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Katharina Wilmes

@k47h4.bsky.social

Adjunct professor in Computational Neuroscience at the Institute of Neuroinformatics, Zürich

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Travel Grants — COSYNE Apply for COSYNE 2026 Travel Grants to support your participation in Lisbon and Cascais, Portugal. Grants are available for students, postdocs, and PIs, including programs for Childcare, Presenters, N...

Travel awards are available for undergraduate students looking to attend #Cosyne25! The application is short, and the deadline is Nov 12. @cosynemeeting.bsky.social

Application: shorturl.at/6NEyk

More info: www.cosyne.org/travel-grants

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03.10.2025 15:10 — 👍 14    🔁 14    💬 1    📌 0

Awesome 4 year phd in compsys neuro !!

24.09.2025 18:01 — 👍 11    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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The detailed schedule for the #BernsteinConference is now available on our website. Check out the Invited Talks and Contributed Talks and start planning your conference visit! 👉 bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...

#BernsteinNetwork #CompNeuro

12.08.2025 07:00 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

We were asked to write a commentary on NeuroAI for Nat. Rev. Neuro. with Sadra Sadeh, so here it is: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

08.08.2025 10:31 — 👍 53    🔁 25    💬 1    📌 2
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⏳ Register for the #BernsteinConference by July 30 and secure the early-bird fees!

Register here 👉 bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...

24.07.2025 07:01 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Trying to train RNNs in a biol plausible (local) way? Well, try our new method using predictive alignment. Paper just out in Nat. Com. Toshitake Asabuki deserves all the credit!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

23.07.2025 12:10 — 👍 56    🔁 16    💬 1    📌 0
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Barcoded Rabies In Situ Connectomics for high-throughput reconstruction of neural circuits Sequencing of oligonucleotide barcodes holds promise as a high-throughput approach for reconstructing synaptic connectivity at scale. Rabies viruses can act as a vehicle for barcode transmission, than...

1/ Mapping synaptic connectivity between individual neurons is extremely laborious. We developed BRISC, a new method that makes it possible to map inputs onto 100s of neurons in the same animal in a matter of weeks! Led by Alex Becalick and @antblot.bsky.social. 🧵

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

21.07.2025 07:58 — 👍 93    🔁 40    💬 3    📌 0
Formulas and numbers from the field of machine learning written in white chalk on a blackboard

Formulas and numbers from the field of machine learning written in white chalk on a blackboard

Together with #AIMS, the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, we have an exciting position to fill: The AIMS - Tübingen Junior Research Chair in Machine Learning for Science! 1/2

16.07.2025 12:46 — 👍 9    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 2
(SW2025) Top-down control of neural dynamics – Bernstein Netzwerk Computational Neuroscience

Undecided whether to attend the #BernsteinConference2025 ?

@ackurth.bsky.social and myself put together a stellar lineup for a satellite workshop on the effects of top-down signals on neuronal dynamics! 🧠✨📣

bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...

10.07.2025 10:52 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
#Imbizo - Simons Computational Neuroscience Imbizo - #Imbizo Simons Computational Neuroscience Imbizo summer school in Cape Town, South Africa

Here is your last reminder that the application deadline for Imbizo.Africa is nearing quickly, the 1st of July, in fact tomorrow. Still the place where diversity is at its best in the world! Tell all who need to hear. #africa #neuro

30.06.2025 19:53 — 👍 20    🔁 17    💬 0    📌 0
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⏰ Last minute reminder! Only 48 hours left to submit your contributed talk abstracts for the #BernsteinConference 2025!

🗓️ Deadline: June 17, 15:00 CEST

All information and submission form 👉 bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...

