Reposted by Wolf De WulfPynapple @pynapple.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Wolf de Wulf (@wulfdewolf.bsky.social) teaching pynapple at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre’s Open Software Summer School @neuroinformatics.dev ! Students learned to build a reproducible pipeline, starting from raw electrophysiological data and working all the way to answering neuroscience questions. 094
Reposted by Wolf De WulfTodd Morrill @toddmorrill.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Absolutely enormous release of our SNN bullet trains codebase. For anyone tracking that work from ICML this year, you can now find the code here github.com/ToddMorrill/... 1/Ngithub.comGitHub - ToddMorrill/snn-bullet-trains: Official code repository for Bullet Trains: Parallelizing Training of Temporally Precise Spiking Neural Networks (https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.13283)Official code repository for Bullet Trains: Parallelizing Training of Temporally Precise Spiking Neural Networks (https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.13283) - ToddMorrill/snn-bullet-trains 183
Reposted by Wolf De WulfMarcus Ghosh @marcusghosh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Now published @commsaicomp.nature.com with @neural-reckoning.org We: 🤖 Define a taxonomy of neural network architectures (here 128 unique structures) 🦾 Train > 25,000 models on different navigation tasks #RL 🧠 Link each architecture's behaviour to its memory dynamics doi.org/10.1038/s444... 13411
Reposted by Wolf De WulfbioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 03/07/2026The medial entorhinal spatial map is built on excitatory-inhibitory network motifs defined by their functional cell type and theta modulation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20… 092
Wolf De Wulf @wulfdewolf.bsky.social · 19/06/2026It was an eager crowd! Many got to decoding head direction from population activity, some without having used Python before. Thanks for having me, and thanks as well to the @simonsfoundation.org for funding the development of packages like Pynapple (@guillaumeviejo.bsky.social & Sarah Jo Venditto) 072
Reposted by Wolf De WulfMattia Chini @mattiachini.bsky.social · 02/06/2026What happens when 18 teams of expert neuroscientists analyze the exact same neurophysiology dataset? You might expect convergence, but that is not what we found. Very grateful for the opportunity to write with Gaëlle Chapuis about one of my favorite projects since I started working in science! 1/n 1256
Reposted by Wolf De WulfAdrian Duszkiewicz @adrian-du.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Calling all fans of neuronal spikes at @manchester.ac.uk 🚨 Don't miss out on our first workshop on open-source tools for neural data analysis ⚡🧠 Speakers: @ennyvb.bsky.social (UCL), @wulfdewolf.bsky.social & Chris Halcrow (University of Edinburgh) Many thanks to @dns-uom.bsky.social for support! 155
Reposted by Wolf De WulfInternational Brain Laboratory @intlbrainlab.bsky.social · 07/04/2026🧠💻 Join the Brainhack satellite at #FENS2026 (July 5)! ✨ Open to all - no FENS registration required 📆 Registration opens April 9 ⚠️ Limited to 100 spots (first come, first served) Learn more: pre-fens-brainhack.github.io/brainhack2026/ #Brainhack #OpenScience #Neuroscience 0113
Wolf De Wulf @wulfdewolf.bsky.social · 03/04/2026If you analyse ephys/calcium in Python (or want to) this will be super useful for you! We remade our entire pipeline to use Pynapple (and NeMoS), and it was shockingly easy. I'll be TAing, and happy to discuss your specific analysis needs. bonus: le Tour de France starts in Barcelona that week!!! 010
Reposted by Wolf De WulfTodd Morrill @toddmorrill.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Our new preprint on parallelizing training of temporally precise spiking neural networks is out! We show up to 44x speedups over a conventional sequential baseline. 1/N 1124
Reposted by Wolf De WulfMatteo Guardamagna @matteoguardamagna.bsky.social · 11/03/20261/7 🧠 My journey into development begins with this work and question: how does the brain's spatial navigation system develop? We found that the neural networks for spatial navigation (tori and rings) are preconfigured and only later anchor gradually to the world with experience! 🧵 818171
Reposted by Wolf De WulfBenjamin Cowley @benjocowley.bsky.social · 09/03/2026The Cowley Group at CSHL has an opening for a bioAI PhD student to start Fall 2026 to work on closed-loop AI models for visual processing (see below). You *must* have a Master's degree in a quant/eng/cs field. www.cshl.edu/phd-program/... Please reach out to me if interested! I'll be at Cosyne.cshl.eduBioAI PhD Program | Cold Spring Harbor LaboratorySince 1890, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has been a global leader in research and education. The international scientific community at CSHL provides a unique and stimulating atmosphere for doc... 11110
