Spiking neural networks people, this message is for you!
The annual SNUFA workshop is now open for abstract submission (deadline Sept 26) and (free) registration. This year's speakers include Elisabetta Chicca, Jason Eshraghian, Tomoki Fukai, Chengcheng Huang, and... you?
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#neuroscience #computationalneuroscience#SpikingNeuralNetworks
Spiking neural networks people, this message is for you!
The annual SNUFA workshop is now open for abstract submission (deadline Sept 26) and (free) registration. This year's speakers include Elisabetta Chicca, Jason Eshraghian, Tomoki Fukai, Chengcheng Huang, and... you?
Please boost!
#neuroscience #computationalneuroscience#SpikingNeuralNetworks
We want to hear from you! @thetransmitter and @neuromatch are teaming up to better understand how to support early-career researchers. Make sure your voice is heard.
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We want to hear from you! @thetransmitter and @neuromatch are teaming up to better understand how to support early-career researchers. Make sure your voice is heard.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/early-career-researchers/what-kinds-of-support-do-early-career-researchers-need/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=org-social&utm_campaign=20250804-ecr-neuromatch-survey
This funding freeze will have a devastating impact on the scientific community at UCLA #neurosciencehttps://laist.com/news/climate-environment/ucla-researchers-react-to-funding-freeze
This funding freeze will have a devastating impact on the scientific community at UCLA #neurosciencehttps://laist.com/news/climate-environment/ucla-researchers-react-to-funding-freeze
Fellow multilingual people, how strongly do you:
1) “think” in a certain language
2) use a different thinking language
3) feel that you have different thoughts based on the language you think in
4) how related is the language you speak to the way you think ?
Also people who are in the field (cognitive neuroscience? Linguistics?), what’s some good current material on the topic?
I know it’s a lot of weird questions that are probably impossible to answer.
FWIW I can’t really pinpoint if I think in a certain language. I do think my personality changes a bit or rather, I feel like my personality changes (for example the cliche of the rude French person with a proclivity for sexualized language). Certain things are easier to express in a certain language and thus influence the recursive thinking-speaking/writing loop (ever tried to explain something technical in French, or do Deleuze style poetic rambling in English?), but it feels like an externality.
New preprint out!
Beyond picking and choosing: The emerging neurobiology of decision-making
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16571152
Part of an upcoming special issue with contributors from this conference:
My talk was recorded:
https://youtu.be/Yabf5Y1KQ68?si=OyTSx5zSBW5jKCOg
as was the kick-off presentation of organizer Anne Sophie Meincke:
Next was an amazing talk by Russell Poldrack on reproducibility in cognitive neuroscience at the UW eScience Institute. Poldrack combines incisive statistical commentary with devastating analyses and experiments demonstrating the extremely brittle nature of neuroscience results, moving on to suggest approaches to improve the field. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haNjW58rbWM (4/7) #statistics #neuroscience #science
Next was an incredible talk by Anita Chan on eugenics in Big Tech at the UCSD Design Lab. Chan convincingly demonstrates the connection from the eugenics and anti-immigration movements to today and approaches to resist. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-Sxm3AJmZg (5/7) #ethics
Next was an excellent talk by @caterinagratton on "precision" in fMRI at the UW eScience Institute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2TbMfJrwi4 (6/7) #neuroscience
Next was an amazing talk by Russell Poldrack on reproducibility in cognitive neuroscience at the UW eScience Institute. Poldrack combines incisive statistical commentary with devastating analyses and experiments demonstrating the extremely brittle nature of neuroscience results, moving on to suggest approaches to improve the field. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haNjW58rbWM (4/7) #statistics #neuroscience #science
First was a thought-provoking talk by John Darrel Van Horn on statistics considerations for modeling and inference in neuroimaging at the University of Washington eScience Institute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuccSHg04dQ (2/7) #statistics #neuroscience
Trying to step a bit out of the “everything is on fire” bubble, but it’s proving quite a challenge, on account of, well…everything being on fire. So maybe this helps.
Trying to step a bit out of the “everything is on fire” bubble, but it’s proving quite a challenge, on account of, well…everything being on fire. So maybe this helps.
Up now, Simon Laughlin
https://royalsociety.org/people/simon-laughlin-11790/
starting off his presentation on how the "wetware computer" of life - neuronal circuits, processes information.
So far, huge emphasis on external input. Completely missing mentions of spontaneously or endogenously active neurons until now.
Will use this to adjust my presentation tomorrow 😆
Giorgio Vallortigara
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Vallortigara
Kicking off our CogEvo workshop
https://event.unitn.it/cogevo/
in beautifully alpine Rovereto, Italy
🧠💻 A team from the Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center (CIMCYC, cimcyc.bsky.social) published a #programming guide aimed at students in #psychology and #cognitive #neuroscience. This evolving set of #tutorials offers a curated collection of conceptual reflections, practical examples, and methodological recommendations. The material is available in #Python, #RStats, and #MATLAB.
🌍 https://wobc.github.io/programming_book/
#CognitiveScience #OpenScience
🧠💻 A team from the Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center (CIMCYC, cimcyc.bsky.social) published a #programming guide aimed at students in #psychology and #cognitive #neuroscience. This evolving set of #tutorials offers a curated collection of conceptual reflections, practical examples, and methodological recommendations. The material is available in #Python, #RStats, and #MATLAB.
🌍 https://wobc.github.io/programming_book/
#CognitiveScience #OpenScience
Next was "How Emotions are Made" by Lisa Barrett. This is best thought of two books - the first, up to chapter 8, is a revelatory look at the category error we've made around understanding emotions, revealing through a wide variety of experiments and research how emotions are constructed in real time as an act of categorization - they don't "exist" anywhere in the body. The less said about the rest the better
Full review: https://bookwyrm.social/user/bwaber/review/7934770/s/an-uneven-mostly-scientific-investigation#anchor-7934770 (4/5) #neuroscience #psychology
How can we test theories in neuroscience? Take a variable predicted to be important by the theory. It could fail to be observed because it's represented in some nonlinear, even distributed way. Or it could be observed but not be causal because the network is a reservoir. How can we deal with this?
Increasingly feel like this isn't a theoretical problem but a very practical one that comes up all the time. I'd be interested if anyone has seen anything practical that addresses this.
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