Michael Okun
@michael-okun.bsky.social
Associate Professor of (Systems & Computational) Neuroscience @uniofnottingham.bsky.social. Interested in cortical dynamics.
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1. New preprint resolving a conundrum in systems neuroscience with an AI scientist, and humans Reilly Tilbury, Dabin Kwon, @haydari.bsky.social, @jacobmratliff.bsky.social, @bio-emergent.bsky.social, @carandinilab.net, @kevinjmiller.bsky.social, @neurokim.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Characterizing neuronal population geometry with AI equation discovery
The visual cortex contains millions of neurons, whose combined activity forms a population code representing visual stimuli. There is, however, a discrepancy between our understanding of this code at ...
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November 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
1. New preprint resolving a conundrum in systems neuroscience with an AI scientist, and humans Reilly Tilbury, Dabin Kwon, @haydari.bsky.social, @jacobmratliff.bsky.social, @bio-emergent.bsky.social, @carandinilab.net, @kevinjmiller.bsky.social, @neurokim.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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The work with bats on barren, 7-acre Latham Island was Nachum Ulanovsky’s most complex undertaking yet.
By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
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By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
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October 16, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The work with bats on barren, 7-acre Latham Island was Nachum Ulanovsky’s most complex undertaking yet.
By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
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By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/neuroetholog...
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🧠🤖 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/
💻🧬 3 weeks of intense coursework & projects with support from expert tutors and faculty
📈Apply until July 1st!
🔗https://imbizo.africa/
May 8, 2025 at 8:19 AM
🧠🤖 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/
💻🧬 3 weeks of intense coursework & projects with support from expert tutors and faculty
📈Apply until July 1st!
🔗https://imbizo.africa/
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Re-posting is appreciated: We have a fully funded PhD position in CMC lab @cmc-lab.bsky.social (at @tudresden_de). You can use forms.gle/qiAv5NZ871kv... to send your application and find more information. Deadline is April 30. Find more about CMC lab: cmclab.org and email me if you have questions.
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February 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Re-posting is appreciated: We have a fully funded PhD position in CMC lab @cmc-lab.bsky.social (at @tudresden_de). You can use forms.gle/qiAv5NZ871kv... to send your application and find more information. Deadline is April 30. Find more about CMC lab: cmclab.org and email me if you have questions.
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Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness
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March 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness
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Very happy to announce the "Paris Circuit Dynamics Conference 2025: Hippocampal–Cortical Circuits: From structure to computation", on 28 - 29 April 2025 at the Paris Brain Institute.
You are welcome to register and join us!
www.paris-circuits.eu
You are welcome to register and join us!
www.paris-circuits.eu
Paris Circuit Dynamics
This two-day conference will bring together leading experts from the Paris region and abroad to discuss the dynamics and neural coding in hippocampal and cortical circuits.
The program will focus on ...
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February 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Very happy to announce the "Paris Circuit Dynamics Conference 2025: Hippocampal–Cortical Circuits: From structure to computation", on 28 - 29 April 2025 at the Paris Brain Institute.
You are welcome to register and join us!
www.paris-circuits.eu
You are welcome to register and join us!
www.paris-circuits.eu
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Save the date!
UK Neural Computation 2025 will be at Imperial College London
9 July: ECR day
10-11 July: main meeting
9 invited speakers, 4 talks from abstracts and many posters
Abstract & registration opening soon
Pls share!
neuralcomputation.uk
UK Neural Computation 2025 will be at Imperial College London
9 July: ECR day
10-11 July: main meeting
9 invited speakers, 4 talks from abstracts and many posters
Abstract & registration opening soon
Pls share!
neuralcomputation.uk
UKNC25 |
neuralcomputation.uk
January 24, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Save the date!
UK Neural Computation 2025 will be at Imperial College London
9 July: ECR day
10-11 July: main meeting
9 invited speakers, 4 talks from abstracts and many posters
Abstract & registration opening soon
Pls share!
neuralcomputation.uk
UK Neural Computation 2025 will be at Imperial College London
9 July: ECR day
10-11 July: main meeting
9 invited speakers, 4 talks from abstracts and many posters
Abstract & registration opening soon
Pls share!
neuralcomputation.uk
"Among the generations that we synthesized, we found a bright fluorescent protein at a far distance (58% sequence identity) from known fluorescent proteins, which we estimate is equivalent to simulating five hundred million years of evolution."
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Simulating 500 million years of evolution with a language model
More than three billion years of evolution have produced an image of biology encoded into the space of natural proteins. Here we show that language models trained at scale on evolutionary data can gen...
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January 16, 2025 at 9:36 PM
"Among the generations that we synthesized, we found a bright fluorescent protein at a far distance (58% sequence identity) from known fluorescent proteins, which we estimate is equivalent to simulating five hundred million years of evolution."
