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💼 Paid Opportunity: Join Neuromatch Academy and Climatematch Academy as a #virtual #TeachingAssistant this July. 8hrs/day, Monday to Friday during the course dates.

We are hiring Teaching Assistants for the following courses:

#CompNeuro (6-24 July 2026)
#DeepLearning (6-24 July 2026)
Computational Tools for #ClimateScience (13-24 July 2026)
#NeuroAI (13-24 July 2026)

➡️ Learn more here: https://neuromatch.io/become-a-teaching-assistant/
➡️ Apply before 15 March https://portal.neuromatchacademy.org/sign-in

Apply to join Neuromatch Academy as a Teaching Assistant

8 hours/day, Monday to Friday during the course dates in July — fully remote. Support a small pod of students on Zoom and Discord, and help create an inclusive and equitable learning environment.

You'll need:
Proficiency in Python
Knowledge of the course subject you’re applying to
An undergraduate degree
Previous teaching experience preferred, but not required

Computational and Systems Neuroscience #COSYNE2026 is taking place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 12–17 March.

We’re excited to be there connecting with our global community, learning from the latest research, and sharing the work Neuromatch is doing.

If you’re attending, we’d love to meet! Let’s connect and continue building an open, collaborative #CompNeuro ecosystem.

https://www.cosyne.org/

#COSYNE #ComputationalNeuroscience #Neuroscience #OpenScience #Neuromatch

Will you be at COSYNE 2026?

Come see us at the Neuromatch booth

🛡️ BrainGuard

An interdisciplinary team including Bernstein member Christian Klaes (#RUB) is developing protective measures for brain-computer interfaces and other technologies.

Read the whole story 👉 https://bernstein-network.de/en/newsroom/news/260226/

#BernsteinNetwork #CompNeuro

Recurrent cortical networks encode natural sensory statistics via sequence filtering www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... #compneuro #neuroskyence

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🛰️ We’re inviting proposals for Satellite Workshops at the #BernsteinConference 2026!

🗓️ Deadline: April 29, 15:00 CEST

More information 👉 https://bit.ly/3OV2BNO

#BernsteinNetwork #CompNeuro

We’re excited to share that Foresight Institute is hosting a free webinar this Friday: “Neuromatch: Building a Global Ecosystem for NeuroAI Training & Innovation”

Friday, March 6
10:00–11:00 AM PST
Free and open to all!
➡️ Register: https://luma.com/88xhfzsh

Everyone is welcome. Please register and join us!

#NeuroAI #ComputationalNeuroscience #CompNeuro #Neuromatch #ArtificialIntelligence #Neuroscience #MachineLearning

This video explains what makes Neuromatch and Climatematch Academy special, shares everything you need to know about our intensive 2-3 week online courses, and helps you be prepared to apply! Applications close 15 March.
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https://youtu.be/Ja-4meM2dWc?si=dMvXeKSDTBzE8dHu

#CompNeuro #DeepLearning #NeuroAI #ClimateScience

Applications are open for #CompNeuro, a live, intensive online course. Participants learn to combine modern #MachineLearning and causality frameworks with advanced modeling approaches to tackle real #neuroscience questions.

https://neuromatch.io/computational-neuroscience-course/

Computational Neuroscience
3 Weeks, 6-24 July 20206

Applications for Neuromatch and Climatematch Academy 2026 are open for students and Teaching Assistants. Don’t wait; the 15 March deadline is coming fast!

Don’t miss your chance. Start your application today.

➡️ Apply now: https://portal.neuromatchacademy.org/sign-in

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Student and Teaching Assistant applications close 15 March!

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🤓 Applications for Neuromatch Academy close 15 March!

Learn more about our #CompNeuro, #DeepLearning, and #NeuroAI courses and apply now: https://neuromatch.io/courses/

#NeuromatchAcademy #Neuromatch #STEMEducation #SummerSchool #VirtualSummerSchool #OnlineLearning #ResearchTraining #GlobalEducation #ClimateScience #ComputationalScience

Applications for July #CompNeuro, #DeepLearning, #NeuroAI & #ClimateScience are open.

Learn in small collaborative pods with a dedicated TA, build real research skills, and join 13,000+ alumni worldwide.

