Morgan Hough (he/him)
@mhough.bsky.social
Developmental Neurobiology @ OREL Community Manager @ NeuroTechX; Neurotech Lead @ Frontier Tower; Research and Development @ Biopunk Lab
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Version control and Jupyter notebooks russpoldrack.substack.com/p/version-co... the latest in my Better Code, Better Science series.
Version control and Jupyter notebooks
Better Code, Better Science: Chapter 6, Part 7
russpoldrack.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Version control and Jupyter notebooks russpoldrack.substack.com/p/version-co... the latest in my Better Code, Better Science series.
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Join us for the AI Applications in Biology Symposium at @biohub.org! A full day of talks on ML for structural biology, imaging, single-molecule & multimodal/omics data
🗓️ Feb. 20, 2026 (1 day before BPS)
📍San Francisco
🔗 shorturl.at/uQerL
Attend in-person or virtual. Submit abstracts by Jan. 20!
🗓️ Feb. 20, 2026 (1 day before BPS)
📍San Francisco
🔗 shorturl.at/uQerL
Attend in-person or virtual. Submit abstracts by Jan. 20!
December 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Join us for the AI Applications in Biology Symposium at @biohub.org! A full day of talks on ML for structural biology, imaging, single-molecule & multimodal/omics data
🗓️ Feb. 20, 2026 (1 day before BPS)
📍San Francisco
🔗 shorturl.at/uQerL
Attend in-person or virtual. Submit abstracts by Jan. 20!
🗓️ Feb. 20, 2026 (1 day before BPS)
📍San Francisco
🔗 shorturl.at/uQerL
Attend in-person or virtual. Submit abstracts by Jan. 20!
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A new study that started in the Human Brain Project - and was enabled by EBRAINS - introduces a framework for including astrocytes into large-scale simulations of brain networks.
Read more: www.ebrains.eu/news-and-eve...
Read more: www.ebrains.eu/news-and-eve...
November 13, 2025 at 3:05 PM
A new study that started in the Human Brain Project - and was enabled by EBRAINS - introduces a framework for including astrocytes into large-scale simulations of brain networks.
Read more: www.ebrains.eu/news-and-eve...
Read more: www.ebrains.eu/news-and-eve...
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🔥 Global AI-Brain Initiative (AI and the Brain)
aiandthebrain.substack.com/p/global-ai-...
(a post for our new students; some links in it may be more widely interesting!)
aiandthebrain.substack.com/p/global-ai-...
(a post for our new students; some links in it may be more widely interesting!)
Global AI-Brain Initiative (AI and the Brain)
The Global AI-Brain Initiative is an international research program led by mathematician and neuroscientist Paul M.
aiandthebrain.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:26 AM
🔥 Global AI-Brain Initiative (AI and the Brain)
aiandthebrain.substack.com/p/global-ai-...
(a post for our new students; some links in it may be more widely interesting!)
aiandthebrain.substack.com/p/global-ai-...
(a post for our new students; some links in it may be more widely interesting!)
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Preprint is now published: doi.org/10.1002/hbm....
Special thanks to co-authors @twktan.bsky.social @kimnganngt.bsky.social @csabaorban.bsky.social
Special thanks to co-authors @twktan.bsky.social @kimnganngt.bsky.social @csabaorban.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Preprint is now published: doi.org/10.1002/hbm....
Special thanks to co-authors @twktan.bsky.social @kimnganngt.bsky.social @csabaorban.bsky.social
Special thanks to co-authors @twktan.bsky.social @kimnganngt.bsky.social @csabaorban.bsky.social
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Analog computing with waves works—and it's vastly more energy-efficient than digital. Here, it's done with light, but all waves apply. Biology exploits useful things. Our brains constantly generate electric field waves.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Enabling Optical Analog Computing with Metamaterials
The manipulation of light with structured materials could allow mathematical operations to be performed with compact optics. [Also see Report by Silva et al.]
www.science.org
March 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Analog computing with waves works—and it's vastly more energy-efficient than digital. Here, it's done with light, but all waves apply. Biology exploits useful things. Our brains constantly generate electric field waves.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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1/4) I’m excited to announce that I have joined the Paradigms of Intelligence team at Google (github.com/paradigms-of...)! Our team, led by @blaiseaguera.bsky.social, is bringing forward the next stage of AI by pushing on some of the assumptions that underpin current ML.
