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Head Research Engineer at Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL. I lead @neuroinformatics.dev & @brainglobe.info. We build open source software for neuroscience and machine learning. Runner, cyclist, sandwich enthusiast. https://adamltyson.com
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If you know anyone who would like to spend the summer contributing to open-source neuroscience software (and getting paid), please get in touch. Projects can include neuroanatomy, behaviour, ephys and data management tools.

New blog about our participation in Google Summer of Code 2025! Read more about this paid, global opportunity to help develop open-source software for neuroscience. neuroinformatics.dev/blog/gsoc2025

BrainGlobe has a new (c)atlas, for the domestic cat, Felis catus. 🐱 For more details about this (and the rest of BrainGlobe), please see the blog: brainglobe.info/blog/cat-atl...

Should emphasise that Google Summer of Code is paid, remote, asynchronous and (very nearly) everyone is eligible. Get in touch if you have any questions.

If you know anyone who would like to spend the summer contributing to open-source neuroscience software (and getting paid), please get in touch. Projects can include neuroanatomy, behaviour, ephys and data management tools.

Excited to announce that we will be taking part in the Google Summer of Code this year! If you'd like to get paid to contribute to open-source neuroscience software, please get in touch. Full details here: neuroinformatics.dev/get-involved...

Excited to announce that we will be taking part in the Google Summer of Code this year! If you'd like to get paid to contribute to BrainGlobe, please get in touch. Applications will be accepted via @neuroinformatics.dev. Full details here: neuroinformatics.dev/get-involved...

BrainGlobe has three new mouse brain atlases including: - Multimodal (LSFM & MRI) developmental atlas from Yongsoo Kim's lab - Multimodal (LSFM & MRI) adult atlas from Gubra - High-resolution Australian mouse brain atlas (MRI) See the blog for more details: brainglobe.info/blog/mouse-a...

New version of brainglobe-space released (v1.0.3). Includes small changes including updating supported Python versions. Full details: github.com/brainglobe/b...

New version of morphapi released (v0.3.1) with a minor bug fix. Full details: github.com/brainglobe/m...

New release of the BrainGlobe Atlas API (v2.1.0). Some small changes, and support for custom offline atlases. Full details: github.com/brainglobe/b...

New release of brainglobe-heatmap (v0.5.5) which contains a small bug fix. Full details: github.com/brainglobe/b...

New cellfinder version release (v1.4.1) which contains a small bug fix. Full details: github.com/brainglobe/c...

Synaptome architecture shapes regional dynamics in the mouse brain | www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Led by Justine Hansen Big news: there are all sorts of different synapse types in the brain 👀‼️⤵️

Excellent paper that makes great use of a not very well-known BrainGlobe tool to make many of the figures, brainglobe-heatmap: brainglobe.info/documentatio...

Hi folks! napari is officially on bsky now! 🥳 Let's hit the ground running with a reminder that all are welcome at our next (Atlantic) community meeting on Feb 12, 8:30am SFO / 11:30am NYC / 5:30pm Paris. Agenda and details here: hackmd.io/BXWDZ3i8Q6OA...

BrainGlobe has a new atlas, the first non-human primate, the gray mouse lemur (Microcebus murinus). For more details about this (and the rest of BrainGlobe), please see the blog: brainglobe.info/blog/mouse-l...

RA positions with potential PhD continuation are now open! We're seeking two candidates with slice patch clamp or programming skills for the projects outlined in the advert: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50040/ Apply by 21 February!

📢 Apply now for the 7-week #Mathematics #SummerSchool in London! You will develop mathematics skills and intuition necessary to enter the #TheoreticalNeuroscience or #MachineLearning field. ℹ️ www.ucl.ac.uk/gatsby/study-and-work/gatsby-bridging-programme Please help spread the word!

🚀 movement—our free, open-source Python package for analysing animal motion—just got an upgrade (v0.0.21). movement offers a modular, consistent interface for processing motion tracks from tools like DeepLabCut and SLEAP. Check it out: movement.neuroinformatics.dev

Movement now has a blog! We discuss the new version (v0.0.21), plans for the future and announce our new community calls. For more details see: movement.neuroinformatics.dev/blog/movemen...

