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Maxime Beau

@maxime-beau.bsky.social
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@princeton.edu postdoc with @carlosbrody.bsky.social. @ucl.ac.uk alumnus. Into decision-making, cerebellum, #Neuropixels, ML applied to neuro, open-source dev |🇪🇺🇫🇷🇨🇭|🥋🧑‍🍳 ☕️

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Maxime Beau @maxime-beau.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
We’re excited to launch the Princeton Neuroscience Institute Open Science award! Apply or nominate your peers until August 14th!
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Julie Fabre @juliefabre.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
How do the basal ganglia turn what you see into what you do? New preprint w/ @kenneth-harris.bsky.social, @flickerfusion.bsky.social & @carandinilab.net: we recorded across striatum, GPe & SNr in a Go/NoGo task. Striatum encodes which stimulus, GPe & SNr encode action. 🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Carlos Brody @carlosbrody.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Let's put more scientists in Congress! Let's put THIS scientist in Congress! :) www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Sam Wang, Politician-in-Training
The neuroscientist went from analyzing elections to running for Congress. But can this rookie win over New Jersey locals—and Trump voters?
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Julie Fabre @juliefabre.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Want to explore connectivity & projection patterns yourself, like we do here? We released brain_street_view to let you pick any injection site in the Allen Connectivity Atlas and visualize where it projects in your favorite region of interest: github.com/Julie-Fabre/brain_street_view
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Maxime Beau @maxime-beau.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
A tool from microsoft (so that’ll probaly be maintained) to convert a bunch of formats (pdf, docx, xlsx, pptx, but also images and audio!) into markdown to feed your fav LLM: github.com/microsoft/ma...
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GitHub - microsoft/markitdown: Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.
Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown. - microsoft/markitdown
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Roozbeh Kiani @roozbehkiani.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The US/Iran war and escalating rhetoric are already disrupting civilian life and academic infrastructure across the region. We drafted a letter in defense of academic life, and to mobilize concrete support for affected students, scholars, and collaborations. Please check Sepi’s message and sign.
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Protect Academic Life in Iran
We, the undersigned academics and researchers from around the world, express our profound concern over recent military strikes on Iran, the retaliatory responses, and the reported impact on civilian l...
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Kenji Lee @kenjilee.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Mon. Mar. 16th, We've got an exciting line-up of scientists in cell type identification (@maxime-beau.bsky.social, Eva Dyer, Anna Lakunina), cell type-informed theory (@aditijh.bsky.social, @mehdiazabou.bsky.social), and cell type-dependent manifolds (@lmprida.bsky.social, Manu Valero)! #Cosyne2026
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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
*Multi-region computations in the brain* When two regions are better than one... doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... #neuroskyence
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Maxime Beau @maxime-beau.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Applications are open for the 2026 Paris Spring School of Imaging and Electrophysiology! It’s a great way to discover Paris (❤️) while learning a pretty wide range of techniques for neuroscience, in a fantastic environment. Share widely: parisneuro.ovh
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Paris NeuroCourse | Optical Imaging and Electrophysiological Recording in Neuroscience
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 07/10/2025
Fred Ramsdell was parked at a campground in Montana on Monday when his wife suddenly started shouting. He first thought that maybe she had seen a grizzly bear. Instead, she had regained cell service and had seen a flood of text messages with the same news. “You just won the Nobel Prize!” she yelled.
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Winning a Nobel Prize Interrupted His Off-the-Grid Vacation
Fred Ramsdell found out about his Nobel Prize nearly 12 hours after it was announced because he was on vacation in the Rockies.
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Matteo Carandini @carandinilab.net · 30/09/2025
Neuropixels Ultra! By @steinmetzneuro.bsky.social, who led a big collaboration www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Ultra-high-density Neuropixels probes improve detection and identification in neuronal recordings
To understand the neural basis of behavior, it is essential to sensitively and accurately measure neural activity at single-neuron and single-spike re…
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Thomas Luo @thomas-zhihao-luo.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
How does the brain decide? 🧠 Our new @nature.com paper shows that neural activity switches from an 'evidence gathering' to a 'commitment' state at a precise moment we call nTc. After nTc, new evidence is ignored, revealing a neural marker for the instant when the mind is made up. rdcu.be/eGUrv
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Transitions in dynamical regime and neural mode during perceptual decisions - Nature
Simultaneous recordings were made of hundreds of neurons in the rat frontal cortex and striatum, showing that decision commitment involves a rapid, coordinated transition in dynamical regime and neura...