#MLSky #AI #neuroscience
#MLSky #AI #neuroscience
Paradigms of Intelligence Team
Advance our understanding of how intelligence evolves to develop new technologies for the benefit of humanity and other sentient life - Paradigms of Intelligence Team
github.com
September 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
1/4) I’m excited to announce that I have joined the Paradigms of Intelligence team at Google (github.com/paradigms-of...)! Our team, led by @blaiseaguera.bsky.social, is bringing forward the next stage of AI by pushing on some of the assumptions that underpin current ML.
#MLSky #AI #neuroscience
#MLSky #AI #neuroscience
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Mark your calendars and tell your friends: No Kings 2.0 on October 18.
The sequel will be (and HAS to be) even bigger.
The sequel will be (and HAS to be) even bigger.
September 7, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Mark your calendars and tell your friends: No Kings 2.0 on October 18.
The sequel will be (and HAS to be) even bigger.
The sequel will be (and HAS to be) even bigger.
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Launched in 2023, Imaging Neuroscience is now firmly established, with full indexing (PubMed, etc.) and 700 papers to date.
We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400.
Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.
We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400.
Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.
September 5, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Launched in 2023, Imaging Neuroscience is now firmly established, with full indexing (PubMed, etc.) and 700 papers to date.
We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400.
Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.
We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400.
Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.
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These letters of resignation from CDC officials are VERY MUCH worth your time.
PLEASE READ AND PROPAGATE.
PLEASE READ AND PROPAGATE.
August 28, 2025 at 12:41 AM
These letters of resignation from CDC officials are VERY MUCH worth your time.
PLEASE READ AND PROPAGATE.
PLEASE READ AND PROPAGATE.
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The excellent team over at @alife2025.bsky.social have set up a 24/7 stream for #ALIFE related content in the lead up to the conference!
What a great initiative.
Check the post below for more details.
What a great initiative.
Check the post below for more details.
🥳 ALIFE 2025 TV is here...
📺 www.youtube.com/@ALIFE2025
📢 Announcement below ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️
Welcome to the ALife TV Live Stream... 🤗
We’re counting down to the ALIFE 2025 Conference in Kyoto, Japan (October 6–10) [ 2025.alife.org ]
📺 www.youtube.com/@ALIFE2025
📢 Announcement below ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️
Welcome to the ALife TV Live Stream... 🤗
We’re counting down to the ALIFE 2025 Conference in Kyoto, Japan (October 6–10) [ 2025.alife.org ]
ALIFE 2025
https://2025.alife.org/
www.youtube.com
August 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
The excellent team over at @alife2025.bsky.social have set up a 24/7 stream for #ALIFE related content in the lead up to the conference!
What a great initiative.
Check the post below for more details.
What a great initiative.
Check the post below for more details.
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NeuroHackademy 2025 started today! Our 10th summer school/hackathon in neuroimaging and data science @uwescience.bsky.social, the 8th supported by NIH/NIMH. You can follow along, with videos of lectures in this YouTube playlist, posted almost as soon as they happen: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
NeuroHackademy 2025 - YouTube
Neurohackademy is a summer school in neuroimaging and data science, held at the University of Washington eScience Institute. This year’s course will be held ...
