Reposted by Mark D HumphriesMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Universities cannot expect researchers to take risks if they are repeatedly at risk of redundancy while losing professional services support, grappling with the gratuitous vagaries of home and international student number swings and both teaching and assessing in an age of unregulated AI. 520777
Mark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Wrote this 9 years ago. Nine. medium.com/the-spike/th...medium.comThe crimes against dopamineFor they be many and grievous 161
Mark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Crimes against dopamine number 14,689: “Dopamine sites” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukDopamine sites: India and the world are discovering the thrill of shopping without buyingDopamine sites mimic shopping’s thrill without the spending, turning the ritual of consumption into a digital game. 181
Mark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Curse of the academic. Cogito ergo supercogito 010
Mark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Yes. Though, like every undergrad project (and many papers) I review, I do feel compelled to ask: which error bars are those exactly? 140
Reposted by Mark D HumphriesAmirreza Bahramani @amir137.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Four months ago, US sanctions shut Iranian students out of Neuromatch. So we built our own! 180+ students, 9 TAs, 14 mentors, and an incredible team made NeuroCONNECT happen. Proud to have been part of it. A reminder that sometimes, together, we can break the barriers and injustices imposed on us. 1246
Reposted by Mark D HumphriesCarolina Rezaval @crezaval.bsky.social · 16/09/2026We’re hiring two postdocs! Join our Lab @unibirmingham.bsky.social to uncover how the brain resolves behavioural conflicts. Deadline: 22 September 2026 @wellcometrust.bsky.social Please share! www.rezavallab.orgrezavallab.orgHome Animals must make crucial behavioural choices on a minute by minute basis to survive in a changing environment. A long-standing enigma is, how are alternative options evaluated in the brain... 01711
Reposted by Mark D HumphriesDavid Robbe @davidrobbe.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Excited to share our new paper: "The Tower Foraging Park: A paradigm for studying cognitive and motor processes underlying behavioral flexibility in freely moving mice,". Out now in @cp-iscience.bsky.social 🧵1/9 www.cell.com/iscience/ful...cell.comThe Tower Foraging Park: A paradigm for studying cognitive and motor processes underlying behavioral flexibility in freely moving miceBiological sciences; Behavioral neuroscience; Laboratory animal science 33410
Mark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Terrific piece from @mattperich.bsky.social on how to think about the dimensionality of neural activity Will be borrowing the excellent folding paper analogy… www.thetransmitter.org/neural-dynam...thetransmitter.orgDimensionality—neuroscience’s red herring?Placing too much emphasis on a specific interpretation of dimensionality may lead neuroscience down the wrong path. 1154
Reposted by Mark D HumphriesThe Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 25/08/2026The Transmitter's summer reading list highlights upcoming neuroscience books and other notable titles from this year—with books by @romainbrette.bsky.social, @susanacarmona.bsky.social, @markdhumphries.bsky.social, David Susillo and more. #neuroskyence By @franciscorr25.bsky.social bit.ly/4qz0oXjthetransmitter.orgThe Transmitter’s reading list for 2026Our summer reading list includes books on the Human Brain Project, the neuroscience of motherhood and the career of a Huntington’s disease researcher. 03113
Mark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 21/07/2026New preprint from Jasper Teutsch & Rohan Rao in Abhi Banerjee's lab showing that switching from choice- to cue-driven behavioural strategies is driven by lOFC In collaboration with Silvia Maggi & I, using our Bayesian strategy analysis doi.org/10.7554/eLif... doi.org/10.64898/202...doi.orgDistinct Orbitofrontal Feedback Signals Shape Sensory Behavioral Strategies during Flexible LearningAnimals adapt their behavior by integrating sensory evidence with prior experience and contextual information. Understanding how animals employ specific behavioral strategies to integrate these variab... 0112
Reposted by Mark D HumphriesMark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Help needed! I'm part of a team tasked with creating a 2nd year undergraduate module/course "Computational Skills for Psychologists" Its remit is the fundamentals of coding and good practice. Any advice from others who've done similar courses? (Assume no programming knowledge. Assume Python) 3107
Mark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Thanks Nick. We've small advantage that these will be 2nd years, so will have had PsychoPy exposure already (as one might expect at Nottingham ;) Using that as the hook might well be the way in! 010
