Karolina Socha
@karolinazsocha.bsky.social
Assistant Project Scientists @UCLA investigating neural circuits underlying decision-making across species
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Thrilled to share that both papers from my postdoc at @ucl.ac.uk at @carandinilab.net, as part of the International Brain Lab collaboration, are now out in @nature.com 🎉
🧠 Brain-wide neural activity during complex behavior: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
🧠 representations of prior:
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
🧠 Brain-wide neural activity during complex behavior: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
🧠 representations of prior:
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Thrilled to share that both papers from my postdoc at @ucl.ac.uk at @carandinilab.net, as part of the International Brain Lab collaboration, are now out in @nature.com 🎉
🧠 Brain-wide neural activity during complex behavior: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
🧠 representations of prior:
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
🧠 Brain-wide neural activity during complex behavior: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
🧠 representations of prior:
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
September 5, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Thrilled to share that both papers from my postdoc at @ucl.ac.uk at @carandinilab.net, as part of the International Brain Lab collaboration, are now out in @nature.com 🎉
🧠 Brain-wide neural activity during complex behavior: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
🧠 representations of prior:
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
🧠 Brain-wide neural activity during complex behavior: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
🧠 representations of prior:
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Reposted by Karolina Socha
Two flagship papers from the International Brain Laboratory, now out in @Nature.com:
🧠 Brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09235-0
🧠 Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09226-1 +
🧠 Brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09235-0
🧠 Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09226-1 +
September 3, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Two flagship papers from the International Brain Laboratory, now out in @Nature.com:
🧠 Brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09235-0
🧠 Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09226-1 +
🧠 Brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09235-0
🧠 Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09226-1 +
Reposted by Karolina Socha
Should you stick to your goal, try something else, or give up? Your median raphe nucleus in the brainstem knows and will decide for you 😉. First foray of my lab into foraging, behavioural strategies and exploration. Amazing work from the one and only Mehran Ahmadlou: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A subcortical switchboard for perseverative, exploratory and disengaged states - Nature
Behavioural experiments in mice demonstrate that GABAergic (γ-aminobutyric acid-expressing), glutamatergic and serotonergic neurons in the median raphe nucleus have distinct and complementary function...
www.nature.com
March 5, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Should you stick to your goal, try something else, or give up? Your median raphe nucleus in the brainstem knows and will decide for you 😉. First foray of my lab into foraging, behavioural strategies and exploration. Amazing work from the one and only Mehran Ahmadlou: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Karolina Socha
⏰ Last days to apply!!⏰
This hands-on course covers:
🦠 Flies/Zebrafish – Optogenetics, 2P imaging
🐭 Mice – 2P/3P imaging, Neuropixels, closed-loop behavior
📅 June 8-27, 2025 | Champalimaud, Lisbon
⏳ Apply by March 7
🔗 loom.ly/OMvqMcE
This hands-on course covers:
🦠 Flies/Zebrafish – Optogenetics, 2P imaging
🐭 Mice – 2P/3P imaging, Neuropixels, closed-loop behavior
📅 June 8-27, 2025 | Champalimaud, Lisbon
⏳ Apply by March 7
🔗 loom.ly/OMvqMcE
March 5, 2025 at 3:39 PM
⏰ Last days to apply!!⏰
This hands-on course covers:
🦠 Flies/Zebrafish – Optogenetics, 2P imaging
🐭 Mice – 2P/3P imaging, Neuropixels, closed-loop behavior
📅 June 8-27, 2025 | Champalimaud, Lisbon
⏳ Apply by March 7
🔗 loom.ly/OMvqMcE
This hands-on course covers:
🦠 Flies/Zebrafish – Optogenetics, 2P imaging
🐭 Mice – 2P/3P imaging, Neuropixels, closed-loop behavior
📅 June 8-27, 2025 | Champalimaud, Lisbon
⏳ Apply by March 7
🔗 loom.ly/OMvqMcE
Reposted by Karolina Socha
New SWC research identifies the median raphe nucleus (MRN) as a critical hub for flexible switching between behavioural strategies of perseverance, exploration, and disengagement.
Full story 🔀 www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/research...
Full story 🔀 www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/research...
March 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM
New SWC research identifies the median raphe nucleus (MRN) as a critical hub for flexible switching between behavioural strategies of perseverance, exploration, and disengagement.
Full story 🔀 www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/research...
Full story 🔀 www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/research...
Reposted by Karolina Socha
🚨 We're looking for an experimentalist to join our team at UCL! 🚨 Whether you’re looking for a postdoc role or want to gain hands-on experience as a research assistant, we’d love to hear from you. If you’re excited about visual circuits, systems neuroscience & mouse behavior, please get in touch!
My lab University College London is looking for an experimental postdoc to join our team. Interested in circuits underlying visually guided behavior, chronic #Neuropixel recordings or 2-photon imaging (Benchtop, #Mini2p)? Then check out our lab homepage www.ruedigerlab.com, apply & spread the word
March 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
🚨 We're looking for an experimentalist to join our team at UCL! 🚨 Whether you’re looking for a postdoc role or want to gain hands-on experience as a research assistant, we’d love to hear from you. If you’re excited about visual circuits, systems neuroscience & mouse behavior, please get in touch!
