New preprint with @lingqiz.bsky.social: Neurodata Without Boredom: Benchmarking Agentic AI for Data Reuse arxiv.org/abs/2605.12808
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Kristin Branson
Wow, (bird) vision is awesome!
I'm proud to say we are releasing LAION-fMRI, a densely sampled 7T fMRI dataset of natural images, with very broad stimulus sampling for testing countless hypotheses and for deeply exploring brain representations. The dataset is now available at
laion-fmri.hebartlab.com
What does LAION-fMRI offer? 🧵
Finally, today is the day: Josefine Zerbe will present and release our new multi-echo 7T fMRI dataset LAION-fMRI during #VSS2026, with >30 fMRI session per subject and unprecedented stimulus diversity. Come to Talk Room 1 (Scene perception) today at 5:15. Details will follow in a separate thread!
🚨New dataset just dropped🚨 Introducing Places in the Wild: 67,000 RAW-format photographs (45 mpix) densely sampled from 810 places (260 basic-level categories). This is 11x the number of pixels in ImageNet! Preprint is here: arxiv.org/abs/2606.02481 1/
I’m happy to share a protocol we’ve been working on for building modular, synchronized multimodal data acquisition systems for systems neuroscience behavior rigs. @mbd1mbd1.bsky.social @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social
dx.doi.org/10.17504/pro...
Now published - the #BANC! A full central nervous system (CNS) connectome of a limbed animal at single-synapse resolution, enabling us to follow sensory-motor arcs and understand how the CNS controls the body. rdcu.be/fncjS. #neuroscience. Video by @quorumetrix.bsky.social 1/18
A modular toolkit for synchronized multimodal data acquisition in systems neuroscience. Animal behavio. Read full protocol, steps, and materials on protocols.io
Large image datasets have accelerated progress in cognitive neuroscience and computer vision. However, most datasets are low-resolution, internet-sourced JPEGs with unknown capture conditions and limi...
Inside bird eyes is a strange and mysterious structure called the pecten oculi. It looks like a pancake flipper, or maybe a radiator. Some 350 years after anatomists first described it, biologists finally figured out its purpose. www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-bird...
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Mike Zheng
Wei-Chung Allen Lee
Story time friends...
Ring attractor networks rely on fine-tuned symmetric connectivity.
The fly head direction network has ring attractor dynamics but heterogeneous connectivity.
How is this possible? 1/🧵
Link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Michelle Greene
Neuropixels + Optogenetics = Neuropixels Opto
Combining high-resolution electrophysiology and optogenetics. 960 sites, 28 emitters, 2 colors.
Today in @natmethods.nature.com
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Thanks to @wellcometrust.bsky.social, @alleninstitute.org, @hhmijanelia.bsky.social & team.
Two simple ideas for building improved brain encoding models: 1. learn to use representations from all model layers via a gating mechanism + 2. start from natively multimodal features for multimodal predictions. State of the art performance; see mirage-brain.epfl.ch for details #NeuroAI 🧠🤖🧪
🧠When you watch a movie, your brain blends sight, sound, and speech into a single experience.
Should models of the brain blend them too, or keep the senses separate until the very end?
We built MIRAGE to find out. It sets a new SOTA for predicting whole-brain fMRI from movies. 🧵
