Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Here are the lab’s posters at #bernstein26. Please come visit and ask us all the pesky questions! 033
Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · 29/09/2026…and the main conference of #Bernstein26 is underway. 3 days of computational neuroscience extravaganza, here we come. 021
Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Welcome to #Bernstein2026! At the bottom of the programme you can find this little gem, COMPLETE workshop schedules!! My mind is blown by little things, but Iwtyo when I saw a conference pull this off successfully! Thanks @bernsteinneuro.bsky.social & take notice @cosynemeeting.bsky.social 1131
Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · 25/09/20262 tweeprints to go. Good morning! If you've moved already today, you probably asked yourself: how? How did I even get up? Not the hangover. How does your nervous system orchestrate your muscles so well? We've been asking ourselves, too: How can fixed networks produce so many firing patterns? 1114
Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Playing Pong with spikes, dancing rate networks, composite engrams & #ihngrams4engrams. The labs most recent work-in-progress, now on biorxiv.com. Stay tuned for more Pong doi.org/10.64898/202... Dale doi.org/10.64898/202... Composite engrams doi.org/10.64898/202... Ihngrams doi.org/10.64898/202... 44115
Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Here is a note from my daughter this morning. #whenlifegivesyoulemons 040
Reposted by Tim VogelsBernstein Network Computational Neuroscience @bernsteinneuro.bsky.social · 11/08/2026📅 The detailed schedule for the #BernsteinConference 2026 is now available! Explore the conference programme and start planning your visit to Frankfurt. We look forward to welcoming you this September! 👉 bit.ly/4z0knle #BernsteinNetwork #CompNeuro #Neuroskyence 093
Reposted by Tim VogelsMarcel Krueger @marcelkrueger.bsky.social · 14/07/2026In Ireland, data centres used 22% of the country’s total energy in 2024 – more than all urban households combined in that same year. An incredible 80% of Dublin's electricity use can be attributed to data centres. Via the excellent @eurcorrespond.bsky.social. europeancorrespondent.com/en 7139104
Reposted by Tim VogelsDrug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Gentle reminder to my biosci tweeps that there are graduate students and postdocs in non-STEM disciplines at your University. Their compensation may differ somewhat from what is most familiar to you. 6317
Reposted by Tim VogelsBernstein Network Computational Neuroscience @bernsteinneuro.bsky.social · 29/06/2026⏰ Last-minute reminder! Only 48 hours left to submit your Poster abstracts and Travel Grant applications for the #BernsteinConference 2026! 🗓️ Deadline: July 1 All information 👉 bit.ly/4rQowo6... #CompNeuro #Neuroskyence #BernsteinNetwork 01311
Reposted by Tim Vogelselizabethginexi.bsky.social @elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 27/06/2026This is the NIH grant screening disfavored words list published by Nature: media.nature.com/original/mag...media.nature.com 48849
Reposted by Tim VogelsRyan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 19/06/2026I spent the last month obsessed with finding colors that can't be displayed on a conventional screen. This is what I found. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/w...moultano.wordpress.comWhere to Find the Colors Your Screen Can’t Show YouAn atlas of the vibrance of the real world 471128379
Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Heya @cimoore444.bsky.social, tell us the story around that paper again? I remember you told me not having heard of Carl vanVreeswijk's work; thinking everyone knew E and I were tightly locked; not worth a bigger fuss? Then, five years on, it was big news, albeit published by elseone? Story time! 161
Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Thursday PSA: What's the first experimental observation of excitation inhibition balance? Probably (very likely) the (somewhat understated) (& undercited) Moore 1998 JNeurophys paper, Figure 7/ 8, in wich they casually observe E/I interactions, no drama. journals.physiology.org/doi/pdf/10.1...journals.physiology.org 4276
Reposted by Tim VogelsHenning Sprekeler @sprekeler.bsky.social · 19/02/2026With just four molecules, you get a grid cell attractor with functional 2D path integration. With N molecules, you get exponentially many Hebbian assemblies with discrete attractor dynamics. With smart biases between the molecules, you can get any dynamical system. Sequences, motor programs, … 131
Reposted by Tim VogelsEverton J Agnes @ejagnes.bsky.social · 09/04/2026New preprint with @sevberg.bsky.social! We map Hopfield-like binary networks onto spiking networks with dendrites … and it works! Same memory capacity, bigger basins of attraction, plus selective recall through dendritic gating, and more. How? Dendrites! See below.doi.org 12912
Reposted by Tim VogelsHelen Barron @helencbarron.bsky.social · 20/03/2026*** New paper from the lab in Nature Comms !! *** “Noradrenaline causes a spread of association in the hippocampal cognitive map” by the amazing @reneecabbage.bsky.social in collab. w labs of Jill O’Reilly, Will Clarke, and modeling from Prakriti Parthasarathy and @tpvogels.bsky.social, see below! 04915