Reposted by Karolina Socha
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...
bambschool.org
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
Reposted by Karolina Socha
🚨 Neuromatch Academy Course Applications are OPEN for 2025!! 🚨
Get your application in early to be a student or teaching assistant for this year’s courses!
Applications are due Sunday, March 23.
Apply & learn more: neuromatch.io/courses/
#mlsky #compneurosky #ai #climatesolutions #ScienceEdu 🧪
Get your application in early to be a student or teaching assistant for this year’s courses!
Applications are due Sunday, March 23.
Apply & learn more: neuromatch.io/courses/
#mlsky #compneurosky #ai #climatesolutions #ScienceEdu 🧪
February 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
🚨 Neuromatch Academy Course Applications are OPEN for 2025!! 🚨
Get your application in early to be a student or teaching assistant for this year’s courses!
Applications are due Sunday, March 23.
Apply & learn more: neuromatch.io/courses/
#mlsky #compneurosky #ai #climatesolutions #ScienceEdu 🧪
Get your application in early to be a student or teaching assistant for this year’s courses!
Applications are due Sunday, March 23.
Apply & learn more: neuromatch.io/courses/
#mlsky #compneurosky #ai #climatesolutions #ScienceEdu 🧪
Reposted by Karolina Socha
Very happy to announce the "Paris Circuit Dynamics Conference 2025: Hippocampal–Cortical Circuits: From structure to computation", on 28 - 29 April 2025 at the Paris Brain Institute.
You are welcome to register and join us!
www.paris-circuits.eu
You are welcome to register and join us!
www.paris-circuits.eu
Paris Circuit Dynamics
This two-day conference will bring together leading experts from the Paris region and abroad to discuss the dynamics and neural coding in hippocampal and cortical circuits.
The program will focus on ...
www.paris-circuits.eu
February 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Very happy to announce the "Paris Circuit Dynamics Conference 2025: Hippocampal–Cortical Circuits: From structure to computation", on 28 - 29 April 2025 at the Paris Brain Institute.
You are welcome to register and join us!
www.paris-circuits.eu
You are welcome to register and join us!
www.paris-circuits.eu
Reposted by Karolina Socha
Want to hear more about how feedback can guide learning in RNNs for motor adaptation. Here is our new paper in Nat. Com. with Barbara Feulner and @juangallego.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A neural implementation model of feedback-based motor learning - Nature Communications
How the brain adapts our movements to new conditions remains unclear. Here, the authors show that a recurrent neural network that controls its output using error-based feedback can learn to count...
www.nature.com
February 21, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Want to hear more about how feedback can guide learning in RNNs for motor adaptation. Here is our new paper in Nat. Com. with Barbara Feulner and @juangallego.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Karolina Socha
📣 The 11th Statistical Analysis of Neuronal Data (SAND11) workshop will be held June 11-13, 2025 in New York at the @flatironinstitute.org with generous support from @simonsfoundation.org
Submissions for talks+posters are due March 21. See our website for details 👇
sandworkshop.github.io
Submissions for talks+posters are due March 21. See our website for details 👇
sandworkshop.github.io
SAND - 2025
SAND - 2025
sandworkshop.github.io
February 17, 2025 at 4:03 PM
📣 The 11th Statistical Analysis of Neuronal Data (SAND11) workshop will be held June 11-13, 2025 in New York at the @flatironinstitute.org with generous support from @simonsfoundation.org
Submissions for talks+posters are due March 21. See our website for details 👇
sandworkshop.github.io
Submissions for talks+posters are due March 21. See our website for details 👇
sandworkshop.github.io
Reposted by Karolina Socha
First preprint from our lab! An @jerlich.bsky.social collaboration
We developed novel frameworks to study multi-agent decisions in mice.
Mice flexibly shift their decision preference under social competition, by integrating real-time self and opponent information!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We developed novel frameworks to study multi-agent decisions in mice.
Mice flexibly shift their decision preference under social competition, by integrating real-time self and opponent information!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Mice dynamically adapt to opponents in competitive multi-player games
Competing for resources in dynamic social environments is fundamental for survival, and requires continuous monitoring of both 'self' and 'others' to guide effective choices. Yet our understanding of ...
www.biorxiv.org
February 16, 2025 at 10:19 PM
First preprint from our lab! An @jerlich.bsky.social collaboration
We developed novel frameworks to study multi-agent decisions in mice.
Mice flexibly shift their decision preference under social competition, by integrating real-time self and opponent information!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We developed novel frameworks to study multi-agent decisions in mice.
Mice flexibly shift their decision preference under social competition, by integrating real-time self and opponent information!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Karolina Socha
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
Thrilled to share our latest work exploring new avenues for combining #Neuropixels with #Optogenetics! Congratulations to co-first author Anna Lakunina, the Neuropixels Opto Consortium and collaborators! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
February 12, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Thrilled to share our latest work exploring new avenues for combining #Neuropixels with #Optogenetics! Congratulations to co-first author Anna Lakunina, the Neuropixels Opto Consortium and collaborators! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...