Max Schelski 🇺🇦

It's out! We found that the railroad network (microtubule array) in neurites is extremely dynamic during development and moves retrogradely into the soma. New data compared to preprint - dynein, actin and much more. Get ready for lots of movies!🧵👇 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… (1/25)

This paper on how the brain may do gradient descent is very cool: #Sec3" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nature.com/articles/s4158…

🧠DENDRITES 2026 is OPEN for registration & abstracts! Join us in Heraklion, Crete (May 19-22, 2026) for the 6th EMBO Workshop on Dendrites & Network Processing. 🗓️ Abstract Deadline: Feb 1, 2026 🔗 Register & Submit: meetings.embo.org/event/26-dendr… #Dendrites2026 #EMBO #Crete

🧠 #BernsteinConference 2025 Recap / Day 2 The Main Conference began in the afternoon with a talk by @YiotaPoirazi, followed by the Valentin Braitenberg Award ceremony honouring Sara A. Solla. The first two Poster Sessions concluded a day full of #CompNeuro!

Only one week left till Deadline: Aug 11th

Happy the LaTeX template I created for DFG proposals is being used! 🎉 Just heard from someone in data engineering who got funded using it (🎯 content matters most, but hey, layout helps too 😄) See: github.com/hoelzer/dfg Also loving the community input via PRs & issues! 💙

1 To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised! 🧵Thread on our new preprint with @R3RT0 , doi.org/10.1101/2025.0…

🚨 New in Nature Communications! CoVerage (sarscoverage.org) enables early in silico detection of emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants. Led by Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, driving innovation in genomic surveillance. 🔗 nature.com/articles/s4146… #GenomicSurveillance

We are happy to announce an opening for a Tenure Track Assistant Professor Faculty Position in Neuroscience at EPFL. Join our groups working on cellular & circuit neuroscience & neurocomputation - go.epfl.ch/brain. Deadline Oct 1 2025, Apply now - go.epfl.ch/neurofaculty

Trying to train RNNs in a biol plausible (local) way? Well, try our new method using predictive alignment. Paper just out in Nat. Com. @TAsabuki deserves all the credit! nature.com/articles/s4146…

💸 Looking for funding for your #CompNeuro research? We curate interesting funding opportunities for all career levels on our website. Right now there are 15 open calls! Check them out here 👉 bernstein-network.de/en/newsroom/ca…

#AI and #computervision folks: this will be interesting to you! Robust visual inference beyond scale, but achieved by taking inspiration from how infant vision develops. Shown to work across many architectures and comes with a neat preprocessing pipeline that you can use.

Exciting new preprint from the lab: “Adopting a human developmental visual diet yields robust, shape-based AI vision”. A most wonderful case where brain inspiration massively improved AI solutions. Work with @lu_zejin @martisamuser and Radoslaw Cichy arxiv.org/abs/2507.03168

We are seeking two independent Max Planck Research Groups working in scientific disciplines relevant to our institute. Applications should be sent in PDF format no later than 15th August 2025. Visit our call for applications on our institute website for detailed information!

After a year of review, our paper is now out in @NatureComms ! I really think our model/theory offers one of the most promising frameworks yet for learning in neocortical circuits - perhaps not in its final form, but the core principle of ssl feels right. Hoping experimentalists will test it, break it, and computationalists will refine it #AllModelsAreWrongButSomeAreUseful - I think this one could be very useful😀

Pleased to say that our story of how a theory of self-supervised learning in cortical layers accounts for several experimental observations is now out 🎉 nature.com/articles/s4146…

💡New study in Neuron, featuring modeling insights: Cell-Specific Dendritic Integration in Cortical GABAergic Interneurons! It reveals PV & SST interneurons compute differently. This highlights how distinct dendrites enable specialized brain computations! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Are predictions computed hierarchically, or can they be computed locally? Check out our paper! Congrats @TAsabuki pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

🚀Out in PNAS! We find that recurrent networks trained with the predictive plasticity rules explain many features of prediction errors observed in experimental studies pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… @ClopathLab

For this special occasion also on Twitter: tomorrow is the deadline for the 2026 imbizo.africa. Come to the most special place in the world to the most special computational neuroscience. @isiCNI #neuro in #africa.

We need more nominations!!!