Francesco Battaglia
@battaglialab.bsky.social
Brain dynamics, memory, sleep, Neurotechnology, critical thinking
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Skala is now available to everyone!
Why are we releasing it? Because we’re not just aiming to publish a cool paper — we’re on a mission to bring DFT to chemical accuracy using deep learning. And to make real progress, we need the community’s feedback.
#compchem
Why are we releasing it? Because we’re not just aiming to publish a cool paper — we’re on a mission to bring DFT to chemical accuracy using deep learning. And to make real progress, we need the community’s feedback.
#compchem
The wait is over! Microsoft Research is sharing Skala, the new exchange-correlation functional, marking a major milestone in the accuracy/cost trade-off in DFT. Help us learn from your testing so we can improve. Available on Azure AI Foundry and GitHub. msft.it/6016sFDLY
October 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Skala is now available to everyone!
Why are we releasing it? Because we’re not just aiming to publish a cool paper — we’re on a mission to bring DFT to chemical accuracy using deep learning. And to make real progress, we need the community’s feedback.
#compchem
Why are we releasing it? Because we’re not just aiming to publish a cool paper — we’re on a mission to bring DFT to chemical accuracy using deep learning. And to make real progress, we need the community’s feedback.
#compchem
@guidomeijer.com has #neuropixels preprocessing worked out for you!
Do you do Neuropixel recordings and are you struggling with preprocessing? The Power Pixels pipeline is an easy-to-use pipeline from raw data to neural activity of single neurons in specified brain regions 🧠 Now on bioRxiv!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Power Pixels: a turnkey pipeline for processing of Neuropixel recordings
There are many open-source tools available for the processing of neuronal data acquired using Neuropixels probes. Each of these tools, focuses on a part of the process from raw data to single neuron a...
www.biorxiv.org
July 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
@guidomeijer.com has #neuropixels preprocessing worked out for you!
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Tens of thousands of demonstrators in the Netherlands donned red and marched on Sunday to protest the Dutch government’s policy toward Israel, exceeding the turnout for a similar event in May.
Huge turnout at a second Dutch protest seeking government action against Israel
Tens of thousands of demonstrators in the Netherlands have donned red and marched to protest the Dutch government’s policy towards Israel, exceeding the turnout for a similar event in May.
apnews.com
June 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Tens of thousands of demonstrators in the Netherlands donned red and marched on Sunday to protest the Dutch government’s policy toward Israel, exceeding the turnout for a similar event in May.
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I’m hearing rumors that thousands of people are calling the ICE tip line to report little green men and other aliens from outer space. That’s not why ICE set up this number, so you should absolutely NOT call that tip line to report those types of aliens. 👽
I repeat—do NOT call the below number! ☎️
I repeat—do NOT call the below number! ☎️
June 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I’m hearing rumors that thousands of people are calling the ICE tip line to report little green men and other aliens from outer space. That’s not why ICE set up this number, so you should absolutely NOT call that tip line to report those types of aliens. 👽
I repeat—do NOT call the below number! ☎️
I repeat—do NOT call the below number! ☎️
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don’t forget: waymos and other robotaxis are surveillance devices on wheels that police are increasingly tapping for footage
June 9, 2025 at 12:45 AM
don’t forget: waymos and other robotaxis are surveillance devices on wheels that police are increasingly tapping for footage
With all the sad developments in the US - go study in the Netherlands: relatively low tuition (and adequate job search visa after graduating) for high-quality programs like this one in Neurophysics or Cognitive Neuroscience at the neuroscience Donders hub
Come study at the @dondersinst.bsky.social Neurophysics Master!
May 28, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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Kilosort4 detects a LOT of neurons, I recorded 15k neurons in one year 🤯 Traditionally, one would curate these detected units to see if they are well isolated single neurons. This is not feasible anymore, so today let's look at three options that are out there to automate this process! 🤖👇
March 27, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Kilosort4 detects a LOT of neurons, I recorded 15k neurons in one year 🤯 Traditionally, one would curate these detected units to see if they are well isolated single neurons. This is not feasible anymore, so today let's look at three options that are out there to automate this process! 🤖👇
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"Urgent plea to Dutch higher education institutions: Cut ties with genocide and refuse police on campus!"
openletter.earth/nederlandse-...
openletter.earth/nederlandse-...
May 17, 2025 at 7:31 AM
"Urgent plea to Dutch higher education institutions: Cut ties with genocide and refuse police on campus!"
openletter.earth/nederlandse-...
openletter.earth/nederlandse-...
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Please find this English masters program in Neurophysics. Study the brain, artificial neural networks and complex systems through the lens of mathematical modeling and physics. Radboud University / Donders (Netherlands) is one of Europe’s leading universities in Neuroscience. 1/3
May 15, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Please find this English masters program in Neurophysics. Study the brain, artificial neural networks and complex systems through the lens of mathematical modeling and physics. Radboud University / Donders (Netherlands) is one of Europe’s leading universities in Neuroscience. 1/3
Come study at the @dondersinst.bsky.social Neurophysics Master!
May 15, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Come study at the @dondersinst.bsky.social Neurophysics Master!
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"We are not just products of our genes or our environment, but of their dance across time. The past has shaped our DNA-but the future is ours to shape".
Beautiful use of comics for skillful science communication of a complex & nuanced topic, by @dr-appie.bsky.social & @lizahaart.bsky.social. 🧬🧪👇
Beautiful use of comics for skillful science communication of a complex & nuanced topic, by @dr-appie.bsky.social & @lizahaart.bsky.social. 🧬🧪👇
Are we born to succeed or are we made to succeed?
Genes and society shape each other. This comic, based on our Nature Human Behaviour article, shows how social inequality leaves genetic traces — and how social structures and genetics are linked acros...
communities.springernature.com
March 28, 2025 at 1:13 PM
"We are not just products of our genes or our environment, but of their dance across time. The past has shaped our DNA-but the future is ours to shape".
Beautiful use of comics for skillful science communication of a complex & nuanced topic, by @dr-appie.bsky.social & @lizahaart.bsky.social. 🧬🧪👇
Beautiful use of comics for skillful science communication of a complex & nuanced topic, by @dr-appie.bsky.social & @lizahaart.bsky.social. 🧬🧪👇
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Trump is the author of this hell but he writex it with tools preserved, expanded, and ultimately sustained by first Obama and later Biden. Detaining a legal permanent resident for campus protest, under the flimsy pretense of aiding terror, can only be done with tools Bush built & Obama sustained.
March 10, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Trump is the author of this hell but he writex it with tools preserved, expanded, and ultimately sustained by first Obama and later Biden. Detaining a legal permanent resident for campus protest, under the flimsy pretense of aiding terror, can only be done with tools Bush built & Obama sustained.
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I have a theory about why, beyond just being people, much of US scientific leadership was caught so flat-footed and is displaying Neville Chamberlain-tier wet kleenex resolve in defense of our institutions and values.
I wish more prominent scientists would speak out about what is happening under Trump.
Yes, there is a real threat to one's livelihood of doing so. Being a scientist has been my lifelong dream, but there's honest work I can do outside of science, and I'd rather do that than serve the current regime.
Yes, there is a real threat to one's livelihood of doing so. Being a scientist has been my lifelong dream, but there's honest work I can do outside of science, and I'd rather do that than serve the current regime.
March 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I have a theory about why, beyond just being people, much of US scientific leadership was caught so flat-footed and is displaying Neville Chamberlain-tier wet kleenex resolve in defense of our institutions and values.
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A core problem here is that like many things, the public discourse is totally playing on the right's terms. It's not "DEI" to research gender/racial inequality. DEI is a propaganda phrase to denote unnecessary excess in the mind of the public, like HR trainings. That's not what they're eliminating.
I don't think we're talking enough about the fact that the pressure to remove DEI from science means women die.
February 22, 2025 at 1:20 PM
A core problem here is that like many things, the public discourse is totally playing on the right's terms. It's not "DEI" to research gender/racial inequality. DEI is a propaganda phrase to denote unnecessary excess in the mind of the public, like HR trainings. That's not what they're eliminating.
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DEI is when a woman or non-white person who is qualified for a job receives that job. The meritocracy is when a 19 year old gets to run the United States government because he posted the dankest memes
Yes totally cool that a 19-year-old who called his deleted LinkedIn "Big Balls," where he lists his experience working as a camp counselor can access the entire US federal payment system without anyone looking into his background, for instance, his Russian national close relatives or anything else
February 3, 2025 at 1:30 AM
DEI is when a woman or non-white person who is qualified for a job receives that job. The meritocracy is when a 19 year old gets to run the United States government because he posted the dankest memes
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“Unreliable” by Csaba Szabo – book review and excerpt
forbetterscience.com/2025/02/03/u...
forbetterscience.com/2025/02/03/u...
“Unreliable” by Csaba Szabo – book review and excerpt
Csaba Szabo’s book “Unreliable: Bias, Fraud, and the Reproducibility Crisis in Biomedical Research” – review by Zoltan Ungvari and excerpt.
forbetterscience.com
February 3, 2025 at 6:01 AM
“Unreliable” by Csaba Szabo – book review and excerpt
forbetterscience.com/2025/02/03/u...
forbetterscience.com/2025/02/03/u...
