Mark D Humphries

Universities cannot expect researchers to take risks if they are repeatedly at risk of redundancy while losing professional services support, grappling with the gratuitous vagaries of home and international student number swings and both teaching and assessing in an age of unregulated AI.

Four months ago, US sanctions shut Iranian students out of Neuromatch. So we built our own! 180+ students, 9 TAs, 14 mentors, and an incredible team made NeuroCONNECT happen. Proud to have been part of it. A reminder that sometimes, together, we can break the barriers and injustices imposed on us.

We’re hiring two postdocs! Join our Lab @unibirmingham.bsky.social to uncover how the brain resolves behavioural conflicts. Deadline: 22 September 2026 @wellcometrust.bsky.social Please share! www.rezavallab.org

Excited to share our new paper: "The Tower Foraging Park: A paradigm for studying cognitive and motor processes underlying behavioral flexibility in freely moving mice,". Out now in @cp-iscience.bsky.social 🧵1/9 www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Terrific piece from @mattperich.bsky.social on how to think about the dimensionality of neural activity Will be borrowing the excellent folding paper analogy… www.thetransmitter.org/neural-dynam...

The Transmitter's summer reading list highlights upcoming neuroscience books and other notable titles from this year—with books by @romainbrette.bsky.social, @susanacarmona.bsky.social, @markdhumphries.bsky.social, David Susillo and more. #neuroskyence By @franciscorr25.bsky.social bit.ly/4qz0oXj

New preprint from Jasper Teutsch & Rohan Rao in Abhi Banerjee's lab showing that switching from choice- to cue-driven behavioural strategies is driven by lOFC In collaboration with Silvia Maggi & I, using our Bayesian strategy analysis doi.org/10.7554/eLif... doi.org/10.64898/202...

Help needed! I'm part of a team tasked with creating a 2nd year undergraduate module/course "Computational Skills for Psychologists" Its remit is the fundamentals of coding and good practice. Any advice from others who've done similar courses? (Assume no programming knowledge. Assume Python)

Help needed! I'm part of a team tasked with creating a 2nd year undergraduate module/course "Computational Skills for Psychologists" Its remit is the fundamentals of coding and good practice. Any advice from others who've done similar courses? (Assume no programming knowledge. Assume Python)

More nuanced take on the impending end of artisanal neuroscience thanks to the AI Industrial Revolution Thoughtful piece from Kenneth Harris One question - who are the Luddites in this analogy? www.thetransmitter.org/artificial-i...

Adding to all the takes on this, something that is missed and why I don't think AI will progress beyond research assistant in neuroscience is so much of the work is embodied. Not just in that "an LLM doesn't have a body" but so much of the knowledge is only gained through embodiment.

At Cosyne, Chris Olah from Anthropic told us that neuroscientists had “3-4 years left to make a contribution” Why was not clear. Perhaps he was hinting at the below graph accompanying today’s Claude Science launch. Apparently we’ll all be obsolete soon.

The Group for Neural Theory is an enviable place to work. At the heart of Paris’s Left Bank, it’s a literal stone’s throw from the Pantheon And it has a remarkable training record On the occasion of its 20th birthday celebrations this week, here’s a further sample of its alumni… gnt20.github.io

So hyped for this! What a privilege to have spent 4 years in this little corner of Paris. GNT has had such a profound impact on the computational neuroscience community. Paris is one of the best places in the world to do neuroscience and the GNT has been fundamental to that Here's to 20 more years🍻

The Group for Neural Theory is celebrating its 20th birthday this week with a party in Paris! gnt20.github.io One thing we’re celebrating is its remarkable training record A thread…

Tremor is highly heterogeneous, leading to a familiar clinical puzzle: with deep brain stimulation (DBS), we can sometimes suppress a patient's rest tremor almost completely, while action tremor remains bothersome. www.cell.com/cell-reports...

I had a peek at the workshop program today and it's PACKED with amazing talks

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-...

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-...

It’s done! Just submitted the manuscript for my next book “The Latent Brain” In it I argue why and how we’ve shifted from single neurons to their collective, latent activity in our quest to understand how brains create minds Due early 2027 from @harvardpress.bsky.social

Really pleased that this work with @dudman.bsky.social is now out in Neuron: A global dopaminergic learning rate enables adaptive foraging across many options

It’s done! Just submitted the manuscript for my next book “The Latent Brain” In it I argue why and how we’ve shifted from single neurons to their collective, latent activity in our quest to understand how brains create minds Due early 2027 from @harvardpress.bsky.social

“Conferences were much more exciting as a young, early-career researcher, when every contact felt like an instant friend and every new city, a gift” My most recent blog post on the effect of age on travel perceptions occamstypewriter.org/mindthegap/2...

Ahead of @thetransmitter.bsky.social's first-ever University Roadshow in the United Kingdom, here’s a roundup of news and perspectives featuring U.K.-based neuroscientists. #neuroskyence

Highly recommend this series by @markdhumphries.bsky.social if you are interested in neuroscience. I have been irregularly reading it for about 5 years. Always great! medium.com/the-spike/20...