Category Archives: Research

We live in times when public trust in science is under threat, misinformation is rife, AI ethics are of increasing concern and climate change is increasingly affecting communities worldwide. How do scientists see ourselves and our role in this world, and can we use our skills for social good? This session will explore ways toContinue reading “Scientists for social good: 2025 satellite event”

Philippa has been awarded an Erasmus+ travel grant to visit KU Leuven for two weeks in May. She will work in the Desender Lab with Kobe Desender and Robin Vloeberghs to apply the Hierarchical Model for Fluctuations in Criterion. She will use the model to find out how decision-making biases change over the lifespan, andContinue reading “Erasmus+ Grant for Philippa to visit KU Leuven”

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”