Mattia Chini
@mattiachini.bsky.social
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Mattia Chini
@mattiachini.bsky.social
· Sep 17
2 Postdoc Positions in Systems Neuroscience - Federation of European Neuroscience Societies
www.fens.org
🚨 2 Postdoc openings in Neuroscience – Liège, Belgium 🚨
We are recruiting for a project on brain development & autism that includes:
⚡ Neuropixels recordings
⚡ Opto/chemo
⚡ Behavior
⚡ Neural network modeling
If you know someone, tag them or RT for visibility! 🙏
www.fens.org/careers/job-...
We are recruiting for a project on brain development & autism that includes:
⚡ Neuropixels recordings
⚡ Opto/chemo
⚡ Behavior
⚡ Neural network modeling
If you know someone, tag them or RT for visibility! 🙏
www.fens.org/careers/job-...
Reposted by Mattia Chini
thank you for listening to my EEG TED talk! (the vibes from these chairs 😅).
we ran a MNE-python tutorial for >100 people for a week. the program going from preprocessing to source estimation to group analysis was ambitious, but I hope seeing all the steps involved was helpful for participants. 🙂
we ran a MNE-python tutorial for >100 people for a week. the program going from preprocessing to source estimation to group analysis was ambitious, but I hope seeing all the steps involved was helpful for participants. 🙂
this week at #PracticalMEEG2025 in Aix!
having run an MEG pipeline by trial and error, I was doubting myself between all parameters. lectures on the analysis steps + hands-on application together were very helpful!
& seeing women on stage sharing what they're excited about just hits different ⭐️
having run an MEG pipeline by trial and error, I was doubting myself between all parameters. lectures on the analysis steps + hands-on application together were very helpful!
& seeing women on stage sharing what they're excited about just hits different ⭐️
November 3, 2025 at 7:23 AM
thank you for listening to my EEG TED talk! (the vibes from these chairs 😅).
we ran a MNE-python tutorial for >100 people for a week. the program going from preprocessing to source estimation to group analysis was ambitious, but I hope seeing all the steps involved was helpful for participants. 🙂
we ran a MNE-python tutorial for >100 people for a week. the program going from preprocessing to source estimation to group analysis was ambitious, but I hope seeing all the steps involved was helpful for participants. 🙂
Mood after submitting two grants in the same week.
a polar bear cub is laying in a pile of hay
ALT: a polar bear cub is laying in a pile of hay
media.tenor.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Mood after submitting two grants in the same week.
Reposted by Mattia Chini
Neuroscience projects last several years, and you are usually a bit jaded by the time you wrap it up. Not this one– spending several months on an island in the middle of nowhere, away from all the craziness of the world reminds you how beautiful the world really is.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=46sv...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=46sv...
Bat Island: The New Era of Science
YouTube video by Weizmann Institute of Science
www.youtube.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Neuroscience projects last several years, and you are usually a bit jaded by the time you wrap it up. Not this one– spending several months on an island in the middle of nowhere, away from all the craziness of the world reminds you how beautiful the world really is.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=46sv...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=46sv...
This year's #BernsteinConference was a blast! So many cool discussions, so many faces I was happy to see again, so many interesting new people to meet etc.
Within this, my highlight was the PhD hackathon organized with @irinapochinok.bsky.social
We had a full house of super bright students!
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Within this, my highlight was the PhD hackathon organized with @irinapochinok.bsky.social
We had a full house of super bright students!
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October 3, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This year's #BernsteinConference was a blast! So many cool discussions, so many faces I was happy to see again, so many interesting new people to meet etc.
Within this, my highlight was the PhD hackathon organized with @irinapochinok.bsky.social
We had a full house of super bright students!
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Within this, my highlight was the PhD hackathon organized with @irinapochinok.bsky.social
We had a full house of super bright students!
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Reposted by Mattia Chini
I've been waiting some years to make this joke and now it’s real:
I conned somebody into giving me a faculty job!
I’m starting as a W1 Tenure-Track Professor at Goethe University Frankfurt in a week (lol), in the Faculty of CS and Math
and I'm recruiting PhD students 🤗
I conned somebody into giving me a faculty job!
I’m starting as a W1 Tenure-Track Professor at Goethe University Frankfurt in a week (lol), in the Faculty of CS and Math
and I'm recruiting PhD students 🤗
a man wearing a white shirt and tie smiles in front of a window
ALT: a man wearing a white shirt and tie smiles in front of a window
media.tenor.com
September 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I've been waiting some years to make this joke and now it’s real:
I conned somebody into giving me a faculty job!
