Moritz Helmstaedter

What makes us human, at the neuronal network level? We discovered a dramatic (10-fold) expansion of interneuron-to-interneuron networks in the human brain compared to mouse: just published in @ScienceMagazine @MpiBrain @maxplanckpress science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

💔to the brave people of #Iran. Our thoughts are with you.

@NatRevNeurosci And don't miss Vivien Marx's wonderful technology feature on the topic nature.com/articles/s4159… @metricausa

And coincidentally, my review on synaptic-resolution connectomics came out in @NatRevNeurosci today nature.com/articles/s4158… I emphasize that manual proof reading is (almost) a matter of the past, and that large brains and massive connectomic screening are in reach. 2/3

Connectomics is Method of the Year 2025!! @naturemethods just released the news nature.com/articles/s4159… In my perspective piece, I afford some predictions into the future and compare how we are doing vs. genomics nature.com/articles/s4159… 1/3

@NatRevNeurosci Sometimes, even as scientists we can be optimistic! @MpiBrain @maxplanckpress

An optimized X-ray nanotomography method offers an attractive alternative to volume EM for connectomics. @trickymons, @TheCrick, @psich_en, @AdrianAWanner, @AndreasTSchafer, @ucl, @uclnpp nature.com/articles/s4159…

Horrific - rockets on the Weizmann institute, a close ally with many scientist friends. Our thoughts are with you!! @WeizmannScience @maxplanckpress

@SebastianSeung @Harvard This is the ranking with all institutions included (also CAS and Max Planck). Your point stays the same though.. @maxplanckpress

Universities ranked by research output...look closely. Now that @Harvard has been kneecapped, there will be no U.S. university left in the top ten. Hats off to China. nature.com/nature-index/i…

Super happy that our papers #2 and #3 from our 3-person lab just went online on bioRxiv! First large-scale 3DEM dataset from mouse hippocampus CA1 biorxiv.org/content/10.110… check out the beautiful data on webknossos wklink.org/7023! ...

@NobelPrize Wonderful. Now physics becomes Neuro as well…

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”

We oppose boycott of Israeli science: …nz-der-wissenschaftsorganisationen.de/en/topics-stat…

Erin Schuman, director at @MpiBrain, is awarded the prestigious Körber European Science Prize for her groundbreaking work showing that proteins critical for neuron communication and memory are produced at synapses. Congratulations, Erin! 👉bit.ly/4cjjV5R @erin_schuman @maxplanckpress @koerberstiftung @KoerberScience

today's talks on diffusion models, LLMs vs children, and emergent properties in LLMs, and a final panel discussion live at youtube.com/live/wxfmnw4Fu… .

Don’t miss out our panel discussion tonight featuring @MelMitchell1 @AlisonGopnik @Hsompolinsky @Uri_Hasson Thomas Hofmann. 7PM CET, 1PM Eastern, 10AM Pacific time. Live at youtube.com/watch?v=LWSDro… and via leopoldina.org/en/events/even…

Starting now: Haim Sompolinsky on the representational achievements of LLMs – this and more on the Brain and LLMs in the next 24 hours at our joint @mpibrain and @leopoldina symposium. Live at youtube.com/watch?v=LWSDro… and via leopoldina.org/en/events/even…

Happening today! 5.5 hours to go (1:30 PM CET). Live stream at @nationalakademieleopoldina/streams" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@nationalakade… and via leopoldina.org/en/events/even…

Can Brain Science help us understand what Large Language Models have achieved? Thrilled to announce our symposium May 13+14 organized jointly by @mpibrain and @leopoldina . Live stream available via leopoldina.org/en/events/even… Exciting talks and panel discussion with 1/

Let’s hope this works out! Live stream will be available, and the panel discussions will stay online. leopoldina.org/en/events/even… 6/end.

and what this tells us, from a scientific standpoint, about the expected trajectory of today's AI architectures. A main ambition is: to employ scientific discourse, rather than invectives obfuscated by company interests, for diving deep into these topics. 5/