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Andrew Lampinen @lampinen.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
In neuroscience, we often try to understand systems by analyzing their representations — using tools like regression or RSA. But are these analyses biased towards discovering a subset of what a system represents? If you're interested in this question, check out our new commentary! Thread:
What do representations tell us about a system? Image of a mouse with a scope showing a vector of activity patterns, and a neural network with a vector of unit activity patterns
Common analyses of neural representations: Encoding models (relating activity to task features) drawing of an arrow from a trace saying [on_____on____] to a neuron and spike train. Comparing models via neural predictivity: comparing two neural networks by their R^2 to mouse brain activity. RSA: assessing brain-brain or model-brain correspondence using representational dissimilarity matrices
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Maxime Beau @maxime-beau.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
attractors are the new receptive fields
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Julie Fabre @juliefabre.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
🚀 We are excited to share that bombcell is now available in Python! 🐍 Automatically sort your units into good/MUA/noise/non-somatic using quality metrics and interpretable & adjustable classification thresholds. pip install and play around with our toy dataset: 🔗 github.com/Julie-Fabre/...
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GitHub - Julie-Fabre/bombcell: Automated quality control, curation and neuron classification of spike-sorted electrophysiology data
Automated quality control, curation and neuron classification of spike-sorted electrophysiology data - Julie-Fabre/bombcell
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Maxime Beau @maxime-beau.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
I really recommend sending your students to the Paris Spring School, many imaging and ephys techniques are covered in pretty good depth and the atmosphere is consistently fantastic every year! And in such a setting! parisneuro.ovh
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Carlos Brody @carlosbrody.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
we're crowd-sourcing a searchable repository of tangible benefits stemming from federally-funded research. Come enjoy the great stories; or send in an idea; or volunteer to join the team. publicusaresearchbenefits.com please share and re-share so we get more great stories in there!
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Searchable database of tangible benefits that federally-funded research gave us.
A crowd-sourced site. Health and Well-being. National Security. Prosperity.
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Open Neuroscience @open-neuroscience.com · 09/05/2025
🔊New resource: Bombcell, automated quality control for extracellular electrophysiology 💡This is an #opensource, user-friendly toolbox that streamlines quality control for spike sorting outputs. 👩‍🔬Develop by Julie M. J. Fabre 🔗Link: open-neuroscience.com/en/post/bomb... #OpenScience #Neuroscience
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Cole Hurwitz @colehurwitz.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Thrilled to share our state-of-the-art method for in vivo cell-type classification and brain region localization, NEMO, which is now now a spotlight at @iclr-conf.bsky.social ! We use NEMO to characterize the electrophysiological diversity of cell-types across the entire mouse brain. 🐭 🧪 🧠
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UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences @uclbrainscience.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Two UCL researchers, including Dr Julie Fabre (@uclqsion.bsky.social) have been named as Schmidt Science Fellows, an award given to 32 exceptional early career researchers worldwide. Congratulations to both Dr @juliefabre.bsky.social & Dr Almarri on this incredible achievement! 👏
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UCL early career researchers selected as 2025 Schmidt Science Fellows
Two UCL researchers have been named as Schmidt Science Fellows, an award only given to 32 exceptional early career researchers worldwide.
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Chris Zimmerman @czimmerman.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
How do we associate the flavors we experience during a meal 🍽️😋 with postingestive effects like food poisoning 🤢🤮 that arise much later? Our answer in @nature.com this week: Illness signals from the gut reactivate and strengthen flavor representations in the amygdala. 📄: nature.com/articles/s41...
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A neural mechanism for learning from delayed postingestive feedback - Nature
Illness signals from the gut reactivate and strengthen flavour representations in the amygdala to support learning from delayed postingestive feedback.
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Matteo Carandini @carandinilab.net · 01/04/2025
Many of us use 2p scopes to image 3D volumes of brain. But then we analyze the data plane by plane, resulting in duplicated neurons, missed neurons, and low s/n. Let's go 3D! Suite3D: Volumetric cell detection for two-photon microscopy by @haydari.bsky.social & team. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Guido Meijer @guidomeijer.com · 27/03/2025
First off, Bombcell is a MATLAB package (python version coming) developed by @juliefabre.bsky.social. It uses several metrics, like waveform shape, spike amplitudes and drift, to determine whether a detected unit is noise, multi-unit activity, axonal or a single neuron. github.com/Julie-Fabre/...