Reposted by Tim VogelsInstitute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) @istaresearch.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Most of us are familiar with the nightingale's song, but did you know there's more to it than just a melody? Read more: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... @danielavallentin.bsky.social @tpvogels.bsky.social @mpiforbi.bsky.social 0137
Reposted by Tim VogelsDan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 09/02/2026This paper shows alignment between LLMs and brain data is outperformed by a null model. More evidence for the argument I've been making in talks lately that we shouldn't believe any computational paper that puts less effort into null than main model. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...biorxiv.org 26610
Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · 16/01/2026This is such a cool idea! Not long term "networks" of young profs that create and cement in in-groups and out-groups, but summer schools, tailored to the acute needs of the young PI. Transient, but tailored, tidal and totally timeous, too. Terrific. Try today! 194
Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · 15/01/2026...in which @danielavallentin.bsky.social shows: vogels match rivals’ whistles, imitating pitch + duration. W'sm, a vogelsmodel model reveals hierarchical organisation of vogelsongs: Duration constrains pitch, a trade-off. Not all vogels, just nightingales. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comInterplay between syllable duration and pitch during whistle matching in wild nightingalesDuring complex vocal interactions, different features of acoustic stimuli are integrated to produce appropriate vocal responses,1 such as copying soun… 1251
Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Deadline for poster submissions in Jan 27!! That totally escaped me! 010
Reposted by Tim VogelsThomas Nowotny @drtnowotny.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Excited to see the paper fully published. It's an important milestone for training SNNs with exact gradients, replacing our earlier tricks of a "delay line augmentation" to capture temporal relationships. Delays can now be learnt alongside weights naturally. Amazing work @mbalazs98.bsky.social ! 0218
Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · 09/12/202513 yrs ago some crusty prof asked me if I were "able to teach quantum chromo dynamics" during a faculty interview, as a means to disqualify me (his preferred candidate got the job, surprise!). These days, I am subjugated vicariously, when my postdocs experience the same BS. WTAF. So infuriating. 160
Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · 01/12/2025Last of my fave books back on a shelf, after 5 years in a box. I wouldn’t have thought it takes a full grant cycle to move but here we are. And there’s still more boxes. Of garbage. Mostly. But could not be happier to have the books back 020
Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · 23/11/2025"Spiking Networks Hate It! Find Out the One Plasticity Trick They Don’t Want You to Know! Never stabilise models by hand again." - I woke up thinking we missed an opportunity with the title of this one. :/ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Also: It snowed in Vienna, 10cm white fluffies! Happy Sunday!science.orgInhibitory Plasticity Balances Excitation and Inhibition in Sensory Pathways and Memory NetworksPlasticity at inhibitory synapses maintains balanced excitatory and inhibitory synaptic inputs at cortical neurons. 0488
Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · 17/11/2025...and when I say @worldwideneuro.bsky.social, I really mean @bozelosp.bsky.social, obvs. Also, ...there is an all new front end for worldwideneuro coming soon. Stay tuned! 040
Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Here is the product of a collab between @thetransmitter.bsky.social, @worldwideneuro.bsky.social & @moritzstefaner.bsky.social A portrait of the #StateofNeuro 2025: Text mining of (publicly available) neuro resources: Easy in concept, tricky in realisation, made possible by @simonsfoundation.org 🙏bit.lyThe State of Neuroscience 2025The Transmitter presents a portrait of the field through four lenses: its focus, its output, its people and its funding. 072
Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · 21/10/2025I just found this stub in a jacket that I guess I have not worn in twenty three years? 12 bucks for Lali Puna, sweat and spit and all, at the (tiny) Middle East downstairs on Mass Ave. Those were the days. So so good. 070
Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Maybe check out the associated website. icg-explorer.org. I know I know, it's not fully integrated with ICG1, but these things are difficult.icg-explorer.orgIon Channel Genealogy VisualizerInteractive visualization and analysis of ion channel models from ModelDB and ICG databases 0101
Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Some addendum here. The '17 elife paper only has 43 citations in 8 years :( but the associated ionchannelmodels.org had 900+ unique visitors in 2024. Some 180 of them used the "compare ion channel models" function, pretty deep into the page. Every two days someone used a service we didn't advertise!ionchannelmodels.orgICGenealogy - the ion channel model databaseA comprehensive and interactive ion channel model database for computational neuroscientists. 130
Reposted by Tim VogelsTimothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 06/10/2025What Americans Die from? And what the media reports on... Our World in Data ourworldindata.org/does-the-new... 24579297
Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · 06/10/2025The working title of this project was “super models”, but we chickened out in carrying that terminology through. We were worried anyone was gonna think we were making fun of human supermodels, or worse, ion channels!! And we weren’t sure blue steel was the right association for a CA++ channel…media.tenor.coma man wearing a pajama shirt with penguins on it is looking at the camera .ALT: a man wearing a pajama shirt with penguins on it is looking at the camera . 0121
Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · 06/10/2025“Mapping ion channel function” doi.org/10.7554/eLif... isn’t exactly a citation slayer, but it’s still one of my favourites (& my first independent project). Today we push pt 2, where we trace code origin & unite almost all channel models in a common expression. Boom! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...biorxiv.orgAn ion channel omnimodel for standardized biophysical neuron modellingBiophysical neuron modeling is an indispensable tool in neuroscience research, with the combination of diverse ion channel kinetics and morphologies being used to explain various single-neuron propert... 04816
Reposted by Tim VogelsJon Worth @jonworth.eu · 29/09/2025No more Paris-Wien/Berlin night trains "Die ÖBB bedauern, dass nach dem Rückzug der französischen Partner, die beiden Nachtzugverbindungen ab 14. Dez 2025 nicht mehr angeboten werden können." - SNCF, this is you presse-oebb.at/news-oebb-be... My analysis in English: jonworth.eu/sncfs-half-h...jonworth.euSNCF's half hearted effort to support international night trains in danger of hitting the buffers - Jon WorthIn December 2023 the Paris-Berlin night train re-started after a 9 year hiatus. Operated as a Nighjet service by ÖBB, SNCF provided motive power for the train from Mannheim to Paris. They even put SNC... 67827
Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · 22/09/2025"How many disco balls have you purchased in your life time?" 150
Reposted by Tim VogelsGreg Jefferis @jefferis.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Neuronal diversity is written in transcriptional codes 🧬. But what is the logic of these codes that define cell types and wiring patterns? To find out we built a #scRNAseq developmental atlas of the Drosophila nerve cord and linked it to the #connectome 🪰🧠 #preprint thread ⬇️1/8 612359
Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · 21/08/2025www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...theguardian.comRevealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza warFigures from classified IDF database listed 8,900 named fighters as dead or probably dead in May, as overall death toll reached 53,000 010
Reposted by Tim VogelsPLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 21/08/2025Involuntary memory retrieval is a common phenomenon in autobiographical #memory, and a symptom of #PTSD. This study reveals the neural mechanism of #InvoluntaryMemory, showing that involuntary & voluntary memories rely on distinct neural processes @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4oQkb3e 0277
Reposted by Tim VogelsMichael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Almost every major university financial fraud is done by administrators...yet note the difference between the comically instrusive surveillance and accountability for faculty over every dollar vs the complete lack of oversight for management spending (or stealing). lfpress.com/news/local-n...lfpress.comLHSC names 5 former executives in $60M fraud lawsuitsLHSC contends a former executive masterminded a "fraudulent scheme" and he and others used funds they obtained to buy properties 55518
Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · 21/07/2025I now had a chance to listen to it and it’s not entirely terrible. Gaute’s voice is actually quite soothing and his questions are good. You might not immediately die while listening to this. Thanks @gauteeinevoll.bsky.social for cutting out all the bits that would’ve gotten me fired. 1282
Reposted by Tim VogelsGaute Einevoll @gauteeinevoll.bsky.social · 19/07/2025Episode #30 in #TheoreticalNeurosciencePodcast: On co-dependent excitatory and inhibitory plasticity – with Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social theoreticalneuroscience.no/thn30 How can excitatory and inhibitory synaptic plasticity, co-exist in spiking neural network models? With co-dependence! 0286
Reposted by Tim VogelsMarjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 06/07/2025then lettuce rejoice where we at 291009306
Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Arrived in Okinawa last night for teaching at the #OIST summer school. So far so good, almost as pretty as the #imbizo ;) Looking forward to a week of science! 0180
Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Here is your last reminder that the application deadline for Imbizo.Africa is nearing quickly, the 1st of July, in fact tomorrow. Still the place where diversity is at its best in the world! Tell all who need to hear. #africa #neuroimbizo.africa#Imbizo - Simons Computational Neuroscience Imbizo - #ImbizoSimons Computational Neuroscience Imbizo summer school in Cape Town, South Africa 02017
Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Hey @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social your verification of my humanity is stuck in a forever loop, and it kinda ..... if my frustration is any measure of my humanity then I am defos HUMAN. Ayee! 260
