Tobias Rose

Very sneaky! But appreciated. #Cosyne2026 @cosynemeeting.bsky.social

🚨new paper: the head-direction circuit as a model of primary thalamocortical system. Check this out 👇

kudos to @adrian-du.bsky.social for the huge amount of work put into this opinion piece, starting with the beautiful figures comparing the different thalamocortical systems 🤩

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Excellent! Will come back!

Was about to suggest BonnBrain! Let me come back to you - I will organize something. We als have fantastic human action segmentation people around.

💪 (if only that would be how one spells Ratatouille :) )

GPT says: "Rodent Action Tracking Across Tasks: Objects, Utilities, Levers, Locomotion, Interaction, and Exploration — a mouse “kitchen” benchmark for dense, sequential, ethological behavior."

...more like a dense foragy/approach-avoidy mix of Josh's FOMO, SWC's AEON, some closed-loop stim control, some risky decision with shelter-seeking /-building, some sequential goal / spatial decision, some digging, some exploring. And yes: difficult. The acronym would have to be RATATOULLIE.

I’m super excited to finally put my recent work with @behrenstimb.bsky.social on bioRxiv, where we develop a new mechanistic theory of how PFC structures adaptive behaviour using attractor dynamics in space and time!

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

Really not sure what that would be. But fun to think about...

Would be totally up for it! Not easy, though. Social aside (@antihebbiann.bsky.social has that covered), a mouse-kitchen should be dense (many actions per time), rich (max affordances), with interpretable goals, sequential dependencies, ethological grounding, and transferable across labs...

nice - did not know this one. Sadly - mouse ego-cams need cables and commutators. So the IntelliMaze RFID gates are an issue (which we currently face ourselves)

Germans speak better Dutch when they’ve consumed alcohol 🍺

Our (and others’) unrestrained ego/exo tracking is certainly not at the scale of your human datasets, but it at least begins to approach Meta’s ego-exo4D technically...

Wow - very cool. At some point, we small-animal folks should come together to define what annotated ego/exo benchmark data _we_ want to generate—and how best to share it. What would be the mouse equivalent of the human “kitchen”?

aphelis.net/wp-content/u...

Spatially distributed and regionally unbound cellular resolution brain-wide processing loops in mice Until recently, it has been possible to examine activity in the brain globally through regional averaging or locally at cellular resolution. These studies characterized regions as functionally homogen...

𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻-𝘄𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀
Spatially distributed and regionally unbound cellular resolution brain-wide processing loops in mice
𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀?
Dynamical processing winding through most brain regions.
Looks like a must read.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroskyence

Organizers: @sabinekrabbe.bsky.social (Sabine Krabbe), @martinfuhrmann.bsky.social (Martin Fuhrmann), @trose-neuro.bsky.social (Tobias Rose), Bettina Schnell

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@paolicellilab.bsky.social (Rosa Paolicelli)
Rune Enger
Ania Majewska
Long-Jun Wu
@zknight.bsky.social (Zachary Knight)
@dudman.bsky.social (Joshua Dudman)
Sarah Melzer
@crezaval.bsky.social (Carolina Rezaval)
Leonie Welberg

Cori Bargmann
@edvardmoser.bsky.social (Edvard Moser)
Dmitriy Aronov
@clopathlab.bsky.social (Claudia Clopath)
@innaslutsky.bsky.social (Inna Slutsky)
Maude Baldwin
@laurabusse.bsky.social (Laura Busse)
@kishoreneuro.bsky.social (Kishore Kuchibhotla)
@portugueslab.bsky.social (Ruben Portugues)

BonnBrain 2026 is a go!
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Apply now: www.bonnbrain.de
Limited slots. Presentations (posters/talks) selected from submitted abstracts.

Keynotes & invited speakers 👇

Mapping the visual cortex with Zebra noise and wavelets Studies of the early visual system often require characterizing the visual preferences of large populations of neurons. This task typically requires multiple stimuli such as sparse noise and drifting ...

related: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

From bench to bot: Why AI-powered writing may not deliver on its promise Efficiency isn’t everything. The cognitive work of struggling with prose may be a crucial part of what drives scientific progress.

“Competent prose generated by a machine, I’ve come to realize, might not be what science actually needs.” ?

By Tim Requarth

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/from-bench-t...

One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same moth...

Look at this crazy thing!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Highly recommended - we will recruit

A brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour - Nature The International Brain Laboratory presents a brain-wide electrophysiological map obtained from pooling data from 12 laboratories that performed the same standardized perceptual decision-making task i...

The two key studies of the International Brain Laboratory @intlbrainlab.bsky.social are out today!

A brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

With great concern, also I am observing a widespread migration of otherwise perfectly reasonable people... we need to stop normalizing this!

pyPhotometry V2 — Open Ephys SKU: OEPS-8011 pyPhotometry is an open source system for fiber photometry data acquisition . Version 2 includes: 2x Analog inputs for photometry signals. The system supports time-division mul...

pyPhotometry v2 is now in our store! 🚀

⚡Output current of the 2 onboard LED drivers increased to 300 mA
🔦🔦 2 alternative LED digital output channels to trigger external optical hardware that have integrated LED drivers
🔌Additional connections to the pyBoard for expansion

#OpenEphys #pyPhotometry

Wrote a eulogy for the yellow letters in my office window. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Opinion | A.I. Is Fueling a ‘Poverty of Imagination.’ Here’s How We Can Fix It.

This, from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social, perfectly sums up the quandary that educators find ourselves in:

“AI hollows out the foundation of learning because it strips you, gets rid of the mistakes, it gets rid of the opportunities for serendipity.”

Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...