15.06.2025 13:03 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Open positions

PhD/Postdoc position in Computational Neuroscience at the Institute of Neuroinformatics (UZH and ETH Zürich): we are investigating the neural circuits underlying perception and learning in uncertain environments: www.ini.uzh.ch/en/research/... #PhD #ComputationalNeuroscience #UZHZurich #ETHZurich

11.06.2025 08:54 — 👍 9    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

I'm excited to announce that my lab's open textbook on Scientific Computing for Cognitive Neuroscience (v1.0) has just gone live! Our goal is to help mend the gap between the computational skills needed by cognitive neuroscience, and typical curricula that don't yet include it. 1/3

09.06.2025 16:10 — 👍 116    🔁 42    💬 8    📌 1
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🛰️ The selected Satellite Workshops of the #BernsteinConference 2025 are now listed on our website!

Take a look 👉 bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...

04.06.2025 08:02 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Uncertainty estimation with prediction-error circuits - Nature Communications How the brain integrates sensory input and predictions to adapt to change is not fully understood. Here authors build a neural network model to show how prediction-error neurons compute uncertainty of...

How should you combine sensory inputs with your internal predictions? Well, use uncertainty directly computed by your prediction-error circuits. Cool? Check out our Nat. Com. paper with Loreen Hertäg and @k47h4.bsky.social . www.nature.com/articles/s41...

28.03.2025 12:59 — 👍 79    🔁 20    💬 1    📌 0

Abstract submission is open for the 34th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting CNS*2025 in Florence, Italy, July 5-9, 2025!

Submit your abstract latest TOMORROW, March 15th: www.cnsorg.org/cns-2...

14.03.2025 12:55 — 👍 1    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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various computational neuroscience / MEEG / LFP short courses and summer schools

📆 updated for 2025: list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP:
google sheet 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

10.03.2025 16:18 — 👍 31    🔁 17    💬 2    📌 0
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My lab is looking for a computational neuroscience postdoctoral researcher:
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
Come join us at the @dondersinst.bsky.social!

12.02.2025 08:56 — 👍 36    🔁 34    💬 0    📌 1

at the moment, lots of people from around here are looking for jobs. behavioral/cognitive/systems neuro, experimental/computational – if you are hiring, feel free to send me ads and I will distribute. 🙂

11.02.2025 08:55 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

RA positions with potential PhD continuation are now open! We're seeking two candidates with slice patch clamp or programming skills for the projects outlined in the advert: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50040/
Apply by 21 February!

26.01.2025 13:37 — 👍 11    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 2
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Navigating uncertainty: reward location variability induces reorganization of hippocampal spatial representations Navigating uncertainty is crucial for survival, with the location and availability of reward varying in different and unsignalled ways. Hippocampal place cell populations over-represent salient locati...

Curious how place cells adapt to uncertainty in reward location? We found that predictable changes boost “reward place cells” & warp hippocampal maps. Check out our new preprint: with Feng Xuan, Jack Mellor, Peter Dayan and Dan Dombeck: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

07.01.2025 21:20 — 👍 55    🔁 19    💬 1    📌 0


Interested in theoretical neuroscience or machine learning but come from a non-quantitative background? This summer school is for you! Learn the foundational theory needed to excel in a quantitative PhD in 7 weeks. Apply by feb 7!

06.01.2025 15:21 — 👍 6    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
Schematic explaining the generalization of the neural tangent kernel

Schematic explaining the generalization of the neural tangent kernel

Super excited about NeurIPS@Paris! Tomorrow, I will give a talk on our generalization of the neural tangent kernel to surrogate gradient learning.

If you cannot make it to Paris, check out our work here: openreview.net/forum?id=kfd...
@neuripsconf.bsky.social
#NeurIPS2024

03.12.2024 21:51 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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🚨Preprint alert🚨

In an amazing collaboration with @lucasgruaz.bsky.social, S Becker, & J Brea, we explored a major puzzle in #neuroscience & #psychology:

**What are the merits of curiosity?** 🧠🧑‍🔬🧪
osf.io/preprints/ps...

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18.11.2024 14:03 — 👍 36    🔁 14    💬 2    📌 1

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