Simon Schultz
@simonschultz.bsky.social
Australian expat neuron wrangler. Prof of Neurotechnology at Imperial College London. Investigates memory and cognition with photons. Runs and rides bikes a lot. Stray sheep.
Now published:
Rajpal et al, Synergy mediates long-range correlations in the visual cortex near criticality.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/com...
Rajpal et al, Synergy mediates long-range correlations in the visual cortex near criticality.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/com...
Frontiers | Synergy mediates long-range correlations in the visual cortex near criticality
Long-range correlations are a key signature of systems operating near criticality, indicating spatially-extended interactions across large distances. These e...
www.frontiersin.org
February 8, 2026 at 11:01 AM
Now published:
Rajpal et al, Synergy mediates long-range correlations in the visual cortex near criticality.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/com...
Rajpal et al, Synergy mediates long-range correlations in the visual cortex near criticality.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/com...
On my way back from Glasgow after a very interesting day talking to the Psychology and Neuroscience crowd there.
February 6, 2026 at 5:50 PM
On my way back from Glasgow after a very interesting day talking to the Psychology and Neuroscience crowd there.
Reposted by Simon Schultz
There is a new Postdoctoral Research Associate position available in my group, to work on computational analysis of human neuroimaging workflows to develop robust, interpretable and scalable biomarkers of cognitive brain health.
Closing date 10th Feb 2026.
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
Closing date 10th Feb 2026.
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
Description
Please note that job descriptions are not exhaustive, and you may be asked to take on additional duties that align with the key responsibilities ment...
www.imperial.ac.uk
January 27, 2026 at 4:48 PM
There is a new Postdoctoral Research Associate position available in my group, to work on computational analysis of human neuroimaging workflows to develop robust, interpretable and scalable biomarkers of cognitive brain health.
Closing date 10th Feb 2026.
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
Closing date 10th Feb 2026.
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
An updated version of the following paper is now available on bioRxiv:
Early spatial and contextual coding deficits in hippocampal CA1 precede performance decline in an Alzheimer's disease model.
Yimei Li, Mary Ann Go, Hualong Zhang, Simon R Schultz.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Early spatial and contextual coding deficits in hippocampal CA1 precede performance decline in an Alzheimer's disease model.
Yimei Li, Mary Ann Go, Hualong Zhang, Simon R Schultz.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
February 4, 2026 at 9:51 AM
An updated version of the following paper is now available on bioRxiv:
Early spatial and contextual coding deficits in hippocampal CA1 precede performance decline in an Alzheimer's disease model.
Yimei Li, Mary Ann Go, Hualong Zhang, Simon R Schultz.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Early spatial and contextual coding deficits in hippocampal CA1 precede performance decline in an Alzheimer's disease model.
Yimei Li, Mary Ann Go, Hualong Zhang, Simon R Schultz.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
There is a new Postdoctoral Research Associate position available in my group, to work on computational analysis of human neuroimaging workflows to develop robust, interpretable and scalable biomarkers of cognitive brain health.
Closing date 10th Feb 2026.
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
Closing date 10th Feb 2026.
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
Description
Please note that job descriptions are not exhaustive, and you may be asked to take on additional duties that align with the key responsibilities ment...
www.imperial.ac.uk
January 27, 2026 at 4:48 PM
There is a new Postdoctoral Research Associate position available in my group, to work on computational analysis of human neuroimaging workflows to develop robust, interpretable and scalable biomarkers of cognitive brain health.
Closing date 10th Feb 2026.
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
Closing date 10th Feb 2026.
