Lisa Schmors

Excited to present at #NeurIPS this week on my work building biophysical models of the outer retina! If you’re around come check it out or just say hi, poster #2015, Friday 11-2🎉

You can find the full paper here: openreview.net/forum?id=ayj...

In brief🧵:

The poster will be presented in Exhibit Hall C,D,E #2014 on Wednesday, 3 Dec 4:30 p.m. PST — 7:30 p.m. PST
by @dgonschorek.bsky.social

#neurips2025 #CompNeuro #NeuroAI #neurips

Excited to share that our paper got accepted @NeurIPS! 🎉

We introduce TRACE, a new contrastive learning method for visualizing multi-trial neural time-series data.

📊 2D visualizations revealing biological patterns
🔍 Automatic artifact detection
🔬 Works for calcium imaging & electrophysiology data

“If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together.”

🌍 This motto shaped the past 3 days at the “Forum Connect & Exchange“ in Bonn.

Our South African–German project on AI for epilepsy diagnosis is among the 9 international initiatives funded by the @dfg.de 🇿🇦🇩🇪

The Deep Learning Indaba in Kigali, Rwanda has been a great experience!

I feel honored that I was invited to give a talk at the NeuroAI workshop and join the panel discussion🧠🤖

I’m leaving with new ideas, new perspectives, and new colleagues and friends 🌍

@deeplearningindaba.bsky.social

Meet Mila at Deep Learning Indaba 2025! Our team is excited to connect with you at this year’s event! Drop by our booth to meet our students, exchange ideas, and dive into the groundbreaking projects we’re bringing to life.

🤔 Did you know that LLMs charge per token?

🌍 And that non-English text get separated into more tokens?

💸 This creates higher costs for LLM input for non-English text! How can we change this???

🎓 I learned that at the @deeplearningindaba.bsky.social tutorial on LLMs

Deeply impressed by the first keynote lecture at the @deeplearningindaba.bsky.social in Rwanda 🇷🇼

Verena Rieser from Google DeepMind talked about aligning AI with diverse views on what’s safe to build AI systems that benefit all and focus on long-term wellbeing 🤖🫂

#DLI2025

Questions?
isicn.imbizo.planning@gmail.com

What is an Imbizo?
\ɪmˈbiːzɒ\ | Xhosa - Zulu
A gathering of the people to share knowledge.

🧠🤖 Computational Neuroscience summer school IMBIZO in Cape Town is open for applications again!
 
💻🧬 3 weeks of intense coursework & projects with support from expert tutors and faculty
 
📈Apply until July 1st!

🔗https://imbizo.africa/

🎙️ New episode for “I am scientist” podcast

🗣️ First *English* episode with @philipphubert.bsky.social & me

💻 We talk about the right mindset for a successful PhD & about things that helped us mentally along the way

➡️ The kind of resource I wish I had when I started

Thanks for sharing Patrik!

🎧 New podcast episode out!

💌 Writing emails to people that you don't know - but you would like to work with - can open unexpected doors for young scientists!

👩‍👦‍👦 Julia shares how she conducted research at prestigious institutions world wide, while being a mum of two kids!

Very inspiring story ✨

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Team appreciation Tuesday @hertie-ai.bsky.social! 🥳

Congrats to both of us Dr. Jan @janlause.bsky.social 🥰

hertie.ai/team-appreci...

Diesmal saßen wir auf der anderen Seite! 🎙️🤯

Letzte Woche hat Christine Vallbracht uns für Forschung & Lehre interviewt – eine spannende Erfahrung, selbst die Fragen zu beantworten! 🎤👀

Neugierig auf Einblicke hinter die Kulissen? Hier geht’s zum Artikel: www.forschung-und-lehre.de/karriere/pro...

Interview-Podcast mit Tipps für die Promotion Drei Menschen, drei Promotionen, ein Podcast. Mit "I am Scientist" begleiten Daniel Hölle, Philipp Hubert und Lisa Schmors Promovierende – nicht nur.

Did you ever think about starting your own #podcast? 🎙️

Read about our story here www.forschung-und-lehre.de/karriere/pro...

We're also sharing
📱 Our favorite free tools + software
📈 How we grew a listener base
🔥 Tips for getting started

Our podcast: @i-am-scientist.bsky.social

#sciencepodcast

If you sometimes feel lost or burned out during your PhD, you are not alone 🫂

Listen to our latest episode to get advice and honest insights 🎧

(stoked for our first episode in English - long overdue 😁)

Our science podcast is on Bluesky now 👏

I’ll be managing this account, so please leave a like, leave a follow 🙂‍↕️

Thanks - and enjoy your Sunday🫡

Cool, I didn’t know! Thanks :)

Yes that’d be great!

Bluesky is great and all, but who else misses the bookmark function? It’s the one thing I used religiously used to save papers and threads, and now I’m lost without it 🥲
Anyone else?

Spotlight on: Hertie AI Postdoc @lisaschmors.bsky.social who recently successfully defended her PhD in the Department of Data Science.Besides her research Lisa is active in the "I am Scientist" tr.ee/bN17W5qW53 Podcast and wrote several bloposts about her experiences as an PhD student on hertie.ai

Scholar Spotlight: Lisa Schmors Lisa integrates machine learning and neuroscience to study how brain states and neural mechanisms process sensory information. A key achievement in her journey is developing a data-efficient vision mo...

What did I actually do in my PhD? 📊

Excited to share that @maxplanckcampus.bsky.social published a blog post about my work at the intersection of machine learning and neuroscience 🤖🧠

➕snapshot from one of my favorite moments: presenting my research during sunset 🌅 at on a beautiful Greek island

1) With our @neuripsconf.bsky.social poster happening tomorrow, it's about time to introduce our Spotlight paper 🔦, co-lead with @jkapoor.bsky.social:

Latent Diffusion for Neural Spiking data (LDNS), a latent variable model (LVM) which addresses 3 goals simultaneously:

**The ultimate systems #neuroscience paper!**

Recording every spike, every stimulus, every action during person's first half of life to predict second half?

The future of papers and neuro, are we almost there yet? That would great discussion to have online.

www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...

This.

hi everyone!! let's try this optimal transport again 🙃

"If neuroscience is to meaningfully contribute to AI safety, we need to dramatically accelerate our ability to record, analyze, simulate, and understand neural systems." 💯

How close is AI to human-level intelligence? Large language models such as OpenAI’s o1 have electrified the debate over achieving artificial general intelligence, or AGI. But they are unlikely to reach this milestone on their own.

Will simply scaling up LLMs get us to AGI? My feature for Nature, w/ inputs from @fchollet.bsky.social @rao2z.bsky.social @yoshuabengio.bsky.social @melaniemitchell.bsky.social @dileeplearning.bsky.social @andrewgwils.bsky.social, Raia Hadsell, Keyon Vafa, Karl Friston www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The title is „Statistical frameworks for sensory processing“ 🧠🤓

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🦋 Can we start calling posts "flaps" instead of "tweets"?

That way, we can "re-flap" and call replies "flapbacks"! 🐦

Lunch brainstorming w/ @janlause.bsky.social @ritagonmar.bsky.social @seelio.bsky.social