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David Lipshutz

@lipshutz.bsky.social
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Studying neural computation • Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine • lipshutzlab.com

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John Pearson @jmxpearson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🚨Postdoc hiring alert! 🚨 Applications for the Flatiron Research Fellows 2027 cohort at the Center for Computational Neuroscience are now live: apply.interfolio.com/193800. Come work with us!
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Grand Plan for brain & mind research is in terrific hands with the researchers at Baylor College of Medicine! From an excellent panel discussion across silos to many insightful conversations with PIs and trainees, I'm a bit blown away by what they are up to here. Impactful & exciting.
Poster for Reimagining Brain Therapies
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Tal Golan @talgolanneuro.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
How can we design experiments that make computational models disagree? One section of our new @natrevneuro.nature.com Review with @kriegeskorte.bsky.social and @heikoschuett.bsky.social examines studies that used stimulus sets designed to elicit distinct predictions from competing models. 1/16
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Dan Levenstein @dlevenstein.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Yale Neuroscience is hiring another computational neuroscience position this year! Please share with anyone who might be interested, and feel free to reach out if you have any questions about the position, or growing neuro-AI community at Yale/WTI!
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Aaron Milstein @neurosutras.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Our new preprint #manuskrypt is a labor of love and has a profound story behind it. @gritz122.bsky.social @argalloni.bsky.social (1/11) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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GIRK Channel Loss of Function Increases Dendritic Excitability in a Mouse Model of GNB1 Encephalopathy
GNB1 encephalopathy (GNB1-E) is a rare neurodevelopmental disorder associated with motor dysfunction, epilepsy and learning disability caused by mutations in the gene encoding the G protein subunit Gβ...
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Ben Hayden @benhayden.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
New paper from the BCM Neurosurgery research team! "Neural basis of compositional control" led by @assiachericoni.bsky.social and @justfineneuro.bsky.social ! 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Neural basis of compositional control - Nature
Behaviour of human participants in a prey-pursuit task reflects dynamic blending of goal-specific control policies, with hippocampus estimating latent states, anterior cingulate cortex orchestrating p...
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David G. Clark @david-g-clark.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This September, I will join the @flatironinstitute.org Center for Computational Neuroscience as a Group Leader, where I will launch the High-Dimensional Dynamics & Computation Group. Information for postdocs and grad students is forthcoming. I am grateful to my mentors who made this possible!
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John Pearson @jmxpearson.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
🚨We’re moving! 🚨 Starting this fall, my lab will be moving to the Center for Neural Science at NYU and the Center for Computational Neuroscience at the @flatironinstitute.org. 1/
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NSF-Simons NITMB @nitmb.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Experimentalists, theorists, and mathematicians are all invited to join us as we identify geometric principles underlying neural computation! NITMB Scientific Focus: Theory and Mathematics in Neuroscience Geometry in Neuroscience workshop travel applications are due 8/21 🔗 👇️
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Marlene Cohen @marlenecohen.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I have always believed that ideas from basic systems neuroscience could eventually help people. But for years that felt more like hope than reality. But look! This is one of the most personally satisfying papers my lab has produced because we’re getting there. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧪🧵 1/
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Jacob Zavatone-Veth @jzv.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Tremendously excited to announce that I will be joining @rockefeller.edu as an Assistant Professor and Head of Lab starting in January 2027! My group will be broadly focused on theoretical neuroscience, and mathematical problems in neural computation in the large.
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Kara Marshall @karalmarshall.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Excited to share a new preprint, led by @yasmeen-hamed.bsky.social! It describes a mechanism and potential therapeutic avenue for treating the aging bladder! Thanks to the amazing collab from the Beyder lab, as well as @valeriavasquez.bsky.social, Lichtarge labs! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Jeff Yau 姚明穎 @jeffmyau.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
🚨PREPRINT ALERT!🚨 I’m delighted to share new work from Yau Lab @bcmneurosci.bsky.social addressing thermotactile interactions. What happens when your hands get cold? A common experience is for your sense of touch to be impaired by coldness. 1/n
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Frozen Hands Close-Up
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TK (Takashi DY) Kozai @bioniclab.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
🪼 Your tax dollars paid a scientist to squeeze jellyfish through cheesecloth. Osamu Shimomura processed tens of thousands on an NSF grant to understand why they glow. He found a protein that glowed green under UV light. Called it "green protein." Nobody cared. For decades.