Mark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Thanks Paula. Cohort size estimated at 70-80. May go higher. Teaching time limited: 4 hrs/week x 10 weeks = 40 hours total. Friction point noted! 000
Mark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 20/07/2026thank you, that looks a terrific resource! 020
Mark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Help needed! I'm part of a team tasked with creating a 2nd year undergraduate module/course "Computational Skills for Psychologists" Its remit is the fundamentals of coding and good practice. Any advice from others who've done similar courses? (Assume no programming knowledge. Assume Python) 3107
Mark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 09/07/2026More nuanced take on the impending end of artisanal neuroscience thanks to the AI Industrial Revolution Thoughtful piece from Kenneth Harris One question - who are the Luddites in this analogy? www.thetransmitter.org/artificial-i...thetransmitter.orgMass-produced science is coming. What happens to scientists?Artificial intelligence may soon enable researchers to generate high-quality science at a previously unimaginable speed. 0100
Mark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 01/07/2026No 😁 sorry, that was probably too dry to come over in the post - “apparently” was doing a lot of heavy lifting… 140
Reposted by Mark D HumphriesKenji Lee @kenjilee.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Adding to all the takes on this, something that is missed and why I don't think AI will progress beyond research assistant in neuroscience is so much of the work is embodied. Not just in that "an LLM doesn't have a body" but so much of the knowledge is only gained through embodiment. 1112
Mark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 01/07/2026At Cosyne, Chris Olah from Anthropic told us that neuroscientists had “3-4 years left to make a contribution” Why was not clear. Perhaps he was hinting at the below graph accompanying today’s Claude Science launch. Apparently we’ll all be obsolete soon. 164412
Reposted by Mark D HumphriesMark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 10/06/2026The Group for Neural Theory is an enviable place to work. At the heart of Paris’s Left Bank, it’s a literal stone’s throw from the Pantheon And it has a remarkable training record On the occasion of its 20th birthday celebrations this week, here’s a further sample of its alumni… gnt20.github.io 1134
Reposted by Mark D HumphriesJoao Barbosa @jbarbosa.org · 10/06/2026So hyped for this! What a privilege to have spent 4 years in this little corner of Paris. GNT has had such a profound impact on the computational neuroscience community. Paris is one of the best places in the world to do neuroscience and the GNT has been fundamental to that Here's to 20 more years🍻 0112
Mark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 10/06/2026p.s. GNT alumni - tag yourself in the replies! 000
Mark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 10/06/2026…to the GNT’s founders, Boris Gutkin and Sophie Deneve, and its co-leads over the years, Christian Machens, Srdjan Ostojic, and Alex Cayco Gajic. Here’s to another 20 years! 100
Mark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 10/06/2026More than 30 PhD and postdoc GNT alumni have started their own research groups – including me (humphries-group.org). So this thread is a huge thank you on behalf of myself and all its many trainees…humphries-group.org 121
Mark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Joao Barbosa’s group (jbarbosa.org) use machine-learning to develop theories of decision-making and working memory @jbarbosa.orgjbarbosa.orgJoao Barbosa 110
Mark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Viola Priesemann’s (priesemann-group.github.io) studies how collective neural activity self-organizes to support information processing @violapriesemann.bsky.socialpriesemann-group.github.ioProf. Dr. Viola Priesemann 110
Mark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Pedro Gonçalves’ group (goncalvesgroup.sites.vib.be/en) focuses on using machine learning to extract mechanistic insight from neural data @ppjgoncalves.bsky.socialgoncalvesgroup.sites.vib.be 100
Mark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Yuxiu Shao’s (shaonannan.github.io) similarly investigates how network structure and connectivity motifs determine population dynamics and behaviourshaonannan.github.ioYuxiu SHAO | Laboratory Jean Alexandre Dieudonné, NeuroMod Institute, Université Côte d'AzurThe Minimal Light is a simple and elegant jekyll theme for academic personal homepage. 100
Mark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Francesca Mastrogiuseppe’s group (datascience.sissa.it/person/408/f...) studies how connectivity shapes computation in recurrent neural networks, especially the low-rank structure she helped pioneerdatascience.sissa.itdata-science 110
Mark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 10/06/2026The Group for Neural Theory is an enviable place to work. At the heart of Paris’s Left Bank, it’s a literal stone’s throw from the Pantheon And it has a remarkable training record On the occasion of its 20th birthday celebrations this week, here’s a further sample of its alumni… gnt20.github.io 1134
