Ryan Ly

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🚨 New preprint! 🚨

Excited and proud (& a little nervous 😅) to share our latest work on the importance of #theta-timescale spiking during #locomotion in #learning. If you care about how organisms learn, buckle up. 🧵👇

📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
💻 code + data 🔗 below 🤩

#neuroskyence

🎉 Deadline is *tomorrow*!
Join the @flatironinstitute.org workshop on pynapple & NeMos @sfn.org this November to analyze and model neural data

pynapple: analyze neural time series
NeMoS: model neural population dynamics
Meals + accommodation included
👉 neurorse.flatironinstitute.org/events/2025/...

NWB just turned 10 years old! Researchers worldwide have downloaded 1.9 PB of NWB data from @dandiarchive.org. This animation shows the reach of NWB, facilitating collaboration across the globe. What impact has open neurophysiology data had on your science? Share your stories! 🧠

@openscience

I’m an award-winning mathematician. Trump just cut my funding. The “Mozart of Math” tried to stay out of politics. Then it came for his research.

I wrote an op-ed on the world-class STEM research ecosystem in the United States, and how this ecosystem is now under attack on multiple fronts by the current administration: newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-an-awar...

This has been a blast! Such a treat to be hosted by @hhmijanelia.bsky.social at this workshop by organized by @nwb.org! Re-analysis of open-data form @dandiarchive.org with so many talented scientists has been so much fun!

🎉 Congrats to all the organizers on another great workshop! The @nwb.org community appreciates all you do. ❤️

@bendichter.com @ryanly.bsky.social @stephmprince.bsky.social

Chris Halcrow presents on SpikeInterface at NeuroDataReHack

Marco Celotto works with a team on the whiteboard at NeuroDataReHack

NeuroDataReHack participants from all over the world are finishing up 10 exciting projects analyzing open neurophys data on @dandiarchive.org. Thank you @hhmijanelia.bsky.social for being amazing hosts as always! Stay tuned for the workshop report.

@chrishalcrow.bsky.social @mcelotto95.bsky.social

‘It’s a nightmare.’ U.S. funding cuts threaten academic science jobs at all levels “There is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research,” one Ph.D. student says

For 80 years, the United States led the world in science and engineering.

We could lose that position in a single year.

www.science.org/content/arti...

My first piece with @thetransmitter.bsky.social is out! Open data is transforming neuroscience—350+ datasets on
@dandiarchive.org in @nwb.org, new tools like Neurosift enabling discovery and analysis, and researchers all over the world discovering new insights using open data as a key resource!

#FlatironCCN is hosting a @nwb.org hackathon in August to bring together scientists, research software engineers and students to work on development, tool integration, outreach and training. Learn more and register: nwb.org/events/hck25... #neuroscience #science

I would love (and am trying) to build a whole lab off of data reuse + modeling. This article pointed to some useful resources I hadn't heard of.

I would also add that reuse can be for things far afield from what the data was originally collected for. Your data may have value you've never dreamt of!

Data reuse represents an opportunity to accelerate the pace of science, reduce costs and increase the value of our collective research investments. Data reuse represents an opportunity to accelerate the pace of science, reduce costs and increase the value of our collective research investments. New tools that make open data easier to use—and new…

Data reuse represents an opportunity to accelerate science, reduce costs and increase the value of investments. But to date, the field hasn't placed equal emphasis on the reuse side of the data-sharing equation, writes @bendichter.com

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/open-neurosc...

Join us at the NWB Community Hackathon at @flatironinstitute.org, Aug 4-6! Hack on NWB-related projects with the devs and tool builders, integrate tools with NWB, contribute to the standard, and help shape the future of neurophysiology data standardization. nwb.org/events/hck25...

We're excited to receive so much interest in our NWB and @dandiarchive.org workshop from computational neuroscientist and experimentalists here at UW! We're happy to meet and help anyone publish or reuse open neurophysiology data!

Opinion | The Uncertain Fate of the Young American Scientist (Gift Article) Young researchers are choosing between staying in science and staying in the United States.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...

