Tim Vogels
@tpvogels.bsky.social
Boutique Neurotheory & Snazz Compneuro at IST Austria
This is such a cool idea! Not long term "networks" of young profs that create and cement in in-groups and out-groups, but summer schools, tailored to the acute needs of the young PI. Transient, but tailored, tidal and totally timeous, too. Terrific. Try today!
@kordinglab.bsky.social and I ran a summer school last year to help young profs (<5 yrs) in systems/comp neuro thrive.
compneurosci.com/Neuro4Pros/i...
It was great! Now we want to know if you'd be interested in participating if we did this again this year?
Let us know!
compneurosci.com/Neuro4Pros/i...
It was great! Now we want to know if you'd be interested in participating if we did this again this year?
Let us know!
Neuro4Pros summer school
Neuroscience Leadership Training
compneurosci.com
January 16, 2026 at 6:52 AM
This is such a cool idea! Not long term "networks" of young profs that create and cement in in-groups and out-groups, but summer schools, tailored to the acute needs of the young PI. Transient, but tailored, tidal and totally timeous, too. Terrific. Try today!
...in which @danielavallentin.bsky.social shows: vogels match rivals’ whistles, imitating pitch + duration. W'sm, a vogelsmodel model reveals hierarchical organisation of vogelsongs: Duration constrains pitch, a trade-off. Not all vogels, just nightingales.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Interplay between syllable duration and pitch during whistle matching in wild nightingales
During complex vocal interactions, different features of acoustic stimuli are integrated to produce appropriate vocal responses,1 such as copying soun…
www.sciencedirect.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:49 PM
...in which @danielavallentin.bsky.social shows: vogels match rivals’ whistles, imitating pitch + duration. W'sm, a vogelsmodel model reveals hierarchical organisation of vogelsongs: Duration constrains pitch, a trade-off. Not all vogels, just nightingales.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Deadline for poster submissions in Jan 27!! That totally escaped me!
🌟 Only 6 months until #FENS2026!
Soon, the #neuroscience community will come together to exchange ideas and explore the latest breakthroughs in neuroscience. 🧠
📍 Barcelona, Spain
🗓️ 6–10 July 2026
👉 Learn more and join us in #Barcelona: fensforum.org
#FENS #FENSForum #NeuroscienceConference
Soon, the #neuroscience community will come together to exchange ideas and explore the latest breakthroughs in neuroscience. 🧠
📍 Barcelona, Spain
🗓️ 6–10 July 2026
👉 Learn more and join us in #Barcelona: fensforum.org
#FENS #FENSForum #NeuroscienceConference
January 12, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Deadline for poster submissions in Jan 27!! That totally escaped me!
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Excited to see the paper fully published. It's an important milestone for training SNNs with exact gradients, replacing our earlier tricks of a "delay line augmentation" to capture temporal relationships. Delays can now be learnt alongside weights naturally. Amazing work @mbalazs98.bsky.social !
Our paper on event-based delay learning is now published! @neworderofjamie.bsky.social @drtnowotny.bsky.social
TL;DR: It’s now possible to train synaptic delays in large-scale spiking neural networks with high temporal precision—even in recurrent connections.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
TL;DR: It’s now possible to train synaptic delays in large-scale spiking neural networks with high temporal precision—even in recurrent connections.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Efficient event-based delay learning in spiking neural networks - Nature Communications
Inspired by how neurons in the brain communicate, Spiking Neural Networks are gaining attention as efficient models for solving spatiotemporal AI tasks. The authors introduce a training method for syn...
www.nature.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Excited to see the paper fully published. It's an important milestone for training SNNs with exact gradients, replacing our earlier tricks of a "delay line augmentation" to capture temporal relationships. Delays can now be learnt alongside weights naturally. Amazing work @mbalazs98.bsky.social !
The only solace (in hindsight) is that I wouldn't have wanted to have worked in that f__ed up place, anyway. :P And so don't my peops, respectively, in future hindsight, probably, ....but in the moment, WHY?
December 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The only solace (in hindsight) is that I wouldn't have wanted to have worked in that f__ed up place, anyway. :P And so don't my peops, respectively, in future hindsight, probably, ....but in the moment, WHY?
13 yrs ago some crusty prof asked me if I were "able to teach quantum chromo dynamics" during a faculty interview, as a means to disqualify me (his preferred candidate got the job, surprise!). These days, I am subjugated vicariously, when my postdocs experience the same BS. WTAF. So infuriating.
December 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
13 yrs ago some crusty prof asked me if I were "able to teach quantum chromo dynamics" during a faculty interview, as a means to disqualify me (his preferred candidate got the job, surprise!). These days, I am subjugated vicariously, when my postdocs experience the same BS. WTAF. So infuriating.
Last of my fave books back on a shelf, after 5 years in a box. I wouldn’t have thought it takes a full grant cycle to move but here we are. And there’s still more boxes. Of garbage. Mostly. But could not be happier to have the books back
December 1, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Last of my fave books back on a shelf, after 5 years in a box. I wouldn’t have thought it takes a full grant cycle to move but here we are. And there’s still more boxes. Of garbage. Mostly. But could not be happier to have the books back
"Spiking Networks Hate It! Find Out the One Plasticity Trick They Don’t Want You to Know! Never stabilise models by hand again." - I woke up thinking we missed an opportunity with the title of this one. :/ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Also: It snowed in Vienna, 10cm white fluffies! Happy Sunday!
Inhibitory Plasticity Balances Excitation and Inhibition in Sensory Pathways and Memory Networks
Plasticity at inhibitory synapses maintains balanced excitatory and inhibitory synaptic inputs at cortical neurons.
www.science.org
November 23, 2025 at 7:09 AM
"Spiking Networks Hate It! Find Out the One Plasticity Trick They Don’t Want You to Know! Never stabilise models by hand again." - I woke up thinking we missed an opportunity with the title of this one. :/ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Also: It snowed in Vienna, 10cm white fluffies! Happy Sunday!
...and when I say @worldwideneuro.bsky.social, I really mean @bozelosp.bsky.social, obvs. Also, ...there is an all new front end for worldwideneuro coming soon. Stay tuned!
Here is the product of a collab between @thetransmitter.bsky.social, @worldwideneuro.bsky.social & @moritzstefaner.bsky.social A portrait of the #StateofNeuro 2025: Text mining of (publicly available) neuro resources: Easy in concept, tricky in realisation, made possible by @simonsfoundation.org 🙏
The State of Neuroscience 2025
The Transmitter presents a portrait of the field through four lenses: its focus, its output, its people and its funding.
bit.ly
November 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
...and when I say @worldwideneuro.bsky.social, I really mean @bozelosp.bsky.social, obvs. Also, ...there is an all new front end for worldwideneuro coming soon. Stay tuned!
Here is the product of a collab between @thetransmitter.bsky.social, @worldwideneuro.bsky.social & @moritzstefaner.bsky.social A portrait of the #StateofNeuro 2025: Text mining of (publicly available) neuro resources: Easy in concept, tricky in realisation, made possible by @simonsfoundation.org 🙏
The State of Neuroscience 2025
The Transmitter presents a portrait of the field through four lenses: its focus, its output, its people and its funding.
bit.ly
November 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Here is the product of a collab between @thetransmitter.bsky.social, @worldwideneuro.bsky.social & @moritzstefaner.bsky.social A portrait of the #StateofNeuro 2025: Text mining of (publicly available) neuro resources: Easy in concept, tricky in realisation, made possible by @simonsfoundation.org 🙏
I am very busy. I only post when it's urgent. Also I didn't know there was a weekly quota. Can I have this one count for next week?
November 14, 2025 at 12:29 PM
I am very busy. I only post when it's urgent. Also I didn't know there was a weekly quota. Can I have this one count for next week?
Too late. He does not accept your apology.
November 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Too late. He does not accept your apology.
I just found this stub in a jacket that I guess I have not worn in twenty three years? 12 bucks for Lali Puna, sweat and spit and all, at the (tiny) Middle East downstairs on Mass Ave. Those were the days. So so good.
October 21, 2025 at 8:10 AM
I just found this stub in a jacket that I guess I have not worn in twenty three years? 12 bucks for Lali Puna, sweat and spit and all, at the (tiny) Middle East downstairs on Mass Ave. Those were the days. So so good.
Maybe check out the associated website. icg-explorer.org. I know I know, it's not fully integrated with ICG1, but these things are difficult.
October 7, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Maybe check out the associated website. icg-explorer.org. I know I know, it's not fully integrated with ICG1, but these things are difficult.
Congratulations Juan! Exciting news!
🚨Big news!🚨
The lab is relocating to Lisbon, joining a great team of experimental and theoretical neuroscientists, and the Neurotechnology Warehouse, a new initiative to bridge basic and translational research.
I'll be sharing postdoc openings soon. Come join us in this new incarnation of the lab!
The lab is relocating to Lisbon, joining a great team of experimental and theoretical neuroscientists, and the Neurotechnology Warehouse, a new initiative to bridge basic and translational research.
I'll be sharing postdoc openings soon. Come join us in this new incarnation of the lab!
🧠🎼 What does it take to restore movement? Neuroscientist and engineer, @juangallego.bsky.social, joins the new Centre for Restorative Neurotechnology at the Champalimaud Foundation.
🔗 Find out more in this interview: www.fchampalimaud.org/news/juan-al...
🔗 Find out more in this interview: www.fchampalimaud.org/news/juan-al...
October 7, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Congratulations Juan! Exciting news!
