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Hugo Spiers

@hugospiers.bsky.social

If you're in London in Sept and haven't seen our £50M Lab UCL PEARL...
...why not come down in Sept have a look around and pick up £30 as a participant in our next crazy neurocience & architecture study - Minds in Motion:

mindsinmotioncrowd.netlify.app

Minds in Motion | UCL Research Study — September 2026

Minds in Motion: a UCL neuroarchitecture study at UCL PEARL, September 2026. Choose a Crowd session or EEG session and book your place.

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August 14, 2026 at 1:22 PM

Earl K. Miller

@earlkmiller.bsky.social

Neurons, especially in cortex, rarely show steady-state firing. Instead, they fire in bursts. This bursting may be key to function.
Distributed burst firing mediates optimized cortical encoding of natural self-motion
doi.org/10.1126/scia...
#neurocience

Distributed burst firing mediates optimized cortical encoding of natural self-motion

Burst firing in vestibular cortex enables distributed coding of natural self-motion by optimizing information transmission.

doi.org

August 12, 2026 at 8:26 PM

ECNP

@ecnp.eu

Learn the fundamentals of machine learning for precision medicine, from explainable AI to transformers and LLMs, with applications in psychiatry and neuroscience. Join the 2026 edition taking place from 30 November–4 December 2026.

Learn more: ow.ly/xAQe50ZrT2w

#PrecisionMedicine #Neurocience

July 23, 2026 at 12:21 PM

Earl K. Miller

@earlkmiller.bsky.social

A brain model that mimics how different cortical layers interact, producing the mix of slow and fast rhythms seen in real brains.

Emergence of multifrequency activity in a laminar neural mass model
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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Emergence of multifrequency activity in a laminar neural mass model

Author summary Understanding how the brain generates and coordinates rhythms across different layers is essential for uncovering the mechanisms underlying perception, memory, and cognition. In this wo...

doi.org

April 17, 2026 at 7:42 PM

Izabela Maria Sztuka

@isdedal.bsky.social

Interesting longitudinal study on infants about development of representations of natural objects:

#neurocience

Cliona O'Doherty @clionaod.bsky.social · Feb 2

6/7 Our results further highlight the first year of life as a time of intricate brain function. Infants possess the foundations of visual cognition to group the world from very early on. Read more in Nature Neuroscience! 📖🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41....

Infants have rich visual categories in ventrotemporal cortex at 2 months of age - Nature Neuroscience

Using infant fMRI, the authors show that, by 2 months of age, representations in high-level visual cortex encode visual categories that align with deep neural networks, and lateral object-selective re...

www.nature.com

February 2, 2026 at 4:43 PM

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

@natrevneuro.nature.com

Cracking the code of gut–brain sensing — a Journal Club article by Lihua Ye

#neurocience #neuroskyence

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

January 29, 2026 at 12:01 PM

Literal Ham

@literalham.bsky.social

seperately, there was a line of research into neurocience and compsci trying to use computers to model thinking. Those are the people actually studying Artificial Intelligence. and they're all real fucking scientists in university labs, not tech entrepreneurs, bc real AI research is not profitable

December 16, 2025 at 5:09 PM