Raphaël Bergoin
@raphaelbergoin.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Researcher, working at the intersection of AI 💻 and neurosciences 🧠 @UKEHamburg
Previously @etislab and @cbcUPF
https://sites.google.com/view/raphael-bergoin/home
Previously @etislab and @cbcUPF
https://sites.google.com/view/raphael-bergoin/home
Pinned
I’m pleased to annonce the publication of our research on the «Emergence and maintenance of modularity in neural networks with Hebbian and anti-Hebbian inhibitory STDP» in @PLOS Computational Biology.
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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🚨new work with the dream team @danakarca.bsky.social @loopyluppi.bsky.social @fatemehhadaeghi.bsky.social @stuartoldham.bsky.social @duncanastle.bsky.social
We use game theory and show the brain is not optimally wired for communication and there’s more to its story:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
We use game theory and show the brain is not optimally wired for communication and there’s more to its story:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
December 15, 2025 at 8:01 AM
🚨new work with the dream team @danakarca.bsky.social @loopyluppi.bsky.social @fatemehhadaeghi.bsky.social @stuartoldham.bsky.social @duncanastle.bsky.social
We use game theory and show the brain is not optimally wired for communication and there’s more to its story:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
We use game theory and show the brain is not optimally wired for communication and there’s more to its story:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Postdoc & PhD positions
How intrinsic motivation underlies intelligent, open-ended and embodied behavior in natural and artificial agents
Apply if interested
sites.google.com/view/morenob...
How intrinsic motivation underlies intelligent, open-ended and embodied behavior in natural and artificial agents
Apply if interested
sites.google.com/view/morenob...
December 3, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Postdoc & PhD positions
How intrinsic motivation underlies intelligent, open-ended and embodied behavior in natural and artificial agents
Apply if interested
sites.google.com/view/morenob...
How intrinsic motivation underlies intelligent, open-ended and embodied behavior in natural and artificial agents
Apply if interested
sites.google.com/view/morenob...
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📜 "Advancing the science of consciousness …"
Very happy to see this one out. Philosophers, clinicians, caregivers, experimental scientists, data analysts and modellers cross-talking to build some practical consensus.
One of the most enriching projects I have participated:
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
Very happy to see this one out. Philosophers, clinicians, caregivers, experimental scientists, data analysts and modellers cross-talking to build some practical consensus.
One of the most enriching projects I have participated:
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
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December 2, 2025 at 8:49 AM
📜 "Advancing the science of consciousness …"
Very happy to see this one out. Philosophers, clinicians, caregivers, experimental scientists, data analysts and modellers cross-talking to build some practical consensus.
One of the most enriching projects I have participated:
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
Very happy to see this one out. Philosophers, clinicians, caregivers, experimental scientists, data analysts and modellers cross-talking to build some practical consensus.
One of the most enriching projects I have participated:
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
Last week I presented some of my last work at #SNUFA2025
You can find the recording of the talk in the following link:
youtu.be/oQiQLUyS1qM?...
You can find the recording of the talk in the following link:
youtu.be/oQiQLUyS1qM?...
Raphaël Bergoin - Emergence and maintenance of modularity in neural networks with inhibitory STDP
YouTube video by Neural Reckoning
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Last week I presented some of my last work at #SNUFA2025
You can find the recording of the talk in the following link:
youtu.be/oQiQLUyS1qM?...
You can find the recording of the talk in the following link:
youtu.be/oQiQLUyS1qM?...
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📣 pyGAlib 2.0 and PathLims 2.0 are out. So far, a much needed cleanup and updates.
- Dropped support for Python 2 😪
- New Python Packaging rules compliant ✅
- Compatibility with recent changes to NumPy ✅
Paving the way for upgrades, more functionalities and new packages joining the family soon.
- Dropped support for Python 2 😪
- New Python Packaging rules compliant ✅
- Compatibility with recent changes to NumPy ✅
Paving the way for upgrades, more functionalities and new packages joining the family soon.
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
📣 pyGAlib 2.0 and PathLims 2.0 are out. So far, a much needed cleanup and updates.
- Dropped support for Python 2 😪
- New Python Packaging rules compliant ✅
- Compatibility with recent changes to NumPy ✅
Paving the way for upgrades, more functionalities and new packages joining the family soon.
- Dropped support for Python 2 😪
- New Python Packaging rules compliant ✅
- Compatibility with recent changes to NumPy ✅
Paving the way for upgrades, more functionalities and new packages joining the family soon.