youtube.com
July 29, 2025 at 4:09 AM
NeuroHackademy 2025 started today! Our 10th summer school/hackathon in neuroimaging and data science @uwescience.bsky.social, the 8th supported by NIH/NIMH. You can follow along, with videos of lectures in this YouTube playlist, posted almost as soon as they happen: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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We have argued that the brain’s Action Mode Network controls functions required for goal-directed behavior. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Now, in new work, we show that AMN contains distinct subnetworks for making decisions, implementing actions, and processing feedback. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Now, in new work, we show that AMN contains distinct subnetworks for making decisions, implementing actions, and processing feedback. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
July 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
We have argued that the brain’s Action Mode Network controls functions required for goal-directed behavior. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Now, in new work, we show that AMN contains distinct subnetworks for making decisions, implementing actions, and processing feedback. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Now, in new work, we show that AMN contains distinct subnetworks for making decisions, implementing actions, and processing feedback. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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The 🌍🔬 Gathering for Open Science Hardware 🔬🌍 is a global community making science tools open, accessible, and ethical. We share designs for everything from microscopes to sensors, and we hope you'll join us!
🌟 Learn more: openhardware.science
🌟 Join the conversation: forum.openhardware.science
🌟 Learn more: openhardware.science
🌟 Join the conversation: forum.openhardware.science
April 27, 2025 at 1:19 PM
The 🌍🔬 Gathering for Open Science Hardware 🔬🌍 is a global community making science tools open, accessible, and ethical. We share designs for everything from microscopes to sensors, and we hope you'll join us!
🌟 Learn more: openhardware.science
🌟 Join the conversation: forum.openhardware.science
🌟 Learn more: openhardware.science
🌟 Join the conversation: forum.openhardware.science
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Very proud of João VX Cardoso from the #DugueLab for the first preprint of his PhD on a computational model of traveling waves. Work in collaboration with David J. Heeger and Hsin-Hung Li.
@erc.europa.eu
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@erc.europa.eu
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Attention induced perceptual traveling waves in binocular rivalry
Cortical traveling waves -smooth changes of phase over time across the cortical surface- have been proposed to modulate perception periodically as they travel through retinotopic cortex. Yet, little i...
www.biorxiv.org
April 24, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Very proud of João VX Cardoso from the #DugueLab for the first preprint of his PhD on a computational model of traveling waves. Work in collaboration with David J. Heeger and Hsin-Hung Li.
@erc.europa.eu
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@erc.europa.eu
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Large-scale projects run the risk of stifling scientific independence. Instead, let’s explore alternative mechanisms of collaboration, writes @neuralreckoning.bsky.social.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/funding/neur...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/funding/neur...
Neuroscience needs to empower early-career researchers, not fund moon shots
Large-scale projects run the risk of stifling scientific independence. Instead, let’s explore alternative mechanisms of collaboration.
www.thetransmitter.org
May 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Large-scale projects run the risk of stifling scientific independence. Instead, let’s explore alternative mechanisms of collaboration, writes @neuralreckoning.bsky.social.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/funding/neur...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/funding/neur...
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Registration Open! FSL Course 2025 will be held fully online, 15th – 26th September. Details & registration info here: open.win.ox.ac.uk/pages/fslcou...
The course covers lectures & hands-on practicals on structural, functional, diffusion and resting state brain image analysis.
The course covers lectures & hands-on practicals on structural, functional, diffusion and resting state brain image analysis.
May 8, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Registration Open! FSL Course 2025 will be held fully online, 15th – 26th September. Details & registration info here: open.win.ox.ac.uk/pages/fslcou...
The course covers lectures & hands-on practicals on structural, functional, diffusion and resting state brain image analysis.
The course covers lectures & hands-on practicals on structural, functional, diffusion and resting state brain image analysis.
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Spatiotemporal network dynamics and structural correlates in the human cerebral cortex in vitro
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#neuroscience
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#neuroscience
Spatiotemporal network dynamics and structural correlates in the human cerebral cortex in vitro
Elucidating human cerebral cortex function is essential for understanding the physiological basis of both healthy and pathological brain states. We ob…
www.sciencedirect.com
April 25, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Spatiotemporal network dynamics and structural correlates in the human cerebral cortex in vitro
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#neuroscience
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#neuroscience
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Reposted by Morgan Hough (he/him)
Very good study by @awolna.bsky.social and @evfedorenko.bsky.social, examining the ‘extended language network’ — Language selective brain areas whose contributions to language should be better understood (bonus: feat. cerebellum) 🧪🧠
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The extended language network: Language selective brain areas whose contributions to language remain to be discovered
Although language neuroscience has largely focused on core left frontal and temporal brain areas and their right-hemisphere homotopes, numerous other areas - cortical, subcortical, and cerebellar - ha...