I’m starting as a W1 Tenure-Track Professor at Goethe University Frankfurt in a week (lol), in the Faculty of CS and Math
and I'm recruiting PhD students 🤗
I conned somebody into giving me a faculty job!
I’m starting as a W1 Tenure-Track Professor at Goethe University Frankfurt in a week (lol), in the Faculty of CS and Math
and I'm recruiting PhD students 🤗
Reposted by Mattia Chini
And we are live!
Excited to announce the 2025 Multi-Agent Behavior Challenge on cross-lab supervised action recognition in mice 🐁🐀🖱️
Running on Kaggle until December 15th, with a $50,000 prize pool going to the top five submissions!
www.kaggle.com/competitions...
Excited to announce the 2025 Multi-Agent Behavior Challenge on cross-lab supervised action recognition in mice 🐁🐀🖱️
Running on Kaggle until December 15th, with a $50,000 prize pool going to the top five submissions!
www.kaggle.com/competitions...
September 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
And we are live!
Excited to announce the 2025 Multi-Agent Behavior Challenge on cross-lab supervised action recognition in mice 🐁🐀🖱️
Running on Kaggle until December 15th, with a $50,000 prize pool going to the top five submissions!
www.kaggle.com/competitions...
Excited to announce the 2025 Multi-Agent Behavior Challenge on cross-lab supervised action recognition in mice 🐁🐀🖱️
Running on Kaggle until December 15th, with a $50,000 prize pool going to the top five submissions!
www.kaggle.com/competitions...
Reposted by Mattia Chini
🚨New preprint alert!
The thalamus has long been seen as a relay of sensory signals to cortex.
But could it also generate its own structured activity?
Our study explores this question in the head-direction (HD) system.
Some explanation 🧵👇 1/13
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The thalamus has long been seen as a relay of sensory signals to cortex.
But could it also generate its own structured activity?
Our study explores this question in the head-direction (HD) system.
Some explanation 🧵👇 1/13
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Coherent dynamics of thalamic head-direction neurons irrespective of input
While the thalamus is known to relay and modulate sensory signals to the cortex, whether it also participates in active computation and intrinsic signal generation remains unresolved. The anterodorsal...
www.biorxiv.org
September 16, 2025 at 3:56 PM
🚨New preprint alert!
The thalamus has long been seen as a relay of sensory signals to cortex.
But could it also generate its own structured activity?
Our study explores this question in the head-direction (HD) system.
Some explanation 🧵👇 1/13
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The thalamus has long been seen as a relay of sensory signals to cortex.
But could it also generate its own structured activity?
Our study explores this question in the head-direction (HD) system.
Some explanation 🧵👇 1/13
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🚨 2 Postdoc openings in Neuroscience – Liège, Belgium 🚨
We are recruiting for a project on brain development & autism that includes:
⚡ Neuropixels recordings
⚡ Opto/chemo
⚡ Behavior
⚡ Neural network modeling
If you know someone, tag them or RT for visibility! 🙏
www.fens.org/careers/job-...
We are recruiting for a project on brain development & autism that includes:
⚡ Neuropixels recordings
⚡ Opto/chemo
⚡ Behavior
⚡ Neural network modeling
If you know someone, tag them or RT for visibility! 🙏
www.fens.org/careers/job-...
2 Postdoc Positions in Systems Neuroscience - Federation of European Neuroscience Societies
www.fens.org
September 17, 2025 at 9:38 AM
🚨 2 Postdoc openings in Neuroscience – Liège, Belgium 🚨
We are recruiting for a project on brain development & autism that includes:
⚡ Neuropixels recordings
⚡ Opto/chemo
⚡ Behavior
⚡ Neural network modeling
If you know someone, tag them or RT for visibility! 🙏
www.fens.org/careers/job-...
We are recruiting for a project on brain development & autism that includes:
⚡ Neuropixels recordings
⚡ Opto/chemo
⚡ Behavior
⚡ Neural network modeling
If you know someone, tag them or RT for visibility! 🙏
www.fens.org/careers/job-...
Reposted by Mattia Chini
🚨 Excited to share the latest preprint form the lab ➡️https://tinyurl.com/32d3be9f
Here we tackle a long-standing chicken-or-egg 🐣🥚question in #autism and developmental neuroscience
➡️ Is excitation–inhibition (E:I) imbalance a "cause" or a "consequence" of #autism?
Check out what we found!
🧵1/n
Here we tackle a long-standing chicken-or-egg 🐣🥚question in #autism and developmental neuroscience
➡️ Is excitation–inhibition (E:I) imbalance a "cause" or a "consequence" of #autism?
Check out what we found!