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Jay Hennig @jhennig.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
🥳 Super excited to share our lab's first preprint, led by @hungyun.bsky.social "Distinct tasks engage shared neural subspaces in human hippocampus and anterior cingulate cortex" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵(1/9)
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Flatiron Institute @flatironinstitute.org · 30/04/2026
Congratulations to #FlatironCCN director @eerosim.bsky.social on his election to the National Academy of Sciences! bit.ly/42AEUhl #science #neuroscience
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CCN Director Eero Simoncelli Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Eero Simoncelli, director of the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Neuroscience (CCN), has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
@jhennig.bsky.social has shown that dopamine exerts a real-time effect on conditioned responding, beyond its role in learning: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Another indication that dopamine is more than a learning signal! A joint effort with @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social and @mhburrell.bsky.social.
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Alex Williams @itsneuronal.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Cosyne invited me to give a long tutorial (4 hours!) on methods to quantify differences high-d neural recordings across animals, brain regions, deep neural nets, etc. The recording is up on youtube. I hope it inspires more research on this fundamental topic! www.youtube.com/watch?v=n44x...
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Cosyne 2026 - Cosyne Tutorial: Comparative Analysis of Neural Population Codes
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Rainer Engelken @rainerengelken.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
We are recruiting PhD students and postdocs at UIUC ECE interested in learning dynamics, spiking networks, and dynamical systems. Details: rainerengelken.github.io/join/
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Rainer Engelken | Join the Lab
Uncovering theoretical principles of learning and computation in neural circuits, from single neurons to brain-wide systems.
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Benjamin Cowley @benjocowley.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
The Cowley Group at CSHL has an opening for a bioAI PhD student to start Fall 2026 to work on closed-loop AI models for visual processing (see below). You *must* have a Master's degree in a quant/eng/cs field. www.cshl.edu/phd-program/... Please reach out to me if interested! I'll be at Cosyne.
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BioAI PhD Program | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Since 1890, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has been a global leader in research and education. The international scientific community at CSHL provides a unique and stimulating atmosphere for doc...
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Jay Hennig @jhennig.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Help! We want to understand multi-task neural representations, but all we have is 24/7 spiking data from human patients in hippocampus and cortex, along with video, audio, speech, heart rate, and so much more! If you can help, please apply to join the lab as a postdoc ☺️ jobs.bcm.edu/job/Postdoct...
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Postdoctoral Associate - Specialist- Computational Cognition
Postdoctoral Associate - Specialist- Computational Cognition
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SueYeon Chung @sueyeonchung.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Our paper is out in @natneuro.nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s41... We develop a geometric theory of how neural populations support generalization across many tasks. @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social @flatironinstitute.org @kempnerinstitute.bsky.social 1/14
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Jonathan Pillow @jpillowtime.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Bichan Wu (@bichanw.bsky.social) & I wrote a tutorial paper on Reduced Rank Regression (RRR) — the statistical method underlying "communication subspaces" from Semedo et al 2019 — aimed at neuroscientists. arxiv.org/abs/2512.12467
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Reduced rank regression for neural communication: a tutorial for neuroscientists
Reduced rank regression (RRR) is a statistical method for finding a low-dimensional linear mapping between a set of high-dimensional inputs and outputs. In recent years, RRR has found numerous applica...
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Victor Geadah @vgeadah.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
At #NeurIPS2025! 🎉 Excited to present Conditionally Linear Dynamical Systems (CLDS). We leverage the dependence of neural dynamics on task covariates to yield an interpretable, flexible model of dynamics. Come meet and check it out! 📍: Poster #2209, Hall C,D,E on Thu Dec 4, 11 am–2 pm, PST. 🧵/6
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Fish Qian @fishqian.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
How prior experience biases new learning for generalization? new preprint is out: 1) behavioral and hippocampal generalization co-emerged in a novel context. 2) BTSP was involved in forming cross-context stable representations, as well as aligning novel neural dynamics to familiar subspace.
