A 🍍 spotted in the wild at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social!

Great crash course on neuro data processing with @pynapple.bsky.social and @spikeinterface.bsky.social delivered by @matthiashennig6.bsky.social, @wulfdewolf.bsky.social and Chris Halcrow. So nice to see both libraries working so well together

We present our preprint on ViV1T, a transformer for dynamic mouse V1 response prediction. We reveal novel response properties and confirm them in vivo.

With @wulfdewolf.bsky.social, Danai Katsanevaki, @arnoonken.bsky.social, @rochefortlab.bsky.social.

Paper and code at the end of the thread!

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Last week, Samuel Garcia and I gave a public webinar on the SpikeInterface-GUI, a powerful tool for spike sorting visualization and curation.
github.com/SpikeInterfa...

If you missed it, you can check out the viedo on the @spikeinterface.bsky.social youtube channel:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZl8...

SpikeInterface is on BSky!

The latest addition to the codebase is UnitRefine for fully automated curation. Check it out, feedback would be appreciated:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excited to share our new pre-print on bioRxiv, in which we reveal that feedback-driven motor corrections are encoded in small, previously missed neural signals.

In this work by @henri96.bsky.social we suggest that refractoriness of plasticity may be essential for representation learning.
Amazingly a paper is just out that further confirms this mechanism exists (in cultured slices from neonatal mice): www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Postdoc position in Bristol in a animal behaviour project lead by the great Emma Robinson, I'm a co-I and we're looking for a computational person keen to do experiments or an experimental person keen to learn some modelling.

www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

PhD project!

For those interested in NeuroAI: "Using large scale neural network models to bridge the translational gap from animal models to human insights in autism spectrum and neurodevelopmental disorders"

Apply here: www.ai4biomed.io/research/pro...

Just putting this out again as there are now people to see it!

Very nice and useful work that makes use of the great tools ecosystem we have now.

This is brilliant collection of material on the beginnings of AI:
The History of AI, Computer and Cognitive Science @ Edinburgh compiled by Chris Williams , Vassilis Galanos and Xiao Yang:
groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/aics_history/
(...and learn how a recent Nobel laureate got along with the PhD supervisor)

First post here to promote a nice article by Gaëlle Chapuis and Olivier Winter of the International Brain Lab - it argues for more stable career paths for research software engineers in science. Have a read and share: www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...