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⏰ Today's the day:
please register today (anywhere on earth) if you plan to join us.
Very much looking forward to seeing you there!
please register today (anywhere on earth) if you plan to join us.
Very much looking forward to seeing you there!
📣 Come join us for the #MindBrainBody Symposium 2025!
📆 March 10-12, 2025
📍 Berlin & online
🔎 mindbrainbody.de
Keynotes:
- Ivan de Araujo
- Nadine Gogolla
- Maria Ribeiro @ribeironeuro.bsky.social
- Markus Ullsperger
- Tor Wager
- Veronica Witte @veronicawitte.bsky.social
#interoception
📆 March 10-12, 2025
📍 Berlin & online
🔎 mindbrainbody.de
Keynotes:
- Ivan de Araujo
- Nadine Gogolla
- Maria Ribeiro @ribeironeuro.bsky.social
- Markus Ullsperger
- Tor Wager
- Veronica Witte @veronicawitte.bsky.social
#interoception
January 15, 2025 at 7:08 AM
⏰ Today's the day:
please register today (anywhere on earth) if you plan to join us.
Very much looking forward to seeing you there!
please register today (anywhere on earth) if you plan to join us.
Very much looking forward to seeing you there!
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"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research"
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
January 4, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research"
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Human brain dynamics are shaped by rare long-range connections over and above cortical geometry.
Some new results to inform this debate.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Some new results to inform this debate.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
January 4, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Human brain dynamics are shaped by rare long-range connections over and above cortical geometry.
Some new results to inform this debate.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Some new results to inform this debate.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Christopher Cover, Alexander J. Poplawsky, et al:
Awake rodent fMRI: Gradient-echo echo planar imaging versus compressed-sensing fast low-angle shot
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
Awake rodent fMRI: Gradient-echo echo planar imaging versus compressed-sensing fast low-angle shot
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
January 2, 2025 at 11:08 PM
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Christopher Cover, Alexander J. Poplawsky, et al:
Awake rodent fMRI: Gradient-echo echo planar imaging versus compressed-sensing fast low-angle shot
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
Awake rodent fMRI: Gradient-echo echo planar imaging versus compressed-sensing fast low-angle shot
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Saskia Helbling:
Inferring laminar origins of MEG signals with optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs): A simulation study
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
Inferring laminar origins of MEG signals with optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs): A simulation study
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
January 2, 2025 at 11:20 PM
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Saskia Helbling:
Inferring laminar origins of MEG signals with optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs): A simulation study
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
Inferring laminar origins of MEG signals with optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs): A simulation study
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
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THE TOP 50 GUARDIAN HEADLINES 2024 - RANKED!
part 1, 50-26
50. How I turned my gap year into an ethical-criminal "dementerprise"
49. Could Trump's war on NATO's "Axis of Woke" save the marmoset?
48. Microdosed and hairless in the bath, I sang old CND protest songs
part 1, 50-26
50. How I turned my gap year into an ethical-criminal "dementerprise"
49. Could Trump's war on NATO's "Axis of Woke" save the marmoset?
48. Microdosed and hairless in the bath, I sang old CND protest songs
December 29, 2024 at 4:51 PM
THE TOP 50 GUARDIAN HEADLINES 2024 - RANKED!
part 1, 50-26
50. How I turned my gap year into an ethical-criminal "dementerprise"
49. Could Trump's war on NATO's "Axis of Woke" save the marmoset?
48. Microdosed and hairless in the bath, I sang old CND protest songs
part 1, 50-26
50. How I turned my gap year into an ethical-criminal "dementerprise"
49. Could Trump's war on NATO's "Axis of Woke" save the marmoset?
48. Microdosed and hairless in the bath, I sang old CND protest songs
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I'm excited to share another project we've been working on: The Transmitter's first book, which includes some of our favorite essays from our first ~9 months. Download a copy here: www.thetransmitter.org/transmitter-...
December 18, 2024 at 5:32 PM
I'm excited to share another project we've been working on: The Transmitter's first book, which includes some of our favorite essays from our first ~9 months. Download a copy here: www.thetransmitter.org/transmitter-...
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A few papers I think worth reading. Mostly open access.
Causal inference is hard:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Causal inference is hard:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Causal inference on human behaviour - Nature Human Behaviour
In this Review, Drew Bailey et al. present an accessible, non-technical overview of key challenges for causal inference in studies of human behaviour as well as methodological solutions to these chall...
www.nature.com
December 17, 2024 at 1:28 AM
A few papers I think worth reading. Mostly open access.
Causal inference is hard:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Causal inference is hard:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...