This Thursday I will present my last paper at the #SNUFA workshop.
You can register and attend for free here:
snufa.net/2025/
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/snufa-2025...
You can register and attend for free here:
snufa.net/2025/
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/snufa-2025...
SNUFA 2025
Spiking Neural networks as Universal Function Approximators
snufa.net
November 4, 2025 at 9:22 AM
This Thursday I will present my last paper at the #SNUFA workshop.
You can register and attend for free here:
snufa.net/2025/
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/snufa-2025...
You can register and attend for free here:
snufa.net/2025/
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/snufa-2025...
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🚨New preprint on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social:
“Competing Neural Decision Variables in Human Frontal Cortex Shape Decision Confidence”
by Alessandro Toso, @ayeletarazi.bsky.social, @jrochav.bsky.social, @ktsetsos.bsky.social & Tobias H. Donner
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
“Competing Neural Decision Variables in Human Frontal Cortex Shape Decision Confidence”
by Alessandro Toso, @ayeletarazi.bsky.social, @jrochav.bsky.social, @ktsetsos.bsky.social & Tobias H. Donner
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Competing Neural Decision Variables in Human Frontal Cortex Shape Decision Confidence
Mounting evidence indicates that decisions emerge from a competition between populations of neurons encoding the different choice options. Theoretical models propose that the outcome of this competiti...
www.biorxiv.org
November 3, 2025 at 9:12 PM
🚨New preprint on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social:
“Competing Neural Decision Variables in Human Frontal Cortex Shape Decision Confidence”
by Alessandro Toso, @ayeletarazi.bsky.social, @jrochav.bsky.social, @ktsetsos.bsky.social & Tobias H. Donner
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
“Competing Neural Decision Variables in Human Frontal Cortex Shape Decision Confidence”
by Alessandro Toso, @ayeletarazi.bsky.social, @jrochav.bsky.social, @ktsetsos.bsky.social & Tobias H. Donner
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Spiking NN fans - the #SNUFA workshop (Nov 5-6) agenda is finalised and online now. Make sure to register (free) soon. (Note you can register for either day and come to both.)
Agenda: snufa.net/2025/
Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/snufa-2025...
Thanks to all who voted on abstracts!
🤖🧠🧪
Agenda: snufa.net/2025/
Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/snufa-2025...
Thanks to all who voted on abstracts!
🤖🧠🧪
SNUFA 2025
Spiking Neural networks as Universal Function Approximators
snufa.net
October 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Spiking NN fans - the #SNUFA workshop (Nov 5-6) agenda is finalised and online now. Make sure to register (free) soon. (Note you can register for either day and come to both.)
Agenda: snufa.net/2025/
Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/snufa-2025...
Thanks to all who voted on abstracts!
🤖🧠🧪
Agenda: snufa.net/2025/
Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/snufa-2025...
Thanks to all who voted on abstracts!
🤖🧠🧪
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A year ago these things could just shuffle along slowly and would fall down if you looked at them wrong
October 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM
A year ago these things could just shuffle along slowly and would fall down if you looked at them wrong
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Message for participants of the #SNUFA 2025 spiking neural network workshop. We got almost 60 awesome abstract submissions, and we'd now like your help to select which ones should be offered talks. Follow the "abstract voting" link at snufa.net/2025/ to take part. It should take <15m. Thanks! ❤️
SNUFA 2025
Spiking Neural networks as Universal Function Approximators
snufa.net
October 1, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Message for participants of the #SNUFA 2025 spiking neural network workshop. We got almost 60 awesome abstract submissions, and we'd now like your help to select which ones should be offered talks. Follow the "abstract voting" link at snufa.net/2025/ to take part. It should take <15m. Thanks! ❤️
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🚨 New preprint!
“A Computational Perspective on the No-Strong-Loops Principle in Brain Networks”
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Over the past 3 years, we’ve been investigating why cortical networks avoid strong reciprocal loops — and what this means for computation.
“A Computational Perspective on the No-Strong-Loops Principle in Brain Networks”
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Over the past 3 years, we’ve been investigating why cortical networks avoid strong reciprocal loops — and what this means for computation.
September 27, 2025 at 9:33 PM
🚨 New preprint!
