Francesco Battaglia

Call for Participation: Brain and Organisms: Neuroscience Beyond Computation, which will take place 16–20 March 2026 at the Lorentz Center@omega in Leiden.
Registration required.
More info: www.lorentzcenter.nl/brain-and-or...

@philsci.bsky.social @battaglialab.bsky.social @sfn.org @fens.org

Skala is now available to everyone!
Why are we releasing it? Because we’re not just aiming to publish a cool paper — we’re on a mission to bring DFT to chemical accuracy using deep learning. And to make real progress, we need the community’s feedback.
#compchem

@guidomeijer.com has #neuropixels preprocessing worked out for you!

Kilosort4 detects a LOT of neurons, I recorded 15k neurons in one year 🤯 Traditionally, one would curate these detected units to see if they are well isolated single neurons. This is not feasible anymore, so today let's look at three options that are out there to automate this process! 🤖👇

Please find this English masters program in Neurophysics. Study the brain, artificial neural networks and complex systems through the lens of mathematical modeling and physics. Radboud University / Donders (Netherlands) is one of Europe’s leading universities in Neuroscience. 1/3

Come study at the @dondersinst.bsky.social Neurophysics Master!

Are we born to succeed or are we made to succeed? Genes and society shape each other. This comic, based on our Nature Human Behaviour article, shows how social inequality leaves genetic traces — and how social structures and genetics are linked acros...

"We are not just products of our genes or our environment, but of their dance across time. The past has shaped our DNA-but the future is ours to shape".
Beautiful use of comics for skillful science communication of a complex & nuanced topic, by @dr-appie.bsky.social & @lizahaart.bsky.social. 🧬🧪👇

⏰ Today's the day:

please register today (anywhere on earth) if you plan to join us.

Very much looking forward to seeing you there!

"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research"

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Human brain dynamics are shaped by rare long-range connections over and above cortical geometry.

Some new results to inform this debate.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Christopher Cover, Alexander J. Poplawsky, et al:

Awake rodent fMRI: Gradient-echo echo planar imaging versus compressed-sensing fast low-angle shot

direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Saskia Helbling:

Inferring laminar origins of MEG signals with optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs): A simulation study

direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

THE TOP 50 GUARDIAN HEADLINES 2024 - RANKED!

part 1, 50-26

50. How I turned my gap year into an ethical-criminal "dementerprise"

49. Could Trump's war on NATO's "Axis of Woke" save the marmoset?

48. Microdosed and hairless in the bath, I sang old CND protest songs

I'm excited to share another project we've been working on: The Transmitter's first book, which includes some of our favorite essays from our first ~9 months. Download a copy here: www.thetransmitter.org/transmitter-...

Causal inference on human behaviour - Nature Human Behaviour In this Review, Drew Bailey et al. present an accessible, non-technical overview of key challenges for causal inference in studies of human behaviour as well as methodological solutions to these chall...

A few papers I think worth reading. Mostly open access.

Causal inference is hard:

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

The idea that human cognition is, or can be understood as, a form of computation is a useful conceptual tool for cognitive science. It was a foundational assumption during the birth of cognitive science as a multidisciplinary field, with Artificial Intelligence (AI) as one of its contributing fields. One conception of Al in this context is as a provider of computational tools (frameworks, concepts, formalisms, models, proofs, simulations, etc.) that support theory building in cognitive science. The contemporary field of Al, however, has taken the theoretical possibility of explaining human cognition as a form of computation to imply the practical feasibility of realising human(-like or -level) cognition in factual computational systems; and, the field frames this realisation as a short-term inevitability. Yet, as we formally prove herein, creating systems with human(-like or -level) cognition is intrinsically computationally intractable.

🚨Our paper `Reclaiming AI as a theoretical tool for cognitive science' is now forthcoming in the journal Computational Brain & Behaviour. (Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...)

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#metatheory #AGI #AIhype #cogsci #theoreticalpsych #criticalAIliteracy

A simulated annealing algorithm for randomizing weighted networks” | nature.com/articles/s43...

How do we randomize brain connectomes (and other networks) with biological edge weights? @richardfbetzel.bsky.social
@natcomputsci.bsky.social ⤵️

I’ve had a guy who literally never made a Bluesky account before, only posted on his own page and followed less than 60 people get banned in one day on here and then when he made a new account get banned again…

I’m assuming it is due to people searching Gaza and mass reporting new accounts

(recycled from X)

My favorite take on LLM intelligence is by Paul Cisek on the connectionists mailing list:

"We are like a bunch of professional magicians (...) wondering: 'Maybe there really is magic?

I think it’s not that machines have passed the Turing Test, but rather that we failed it." 🔥

Multifunctional hydrogel electronics for closed-loop antiepileptic treatment Hydrogel electronics enables smart antiseizure management by a closed-loop therapeutic system.

This flexible, Utah Array-like device with sensing and drug delivery all in one seems like it will have a lot of applications. What's next?
doi.org/10.1126/scia...
#neuroscience #neuroskyence #ephys #neurotech #MATLAB
I can't find TDT on here yet.

We have with Bryan Souza a PhD project proposal under shared supervision at the DIM C-BRAINS (listed under NeuREMotion). International undergraduate students, check the program and apply!! (to our or other projects)
dim-cbrains.fr/fr/phd-progr...
#neuroskyence

From war zones to climate disasters, #MSF teams have been there, providing care and support in over 75 countries.

This collection of 65 images shows just a fraction of the incredible work our teams are doing every day.

www.msf.org/year-picture...

Summer Workshop on the Dynamic Brain 2025 The Summer Workshop on the Dynamic Brain is an intensive, project-based residential course with a focus on the neurobiology of sensory processing, coding, and neural population dynamics.

Applications are open for our Summer Workshop in the Dynamic Brain!! This is a two week computational neuroscience course for grad students and postdocs. Check it out!!
alleninstitute.org/events/summe...

I love how many brain signals that people thought were related to cognition are actually just related to breathing lol nice work everyone this is going great

A Prefrontal Cortex Map based on Single Neuron Activity The intrinsic organization underlying the central cognitive role of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) is poorly understood. The work to date has been dominated by cytoarchitecture as a canvas for studies on...

Our new study is out on BioRXiv!

tinyurl.com/pfcmap

We (@carlenlab.bsky.social lab) mapped the mouse PFC using single-unit activity! We recorded ~23,000 neurons across cortical/subcortical regions and profiled spont. firing patterns to reveal what separates the PFC from other brain regions.

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Open letter of psychologists and neuroscientists for peace in the Middle East We, psychologists and neuroscientists from around the world, call the international community to urgently put pressure towards an immediate ceasefire in Israel, Palestine and Lebanon, to demand that t...

Psychologists and neuroscientists are calling for international pressure towards immediate ceasefire in Israel, Palestine & Lebanon, respect for international humanitarian law, end of the occupation, and release of all hostages.

Read & join us by signing here: tinyurl.com/PsychLetter

most people want a quick and simple answer to why AI systems encode/exacerbate societal and historical bias/injustice and due to the reductive but common thinking of "bias in, bias out," the obvious culprit often is training data but this is not entirely true

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