Timon Kunze
Phd student of cognitive neuroscience at SISSA, Trieste. How do little neurons make up such complex minds?
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- Reposted by Timon KunzeNew @pnas.org paper out 🎉 “Representational drift reflects ongoing balancing of stochastic changes by Hebbian learning” 👉 doi.org/10.1073/pnas... What drives representational drift in neural populations? Here’s the short version. 👇 🧪🧠 1/5
- Reposted by Timon Kunzewhile anthropic secretly buys and destroys millions of books in hidden warehouses, let it be known that human staff at @archive.org carefully scan physical media by hand as always and there's literally a daily livestream because the process is so wonderful to watch!!!
- Absolutely damning from @aaronschaffer.com, @willoremus.com, & @nitasha.bsky.social. To get more data, Anthropic: * "destructively scanned" millions of books * downloaded the shadow library LibGen * hailed another shadow library's arrival as "just in time!!!" www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
- Reposted by Timon KunzeThe extended version of my thesis procrastination project/subcortex visualization package is out now in both Python and R, now that I’ve graduated 🤠 This figure shows the 9 atlases included (and counting)! Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Website: anniegbryant.github.io/subcortex_vi...
- Reposted by Timon KunzeWhen reading a line like "the glow of the flame briefly illuminated his face", most readers tend to build an image in their mind. 🧠 People with aphantasia, however, report that they do not. We wanted to know: Does this change how they physically read stories? (1/5)
- Reposted by Timon KunzeAt @elife.bsky.social you can now include explainer videos with every figure. Like going to a seminar while you engage with the paper. First example here elifesciences.org/articles/106... Click the arrows next to each figure to get a video of @mathiassablemeyer.bsky.social explaining it for you!
- Reposted by Timon KunzeTrump follows some notable leaders in being re-gifted a Nobel Prize, as a sort of participation trophy. Joseph Goebbels was given one by an author in 1943. www.nobelpeaceprize.org/press/press-... #history #Trump #Goebbels #Nazis
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- Reposted by Timon KunzeGlobally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average. climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...
- Reposted by Timon KunzeWe're already in the phase that each of us (Iranians) by now know someone killed/injured in our circle of friends/family. And this is despite the continued internet blackout, when millions haven't still managed to hear from their family/friends since Thursday, January 8th. This tells a lot ... 😥😥
- Reposted by Timon KunzeHier zur Einordnung dieser Nachricht die globalen Daten der letzten 2024 Jahre.
- Reposted by Timon Kunzeyou guys, i was just invited to actually write this. what is happening???
- Reposted by Timon KunzeThis paper had a pretty shocking headline result (40% of voxels!), so I dug into it, and I think it is wrong. Essentially: they compare two noisy measures and find that about 40% of voxels have different sign between the two. I think this is just noise!
- Would love to hear expert views on this paper. It appears to show that the operationalization of brain activity the field has relied on for 3 decades—the BOLD response—is not actually a sensible measure of brain activity. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Timon KunzeWhat an ironic plot twist. If we were better at understanding biology & functional #ecosystems (rather than, say, amplifying psychopathic profit seekers), we wouldn't need to be thinking about a replacement planet for the one we've burned through like a mindless cancerous growth. #balance
- Naively, I never considered it - if we are to successfully ‘colonise’ space we need to get much better at understanding & building functional ecosystems that include recycling & environmental regulation. We know how to build rockets; time to better understand biology 🧪 economist.com/leaders/2025...
- Reposted by Timon KunzeEpisode #36 in #TheoreticalNeurosciencePodcast: On low-dimensional manifolds in motor cortex – with Sara Solla @sasolla.bsky.social theoreticalneuroscience.no/thn36 Manifold analysis has changed our thinking on how cortex works. One of the pioneers of this modelling approach explains.
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- Reposted by Timon KunzeJust published my review of neuroscience in 2025, on The Spike. The 10th of these, would you believe? This year we have foundation models, breakthroughs in using light to understand the brain, a gene therapy, and more Enjoy! medium.com/the-spike/20...
- Reposted by Timon KunzeThe solutions of the past 3 decades have failed to change the incentives of #PublishOrPerish. As a result, researcher funding, time, control, and trust has been lost. The ONE CONSTANT in the wake of the serial crisis, #PlanS and #OpenAccess reform has been publish profit margins. 2/n
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- Reposted by Timon KunzeTen years in the making. For the full story behind the data, read the "Behind the Paper" piece 😉
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- Reposted by Timon KunzeMade a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used > neal.fun/size-of-life/
- Reposted by Timon KunzeWhen we see something that's moving, our memories about it end up projected forward in time: We remember it further along than it was. In a new paper in 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, out today and led by @dillonplunkett.bsky.social, we demonstrate that this happens even when there is 𝙣𝙤 𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙨𝙤𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧.🧵
- Reposted by Timon KunzeThe scientist-statistician was one of the most common professions in 21st century universities. In this era, statistics was seldom conducted by trained statisticians. Instead, subject experts, who possessed hard- and software, were responsible for tasks ranging from study design to causal inference
- Reposted by Timon KunzeExcited to share a new article, led by Barnes Jannuzi. Here we tried to pinpoint something about visual familiarity that isn't reflected in visual cortex via something putatively hippocampal. Nope! Per the theme of this era, the brain is not so simple. /1 www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
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- Reposted by Timon KunzeIceland is right to consider this an existential threat. www.dagens.com/news/iceland...
