Andrew Davison

Andrew Davison

@apdavison.bsky.social

Researcher in neuroinformatics and computational neuroscience at the Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4793-7541

288 Followers 147 Following 7 Posts Joined Feb 2024
3 weeks ago
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⚠️ Call for new group leaders!

➡️ This year again, we are looking to host new research groups. All neuroscience research topics are welcome in our highly interdisciplinary institute!

➡️ Deadline: May the 15th 2026.

➡️ Learn more and apply: neuropsi.cnrs.fr/ao-2026/

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3 months ago
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Frontiers | Reproducibility vs. Replicability: A Brief History of a Confused Terminology A cornerstone of science is the possibility to critically assess the correctness of scientific claims made and conclusions drawn by other scientists. This re...

There is a nice discussion of some of the history of these terms in Plesser (2018) doi.org/10.3389/fnin...

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3 months ago

I would prefer to support non-profit / community-based tools. The @cnrs.fr gives some good reasons to avoid the commercial tools in their article about why they're no longer paying for WoK (www.cnrs.fr/en/update/cn...; they already dropped Scopus in 2024)

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4 months ago
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Jaxley: differentiable simulation enables large-scale training of detailed biophysical models of neural dynamics - Nature Methods Jaxley is a versatile platform for biophysical modeling in neuroscience. It allows efficiently simulating large-scale biophysical models on CPUs, GPUs and TPUs. Model parameters can be optimized with ...

Our work on training biophysical models with Jaxley is now out in @natmethods.nature.com. Led by @deismic.bsky.social, with @philipp.hertie.ai, @ppjgoncalves.bsky.social & @jakhmack.bsky.social et al.

Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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5 months ago
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The newly published brochure “Discover EBRAINS” provides insights into what the EBRAINS infrastructure has to offer and how individual researchers and institutional partners can become part of it.

Read the new brochure: www.ebrains.eu/news-and-eve...

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6 months ago
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Invisibility cloak pioneer Sir John Pendry awarded Royal Society’s top prize | Royal Society The Royal Society announces the medals and awards recipients 2025

Very honored to receive the Royal Society Research Culture Award - this represents the work of a great team who've worked non-stop since we launched bioRxiv in 2013 royalsociety.org/news/2025/08... www.cshl.edu/inglis-and-s...

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7 months ago
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We are excited to share that SpiNNcloud has been selected for the EIC Accelerator, securing €10M in blended funding (grant + equity) under the "GenAI4EU: Creating European Champions in Generative... We are excited to share that SpiNNcloud has been selected for the EIC Accelerator, securing €10M in blended funding (grant + equity) under the "GenAI4EU: Creating European Champions in Generative...

Congrats to SpiNNcloud startup! A great example of European AI innovation & brain tech evolving from research to commercial success!
The SpiNNaker2 chip was developed under Prof. Mayr’s leadership in Dresden, as part of the EU Flagship Human Brain Project. More info: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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8 months ago
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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...

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9 months ago
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Investing in Open Source sustainability: OSI supports Open Forum Europe’s EU Sovereign Tech Fund proposal The OSI has endorsed a proposal from Open Forum Europe to create an EU Sovereign Tech Fund to support maintenance and development of key Open Source software projects.

The OSI has endorsed a proposal by Open Forum Europe to create an EU Sovereign Tech Fund to support maintenance and development of key Open Source software projects. https://opensource.org/blog/investing-in-open-source-sustainability-osi-supports-open-forum-europes-eu-sovereign-tech-fund-proposal

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9 months ago
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A computational approach to evaluate how molecular mechanisms impact large-scale brain activity - Nature Computational Science A computational framework is introduced to study how molecular changes impact brain activity, using biophysically grounded mean-field models to evaluate how drugs acting on synaptic receptors lead to ...

📢Alain Destexhe and colleagues from @neuropsi.bsky.social introduce a computational framework to study how molecular changes impact brain activity. #compneurosky #Neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s43...

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9 months ago
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A tenure track "AI and pathological behavioral trajectories" Professor position is open at NeuroPSI.
Learn more and apply
🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CPJ/C...