“A Computational Perspective on the No-Strong-Loops Principle in Brain Networks”
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Over the past 3 years, we’ve been investigating why cortical networks avoid strong reciprocal loops — and what this means for computation.
“A Computational Perspective on the No-Strong-Loops Principle in Brain Networks”
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Over the past 3 years, we’ve been investigating why cortical networks avoid strong reciprocal loops — and what this means for computation.
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🚀 Young Scientist Retreat 2025 – Hamburg 🌍
📅 October 21–24, 2025
👉 Register here: tinyurl.com/ycmyshra (Google Form)
If this does not work, feel free to write sarah.danboeck@uni-mannheim.de
Let’s connect, learn & grow together in Hamburg! 🌟
ysr2025 #Biopsychology #YoungScientists
(more below)
📅 October 21–24, 2025
👉 Register here: tinyurl.com/ycmyshra (Google Form)
If this does not work, feel free to write sarah.danboeck@uni-mannheim.de
Let’s connect, learn & grow together in Hamburg! 🌟
ysr2025 #Biopsychology #YoungScientists
(more below)
September 12, 2025 at 8:33 AM
🚀 Young Scientist Retreat 2025 – Hamburg 🌍
📅 October 21–24, 2025
👉 Register here: tinyurl.com/ycmyshra (Google Form)
If this does not work, feel free to write sarah.danboeck@uni-mannheim.de
Let’s connect, learn & grow together in Hamburg! 🌟
ysr2025 #Biopsychology #YoungScientists
(more below)
📅 October 21–24, 2025
👉 Register here: tinyurl.com/ycmyshra (Google Form)
If this does not work, feel free to write sarah.danboeck@uni-mannheim.de
Let’s connect, learn & grow together in Hamburg! 🌟
ysr2025 #Biopsychology #YoungScientists
(more below)
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Please RT - Open PhD position in my group at the Donders Center for Neuroscience, Radboud University.
We're looking for a PhD candidate interested in developing theories of learning in neural networks.
Applications are open until October 20th.
For more info: www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
We're looking for a PhD candidate interested in developing theories of learning in neural networks.
Applications are open until October 20th.
For more info: www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
PhD Position: Theory of Learning in Artificial and Biologically Inspired Neural Networks | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a PhD candidate Theory of Learning in Artificial and Biologically Inspired Neural Network? Check our vacancy!
www.ru.nl
September 22, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Please RT - Open PhD position in my group at the Donders Center for Neuroscience, Radboud University.
We're looking for a PhD candidate interested in developing theories of learning in neural networks.
Applications are open until October 20th.
For more info: www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
We're looking for a PhD candidate interested in developing theories of learning in neural networks.
Applications are open until October 20th.
For more info: www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
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🚨 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
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Dear #ParisNeuroscience community, here is the schedule of the upcoming 'Neural Networking Night' season !
September 3, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Dear #ParisNeuroscience community, here is the schedule of the upcoming 'Neural Networking Night' season !
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Last preprint in #neuroskyence #compneurosky strong external currents are not required to get dynamical #balance in rate chaos, results obtained via dynamical mean field theory
@alleninstitute.org @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social @bernsteinneuro.bsky.social @incn.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
@alleninstitute.org @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social @bernsteinneuro.bsky.social @incn.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
August 31, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Last preprint in #neuroskyence #compneurosky strong external currents are not required to get dynamical #balance in rate chaos, results obtained via dynamical mean field theory
@alleninstitute.org @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social @bernsteinneuro.bsky.social @incn.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
@alleninstitute.org @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social @bernsteinneuro.bsky.social @incn.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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🚨Another PI job opening in the Neuroscience dept. at @umontreal.ca ! 🚨
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Professor at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor, in the field of neurocircuitry - Montréal, Quebec (CA) job with Université de Montréal | 12843808
Professor at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor, in the field of neurocircuitry involved in the production of complex behaviors
www.nature.com
August 21, 2025 at 11:57 PM
🚨Another PI job opening in the Neuroscience dept. at @umontreal.ca ! 🚨
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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1/ New paper on @ScienceAdvances: Large-Scale Maps of Altered Cortical Dynamics in Early-Stage Psychosis Are Related to GABAergic and Glutamatergic Neurotransmission (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...).