➡️ Apply by 15 March:
https://neuromatch.io/courses/

" I saw what open, rigorous, and collaborative science could look like. I saw people I hadn't known was there. - Kirollus Abdallah, Eygpt

🌈 How psychedelic drugs affect the brain

Research findings by Bernstein member Dirk Jancke (Ruhr University Bochum) reinforce new approaches in psychology, using psychedelic substances under medical supervision to treat certain clinical conditions.

Read the whole story 👉 https://bernstein-network.de/en/newsroom/news/260213/

#BernsteinNetwork #CompNeuro

The Urbanczik-Senn plasticity model is a powerful framework for understanding synaptic #plasticity in #NeuralNetworks. It integrates dendritic prediction errors to unify supervised, unsupervised, and #ReinforcementLearning under a single rule. Its predictive coding mechanism and robust learning dynamics make it valuable for simulating neural processing and exploring plasticity. Here’s a short simulation using the #NESTsimulator:

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/blog/2026-02-22-urbanczik_senn_plasticity/

#CompNeuro #Neuroscience

Evolutions of synaptic weights of Urbanczik synapses.

Urbanczik-Senn plasticity : membrane potentials, somatic conductances, dendritic currents, fireing rates, and rate derivative.

🔍️ Brain network identified for effective treatment of Parkinson’s disease

Deep brain stimulation is a key procedure in the treatment of Parkinson's disease. Researchers including Bernstein member Wolf-Julian Neumann @UniKoeln have now identified the optimal target network in the human brain.

Read the whole story 👉 https://bernstein-network.de/en/newsroom/news/260206/

#CompNeuro #BernsteinNetwork

Just came across an elegant new #SNN framework called #nervos by Maskeen and Lashkare, which implements a two layer SNN w/ local #STDP #learning to classify, e.g., #MNIST digits. Here is an example, where I apply it to a 6-class subset of MNIST. The model reaches around 85% accuracy & the learned synapses show digit-like patterns. Quite impressive in my view, given the simplicity of the architecture & the local learning rule:

🌍https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/blog/2026-02-16-nervos_stdp_snn_simulation_on_mnist/

#CompNeuro #Neuroscience #NeuralPlasticity

Top: Evolution of the receptive field of the winner neuron across epochs for sample 61, visualized as tiles. Each tile shows the RF of the winner neuron at a specific epoch, allowing us to see how it evolves during training. The title of each tile indicates the epoch number, the index of the winner neuron, its spike count, its mapped label according to the final neuron label map, and the true label of the sample. Bottom: Summary plot of weight metrics (L1 norm, L2 norm, and mean weight) for the winner neurons across epochs for sample 61.

Learned synapses, visualized by summing over output neurons of the same predicted class. We trained the model on the classes 0 to 5, and we can see that the learned synaptic patterns for each class show distinct features that resemble the corresponding digit shapes, indicating that the network has successfully learned to differentiate between the classes based on the input spike patterns.

Computational and Systems Neuroscience #COSYNE2026 is taking place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 12–17 March.

We’re excited to be there connecting with our global community, learning from the latest research, and sharing the work Neuromatch is doing.

If you’re attending, we’d love to meet! Let’s connect and continue building an open, collaborative #CompNeuro ecosystem.

https://www.cosyne.org/

#COSYNE #ComputationalNeuroscience #Neuroscience #OpenScience #Neuromatch

#Neuroscience #compneuro #neuralnetwork @hnp_geneva
@virati

We are very pleased to announce the 4th International Workshop On
Neurodynamics (NDy'26) to be held in Castro-Urdiales, Spain, May 26-29,
2026

http://cody.unizar.es/events/neurodynamics26/

There‘s now a #PyTorch version of #Cascade 👌, the #spike inference pipeline for #Calcium #imaging, as @ptrrupprecht just explained on his blog:

🌍 https://gcamp6f.com/2026/02/17/cascadetorch-a-pytorch-version-of-cascade-for-spike-inference/
🧑‍💻 https://github.com/PTRRupprecht/CascadeTorch
📄 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-021-00895-5

#CascadeTorch #DeepLearning #CompNeuro #Neuroscience #2pImaging #2p #opensource

Spike-timing-dependent #plasticity (#STDP) is a core rule in #ComputationalNeuroscience that adjusts #synaptic strength based on precise pre- vs. postsynaptic #spike timing, enabling #TemporalCoding and #learning in #SNN. In this post, I summarize its mathematical formulation, functional consequences for learning and #memory along with a simple #Python example: