We had a fantastic time at our #SfN2025 booth!. A massive thank you to Avisha, Aparajeeta Guha, and Oğul Can Yurdakul for helping out. 💖
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#sfn2025 thoughts.
Personally, it was a great meeting --- I saw lots of old friends, met new ones, got great discussions at lots of posters. It's still the best neuroscience ocean to swim in. I came back with a full notebook of preprints to find and experiments to do and ideas to play with.
But ...
I don't know if #SfN is going to survive.
The vendors covered more than 80% of the floor space. The posters were a thin shell around a mass of vendors.
There were fewer posters (only through ZZ, and most of those rows were 18 posters/row as compared to the 60+ that were there in previous years). And many of those poster rows were incomplete.
This is the first year I saw empty boards (posters which were listed but weren't up). I don't know if people decided they couldn't come at the last minute, or if there were budget problems, or if they were NIH related and couldn't get permission while the govt was shutdown, or if they weren't allowed through the border. (I hope no one was detained. - What a statement about our world that I have to say that. 😳 )
A lot of people I know didn't come. My grad program and department used to close down for SFN. Everyone from every lab used to go. This year it was closer to 25% or less.
I think the attendance was 20k. I've heard break-even is 25k.
It's still my favorite meeting. But it felt different this year. It felt smaller. I'm just hopeful we can save it before it goes under.😢
There really is no other meeting that can fill its role. (Yes, I love smaller meetings as well, but #SfN is unique. It really is.)
How is #SfN this year? Feeling any different from the pre-Trump era? Do we know if attendance numbers have been affected? Are people there feeling bittersweet that US science is getting destroyed, or instead defiant?
How is #SfN this year? Feeling any different from the pre-Trump era? Do we know if attendance numbers have been affected? Are people there feeling bittersweet that US science is getting destroyed, or instead defiant?
#sfn2025 thoughts.
Personally, it was a great meeting --- I saw lots of old friends, met new ones, got great discussions at lots of posters. It's still the best neuroscience ocean to swim in. I came back with a full notebook of preprints to find and experiments to do and ideas to play with.
But ...
I don't know if #SfN is going to survive.
The vendors covered more than 80% of the floor space. The posters were a thin shell around a mass of vendors.
There were fewer posters (only through ZZ, and most of those rows were 18 posters/row as compared to the 60+ that were there in previous years). And many of those poster rows were incomplete.
This is the first year I saw empty boards (posters which were listed but weren't up). I don't know if people decided they couldn't come at the last minute, or if there were budget problems, or if they were NIH related and couldn't get permission while the govt was shutdown, or if they weren't allowed through the border. (I hope no one was detained. - What a statement about our world that I have to say that. 😳 )
A lot of people I know didn't come. My grad program and department used to close down for SFN. Everyone from every lab used to go. This year it was closer to 25% or less.
I think the attendance was 20k. I've heard break-even is 25k.
It's still my favorite meeting. But it felt different this year. It felt smaller. I'm just hopeful we can save it before it goes under.😢
There really is no other meeting that can fill its role. (Yes, I love smaller meetings as well, but #SfN is unique. It really is.)
What an incredible week at #SfN2025!
Thank you to everyone who stopped by the Neuromatch booth, joined our sessions, and came to our social event. It was great to connect with our amazing community of students, alumni, TAs, and volunteers! It’s been such a pleasure meeting you all in person!
➡️ If you didn’t get a chance to visit us, you can still join our mailing list & leave us a note here: https://airtable.com/appWO8lu7xm3VSdVj/pagKeB66DV7WtyhMP/form
#Neuromatch #Neuroscience #ComputationalNeuroscience #NeuroscienceCommunity
It’s always special when online connections become in-person moments. At #SfN2025 we got to meet Shonali Dhingra, a past Neuromatch Academy mentor - you might recognize her from one of our postcards!
