Category Archives: Research

Two years after our article ‘Doughnut Academia’, Anne and Clare have posted a new preprint to reflect on where these ideas have brought them – and providing guidelines for others to host their own workshops. See the preprint here https://osf.io/preprints/osf/um47d_v1, and a follow-up interview with eLife here: https://elifesciences.org/interviews/1a08d974/anne-urai-and-clare-kelly

Scientific figures are essential for communicating your research effectively. This guide walks you through the process from raw data to publication-ready figures; and helps separate different phases of the research as we most often carry them out in the lab. Input gathered from a CoCoSys lab meeting in March 2025.

At the beginning of my postdoc, I searched for and compared Python packages for fitting hidden Markov models. As this may be useful to other HMM fans, I am sharing the resulting table, which non-comprehensively covers various features of IOHMM and Dynamax.

We have been awarded a grant from the Dutch Research Organisation NWO, to. See the announcement and other projects here.

By Sonja Förster What are ephys alignments – and why would you do them? Ephys alignments, or histology – electrophysiology alignments in full, intend to align electrophysiology features of a neural recording to an anatomical histology reference (here, the Allen adult mouse brain atlas) to allow for reasonable alignment of the recording channels along the probeContinue reading “Of mice and (wo)men – or: how I learned to read spikes”

By Camilla Ucheoma Enwereuzor As part of my MSc internship in the lab, I have spent the last couple of months diving into a paper by Ashwood et al. (2022), who investigated how observers switch between different strategies for perceptual decision-making over the course of long testing sessions. According to previous accounts (e.g., Wichmann &Continue reading “A GLM-HMM deep dive”

Another review of the year (here is 2022 and 2021), this time a bit late. In 2023, I… Here’s to a 2024 with more mental calm, enough time to spend with the people most important to me, several exciting papers to write, insight and wisdom.

The lab attended the NVP winter conference on Brain and Cognition in beautiful Egmond aan Zee. Philippa, Fenying, Sonja, Adrian and Anne presented posters on their work. Anne also gave a workshop on climate action in academia (more info and slides here).

Today, I was inaugurated as a member of the Young Academy Leiden, a group of early-career academics who think and work together on questions of research policy, outreach and interdisciplinary collaboration. The theme of the inauguration was ‘Engagement’, and each incoming member made a short video on the topic. See below for my contribution.