Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteThe Onion @theonion.com · 27/09/2026World's Scientists Admit They Just Don't Like Mice theonion.com/worlds-scientists-admi… 222602262
Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteCorrinaLeeB 🇨🇦 @corrina.sheshed.rocks · 16/08/2026Canada has officially started building the wall at the U.S. border🇨🇦😂 Budget: a few trees Construction crew: 1 beaver 🦫 Payment: maple syrup 🍁 Sorry for the inconvenience, eh? 😂 #Canada #CanadianHumour #SheShed 29261221772
Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteThe Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Nobel laureate Susumu Tonegawa, who pioneered cell-type-specific transgenic mice and the study of engrams, has passed away at the age of 86. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/memory/susum...thetransmitter.orgIn memoriam: Susumu Tonegawa, ‘intellectual giant’He won the Nobel Prize for his work on immunology and then went on to define the field of learning and memory. 04124
Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteTim Behrens @behrenstimb.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Slightly surprised that @kordinglab.bsky.social are still printing their simulations out on paper to be honest. 4364
Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteShervin Safavi @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social · 09/06/20261/11 Happy to share our TICS paper on using the flexibility of one of the most basic cognitive functions, perception, to understand one of the most complex cognitive dysfunctions, psychiatric conditions (also my first formal work in computational psychiatry 🎉) 📄: www.cell.com/trends/cogni... 🧵 : 👇cell.comPerceptual multistability: a multifaceted window into brain dysfunctionsPerceptual multistability, observed across species and sensory modalities, offers valuable insights into numerous cognitive functions and dysfunctions. For instance, differences in temporal dynamics a... 320866
Taufik A. Valiante @tvaliante.bsky.social · 24/06/2026What does a multimodal electrode look like to you? This is what it looks like to us - it’s electrical⚡️, optical 💡 and fluidic💧. Amazing work by Xin Mu, Wesley Sacher and Homeira Moradi Chameh. We also made the cover 🥳! 🔗 to 📄 : www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comNanophotonic neural probes for in vivo photostimulation, electrophysiology, and microfluidic delivery - Microsystems & NanoengineeringMicrosystems & Nanoengineering - Nanophotonic neural probes for in vivo photostimulation, electrophysiology, and microfluidic delivery 1194
Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteNature @nature.com · 22/06/2026Nature research paper: A mosaic of whole-body representations on the human precentral gyrus go.nature.com/44k08Rugo.nature.comA mosaic of whole-body representations on the human precentral gyrus - NatureA comprehensive map of the human motor cortex at single-neuron resolution is described. 0276
Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteRichard Naud @neuronaud.bsky.social · 06/10/2025How are the fluctuations in electric field organized across the whole brain? We analyzed the 3.4 M samples from the international brain lab using a combination of deep learning and graph theory. We found a surprising structure made of communities and landmarks. doi.org/10.1101/2025... 24314
Reposted by Taufik A. Valiantetbiba.bsky.social @tbiba.bsky.social · 02/03/2026I am excited to share my first paper, showing that episodic memory formation is theta rhythmic, is now published in Nature Human Behavior! Check it out here: rdcu.be/e6pzS. Thanks to my PI, Katherine Duncan, and to my collaborators for their support on this journey! Stay tuned for iEEG follow up 🧠rdcu.beEpisodic memory encoding fluctuates at a theta rhythm of 3–10 HzNature Human Behaviour - Biba et al. show that episodic memory encoding fluctuates at a theta rhythm of 3–10 Hz. 312346
Reposted by Taufik A. Valianteduncanlabuoft.bsky.social @duncanlabuoft.bsky.social · 06/03/2026New paper out from the Duncan Lab in Nature Human Behaviour! Congratulations to lead author Thomas Biba @tbiba.bsky.social for all his hard work through the peaks and troughs, seeing this through to publication! Big thanks to our collaborators! @lexidecker.bsky.social @tvaliante.bsky.social 0112
Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteAdrien Peyrache @apeyrache.bsky.social · 11/02/2026New paper alert! 🚨 We found that the brain's compass is remarkably stable at two scales 1️⃣ the system maintains its internal organization for weeks 2️⃣ It "remembers" its orientation for weeks, even after a single visit This may be key to how the brain aligns its other maps. Paper: rdcu.be/e3waP 520169
Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteCarsen Stringer @computingnature.bsky.social · 09/02/2026🚨 new work from the lab on how eye movements 👀 versus orofacial movements influence 🐭 visual cortex activity 🧠 #neuroscience #behavior #neuroAI 04611
Reposted by Taufik A. ValiantePaola A. Marignani @pmarignani.bsky.social · 03/02/202613% success rates at #CIHR, is a really 87% fail rate for>4000 scientists. At a time when 🇨🇦 is investing millions to recruit more scientist into a broken funding environment. 🇨🇦, U need a strong science foundation 2 attract success. #CIHR, fix your science foundation, it is eroding in real time 35617
Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteAlexey Tolchinsky @tolchinsky.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Intelligence and consciousness. @anilseth.bsky.social, brief, clear and to the point: "intelligence is about doing and consciousness is about being" www.noemamag.com/the-mytholog...noemamag.comThe Mythology Of Conscious AI | NOEMAWhy consciousness is more likely a property of life than of computation and why creating conscious, or even conscious-seeming AI, is a bad idea. 184
Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteGuillaume Lajoie @glajoie.bsky.social · 15/01/2026New eLife paper is out! We explore the link btw 2-phase perception/generation learning methods like wake-sleep, and what may happen in the brain under on psychedelics. Turns out hallucinations are consistent with hijacking phasic learning, essentially running both wake and sleep phases at once. 082
Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteBlake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Are you thinking about doing neuroscience outreach but want to make it more exciting or hands on? Check out RetINaBox! (A collab led by the Trenholm lab) We tried to bring the experience of experimental neuroscience to a classroom setting: www.eneuro.org/content/13/1... #neuroscience 🧪eneuro.orgRetINaBox: A Hands-On Learning Tool for Experimental NeuroscienceAn exciting aspect of neuroscience is developing and testing hypotheses via experimentation. However, due to logistical and financial hurdles, the experiment and discovery component of neuroscience is... 03914
Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteDirk Bernhardt-Walther @dirkbwalther.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Wonderful article about our recent paper in @pnasnexus.org! Thanks, @sachapfeiffer.bsky.social and @mickbonner.bsky.social! @yikai-tang.bsky.social @uoftpsychology.bsky.social @artsci.utoronto.ca @utoronto.ca 1133
Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteAndrew Pruszynski @andpru.bsky.social · 11/12/2025My thoughts on the matter: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 2179
Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteAnil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Wonderful and inspiring opening session at the CIFAR/TWCF Winter School for the Neuroscience of Consciousness, here in beautiful wintery Montebello, in Quebec. All of the participants gave 60 second intros to themselves and their interests. What a great group of people. 2474
Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteShahab Bakhtiari @shahabbakht.bsky.social · 08/12/2025In this piece for @thetransmitter.bsky.social, I argue that ecological neuroscience should leverage generative video and interactive models to simulate the world from animals' perspectives. The technological building blocks are almost here - we just need to align them for this application. 🧠🤖 04214
Reposted by Taufik A. Valianteallen institute @alleninstitute.org · 05/12/2025🧠📢 New preprint alert Large-scale ephys is exploding but spike sorting remains the computational bottleneck. A 2-hr, 6-probe Neuropixels 2.0 Quad Base session can take over a week to sort on a single machine. Here's a better solution. 🧵 #neuroskyence #compneurosky 37231
Reposted by Taufik A. Valianteallen institute @alleninstitute.org · 05/12/2025Lossy WavPack compression (up to 7× reduction) has minimal impact on sorting accuracy. This offers major storage savings without sacrificing quality. 131
Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteDirk Bernhardt-Walther @dirkbwalther.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Energy efficiency drives evolution, and humans may have evolved pleasure-based signals to optimize actions. Does this extend to aesthetic pleasure? Yes! Strong evidence in silico and humans, out in PNAS Nexus: tinyurl.com/3kbu8xw4 With Yikai Tang and Wil Cunningham. @uoftpsychology.bsky.social 1147
Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteRichard Gao @rdgao.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Finally got the job ad—looking for 2 PhD students to start spring next year: www.gao-unit.com/join-us/ If comp neuro, ML, and AI4Neuro is your thing, or you just nerd out over brain recordings, apply! I'm at neurips. DM me here / on the conference app or email if you want to meet 🏖️🌮 18151
Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteTimothy O'Leary @timothyoleary.bsky.social · 03/12/2025We are opening a FACULTY POSITION (tenure track, permanent) in the University of Cambridge at the interface of control and biology, interpreted broadly. Theorists and wet lab quantitative biologists with backgrounds in control, EE, applied math, ... apply by Jan 28! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...cam.ac.ukUniversity Assistant/Associate Professor in Control Theory and Systems BiologyApplications are invited for a University Assistant/Associate Professorship in the broad area of Control Theory and Systems Biology. The successful candidate will join the Control Group 04240
Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteRichard Gao @rdgao.bsky.social · 24/11/2025hey I'm reposting this for no reason at all today... www.cell.com/trends/cogni...cell.comProcesses and measurements: a framework for understanding neural oscillations in field potentialsVarious neuroscientific theories maintain that brain oscillations are important for neuronal computation, but opposing views claim that these macroscale dynamics are ‘exhaust fumes’ of more relevant p... 0255
Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteNature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 23/11/2025A study in Nature Communications identifies BNST theta and prefrontal BNST coherence as intracranial biomarkers predicting depression outcomes after deep brain stimulation. Lower activity predicted better long-term benefit, linking brain circuits to emotional bias and anxiety. 🧪 go.nature.comPrefrontal–bed nucleus of the stria terminalis physiological and neuropsychological biomarkers predict therapeutic outcomes in depression - Nature CommunicationsThis study identifies BNST theta and prefrontal BNST coherence as intracranial biomarkers predicting depression outcomes after DBS. Lower activity predicted better long-term benefit, linking brain circuits to emotional bias and anxiety. 0112
Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteCRANIA @crania-toronto.bsky.social · 27/03/2025It was incredible to be part of #purpleday yesterday! 💜 Each year, this important day continues to grow bigger and stronger, bringing more awareness and support for the 1-in-100 people living with epilepsy. @kbi-uhn.bsky.social @uhnresearch.bsky.social @tvaliante.bsky.social 144
Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteMaurizio De Pittà @mdepitta.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Happy to share this work putting forth the first #computational model of #developing #embrionic cortical circuits. Phenomenal team coordination by Fernando Garcia Moreno @achucarro.bsky.social. @kbi-uhn.bsky.social @kcnhub.bsky.socialscience.orgEvolutionary convergence of sensory circuits in the pallium of amniotesThe amniote pallium contains sensory circuits that are structurally and functionally equivalent, yet their evolutionary relationship remains unresolved. We used birthdating analysis, single-cell RNA a... 183
Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteJason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 07/02/2025I’m not “abandoning my diet”; I’m “supporting my country.” 2432163
Reposted by Taufik A. Valianteallen institute @alleninstitute.org · 01/01/2025New brain aging study is out today in Nature The largest single-cell RNA seq dataset of mouse brain aging reveals incredible insights and could pave the way for future therapies to slow or manage the impacts of the aging process. 🧵 #studyBRAIN 17230
Reposted by Taufik A. ValiantePaul Frankland @franklandlab.bsky.social · 27/12/2024Just bumping this up for those who may have missed earlier announcements-- we have a new PI position in the Neuroscience & Mental Health program here at SickKids. Neural and glial mechanisms in cognition.can-acn.orgScientist/Senior Scientist – Research Institute, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto – Canadian Association for Neuroscience 07166
Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteCRANIA @crania-toronto.bsky.social · 24/12/2024We are proud to support this trial through our our extensive academic and clinical programs affiliated with @uoft.bsky.social @uhnresearch.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/uhnt... 042