Large-scale maps of altered cortical dynamics in early-stage psychosis are related to GABAergic and glutamatergic neurotransmission
Cortex-wide changes in neural dynamics in early-stage psychosis relate to GABA-A or NMDA receptors and clinical symptoms.
www.science.org
August 14, 2025 at 7:32 AM
1/ New paper on @ScienceAdvances: Large-Scale Maps of Altered Cortical Dynamics in Early-Stage Psychosis Are Related to GABAergic and Glutamatergic Neurotransmission (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...).
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I think Altman assumes that “PhD-level expert” means someone who speaks confidently on everything as opposed to saying “it’s nuanced,” losing their keys, and getting maniacally fixated on their current topic to the point of seeing it in everything.
“GPT-5 is the first time that it feels like talking to an expert in any topic — a Ph.D.-level expert,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said.
(real, one-shot :p )
August 7, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I think Altman assumes that “PhD-level expert” means someone who speaks confidently on everything as opposed to saying “it’s nuanced,” losing their keys, and getting maniacally fixated on their current topic to the point of seeing it in everything.
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Spiking neural networks people, this message is for you!
The annual SNUFA workshop is now open for abstract submission (deadline Sept 26) and (free) registration. This year's speakers include Elisabetta Chicca, Jason Eshraghian, Tomoki Fukai, Chengcheng Huang, and... you?
snufa.net/2025/
🤖🧠🧪
The annual SNUFA workshop is now open for abstract submission (deadline Sept 26) and (free) registration. This year's speakers include Elisabetta Chicca, Jason Eshraghian, Tomoki Fukai, Chengcheng Huang, and... you?
snufa.net/2025/
🤖🧠🧪
SNUFA 2025
Spiking Neural networks as Universal Function Approximators
snufa.net
August 7, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Spiking neural networks people, this message is for you!
The annual SNUFA workshop is now open for abstract submission (deadline Sept 26) and (free) registration. This year's speakers include Elisabetta Chicca, Jason Eshraghian, Tomoki Fukai, Chengcheng Huang, and... you?
snufa.net/2025/
🤖🧠🧪
The annual SNUFA workshop is now open for abstract submission (deadline Sept 26) and (free) registration. This year's speakers include Elisabetta Chicca, Jason Eshraghian, Tomoki Fukai, Chengcheng Huang, and... you?
snufa.net/2025/
🤖🧠🧪
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A guide to academic event names
July 13, 2025 at 12:06 PM
A guide to academic event names
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#Neuroskyence #compneurosky #StatisticalPhysics
Non ergodic scenarios in the brain can explain a high variability in the neurons' responses joined to slow relaxational time scales, an investigation in #neural #network with Ferdinand Tixidre and Gianluigi Mongillo:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Non ergodic scenarios in the brain can explain a high variability in the neurons' responses joined to slow relaxational time scales, an investigation in #neural #network with Ferdinand Tixidre and Gianluigi Mongillo:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
August 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM
#Neuroskyence #compneurosky #StatisticalPhysics
Non ergodic scenarios in the brain can explain a high variability in the neurons' responses joined to slow relaxational time scales, an investigation in #neural #network with Ferdinand Tixidre and Gianluigi Mongillo:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Non ergodic scenarios in the brain can explain a high variability in the neurons' responses joined to slow relaxational time scales, an investigation in #neural #network with Ferdinand Tixidre and Gianluigi Mongillo:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
I don't know if it will ever be published, but at least I have a nice animation
July 24, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I don't know if it will ever be published, but at least I have a nice animation
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Do you like neuronal networks and maybe also programming? 🧮🕸️💻
I am looking for a research assistant to work on the general topic of neuronal network models, either theoretically or with a link to specific model organisms. Please see below for more details. ⬇️
#research #neuronalnetworks #kiel #cau
I am looking for a research assistant to work on the general topic of neuronal network models, either theoretically or with a link to specific model organisms. Please see below for more details. ⬇️
#research #neuronalnetworks #kiel #cau
July 22, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Do you like neuronal networks and maybe also programming? 🧮🕸️💻
I am looking for a research assistant to work on the general topic of neuronal network models, either theoretically or with a link to specific model organisms. Please see below for more details. ⬇️
#research #neuronalnetworks #kiel #cau
I am looking for a research assistant to work on the general topic of neuronal network models, either theoretically or with a link to specific model organisms. Please see below for more details. ⬇️
#research #neuronalnetworks #kiel #cau
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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
@neurobordeaux.bsky.social
www.fens.org/careers/job-...
@neuromagendie.bsky.social
@neurobordeaux.bsky.social
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