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
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Check out @thetransmitter.bsky.social's newly launched calendar of advanced neuroscience courses, featuring events all over the world. www.thetransmitter.org/courses/
Courses
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January 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Check out @thetransmitter.bsky.social's newly launched calendar of advanced neuroscience courses, featuring events all over the world. www.thetransmitter.org/courses/
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What sad news - Dr. Eleanor Maguire
#neuropsychology #cognition #memory #neuroscience
www.online-tribute.com/EleanorMaguire
#neuropsychology #cognition #memory #neuroscience
www.online-tribute.com/EleanorMaguire
Eleanor Maguire | 1970 - 2025 | Online-Tribute.com
Learning and memory are so fundamental to us, so enmeshed throughout cognition, that ‘solving’ memory, unpacking its neural mechanisms and being able to conceptualise it fully will, I believe, res…
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January 6, 2025 at 8:44 PM
What sad news - Dr. Eleanor Maguire
#neuropsychology #cognition #memory #neuroscience
www.online-tribute.com/EleanorMaguire
#neuropsychology #cognition #memory #neuroscience
www.online-tribute.com/EleanorMaguire
Starting 2025 with some splendid northern lights (visible about now in Västerbotten, Sweden)
January 1, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Starting 2025 with some splendid northern lights (visible about now in Västerbotten, Sweden)
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Cutting it a bit fine, but here’s my review of the year in neuroscience for 2024
The eighth of these, would you believe? We’ve got dark neurons, tiny monkeys, the most complete brain wiring diagram ever constructed, and much more…
Published on The Spike
Enjoy!
medium.com/the-spike/20...
The eighth of these, would you believe? We’ve got dark neurons, tiny monkeys, the most complete brain wiring diagram ever constructed, and much more…
Published on The Spike
Enjoy!
medium.com/the-spike/20...
2024: A Review of the Year in Neuroscience
Feeling a bit wired
medium.com
December 30, 2024 at 4:00 PM
Cutting it a bit fine, but here’s my review of the year in neuroscience for 2024
The eighth of these, would you believe? We’ve got dark neurons, tiny monkeys, the most complete brain wiring diagram ever constructed, and much more…
Published on The Spike
Enjoy!
medium.com/the-spike/20...
The eighth of these, would you believe? We’ve got dark neurons, tiny monkeys, the most complete brain wiring diagram ever constructed, and much more…
Published on The Spike
Enjoy!
medium.com/the-spike/20...
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Applications to the 2025 Paris Spring School in Optical Imaging and Electrophysiological Recording in Neuroscience (AKA the Paris Neuro Course) are now open. Deadline on the 1st of February.
The course will run 14-27 May 2025.
parisneuro.ovh
The course will run 14-27 May 2025.
parisneuro.ovh
Paris NeuroCourse | Optical Imaging and Electrophysiological Recording in Neuroscience
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December 22, 2024 at 2:34 PM
Applications to the 2025 Paris Spring School in Optical Imaging and Electrophysiological Recording in Neuroscience (AKA the Paris Neuro Course) are now open. Deadline on the 1st of February.
The course will run 14-27 May 2025.
parisneuro.ovh
The course will run 14-27 May 2025.
parisneuro.ovh
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New job alert!
My lab (saleemlab.com) has a new postdoc / senior postdoc opening. They will be part of an exciting research supported by ERC & UKRI, studying vision during navigation. Projects range from purely computational to performing new physiological recordings.
My lab (saleemlab.com) has a new postdoc / senior postdoc opening. They will be part of an exciting research supported by ERC & UKRI, studying vision during navigation. Projects range from purely computational to performing new physiological recordings.
Saleem lab
saleemlab.com
November 27, 2024 at 5:21 PM
New job alert!
My lab (saleemlab.com) has a new postdoc / senior postdoc opening. They will be part of an exciting research supported by ERC & UKRI, studying vision during navigation. Projects range from purely computational to performing new physiological recordings.
My lab (saleemlab.com) has a new postdoc / senior postdoc opening. They will be part of an exciting research supported by ERC & UKRI, studying vision during navigation. Projects range from purely computational to performing new physiological recordings.
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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...
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
www.bristol.ac.uk
November 30, 2024 at 3:46 PM
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...
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
The weirdest chatGPT quirk as far as I can remember. Here's my own go:
November 30, 2024 at 7:56 PM
The weirdest chatGPT quirk as far as I can remember. Here's my own go:
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The talks from the UCL Neuropixels course 2024 are now on YouTube!
We had amazing speakers covering usage, new tools, and discoveries.
Special thanks to @intlbrainlab.bsky.social.
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/neuropixels/...
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The talks from the UCL Neuropixels course 2024 are now on YouTube!
We had amazing speakers covering usage, new tools, and discoveries.
Special thanks to @intlbrainlab.bsky.social.
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/neuropixels/...
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2024 at 2:39 PM
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@[email protected])
The talks from the UCL Neuropixels course 2024 are now on YouTube!
We had amazing speakers covering usage, new tools, and discoveries.
Special thanks to @intlbrainlab.bsky.social.
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/neuropixels/...
@[email protected])
The talks from the UCL Neuropixels course 2024 are now on YouTube!
We had amazing speakers covering usage, new tools, and discoveries.
Special thanks to @intlbrainlab.bsky.social.
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/neuropixels/...
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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...
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...