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
On the cover of JBO
January 16, 2026 at 9:23 PM
On the cover of JBO
A new version of our 2p mesoscope paper is up on biorxiv:
Yang et al, Ultra-wide-field, deep, adaptive two-photon microscopy.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Yang et al, Ultra-wide-field, deep, adaptive two-photon microscopy.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Ultra-wide-field, deep, adaptive two-photon microscopy
Observing the activity patterns of large neural populations throughout the brain is essential for understanding brain function. However, capturing neural interactions across widely distributed brain r...
www.biorxiv.org
January 10, 2026 at 10:19 AM
A new version of our 2p mesoscope paper is up on biorxiv:
Yang et al, Ultra-wide-field, deep, adaptive two-photon microscopy.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Yang et al, Ultra-wide-field, deep, adaptive two-photon microscopy.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Lu, Schultz, Kozlov, Astrocytes and neurons exhibit partially shared but distinct composite receptive fields for natural stimuli
Now published in J Neurophys
journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Now published in J Neurophys
journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Astrocytes and neurons exhibit partially shared but distinct composite receptive fields for natural stimuli | Journal of Neurophysiology | American Physiological Society
Astrocytes are increasingly recognized as active participants in sensory processing, but whether they show selective responses to stimulus features, analogous to neuronal receptive fields, is not yet ...
journals.physiology.org
January 10, 2026 at 10:06 AM
Lu, Schultz, Kozlov, Astrocytes and neurons exhibit partially shared but distinct composite receptive fields for natural stimuli
Now published in J Neurophys
journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Now published in J Neurophys
journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Now out:
Longitudinal three-photon imaging for tracking amyloid plaques and vascular degeneration in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease
Eline Stas, Mengke Yang, Simon Schultz, Mary Ann Go
J Biomed Optics
www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/jou...
Longitudinal three-photon imaging for tracking amyloid plaques and vascular degeneration in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease
Eline Stas, Mengke Yang, Simon Schultz, Mary Ann Go
J Biomed Optics
www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/jou...
www.spiedigitallibrary.org
January 6, 2026 at 10:17 PM
Now out:
Longitudinal three-photon imaging for tracking amyloid plaques and vascular degeneration in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease
Eline Stas, Mengke Yang, Simon Schultz, Mary Ann Go
J Biomed Optics
www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/jou...
Longitudinal three-photon imaging for tracking amyloid plaques and vascular degeneration in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease
Eline Stas, Mengke Yang, Simon Schultz, Mary Ann Go
J Biomed Optics
www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/jou...
Reposted by Simon Schultz
You can very clearly see why someone whose job it is to protect war criminals would need this pulled from the airwaves: It’s visible proof the Trump administration is operating concentration camps.
I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:
WATCH: Segment CBS News Pulled From "60 Minutes"
YouTube video by Phil Lewis
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:22 PM
You can very clearly see why someone whose job it is to protect war criminals would need this pulled from the airwaves: It’s visible proof the Trump administration is operating concentration camps.
A new paper from my colleagues here at Imperial - 100 Hz volumetric scattering-mitigated light field calcium imaging.
I am very excited about our new paper on Computational Lightfield Microscopy for Calcium Imaging which has just appeared in PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Light-field deep learning enables high-throughput, scattering-mitigated calcium imaging | PNAS
Light-field microscopy (LFM) enables high-throughput functional imaging by scanlessly
encoding entire volumes in single snapshots. However, LFM’s c...
www.pnas.org
December 2, 2025 at 10:53 AM
A new paper from my colleagues here at Imperial - 100 Hz volumetric scattering-mitigated light field calcium imaging.
An update of one of our papers has been posted to biorxiv. Stas, Yang, Schultz and Go, "Longitudinal three-photon imaging for tracking amyloid plaques and vascular degeneration in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease".
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 23, 2025 at 10:48 AM
An update of one of our papers has been posted to biorxiv. Stas, Yang, Schultz and Go, "Longitudinal three-photon imaging for tracking amyloid plaques and vascular degeneration in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease".
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The final version of our paper "Hierarchical Bayesian modeling of multiregion brain cell count data", by Dimmock et al, is now available online at eLife:
elifesciences.org/articles/102...
Thanks to @cianodonnell.bsky.social and Conor Houghton who involved us in this project.
elifesciences.org/articles/102...
Thanks to @cianodonnell.bsky.social and Conor Houghton who involved us in this project.
