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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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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 · 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 · 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

Spikeling also links ephys “ground truth” (spikes/Vm) to modern imaging: its two-photon simulation generates a fluorescence/calcium-style readout, helping students interpret 2-photon data and analysis choices when working with open resources (e.g. @Allen Institute datasets).

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OpenSourceNeuro @opensourceneuro.com · 26/02/2026

- but have never had the opportunity to observe or record neuronal responses in an experimental setting. Spikeling changes that. Around laptops and devices, students run electrophysiology-style protocols: shaping inputs, tuning frequency/intensity and see firing dynamics evolve in real time.

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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 · 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

Different membrane potential properties can encode discrete aspects of information though action potential firing, from a basic binary ON/OFF encoding to temporality and history encoding. #Teaching #InformationTheory #NeuronalCoding #CognitiveNeuroscience

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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 · 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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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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