Thomas Pfeffer
@thmspfffr.bsky.social
Neuroscientist / R&D Engineer at Pupil Labs, Berlin
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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
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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 🤗
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RIP David Lynch.
I treasure the way you shaped my view of the world.
Photo taken last month outside the Double R Dinner.
I treasure the way you shaped my view of the world.
Photo taken last month outside the Double R Dinner.
January 16, 2025 at 8:46 PM
RIP David Lynch.
I treasure the way you shaped my view of the world.
Photo taken last month outside the Double R Dinner.
I treasure the way you shaped my view of the world.
Photo taken last month outside the Double R Dinner.
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Recent studies found pronounced neuromodulation in the early visual cortex due to locomotion and spontaneous body movements in mice but not in non-human primates. We reconciled this dichotomy in this new open-access feature review @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Is the impact of spontaneous movements on early visual cortex species specific?
Recent studies in non-human primates do not find pronounced signals related to the animal’s own body movements in the responses of neurons in the visu…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 18, 2024 at 5:50 PM
Recent studies found pronounced neuromodulation in the early visual cortex due to locomotion and spontaneous body movements in mice but not in non-human primates. We reconciled this dichotomy in this new open-access feature review @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Help bluesky neurohivemind!
If you know of any computational / theoretical work modelling neuromodulators please share it 🙏 if you don't, please retweet!
If you know of any computational / theoretical work modelling neuromodulators please share it 🙏 if you don't, please retweet!
December 7, 2024 at 6:06 PM
Help bluesky neurohivemind!
If you know of any computational / theoretical work modelling neuromodulators please share it 🙏 if you don't, please retweet!
If you know of any computational / theoretical work modelling neuromodulators please share it 🙏 if you don't, please retweet!
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I am a bit afraid the whole Starter Pack business leaves behind trainees — make sure to follow / repost them if their work interests you so their voices are heard #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #compneurosky
November 21, 2024 at 7:45 AM
I am a bit afraid the whole Starter Pack business leaves behind trainees — make sure to follow / repost them if their work interests you so their voices are heard #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #compneurosky
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November 17, 2024 at 1:23 AM
I have deleted all of my tweets from X using tweetdelete.net. Well worth the $3.99 fee for one month to remove all 9,609 of them, and super easy to use.
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Happy to post here for the first time and let the world know that we just published a new paper!
Please take a look if you are interested in context-dependent decision making, across-area interactions and low-rank RNN 👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Please take a look if you are interested in context-dependent decision making, across-area interactions and low-rank RNN 👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Early selection of task-relevant features through population gating - Nature Communications
How the brain selects relevant information in complex and dynamic environments remains poorly understood. Here, the authors reveal that distinct neural populations in rat auditory cortex gate stimuli ...
www.nature.com
October 27, 2023 at 3:26 PM
Happy to post here for the first time and let the world know that we just published a new paper!
Please take a look if you are interested in context-dependent decision making, across-area interactions and low-rank RNN 👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Please take a look if you are interested in context-dependent decision making, across-area interactions and low-rank RNN 👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Many researchers in cognitive neuroscience and deep learning seem to assume that inference in the brain is hierarchical.
Our new Nature Reviews Neuroscience paper questions this assumption and proposes the shallow brain hypothesis.
#neuroskyence #brain
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our new Nature Reviews Neuroscience paper questions this assumption and proposes the shallow brain hypothesis.
#neuroskyence #brain
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 27, 2023 at 2:17 PM
Many researchers in cognitive neuroscience and deep learning seem to assume that inference in the brain is hierarchical.
Our new Nature Reviews Neuroscience paper questions this assumption and proposes the shallow brain hypothesis.
#neuroskyence #brain
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our new Nature Reviews Neuroscience paper questions this assumption and proposes the shallow brain hypothesis.
#neuroskyence #brain
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Check out this new paper! Led by @mehdiazabou.bsky.social and @evadyer.bsky.social, we show that it is possible to get SOTA brain decoding with transfer across individuals and tasks!
The key is a clever way to tokenize spiking data for transformers.
#neuroskyence #brain #neurotech
The key is a clever way to tokenize spiking data for transformers.
#neuroskyence #brain #neurotech
Is a universal brain decoder possible? Can we train a decoding system that easily transfers to new individuals/tasks?
Check out our #NeurIPS2023 paper where we show that it’s possible to transfer from a large pretrained model to achieve SOTA! 🧠🟦
Link: poyo-brain.github.io 🧵
Check out our #NeurIPS2023 paper where we show that it’s possible to transfer from a large pretrained model to achieve SOTA! 🧠🟦
Link: poyo-brain.github.io 🧵
October 26, 2023 at 1:33 PM
Check out this new paper! Led by @mehdiazabou.bsky.social and @evadyer.bsky.social, we show that it is possible to get SOTA brain decoding with transfer across individuals and tasks!