Hierarchical Bayesian modeling of multiregion brain cell count data
Bayesian hierarchical models offer powerful statistical tools for neuroscientists to analyze whole-brain cell count data, as demonstrated here using two example datasets from different laboratories.
elifesciences.org
November 22, 2025 at 10:27 AM
The final version of our paper "Hierarchical Bayesian modeling of multiregion brain cell count data", by Dimmock et al, is now available online at eLife:
elifesciences.org/articles/102...
Thanks to @cianodonnell.bsky.social and Conor Houghton who involved us in this project.
elifesciences.org/articles/102...
Thanks to @cianodonnell.bsky.social and Conor Houghton who involved us in this project.
Synergy mediates long-range correlations in the visual cortex near criticality. Hardik Rajpal et al, a collaboration with @spencerlaveresmith.bsky.social (and one of the outputs of the EPSRC/Wellcome Statistical Physics of Cognition project)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Synergy mediates Long-Range Correlations in the Visual Cortex Near Criticality
Long-range correlations are a key signature of systems operating near criticality, indicating spatially-extended interactions across large distances. These extended dependencies underlie other emergen...
www.biorxiv.org
November 16, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Synergy mediates long-range correlations in the visual cortex near criticality. Hardik Rajpal et al, a collaboration with @spencerlaveresmith.bsky.social (and one of the outputs of the EPSRC/Wellcome Statistical Physics of Cognition project)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
New paper on BioRXiv:
Astrocytes and neurons encode natural stimuli with partially shared but distinct composite receptive fields
Sihao Lu, Simon Schultz, Andriy Kozlov
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Astrocytes and neurons encode natural stimuli with partially shared but distinct composite receptive fields
Sihao Lu, Simon Schultz, Andriy Kozlov
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Astrocytes and neurons encode natural stimuli with partially shared but distinct composite receptive fields
Astrocytes are increasingly recognized as active participants in sensory processing, but whether they show selective responses to stimulus features, analogous to neuronal receptive fields, is not yet ...
www.biorxiv.org
October 10, 2025 at 1:39 PM
New paper on BioRXiv:
Astrocytes and neurons encode natural stimuli with partially shared but distinct composite receptive fields
Sihao Lu, Simon Schultz, Andriy Kozlov
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Astrocytes and neurons encode natural stimuli with partially shared but distinct composite receptive fields
Sihao Lu, Simon Schultz, Andriy Kozlov
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Mahnaz Arvaneh created this great video on the importance of equality and diversity in brain research and neurotechnology:
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/2cuxv...
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/2cuxv...
www.dropbox.com
October 9, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Mahnaz Arvaneh created this great video on the importance of equality and diversity in brain research and neurotechnology:
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/2cuxv...
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/2cuxv...
Appearing on the BBC Today programme at 7:40 am in the morning to discuss biocomputers - making computers out of cerebral organoids .
October 3, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Appearing on the BBC Today programme at 7:40 am in the morning to discuss biocomputers - making computers out of cerebral organoids .
Reposted by Simon Schultz
Because it's my writing era 😆 This was actually posted 3 days ago.
If you're interested in neuroscience, neurotechnology, computer science, data and AI ethics, history, and art, welcome to my world. I'll be writing more about them.
If you're interested in neuroscience, neurotechnology, computer science, data and AI ethics, history, and art, welcome to my world. I'll be writing more about them.
The modern Frankensteins: On neurotech, AI, and not repeating the past
I am writing this on the anniversary of Mary Shelley’s birth. She was a Romantic writer whose famous work, Frankenstein, continues to
dailyguardian.com.ph
September 9, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Because it's my writing era 😆 This was actually posted 3 days ago.
If you're interested in neuroscience, neurotechnology, computer science, data and AI ethics, history, and art, welcome to my world. I'll be writing more about them.
If you're interested in neuroscience, neurotechnology, computer science, data and AI ethics, history, and art, welcome to my world. I'll be writing more about them.
Reposted by Simon Schultz
AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...
AI slop and the destruction of knowledge
This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curious, because the nuances are relevant for something I am researching at t…
irisvanrooijcogsci.com
August 12, 2025 at 10:12 PM
AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...
