Jeffrey C. Erlich @jerlich@qoto.org

A computational #NeuralNetwork model leverages a simple unsupervised learning principle to account for recent findings on when memories move apart (differentiate) or together (integrate) in the brain. #Neuroscience https://elifesciences.org/articles/88608?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic

Faces will melt. #sfn2024 #SfN24
https://www.reggieslive.com/show/pavlovs-dogz/

It took me ~a year to translate Neurodata Without Borders to linkml+pydantic with full abstraction over array/storage backend. Now that I did that, it is taking me ~hours to make interfaces to put NWB in SQL dbs, web APIs for editing and serving NWB datasets (where you can download arbitrary slices of the individual datasets instead of a bigass 100GB HDF5 file), and interconversion between hdf5, dask, and zarr.

Anyway open data in neuroscience is about to get real good.

#neuroscience #linkml #OpenData #OpenScience

Applications now open! Join the SWC PhD Programme 2025

🧠 World-class training in systems neuroscience
💰 Fully-funded 4-year programme
💂 Based in London with close links to @GatsbyUCL

Learn more and apply by 11 Nov: https://www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/phd-programme

#PhD #Neuroscience

“We need to understand interorgan communication if we want to understand the aging process,”https://www.science.org/content/article/faulty-communication-organs-make-us-old?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_content=alert&utm_campaign=SCIeToc&et_rid=35074937&et_cid=5223300

Sounds familiar to me: teh challenge of being an interdisciplinary academic https://www.science.org/content/article/why-pursued-interdisciplinary-research-as-aspiring-academic-despite-career-risks?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_content=alert&utm_campaign=SCIeToc&et_rid=35074937&et_cid=5223300

How do neural circuits generate flexible, cognitive behaviours? The Duan and @jerlich labs are looking for 2️⃣ excellent postdoctoral research fellows to join the team. Check out the vacancies and apply by 25 May: https://www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/current-vacancies#research-fellow-senior-research-fellow-two-posts

!! come join us as a group leader !! we have 2 lectureships just opened for applications in our department at UCL! Join one of the best, the most exciting and most friendly neuroscience departments! https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search-ucl-jobs/details?nPostingId=8470&nPostingTargetId=20780&id=Q1KFK026203F3VBQBLO8M8M07&LG=UK&languageSelect=UK&mask=ext #neuroscience #jobs #london

Someone got mad at me for using CC-BY-NC because it was a "nonfree license." Not like it stops them in practice, but now that all CC-BY are being harvested for LLMs i think I was right.

There 1 week to apply for the PhD studentship in my lab (4 years, paid as an RA, fees at UK rate) to contribute to understanding how the brain constructs auditory space. shorturl.at/adoJN

Post will require great coding skills so background in engineering, datasciences or neuroscience is ideal!

#datascience #neuroscience #PhdStudentship

In press! 📣 The surprising result that basolateral amygdala has a more crucial role in learning meaningful changes in the reward environment than orbitofrontal cortex. Check our paper to find out how! 🤓 #neuroscience #CompNeuro https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2023/11/13/JNEUROSCI.0622-23.2023

Anyone coming to #sfn? Come along to our @brainglobe poster on Wednesday afternoon, or get in touch to chat about BrainGlobe or any of our other projects (neuroinformatics.dev).

#SfN2023 #Neuroscience