Neil Burgess
@NeilBurgess10
UCL Prof, not big on social media, see also http://NeilBurgess10.bsky.social
The interview that got Sangita Myska fired. But don't repost it that would be antisemitism according to James O'Brien.
Going to #Cosyne2025? Check out our researchers’ posters and talks: sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/sw… @CosyneMeeting
Excited to share our latest paper: “Phase Precession Relative to Turning Angle in Theta-Modulated Head Direction Cells” together with @LomiEleonora (co-first author), Kate Jeffery, @annamitch28 @NeilBurgess10 doi.org/10.1002/hipo.7…
Just published a commentary with @JennCRobinson & @patrick_lachanc about modeling by @zilong_ji of exciting data from @azvollan and @EdvardMoser. Proposes that alternating theta sweeps shown in entorhinal cortex can scan future paths to guide navigation. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Very happy to see this out! Based on the microcircuit identified by Vollan et al., we made some interesting predictions about theta sweeps, especially theta modulated head direction cells which direct the left-right sweeps in downstream grid cells. Follow me on bsky for more info
Really impressive identification of this functional circuit! Even better it just needs continuous attractor dynamics & firing rate adaptation (or similar) to work, which also makes some new predictions (model with @zilong_ji, Tianhao Chu, Si Wu) sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
DEBUNKED: As Elon Musk and the right-wing media continue spreading the harmful and baseless lie that British Asians are more likely to commit child abuse, the data keeps revealing the truth and proving this notion to be completely racist and untrue…
I’m Professor Robert Howard, a clinical academic psychiatrist in London. I’m calling for the immediate release of Dr Hassam Abu Safiya and all other medical and allied health professionals from Gaza currently detained by Israeli forces.
My name is Dr. Neena Jha. I am a family doctor. I am calling for the immediate release of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya. He was abducted by the Israeli forces. I am calling for protection of hospitals and medical workers in Gaza. And an end to the genocide. #FreeDrHussamAbuSafiya
Completely wrong. Studies show that the HPV vaccine reduces & almost eliminates the risk of cervical cancer. And the COVID vaccine reduces your risk of serious illness & dying of the disease. Good luck 🇺🇸
Gardasil HPV vaccine appears to be increasing the risk of cervical cancer in vaccinated age groups just as COVID vaccines raise the risk of COVID. childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/truth…
I'm happy to share our Review article in @TrendsCognSci , "Cognitive Maps and Schizophrenia", synthesising evidence for representation-level abnormalities in the condition, and proposing directions for future work. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
"Israeli" soldiers set fire to Mahdia Al-Shawa School in Beit Hanoun just right after the aid trucks arrived there, following more than forty days without food. They burned down the school and all the aid supplies, forcing the displaced people to evacuate by force.
Today entering Gaza City. The ruins of life. A donkey laying dead attached to a cart with someone’s possessions. Clusters of people crossing to the South, with too much to walk with under the sun and given the length of the journey. A man carrying a white flag in front of his…
Preprint for "Consolidation of Sequential Planning" with @evanrussek and @NeilBurgess10. We demonstrate the neural representations supporting sequential planning and the effect of memory consolidation upon them: biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…. As talk, see also: youtube.com/watch?v=0QcNtz…
🚨🚨🚨 VERY excited to share our new paper on how AI can facilitate democratic deliberation, published today in @ScienceMagazine! Together with @mhtessler, @summerfieldlab, and other amazing collaborators at @GoogleDeepMind we've been building the "Habermas Machine"
Applications open for the awesome @SWC_Neuro 4-year PhD program. Amazing opportunity for a fully funded PhD surrounded by world class systems and circuit neuroscience.
Applications now open! Join the SWC PhD Programme 2025 🧠 World-class training in systems neuroscience 💰 Fully-funded 4-year programme 💂 Based in London with close links to @GatsbyUCL Learn more and apply by 11 Nov: sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/ph… #PhD #Neuroscience
Winning the @NobelPrize is the honour of a lifetime and the realisation of a lifelong dream - it still hasn’t really sunk in yet. With AlphaFold2 we cracked the 50-year grand challenge of protein structure prediction: predicting the 3D structure of a protein purely from its…
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Chemistry with one half to David Baker “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction.”
This year’s chemistry laureates Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have developed an AI model, AlphaFold2, to solve a 50-year-old problem: predicting proteins’ complex structures. Check out two examples of protein structures determined using AlphaFold2. First up, a bacterial enzyme…
Wow. Hopfield model and Boltzmann machine.
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”
Applications now open! Join the SWC PhD Programme 2025 🧠 World-class training in systems neuroscience 💰 Fully-funded 4-year programme 💂 Based in London with close links to @GatsbyUCL Learn more and apply by 11 Nov: sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/ph… #PhD #Neuroscience
Hey, it's #OpenScienceWeek! So many things happening, from data sharing to open source tools. We've contributed a bit over the years, starting with @thepynapple to facilitate and standardize data analysis in neuroscience 👇 #openscience 1/4
This week celebrates the spirit of collaboration and transparency in open science. Pynapple has been built to push the boundaries of neuroscience through openness, transparency & teamwork. If you want to make a change and contribute, check out our GitHub! pynapple.org/CONTRIBUTING/