The key is a clever way to tokenize spiking data for transformers.
#neuroskyence #brain #neurotech
The key is a clever way to tokenize spiking data for transformers.
#neuroskyence #brain #neurotech
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my first paper ever is out now in PNAS 🎉🔥!! ( ꈍᴗꈍ) (w/ Simon van Gaal, @juliaha.bsky.social, @smfleming.bsky.social and @fahrenfort.bsky.social) we introduced a novel method to distinguish between effects in subjective experience from effects in decision-making. let me know what you think!
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
October 26, 2023 at 9:42 AM
my first paper ever is out now in PNAS 🎉🔥!! ( ꈍᴗꈍ) (w/ Simon van Gaal, @juliaha.bsky.social, @smfleming.bsky.social and @fahrenfort.bsky.social) we introduced a novel method to distinguish between effects in subjective experience from effects in decision-making. let me know what you think!
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New preprint:
"Tracking the distance to criticality in systems with unknown noise"
By Brendan Harris, w/ Leonardo Gollo.
We identify new, noise-robust time-series features for tracking the distance to criticality
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2310.14791
Code: github.com/brendanjohnh...
#ComplexSystems
"Tracking the distance to criticality in systems with unknown noise"
By Brendan Harris, w/ Leonardo Gollo.
We identify new, noise-robust time-series features for tracking the distance to criticality
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2310.14791
Code: github.com/brendanjohnh...
#ComplexSystems
October 25, 2023 at 1:55 AM
New preprint:
"Tracking the distance to criticality in systems with unknown noise"
By Brendan Harris, w/ Leonardo Gollo.
We identify new, noise-robust time-series features for tracking the distance to criticality
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2310.14791
Code: github.com/brendanjohnh...
#ComplexSystems
"Tracking the distance to criticality in systems with unknown noise"
By Brendan Harris, w/ Leonardo Gollo.
We identify new, noise-robust time-series features for tracking the distance to criticality
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2310.14791
Code: github.com/brendanjohnh...
#ComplexSystems
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40 Hz Steady-State Responses in Human Auditory Cortex Depend on GABAergic Neuronal Inhibition https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.20.563259v1
40 Hz Steady-State Responses in Human Auditory Cortex Depend on GABAergic Neuronal Inhibition https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.20.563259v1
The 40 Hz auditory steady-state response (ASSR), an oscillatory brain response to periodically modul
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October 21, 2023 at 6:15 AM
40 Hz Steady-State Responses in Human Auditory Cortex Depend on GABAergic Neuronal Inhibition https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.20.563259v1
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Interesting work
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Non-invasive temporal interference electrical stimulation of the human hippocampus - Nature Neurosci...
Electrical deep brain stimulation therapy is limited by the risks of inserting electrodes into the brain. Here the authors report non-invasive deep brain stimulation in the human hippocampus using tem...
www.nature.com
October 20, 2023 at 3:07 AM
Interesting work
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Now that this fascinating trial of ketamine masked by anesthesia has been published in Nature Mental Health, time to repost my blog post discussing this study back when it was published as a pre-print.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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www.nature.com/articles/s44...
awaisaftab.substack.com/p/is-ketamin...
Is ketamine as good as placebo or as good as ECT?
Two recent RCTs investigating the use of ketamine in the treatment of depression raise interesting questions for us to reflect on.
awaisaftab.substack.com
October 19, 2023 at 10:47 PM
Now that this fascinating trial of ketamine masked by anesthesia has been published in Nature Mental Health, time to repost my blog post discussing this study back when it was published as a pre-print.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
awaisaftab.substack.com/p/is-ketamin...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
awaisaftab.substack.com/p/is-ketamin...
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Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Towards a biologically annotated brain connectome
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Towards a biologically annotated brain connectome
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Towards a biologically annotated brain connectome - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
High-resolution maps of biological annotations in the brain are increasingly generated and shared. In this Review, Bazinet and colleagues discuss how brain connectomes can be enriched with biological ...
www.nature.com
October 19, 2023 at 1:22 AM
Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Towards a biologically annotated brain connectome
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Towards a biologically annotated brain connectome
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Just hit 8035 code sent! Thank you all so much for donating codes and spreading the word to get more researchers and clinicians here.
There are ~850 codes left to distribute, and I just cleared the request list. If you know anyone looking to join bsky, send them my way! 🧪
forms.gle/ZyYhpa5MHT66...
There are ~850 codes left to distribute, and I just cleared the request list. If you know anyone looking to join bsky, send them my way! 🧪
forms.gle/ZyYhpa5MHT66...
