Taufik A. Valiante
Neuroscientist, Neurosurgeon, Krembil Brain Institute, CRANIA, MPUTC, BME & ECE University of Toronto.
https://neurontobrainlaboratory.ca
kite-uhn.com/crania
https://mpc.utoronto.ca
- Reposted by Taufik A. Valiante13% success rates at #CIHR, is a really 87% fail rate for>4000 scientists. At a time when 🇨🇦 is investing millions to recruit more scientist into a broken funding environment. 🇨🇦, U need a strong science foundation 2 attract success. #CIHR, fix your science foundation, it is eroding in real time
- Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteIntelligence and consciousness. @anilseth.bsky.social, brief, clear and to the point: "intelligence is about doing and consciousness is about being" www.noemamag.com/the-mytholog...
- Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteJoin us March 20 at the University of Toronto for a special seminar by Dr. Sergey Stavisky on brain–computer interfaces. #neuroAI @utoronto.ca @uoftcompsci.bsky.social @uhn.ca @kbi-uhn.bsky.social robotics.utoronto.ca/event/roboti...
- Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteNew eLife paper is out! We explore the link btw 2-phase perception/generation learning methods like wake-sleep, and what may happen in the brain under on psychedelics. Turns out hallucinations are consistent with hijacking phasic learning, essentially running both wake and sleep phases at once.
- Our paper on the "Oneirogen hypothesis" is now up in its revised form on eLife! This is the hypothesis that psychedelics induce a dream-like state, which we show via modelling could explain a variety of perceptual and learning effects from such drugs. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... 🧠📈 🧪
- Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteAre you thinking about doing neuroscience outreach but want to make it more exciting or hands on? Check out RetINaBox! (A collab led by the Trenholm lab) We tried to bring the experience of experimental neuroscience to a classroom setting: www.eneuro.org/content/13/1... #neuroscience 🧪
- Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteWonderful article about our recent paper in @pnasnexus.org! Thanks, @sachapfeiffer.bsky.social and @mickbonner.bsky.social! @yikai-tang.bsky.social @uoftpsychology.bsky.social @artsci.utoronto.ca @utoronto.ca
- Why do we find some scenes more aesthetic than others? For my first in @sciencenews.bsky.social, I wrote about a new study that suggests that our aesthetic preferences could have evolved as cognitive shortcuts. 🧠🧪 www.sciencenews.org/article/brai...
- Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteMy thoughts on the matter: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteWonderful and inspiring opening session at the CIFAR/TWCF Winter School for the Neuroscience of Consciousness, here in beautiful wintery Montebello, in Quebec. All of the participants gave 60 second intros to themselves and their interests. What a great group of people.
- Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteIn this piece for @thetransmitter.bsky.social, I argue that ecological neuroscience should leverage generative video and interactive models to simulate the world from animals' perspectives. The technological building blocks are almost here - we just need to align them for this application. 🧠🤖
- Generative AI will offer a new way to see, simulate and hypothesize about how animals experience their worlds. In doing so, it could help bridge the long-standing gap between neural function and behavior, writes @shahabbakht.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/artificial-i...
- Reposted by Taufik A. Valiante🧠📢 New preprint alert Large-scale ephys is exploding but spike sorting remains the computational bottleneck. A 2-hr, 6-probe Neuropixels 2.0 Quad Base session can take over a week to sort on a single machine. Here's a better solution. 🧵 #neuroskyence #compneurosky
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View full threadReposted by Taufik A. ValianteLossy WavPack compression (up to 7× reduction) has minimal impact on sorting accuracy. This offers major storage savings without sacrificing quality.
- Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteEnergy efficiency drives evolution, and humans may have evolved pleasure-based signals to optimize actions. Does this extend to aesthetic pleasure? Yes! Strong evidence in silico and humans, out in PNAS Nexus: tinyurl.com/3kbu8xw4 With Yikai Tang and Wil Cunningham. @uoftpsychology.bsky.social
- Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteFinally got the job ad—looking for 2 PhD students to start spring next year: www.gao-unit.com/join-us/ If comp neuro, ML, and AI4Neuro is your thing, or you just nerd out over brain recordings, apply! I'm at neurips. DM me here / on the conference app or email if you want to meet 🏖️🌮
- Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteWe are opening a FACULTY POSITION (tenure track, permanent) in the University of Cambridge at the interface of control and biology, interpreted broadly. Theorists and wet lab quantitative biologists with backgrounds in control, EE, applied math, ... apply by Jan 28! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...
