updated version of our paper on bayesian modelling for whole-brain cell count data: https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/102391
People spend 1-2 years collecting these kinds of gene-expression/anatomy/IEG data... what's another 1-2 months learning + applying Bayes to get more stats bang for your buck 😍
incredible Ada Lovelace quote highlighted in a talk by Steve Furber at our ISRC CN3 summer school. She spells out the dream of computational neuroscience, 2 centuries ago. The sheer ambition 🤩
gave a short lecture this morning on principles of computational modelling, always try to stress the point made by @romainbrette that adding details to a model does not automatically make it more realistic.
The wooden airplane model has more 'details' but only the paper model can fly
[side-stepping the gendered language] this passage from Conrad's Heart of Darkness reminds me of the private joys of doing science that I have realised are what keep me wanting to do research. Hidden from and quite different to the collective public process of science
It was hard to know how to feel when Diogo Jota died last week. I was sad because you feel like you kind of feel connected to these celebrities from watching them on tv every week, but surely it's nothing compared to the daily horror in Gaza
something compelling about working on the edge: the edge of an empire, the edge of a continent, the edge of neuroscience, AI, the unknown. It's a privilege to come to work every day and get paid to do fundamental research in a place you love
if you are curious about
- Computational neuroscience
- Neurotechnology
- Neuro-inspired AI
consider attending our 7-day ISRC CN3 summer school at Ulster University in the great city of Derry, Northern Ireland, UK from 25th Aug-1st Sep 2025. In-person or online.
https://www.ulster.ac.uk/conference/isrc-cn3-summer-school
this is the weirdest glitch I have yet experienced with a GenAI tool. Gemini randomly mentioning the time and date. Wonder if the discussion on model dynamics vs stability triggered it.
Not sure who made this but it made me lol
Happy to see the new sign up outside our Ulster Uni building as it is renamed after Kay McNulty (1921-2006), born in nearby Creeslough, Co Donegal.
She was a programmer of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic computer (at UPenn in 1945)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Antonelli
Kathleen Antonelli - Wikipedia
