Excited and proud to share this work, now published in PNAS.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
In this work, we identify neuromodulation as a high-dimensional reconfiguration signal that not only changes individual functional properties but also the statistical architecture linking them.
What do #neuromodulators do in the #brain? Two recent papers give new insights:
@nishantjoshi.bsky.social shows they do not only reshape individual cellular properties, but also the architecture linking them, thereby expanding the computational repertoire.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Maken volwassen hersenen nog nieuwe neuronen aan? Of stopt dit op een bepaalde leeftijd? 🧠
Antwoord door Paul Lucassen van SILS, Universiteit van Amsterdam. Redactie en vertaling door @fleurzeldenrust.bsky.social.
brainhelpdesk.nl/vraag/do-we-...
Oproep aan minister Letschert van OCW: behoud de Promotiebeurs voor Leraren! Ons opiniestuk staat vandaag in de Volkskrant en werd reeds door >1400 medestanders ondertekend.
www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...
This Thursday (Sept 10), we are going to welcome our next guest speaker to a hybrid talk to the caian: Join us in person/on zoom at 1 p.m. CET and hear Assoc. Prof. Fleur Zeldenrust talk about "Heterogeneity in the brain: lessons from theory and experiment".
#caiantalks#neuroscience#brainscience
The Neuroscience Department at UC Berkeley is hiring an Asst Professor in Computational Neuro. All areas of computational/theoretical neuro are welcome. Deadline Oct 30. Join our neuroscience community!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05446#AcademicJobs#Neuroscience#NeuroJobs
Do we really have a reptile brain, a mammal brain, and a human brain inside our heads?
Answer by Hsing-Hsi Li of the @maxplanck.de; editing and translation by Sjoerd Murris and Sam de Kater
brainhelpdesk.nl/en/vraag/do-...
Hebben we echt een reptielenbrein, een zoogdierenbrein én een menselijk brein in ons hoofd?🦎+ 🐒 + 🙍 = 🧠 ?
Antwoord door Hsing-Hsi Li van het @maxplanck.de for Brain Research; redactie en vertaling door Sjoerd Murris and Sam de Kater.
brainhelpdesk.nl/vraag/do-we-...
New preprint (well, very updated). 🤖🧠🧪
We find that an abstract model of neuromodulation lets spiking neural networks perform much better, particularly in challenging noisy environments, using less energy.
Relevant to #neuroscience and #neuromorphic computing.
🧵👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
"Onze" Marina Boon is vorige week cum laude gepromoveerd! In haar proefschrift worden onderzoeksartikelen gecombineerd met hoofdstukken over haar inspanningen bij de @brainhelpdesk.bsky.social!
Last week, "our" Marina Boon defended her PhD (cum laude!) on a dissertation that combined research articles with chapters describing her efforts in this science communication platform. One of these chapters was published (link.springer.com/article/10.1...).
What are we actually training PhD students for, if we say they should show they have become independent researchers? What skills should they have? And are they properly reflected in a thesis?
wetenschapensamenleving.nl/wp-content/u...
The Group for Neural Theory in Paris turns 20 this year
Come help us celebrate! June 11-12 at ENS, Paris.
Keynotes: @jpillowtime.bsky.social / Cristina Savin /Ashok Litwin-Kumar
Talks from GNT alumni
Register for free, by May 20th
www.eventbrite.com/e/gnt-turns-...
🟠Aankomende maandag is het Koningsdag en kleurt Nederland weer oranje!🟠
Maar ziet oranje er voor iedereen hetzelfde uit? Of kan het zijn dat wat jij als oranje ziet, er voor jouw vriend uit ziet zoals jouw paars?
brainhelpdesk.nl/vraag/zien-k...
Door Eelke Spaak, @dondersinst.bsky.social
🟠This Monday is King's Day in The Netherlands — turning the entire country orange!🟠
But does orange look the same to everyone? Or could it be that what looks orange to you, looks to your friend like what you see as purple?
brainhelpdesk.nl/en/vraag/zie...
By Eelke Spaak, @dondersinst.bsky.social
Answered by Gisela Terwindt from the headache research group at the Leiden University Medical Center; editors: Sjoerd Murris and Marina Boon.
brainhelpdesk.nl/en/vraag/voe...
Do you also have a #brain#question? Ask us at the @brainhelpdesk.bsky.social and we will come up with an #answer!
Beantwoord door Gisela Terwindt van de Headache Research groep van het Leiden Universitair Medisch Centrum; Redactie: Sjoerd Murris en Marina Boon
brainhelpdesk.nl/vraag/voel-j...
Heb jij ook een #hersenen#vraag? Stel hem aan de BrainHelpDesk Donders Institute en wij komen met een #antwoord!
What do #neuromodulators do in the #brain? Two recent papers give new insights:
@nishantjoshi.bsky.social shows they do not only reshape individual cellular properties, but also the architecture linking them, thereby expanding the computational repertoire.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Complementary, recent insights from Domenico Guarino, Ilaria Carannante and Alain Destexhe show that neuromodulators act through just two fundamental mechanisms:
• Switching neuronal activity modes
• Scaling existing behaviours
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
Both show a regrouping of cells into new clusters or 'cell types'. So the effects of neuromodulators might be distributed on a single cell level, but quite coordinated on a network level!
* en natuurlijk mag je altijd, het hele jaar door, vragen stellen aan de @brainhelpdesk.bsky.social : brainhelpdesk.nl#BrainAwarenessWeek#BrainWeek#neuroscience#brainscience#scienceoutreach
I tracked every keyword in 22 years of Cosyne abstracts to map how computational neuroscience evolved — from Bayesian brains to neural manifolds to LLMs — and where it's heading next.
Join us in Woods Hole for Methods in Computational Neuroscience (MCN) at MBL (July 24–Aug 21).
Four weeks of computational + systems neuroscience, hands-on training, and close interaction with an exceptional faculty.
The deadline for applying to the Methods in Computational Neuroscience summer course at MBL in Woods Hole is approaching (March 16)! An exciting course with an amazing lineup of lecturers in a beautiful location www.mbl.edu/education/ad...
Cool/important job alert:
Principal Research Scientist at the Wikimedia Foundation's
Research team for the area of knowledge integrity
Job posting: job-boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jo...
The robot apocalypse hasn't happened yet, but still I can't escape the feeling that something has gone horribly wrong... Cartoon for Dutch newspaper @trouw.nl.
More of my work for Trouw: www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tje...#ArtificialIntelligence#creativity#work#GenerativeAI