Our paper is out in @natneuro.nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s41... We develop a geometric theory of how neural populations support generalization across many tasks. @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social @flatironinstitute.org @kempnerinstitute.bsky.social 1/14

New preprint from our group (collaboration with @sueyeonchung.bsky.social) showing that discriminating odor components within a complex mixture is constrained by neural sensitivity rather than background interference - likely due to sparse representations at the front end.

In @thetransmitter.bsky.social’s Rising Stars of Neuroscience 2025, we recognize 25 early-career researchers who have made outstanding scientific contributions and demonstrated a commitment to mentoring and community-building in neuroscience. #neuroskyence #StateOfNeuroscience bit.ly/4rnFnyQ

Thank you @thetransmitter.bsky.social for recognizing our group's work! www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...

#Cosyne2026 deadline is just around the corner: 🧠📜 **16 October 2025! 📜🧠 See below for more on key dates and abstract submission: www.cosyne.org/abstracts-su...

Also those interested in comp neuro and deep learning/AI are encouraged to apply 👇🏻👇🏻

Ever wondered what gives rise to efficient neural population geometry? Our lab’s new work, led by Sonica Saraf (w/ Tony Movshon), shows how diversity in single-neuron tuning shapes population-level representation geometries to improve perceptual efficiency. Congrats ‪@sonicasaraf.bsky.social‬!

Enjoyed speaking at Frontiers in NeuroAI Symposium @harvard.edu's @kempnerinstitute.bsky.social Key papers from the talk: *Manifold capacity theory: - original: doi.org/10.1103/Phys... - correlated: doi.org/10.1103/Phys... - data-driven (latest theory): pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... 1/3

Folks at Princeton have put together an aggregator to highlight example of how federally funded research has directly impacted people's lives. They are looking for more studies to highlight, so send along suggestions and help make the benefits of science more visible! publicusaresearchbenefits.com

You may not have thought about geometry since middle school. But the mathematician Yang-Hui He argues that it’s intrinsic to being human. Tune in to "The Joy of Why" from @prx.org and @quantamagazine.bsky.social: www.quantamagazine.org/how-did-geom...

30 days to the launch of Elusive Cures! I learned so much writing it, and I want to share it. For the next 30 days, I'll post brain & mind research breakthroughs on odd days, and highlight unmet needs on even ones. #ElusiveCures30 First breakthrough: /1 press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

we're crowd-sourcing a searchable repository of tangible benefits stemming from federally-funded research. Come enjoy the great stories; or send in an idea; or volunteer to join the team. publicusaresearchbenefits.com please share and re-share so we get more great stories in there!

Our short film about our co-founder Jim Simons was nominated for the @Telly Awards. Help amplify the story of his incredible life and contributions to math and basic science by voting for our film here: peoples.tellyawards.com/PublicVoting... #science #philanthropy

Teddy's project is one of the only clear examples we know of (so far) where modifying the *objective function* used for training a deep neural network systematically improves neural prediction of IT responses. Come chat at his poster this afternoon at #cosyne2025! (Poster 2-036)

We are presenting two exciting projects tonight at #Cosyne2025! 🧠🧑‍🔬 [1-032] Changes in tuning curves, not neural population covariance, improve category separability in the primate ventral visual pathway [1-112] Comparing image representations in terms of sensitivities to local distortions

If you are at #cosyne2025 come check out my poster this afternoon! We demonstrate a case where objective function design can systematically improve neural predictivity in deep networks. [2-036] Contrastive-Equivariant Self-Supervised Learning Improves Alignment with Primate Visual Area IT

Heading to Anaheim for #APSSummit25! I'll be giving a talk at GSNP's MAR-G54 session. summit.aps.org/events/MAR-G54 Looking forward to connecting with old and new colleagues #APS2025 @apsphysics.bsky.social

We’re organizing a #CoSyNe2025 workshop on what agent models can teach us about neuroscience! See Sat’s thread for more info 😊

@cosynemeeting.bsky.social workshops are posted and they’re 🔥🔥🔥, as always. www.cosyne.org/workshops-pr... #cosyne #cosyne2025 #neuroskyence

Join us at this #COSYNE2025 workshop to discuss foundation models for neuroscience!!! #neuroscience #NeuroAI #MLSky 🧪

Horace Barlow, by all accounts, was thinking about 30 years ahead of his time. Here is a transcript of the opening keynote I gave at a symposium honoring Horace's scientific legacy: markusmeister.com/2024/12/14/h....

The UniReps Workshop is happening THIS SATURDAY at #NeurIPS 🤖🧠 Join us for a day of insightful talks and discussions with @sueyeonchung.bsky.social, @eringrant.bsky.social, @leavittron.bsky.social, @itsneuronal.bsky.social, @marcocuturi.bsky.social, Philip Isola, Neel Nanda and Stefanie Jegelka! 🎤

TL;DR: Encouraging transformation equivariance in an otherwise standard self-supervised learning setup systematically improves your ability to predict neural responses in area IT. Paper: openreview.net/pdf?id=AiMs8... Poster: Poster Session 3 #2204, East Exhibit Hall

If you are at #NeurIPS2024, check out Teddy’s poster today! Contrastive-equivariant SSL improves alignment with primate IT 🤖🐵

The Undergrad Travel Grant Program (deadline: Dec 6th) provides an opportunity for undergrads to learn more about comp systems neuro. It’s especially suited for students considering neuro graduate study! Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... More info: www.cosyne.org/travel-grants

Terrific piece summarizing a recent report: Every dollar of NIH research funding doubles in economic returns www.fiercebiotech.com/research/rep...

📣 My department at NYU is hiring a theoretical neuroscientist! apply.interfolio.com/157767 This is *open rank* tenure / tenure-track position. Application deadline is Dec 31. NYU is a great place to work, please apply!

Last year I taught a graduate seminar, "Computational neuroscience in practice", which invited experimental neuroscientists to think computationally about their data. Reflecting on it, the class helped me better appreciate the inherent challenges of this enterprise.

As the history of the nascent discipline of NeuroAI reveals, neuroscience has inspired advances in artificial intelligence, and AI has provided a testing ground for models in neuroscience, accelerating progress in both fields. By Anthony Zador www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/neur...

Registration for #COSYNE2025 is now open! www.cosyne.org/registration #neuroscience #NeuroAI

Excited to share our results on Efficient Coding of Natural Images using Maximum Manifold Capacity Representations, a collaboration with Teddy Yerxa, Yilun Kuang, Eero Simoncelli to be presented at #NeurIPS2023 🧵1/n @tedyerxa.bsky.social @flatironinstitute.org @simonsfoundation.org

At #NeurIPS2023? Interested in brains, neural networks, and geometry? Come by our **Spotlight Poster** Tuesday @ 5:15PM (#1914) on A Spectral Theory of Neural Prediction and Alignment. paper: openreview.net/forum?id=5B1... w/ Abdul Canatar, Albert Wakhloo & SueYeon Chung @sueyeonchung.bsky.social

Ok is this the tag to use here, am I doing it right? #Neuroskyence

Hello, world... anyone from Cosyne or NeurIPS or SfN here?