Niko Sirmpilatze

We are hiring at @neuromatch.bsky.social ! Come join us to help build the Computational Behaviour course!!

Crows have brains “in the fast lane,” according to Andreas Nieder, who showed in a new study that they make perceptual decisions twice as fast as primates. #neuroskyence By @sarahthau.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/behavior/cro...

*A community benchmark enables high-resolution, cross-lab quantification of mouse social behavior* Introducing HiDRA: 82 supervised classifier heads for 33 dyadic and solitary behaviors. Works out-of-the-box on new data and outperforms video foundation models. neuroethology.github.io/hidra-site/

Very grateful to BBSRC for this award that will enable us to build foundation AI models to learn the language of animal behaviour. @ukri.org @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social Read the full story here: www.sainsburywellcome.org/research-new...

Congratulations to Maximiliane Heckmann and Claudio Polisseni, whose BrainSaw (based upon a Sutter MOM) went online this week at the Bonhoeffer Lab in Munich @mpiforbi.bsky.social #neuroskyence

We have a position open in our core facility in the @pasteur.fr . Please share it and / or apply! forum.image.sc/t/research-e...

Preprint is out! Our BakingTray software turns a 2-photon microscope into a serial-section tomography system for automated whole-organ imaging. ~€35k to convert an existing scope. 11 systems worldwide, >7,000 samples at SWC alone #neuroskyence #microscopy www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🚀 napari is hiring Remote Developers-in-Residence! Join us to build the future of interactive n-dimensional data visualization in Python. 💻 60% Dev / 20% Maintenance / 20% Community & Outreach ⏱️ Contract, 14–35 hrs/wk 🌍 Global 100% Remote Learn more and apply today: napari.org/island-dispa...

It was such a pleasure having @annateruel.bsky.social work on this over the summer! She's added lots of cool new features to our GUI. Keep an eye out for a fresh movement release this autumn 🍁

Stephan Schiffels, @stschiff.bsky.social, a researcher who sometimes uses principal component analysis for genetics, here illustrates the concept using EU flags. observablehq.com/@stschiff/pc...

I can't stop thinking about this essay: akamatsu.leaflet.pub/3mkwouogdzs2j If so much of research is going to come from large companies, then maybe the way academia survives is to take advantage of our yet unrealized potential for open collaboration

We are excited to share that the first session of London BIIG will be on Friday 11th September at 12pm at the LMCB! Talks: Yongjoo Kim (UCL) & Nina Thornton (Crick) #l-biig Refreshments will be provided. Directions for LMCB can be found on our website.

Just released a new version of nwb4edu, an online resource for educators and self-guided learners to use @nwb.org datasets, to adapt for the loss of Dandihub 😢 nwb4edu.github.io

Super nice site for a Friday afternoon!!! bookofshapes.com 🔥

We are hiring! Come join us in the Straw Lab at the @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social . Seeking a scientist to work on the neural and computational mechanisms of visual navigation in honey bees. uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005...

Textbook: tracking position during navigation is primarily the job of the hippocampus. Recent findings suggest a more complicated story. Recording >20k neurons brainwide, we indeed find spatial representations in every region! With @kenneth-harris.bsky.social and @carandinilab.net

Heads-up: Doris Tsao is hiring 15 scientists/engineers to work on the neuroscience of consciousness at her new venture (Astera). astera.org/careers/#box...

⬡ Today, we become the Institute for Research Software. For 15 years, we've worked as the Software Sustainability Institute to make research software more sustainable and properly recognised.

Interested in image analysis and a service role in a dynamic and growing facility? Come and joy our image analysis team! Feel free to reach out for any questions or doubts. ista.ac.at/en/job/?titl...

Teaching extracellular #ephys analysis and #spikesorting with SpikeInterface at @neuroinformatics.dev Open Software Summer School at @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social in London this week! Course material is available here: neuroinformatics.dev/course_ephys...

Neuromatch is hiring a #remote, temporary, part-time Curriculum Specialist! 🤓 Help adapt our existing #NeuroAI course for a new audience, bringing important AI and neuroscience concepts to high school students! ➡️ Learn more and apply before 30 August: neuromatch.io/careers/

A personal essay about how I’ve been feeling and thinking about this new technology that I’m contributing to and what it might to do to us all. togelius.blogspot.com/2026/08/losi...

Every illustration in the British Library's 19th-century book images dataset now has an instance mask: 1.02M clean cutouts of public-domain engravings, no image generation involved! One small segmentation model, $3.24 of compute. Model, masks and a search Space with cutout view all open.

What regulates the urge to sleep? William Joo and colleagues identified brain regions that reflect how long mice have been awake. Strikingly, inhibiting one of these regions reduces sleep by 70%, without the major behavioral deficits associated with sleep deprivation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The BioImage Interest Group is expanding! London-BIIG is bringing together microscopists and computational scientists across UCL, Crick, KCL and Imperial. Follow us for updates on bioimage analysis talks (@LMCB & Zoom) as well as next year's networking event! 🔬🧫 #L-BIIG

BrainGlobe Atlas API V3 is out! After 6 years, this is the first major change in how BrainGlobe works. Each atlas component is fetched independently, meaning all BrainGlobe tools will work faster, and more reliably. Read more at: brainglobe.info/blog/braingl...

All BrainGlobe atlases now have Neuroglancer links so that you can explore atlases in the browser without needing to download them first! All links here: brainglobe.info/documentatio... Here you can view our Eurasian Blackcap atlas: neuroglancer-demo.appspot.com#!https://bra...