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Simons Foundation @simonsfoundation.org · 24/11/2025
Inviting apps for a workshop to develop a project focused on a mechanistic understanding of canonical cortical computations at the circuit level. Deadline is 1/5/2026: www.simonsfoundation.org/simons-fou…
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Simons Foundation Now Accepting Applications for Workshop on Canonical Cortical Computations
Simons Foundation Now Accepting Applications for Workshop on Canonical Cortical Computations on Simons Foundation
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Eero Simoncelli @eerosim.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Looking for a PhD program where you can study computational neuroscience? NYU has a fantastic array of researchers covering the field: groups.google.com/g/systems-ne...
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Doctoral studies in Computational/Theoretical Neuroscience at NYU
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Blake Bordelon @frostedblakess.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Applying to do a postdoc or PhD in theoretical ML or neuroscience this year? Consider joining my group (starting next Fall) at UT Austin! POD Postdoc: oden.utexas.edu/programs-and... CSEM PhD: oden.utexas.edu/academics/pr...
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Wu Tsai Institute | Yale University @wutsaiyale.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
📣 WTI is hiring faculty positions! Are you interested in advancing our understanding of the brain + how it gives rise to cognition? Two calls are open: Open-rank search, Neurocomputation, deadline: 12.1.25 Senior search, Neurodevelopment, rolling review 🔗 wti.yale.edu/opportunities #KnowTogether
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Ben Hayden @benhayden.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
New manuscript from the lab! "Mirror manifolds: partially overlapping neural subspaces for speaking and listening" Led by superstar grad student Anilu Chavez (not on Bluesky)! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Mirror manifolds: partially overlapping neural subspaces for speaking and listening
Participants in conversations need to associate words their speakers but also retain those words general meanings. For example, someone talking about their hand is not referring to the other speakers ...
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Jay Hennig @jhennig.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Very cool work showing how hippocampal representations could span space, and associative/episodic memories. Thanks for the presentation today Sarthak!
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Allie Sinclair @asinclair.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
🌟 Excited to share that I'm recruiting PhD students in Psychology for my new lab at Rice University this cycle (Signal boost appreciated!) To learn more, check out the Learning & Behavior Change Lab website: www.sinclairlab-rice.com Applications are due Dec 1st: psychology.rice.edu/graduate/pro...
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Sinclair Lab
The Learning & Behavior Change Lab at Rice University, directed by Dr. Sinclair
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Jacob Zavatone-Veth @jzv.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Since I'm back on BlueSky - with @frostedblakess.bsky.social and @cpehlevan.bsky.social we wrote a brief perspective on how ideas about summary statistics from the statistical physics of learning could potentially help inform neural data analysis... (1/2)
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Frontiers | Summary statistics of learning link changing neural representations to behavior
How can we make sense of large-scale recordings of neural activity across learning? Theories of neural network learning with their origins in statistical phy...
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Jenelle Feather @jfeather.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Join us at #NeurIPS2025 for our Data on the Brain & Mind workshop! We aim to connect machine learning researchers and neuroscientists/cognitive scientists, with a focus on emerging datasets. More info: data-brain-mind.github.io
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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Efficient coding theories often implicitly or explicitly assume slow changes in tuning (e.g., through synaptic plasticity). Arthur Prat-Carrabin has collected psychophysical data showing that it can be fast, and this can be explained by a gain-adaptive RNN: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Fast efficient coding and sensory adaptation in gain-adaptive recurrent networks
As the statistics of sensory environments often change, neural sensory systems must adapt to maintain useful representations. Efficient coding prescribes that neuronal tuning curves should be optimize...
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Anirvan Sengupta @anirvansengupta.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
At #ICML2025, presenting work done at @flatironinstitute.org w Matt Smart and @albertobietti.bsky.social on in-context denoising (arxiv.org/abs/2502.05164). Come to Matt’s oral, Thursday, 4:15-4:30 PM, West Ballroom A, and see us right after at poster #E-3207, 4:30-7:00 PM, East Exhibition Hall A-B.
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In-context denoising with one-layer transformers: connections between attention and associative memory retrieval
We introduce in-context denoising, a task that refines the connection between attention-based architectures and dense associative memory (DAM) networks, also known as modern Hopfield networks. Using a...