www.biorxiv.org
April 3, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Very good study by @awolna.bsky.social and @evfedorenko.bsky.social, examining the ‘extended language network’ — Language selective brain areas whose contributions to language should be better understood (bonus: feat. cerebellum) 🧪🧠
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Mental health research is at a turning point—breakthroughs can transform lives, but only with bold action, investment, and open collaboration. The time for action is now. Read our full statement here: childmind.org/blog/can-sci...
March 7, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Mental health research is at a turning point—breakthroughs can transform lives, but only with bold action, investment, and open collaboration. The time for action is now. Read our full statement here: childmind.org/blog/can-sci...
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Reposted by Morgan Hough (he/him)
My guest lecturing for the Stanford CS course Self-Improving AI Agents. The talk is online, titled "Open-ended Agent Learning in the Era of Foundation Models" (w/ more emphasis on the AI Scientist and ADAS than prior versions). Thanks profs @Azaliamirh & @achowdhery!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZBu...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZBu...
Guest Lecture 6 CS329A by Prof. Jeff Clune:Open-ended Agent Learning in the Era of Foundation Models
YouTube video by Aakanksha Chowdhery
www.youtube.com
March 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
My guest lecturing for the Stanford CS course Self-Improving AI Agents. The talk is online, titled "Open-ended Agent Learning in the Era of Foundation Models" (w/ more emphasis on the AI Scientist and ADAS than prior versions). Thanks profs @Azaliamirh & @achowdhery!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZBu...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZBu...
Reposted by Morgan Hough (he/him)
🧠📈 WEBINAR - Programmatic Access to ABC Atlas Data
Join us on Mar. 26, 9:30am PT for a live webinar on using our Jupyter notebooks to access datasets featured in the Allen Brain Cell Atlas.
Register to receive the meeting link and webinar recording: alleninstitute.org/events/cell_...
Join us on Mar. 26, 9:30am PT for a live webinar on using our Jupyter notebooks to access datasets featured in the Allen Brain Cell Atlas.
Register to receive the meeting link and webinar recording: alleninstitute.org/events/cell_...
Cell Type Taxonomies A-Z: Webinar Series
Webinar series covering everything and anything cell types starting in January 2024. Hosted by the Allen Institute.
alleninstitute.org
March 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM
🧠📈 WEBINAR - Programmatic Access to ABC Atlas Data
Join us on Mar. 26, 9:30am PT for a live webinar on using our Jupyter notebooks to access datasets featured in the Allen Brain Cell Atlas.
Register to receive the meeting link and webinar recording: alleninstitute.org/events/cell_...
Join us on Mar. 26, 9:30am PT for a live webinar on using our Jupyter notebooks to access datasets featured in the Allen Brain Cell Atlas.
Register to receive the meeting link and webinar recording: alleninstitute.org/events/cell_...
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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Mosayebi-Samani, Thielscher, et al:
The effect of brain tissue anisotropy on the electric field caused by transcranial electric stimulation: Sensitivity analysis and magnetic resonance electrical impedance tomography
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
The effect of brain tissue anisotropy on the electric field caused by transcranial electric stimulation: Sensitivity analysis and magnetic resonance electrical impedance tomography
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
March 4, 2025 at 10:14 PM
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Mosayebi-Samani, Thielscher, et al:
The effect of brain tissue anisotropy on the electric field caused by transcranial electric stimulation: Sensitivity analysis and magnetic resonance electrical impedance tomography
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
The effect of brain tissue anisotropy on the electric field caused by transcranial electric stimulation: Sensitivity analysis and magnetic resonance electrical impedance tomography
doi.org/10.1162/imag...