Aitor Morales-Gregorio

A drawing on the cover of the journal Neuron. Each section of the fan has a drawing of a mouse. Each mouse has a slightly different pose. The tassel of the fan resembles a neuron.

My first cover of 2026
"Spontaneous behavior is a succession of self-directed tasks"
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
#sciArt #Scicom #illustration #neuroskyence

Stunning 😍

Can electrical microstimulation be used to steer cortical population activity on- and off-manifold? Our new preprint says yes — using data-driven control in macaque PFC. Joint work with @gbarzon.bsky.social, Anandita De, Isaac Moran, Conner Carnahan, and Luca Mazzucato.

Delighted to talk about my experience as a postdoc at Charles University in Prague, CZ, after having started my career in the UK as a Romanian expat. If you want to hear more about the challenges and joys of working and living on the move, don’t hesitate to give this a listen!

How does academic life in the UK compare with that in Czechia, and what can early-career researchers take away from both? And how can personal experiences and mentoring shape the journey of a postdoctoral researcher?

New episode of the Postdoctoral Podcast with Cristina Balaban is out! 🎙️

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Neurons around a recording ephys electrode

Diagram of monkey looking at a screen in a neuroscience experiment

Spike rasters for two units in response to a checkerboard shown in the screen. One is an ON neuron, the other is an OFF neuron

Waveforms of single neurons within a single ephys electrode sorted using K-means clustering.

Just uploaded some of my *hand-crafted* comp-neuro teaching materials, thought they might be useful to someone out there.

It's just some exercise notebooks for data analysis github.com/morales-greg...

Episode #38 in #TheoreticalNeurosciencePodcast: On extracting spiking network models from experiments - with Richard Gao @rdgao.bsky.social

theoreticalneuroscience.no/thn38

How to fit spiking network models to experimental data when there is no unique parameter set giving the best fit.

An array of 9 purple discs on a blue background. Figure from Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt.

A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue.

The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea.

From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt:
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...

A good day is when after teaching a trainee about some new method you can see the glimmer in their eyes when they finally understand and realize the complexity and beauty of it all.

A great day is when the new results pour in and you know you are the only human(s) to know this tiny thing 😁

Mathematical Methods in Computational Neuroscience Summer school in Eresfjord, Norway (July 8th - 26th, 2024)

Applications are now open for the summer school: 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐝𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐍𝐞𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞

🧠 Apply before March 15: www.compneuronrsn.org

📍 Located in beautiful Eresfjord 🇳🇴
🗓️ Between July 6-24

Supported by the @kavlifoundation.org
In collaboration with @kavlintnu.bsky.social

Ultrafast nanolasers mimic how the brain imagines unseen parts of the world A new study fostered by EBRAINS has demonstrated how networks of spiking nanolasers could emulate a key principle of brain function: to imagine things that…

A new study fostered by EBRAINS has demonstrated how networks of spiking nanolasers could emulate a key principle of brain function: to imagine things that we cannot directly perceive by sampling from internal models of the world.

Read more: ebrains.eu/news-and-eve...

@unibe.ch

This week's guest of the Making Connections seminar series is Casey Paquola, talking about multiscale neurodevelopment. As usual, it'll be on Thursday at 15:00 UTC, and here's the link to register:
cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

hidden away*

I was this week years old when I realized that all the skeets from the scientists I follow and love are hidden way in the "Quiet posters" feed not in "Following" 😅

The misuse of colour in science communication - Nature Communications The accurate representation of data is essential in science communication, however, colour maps that visually distort data through uneven colour gradients or are unreadable to those with colour vision...

Keep science accessible 🧪

Rejecting another Elsevier review request. Hoping my attempt at a dispassionate tone keeps my contempt for Elsevier from leaking through.

Heheh, not now, there was such a moment, but a few years ago ;)

We even have a paper about this on the pipeline 🙈

Join us in Prague this year 🧪

ASPP will be in Prague this year! #aspp2026

Hands-on python fun + a lovely, supportive community by day, crisp cool staropramen and knedlíky by night - it is going to be peak life 👾💗

a man in a suit and tie is making a sad face . Alt: a man in a suit and tie is making a sad face, the caption says "The flashbacks kicking in"

Oh no no, the imageless thoughts are still very distracting. But at least not in "Vietnam flashback" style

Gotta cope somehow that I am missing out 😅

That's me! No image, no problem 🤷‍♂️🍎

Y'all are getting distracted by mental movies while we are just staring at a void and getting distracted by anything else ;)

Yeap. I think the budget is actually planned be double for the 2028-2034 period, the EU is just slow in making these changes, they should have doubled it already now given the global situation

I mean, they are useful to the people who managed to get them

But yes the scoring is just crazy, maybe a lottery among the projects with >85 or so would be fairer

Students need to remember that Inigo Montoya method for emails and greetings:
"Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”

Polite Greeting
Name
Relevant Personal Link
Manage Expectations

Keep it BRIEF.

Congrats!

18th Summer School Advanced Scientific Programming in Python.

You are in science and write Python every day? But you feel you want to understand the Python part a little bit better? Then join us in Prague, Czechia for this year’s summer school ‘Advanced Scientific Programming in Python’. 🧑‍🔬🧑‍💻🧑‍🏫 30st August–06th September 2026. #aspp2026

Apply now: aspp.school

Manifolds, Dendrites, and the Geometry of Neural Computation The population doctrine—the view that populations, not individual neurons, constitute the fundamental unit of computation—has been gaining ground for years.

New Journal Club: Neural manifolds are maturing from visualization trick to biological claim. But if population activity lives on low-dimensional manifolds, what constrains the geometry?

Unexpected partial recovery of natural vision observed after intracortical microstimulation in a blind patient A patient with complete blindness caused by irreversible optic nerve damage partially recovered natural vision after participating in a clinical trial of electrical stimulation of the visual cortex co...

Unexpected partial recovery of natural vision observed after intracortical microstimulation in a blind patient medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02... "The unexpected improvement was spontaneous, sustained over time, and independent of the implanted device." #BCI #NeuroTech #blindness

The unexpected sight: improvement of visual function following intracortical microstimulation of the human occipital cortex Alfaro et al. report the case of a blind individual who participated in a clinical trial involving intracortical microstimulation of the visual cortex. Fol

A blind person recovered low vision within a few days of being implanted with a Utah array and receiving electrical stimulation in the visual cortex.

An unexpected and exciting discovery by @umh.es researchers 👀🧠

doi.org/10.1093/brai...

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