Octavian Modreanu

We welcome you, fellow scientists!

Please do reach out if you're interested in workung with us.

Our research topics can be found here: www.cbs.mpg.de/1830372/topics

people just don't neuroscience like they used to

Eleanor Maguire, who died 4 January at age 54, pioneered the famous London taxi-driver study and naturalistic approaches for studying spatial and episodic memory in people.

By @callimcflurry.bsky.social

www.thetransmitter.org/memory/remem...

I knew it!!!! The socks!!!

Attention my fellow spiking neural network python nerds, there is a new version of Brian (2.8) just in time for Xmas. Particularly recommended if you use random numbers in standalone mode, big speed improvements.

brian2.readthedocs.io/en/2.8.0/int...

Brian will make his way to Bluesky soon. 🤖🧠🧪

Did you ever think about how much time you spend *judging* as a scientist? Judging papers, research proposals, other scientists...
This onslaught of judging duties hit me hard as a new professor & I've written about the need to explicitly decide one's judging criteria here 👇

Hello world! We are excited to be part of the budding neurophysiology community here on Bluesky! We will be using this channel to promote NWB-related events posts, and efforts in open neuroscience.

Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to shine the spotlight on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research.

Markers used: Neurons - orange - SMI32. Microglia - green - IBA1. Astrocytes - blue - GFAP. Red blood cells - red - RBC.

A #FluorescenceFriday fresh from the microscope! Check these neurons 🟠 opening space to allow a blood vessel to pass between them! Astrocytes🔵 and microglia 🟢 give the shape of the blood vessel, and check the red blood cells 🔴 inside. Isn't the brain pretty? 🔬🧠
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(2/n) We introduced a framework to interpret complex spiking neuronal network dynamics using nonlinear Hawkes process models and diffusion approximations. This approach allows extracting tractable equations, offering dynamical insights into behavior and cognition.

From spiking neuronal networks to interpretable dynamics: a diffusion-approximation framework Modeling and interpreting the complex recurrent dynamics of neuronal spiking activity is essential to understanding how networks implement behavior and cognition. Nonlinear Hawkes process models can c...

🧵(1/n) I'm thrilled to announce that I published my very first! pre-print on BioRxiv. This work was co-supervised by Wilson Truccolo and Timothée Proix @ndlab.bsky.social.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🧠🧪 #compneuro

Neuroscience methods - YouTube Nanocourse: Approaches to Study Neural Circuits This course was taught by Anita Autry, Tiago Gonçalves, and Luke Sjulson at Albert Einstein College of Medici...

Neuroscience students asked us to teach a PRACTICAL course on experimental methods, and it is now on YouTube!

Please like and repost to help us get the word out!

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Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition
Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization
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“Scientists don’t know everything and have sometimes been wrong before”

Does not mean

“random nonsense you just thought of is as likely to be correct as something overwhelmingly endorsed by experts and supported by evidence and should be treated with as much respect.”

"This work reveals population-level neural dynamics that explain individual differences in responses to traumatic stress, and suggests that modulating vCA1–BLA inputs can enhance resilience by regulating these dynamics"

The good idea comes when one person feels comfortable enough to say something that might make them look stupid and their friend is open enough to recognize its potential.

Don’t believe the hype: AGI is far from inevitable | Radboud University Will AI soon surpass the human brain? If you ask employees at OpenAI, Google DeepMind and other large tech companies, it is inevitable. However, researchers at Radboud University and other institutes ...

“Few people realize that cognitive science is crucial for evaluating claims about AI capabilities. We often overestimate what computers are capable of, while vastly underestimating what human cognition is capable of.” www.ru.nl/en/research/...

📣 Computational Scientists: What's broken in your research stack?

- Wrestling with unwieldy HPC job scripts?
- Spending hours converting between file formats?
- Missing critical visualisation tools?

Help us design better tools: flywhl-ideas.notion.site

#science #openscience #academicsky #RSE

Naturalistic encoding of concepts in the brain

@viktorkewenig.bsky.social shows that, while concepts generally encode habitual experiences, the underlying neurobiological organisation is not fixed but depends dynamically on available contextual information. 👏🍾🐐

elifesciences.org/articles/91522