We loved seeing so many of you at our #sfn2025 booth and at our community social gathering. It’s such a treat connecting with you all in person!
Come by booth 3704 to chat about:
🌟 #ComputationalNeuroscience courses
🌟 Opportunities to be a TA or mentor
🌟 If you are a former student, TA, or mentor
We loved seeing so many of you at our #sfn2025 booth and at our community social gathering. It’s such a treat connecting with you all in person!
Come by booth 3704 to chat about:
🌟 #ComputationalNeuroscience courses
🌟 Opportunities to be a TA or mentor
🌟 If you are a former student, TA, or mentor
Neuromatch is at #SfN2025 🎉
Come by booth 3704 to learn about:
🌟 Our virtual, paid TA opportunities
🌟 Online courses in #ComputationalNeuroscience, #DeepLearning, and #NeuroAI
🌟 Mentoring opportunities
🌟 Our Impact Scholar Program
Anyone off to the Society for Neuroscience meeting this year??
I'll be helping out the folks of the Bonsai Foundation in sharing info about their amazing #OpenScience #opensoftware #openhardware tools for research!
Come find us on Booth 3726, in Hall B2, in the Institute & Non-Profit Area
#SfN2025 #cienciabr
Heading to #SfN2025?
Join the workshop “Life After the PhD: Career Opportunities in Brain Data Science”
📅 16 Nov 2025 | 🕒 15:00–17:00 PST
📍 SDCC Room 2
Hear from experts from @DataJoint, @UCSanDiego, @INCForg & @KavliFoundation
Human-in-the-loop optimisation for efficient intracortical microstimulation temporal patterns in visual cortex https://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171/presentation/34129 visual prosthesis, #blind #phosphenes #Utah #array #BCI #NeuroTech #neuroscience #SfN2025
Today Gilgal Ansah at the University of Pittsburgh will present a poster, co-authored with Tom George (SWC alumni):
“TReND-CaMinA Summer School: Advancing Computational Neuroscience and Machine Learning in Africa through Open Science”
TKP05.02SU, WW10, 8am-12pm
Simon Weiler is also presenting a poster today: “Layer 6 callosal projecting neurons relay ipsi-eye information between the monocular primary visual cortices.”
PSTR072 8am-12pm in SDCC Halls B-H
Visit our #DANDIarchive booth #3831 at #SfN2025 to learn more, provide feedback, have questions answered.
#sfn2025 starts tomorrow! We've got three posters Monday morning. Come see the cool things we're working on!
1/3 PSTR193.25
Monday TT17 Gagliardi et al. Decision dynamics in hippocampus, dorsolateral striatum, and medial prefrontal cortex in rats on the Left / Right / Alternation task.
- Fascinating interactions between neural systems as animals shift between planning and habit.
What an incredible first day at #SfN2025!
Find us in the Nonprofit Area, Booth #3704
If you haven’t yet, come by to:
⭐ Learn about our Computational Neuroscience courses
⭐ Learn about TA and mentoring opportunities
⭐ Chat with the CEO and Academy Program Director
See you at the booth!
#Neuromatch #ComputationalNeuroscience #DeepLearning #NeuroAI #GlobalResearch #EarlyCareerResearchers #STEMEducation #DataScience
Hello to anyone at #SfN2025, I'm here presenting our work on https://sciop.net, archiving at-risk information and bootstrapping a broader hybrid federated/p2p archive. Thats along with some of our more neuro-focused work on rebuilding NWB and integrating acquisition through analysis with a lightweight pipelining framework.
Details and links on the poster page, I'll be at PSTR254.08 / ZZ14 in the Monday afternoon session :)
https://aharoni-lab.com/sfn2025/sciop
Human-in-the-loop optimisation for efficient intracortical microstimulation temporal patterns in visual cortex https://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171/presentation/34129 visual prosthesis, #blind #phosphenes #Utah #array #BCI #NeuroTech #neuroscience #SfN2025
