Jaime de la Rocha
@jrochav.bsky.social
Neuroscientist. Group Leader in the Brain Circuits and Behavior Lab at IDIBAPS, Barcelona. Interested in decision making, working memory and reinforcement learning. Fascinated by animal behavior.
A few years ago we dreamed about having an automated system in which our animals could live in and train on any behavioral task 24/7 w/o any human intervention. Today, we are very happy to share the Training Village (TV), an open system that can be used to train mice/rats in almost any task (1/4).
I am very excited to share my first preprint🎉
The pandemic kicked off strongly during the first year of my PhD, and I had to stop the behavioral experiments when mice were starting to understand the task. At the BCB Lab, this showed us that training automation could be a real game changer (🧵1/10)
The pandemic kicked off strongly during the first year of my PhD, and I had to stop the behavioral experiments when mice were starting to understand the task. At the BCB Lab, this showed us that training automation could be a real game changer (🧵1/10)
The Training Village: an open platform for continuous testing of rodents in cognitive tasks https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.12.698970v1
February 4, 2026 at 9:42 AM
A few years ago we dreamed about having an automated system in which our animals could live in and train on any behavioral task 24/7 w/o any human intervention. Today, we are very happy to share the Training Village (TV), an open system that can be used to train mice/rats in almost any task (1/4).
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🚨Excited to share my first @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social🚨 with the amazing Smith lab, @jbarbosa.org and Albert Compte who made this work possible.
We show that 🐒prefrontal hemispheres combine redundancy (for precision) & weak connections (for capacity) for supporting spatial working memory (WM). 1/🧵
We show that 🐒prefrontal hemispheres combine redundancy (for precision) & weak connections (for capacity) for supporting spatial working memory (WM). 1/🧵
Redundant, weakly connected prefrontal hemispheres balance precision and capacity in spatial working memory https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.15.633176v1
January 20, 2025 at 12:10 PM
🚨Excited to share my first @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social🚨 with the amazing Smith lab, @jbarbosa.org and Albert Compte who made this work possible.
We show that 🐒prefrontal hemispheres combine redundancy (for precision) & weak connections (for capacity) for supporting spatial working memory (WM). 1/🧵
We show that 🐒prefrontal hemispheres combine redundancy (for precision) & weak connections (for capacity) for supporting spatial working memory (WM). 1/🧵
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Want to make publication-ready figures come straight from Python without having to do any manual editing? Are you fed up with axes labels being unreadable during your presentations? Follow this short tutorial including code examples! 👇🧵
October 16, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Want to make publication-ready figures come straight from Python without having to do any manual editing? Are you fed up with axes labels being unreadable during your presentations? Follow this short tutorial including code examples! 👇🧵
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Madrid: Thousands demostrating against the Israeli team’s participation in Spain’s cycling ride
They have torn down the barriers and the stage has been suspended
The Genocide Convention obligates to prevent and punish
The states are not doing it, the people are demanding it
They have torn down the barriers and the stage has been suspended
The Genocide Convention obligates to prevent and punish
The states are not doing it, the people are demanding it
September 14, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Madrid: Thousands demostrating against the Israeli team’s participation in Spain’s cycling ride
They have torn down the barriers and the stage has been suspended
The Genocide Convention obligates to prevent and punish
The states are not doing it, the people are demanding it
They have torn down the barriers and the stage has been suspended
The Genocide Convention obligates to prevent and punish
The states are not doing it, the people are demanding it
These horrible pics taken by a Spanish physician in Jan Yunis document well many of the victims of the masacres perpetrated by the IDF over just three months in Gaza. Until when will this craziness continue? When will Israelis react to the suffering of the children in Gaza?
issuu.com/prisarevista...
issuu.com/prisarevista...
Informe del doctor Raúl Incertis desde Gaza
issuu.com
September 14, 2025 at 11:37 PM
These horrible pics taken by a Spanish physician in Jan Yunis document well many of the victims of the masacres perpetrated by the IDF over just three months in Gaza. Until when will this craziness continue? When will Israelis react to the suffering of the children in Gaza?
issuu.com/prisarevista...
issuu.com/prisarevista...