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Hadi Vafaii @hadivafaii.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Announcing the new "Sensorimotor AI" Journal Club — please share/repost! w/ Kaylene Stocking, Tommaso Salvatori, and @elisennesh.bsky.social Sign up link: forms.gle/o5DXD4WMdhTg... More details below 🧵[1/5] 🧠🤖🧠📈
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Eero Simoncelli @eerosim.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Submissions now accepted for a special issue of the Journal of Vision: Choose your stimuli wisely: Advances in stimulus synthesis and selection Submission deadline: Dec 12, 2025 Futher details: jov.arvojournals.org/ss/synthetic...
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JOV Special Issue - Choose your stimuli wisely: Advances in stimulus synthesis and selection | JOV | ARVO Journals
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Florentin Guth @florentinguth.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
What is the probability of an image? What do the highest and lowest probability images look like? Do natural images lie on a low-dimensional manifold? In a new preprint with Zahra Kadkhodaie and @eerosim.bsky.social, we develop a novel energy-based model in order to answer these questions: 🧵
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Friedemann Zenke @fzenke.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
1/6 Why does the brain maintain such precise excitatory-inhibitory balance? Our new preprint explores a provocative idea: Small, targeted deviations from this balance may serve a purpose: to encode local error signals for learning. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... led by @jrbch.bsky.social
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Aaron Milstein @neurosutras.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
New #NeuroAI #compneurosky preprint! To better understand how target-directed learning works in the brain, we sought to engineer an artificial neural network capable of solving complex image classification tasks that comprises only experimentally-supported biological building blocks. (1/15)
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Jenelle Feather @jfeather.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Super excited for our #VSS2025 symposium tomorrow, "Model-optimized stimuli: more than just pretty pictures". Join us to talk about designing and using synthetic stimuli for testing properties of visual perception! May 16th @ 1-3PM in Talk Room #2 More info: www.visionsciences.org/symposia/?sy...
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VSS SymposiaSymposia – Vision Sciences Society
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Lisa Schmors @lisaschmors.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
🧠🤖 Computational Neuroscience summer school IMBIZO in Cape Town is open for applications again!   💻🧬 3 weeks of intense coursework & projects with support from expert tutors and faculty   📈Apply until July 1st! 🔗https://imbizo.africa/
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Kara Marshall @karalmarshall.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Gave a talk at my parents’ retirement community to describe how science is done, and what is at stake. There was a ton of interest, and anyone can do this. Get the word out about how science affects everyone. I’m happy to share slides with anyone who asks- just get in touch! youtu.be/BY_SFgi-Cig
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Kara Marshall PHD-History of Science in America - Trilogy at Tehaleh 04/27/25
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Mari Sosa @marisosa.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Exciting news!! I’m joining the tenure-track faculty at University of Colorado Boulder this fall as an Assistant Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience! The Sosa Lab will study how memory is shaped by cognitive and physiological demands, including during pregnancy and the postpartum period. 🧵
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Jenelle Feather @jfeather.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
We are presenting our work “Discriminating image representations with principal distortions” at #ICLR2025 today (4/24) at 3pm! If you are interested in comparing model representations with other models or human perception, stop by poster #63. Highlights in 🧵 openreview.net/forum?id=ugX...
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Discriminating image representations with principal distortions
Image representations (artificial or biological) are often compared in terms of their global geometric structure; however, representations with similar global structure can have strikingly...
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Eero Simoncelli @eerosim.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Symposium at the annual VSS meeting on generative models for vision science
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Amin Nejatbakhsh @aminejat.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Excited to announce that our paper on "Comparing noisy neural population dynamics using optimal transport distances" has been selected for an oral presentation in #ICLR2025 (1.8% top papers). Check the thread for paper details (0/n). Presentation info: iclr.cc/virtual/2025....
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ICLR 2025 Comparing noisy neural population dynamics using optimal transport distances OralICLR 2025
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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
This paper is the result of >20 yrs of hard work by talented students, postdocs and collaborators, but none more than my co-author Ren Ng and his team in EECS. 1/n Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale
Image display by cell-by-cell retina stimulation, enabling colors impossible to see under natural viewing.
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Jenelle Feather @jfeather.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Applications close TODAY (April 14) for the 2025 Flatiron Institute Junior Theoretical Neuroscience Workshop. All you need to apply is a CV and a 1 page abstract. 🧠🗽
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