My new podcast #TheoreticalNeurosciencePodcast is offically launched: theoreticalneuroscience.no .
In the inaugural episode (Episode #1) Grace Lindsay Grace Lindsay talks about her excellent popular computational neuroscience book 'Models of the Mind': theoreticalneuroscience.no/thn1

1/ What is the organization of mouse visual cortex across regions?

In our latest work led by Rudi Tong and Stuart Trenholm, now out on bioRxiv (biorxiv.org/content/10.110…) we mapped the 'feature landscape' of mouse visual cortex.

Here is a #tweeprint thread about what we found.

Check out our new work on understanding the tuning landscape of mouse visual cortex using ANN models! 🧵👇

Warum sind die Fähigkeiten von #KIs wie ChatGPT in den letzten Jahren so stark gewachsen?

Darüber rede ich heute Abend auf dem Science Notes Event auf der Berlin Science Week - kommt vorbei, gibt 6 coole Talks!

SO36, 20:00 Uhr, Eintritt frei!
sciencenotes.de/veranstaltunge…

New pre-print with Max Aragon, Dean Pospisil, Jonathan Pillow. ‘From connectome to effectome: learning the causal interaction map of the fly brain’. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/9

Check out our new paper on how to use the (newly released) fly connectome to learn the fly effectome! Our approach relies on optogenetic perturbations, instrumental variables, and a 'connectome prior'!

I'm happy to share the extension of the ZETA-test into a full-fledged statistical family. 📈👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

Now you can also include more cells in your GCaMP data, and perform two-sample comparisons, all binning-free!

With Guido Meijer and Alexander Heimel

biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

1/7

I'm excited to give the last SFI Community Lecture of 2023: 'The Future of AI' (because we AI folks are so good at predicting the future of our field 😌)

Wed. Nov. 15, 7:30pm Mountain Time.

And yes, it will be livestreamed on SFI's YouTube channel!

lensic.org/events/the-fut…

Thanks Paul Middlebrooks for being part of the workshop and participating the experiment of making the panel discussion into a podcast.

RT is appreciated: We have a fully funded PhD position in CMC lab (at TU Dresden). You can find more information about the position here:

shervinsafavi.github.io/cmclab/join/bn…

Please email me if you have questions. Deadline is November 30

Find more about CMC lab: cmclab.org

🎧 Have you checked out our latest podcast episode?

This month, we dive into Nathan's research Universität Tübingen on cyanobacteria as a potential eco-friendly alternative to glyphosate! 🌿🦠

open.spotify.com/show/2EJLaLeyC…

#SciencePodcast #Environment 🌍

🧠👩‍🔬 Addressing Gender Disparity in Neuroscience

This European perspective discusses two key career barriers for women in academia:

(1) transitioning from postdoc to junior professor
(2) progression to senior faculty

#womeninSTEM #GenderBias #WomenInScience

The Sensorium 2023 competition is over. Here are the winning teams:
🥇IRomul
🥈YuZhu
🥉dunedin
All winners used custom architectures. To learn more about their approaches, join our in-person workshop at NeurIPS on Friday, Dec 15, 2023. 🗓️ 1/4

🎙️New podcast episode out now!

🔗 open.spotify.com/episode/3TZ5vZ…

#phdlife #AcademicChatter #Halloween2023

There is still time to register for this exciting event happening next week in Tübingen! In-person and virtual registration options still available.

Happy to present our work today at the Thalamus Anatomy and Connectomics Conference in Tübingen! 🧠

🔗 tuebingen.mpg.de/thalamus

Took this beautiful picture this morning 🍂

In about two hours!
Sivyerlab at World Wide Neuro 🧠🗺️ invited by Tom Baden lab!

Final Call:

Apply for African Masters in Machine Intelligence ( #AMMI ) 2024! A 1-year funded #graduate program designed to equip exceptional young #africans with cutting-edge training in #MachineLearning and its applications. Visit aimsammi.org by 31/10/2023

#AI #ML

Wie können #Roboter unsere Landwirtschaft mit #KI nachhaltiger machen?🌱🤖🧑‍🌾

Darum gehts in meinem ersten Interview!⬇️Ich frage Claudio Michaelis wie sein Roboter funktioniert, der irgendwann die Monokultur ablösen soll - und welche Herausforderungen er bis dahin noch meistern muss.

Check out this new paper:

Led by Mehdi Azabou and Eva Dyer, we show that it is possible to get SOTA brain decoding with transfer across individuals and tasks!

The key is a clever way to tokenize spiking data for transformers.

#brain #neurotech #NeurIPS2023