Mission: record hippocampal place cells in zero gravity
Crew: 3 rats with electrode arrays
Vehicle: Space Shuttle Columbia
Status: data now publicly available on DANDI, 28 years later
The ratstronauts' mission is finally complete. 🐀🚀 h/t NASA
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We gave a tutorial on @nwb.org and DANDI at @cosynemeeting.bsky.social this year. If you couldn't make it (or want a refresher), the full recording is up on YouTube. Covers everything from data standardization to finding and reusing public neurophysiology datasets on DANDI.
We have three neuroscience research software engineering jobs available at @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social, two joint with the Advanced Microscopy Facility.
All positions start ASAP, funded until Sept 2028 in the first instance. Salary £54-64k.
More details: neuroinformatics.dev/get-involved
Make some noise about this 🧪
www.npr.org/2026/06/03/n...
🧠 Introducing NeuroDiscoveryBench. Built with @alleninstitute.org, it’s the first benchmark for evaluating AI systems like our Asta DataVoyager agent on neuroscience data. The benchmark tests whether AI can truly extract insights from complex brain datasets.
The White House Office of Management and Budget is moving to take more control of billions of dollars in federal grants. Critics say the proposed change would jeopardize the integrity of U.S. science.
My lab is hiring a software engineer to support our #NeuroAI research: careers.epfl.ch/job/Lausanne.... Please consider applying if you want to build out the infrastructure enabling models of the human brain & mind (e.g., www.Brain-Score.org). We will start screening applications this week 🧠🤖