New Toettchlab paper alert! Harrison Oatman just published his beautiful work combining software design for "smart" microscopy+optogenetics and some really beautiful work understanding EGFR-driven collective cell migration. www.cell.com/cell-systems...

Microscopy Nodes 3.1 is out for Blender 5.2! 🎉 This has cool new features for conditional masking, working with even larger data (regional upscaling), and data manipulation! Watch the new youtube tutorials that explain the features: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Launch of our brand-new website for 𝐃𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐎𝐅! 🚀 👉 Explore: deepof.ai

We do an awful lot of looooong video recordings in our lab and have long wanted an easy way to clip, compress and combine videos for our workflows. So here's #croppy! 🦀 I hope others will find it useful too - I'd love to hear if you do! And would appreciate if you give it a star on Github! 🌟

I'll be in Barcelona for #FENS2026 next week, presenting a poster about movement, and also hanging around our team's other posters (details in quoted post). Drop by if you want to chat about any of these projects or just to say hi!

Working with OME-Zarrs in @napari.org ? Check out the newest release of napari-ome-zarr-navigator to make your life easier & allow more interactive ways to write back to OME-Zarrs. Follow the thread for more (1/5 🧵)

The University of Exeter have announced a programme of academic staff cuts, including all of www.exeter.ac.uk/research/gro... Sign the open letter of support at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @crab-exeter.bsky.social

🌟 NEW OCTRON RELEASE! 🌟 Want to track your animals using the command line? You can now train models and predict videos with single prompts in a terminal! Ideal for batch jobs, headless servers, and remote machines. Big shout-out to @roald-arboel.com for helping with this release!

1/ 🧬🔬 How does one cell become an entire animal? We can now film it in 3D 🐟, but turning those movies into accurate cell tracks is brutally hard. Enter our new #Kaggle challenge: $60K prize pool, to help crack 3D+time cell tracking at scale! 🧵👇 www.kaggle.com/competitions... @biohub.org

Posit has joined the Jupyter Foundation! 🎉 @jupyter.org has powered interactive computing across our tools for years, from Notebooks to the kernels behind Positron. Now we're helping fund the infrastructure and community that keep it thriving. Read the blog: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...

📢📢 We are hiring a Bioimage Analyst at the BioVisionCenter! 📢📢 Join our collaboration with the Flow Cytometry Facility and contribute back to the international efforts on open standards for bioimaging data! More information here, reach out if you have any question: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

Neuromatch Academy & @connectedminds.bsky.social are forming a #ComputationalBehaviour Course Creation Committee!. It's a #volunteer role for researchers w a PhD. 🤓 Learn more about the course: neuromatch.io/computationa... 🙋 Full role description and application: neuromatch.io/volunteer/

Come join me for a all new slidecrafting workshop! 2 hours of all new content, teaching you to go from zero to hero in quarto slides! It is free and open to anyone, very minimal quarto knowledge required, we are starting with the basics! pos.it/slide-wrkshp #quarto #slidecrafting

datashuttle is now published in JOSS! A tool to automate the creation, validation & transfer of standardised neuroscience project folders — GUI or Python API. The GUI works on all operating systems, even remotely via SSH! More details: datashuttle.neuroinformatics.dev #neuroscience #openscience

v0.17.0 of movement released! 🧠🧪 This version includes new path analysis functions along with a number of bug fixes. Importantly there are some small breaking changes, so please read the release notes to see how your code may be affected. More details: github.com/neuroinforma...

Job ad (1/2): Postdoc fellowship in the AFNI group (SSCC, NIMH, NIH, USA). FMRI/MRI methods dev, software design, statistics, analysis, data viz, quality control, machine learning and more! Please see: discuss.afni.nimh.nih.gov/t/job-ad-pos... I am happy to chat at OHBM+Brainhack. Please share!

We've started an effort to bring every 3D (non-human) anatomical atlas that exists into BrainGlobe. Get in touch if there's an atlas we've missed, or you think there's a specific atlas we should prioritise. Read more in our blog: brainglobe.info/blog/the-sys...

We are very pleased to announce Dr Adam Tyson @adamltyson.com of the @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social as winner of the RMS Life Sciences Award. 🙂 🔬 Congratulations Adam! 👏🎖️ Read more about Adam's achievements: www.rms.org.uk/resource/dr-...

Great writeup from our collaborators at UCL Advanced Research Computing on our joint work to make building novel 3D brain atlases faster, more reproducible, and accessible to more labs. 🧠 www.ucl.ac.uk/advanced-res...

Today we're launching the Open Source for Science Fund, a new multi-donor philanthropic fund by Renaissance Philanthropy, seeded by @biohub.org and @wellcometrust.bsky.social, with support from @kavlifoundation.org and @researchsoftware.bsky.social 🧵 os4science.org/news/open-so...

New preprint: Whole-body 3D kinematics of freely behaving 𝐷𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑎 New tech from @blobology.bsky.social & others at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social, which @ispizua.bsky.social and @elliottabe.bsky.social used to gain insight into 3D structure of locomotion & courtship www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Today we're announcing the Virtual Biology Initiative—a major new commitment to build the data foundation biology needs to power the next generation of AI models. Next-gen imaging. Molecular engineering tools. Open data infrastructure for the entire scientific community. Read more: bit.ly/3ONTkHO