📣📣 PhD Position opening 📣📣 We are looking for candidates for a 4 year PhD position in the Brain Circuits and Behavior Lab to investigate the circuit mechanisms of working memory (please RT).
August 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
📣📣 PhD Position opening 📣📣 We are looking for candidates for a 4 year PhD position in the Brain Circuits and Behavior Lab to investigate the circuit mechanisms of working memory (please RT).
youtu.be/fgsK7noLGOM?...
Heartbreaking. Maddening. How many more of these testimonies we need to hear before we believe this conflict has all the elements of a genocide?
Heartbreaking. Maddening. How many more of these testimonies we need to hear before we believe this conflict has all the elements of a genocide?
Surgeon breaks down in parliament explaining how IDF drones target children
YouTube video by PoliticsJOE
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August 1, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Heartbreaking. Maddening. How many more of these testimonies we need to hear before we believe this conflict has all the elements of a genocide?
Heartbreaking. Maddening. How many more of these testimonies we need to hear before we believe this conflict has all the elements of a genocide?
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Juristas por Palestina exige al Estado español que abandone la “pasividad cómplice” ante el genocidio en Gaza
@juristasxpalestina.bsky.social
www.eldiario.es/politica/jur...
@juristasxpalestina.bsky.social
www.eldiario.es/politica/jur...
Juristas por Palestina exige al Estado español que abandone la "pasividad cómplice" ante el genocidio en Gaza
La plataforma recuerda que el Derecho Internacional establece que se deben "detener exportaciones militares, aplicar sanciones, suspender colaboraciones con empresas implicadas y garantizar la protecc...
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July 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Juristas por Palestina exige al Estado español que abandone la “pasividad cómplice” ante el genocidio en Gaza
@juristasxpalestina.bsky.social
www.eldiario.es/politica/jur...
@juristasxpalestina.bsky.social
www.eldiario.es/politica/jur...
This is very brave! Thanks Avner Wishnitzer for speaking up. I wonder what your colleagues, our colleagues, in Israeli academic institutions think about this. "Ask about Gaza, speak about Gaza, oppose the killing. Choose life." www.pressenza.com/2025/07/one-...
One day they will tell what happened there
By Avner Wishnitzer. Avner is a co-founder of Combatants for Peace and a professor of history at Tel Aviv University. We reprint with his permission this
www.pressenza.com
July 28, 2025 at 7:07 AM
This is very brave! Thanks Avner Wishnitzer for speaking up. I wonder what your colleagues, our colleagues, in Israeli academic institutions think about this. "Ask about Gaza, speak about Gaza, oppose the killing. Choose life." www.pressenza.com/2025/07/one-...
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👨💻 Open PI position in our institute 👨💻 !! If you are an expert in Computational Neuroscience and want to start your lab in Bordeaux, contact us !
www.fens.org/careers/job-...
@neuromagendie.bsky.social
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July 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
👨💻 Open PI position in our institute 👨💻 !! If you are an expert in Computational Neuroscience and want to start your lab in Bordeaux, contact us !
www.fens.org/careers/job-...
@neuromagendie.bsky.social
@neurobordeaux.bsky.social
www.fens.org/careers/job-...
@neuromagendie.bsky.social
@neurobordeaux.bsky.social
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I'm ashamed by the response of the European leaders. Who has been the agressor here? why is this such a difficult question to answer?
I'm ashamed by the response of the European leaders. Who has been the agressor here? why is this such a difficult question to answer?
Western leaders call for diplomacy, but they won’t stop this war – they refuse to even name its cause | Nesrine Malik
The political centre sees the US and Israel’s war on Iran as a crisis to be managed, while the gap between their detached politics and bloody rhetoric widens, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
June 24, 2025 at 10:18 AM
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I'm ashamed by the response of the European leaders. Who has been the agressor here? why is this such a difficult question to answer?
I'm ashamed by the response of the European leaders. Who has been the agressor here? why is this such a difficult question to answer?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
When is this massacre going to stop? What else has to happen for the international community to take action? And then they say they use human shields. This is unbearable.
