Exploring how biological constraints shape neural encoding. Computational neuroscientist. PhD @bhalla_lab @NCBS_Bangalore https://xitter.cf/t.co/5qUOeDQGqH
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📢📢Excited to announce the " Multiscale Modelling with MOOSE" tutorial to be held at CNS 2025!
Please register and join us at cnsorg.org/cns-2025
📅 July 5-9, 2025📍Florence, Italy
Important dates cnsorg.org/cns-2025-dates #Neuroscience #CNS2025 #Tutorial #conference #MOOSE
ALT 34th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting CNS*2025, Florence, Italy
Anal kumar retweeted
Announcement: The deadline for submitting applications for 𝐂𝐀𝐌𝐏 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 has been extended to May 12th May, 2025. Please spread the word. Good luck to all the applicants. Apply at camp.iiserpune.ac.in
#camp2025 #neurosciencemeetings
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Finally a new textbook for theoretical neuroscience. Xiao-Jing Wang wrote a nice book with very broad coverage of the field. Highly recommend. amazon.com/Theoretical-Neuro…
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Mark your calendars!! 🗓️
The first Young Biophysicists Meeting will be held on the coming Monday (March 3rd) from 11am - 12pm EST. We have four exciting talks lined up for you, see you all soon! Find out more : shorturl.at/4oKNe
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Have you ever wondered how zebra stripes 🦓 & sunflower spirals 🌻form? The secret lies in the Turing oscillator—where reaction & diffusion create spontaneous patterns!
Simulate a 1D Turing Oscillator with MOOSE! moose.ncbs.res.in/readthedoc…
#MOOSE #TuringPatterns #EmergentBehavior
Anal kumar retweeted
The peer-reviewed version of our article is out! elifesciences.org/articles/1…
Anal kumar retweeted
New preprint alert from the lab! Also you can hear an auto-generated 40 s audio summary here:
sciencecast.org/casts/o3i498…
More details on this exciting paper will follow soon!
@NCBS_Bangalore
Developmental synaptic pruning in the olivo-cerebellar circuit sculpts predictive processing biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_neursci
Anal kumar retweeted
The push towards hypothesis-driven research is one of the key mistakes in the neuroscience field. In exponentially sized hypothesis spaces it simply is not a useful way of making progress. The convert-new-tech-into-hypothesis-progress industrial complex is a problem.
Anal kumar retweeted
Sci-Hub and Library Genesis has been defined in the literature as 'Black Open Access' model. In the last few months I've been working on a paper, where I explain that Sci-Hub is actually 'Red Open Access' while Library Genesis can be understood as a subtype of 'Green Open Access'.
The preprint is available here: preprints.org/manuscript/202… commentaries and criticisms are welcome. You can send them to me by email.
The picture with Sci-Hub's statistics comes from that paper. The number of PDF downloads from Sci-Hub per month, 2016-2023. Surprisingly, the usage of the website only increased after 2020, and that is only counting statistics from original website, not even counting numerous Sci-Hub mirrors!
Anal kumar retweeted
As a long-term signatory of the Declaration on Research Assessment, we thank @DORAssessment for this supportive message. There has been an ongoing move away from journal-level metrics; we hope this will only accelerate now.
sfdora.org/2024/11/25/clariv…
Anal kumar retweeted
🎉 Great news! Pylustrator, my open-source tool for creating publication-ready @matplotlib plots, works seamlessly with the latest Matplotlib version! 🖌️✨ Curious how it can transform your figures and save your changes as reproducible Python code? Let me show you! 🧵👇
Anal kumar retweeted
We churn out more & more papers *per scientist*, at an increasing pace, in a rapidly changing publication landscape.
Why? How? Want to make sense of this?
In a new paper just published in Quantitative Science Studies we dive in & look for answers.
direct.mit.edu/qss/article/d…
Anal kumar retweeted
🚨 **Last Chance!** 🚨
Join the **MOOSE Workshop** at *ICSB 2024*!
🧠 📅 Nov 30,2024|
📍 IIT Bombay |
🎟️ Free (for ICSB attendees)
⏳ Register by 23rd Nov : forms.gle/bJXo4z3Fr7FF4vr67
#ICSB2024 #Neuroscience #SystemsBiology #ComputationalModeling #Workshop #IITBombay #MOOSE
Anal kumar retweeted
The plot thickens in the Bhatnagar award fiasco story. The selection process webpage was modified to add a new point overnight.
Recap
The name of at least one scientist recommended for Bhatnagar award was allegedly removed at the ministerial level. The scientist had criticized certain actions of the govt in the past.
Process Followed?
A scientist in the selection committee (called RVPC) was quoted in The Telegraph yesterday: "selection process described on the Union home ministry’s webpage on awards, had been followed"
Process Modified?!
Here comes the fun part. The section on the selection process in the webpage was itself changed overnight. A brand new point was added that says “The RVPC will recommend the names to the Honorable Minister of Science and Technology."
Compare the screenshots from a week before (9 Sep) and from yesterday to see this change.
Interestingly, the change was made just ahead of the letter sent by a group of scientists asking the Principal Scientific Adviser for clarification on this matter.
Anal kumar retweeted
#PhDone ! 🎓 Congratulations Dr Anal! 🎉
Anal Kumar from Prof Upinder Bhalla's lab successfully defended his thesis recently.
🧵See thread to learn more about his work 👇
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@analkumar2 @bhalla_lab
Anal kumar retweeted
Congrats to my friend and colleague Guosong Hong for his stunning and original discovery, published today in Science, on clearing tissues *in living animals* with a common food dye!
The dye is tartrazine, used in Doritos!
science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
Anal kumar retweeted
Thrilled to have my story along with this image of fish brain featured by @focalplane_jcs !🎉 Huge thanks to @VatsalaT for fostering my joy for neuroscience🧠🐟✨😍
Thank you @varmaalok22 for teaching me the ins and outs of microscopy (and all the other cool science stuff)!🔬🐟✨
It’s #FluorescenceFriday & we’re highlighting Shivangi Verma’s (@shivangiv10) image of a #zebrafish larval brain. The larva expressing GCaMP6f was embedded in agarose & imaged using a Zeiss Lightsheet microscope. Find out more about Shivangi's research:
focalplane.biologists.com/20…
