Aitor Morales-Gregorio

Dispute erupts over universal cortical brain-wave claim The debate highlights opposing views on how the cortex transmits information.

A “universal” pattern of cortical brain oscillations may be less ubiquitous than previously proposed.

By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/brain-waves/...

Finally got the job ad—looking for 2 PhD students to start spring next year:

www.gao-unit.com/join-us/

If comp neuro, ML, and AI4Neuro is your thing, or you just nerd out over brain recordings, apply!

I'm at neurips. DM me here / on the conference app or email if you want to meet 🏖️🌮

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Pathway-specific ultrastructure of thalamocortical synapses in mouse somatosensory area S2 The synaptic circuits established by thalamocortical axons from the ventral posteromedial (VPM) and posterior (Po) nuclei in the first somatosensory cortex have been mapped in high detail as they are ...

End :) As always, feel free to contact me If you want to discuss or share some insights, which I would love to do here on the #volumeEM @volumeem1.bsky.social community. Here you have the DOI again: doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...

Just as a first post on Bluesky I wanted to share that
I finally got my research into a first-author paper in #JNeurosci
@sfnjournals.bsky.social 🎉🥳

A full electron microscopy study!
👉https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1212-25.2025

As I'm truly proud I wanted to share our findings 👇🧵

Surely there are nicer ways to ask about your research. But I would not conflate ignorance with malice.

The general public deserves to know, I celebrate their curiosity!

I just take a deep breath, and try to explain a general idea of my latest work. Sometimes it works 😅

Presenting “Human in the loop optimisation for efficient intracortical microstimulation temporal patterns in visual cortex” again this afternoon at #SfN!!

Come discuss!

An amazing collaboration between the Biomedical Neuroengineering group at UMH and @bionicvisionlab.org

👋 At #SfN25? Interested in how head-direction cells anchor to visual cues?

🧠 Come visit me Tuesday Morning (8am - 12pm)
📍 Poster RR15

showing work w/ @adrian-du.bsky.social on parallax in PoSub and what we learn from it for visual cue integration. Come say hi or DM for a coffee chat! ☕️ #Neurosky

What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.

It's *scientific publishing*.

We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...

Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇

I was planning to go, but opted out given the very high cost and *politics*. Anecdotally, I heard from many other Europe-based people they also chose to attend conferences elsewhere

Scientists call on the President of the European Commission to retract AI hype statement Experts in AI call on the President of the European Commission to retract unscientific AI hype statement she made in the budget speech.

Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement.

@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed

www.iccl.ie/press-releas...

Maybe "intelligence" does not mean much at all and is instead a historical term very loaded with all kinds of connotations and prejudices, but no objective definition.

Reject intelligence, and I would say the problem/question simply goes away

I'm worried about outsourcing to a machine something that's part of our common endeavour to figure out the world. It's not enough that stuff is figured out, it's about **us** figuring it out! I don't remember phone numbers anymore – I outsourced that to my phone. I don't want that for my science.

Connectivity Structure and Dynamics of Nonlinear Recurrent Neural Networks The structure of brain connectivity predicts collective neural activity, with a small number of connectivity features determining activity dimensionality, linking circuit architecture to network-level...

Now in PRX: Theory linking connectivity structure to collective activity in nonlinear RNNs!
For neuro fans: conn. structure can be invisible in single neurons but shape pop. activity
For low-rank RNN fans: a theory of rank=O(N)
For physics fans: fluctuations around DMFT saddle⇒dimension of activity

Cholinergic heterogeneity facilitates synchronization and information flow in a whole-brain model The human brain displays substantial regional variability in molecular, anatomical, and physiological organization. Yet, how this heterogeneity shapes large-scale neuronal dynamics remains poorly unde...

I'm really happy to share our latest work:

“Cholinergic heterogeneity facilitates synchronization and information flow in a whole-brain model”

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

Matplotlib was always free 😜

Forget the Hard Problem.

Here comes the "Lobster Problem of Consciousness"

🧠 onhumans.substack.com/p/can-the-br...

with @matthewcobb.bsky.social

Fair enough! My references are the talks I have seen by Eve. Much remains to be understood and I agree that we are nowhere near uploading 86 billion neurons to a computer, I don't think it will ever happen tbh

I think it is very disingenious to say Eve Marder does not know how the rhythm is created. They found many different configurations that can create the rhythm, they studied how temperature disrupts some configurations more than others... They know **a lot** about these rhythms.

Sensory expectations shape neural population dynamics in motor circuits Nature - Experiments with human volunteers and macaques show that expectations produced by probabilistic cueing of future sensory inputs shape motor circuit dynamics in order to increase the...

Thrilled that our paper is out today in Nature!
www.nature.com/articles/s4...

Si no hay evidencia no es ciencia.

Vergüenza a El Pais por mancillar el nombre de la neurocienca con este esperpento.

Very nice thread, but can't get on board with taking all the panels to external software just for the panel labels and layout 🙅

I always use subplot_mosaic (Tutorial from matplotlib docs: tinyurl.com/3efsadeb) and add the panel labels with fig.text(), no third-party software needed!

#eNeuro | Energy Constraints Determine the Selection of Reaching Movement Trajectories in Macaque Monkeys
https://www.eneuro.org/content/12/10/ENEURO.0385-24.2025

Jane Goodall offers sage advice for the rest of us. #3E

NEW | Surging wind and solar power helped make electricity in Spain CHEAPER than in most European countries.

📈 As wind and solar grows…
📉 …The influence of costly fossil fuels on the electricity price shrinks

https://loom.ly/8DEmqVc

Woah! Late to the party, but congrats!! 🥳

If you need some spontaneous spike data, I can send it your way 😆

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I've been waiting some years to make this joke and now it’s real:

I conned somebody into giving me a faculty job!

I’m starting as a W1 Tenure-Track Professor at Goethe University Frankfurt in a week (lol), in the Faculty of CS and Math

and I'm recruiting PhD students 🤗

So cool to walk from Ising models to recurrent network dynamics at the Braitenberg prize ceremony of Sara Solla! At #bernstein conference #compneurosky

Sara Solla giving the Valentin Braitenberg award lecture at the Bernstein 2025 conference in Frankfurt

Manifold time 😉