BlueSky Invites
Please fill out this form if (1) you’d like to donate invite codes to scientists, clinicians, academics, other researchers or scholars or (2) you’re a member of one of these communities and would ...
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October 14, 2023 at 8:04 PM
Just hit 8035 code sent! Thank you all so much for donating codes and spreading the word to get more researchers and clinicians here.
There are ~850 codes left to distribute, and I just cleared the request list. If you know anyone looking to join bsky, send them my way! 🧪
forms.gle/ZyYhpa5MHT66...
There are ~850 codes left to distribute, and I just cleared the request list. If you know anyone looking to join bsky, send them my way! 🧪
forms.gle/ZyYhpa5MHT66...
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Nice change of pace putting the multi-channel #MEG #EEG data aside for a moment and looking at two inconspicuous 1-D signals that share more dynamics than we thought. Learned some things about respiration from @danlikesbrains.bsky.social along the way! wdyt? #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky
The link between respiration and arousal is a bit more puzzling than widely assumed, as pointed out in the great review by non-blue Martin Schaefer and others from @odorjohan.bsky.social 's lab. Led by @ckeitelsci.bsky.social, we try to advance things a little with pupillometry.
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A dynamic link between respiration and arousal https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.06.561178v1
October 8, 2023 at 10:08 AM
Nice change of pace putting the multi-channel #MEG #EEG data aside for a moment and looking at two inconspicuous 1-D signals that share more dynamics than we thought. Learned some things about respiration from @danlikesbrains.bsky.social along the way! wdyt? #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky
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The link between respiration and arousal is a bit more puzzling than widely assumed, as pointed out in the great review by non-blue Martin Schaefer and others from @odorjohan.bsky.social 's lab. Led by @ckeitelsci.bsky.social, we try to advance things a little with pupillometry.
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A dynamic link between respiration and arousal https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.06.561178v1
A dynamic link between respiration and arousal https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.06.561178v1
Viewing brain function through the lense of other physiological processes has critically added to ou
www.biorxiv.org
October 8, 2023 at 6:25 AM
The link between respiration and arousal is a bit more puzzling than widely assumed, as pointed out in the great review by non-blue Martin Schaefer and others from @odorjohan.bsky.social 's lab. Led by @ckeitelsci.bsky.social, we try to advance things a little with pupillometry.
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I will probably hire one PhD student for science of science and one to fit big models to neural data/ neuroAI. Relevant prior experience and love for nerding out/ building algorithms and math will be needed.
October 4, 2023 at 12:00 PM
I will probably hire one PhD student for science of science and one to fit big models to neural data/ neuroAI. Relevant prior experience and love for nerding out/ building algorithms and math will be needed.
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Has anyone here seriously considered leaving science?
Why did you stay?
Why did you stay?
October 3, 2023 at 6:22 AM
Has anyone here seriously considered leaving science?
Why did you stay?
Why did you stay?
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The German research foundation (DFG) now explicitly allows the use of generative AI (e.g. ChatGPT) for grant applications & scientific publications, as long as the scientist is transparent about their use. GenAI for grant reviews is prohibited given their confidentiality.
www.dfg.de/en/service/p...
www.dfg.de/en/service/p...
October 2, 2023 at 7:44 AM
The German research foundation (DFG) now explicitly allows the use of generative AI (e.g. ChatGPT) for grant applications & scientific publications, as long as the scientist is transparent about their use. GenAI for grant reviews is prohibited given their confidentiality.
www.dfg.de/en/service/p...
www.dfg.de/en/service/p...
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#neurojobs #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence
Thinking about grad school? I'll be looking for PhD students through Cognition & Perception (https://as.nyu.edu/departments/psychology/graduate/phd-cognition-perception.html) & Data Science (https://cds.nyu.edu/phd-admissions-req/) at NYU. Research areas available here: https://lindsay-lab.github.io
Lindsay Lab - Home
Artificial neural networks applied to psychology, neuroscience, and climate change
lindsay-lab.github.io
September 6, 2023 at 5:03 PM
#neurojobs #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence
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Most academics know that MDPI is not the most reputable publisher but this is particularly grim: a special issue in which 27th of the 28th papers are authored by the two guest editors.
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/processes/special_issues/Biologics_Botanicals
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/processes/special_issues/Biologics_Botanicals
September 22, 2023 at 10:30 PM
Most academics know that MDPI is not the most reputable publisher but this is particularly grim: a special issue in which 27th of the 28th papers are authored by the two guest editors.
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/processes/special_issues/Biologics_Botanicals
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/processes/special_issues/Biologics_Botanicals