Tim Vogels

Last 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

Inhibitory Plasticity Balances Excitation and Inhibition in Sensory Pathways and Memory Networks Plasticity at inhibitory synapses maintains balanced excitatory and inhibitory synaptic inputs at cortical neurons.

"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!

...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!

The State of Neuroscience 2025 The Transmitter presents a portrait of the field through four lenses: its focus, its output, its people and its funding.

Here 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 🙏

I am very busy. I only post when it's urgent. Also I didn't know there was a weekly quota. Can I have this one count for next week?

Too late. He does not accept your apology.

I 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.

Maybe check out the associated website. icg-explorer.org. I know I know, it's not fully integrated with ICG1, but these things are difficult.

Congratulations Juan! Exciting news!

...which is to say, maybe peops *use* the paper and page, but forget to cite, 'cuz it's so early in the scientific process? Anyway, the old & *new* work, in which we compare the line-by-line code tons of models, & rewrite them in a unified expression makes me so happy. Check it out: icg-explorer.org

Some 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!

What Americans Die from?

And what the media reports on...

Our World in Data ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...

The 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…

An ion channel omnimodel for standardized biophysical neuron modelling Biophysical 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...

“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...

SNCF's half hearted effort to support international night trains in danger of hitting the buffers - Jon Worth In 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...

No 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...

"How many disco balls have you purchased in your life time?"

ALT text: A UMAP representation of a single cell RNAseq dataset from the Drosophila ventral nerve cord as well as images of the Drosophila nerve cord connectome and different stages of fly development.

Neuronal 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

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Distinct theta signatures of involuntary and voluntary memory retrieval. A. Left, top: time course of theta power in significant electrodes. T-sum values above zero indicate significant time points. Left, bottom: time-frequency plot of theta-band activity as mean across all significant electrodes. Time-frequency plots are only displayed for illustrative purposes and were not used for inference statistics. Right: topographical plot of significant electrode clusters. Significant electrodes are highlighted as bold dots. B. Source localization of significant theta-band cluster and bar plot depicting mean theta-power of full-hits (FH) and correct rejections (CR) within source localized clusters. C. Corresponding time-frequency analysis for voluntary retrieval. D. Source localization of significant theta-band clusters during voluntary retrieval and bar plots illustrating mean theta-power of full-hits and correct rejections within source localized clusters.

Involuntary 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

LHSC names 5 former executives in $60M fraud lawsuits LHSC contends a former executive masterminded a "fraudulent scheme" and he and others used funds they obtained to buy properties

Almost 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).

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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.

Episode #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!

then lettuce rejoice where we at

Arrived 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!

Here 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 #neuro

YouTube video by The New Yorker “I’m Not a Robot” (2025 Academy Award Winner) | The New Yorker Screening Room

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me too!!!! Arg!

Hey @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!

Right!! 🤦‍♂️ Ic Ould have linked to that, it's on YouTube! Thanks!

"Hey if you want this story in spoken word, check out my talk from a few weeks ago www.youtube.com/live/-ScGSH-... 😅