Join us in this marvelous place to talk, learn, work and explore. Deadline 31 March 2024. compneuronrsn.org

Exciting announcement: I have joined Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory as an assistant professor. My lab will focus on NeuroAI – figuring out how neural networks (bio & silico) represent and process information.

PhD defence of Melvin Vaupel in 20 minutes (14:15 Europe time) Title: Simplical methods for unsupervised data analysis Zoom: NTNU.zoom.us/j/94411967376?… (no mic please) Two great parts (topological data analysis / neuroscience): biorxiv.org/content/10.110… arxiv.org/abs/2310.11529

As Michele Castellana stated in his detailed review of our paper, "Maximum-entropy (ME) models have been widely misinterpreted and unproperly used in the past few years." I hope our paper makes things a bit more clear. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/a…

Regular reminder. As an academic, student, postdoc, or professor, you accept less pay and more stress. It is only worth doing if what you do truly matters. Do that high-risk project. Because the boring project does not justify the downsides of academia. For the love of ideas.

Grid cells have a geometry in time! Left-right-alternating theta sweeps in the entorhinal-hippocampal spatial map. 🧹 European Research Council (ERC) #KiloNeurons. Creds to Abraham Zelalem Vollan & Rich Gardner at Kavli Neuroscience. May-Britt Moser 🧵1/8 👉 biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

The flow of experience, expressed in trajectories of neural population activity, is discretized at event boundaries. Implications for how we recall time (and fail to). Creds:Ben Kanter, Christy Lykken, May-Britt Moser, #KiloNeurons European Research Council (ERC) Kavli Neuroscience biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

At FENS this year? Poster #PS01-26AM-004 (WED) Presenting my work on remapping of neural populations across the HPC-EC circuit using data from 3 simultaneously-recorded Neuropixels 2.0 probes (CA1-MEC/PaS-Sub) in freely moving rats exploring 5 different rooms over 12 hours!

Come check out Matteo’s poster tomorrow morning! This guy can hit layer 2 MEC in a P8 rat pup with his eyes closed 😎 🍩

Excited to share paper out in Nature Communications with David Klindt Benjamin Dunn! Uncovering 2D toroidal representations in grid cell ensemble activity during 1D behavior Presented some of this at Neuromonster (thanks Ruairidh Battleday et al): youtube.com/watch?v=0eW4w3… nature.com/articles/s4146…

Doughnut on a wheel in the dark going nowhere!!! Ensembles in large recordings!! Dynamics in VR are weird! Ego-bear ring! Lots of cool stuff!! TDA is great!! 🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩😎😎😎😎🥰🥰🤩🥳🥳🥳😁😁

i am about to teach a new applied linear algebra course at Penn Engineering, meant for datasci/ML/AI. to support the class, i've written a book... [see below for links to text]

A hardwired high-speed sweep mechanism by which #gridcell populations scan the environment during navigation: Now out in nature ! Thanks to Abraham Zelalem Vollan and Rich Gardner for this heroic work! European Research Council (ERC) May-Britt Moser Kavli Neuroscience NTNU Norges forskningsråd nature.com/articles/s4158…

🚨NTNU Discovery Pilot Grant secured for Innovation! We’re merging neuro-math and engineering to push brain-machine-interface boundaries!! With our team- Benjamin Dunn, Melvin Vaupel, Pearl Saldanha, Nicolai Waniek, and Jonathan Whitlock Stay tuned for updates as we progress

Our(Yoram Burak,Rava Azeredo da Silveira) work on mathematical principles underlying place maps in Hippocampus is out Neuron! We unify various experimental findings under one model that holds across species, dimensionalities & spatial scale. Link: cell.com/neuron/fulltex… 🧵👇

Applications are now open for the summer school 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗱𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 compneuronrsn.org 💻Apply before March 31 🧠Join us to enjoy science in a breathtaking location! The Kavli Foundation Kavli Neuroscience

🧵 New paper! We explore sparse coding, superposition, and the Linear Representation Hypothesis (LRH) through identifiability theory, compressed sensing, and interpretability research. If neural representations intrigue you, read on! 🤓 arxiv.org/abs/2503.01824

🚨 Deadline is in 3 days. Apply! 🤩

It's obviously much easier to justify spending tax dollars on science in terms of returns from spinoffs, but deep down I believe we should support science for the same reason I believe we should support art: it enriches our culture and ennobles our souls.

The peer-reviewed version of expansion in situ genome sequencing is now out in Science! The news is bittersweet – when we first revealed this last September, I never guessed it would be my final paper in academia, but a lot has changed. A few parting thoughts: