Methods & Software Hub in Tübingen! This is a unique opportunity to build and lead a central hub at the intersection of cutting-edge ML research and scientific applications. Deadline: 30 April 2026. More info: uni-tuebingen.de/en/128980#c2...
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Datta Lab @dattalab.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Have you ever wondered why mice do what they do when they are free to do whatever they want? Check out our latest (and this slightly delayed thread about our recent paper, led by Caleb Weinreb and friends...) www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
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Spontaneous behavior is a succession of self-directed tasks
Weinreb et al. reveal a hierarchy of timescales in mouse behavior, including low-level syllables and high-level behavioral states. States and syllables are encoded in different brain areas. Prefrontal...
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John Tuthill @tuthill.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
🧵 New preprint led by @bingbrunton.bsky.social, @elliottabe.bsky.social, @lawrencehu.bsky.social We gave a worm brain control of a fly body and it walked What did we learn? Nothing, other than deep reinforcement learning is effective We call it the digital sphinx www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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David Sussillo @sussillodavid.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
A remarkable journey of resilience and transformation, from the chaotic corridors of group homes to the halls of Columbia and Stanford, EMERGENCE is a coming-of-age tale where heartbreak and humor meet the scientific wonder of modern artificial intelligence. 🔗 Preorder: tinyurl.com/fzcxb5ea
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Niels Niethard @nniethard.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
@currentbiology.bsky.social I am very happy to share our latest paper, just published in @currentbiology.bsky.social! In collaboration with Olga Garaschuk's lab, we used in vivo 2P calcium imaging to investigate the role of sleep spindles in the hippocampus. 🧠💤 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Sleep spindles promote hippocampal network downregulation during sleep
Sleep is thought to globally downregulate neuronal network activity and synaptic connections enhanced during prior wakefulness and, in parallel, to up…
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Stanley Heinze @stanley-heinze.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
After 5 years of developing, a new preprint from the lab - introducing our workflow for comparative insect connectomics, aimed at democratizing connectomics. @erc.europa.eu @lundvision.bsky.social @biologylu.bsky.social Read it here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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George Kafetzis @gkafetzis.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
👁️The retina — strikingly conserved across vertebrates, but an oddity among bilaterians! So how did it evolve? With @mikebok.bsky.social, @neurofishh.bsky.social and @denilsson.bsky.social, we argue that retinal complexity may 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑦𝑒 𝑖𝑡𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/n
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ALT: a black and white dog is sitting on a couch with its tongue sticking out .
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Karthik Shekhar @karthikshekhar.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Congrats George!
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Katrin Franke @katrinfranke.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
🚨 We're hiring: Research Coordinator for CRC Robust Vision @unituebingen.bsky.social Take a leading role in our DFG funded consortium in neuroscience, ML & CV MSc/PhD + science mgmt. Apply by Mar 15 👇 join our team w/ @jakhmack.bsky.social @bethgelab.bsky.social uni-tuebingen.de/en/universit...
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Coordinator (m/f/d, E13 TV-L, 75%)
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Luke Sjulson @lukesjulson.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I have been using Claude Code recently, and I’m now convinced that LLM coding agents can solve one of the biggest problems in neuroscience: technical debt. Labs generate tons of low-quality code bc the incentive structure rewards short-term productivity over longer-term concerns like 1/
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Artemis Koumoundourou @akoumoundourou.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I’ve been using Spikeling in teaching and outreach for the past 4 years, and it’s been a really effective way to make neuroscience concepts more approachable and engaging. Hands-on tools like this really help move neuroscience teaching forward 🧠⚡ Have a look 👇
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OpenSourceNeuro @opensourceneuro.com · 27/01/2026
For this new year, we are proud to announce the launch of Spikeling v3 ! Spikeling is an Open-Source neuroscience education platform that brings a patch-clamp-style electrophysiology workflow into the classroom. #Neuroscience #OpenScience #OpenHardware #Education
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Brandy A Freitas @brandy-syglass.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Nice feature from NVIDIA on #syGlass at the MBL! Exciting to see AI, RTX GPUs, and VR coming together to explore massive 3D brain datasets, with high school students contributing to ongoing, cutting-edge neuroscience research. @mblscience.bsky.social blogs.nvidia.com/blog/mbl-hum...
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Marine Biological Laboratory Explores Human Memory With AI and Virtual Reality
The lab in Massachusetts is studying molecular mechanisms of human memory function powered by NVIDIA RTX GPUs, HP Z Workstations and virtual-reality technology.
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Stanley Heinze @stanley-heinze.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Ever wanted to know how the visual system of a long distance migratory moth looks like? Then you'll find your answers in our new paper. Finally out, after about a decade of collecting data by a group af amazing co-authors. Find it here, open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Spread the word: I'm looking to hire a postdoc to explore the concept of attention (as studied in psych/neuro, not the transformer mechanism) in large Vision-Language Models. More details here: lindsay-lab.github.io/2025/12/08/p... #MLSky #neurojobs #compneuro
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Lindsay Lab - Postdoc Position
Artificial neural networks applied to psychology, neuroscience, and climate change
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Dominic Gonschorek @dgonschorek.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Thanks to the team: @Jonathan Oesterle @thomaszen.bsky.social @fededagos.bsky.social @teuler.bsky.social @philipp.hertie.ai @katrinfranke.bsky.social @Timm Schubert @Zhijian Zhao @nadinedyszkant.bsky.social @Klaudia Szatko @Chenchen Cai @florentyna-d.bsky.social @tom-sk.bsky.social @Ryan Arlinghaus
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Dominic Gonschorek @dgonschorek.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
📦Dataset: huggingface.co/datasets/eul... 💻Code: github.com/eulerlab/all... 🧠GCL Classifier: github.com/eulerlab/gcl... 🤖DataJoint Database: github.com/eulerlab/dji...
