Peter Jedlicka

We are organizing the 10th Baltic-Nordic Summer School on Computational Neuroscience and Neuroinformatics. May 28 - 31, 2024, Cruise Ship Helsinky-Stockholm-Helsinky. Please spread the info to interested students and postdocs : lsmu.lt/en/events/ebra…

Thank you Prof. Peter Jedlička, for a fascinating talk on neuron modeling. You broke down complex ideas on hyperexcitable circuits and hippocampal neurons in a way that really clicked.

"The brain ... becomes an enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern, always a meaningful pattern though never an abiding one; a shifting harmony of subpatterns" Charles Sherrington The tenth CAMP is here! Applications deadline: 1 May 2025

Applications for 𝐂𝐀𝐌𝐏 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 are now open. Apply now at camp.iiserpune.ac.in Deadline for applying- 1st May, 2025. #camp2025 #neurosciencemeetings

Our first paper on altered states of consciousness induced by #breathwork is officially out now! It addresses four big questions: (1) Can simple breathing alter your consciousness? Most definitely! And in very similar ways to psychedelics! (1/6) nature.com/articles/s4427…

That the Christmas-&-Easter-were-originally-pagan-festivals nonsense originated in Protestant anti-Catholicism is yet another illustration of a most entertaining paradox: the profoundly Christian character of so many anti-Christian polemics on Christian history

New Perspective paper @NatureNeuro 🔊📢 Integrating multimodal data to understand cortical circuit architecture and function With Saskia de Vries, Nuno da Costa, Christof Koch, @HongkuiZeng and many others @AllenInstitute nature.com/articles/s4159… 🧵1/8

Great discussion: how to think like a complexity scientist: open.spotify.com/episode/1qwx0k…

"Causal reductionism ... no room for additional causes once we have accounted for all elementary mechanisms... causal reductionism is prevalent in neuroscience: once ... we demonstrate that causal reductionism cannot provide a complete and coherent account of ‘what caused what’."

Please spread the word!! We are accepting applications for the Cold Spring Harbor Asia Computational and Cognitive Summer School in Suzhou, China. Dates: June 29 to July 20 of 2025. Application deadline: March 31. For the top three reasons to attend, see thread below:

There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. -- Enrico Fermi

As a cognitive scientist I’ve always been skeptical of the theory that “scale is all you need” (models with more layers, bigger training data) to duplicate or exceed human intelligence. A majority of surveyed AI researchers agree. @garymarcus newscientist.com/article/247175…

𝗜𝘀 𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗮 𝗱𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘆 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆? Definitely some thought provoking papers in this collection. It's definitely alive and well in conceptual neuroscience at least! link.springer.com/collections/da…

Adult human brains have between 86-100 billion neurons and every single one is unique - like snowflakes! ❄️ In this 3D rendering by our #ElectronMicroscopy team, we see 3 different shapes. Can you name all of them? #BrainAwarenessWeek

@ClassicalAegis There seem to be many myths about Hypatia (and the library of Alexandria). One of them is that she was one of the last Alexandrian philosophers. What do you think about this "debunking myths" video? x.com/InspiringPhilo…

Hypatia's death marked the end of an era. She is often considered the last great Alexandrian mathematician and philosopher.

This is Hypatia. She not only revolutionized philosophy but would go on to change the world. Here's the incredible story of one of the greatest mathematicians, astronomers, and philosophers of all time: 🧵

Latest column from me in The Transmitter @_TheTransmitter: on the limits of what we can know about the brain thetransmitter.org/systems-neuros…

Consciousness or pseudo-consciousness? A clash of two paradigms nature.com/articles/s4159… Published in Nature Neuroscience today!

In a study, @marthaflinders & @MelMitchell1 show that the reasoning abilities of OpenAI’s GPT-4 model fall short when faced with small changes. Recognizing the limitations of these tools is critical to knowing when and to what extent they can be trusted. santafe.edu/news-center/ne…

Episode #25 in #TheoreticalNeurosciencePodcast: On growing synthetic dendrites – with Hermann Cuntz @ComputingCajal theoreticalneuroscience.no/thn25 Why are dendritic structures of neurons so different? The guest builds dendrites in a computer to understand and explore.

RIP to the 10th world champion, Boris Spassky, here looking over my shoulder at my match with Hübner in 1985. Boris was never above befriending and mentoring the next generation, especially those of us who, like him, didn’t fit comfortably into the Soviet machine. (He emigrated to France in 1976.) It was a pleasure to tell my stories and those of others about him in the third volume of My Great Predecessors. His rise as a prodigy, conquest of the crown against the invincible Petrosian on the second attempt, and decades of elite play are too often lost in the shadow of his dramatic title loss to Bobby Fischer in 1972 and the circus Fischer turned it into. But Spassky always wanted to play, and he handled the situation with impressive dignity. While his chess justified the "universal" label that frequently follows his name, his aggressive gambiteering style produced countless masterpieces. (Photo by @larsgrahn)