- Reposted by Taufik A. Valiantehey I'm reposting this for no reason at all today... www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
- Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteA study in Nature Communications identifies BNST theta and prefrontal BNST coherence as intracranial biomarkers predicting depression outcomes after deep brain stimulation. Lower activity predicted better long-term benefit, linking brain circuits to emotional bias and anxiety. 🧪
- Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteIt was incredible to be part of #purpleday yesterday! 💜 Each year, this important day continues to grow bigger and stronger, bringing more awareness and support for the 1-in-100 people living with epilepsy. @kbi-uhn.bsky.social @uhnresearch.bsky.social @tvaliante.bsky.social
- Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteHappy to share this work putting forth the first #computational model of #developing #embrionic cortical circuits. Phenomenal team coordination by Fernando Garcia Moreno @achucarro.bsky.social. @kbi-uhn.bsky.social @kcnhub.bsky.social
- Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteI’m not “abandoning my diet”; I’m “supporting my country.”
- Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteSave the date! Come learn about how we're using machine learning to reverse-engineer the human brain and build brain-machine interfaces kite-uhn.com/talk/rounds-... @uoft.bsky.social @bme-uoft.bsky.social @uhnresearch.bsky.social @uhntoronto.bsky.social @kbi-uhn.bsky.social
- Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteNew brain aging study is out today in Nature The largest single-cell RNA seq dataset of mouse brain aging reveals incredible insights and could pave the way for future therapies to slow or manage the impacts of the aging process. 🧵 #studyBRAIN
- Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteJust bumping this up for those who may have missed earlier announcements-- we have a new PI position in the Neuroscience & Mental Health program here at SickKids. Neural and glial mechanisms in cognition.
- Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteWe are proud to support this trial through our our extensive academic and clinical programs affiliated with @uoft.bsky.social @uhnresearch.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/uhnt...
- In an interview with The i Paper, #TeamUHN's Dr. Andres Lozano discusses his excitement over UHN's Toronto Western Hospital being selected as the first international site of Neuralink trials. Read more 👇 bit.ly/4fBI7RQ
- Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteCongrats to Sam Mestern, Ph.D. student at @westernu.bsky.social, for winning the MapMySpikes challenge! His tool, PatchOTDA, excelled in mapping electrophysiological data to molecular properties. 🧠📈 More on his tool and the MapMySpikes challenge: alleninstitute.org/news/canadia...
- Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteThree UHN research projects have received over $4M through the Ontario Research Fund, part of a $92M investment in Ontario research! Learn how this funding advances: ▶️#MRI tech ▶️#AI for donor lungs ▶️Muscle & joint #health Congrats to the awardees! 🔗 www.uhnresearch.ca/news/investi...
- Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteHopfield and Hinton @nobelprize.bsky.social lecture today John J. Hopfield: Physics is a point of view Geoffrey Hinton: Boltzmann Machines www.youtube.com/live/lPIVl5e...
- Grateful for these two and that they find such joy in one another!! Photo cred @samravaliante.bsky.social
- Holiday festivities have begun. Grateful for my amazing lab for making each year fun, and exciting!!
- Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteDone Christmas Shopping? Or need inspiration what open MRI tools to get for your loved ones? After Black Friday and Cyber Monday, there is 🥁 #MRITogether Tuesday (and Wednesday-Thursday-Friday 😉). There is still time to register for our free online event mritogether.esmrmb.org/24m/registra...
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[This post could not be retrieved] - Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteThank you to the global community for citing, sharing, and building on this work! 🙏 Read the paper here: nature.com/articles/s41... Stay tuned for MedSAM2, set to be released next month, offering enhanced efficiency and accuracy for medical video and 3D image segmentation.
- Reposted by Taufik A. Valiantethanks @haoyin.bsky.social 🙏🙏
- Dr. Bo Wang is on BlueSky now @bowang87.bsky.social Follow him if you don't want to miss the coolest AI-Biomedical development!!!😎
- Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteAn early Thanksgiving gift to you all… a new preprint, representing the final piece of my postdoc work at @kbi-uhn.bsky.social @kcnhub.bsky.social @uhnresearch.bsky.social with @tvaliante.bsky.social. Full description to come next week 😀 #neuroskyence #compneuro www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteOh I know this guy. I listen to him all the time. But more importantly, you should see what his colleagues have to say about "To Keep or Not to Keep"
- Should neuroscientists keep all raw data or focus on processed datasets? Nima Dehghani @neurovium.bsky.social asks experimentalists and theorists for their thoughts on neurophysiology’s data dilemma: www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict... Check out some opinions in the thread below:
- Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteAlso for those with broader brain health related interests where you get to play with these toys! If it sounds interesting, let’s chat at ACNP in Phoenix!
- Interested in a Canada Excellence Research Chair ($8M or $4M for 8 years) in the area of ultra-high field MRI development and applications in the neurosciences? Please reach out to me. We have [15.2T, 9.4T] preclinical and [7T, 3T] human MRI scanners. www.cerc.gc.ca/home-accueil...
- Reposted by Taufik A. ValianteI am giving a 2-day #advanced #course on #astrocyte multiscale #models at the University of #Padua IT on April 10--11, 2025 #EMBO. An excellent opportunity to learn how to include #neuron-#glia #interactions in your models, from molecules to networks. Info & Registration: tinyurl.com/yx3m6acy