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Dominic Gonschorek @dgonschorek.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
We’re excited to share ALL-GCL: a large-scale dataset of 2P Ca²⁺ imaging from 80,000+ cells in the mouse retinal ganglion cell layer, collected over 9 years. Includes rich metadata, shared stimuli & cell-type assignments designed for type-specific analyses, modeling, and ML. 📄: tinyurl.com/ymn53frf
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A large-scale dataset of functional mouse ganglion cell layer responses
We present the All-GCL dataset, a large-scale resource of functional two-photon Ca2+-imaging recordings with rich meta-data information from more than 80,000 cells in the ganglion cell layer (GCL) of ...
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Andrew Lampinen @lampinen.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Why isn’t modern AI built around principles from cognitive science or neuroscience? Starting a substack (infinitefaculty.substack.com/p/why-isnt-m...) by writing down my thoughts on that question: as part of a first series of posts giving my current thoughts on the relation between these fields. 1/3
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Why isn’t modern AI built around principles from cognitive science?
First post in a series on cognitive science and AI
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Yvette Fisher @yvetteefisher.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
*First preprint from our lab* !!!!! How does the brain learn to anchor its internal sense of direction to the outside world? 🧭 led by Mark Plitt @markplitt.bsky.social & Dan Turner-Evans, w/ Vivek Jayaraman: “Octopamine instructs head direction plasticity” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Thread ⬇️
Schematic of how ER-EPG plasticity enables the bump of activity in EPGs to accurately track visual cues. As a fly makes a counter-clockwise turn (top to bottom) it will view visual cues (e.g. the sun) from a new angle and the EPG activity bump (red) will swing clockwise around the network by integrating self motion signals with these visual inputs. When the fly faces a different angle, distinct visual ER neurons are active. Plasticity forms a trough of weak synapses (large circles - strong synapses, small circles - weak synapses) that allow ER neurons with distinct visual tuning to move the EPG bump via disinhibition.
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Marcin Szczot @szczotml.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Not all pain is created equal: stepping on a nail feels different from a stomachache. We know there are many nociceptor types, but a key question remains: how is mechanical pain encoded across the body by those sensory neurons? Our new work helps answer this. 1/8 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Hierarchical organization of mechano-nociceptive pathways revealed by activity labeling
Noxious mechanical stimuli give rise to distinct percepts, from sharp cutaneous pain to diffuse visceral discomfort, yet the nociceptor ensembles that underlie these differences remain poorly defined....
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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
We're thrilled to introduce ATHENA: Automatically Tracking Hands Expertly with No Annotations – our open-source, Python-based toolbox for 3D markerless hand tracking! Paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10....
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Shahab Bakhtiari @shahabbakht.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
In this piece for @thetransmitter.bsky.social, I argue that ecological neuroscience should leverage generative video and interactive models to simulate the world from animals' perspectives. The technological building blocks are almost here - we just need to align them for this application. 🧠🤖
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allen institute @alleninstitute.org · 05/12/2025
🧠📢 New preprint alert Large-scale ephys is exploding but spike sorting remains the computational bottleneck. A 2-hr, 6-probe Neuropixels 2.0 Quad Base session can take over a week to sort on a single machine. Here's a better solution. 🧵 #neuroskyence #compneurosky
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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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Katrin Franke @katrinfranke.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
🚀 Thrilled to be at #NeurIPS2025 🧠 Doing NeuroAI: using AI to understand the brain 🎤 Catch my Sunday talk at @neurreps.bsky.social on interpreting the neural code Interested in the🔬Enigma Project at Stanford? Working with @andreastolias.bsky.social & @naturecomputes.bsky.social enigmaproject.ai
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Enigma
Enigma is a non-profit research organization based at Stanford University, leveraging deep learning for neuroscientific insight
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Pranav Seth @thebuddhabird93.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
#FluorescenceFriday A sky of light within ✨ This is the ganglion cell layer of the avian retina. The nerve fiber layer lies beneath like a soft green current, carrying quiet signals forward. Sometimes to see the universe with its beautiful scattered stars, one only has to look inside.
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Markus Meister @mameister4.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
That image is from 1961 and an idealization. Here is an actual trajectory of fixational eye movements. The dots are 2 ms apart. If a midget ganglion cell, with single-cone receptive field, fires at 100 Hz, then every spike reports about a different cone. How can we ever read anything?
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Fabian Sinz @sinzlab.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Perfect for someone who loves: ✨ Advanced imaging techniques ✨ Interdisciplinary science ✨ Understanding brain computation Interested? Please send your application (CV, motivation letter) to ​​sinz@uni-goettingen.de #neurosky #neuroskyence #Neuroscience #PostDoc #JobOpening
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Fabian Sinz @sinzlab.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
🔬 Exciting PostDoc Opportunity! 🐁🧠 We - the @sinzlab.bsky.social (sinzlab.org) and @trose-neuro.bsky.social (troselab.de) Labs - are seeking an experimental postdoc to work at @unibonn.bsky.social with cutting-edge miniature 2-photon microscopy and gaze tracking in freely behaving mice.
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