Reposted by Wolf De WulfDinu F Albeanu @dinanthos.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Join us at TENSS 2026 to open black boxes, explain how things/brains work and debate the impact (or lack or it) of various new technologies on understanding of the brain and on society. tenss.ro Apply by: March 15th! 01817
Reposted by Wolf De WulfBenjamin Cowley @benjocowley.bsky.social · 26/02/2026DNN models of the brain are getting bigger. Are we replacing one complicated system in vivo with another in silico? In new work, we seek the *smallest* DNN models of visual cortex, balancing prediction with parsimony. It turns out these compact models are surprisingly small! rdcu.be/e5H8Grdcu.beCompact deep neural network models of the visual cortexNature - Parsimonious deep neural network models can be used for prediction of visual neuron responses. 412947
Reposted by Wolf De WulfPynapple @pynapple.bsky.social · 03/03/2026CCN Neural Data Analysis Workshop @ FENS 2026 www.simonsfoundation.org/event/ccn_fe...simonsfoundation.orgCCN Neural Data Analysis Workshop @ FENS 2026CCN Neural Data Analysis Workshop @ FENS 2026 on Simons Foundation 031
Reposted by Wolf De WulfDANDI Archive @dandiarchive.org · 27/02/2026Mission: record hippocampal place cells in zero gravity Crew: 3 rats with electrode arrays Vehicle: Space Shuttle Columbia Status: data now publicly available on DANDI, 28 years later The ratstronauts' mission is finally complete. 🐀🚀 h/t NASA about.dandiarchive.org/blog/2026/02... 26123
Reposted by Wolf De WulfSoledad Gonzalo Cogno @soledad-gcogno.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Applications are now open for the summer school: 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐝𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐍𝐞𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 🧠 Apply before March 15: www.compneuronrsn.org 📍 Located in beautiful Eresfjord 🇳🇴 🗓️ Between July 6-24 Supported by the @kavlifoundation.org In collaboration with @kavlintnu.bsky.socialcompneuronrsn.orgMathematical Methods in Computational NeuroscienceSummer school in Eresfjord, Norway (July 8th - 26th, 2024) 06329
Wolf De Wulf @wulfdewolf.bsky.social · 29/01/2026Go fit some neural models!! JAX, Pynapple, Poisson GLMs; what more can you ever wish for... 030
Reposted by Wolf De WulfInternational Brain Laboratory @intlbrainlab.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Pre-COSYNE Brainhack 2026 – Join Us in Lisbon! March 10–11, 2026 • Lisbon, Portugal pre-cosyne-brainhack.github.io/hackathon2026/ Kick off COSYNE week with two days of hands-on, team-based hacking around real electrophysiology data, open tools, and reproducible workflows. #brainhack #cosyne2026pre-cosyne-brainhack.github.ioPre-COSYNE Brainhack 2026The 2026 edition of the Pre-COSYNE Brainhack in Lisbon, Portugal. 1123
Reposted by Wolf De WulfSWC/GCNU Neuroinformatics Unit @neuroinformatics.dev · 09/01/2026Three weeks left to apply for the Neuroinformatics Unit Open Software Summer School, August 17-28 2026 in London, UK! Bringing together researchers and open source developers of ephys, behaviour and image analysis tools. neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar... Deadline January 31st. Apply now! 0128
Reposted by Wolf De WulfRoddy Grieves @roddy-grieves.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Can humans & animals really use internal maps to take shortcuts? Tolman famously said yes - based largely on his Sunburst maze. Our new review & meta-analysis suggests evidence is far weaker than you might think. 🧵👇 doi.org/10.1111/ejn.... @uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social @ejneuroscience.bsky.socialdoi.orgTolman's Sunburst Maze 80 Years on: A Meta‐Analysis Reveals Poor Replicability and Little Evidence for ShortcuttingIn 1946, Tolman et al. reported that rats could take a novel shortcut to a goal after training on an indirect route, supporting the Cognitive Map theory. However, a review of subsequent Sunburst maze... 713557
Reposted by Wolf De WulfMark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 30/12/2025Just published my review of neuroscience in 2025, on The Spike. The 10th of these, would you believe? This year we have foundation models, breakthroughs in using light to understand the brain, a gene therapy, and more Enjoy! medium.com/the-spike/20...medium.com2025: A Review of the Year in NeuroscienceEnlightening the brain 614366