🧵1/n
September 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Reposted by Mattia Chini
Excited to share our new preprint on the brain-wide organization of intrinsic timescales at single neuron resolution. Work w/ @roxana-zeraati.bsky.social, @intlbrainlab.bsky.social, Anna Levina, @engeltatiana.bsky.social : www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 2, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Excited to share our new preprint on the brain-wide organization of intrinsic timescales at single neuron resolution. Work w/ @roxana-zeraati.bsky.social, @intlbrainlab.bsky.social, Anna Levina, @engeltatiana.bsky.social : www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Human ripples are... very slow? 🤔
Is this a well-known fact?
Plot taken from the recent @nature.com paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Is this a well-known fact?
Plot taken from the recent @nature.com paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
August 28, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Human ripples are... very slow? 🤔
Is this a well-known fact?
Plot taken from the recent @nature.com paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Is this a well-known fact?
Plot taken from the recent @nature.com paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I am thrilled to share that this winter I will be starting my lab in the GIGA Institute of @universitedeliege.bsky.social!
The lab will study early brain development at the intersection of systems and computational neuroscience.
🌐 You can find out more on the lab website: www.chinilab.com
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The lab will study early brain development at the intersection of systems and computational neuroscience.
🌐 You can find out more on the lab website: www.chinilab.com
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Chini Lab
Chini Lab at GIGA–ULiège. We study how neural activity emerges in early development from a systems neuroscience perspective.
www.chinilab.com
August 27, 2025 at 8:51 AM
I am thrilled to share that this winter I will be starting my lab in the GIGA Institute of @universitedeliege.bsky.social!
The lab will study early brain development at the intersection of systems and computational neuroscience.
🌐 You can find out more on the lab website: www.chinilab.com
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The lab will study early brain development at the intersection of systems and computational neuroscience.
🌐 You can find out more on the lab website: www.chinilab.com
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The state of pseudo data-sharing.
August 15, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The state of pseudo data-sharing.
Reposted by Mattia Chini
📢 2 weeks left for Abstract submission !
Join us at the 16th BSN Meeting – Oct 20, 2025 at KU Leuven 🧠
🔗 Submit now: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
📍 Deadline: August 20th, 2025
#BSN2025 #Neuroscience #CallForAbstracts
Join us at the 16th BSN Meeting – Oct 20, 2025 at KU Leuven 🧠
🔗 Submit now: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
📍 Deadline: August 20th, 2025
#BSN2025 #Neuroscience #CallForAbstracts
August 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
📢 2 weeks left for Abstract submission !
Join us at the 16th BSN Meeting – Oct 20, 2025 at KU Leuven 🧠
🔗 Submit now: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
📍 Deadline: August 20th, 2025
#BSN2025 #Neuroscience #CallForAbstracts
Join us at the 16th BSN Meeting – Oct 20, 2025 at KU Leuven 🧠
🔗 Submit now: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
📍 Deadline: August 20th, 2025
#BSN2025 #Neuroscience #CallForAbstracts
Our first project on intrinsic neural timescales (ITs) is out! 😱🥳
We developed a new method to estimate ITs from single-unit data, which generalizes and improves the current state-of-the-art approaches.
Plus, why estimating ITs on trial-based data is dangerous ☠️
Read it all here below 👇
We developed a new method to estimate ITs from single-unit data, which generalizes and improves the current state-of-the-art approaches.
Plus, why estimating ITs on trial-based data is dangerous ☠️
Read it all here below 👇
New preprint is out! We present iSTTC, a robust method for estimating intrinsic neural timescales (ITs) from single-unit activity. It’s accurate, stable, and works even when data is sparse.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
iSTTC: a robust method for accurate estimation of intrinsic neural timescales from single-unit recordings
Intrinsic neural timescales (ITs) are an emerging measure of how neural circuits integrate information over time. ITs are dynamically regulated by behavioral context and cognitive demands, making them...
doi.org
August 5, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Our first project on intrinsic neural timescales (ITs) is out! 😱🥳
We developed a new method to estimate ITs from single-unit data, which generalizes and improves the current state-of-the-art approaches.
Plus, why estimating ITs on trial-based data is dangerous ☠️
Read it all here below 👇
We developed a new method to estimate ITs from single-unit data, which generalizes and improves the current state-of-the-art approaches.
Plus, why estimating ITs on trial-based data is dangerous ☠️
Read it all here below 👇
Reposted by Mattia Chini
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We implemented iSTTC to tackle challenges in our own sparse, developmental datasets, and it’s working beautifully. We hope it helps others working with tricky spiking data. Try it yourself github.com/iinnpp/isttc!
