Carsen Stringer (she/her)

large-scale neural recording of 50,000 neurons, showing many diverse activity patterns, and also what the cells look like at various zooms of the maximum projection image of the recording FOV

We wrote a review on analysis methods for large-scale neural recordings https://www.science.org/stoken/author-tokens/ST-2239/full @marius10p #neuroscience 🧠

Anything we missed? Reply w/ your fav method!

Today, I felt more ready to look systematically at what the handful of politicians and lawyers who are I deeply respect are saying. I’m sharing the best of what I have found. I don’t agree with every last word, but I agree with much and the rest is worth considering. These are people I would go […]

Large arena with 6 lick ports and a tracking camera along with fiber photometry

Laura Grima et al provide new insights into the algorithms mice use when learning to forage in large environments with many potential resources! https://biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.04.621923v2

If women gave up every time we got evidence people hate us or just don't even consider us people, nothing would ever get done.

So take a minute, feel/"honor" the awful feelings, because they're real, but then we're back to our regularly scheduled program of building the least-worst world we can.

2024 Image Analysis Survey The Center for Open Bioimage Analysis , Bioimaging North America , the Royal Microscopical Society, and the Global Bioimage Analysts’ Society have now released a new and improved edition of our biannu...

Have you ever analyzed a #microscope image before- even just a single one? Please take our survey on progress and places to still improve for image analysis software! #microscopy #imageanalysis #bioimageanalysis forum.image.sc/t/2024-image...

A green and magenta fluorescence microscopy image of kelp blades, next to text saying "Virtual I2K2024: Online Tutorials on Image Analysis. October 28-30, 2024. Virtual Conference for beginners to developers. i2kconference.org for more info .

Virtual I2K starts TOMORROW, Monday the 28th! 34 FREE sessions, 900+ registrants so far. Learn more about favorite #bioimageanalysis tools or find your next favorite! i2kconference.org/virtual

Please also help our community improve by filling out our survey - forum.image.sc/t/2024-image...

Alright, #FetchAllReplies , backend edition is open as a PR against upstream masto: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/32615

Please roast me for my code and help me get it into a state where we can make this default behavior for masto instances and remove one of the biggest contributors […]

Six tips for going public with your lab’s software: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03344-y
1) make time for maintenance
2) simplify installation
3) add a GUI or good CLI
4) good documentation
5) use github/git
6) automated testing

Any other tips people have? #SoftwareEngineering

🌟 Exciting news! Applications for HHMI’s #GilliamFellows Program are now open.🚀

The program empowers graduate students & their advisors committed to advancing equity & inclusion in science.

Applications due 12/5/24, 2 PM ET.

Learn more & apply now: https://hhmi.news/4dLSXUF

#biology […]

📢 #Rastermap paper out now, easily explore and visualize your neural recordings 🐭🐒🐟 and ANNs 🤖 https://nature.com/articles/s41593-024-01783-4. Updates from preprint include analyses of primate data and IBL task data.

Video tutorial: https://youtu.be/oQHq7yUWn2k #Neuroscience #MachineLearning

Applications are open for Janelia's jr scientist workshop on mechanistic cognitive #neuroscience 🧠 🐭 🐠 🐒 🪱. Hotel, meals & travel fully covered! Apply by Oct. 8 @ https://janelia.news/CNW25

How to apply, neuro: https://neuroscience.jhu.edu/graduate/apply + xdbio: https://xdbio.jhmi.edu/admissions/

Our lab is recruiting too! https://mouseland.github.io/

If you're interested in learning more about the program, check out this nice profile on Atika Syeda who works in our lab: https://www.janelia.org/node/69580

Two graduate students at Janelia chatting

Applications are now open for Janelia’s two joint graduate programs with Johns Hopkins: Neuroscience and Cross-Disciplinary Biology (XDBio)! Due Dec 1! 🧠 🔬 🐟 🐀 🤖 https://www.janelia.org/you-janelia/students-and-postdocs/joint-graduate-programs

Discovery of spiking network model parameters constrained by neural recordings, using simulation-based inference https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.08.21.608969v2 #neuroscience