📢Happening tomorrow: @asapresearch.bsky.social & BIL webinar on data submission📢 Join for a walk-through of the data submission process & how to use the BIL for data exploration, sharing, & processing 📅 Dec 5, 11:00am EST Webinar: 1hr Q&A: 30min Register here: bit.ly/3OHMrUN

E11 Bio looks to be doing awesome work, realy hope they pull this off.

In case you haven't seen it yet, movement is one of the most interesting and well engineered toolkits working with pose tracking data like from sleap.ai! Strong recommend 🤙

We created a #neuroinformagical (obvs) starter pack! Let us know who else to add! #openscience #datasharing #neuroskyence 🧪 go.bsky.app/LRqnaMP

Currently doing more validation experiments on our random access #optogenetics system for #neuroscience: Zapit. User-friendly GUI and documentation. Full build hardware build instructions coming soon. Cross-platform control (remote or local) from any language via TCP/IP. Build assistance available!

📣 Opportunity Alert! We have two PhD positions in our lab at Cambridge University starting in Autumn 2025. Exceptional candidates may join earlier as RAs and receive PhD funding if scholarship applications are unsuccessful (RA advert coming soon!). Details here: www.keshavarzilab.com/blog/phd-pos...

We'd like to introduce movement, a free and open-source Python package for analysing body movements, designed to aid the study of animal behaviour in neuroscience. Website: movement.neuroinformatics.dev Examples: movement.neuroinformatics.dev/examples/ind... GitHub: github.com/neuroinforma...

A continuously updated list of our past contributors and UCL #NeuroAI community on bsky go.bsky.app/QjhVsMP

Hi everyone! The BrainGlobe Initiative exists to facilitate the development of interoperable Python-based tools for computational neuroanatomy, particularly in model organisms. For more details please see brainglobe.info or chat with us at brainglobe.zulipchat.com. #neuroscience

Hi all! I'm a neuroscientist & software developer. I lead the Neuroinformatics Unit, a research software engineering group at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre and Gatsby Unit at UCL. We develop open source software for neuroscience and machine learning and we're always happy to collaborate!

I made a BioImage Analysts Starter pack. Reachout if you're missing on it 🔬💻🌐 go.bsky.app/2hPEBDu

BrainGlobe has a new atlas, the prairie vole! For more details see the blog: brainglobe.info/blog/prairie... Original paper: doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

BrainGlobe has a new atlas, the Axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum)! For more details see the blog: brainglobe.info/blog/axolotl... Original paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Nice tutorial on how to combine BrainGlobe and BiaPy to detect cells in whole brain microscopy images. We're always interested in ways to make our software interoperable with other tools. biapy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tu...

BrainGlobe now includes an atlas with barrel column annotations from Bolaños-­Puchet & Teska et al. Full details on the blog: brainglobe.info/blog/barrel-... Thanks to Axel Bisi for bringing this to BrainGlobe! Original paper: doi.org/10.1162/imag...

We've just released the "brainmapper" widget allowing analysis of cellular distributions in whole-brain microscopy images entirely within napari. Full details available on the blog: brainglobe.info/blog/brainma...

We've added a new atlas - the blind Mexican cavefish, Astyanax mexicanus. More details on the blog: brainglobe.info/blog/cavefis...

Nice piece about our team featured on the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre Blog. www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/blog/neu...

cellfinder 1.3.0 has been released! We've moved to PyTorch, so we recommend that you install the new version in a fresh environment. Your existing models will work in the new version, and it should be a bit faster and easier to install. brainglobe.info/blog/cellfin...

BrainGlobe version 1.1.0 is released! See the blog for more info - brainglobe.info/blog/braingl... "pip install brainglobe -U" to update TL;DR - cellfinder is faster and brainglobe is prettier

To improve reproducibility in (systems) neuroscience we have developed: - NeuroBlueprint (neuroblueprint.neuroinformatics.dev), a simple, standard data folder specification - datashuttle (datashuttle.neuroinformatics.dev), to automate the creation, validation and transfer of NeuroBlueprint projects

A new version of brainreg has been released (v1.0.8). This fixes a bug that caused registration via the napari plugin to be less accurate that via the command line tool. "pip install brainreg==1.0.8" to update. github.com/brainglobe/b...

The May 2024 BrainGlobe roadmap is published! We'd love to get any feedback about our plans for the next year. brainglobe.info/community/ro...

New version of brainrender released, with a new Line Actor (thanks to Paul Brodersen!). To update: pip install brainrender -U github.com/brainglobe/b...