We implemented iSTTC to tackle challenges in our own sparse, developmental datasets, and it’s working beautifully. We hope it helps others working with tricky spiking data. Try it yourself github.com/iinnpp/isttc!
GitHub - iinnpp/isttc: iSTTC: intrinsic neural timescales estimation
iSTTC: intrinsic neural timescales estimation. Contribute to iinnpp/isttc development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
August 5, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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We implemented iSTTC to tackle challenges in our own sparse, developmental datasets, and it’s working beautifully. We hope it helps others working with tricky spiking data. Try it yourself github.com/iinnpp/isttc!
We implemented iSTTC to tackle challenges in our own sparse, developmental datasets, and it’s working beautifully. We hope it helps others working with tricky spiking data. Try it yourself github.com/iinnpp/isttc!
"people use it very differently".. this applies to so many concepts in neuroscience!
We (@irinapochinok.bsky.social and Simon Musall) put together a #BernsteinConference Workshop on exactly this and @juangallego.bsky.social will be one of our speakers!
@bernsteinneuro.bsky.social
shorturl.at/4kV00
We (@irinapochinok.bsky.social and Simon Musall) put together a #BernsteinConference Workshop on exactly this and @juangallego.bsky.social will be one of our speakers!
@bernsteinneuro.bsky.social
shorturl.at/4kV00
August 1, 2025 at 10:31 AM
"people use it very differently".. this applies to so many concepts in neuroscience!
We (@irinapochinok.bsky.social and Simon Musall) put together a #BernsteinConference Workshop on exactly this and @juangallego.bsky.social will be one of our speakers!
@bernsteinneuro.bsky.social
shorturl.at/4kV00
We (@irinapochinok.bsky.social and Simon Musall) put together a #BernsteinConference Workshop on exactly this and @juangallego.bsky.social will be one of our speakers!
@bernsteinneuro.bsky.social
shorturl.at/4kV00
Reposted by Mattia Chini
🧠 Opportunity for a post-doctoral position on human neurobiology, funded by the @erc.europa.eu!
🧫You want to use human pluripotent stem cell based models to understand the evolution of human cerebellar neurons and disorders, this position is for you!
🔗Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
🧫You want to use human pluripotent stem cell based models to understand the evolution of human cerebellar neurons and disorders, this position is for you!
🔗Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Postdoctoral researcher in human neurobiology (M/F)
emploi.cnrs.fr
July 30, 2025 at 8:26 AM
🧠 Opportunity for a post-doctoral position on human neurobiology, funded by the @erc.europa.eu!
🧫You want to use human pluripotent stem cell based models to understand the evolution of human cerebellar neurons and disorders, this position is for you!
🔗Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
🧫You want to use human pluripotent stem cell based models to understand the evolution of human cerebellar neurons and disorders, this position is for you!
🔗Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Reposted by Mattia Chini
Our lab is recruiting a postdoc to join a project that studies the activity in the neonate brain (mouse and human !)
As promised, here is a new opening for my lab, this time for a postdoc: jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0...
Research Associate in Psychology in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Research at University of Virginia
Apply for Research Associate in Psychology job with University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America. Research at University of Virginia
jobs.virginia.edu
July 23, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Our lab is recruiting a postdoc to join a project that studies the activity in the neonate brain (mouse and human !)
Reposted by Mattia Chini
We have a 3-year postdoctoral position open in our lab in Oslo
@ncmbm.bsky.social
to work on Sleep and Development through the NORPOD program together with
@thomasdwkim.bsky.social
and supported by
@nordicembl.bsky.social
Check application here:
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
@ncmbm.bsky.social
to work on Sleep and Development through the NORPOD program together with
@thomasdwkim.bsky.social
and supported by
@nordicembl.bsky.social
Check application here:
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Postdoctoral/Researcher position in Molecular and Systems Neuroscience through the NORPOD program (282173) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral/Researcher position in Molecular and Systems Neuroscience through the NORPOD program (282173), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Friday, August 15, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
June 16, 2025 at 5:29 AM
We have a 3-year postdoctoral position open in our lab in Oslo
@ncmbm.bsky.social
to work on Sleep and Development through the NORPOD program together with
@thomasdwkim.bsky.social
and supported by
@nordicembl.bsky.social
Check application here:
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
@ncmbm.bsky.social
to work on Sleep and Development through the NORPOD program together with
@thomasdwkim.bsky.social
and supported by
@nordicembl.bsky.social
Check application here:
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
😂😂😂
June 4, 2025 at 8:41 PM
😂😂😂
Great tweetprint! 👇
New preprint with @stuartoldham.bsky.social
Transcriptomic divergence of network hubs in the prenatal human brain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.26.656237v1
May 28, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Great tweetprint! 👇