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- Reposted by Timon KunzeBy mapping connections among researchers, Neurotree makes it possible to trace how the field has evolved and to visualize how shifts in lab size, training and other factors can shape its direction, writes founder @stephenvdavid.bsky.social. bit.ly/4od0SiL #neuroskyence #StateOfNeuroscience
- Reposted by Timon KunzeJumping spiders can recognise one another. This ability to learn, remember and represent images is quite surprising for such a tiny-brained animal! buff.ly/dCkwPr0
- Reposted by Timon KunzeRelying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
- Reposted by Timon Kunze70 teaspoons placed in tearooms around the institute & observed weekly over 5 months. 80% of spoons disappeared; spoon halflife~81 days. Communal room halflife lower than in specific labs. 250 spoons annually required to maintain 70 spoon population. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
- Reposted by Timon KunzeHuge congrats to Philipp Kaniuth for successfully defending his PhD summa cum laude (with distinction) “on the measurement of representations and similarity”! Phil was my first PhD candidate, so it’s a particularly special event for me, and he can be very proud of his achievements!
- Reposted by Timon KunzeThe field is buzzing about work on brain-computer interfaces for speech, the mechanism of psychedelics, a broader definition of hippocampal representations and more. www.thetransmitter.org/community/th... #neuroskyence #StateOfNeuroscience
- Reposted by Timon Kunzea century of glaciers melting 🧪🌐
- Reposted by Timon KunzeSometimes it can be a pain choosing the route, and toughest when two paths seem equivalent. Nice new article from Liz Crastil's lab explores what factors drive choices of route: Graph Properties Drive Navigational Selection between Equidistant Routes www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Timon KunzeThis was a fabulous, once in a lifetime colloquium -- and now the videos are available in high quality on the College de France web site @college-de-france.fr www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co... With talks by Edvard Moser, Nancy Kanwisher, Liz Spelke, Manuela Piazza, Luca Bonatti and more!
- If you are in Paris on October 1-3 : we are organizing a fantastic cognitive neuroscience conference at Collège de France, on topics ranging from language to math, education and consciousness, with many of my favorite scientists ! Full program here: www.unicog.org/seeing-the-m...
- Reposted by Timon KunzeIn case you don't know already, the journal Open Mind has a Bluesky account that automatically posts new papers: @openmindjournal.bsky.social The journal is diamond open access (free to read, free to publish) thanks to the support of MIT Press, Harvard Library, & MIT Library.
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- Reposted by Timon KunzeIf you're interested in the cognitive neuroscience of memory feel free to email me! I do experimental psychology, brain imaging (fMRI and MEG) and a bit of modelling. Lab is doing stuff on forgetting, aging, schemas, and event boundaries, but we're not limited to that. #psychscisky #neuroskyence
- It's that time of year when many start thinking about applying for PhDs. If you're applying for a UK PhD position, here is a blog post I wrote a while back that might be helpful #cognition #psychscisky #neuroskyence #psychjobs
- Reposted by Timon KunzeMichael X Cohen on why he left academia/neuroscience. mikexcohen.substack.com/p/why-i-left...
- Reposted by Timon KunzeHippoMaps: an open-source resource for studying the human hippocampus at different scales and with different modalities. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @jordandekraker.bsky.social @borismontreal.bsky.social @jclauneuro.bsky.social @neuroak.bsky.social @sofievalk.bsky.social @donnagift.bsky.social
- Reposted by Timon KunzeParis-Berlin sleeper: low carbon, 2 years old, constantly full, but currently losing SNCF a few million EUR/yr Intl Jet fuel tax exemptions are 80 years old and cost the EU 22 million EUR/yr for the Paris-Berlin route alone. And you're cutting... the sleeper? www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
- Reposted by Timon KunzeWe’re looking for a postdoc to join our Max Planck group in Germany some time in 2026. If you have computational and/or neuroimaging expertise, and are interested in questions intersecting perception and cognition, please reach out! I’ll also be happy to chat at the #Bernsteinconference this week.
- Reposted by Timon KunzeThe psych job market may not be dead... but it is gravely injured 😬 So far it's looking like the Trump administration's attacks on higher ed/research are going to have more than 2x the impact on the job market as the covid-19 pandemic. #psychjobs #neurojobs #academicjobs
- Reposted by Timon Kunze1/8 How can the brain create countless unique memories using a single, universal metric of space? We’ve been waiting for the answer to this for two decades! Read it here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- 1/5 How does the brain turn the low-dimensional, universal grid cell metric into the rich, diverse codes needed for memory in hippocampal place cells? 🧵 Preprint link 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Timon KunzeAwesome 4 year phd in compsys neuro !!
- Applications are now open for the SWC Systems Neuroscience PhD Programme. Join us in London! 🧠 World-class neuroscience training 💰 Fully-funded 4-year programme 🖥️ Close links to @gatsbyucl.bsky.social Apply by 3 Nov: www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/...
- Reposted by Timon KunzeEarly-bird registration for "The Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025" ends September 30th A meeting for everyone fascinated by the brain's role in foraging, 3-5 November 2025 at University of Birmingham. Full speaker list, schedule and more now on the website uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanis...
