Irina Pochinok retweeted
🧠💻 Join the Brainhack satellite at #FENS2026 (July 5)!
✨ Open to all - no FENS registration required
📆 Registration opens April 9
⚠️ Limited to 100 spots (first come, first served)
Learn more: pre-fens-brainhack.github.io…
#Brainhack #OpenScience #Neuroscience
Irina Pochinok retweeted
Pre-COSYNE Brainhack 2026 – Join Us in Lisbon! March 10–11, 2026 • Lisbon, Portugal
pre-cosyne-brainhack.github.…
Kick off COSYNE week with two days of hands-on, team-based hacking around real electrophysiology data, open tools, and reproducible workflows.
#cosyne26 #cosyne2026
New preprint from @HanganuOpatzLab! We present iSTTC, a robust method for estimating intrinsic neural timescales (ITs) from single-unit activity. It’s accurate, stable, and works even when data is sparse.
doi.org/10.1101/2025.08.01.6…
iSTTC doesn’t just perform well in simulations; it works in the mess of real neural data, too. Using 30 min of Neuropixels recordings from the Visual Coding @AllenInstitute dataset, iSTTC gave more stable, more accurate, and more inclusive IT estimates than other methods.
We implemented iSTTC to tackle challenges in our own sparse, developmental datasets, and it’s working beautifully. We hope it helps others working with tricky spiking data. Try it yourself github.com/iinnpp/isttc!
Irina Pochinok retweeted
If we assume that the brain is randomly wired and that cell identity isn't a thing, we can still decode stimuli by pooling and averaging. If we drop these assumptions we can do *much* better. Which option do we think nature chooses?
jneurosci.org/content/33/46/…
Irina Pochinok retweeted
Headed to @BernsteinNeuro Conference this weekend and interested in how biological computation is performed across different scales from single neurons to populations and whole-brain and even astrocytes and
the whole body, drop by our workshop co-organized w/ @neuroprinciples
Irina Pochinok retweeted
Hippocampus generates an internal model of Euclidean space. We ventured in a spatial odyssey exploring how much of the internal model is a priori, innate (Nature) and what is contributed by postnatal experience of Euclidean geometry (Nurture)
Our answer@ nature.com/articles/s41467-0…👇
Irina Pochinok retweeted
I am excited to announce our workshop at the upcoming Bernstein Conference 2024 @BernsteinNeuro
How much biological inspiration makes a system "neuromorphic"?
What can we learn from Neuroscience breakthroughs and Machine Learning success?
link: tinyurl.com/5yzskcpd
1/n
Irina Pochinok retweeted
Excited to announce that I've started a regular column at The Transmitter @_TheTransmitter !
First column just out on that most convenient of all the fictions in neuroscience: averaging
thetransmitter.org/neural-co…
Irina Pochinok retweeted
Back in 2022, @roxana_zeraati & I organized a Cosyne workshop on neural timescales, and after working on it for the last 2 years together, it's now a review paper!
arxiv.org/abs/2409.02684
w/ @SelfOrgAnna & @jakhmack
(2nd blogpost to turn into a real review paper this year lol)
Irina Pochinok retweeted
It’s finally out🔥 Our review formalizes hours of conversations w/ @_rdgao over the past 2 years, starting from our @CosyneMeeting workshop, into a new perspective about neural timescales.
Thanks to @SelfOrgAnna, @jakhmack and all our wonderful speakers and attendees!
Back in 2022, @roxana_zeraati & I organized a Cosyne workshop on neural timescales, and after working on it for the last 2 years together, it's now a review paper!
arxiv.org/abs/2409.02684
w/ @SelfOrgAnna & @jakhmack
(2nd blogpost to turn into a real review paper this year lol)
Irina Pochinok retweeted
📜🎉 We have a new preprint: an overview & comparison of measures of 'aperiodic' neural activity!
This project explores different ideas & many methods used to study non-oscillatory features of intra- & extra-cranial electrophysiological recordings!
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Irina Pochinok retweeted
Cosyne 2025 is open for business 🥳🧠🥳🧠🥳
Abstract submission lasts from now until October 23rd!
For key dates and more info 👀👇
cosyne.org/
Irina Pochinok retweeted
Our lab at @UKEHamburg is recruiting! We are looking for a highly motivated PhD student to study the circuit dynamics underlying the development of cognitive flexibility. Please RT
