Michael Okun
@michael_okun
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Associate Professor of (Systems & Computational) Neuroscience @UniofNottingham. Interested in cortical dynamics.
United Kingdom
Joined August 2017
RT @basal_gang: 🚀We are excited to share that bombcell is now available in Python! 🐍 Automatically sort your units into good/MUA/noise/non-….
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Automated quality control, curation and neuron classification of spike-sorted electrophysiology data. Available in MATLAB and in Python.. - Julie-Fabre/bombcell
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RT @neuromatch: Join Neuromatch Academy courses for hands-on experience in computational neuroscience, machine learning, and data science w….
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RT @neuromatch: Check out Neuromatch's flagship course, Computational Neuroscience! . This course is in its 6th year and has received rave….
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RT @MasudHusain: Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @Brain1878 If you agree with the sentiments please RT. I….
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RT @neuromatch: 🚨 Neuromatch Academy Course Applications are OPEN for 2025!! 🚨. Get your application in early to be a student or teaching a….
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RT @markdhumphries: Save the date!. UK Neural Computation 2025 will be at Imperial College London.9 July: ECR day.10-11 July: main meetin….
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"Among the generations that we synthesized, we found a bright fluorescent protein at a far distance (58% sequence identity) from known fluorescent proteins, which we estimate is equivalent to simulating five hundred million years of evolution.".
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More than 3 billion years of evolution have produced an image of biology encoded into the space of natural proteins. Here, we show that language models trained at scale on evolutionary data can...
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RT @GatsbyUCL: 📢 Apply now for the 7-week #Mathematics #SummerSchool in London! You will develop mathematics skills and intuition necessar….
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Starting 2025 with some splendid northern lights (visible about now in Västerbotten, Sweden).
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RT @SchmidhuberAI: The #NobelPrize in Physics 2024 for Hopfield & Hinton turns out to be a Nobel Prize for plagiarism. They republished met….
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RT @VVyazovskiy: Sleep-like state during wakefulness induced by psychedelic 5-MeO-DMT in mice | bioRxiv
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Psychedelics lead to profound changes in subjective experience and behaviour, which are typically conceptualised in psychological terms rather than corresponding to an altered brain state or a...
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RT @markdhumphries: We’re seeking a research assistant to work on predicting which Parkinson’s patients would most benefit from deep brain….
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We seek a predoctoral research assistant to join the Humphries’ group at the University of Nottingham on the Innovate UK-funded project “GEMINI: Platform Informatics For Data-driven Neuromodulation”....
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Our school (@UoNLifeSci ) is advertising a teaching-focused position of Assistant Professor in Neuroscience. Application deadline: 7-Nov.
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The School of Life Sciences (SoLS), University of Nottingham seeks to make a permanent teaching and curriculum leadership appointment of an Assistant Professor in Neuroscience.International applica...
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RT @NeuroPSI_saclay: We grieve the passing of Dr. Yves Frégnac. Yves has shaped the study of cortical processing and plasticity. He herald….
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RT @apeyrache: Gyorgy Buzsaki just wrote an autobiography. The second paragraph starts with "I was 11 years old when I killed my best frie….
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RT @ViditaVaidya: Really glad to have this work identifying the key role of PV-neurons in the ventral hippocampus in gating the anxiolytic….
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RT @EnnyvBeest: The 2024 UCL Neuropixels course will take place on 14-16 October. Registration is free. Register today! More info: https://….
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A free online course on Neuropixels, 14-16 October 2024
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RT @AllenInstitute: Mapping the brain’s visual world on psychedelics, texture and time. Meet the new #OpenScope projects tackling open ques….
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How do neurons react to magic mushrooms? What happens in the brain when we see motion, or when we recognize grain patterns in a piece of wood?
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RT @markdhumphries: Bludgeoning reviewers into submission by the sheer volume of work in a paper now has a name!. Daring reviewers to rejec….
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Nature - Papers need to include fewer claims and more proof to make the scientific literature more reliable, warns William G. Kaelin Jr.
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RT @lpachter: Aristotle was the first to notice honeybees dancing. In 1927 Karl von Frisch decoded the waggle. How it works was "explained"….
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