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10 months ago
rt_neurocomp - réseau français de neurosciences computationnelles - subscribe

Researchers in France are working on creating a french network of researchers to organize interaction, communication and training in #Computational_Neuroscience. If you are a CompNeuro working in France, consider joining, and registering to our mailing list: listes.services.cnrs.fr/wws/subscrib...

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11 months ago

A recent article from the Institute Pasteur blog compares EBRAINS, DANDI and OpenNeuro as data repositories.

It highlights the different types of neuroscience data that EBRAINS accepts, as well as the curation services that EBRAINS offers.

Take a look below 👇

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11 months ago
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EBRAINS Tutorials and Users Day 2025 - Aftermovie YouTube video by EBRAINS

Earlier this month, the EBRAINS Tutorials and Users Day took place at the European Institute for Neuromorphic Computing in Heidelberg.

Take a look at our aftermovie of the event below!

youtu.be/ZGbRyVtv0sY

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11 months ago
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Our institute @neuropsi.bsky.social has an ongoing call for new team leaders, from junior to mid-career levels. All fields of neuroscience are welcome!
Apply before May 30: neuropsi.cnrs.fr/wp-content/u...
@cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @univparissaclay.bsky.social

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11 months ago
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GSoC This is the workspace for the INCF Google Summer of Code ( GSoC ) as well as Google Season of Docs projects.

INCF has been accepted as a mentoring organization in #GSoC for the 15th time!
Learn more:
GSoC discussions on Neurostars: neurostars.org/c/gsoc/5
Project ideas list, timeline, etc: bit.ly/INCFGSoC2025
#GSoC2025 #neuroscience #neuroinformagical #neuroskyence 🧪🧠

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11 months ago
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The International Brain Laboratory reproducibility platform paper is now published at eLife. An amazing effort by many different labs and individuals to understand and improve the reproducibility of electrophysiological measurements in mice. 🧠

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11 months ago

first trophy since 1955!

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11 months ago

in the Geordie (Newcastle) dialect: Howay the lads! (or gan on the Toon!)

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1 year ago
Software Sustainability Institute  Research Software Maintenance Fund logo, a grey wavy pattern

🟥 We are happy to announce that the SSI has received £4.8m from @ukri.org to launch the Research Software Maintenance Fund.
Find out more about this exciting opportunity at www.software.ac.uk/news/ukri-aw...

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1 year ago

Instead, we just need systems that make it easy for the scientific community to give feedback on papers that is prominently displayed and summarised every time the paper is accessed.

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1 year ago

Get a hands-on glimpse into the various software tools @ebrains.bsky.social has to offer, Europe's emerging RI for brain research. Choose from over 16 software tutorials -- I will also be there with a tutorial on #ephys data analysis using Elephant and data handling with Neo. See you there!

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1 year ago
Andrew Davison: Typesetting subscripts, units and physical quantities

I finally got around to putting my notes on this online a couple of weeks ago: andrewdavison.info/notes/typese...

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1 year ago

"How dare we, as scientists, decry the general population’s distrust of science, when we teach our junior scientists to follow fads and chase citations?"

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1 year ago

I'll be there with colleagues from my lab, giving tutorials on working with data and metadata in the EBRAINS Knowledge Graph.

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1 year ago

Hi @incforg.bsky.social please add me to the list!

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1 year ago
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In memoriam: Yves Frégnac, influential and visionary French neuroscientist Frégnac, who died on 18 October at the age of 73, built his career by meeting neuroscience’s complexity straight on.

Bahar Gholipour reflects on the legacy of Yves Frégnac, the French neuroscientist who built his career by meeting neuroscience’s complexity straight on.

www.thetransmitter.org/vision/in-me...

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1 year ago

RIP Yves you're with us in our heart & mind🕊️
Yves created a fantastic vibrant department beautifully named
"Unité de Neurosciences Information et Complexité", characteristic of the spirit of interdisciplinary science needed for studying the brain. I was fortunate to spend some formative years there

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1 year ago
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Read my full logic here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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1 year ago

"Reproducibility is hard" - nice piece by @petebachant.me on trying reproduce one's previous work.

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