Reposted by Taufik A. Valianteallen institute @alleninstitute.org · 11/12/2024Congrats to Sam Mestern, Ph.D. student at @westernu.bsky.social, for winning the MapMySpikes challenge! His tool, PatchOTDA, excelled in mapping electrophysiological data to molecular properties. 🧠📈 More on his tool and the MapMySpikes challenge: alleninstitute.org/news/canadia...alleninstitute.orgCanadian Ph.D. student, Sam Mestern, wins first MapMySpikes challengeThe Allen Institute for Brain Science's MapMySpikes challenge aimed to address a key challenge in neuroscience by making connections between cells' electrical and molecular properties. 1276
Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteResearch at UHN @uhnresearch.ca · 10/12/2024Three UHN research projects have received over $4M through the Ontario Research Fund, part of a $92M investment in Ontario research! Learn how this funding advances: ▶️#MRI tech ▶️#AI for donor lungs ▶️Muscle & joint #health Congrats to the awardees! 🔗 www.uhnresearch.ca/news/investi... 3113
Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteNima Dehghani @neurovium.bsky.social · 08/12/2024Hopfield and Hinton @nobelprize.bsky.social lecture today John J. Hopfield: Physics is a point of view Geoffrey Hinton: Boltzmann Machines www.youtube.com/live/lPIVl5e...youtube.comYouTubeShare your videos with friends, family, and the world 0101
Taufik A. Valiante @tvaliante.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Grateful for these two and that they find such joy in one another!! Photo cred @samravaliante.bsky.social 141
Taufik A. Valiante @tvaliante.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Holiday festivities have begun. Grateful for my amazing lab for making each year fun, and exciting!! 120
Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteLars Kasper @mrikasper.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Done Christmas Shopping? Or need inspiration what open MRI tools to get for your loved ones? After Black Friday and Cyber Monday, there is 🥁 #MRITogether Tuesday (and Wednesday-Thursday-Friday 😉). There is still time to register for our free online event mritogether.esmrmb.org/24m/registra...mritogether.esmrmb.orgRegistration and How to AttendHow to register 053
Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteBo Wang @bowang87.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Thank you to the global community for citing, sharing, and building on this work! 🙏 Read the paper here: nature.com/articles/s41... Stay tuned for MedSAM2, set to be released next month, offering enhanced efficiency and accuracy for medical video and 3D image segmentation. 071
Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteBo Wang @bowang87.bsky.social · 20/11/2024thanks @haoyin.bsky.social 🙏🙏 151
Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteScott Rich, Ph.D. @richcompneuro.bsky.social · 26/11/2024An early Thanksgiving gift to you all… a new preprint, representing the final piece of my postdoc work at @kbi-uhn.bsky.social @kcnhub.bsky.social @uhnresearch.bsky.social with @tvaliante.bsky.social. Full description to come next week 😀 #neuroskyence #compneuro www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...biorxiv.orgH- and m-channel overexpression promotes seizure-like events by impairing the ability of inhibitory neurons to process correlated inputsChannelopathies affecting h- and m-channels present a paradox in epilepsy research: while both over- and underexpression of these channels can be epileptogenic, channel overexpression does not appear ... 161
Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteNima Dehghani @neurovium.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Oh I know this guy. I listen to him all the time. But more importantly, you should see what his colleagues have to say about "To Keep or Not to Keep" 1122
Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteJibran Khokhar @drjkhokhar.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Also for those with broader brain health related interests where you get to play with these toys! If it sounds interesting, let’s chat at ACNP in Phoenix! 072
Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteMaurizio De Pittà @mdepitta.bsky.social · 24/11/2024I am giving a 2-day #advanced #course on #astrocyte multiscale #models at the University of #Padua IT on April 10--11, 2025 #EMBO. An excellent opportunity to learn how to include #neuron-#glia #interactions in your models, from molecules to networks. Info & Registration: tinyurl.com/yx3m6acy 1155
Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteKonrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · 21/11/2024The most fun paper I have ever written. Great theory, too. Read it if you want to understand the American Psyche. 2242