Eliezyer de Oliveira

This 2017 preprint by @suryaganguli.bsky.social is foundational: the dimension of a neural code can't be > that of the experiment used to measure it. Yet it is not very widely known. Maybe because people don't like the message? And because it's "unpublished"? (After writing it, Gao left for SpaceX)

Me trying to keep up with the oscillations discussion in bluesky

We will have a thread and a party when the paper comes out! In the meantime the updated preprint is greatly improved over previous versions thanks to constructive feedback from reviewers!

I'm happy to share that I've recently started a postdoctoral position in the Priya Rajasethupathy Lab at Rockefeller University!

I'm excited for this new chapter where I'll continue exploring brain intrinsic activity and the rules that govern cognition, now diving deeper into molecular approaches.

Remember to share your posters online if you can, so folks like me can see what you have been up to 🧐

For everyone going to #SfN in San Diego

Our lab is looking for a postdoc! We have interesting projects and cutting-edge techniques such as Neuropixels Opto, Light Beads Microscopy and more. We would be delighted to receive your application. Deadline is 25 November 2025. More info here:
www.ucl.ac.uk/cortexlab/po...

I'd be picking age of empires 2 for this

A lot of contributions here, even new ways to define authorship order

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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 🤗

This way they can just swap the names 😅

Thank you!

The computer pieces are still free for all

The prized possessions include a can of sardines, a working air drill, and 12 ready to go glass pipettes, among so many other items that money can't buy

The spot of a past lab member usually gets scavenged by other members rather quickly, on a first-come, first-served basis. This time, I'm separating my most valuable possessions and making a raffle so that the other lab members have equal opportunities in the scavenging

It's to keep the authenticity

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Stoked to see this paper finally out!

It answers two big questions: where visual objects are encoded in the brain, and how head-direction cells get oriented using visual landmarks.

Super fun collaboration with @mace-lab.bsky.social and Stuart Trenholm.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Thrilled to share that our work is now published in Science! ✨

We found a preference for visual objects in the mouse spatial navigation system where they dynamically refine head-direction coding. In short, objects boost our inner compass! 🧭

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Gero's talk at the last SFN about this has been the most mind-blowing seminar in neuroscience I've seen.

Thank you!

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A katana sword is displayed on a wooden table. It has a black blade and a dark blue handle wrapped with cord. The scabbard is black with silver detailing, and engravings reading 'Eliezyer Fermino de Oliveira, PhD July 31, 2025' and a manifold are visible along the blade.

Last week I defended my Ph.D. It's a bittersweet moment to say goodbye to a project that has shaped my life for years. Time to look toward what's next.
To everyone who's been part of this journey, thank you.
I also got this slick katana with a manifold engraved in it, from @lukesjulson.bsky.social

A dream coming true. Read this great thread by Ralph focusing on our study of New York Rats.

Look at those cute NYC rats running around :D

@cbehav.bsky.social

I previously noticed that to decode body movements from V1 superficial layers required much more neurons (>600) than my recordings of deep layers (~200). It's great to see a head-to-head comparison

My Linux machine has been up for 102 days and I'm scared of restarting it and never coming up online again

I've been writing my thesis and I don't think it's as bad as people make it to be. Honestly, it feels rewarding at times

Discovering cognitive strategies with tiny recurrent neural networks - Nature Modelling biological decision-making with tiny recurrent neural networks enables more accurate predictions of animal choices than classical cognitive models and offers insights into the underlying cog...

Thrilled to see our TinyRNN paper in @nature! We show how tiny RNNs predict choices of individual subjects accurately while staying fully interpretable. This approach can transform how we model cognitive processes in both healthy and disordered decisions. doi.org/10.1038/s415...