Michael Schartner

Using the @intlbrainlab.bsky.social BWM dataset, which comprises electrophysiological recordings of 60 k neurons covering one mouse brain hemisphere, we find all brain regions contain most neural response types, i.e. function is widely distributed:

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Absolutely! What an inspiring conference!! Big fan!! Thanks so much again!

Brain Surfaces of 70 primate species

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To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised!

🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Reminder! Tenure track position in Genetics at Trinity College Dublin! Come join us, we're nice... 😊 Please repost! 🙏

🚀 Today we're launching the 'Night Science Institute', a non-for-profit organization to lead a cultural shift in science! You may say we're dreamers 😉, but we think we're not the only ones. Perhaps today you will join us to make the Day Science and Night Science parts of the process live as one!

What Do Animals Understand About Death? The question isn’t whether other creatures share our concept of mortality; it’s whether any living being truly grasps what it means to die.

Can any living being, human or otherwise, truly grasp about what it means to die?

#475 – Demis Hassabis: Future of AI, Simulating Reality, Physics and Video Games | Lex Fridman Podcast Demis Hassabis is the CEO of Google DeepMind and Nobel Prize winner for his groundbreaking work in protein structure prediction using AI. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexf...

lexfridman.com/demis-hassab...

I 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.

philarchive.org/archive/YAMTSH

Excellent post distinguishing mechanisms from behaviours!
👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

(We have a similar discussion in the context of high-order stuff here: arxiv.org/abs/2203.12041)

Bogong moths use a stellar compass for long-distance navigation at night - Nature Every spring, Bogong moths use the starry night sky as a compass to navigate up to 1,000 km towards their alpine migratory goal.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

YouTube video by Neuralink Neuralink Update, Summer 2025

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FASM...

Transparent peer review to be extended to all of Nature’s research papers From today, all new submissions to Nature that are published will be accompanied by referees’ reports and author responses — to illuminate the process of producing rigorous science.

From today, all new submissions to Nature that are published will be accompanied by referees’ reports and author responses — to illuminate the process of producing rigorous science

https://go.nature.com/4kIRR01

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#TCTeAC

@odedrechavi.bsky.social @svobodalab.bsky.social @itaiyanai.bsky.social @paveltomancak.bsky.social

Walk-up songs make a session fluid & so much more fun! For example, this can elevate your "flash presentation" of poster abstracts to a leggit party.
Proof: here's @odedrechavi.bsky.social entering stage #TCTeAC to introduce @qedscience.bsky.social - can you guess the song? ☺️

I just started listening to the Night Science podcast and it's brilliant. All about the very different creative processes scientists use. This episode seems like a good place to jump in.

The slide you submitted | The slide you’re presenting
#tcteac #PragueSights

@woodstocknightsci.bsky.social the conference to end all conferences

@woodstocknightsci.bsky.social we get to hear what we can learn from mantis shrimps :)

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.
Details found here👇

www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

Excellent video on adversarial collaborations, in consciousness science and beyond, from the Cogitate Project - via Lucia Melloni 👇

Oh wow. Starting grant 0-10 years post PhD from 2027, Consolidator 5-15

𝗠𝗮𝘆𝗯𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗹𝗹
This target paper by Anil Seth should lead to good discussion.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

a chart showing power consumption of big tech companies

hey lovelies, I finally got around to publicly sharing my compilation of big tech energy and emissions data. I'll be using it in articles, posts etc but it's yours too, free to use (w/ attribution is nice)

ketanjoshi.co/2025/05/23/d...

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

+++ NEWS +++ NOÛS +++
My paper Predictive Processing’s Flirt with Transcendental Idealism is now published open access in Noûs. May the weekend begin 😎😅 doi.org/10.1111/nous...

In this conference we couldn't care less where you published your story because 1. we only care if it's interesting and good and 2. participants will discuss unpublished work

Fair! Although it does add to it if that part of your world model is experienced or not, as that is of course a key difference in processed information. I.e
we perceived tons of information but just experience part of that, which we for example report to our friends.

Human high-order thalamic nuclei gate conscious perception through the thalamofrontal loop Human high-order thalamic nuclei activity is known to closely correlate with conscious states. However, it is not clear how those thalamic nuclei and thalamocortical interactions directly contribute t...

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A streaming brain-to-voice neuroprosthesis to restore naturalistic communication - Nature Neuroscience Naturalistic communication is an aim for neuroprostheses. Here the authors present a neuroprosthesis that restores the voice of a paralyzed person simultaneously with their speaking attempts, enabling...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...