Steeve Laquitaine, PhD

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We are looking forward to your feedback on our recent publication at #NeurIPS2025!

I’ve decided that explicitly teaching about how science funding works needs to be a part of my neurobiology lab course — it’s something I haven’t included before, and that was an oversight.

Please send any teaching resources you might find helpful. I’ll share what I end up developing.

Dynamics of specialization in neural modules under resource constraints - Nature Communications The extent to which structural modularity in neural networks ensures functional specialization remains unclear. Here the authors show that specialization can emerge in neural modules placed under reso...

What's the right way to think about modularity in the brain? This devilish 😈 question is a big part of my research now, and it started with this paper with @solarpunkgabs.bsky.social, finally published after the first preprint in 2021! 🤖🧠🧪

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

schematic of neural recordings from mouse V1, whole-brain, and hippocampus; neural activity traces from the population, showing more correlated activity in V1 and whole-brain recordings versus more decorrelated activity in hippocampus

What if… spontaneous neural activity 🧠 reflects the baseline rumblings of a brainwide dynamical system initialized for learning? We find that the rumblings have macroscopic properties like those emerging from linear symmetric, critical systems 🧵 #neuroscience #neuroAI www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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

Checkout the launch of @thetransmitter.bsky.social's new essay series on NeuroAI, with an intro by @tonyzador.bsky.social exploring how neuroscience has inspired advances in artificial intelligence and how AI has provided a testing ground for neuro models. www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/neur...

Decoding the Brain

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And delighted we got the cover 👀🤩

Our model predicts that the cortical microcircuit reshapes its stimulus-induced embeddings from input to output layers so as to improve perceptual discrimination.

Full poster here: figshare.com/s/5df5a06a4954…

Spotlight talk on Friday, 15:00-15:40, soon available on YouTube.

Fifth International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and AI

I am super excited to present our new findings this Thurs 16:20 at the Mathematics of Neuroscience & AI conv. in Rome! neuromonster.org. We use @trackingactions.bsky.social’s lab cebra to probe stimulus-induced cortical embeddings by layer, cell type, in a biophysical model of cortical microcircuit.