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GitHub - Julie-Fabre/bombcell: Automated quality control, curation and neuron classification of spike-sorted electrophysiology data
Automated quality control, curation and neuron classification of spike-sorted electrophysiology data - Julie-Fabre/bombcell
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Maxime Beau @maxime-beau.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
It was an honour, thank you @rezashadmehr.bsky.social for organizing this great seminar series! Talk link: m.youtube.com/watch?v=zy0v...
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Maxime Beau: Cell classification for the cerebellum
YouTube video by Shadmehr Lab
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Marino Pagan @marinopagan.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
1/7 Our paper on individual variability in decision-making is finally out in @nature.com! Inspired by the classic work by Mante and Sussillo, we trained many rats to solve context-dependent decision-making, and we found that different brains use different neural mechanisms to solve the same task!
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Individual variability of neural computations underlying flexible decisions - Nature
Behavioural experiments to study decision-making in response to context-dependent accumulation of evidence provide testable models that are consistent with the heterogeneity in neural signatures among...
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akbir khan @akbir.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
control is a complimentary approach to alignment. its really sensible, practical and can be done now, even before systems are superintelligent. youtu.be/6Unxqr50Kqg?...
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Controlling powerful AI
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Cole Hurwitz @colehurwitz.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
The International Brain Laboratory reproducibility platform paper is now published at eLife. An amazing effort by many different labs and individuals to understand and improve the reproducibility of electrophysiological measurements in mice. 🧠
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Federico D’Agostino @fededagos.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 We’ve just launched openretina, an open-source framework for collaborative retina modeling across datasets and species. A 🧵👇 (1/9)
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Nick Steinmetz @steinmetzneuro.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Standing up for science in Seattle - some lab members (Zhiwen, Nancy, Fabiola, and Jeremy) plus lab-friend Harsha @harshag.bsky.social. If only it seemed like there was the remotest chance anyone in the administration cared about our voices.
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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Marseille is ready to #StandUpForScience! #standupforscience2025
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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
can you explain this 3 year gap in your resume? yeah the paper was under review
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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
For general thoughts on short-term breakdown in democracy - and also longer-term fixes, sign up for long-form essays. Always free. samwang.substack.com
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Paul Masset @paulmasset.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
I am recruiting graduate students for my lab @mcgillu.bsky.social for admission in Fall 2025! Get in touch if you're interested in how brain circuits implement distributed computation, including dopamine-based distributed RL and probabilistic representations.
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Matteo Carandini @carandinilab.net · 07/02/2025
Neuropixels and Optogenetics are delighted to announce the birth of Neuropixels Opto Combining high-resolution electrophysiology and optogenetics Today in bioRxiv 960 sites, 28 emitters, 2 colors By Lakunina, @karolinazsocha.bsky.social, Ladd, et al www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1/2)
A Neuropixels Opto probe with 3 blue emitters and 3 red emitters lighting up in succession, with corresponding neural activity in different layers of the cortex.
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Scientific data and independence are at risk: We need to work with community-driven services and university libraries to create new multi-country organizations that are resilient to political interference. By @neuralreckoning.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/policy/scien...
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Science must step away from nationally managed infrastructure
Scientific data and independence are at risk. We need to work with community-driven services and university libraries to create new multi-country organizations that are resilient to political…
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Marlies Oostland @marliesoostland.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Indeed, we learned some valuable lessons throughout this project. This is a great summary by David of those lessons. One cannot underestimate the importance of incredibly careful data curation!
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Maxime Beau @maxime-beau.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I am very proud to announce that my PhD paper finally came out in Cell! In this *very* collaborative study, we develop and release a deep-learning approach to predict neuron type identity from their electrical signature. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... 1/16 🧵
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David J. Herzfeld @dherzneuro.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
And - another personal plug: I am setting up my lab at UW-Madison this summer (herzfeldlab.neuro.wisc.edu). I am looking for people passionate about linking circuit computations to behavior in primates! (6/6)
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Herzfeld Lab at UW-Madison: Herzfeld Lab
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Nikolas Karalis @nikolaskaralis.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
How to rebuild your network on @bsky.app and improve your experience here? I made a short starter guide with resources. www.neuronaldynamics.eu/resources/bl... Also, a thread 🧵 below.
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