...which is to say, maybe peops *use* the paper and page, but forget to cite, 'cuz it's so early in the scientific process? Anyway, the old & *new* work, in which we compare the line-by-line code tons of models, & rewrite them in a unified expression makes me so happy. Check it out: icg-explorer.org
Ion Channel Genealogy Visualizer
Interactive visualization and analysis of ion channel models from ModelDB and ICG databases
icg-explorer.org
October 7, 2025 at 9:48 PM
...which is to say, maybe peops *use* the paper and page, but forget to cite, 'cuz it's so early in the scientific process? Anyway, the old & *new* work, in which we compare the line-by-line code tons of models, & rewrite them in a unified expression makes me so happy. Check it out: icg-explorer.org
Some addendum here. The '17 elife paper only has 43 citations in 8 years :( but the associated ionchannelmodels.org had 900+ unique visitors in 2024. Some 180 of them used the "compare ion channel models" function, pretty deep into the page. Every two days someone used a service we didn't advertise!
October 7, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Some addendum here. The '17 elife paper only has 43 citations in 8 years :( but the associated ionchannelmodels.org had 900+ unique visitors in 2024. Some 180 of them used the "compare ion channel models" function, pretty deep into the page. Every two days someone used a service we didn't advertise!
Reposted by Tim Vogels
What Americans Die from?
And what the media reports on...
Our World in Data ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...
And what the media reports on...
Our World in Data ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...
October 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
What Americans Die from?
And what the media reports on...
Our World in Data ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...
And what the media reports on...
Our World in Data ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...
The working title of this project was “super models”, but we chickened out in carrying that terminology through. We were worried anyone was gonna think we were making fun of human supermodels, or worse, ion channels!! And we weren’t sure blue steel was the right association for a CA++ channel…
October 6, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The working title of this project was “super models”, but we chickened out in carrying that terminology through. We were worried anyone was gonna think we were making fun of human supermodels, or worse, ion channels!! And we weren’t sure blue steel was the right association for a CA++ channel…
“Mapping ion channel function” doi.org/10.7554/eLif... isn’t exactly a citation slayer, but it’s still one of my favourites (& my first independent project). Today we push pt 2, where we trace code origin & unite almost all channel models in a common expression. Boom! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
An ion channel omnimodel for standardized biophysical neuron modelling
Biophysical neuron modeling is an indispensable tool in neuroscience research, with the combination of diverse ion channel kinetics and morphologies being used to explain various single-neuron propert...
www.biorxiv.org
October 6, 2025 at 6:25 PM
“Mapping ion channel function” doi.org/10.7554/eLif... isn’t exactly a citation slayer, but it’s still one of my favourites (& my first independent project). Today we push pt 2, where we trace code origin & unite almost all channel models in a common expression. Boom! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Tim Vogels
No more Paris-Wien/Berlin night trains
"Die ÖBB bedauern, dass nach dem Rückzug der französischen Partner, die beiden Nachtzugverbindungen ab 14. Dez 2025 nicht mehr angeboten werden können." - SNCF, this is you presse-oebb.at/news-oebb-be...
My analysis in English:
jonworth.eu/sncfs-half-h...
"Die ÖBB bedauern, dass nach dem Rückzug der französischen Partner, die beiden Nachtzugverbindungen ab 14. Dez 2025 nicht mehr angeboten werden können." - SNCF, this is you presse-oebb.at/news-oebb-be...
My analysis in English:
jonworth.eu/sncfs-half-h...
SNCF's half hearted effort to support international night trains in danger of hitting the buffers - Jon Worth
In December 2023 the Paris-Berlin night train re-started after a 9 year hiatus. Operated as a Nighjet service by ÖBB, SNCF provided motive power for the train from Mannheim to Paris. They even put SNC...
jonworth.eu
September 29, 2025 at 9:53 AM
No more Paris-Wien/Berlin night trains
"Die ÖBB bedauern, dass nach dem Rückzug der französischen Partner, die beiden Nachtzugverbindungen ab 14. Dez 2025 nicht mehr angeboten werden können." - SNCF, this is you presse-oebb.at/news-oebb-be...
My analysis in English:
jonworth.eu/sncfs-half-h...
"Die ÖBB bedauern, dass nach dem Rückzug der französischen Partner, die beiden Nachtzugverbindungen ab 14. Dez 2025 nicht mehr angeboten werden können." - SNCF, this is you presse-oebb.at/news-oebb-be...
My analysis in English:
jonworth.eu/sncfs-half-h...
"How many disco balls have you purchased in your life time?"
September 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM
"How many disco balls have you purchased in your life time?"
Reposted by Tim Vogels
Neuronal diversity is written in transcriptional codes 🧬. But what is the logic of these codes that define cell types and wiring patterns?
To find out we built a #scRNAseq developmental atlas of the Drosophila nerve cord and linked it to the #connectome 🪰🧠
#preprint thread ⬇️1/8
To find out we built a #scRNAseq developmental atlas of the Drosophila nerve cord and linked it to the #connectome 🪰🧠
#preprint thread ⬇️1/8
August 21, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Neuronal diversity is written in transcriptional codes 🧬. But what is the logic of these codes that define cell types and wiring patterns?
To find out we built a #scRNAseq developmental atlas of the Drosophila nerve cord and linked it to the #connectome 🪰🧠
#preprint thread ⬇️1/8
To find out we built a #scRNAseq developmental atlas of the Drosophila nerve cord and linked it to the #connectome 🪰🧠
#preprint thread ⬇️1/8