Really important piece to share widely. Too many Americans don’t know how severe a threat this Administration poses to our scientific infrastructure, global leadership, and health security

What datasets do you mostly rely on? We want to hear from you.

What datasets do you use in your research @thetransmitter.bsky.social wants to know! Help us by filling out this survey: thetransmitter.typeform.com/datasets?utm...

Hello from Montreal! Thanks to everyone who attended our NWB and @dandiarchive.org workshop at #cosyne2025 and to our guest tool presenters. What a great start to the conference!

1. Wrapping up the Pre-Cosybe Brainhack! A huge thank you to our amazing participants, organizers, and supporters who made this such a success. The energy, collaboration, and creativity in the room led to fantastic results.
Looking forward to seeing how these ideas evolve!

Neurosift v2 has been released, check it out!

neurosift.app

@dandiarchive.org @nwb.org @openneuro.bsky.social

#openscience #opensource #neurophysiology

📣 The #SciPy2025 Call For Proposals deadline has been extended! ✨

🚀 New deadline for submission: March 5, 2025! Don’t miss this opportunity to speak at SciPy!

👉 Submit your talk, poster, or tutorial on our website: https://buff.ly/3W5Lsl9

NIH indirects case update:

Hearing ongoing now, and I'll try to live tweet some notable exchanges.

Prior to more detailed arguments, Judge Kelley starts off with a few point questions to both sides:

(I'm paraphrasing here)

Federal Register hold makes ‘end run’ around court pause on NIH funding freeze NIH-related updates to the Federal Register, which are required for the scheduling of study sections and advisory councils, are on hold indefinitely, according to an email reviewed by <i>The Transmitt...

A large portion of grants awarded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health cannot be funded for the foreseeable future because of an indefinite hold on submissions to the Federal Register, according to an email reviewed by The Transmitter.

By @avaskham.bsky.social

bit.ly/3X8ngz8

Last call to apply for NeuroDataReHack 2025! Join us at Janelia and learn how to use existing open neurophysiology data on @dandiarchive.org, plus opportunity to apply for the $50k Kavli Neurodata Discovery Award! Free attendance and lodging!

bit.ly/NeuroDataReH...

Our paper "Unifying community whole-brain imaging datasets enables robust neuron identification and reveals determinants of neuron position in C. elegans" is out. https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-methods/fulltext/S2667-2375(24)00354-0Congrats Yutaka and the rest of the team! It has been a fantastic collaborative effort and we hope the community continues to bu...

Our paper on WormID is out. Moral: building a multi-lab data corpus boosts generalization and performance of ML labeling algorithms. We extended the Neurodata Without Borders format to support this. Resource at wormid.org. www.focolab.org/post/our-pap...

Apply now for NeuroDataReHack at Janelia (July 14-18). Learn how to access and analyze the over 300 NWB datasets on @www.dandiarchive.org.

Free for accepted participants (meals + lodging included).
Apply by Feb 12: bit.ly/NeuroDataReH...

#Neuroscience #OpenData #DANDI #NWB

Going to @cosynemeeting.bsky.social this year? Join us for Pre-COSYNE Brainhack, a two-day hackathon just before COSYNE, where you will collaborate on open science projects in computational and systems neuroscience. Apply by Jan 10! See below to apply and learn more

This year’s suggested theme is Data Pipelines & Reproducibility, but participants are welcome to explore any topic. Last time we had 8 projects ranging from benchmarking spike sorting to creating codecs for multiphoton imaging to accelerating Pynapple. We're excited to see what people do this time!

The Pre-COSYNE Brainhack 2025 Everything you need to know about the Pre-COSYNE Brainhack 2025 in Montreal, Canada.

🌟 Join us for Pre-COSYNE Brainhack 2025 in Montreal, March 25-26! Collaborate on open science projects in computational & systems neuroscience. Connect with researchers and tool developers and learn from each other. Apply by Jan 10! pre-cosyne-brainhack.github.io/hackathon202... #Neuroskyence

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.