Reposted by Wolf De WulfAdrian Duszkiewicz @adrian-du.bsky.social · 21/10/2025A 🍍 spotted in the wild at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social! Great crash course on neuro data processing with @pynapple.bsky.social and @spikeinterface.bsky.social delivered by @matthiashennig6.bsky.social, @wulfdewolf.bsky.social and Chris Halcrow. So nice to see both libraries working so well together 2144
Reposted by Wolf De WulfAdrian Duszkiewicz @adrian-du.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Really excited to share this Opinion piece we've been working on with fellow head-direction cell geeks @apeyrache.bsky.social @desdemonafricker.bsky.social and (bsky-less?) Andrea Burgalossi! While head-direction cells pop up in many cortical regions, we think that one of them is quite unique (1/8)sciencedirect.comThe postsubiculum as a head-direction cortexThe organisation of thalamocortical networks follows a conserved structure. Traditionally, these are divided into primary sensory systems that receive… 24618
Reposted by Wolf De WulfBryan M. Li @bryanlimy.bsky.social · 19/09/2025We present our preprint on ViV1T, a transformer for dynamic mouse V1 response prediction. We reveal novel response properties and confirm them in vivo. With @wulfdewolf.bsky.social, Danai Katsanevaki, @arnoonken.bsky.social, @rochefortlab.bsky.social. Paper and code at the end of the thread! 🧵1/7 21712
Reposted by Wolf De WulfGuillaume Viejo @guillaumeviejo.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Finally preprinted! TL;DR: thalamic head-direction neurons can shape their activity regardless of input. Big thanks to @apeyrache.bsky.social and master experimentalist @sskromne.bsky.social . 0276
Reposted by Wolf De WulfPynapple @pynapple.bsky.social · 25/08/2025New workshop! Just before SFN, join the Flatiron Institute Center for Computational Neuroscience of the Simons Foundation for a workshop on pynapple and NeMoS. Learn how to use these open-source packages to analyze and model neural data! Accommodation & meals provided. Link ⬇️ 1149
Reposted by Wolf De WulfNina Kudryashova @ninelk.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Excited to share our new pre-print on bioRxiv, in which we reveal that feedback-driven motor corrections are encoded in small, previously missed neural signals. 12616
Reposted by Wolf De WulfDinu F Albeanu @dinanthos.bsky.social · 23/01/2025New paper from the lab: feedback from piriform cortex to the olfactory bulb carries identity and reward contingency signals in a multimodal (odor and sound) rule-reversal task. Feedback is re-formatted within seconds and reflects changes in the perceived rules of engagement. doi.org/10.1038/s414...doi.orgFast updating feedback from piriform cortex to the olfactory bulb relays multimodal identity and reward contingency signals during rule-reversal - Nature CommunicationsHernandez-Trejo, Ciuparu, and Garcia da Silva et al. report that the piriform-to-olfactory bulb feedback in the mouse carries multimodal identity and reward contingency signals, which are re-formatted... 35218
Reposted by Wolf De WulfSimons Initiative for the Developing Brain (SIDB) @sidb-edinburgh.bsky.social · 16/01/2025We are pleased to be partnering with The UKRI AI CDT in Biomedical Innovation at the School of Informatics (University of Edinburgh). These PhD projects have a strong translational focus and seek to develop & apply AI approaches to biomedical domains ✨. Apply by 20 Jan www.ai4biomed.io/how-to-apply/ 034
Reposted by Wolf De WulfHenrique @henri96.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Check our latest work towards understanding learning and local plasticity in the brain with @matthiashennig6.bsky.social at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social 🧠 Published in a @neuripsconf.bsky.social workshop this year. Now out on arxiv - arxiv.org/abs/2501.02402 1123
Wolf De Wulf @wulfdewolf.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Both the people and the environment at CSHL made my summer there the best I've ever had. If you want to learn about neuroscience<->AI and meet interesting people, it would be a waste not to apply! for better visibility: video of the Olney house woodpecker that made sure I was up on time every day 040
Reposted by Wolf De WulfMatthias Hennig @matthiashennig6.bsky.social · 26/11/2024PhD project! For those interested in NeuroAI: "Using large scale neural network models to bridge the translational gap from animal models to human insights in autism spectrum and neurodevelopmental disorders" Apply here: www.ai4biomed.io/research/pro...ai4biomed.ioProjects for 2025 entry – UKRI AI CDT in Biomedical Innovation 01912
Reposted by Wolf De WulfBen Hayden @benhayden.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Now! Or more likely, people should change what they think place cells mean. 011