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@opensourceneuro.com
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Open tools for neuroscience teaching & research. Workshops + hands-on training (neurophysiology, data analysis, open hardware). opensourceneuro.com | GitHub: github.com/OpenSourceNeuro

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OpenSourceNeuro @opensourceneuro.com · 30/09/2026
Bringing hands-on neurophysiology to the computational neuroscience community! Our collaborator Lucia Zanetti demonstrated Spikeling at the 2026 INCTN + TEX meeting at SISSA in Trieste. #Spikeling #INCTN
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OpenSourceNeuro @opensourceneuro.com · 21/09/2026
New Spikeling Collection for Neuroscience Teaching 💡 Dive into open neuroscience with Spikeling’s 2026/27 academic year lineup - #Neuroscience #OpenScience #Education
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OpenSourceNeuro @opensourceneuro.com · 08/09/2026
What happens when neuroscience meets maker culture? That is one of the conversations we are looking forward to having at Maker Faire Rome - The European Edition | Making, & Technology Festival. #MakerFareRome
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OpenSourceNeuro @opensourceneuro.com · 03/09/2026
Thanks to @sidb-edinburgh.bsky.social for the opportunity to showcase our work at the 2026 SIDB retreat this week ! It is really encouraging to see open science principles being supported. #Neuroscience #OpenScience #Electrophysiology #STEMEducation #Neurophysiology
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OpenSourceNeuro @opensourceneuro.com · 26/08/2026
An efficient brain relies on well rested neurons. Do not skip on refractory periods ! Ours just happened to involve sunscreen, waves and cold drinks 🌊🍹 - a perfect break with time to consolidate synapses. #Neuroscience #Spikeling
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OpenSourceNeuro @opensourceneuro.com · 14/08/2026
If students remembered only one thing from a neuroscience practical, what should it be? A neuroscience practical should teach more than what a neuron does. It should teach how we know. #NeuroscienceEducation #Epistemology
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OpenSourceNeuro @opensourceneuro.com · 04/08/2026
⚠️ Advanced content : neuronal logic with Spikeling part 4 - resolving the XOR paradox. Parts 1 to 3 established how simple OR, AND, NOR or NAND operations emerge from single-layer neuronal networks through modulation of excitatory and inhibitory synaptic gains. #LogicalGating #Neuroscience
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OpenSourceNeuro @opensourceneuro.com · 22/07/2026
Today is #WorldBrainDay, an initiative led by the World Federation of Neurology. #WorldBrainDay #BrainHealth This year’s theme, “Brain Health: Access for All,” is also an opportunity to reflect on access to neuroscience education, practical training and the tools used to understand the brain.
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OpenSourceNeuro @opensourceneuro.com · 10/07/2026
Busy day of mounting, testing and packing Spikeling units ! Program coordinators - now is the time to plan for the next academic year. Why not treat your students to a hands-on electrophysiology workshop, emulating a real experimental setup? #Neuroscience #NeuroscienceTeaching
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TReND-CaMinA @trendcamina.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Hardware Implementation of Spiking Neurons for Computational Neuroscience! 🧠⚡ Students practically observe real-time neuronal firing behaviour and how adjusting parameters shapes neural dynamics. Thanks to @opensourceneuro.com for customizing the practical learning tools suitable for our course.
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OpenSourceNeuro @opensourceneuro.com · 01/07/2026
Thanks to @edinunineuro.bsky.social to shed light on our neuroscience educational devices in their latest video ! #Edinburgh #Neuroscience #STEMEducation
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OpenSourceNeuro @opensourceneuro.com · 23/06/2026
LLM are changing how we teach and assess STEM subjects. Many traditional text-based assignments can now be completed without necessarily demonstrating genuine understanding: Student can enter a prompt, receive a polished response and submit the result. #AI
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OpenSourceNeuro @opensourceneuro.com · 12/06/2026
Very proud to have presented the Spikeling project yesterday at @edinunineuro.bsky.social day for @opensourceneuro.com ! The poster stand with the demo got a lot of attention : - #Edinburgh #Neuroscience
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OpenSourceNeuro @opensourceneuro.com · 19/05/2026
Fresh Spikeling v3.2 boards are here. 🧠⚡

Spikeling is an open-source hardware and software platform for teaching neurophysiology, experimental design, and neural data analysis. 

It lets students explore spiking dynamics, stimulus-response experiments, simulated electrophysiology workflows, calcium-imaging-style outputs, and more, without needing a full wet-lab setup.



The goal is simple: make hands-on neuroscience more accessible, reproducible, and engaging.

And yes: the entire project is open source.

Hardware, firmware, software, documentation — everything is designed to be inspected, modified, rebuilt, and improved by the community.

Want to get your own Spikeling board for teaching, workshops, outreach, or experimentation?

You can now check pricing and request a quote here:

 https://www.opensourceneuro.com/index.php/spikeling_pricingandquotes/



#OpenScience #OpenHardware #NeuroscienceEducation #Neurophysiology #Spikeling #OpenSourceNeuro
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OpenSourceNeuro @opensourceneuro.com · 15/05/2026
On May the 14th, Paul Rignanese presented the Spikeling project for the first GRI-UK conference at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social . We had insightful interactions with both scientists and families of patients affected by a GRIN mutation.
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OpenSourceNeuro @opensourceneuro.com · 09/05/2026
Here is a little simulation / teaser for something new coming to Open Source Neuro. Meet Spiky, a compact neuromorphic electronics implementation of a LIF / AdEx-style neuron model.
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OpenSourceNeuro @opensourceneuro.com · 30/04/2026
In her Nature piece “Train PhD students to be thinkers not just specialists”, Prof. @gundulaboschphd.bsky.social argues that scientific training should cultivate more than technical expertise. #Science #Neuroscience
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OpenSourceNeuro @opensourceneuro.com · 22/04/2026
From intracellular to extracellular, in one teaching platform. Spikeling lets students move from patch-clamp-style electrophysiology to calcium-imaging logic and extracellular tetrode recordings in a single open teaching workflow. #Neuroscience #Neurophysiology
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OpenSourceNeuro @opensourceneuro.com · 17/04/2026
Neuronal logic with Spikeling ! Part 3 Spikeling is a virtual spiking neuron you can patch and tune. It’s a brilliant bridge between neuroscience, boolean logic, and machine learning fundamentals. #Neuroscience #ComputationalSciences #Neurophysiology #Electrophysiology
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OpenSourceNeuro @opensourceneuro.com · 08/04/2026
Neuronal logic with Spikeling: part 2 In part 1, we showed how to build OR and AND gates for action potentials using excitatory synaptic gains. #Neuroscience #Neurophysiology #Electrophysiology #NeuralCircuits
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OpenSourceNeuro @opensourceneuro.com · 27/03/2026
Yesterday was #purpleday, the global epilepsy awareness day. Learn about mechanisms of seizure occurence in epilepsy with a 2-minutes Spikeling workshop ! #Neuroscience #Education #Epilepsy
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OpenSourceNeuro @opensourceneuro.com · 26/03/2026
Neural computation emerges from physical processes in biological circuits. #Neuroscience #ComputerScience #NeuronalCircuits
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OpenSourceNeuro @opensourceneuro.com · 20/03/2026
Yesterday for @opensourceneuro.com , Paul Rignanese was presenting a poster and a live demo of Spikeling at the Institute for Neuroscience and Cardiovascular Research Early Career Researcher Day at the The @edinburghuni.bsky.social ! #Neuroscience #BiomedicalSciences
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OpenSourceNeuro @opensourceneuro.com · 13/03/2026
Spikeling v3 feature reveal : a new module ! After current clamp, voltage clamp, calcium imaging, we are implementing an extracellular tetrode recording module ! #Neuroscience #CalciumImaging
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OpenSourceNeuro @opensourceneuro.com · 10/03/2026
Interplay of behaviour and neurophysiology is at the core of neuroscience, and collaboration of ethologists and neurophysiologists is crutial. #Ethology #Neurophysiology
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OpenSourceNeuro @opensourceneuro.com · 05/03/2026
OSN promotes neuroscience access with open, low-cost tools for education, training, and outreach, especially where conventional neurophysiology setups aren’t available. #ScienceOutreach #OpenScience
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OpenSourceNeuro @opensourceneuro.com · 03/03/2026
Spikeling’s imaging simulation brings microscopy-grade data interpretation into the classroom by linking Vm/spikes to Ca²⁺ and fluorescence (F ; ΔF/F) in real time. #Neuroscience #CalciumImaging
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OpenSourceNeuro @opensourceneuro.com · 26/02/2026
State-of-the-art neuroscience education shouldn’t depend on access to patch-clamp rigs or two-photon microscopes. At the @trendcamina.bsky.social computational neuroscience & ML workshop feat. @akoumoundourou.bsky.social, students arrive with strong coding skills - #NeuroscienceEducation #CAMINA
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OpenSourceNeuro @opensourceneuro.com · 24/02/2026
See how we can approach the mechanisms of seizure occurence in epilepsy with a 2-minutes Spikeling workshop ! #Epilepsy #Seizure #Neuroscience #Electrophysiology #Neurophysiology
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OpenSourceNeuro @opensourceneuro.com · 19/02/2026
POV : unboxing a Spikeling delivery from @opensourceneuro.com ! #Neuroscience #Education #STEM #Electrophysiology #Neurophysiology #Opensource #Spikes
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OpenSourceNeuro @opensourceneuro.com · 17/02/2026
Sensory neuroscience workshop with Spikeling — from light to spikes. Run meaningful sensory experiments outside the wet lab: the on-board photoreceptor provides a synaptic-like input to an in-silico patched neuron. #Neuroscience #SensoryNeuroscience
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OpenSourceNeuro @opensourceneuro.com · 12/02/2026
Spikeling allows to learn about neurophysiology from many angles, it is easy to see how different neuronal subtypes encode stimulus input information. #Neuroscience #Education #Teaching #InformationTheory
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OpenSourceNeuro @opensourceneuro.com · 10/02/2026
See how easy it is to plug and play with a buzzing Spikeling. This is just a teaser, follow us for more demos of the numerous cool functionalities and applications of Spikeling ! #Neuroscience #Electrophysiology #Teaching #Education
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OpenSourceNeuro @opensourceneuro.com · 05/02/2026
Last week @opensourceneuro.com was at Université Côte d'Azur for a Spikeling demo. Thanks to the Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology Institute affiliated with CNRS-INSERM for the invite ! #Spikeling #Neuroscience #Education
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OpenSourceNeuro @opensourceneuro.com · 03/02/2026
Spikeling is an open-source teaching device built to democratize neurophysiology education. In academia—especially in low-resource and low-income settings—hands-on electrophysiology is often limited by cost and logistics. #OpenScience #OpenHardware #NeuroscienceEducation
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OpenSourceNeuro @opensourceneuro.com · 29/01/2026
With a Spikeling board and the GUI, students have a hands-on interface to run patching ephys experiments with custom stimuli on a variety of neuronal subtypes. It is super intuitive, check this short video demo ! #Neuroscience #Education #OpenSource #Electrophysiology
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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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TReND-CaMinA @trendcamina.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
📌 Application deadline approaching! This is the final week with only 6 days left before the #TReNDCaMinA application deadline. If you haven’t submitted yet, now is the time; don’t wait until the final hours. #ComputationalNeuroscience #Machinelearning
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