When is this massacre going to stop? What else has to happen for the international community to take action? And then they say they use human shields. This is unbearable.
Israeli airstrike kills nine of Gaza doctor’s 10 children
Dr Alaa al-Najjar was on duty at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis when she received her children’s bodies
www.theguardian.com
May 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
When is this massacre going to stop? What else has to happen for the international community to take action? And then they say they use human shields. This is unbearable.
When is this massacre going to stop? What else has to happen for the international community to take action? And then they say they use human shields. This is unbearable.
This looks incredibly cool!
For more info on our Lu.i see our repo github.com/giant-axon/l... and the preprint our researchers from @unibern.bsky.social and @Heidelberg University
published arxiv.org/abs/2404.16664
published arxiv.org/abs/2404.16664
February 24, 2025 at 6:35 PM
This looks incredibly cool!
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Excited to announce multiple #PhD & #Postdoc positions opening in my lab over the next three years as part of the #ERC Starting grant DIVERSE! Reposts appreciated 😊 #neuroscience #neuroskyence
February 17, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Excited to announce multiple #PhD & #Postdoc positions opening in my lab over the next three years as part of the #ERC Starting grant DIVERSE! Reposts appreciated 😊 #neuroscience #neuroskyence
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Memorable concierto de @muguruzafm.bsky.social en Madrid, 15.000 personas unidas por la música y el compromiso
“Free Palestine” ⤵️
“Free Palestine” ⤵️
February 16, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Memorable concierto de @muguruzafm.bsky.social en Madrid, 15.000 personas unidas por la música y el compromiso
“Free Palestine” ⤵️
“Free Palestine” ⤵️
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Our Barcelona-based summer school, BAMB! (bambschool.org) just opened applications! Come join us: 15-24th July, to learn how to model behavioral data using RL, Bayesian, latent variable models, RNNs, DDMs & more! #BAMB2025
BAMB!
Course philosophy
Our goal is to teach advanced techniques in model-based analysis of behavior (humans and other animals) to cognitive and computational neuroscientists at PhD and early career levels...
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January 30, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Our Barcelona-based summer school, BAMB! (bambschool.org) just opened applications! Come join us: 15-24th July, to learn how to model behavioral data using RL, Bayesian, latent variable models, RNNs, DDMs & more! #BAMB2025
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Fabulous #FKNE meeting in Lithuania last week - shaping the future of #neuroscience with visionary, challenging and community building frontier researchers!
@fkne-scholars.bsky.social @fens.org @kavlifoundation.bsky.social
@fkne-scholars.bsky.social @fens.org @kavlifoundation.bsky.social
February 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Fabulous #FKNE meeting in Lithuania last week - shaping the future of #neuroscience with visionary, challenging and community building frontier researchers!
@fkne-scholars.bsky.social @fens.org @kavlifoundation.bsky.social
@fkne-scholars.bsky.social @fens.org @kavlifoundation.bsky.social
Really happy to see this is out. 👏👏 Great team effort, from a couple of generations from 2 labs. I love how this fine understanding of the motor responses was possible thanks to some of our previous work carefully dissecting other aspects of the task (i.e. history effects and RTs). More to come! 🎉
Excited to share our new @naturecomms.bsky.social paper with @alexgaduca.bsky.social Jordi Pastor, @hernandez-navarro.bsky.social , Lejla Bektic, Debora Lombardo, @jrochav.bsky.social , and @alexhyafil.bsky.social !
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Rapid, systematic updating of movement by accumulated decision evidence - Nature Communications
The link between the dynamics of decision formation and movement is unclear. Here the authors reveal a tight relationship between evidence accumulation during perceptual decisions and response traject...
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December 9, 2024 at 1:30 PM
Really happy to see this is out. 👏👏 Great team effort, from a couple of generations from 2 labs. I love how this fine understanding of the motor responses was possible thanks to some of our previous work carefully dissecting other aspects of the task (i.e. history effects and RTs). More to come! 🎉