That feeling when you get phase 2 of your grant rejected, and it’s followed up the next day by an email saying they are axing the whole programme. I guess I should be relieved that it wasn’t a judgement on us?
August 28, 2025 at 8:31 PM
That feeling when you get phase 2 of your grant rejected, and it’s followed up the next day by an email saying they are axing the whole programme. I guess I should be relieved that it wasn’t a judgement on us?
New preprint from the lab. Eline Stas et al, "Longitudinal three-photon imaging for tracking amyloid plaques and vascular degeneration in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease".
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
August 16, 2025 at 9:55 PM
New preprint from the lab. Eline Stas et al, "Longitudinal three-photon imaging for tracking amyloid plaques and vascular degeneration in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease".
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Simon Schultz
Are you interested in our work on complex physical systems and applications (to neural systems)?
Wanna join us in Sydney? 🐨 🦘
We have two open positions:
1. Postdoc position: usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...
2. Fully-funded PhD position: www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...
Wanna join us in Sydney? 🐨 🦘
We have two open positions:
1. Postdoc position: usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...
2. Fully-funded PhD position: www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Physics)
Full time, 2-year fixed term position with potential to extend. Located on the Camperdown Campus at the School of Physics. Exciting opportunity to conduct research in a world-leading interdisciplinary...
usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com
August 11, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Are you interested in our work on complex physical systems and applications (to neural systems)?
Wanna join us in Sydney? 🐨 🦘
We have two open positions:
1. Postdoc position: usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...
2. Fully-funded PhD position: www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...
Wanna join us in Sydney? 🐨 🦘
We have two open positions:
1. Postdoc position: usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...
2. Fully-funded PhD position: www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...
Reposted by Simon Schultz
Thank you everyone for your suggestions! This turned out to be a very useful resource.
For those interested, you can see a compiled version of the suggestions from this thread here: tinyurl.com/kaz445jh
(The wiki page will be updated as we find more resources.)
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For those interested, you can see a compiled version of the suggestions from this thread here: tinyurl.com/kaz445jh
(The wiki page will be updated as we find more resources.)
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For trainees entering computational neuroscience or NeuroAI from an engineering background, where do you direct them to learn some neuroscience these days? Books, courses, ...?
And no... I'm not interested in scaring them off with Kandel!
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And no... I'm not interested in scaring them off with Kandel!
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July 21, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Thank you everyone for your suggestions! This turned out to be a very useful resource.
For those interested, you can see a compiled version of the suggestions from this thread here: tinyurl.com/kaz445jh
(The wiki page will be updated as we find more resources.)
🧠🤖 , 🧠📈
For those interested, you can see a compiled version of the suggestions from this thread here: tinyurl.com/kaz445jh
(The wiki page will be updated as we find more resources.)
🧠🤖 , 🧠📈
Reposted by Simon Schultz
i'm sorry my review is late
i meant to read it weeks ago
but the writing
was actively hostile to comprehension
each paragraph
a slow erosion
of my will to live
i meant to read it weeks ago
but the writing
was actively hostile to comprehension
each paragraph
a slow erosion
of my will to live
July 18, 2025 at 2:23 PM
i'm sorry my review is late
i meant to read it weeks ago
but the writing
was actively hostile to comprehension
each paragraph
a slow erosion
of my will to live
i meant to read it weeks ago
but the writing
was actively hostile to comprehension
each paragraph
a slow erosion
of my will to live
Has anyone got any experience with gcamp8 transgenic mice yet? Eg the Thy1-GCaMP8s line?
janelia.figshare.com/articles/dat...
janelia.figshare.com/articles/dat...
jGCaMP8 transgenic mice
The GENIE Project Team at HHMI Janelia Research Campus have developed and characterized multiple transgenic mice expressing jGCaMP8s and jGCaMP8m and deposited the lines at The Jackson Laboratory (JAX...
janelia.figshare.com
July 15, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Has anyone got any experience with gcamp8 transgenic mice yet? Eg the Thy1-GCaMP8s line?
janelia.figshare.com/articles/dat...
janelia.figshare.com/articles/dat...