Projects for 2025 entry – UKRI AI CDT in Biomedical Innovation
www.ai4biomed.io
November 26, 2024 at 6:56 PM
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...
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...
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Musk made it mostly unusable for this purpose. But there was no good replacement; no place where you could expect most of what you wanted to hear about to show up in your timeline, where you could put up a post and expect most of the people you wanted to reach to see it 4/
November 26, 2024 at 8:17 PM
Musk made it mostly unusable for this purpose. But there was no good replacement; no place where you could expect most of what you wanted to hear about to show up in your timeline, where you could put up a post and expect most of the people you wanted to reach to see it 4/
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We wrote a review on analysis methods for large-scale neural recordings www.science.org/stoken/autho... @marius10p.bsky.social #neuroscience 🧪🧠
Anything we missed? Reply w/ your fav method!
Anything we missed? Reply w/ your fav method!
November 15, 2024 at 1:18 PM
We wrote a review on analysis methods for large-scale neural recordings www.science.org/stoken/autho... @marius10p.bsky.social #neuroscience 🧪🧠
Anything we missed? Reply w/ your fav method!
Anything we missed? Reply w/ your fav method!
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We’re seeking a research assistant to work on predicting which Parkinson’s patients would most benefit from deep brain stimulation. In collaboration with Machine Medicine and St George’s Hospital, London
Closes December 4th
Pls share!
jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Closes December 4th
Pls share!
jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Job Vacancy at the University of Nottingham: Research Assistant (fixed term)
We seek a predoctoral research assistant to join the Humphries’ group at the University of Nottingham on the Innovate UK-funded project “GEMINI: Platform Informatics For Data-driven Neuromodulation”. ...
jobs.nottingham.ac.uk
November 8, 2024 at 10:19 AM
We’re seeking a research assistant to work on predicting which Parkinson’s patients would most benefit from deep brain stimulation. In collaboration with Machine Medicine and St George’s Hospital, London
Closes December 4th
Pls share!
jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Closes December 4th
Pls share!
jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Our school is advertising a teaching-focused position of Assistant Professor in Neuroscience. Application deadline: 7-Nov. jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Vacancy at the University of Nottingham: Assistant Professor (Teaching & Learning) in Neuroscience
The School of Life Sciences (SoLS), University of Nottingham seeks to make a permanent teaching and curriculum leadership appointment of an Assistant Professor in Neuroscience.International applicants...
jobs.nottingham.ac.uk
October 29, 2024 at 9:42 AM
Our school is advertising a teaching-focused position of Assistant Professor in Neuroscience. Application deadline: 7-Nov. jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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We grieve the passing of Dr. Yves Frégnac.
Yves has shaped the study of cortical processing and plasticity. He heralded interdisciplinarity and was one of the founding fathers of our institute.
Our thoughts go to his family and to his friends in the community and beyond.
Yves has shaped the study of cortical processing and plasticity. He heralded interdisciplinarity and was one of the founding fathers of our institute.
Our thoughts go to his family and to his friends in the community and beyond.
October 21, 2024 at 4:13 PM
We grieve the passing of Dr. Yves Frégnac.
Yves has shaped the study of cortical processing and plasticity. He heralded interdisciplinarity and was one of the founding fathers of our institute.
Our thoughts go to his family and to his friends in the community and beyond.
Yves has shaped the study of cortical processing and plasticity. He heralded interdisciplinarity and was one of the founding fathers of our institute.
Our thoughts go to his family and to his friends in the community and beyond.
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OK, my first bsky post is...
Submit your abstracts for the SNUFA spiking neural network conference by this Friday! The conference is free, online and usually has around 700 highly engaged participants. Talks are selected by participant interest.
Please do signal boost this!
snufa.net/2024/
Submit your abstracts for the SNUFA spiking neural network conference by this Friday! The conference is free, online and usually has around 700 highly engaged participants. Talks are selected by participant interest.
Please do signal boost this!
snufa.net/2024/
September 24, 2024 at 4:56 PM
OK, my first bsky post is...
Submit your abstracts for the SNUFA spiking neural network conference by this Friday! The conference is free, online and usually has around 700 highly engaged participants. Talks are selected by participant interest.
Please do signal boost this!
snufa.net/2024/
Submit your abstracts for the SNUFA spiking neural network conference by this Friday! The conference is free, online and usually has around 700 highly engaged participants. Talks are selected by participant interest.
Please do signal boost this!
snufa.net/2024/
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We’re excited to welcome @markdhumphries.bsky.social, author of “The Spike,” as our new columnist. Check out his first piece, in which he explores how averaging is a convenient fiction of neuroscience.
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www.thetransmitter.org/neural-codin...
Averaging is a convenient fiction of neuroscience
But neurons don’t take averages. This ubiquitous practice hides from us how the brain really works.
www.thetransmitter.org
September 23, 2024 at 2:05 PM
We’re excited to welcome @markdhumphries.bsky.social, author of “The Spike,” as our new columnist. Check out his first piece, in which he explores how averaging is a convenient fiction of neuroscience.
www.thetransmitter.org/neural-codin...
www.thetransmitter.org/neural-codin...