Reposted by Mark D HumphriesMark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 08/06/2026The Group for Neural Theory is celebrating its 20th birthday this week with a party in Paris! gnt20.github.io One thing we’re celebrating is its remarkable training record A thread… 12810
Mark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 08/06/2026p.s. GNT alumni - tag yourself in the replies! 131
Mark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 08/06/2026A huge thank you to the GNT’s founders, Boris Gutkin and Sophie Deneve, and its co-leads over the years, Christian Machens, Srdjan Ostojic, and Alex Cayco Gajic. Here’s to another 20 years! 182
Mark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 08/06/2026And then there’s me - humphries-group.org. Which is why I’m writing this thread, to say a huge thank you on behalf of myself and all of the GNT's many trainees…humphries-group.org 121
Mark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Renaud Jardri’s group (pro.univ-lille.fr/en/renaud-ja...) investigates the neural and computational mechanisms underlying hallucinations and delusional beliefspro.univ-lille.frRenaud Jardri - Université de LilleProfesseur des universités-praticien hospitalier 121
Mark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Heike Stein’s (heikestein.github.io) also bridges dynamics and behaviour, emphasising data-driven modelling of neural and behavioural dynamics. @heikestein.bsky.socialheikestein.github.ioWelcome! 121
Mark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Gabrielle J. Gutierrez’s (gabriellejgutierrez.com) examines how intrinsic neuronal properties and circuit connectivity give rise to neural computations.gabriellejgutierrez.comGabrielle J GutierrezComputational Neuroscientist 151
Mark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Lorenzo Fontolan’s group (www.inmed.fr/neural-compu...) studies the neural basis of flexible behaviour, especially the dynamical systems involved. @lorifonto.bsky.socialinmed.frNeural computation and dynamics | InmedInstitut de neurobiologie de la méditerranée 141
Mark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Fleur Zeldenrust’s group (fleurzeldenrust.nl) focuses on the biophysics of neural computation. @fleurzeldenrust.bsky.socialfleurzeldenrust.nlFleur ZeldenrustI am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Neurophysiology, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. With a training in both Physics a... 131
Mark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 08/06/2026In that time, more than 30 PhD and postdoc alumni have gone on to start their own research groups. Read on for a sample! 121
Mark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 08/06/2026The Group for Neural Theory is celebrating its 20th birthday this week with a party in Paris! gnt20.github.io One thing we’re celebrating is its remarkable training record A thread… 12810
Mark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 06/06/2026And they are looking for people to join them - you, reading this Join here: mchini.github.io/con2phys/ind... Read their Transmitter piece for more: www.thetransmitter.org/reproducibil...mchini.github.ioCON²PHYS: CONceptual CONsistency in ePHYS — CON2PHYS documentation 040
Mark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 06/06/2026A few years ago a pioneering study showed 70 teams of neuroimagers analysing the same dataset couldn’t agree on answers to the same basic questions (my take on that study is below) Now another brave team are aiming to do the same test for systems neuroscience… medium.com/the-spike/se...medium.comSeventy Teams of Scientists Analysed the Same Brain Data, and It Went BadlyWhat the latest fMRI “crisis” means for the rest of science 160
Reposted by Mark D HumphriesAndreas Horn @andreashorn.org · 30/05/2026Tremor is highly heterogeneous, leading to a familiar clinical puzzle: with deep brain stimulation (DBS), we can sometimes suppress a patient's rest tremor almost completely, while action tremor remains bothersome. www.cell.com/cell-reports... 1318
Reposted by Mark D HumphriesLiana Akobian @lakobian.bsky.social · 19/05/2026I had a peek at the workshop program today and it's PACKED with amazing talks 052
Reposted by Mark D HumphriesMark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 16/05/2026The Group for Neural Theory in Paris turns 20 this year Come help us celebrate! June 11-12 at ENS, Paris. Keynotes: @jpillowtime.bsky.social / Cristina Savin /Ashok Litwin-Kumar Talks from GNT alumni Register for free, by May 20th www.eventbrite.com/e/gnt-turns-...eventbrite.comGNT TURNS 20!This workshop will celebrate 20 years of neural theory! 0288
Mark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Particularly odd is when the paper Infers inputs to C elegans neurons from Ca2+ activity - then doesn’t check whether those connections exist in the connectome 140