"Silence, too, becomes part of a legacy. Why are you silent?" An open letter to @barackobama.bsky.social @obamafoundation.bsky.social examining U.S. principles, Iran, & the consequences of silence. A policy-focused appeal grounded in the legacy of Obama's Cairo speech. youtube.com/watch?v=x0m3...

Open Letter to President Macron regarding France's hesitation in designating IRGC as a terrorist organization. youtu.be/BBZCZFmisqg?...

#DANDI #NWB #Sfn2025 Come and see the ecosystem of Open Data in Neurophysiology (DANDI archive & NWB)....there is a whole bunch of tutorials and demos. See 👇 @dandiarchive.org @nwb.org

Come hear about state-driven neural complexity today #SfN25 PP13 - "Deep cortical layer stimulation reveals state-dependent changes in neural excitability" Poster Session 1-5 pm Computational Approaches & Experimental Analyses I

Have been out of soc media for a while. Did you miss me? Back & giving a talk today at ME Sys Neuro satellite before @sfn.org Dichotomous dynamics of hippocampal and lateral septum oscillations: state-dependent topology and directional causality during Sleep and wakefulness

Very happy to have this beautiful review published in Machine Learning: Science and Technology! @iopp-mlresearch.bsky.social

"Superintelligence" has arrived 😂 So this thing won gold in the international math olympiad and yet can't pass the simplest notion of 2nd grade math? lol...this is more like "reasoning" but "without understanding the subject that you are reasoning about"

The review/perspective piece @wbialek.bsky.social traces the roots of the 2024 NobelPrize back to Hinton & Hopfield, highlighting their foundational contributions to neural networks. It explores the evolution of AI, considers its future through the lens of physics. journals.aps.org/prxlife/abst...

Both submitted work accepted @sfn.org "Deep cortical layer stimulation reveals state-dependent changes in neural excitability" “Parametric Stimuli Reveal Functional Subcircuits in Visual Cortex” Though I am concerned that given the news on travel restrictions we may have a low attendance.

Friends, colleagues, I will be in NYC (Flatiron Institute) from Mon-Thu. Ping me if you want to meet up

Excited to share my PhD paper! In it, we use targeted 2-photon optogenetic stimulation to determine how V1 activity is read-out in a detection task. We found that network influence, not visual coding properties, predicted the impact of ensembles on behavior - contradicting our expectations (1/5).

Turns out that the “loudest” neurons are not always the most relevant ones. Great article about a fascinating and important result by @hayleybounds.bsky.social , graduate of @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social neuroscience.

Cool 👇

The extortion continues.... unbelievable.

🚨New paper🚨 Neural manifolds went from a niche-y word to an ubiquitous term in systems neuro thanks to many interesting findings across fields. But like with any emerging term, people use it very differently. Here, we clarify our take on the term, and review key findings & challenges rdcu.be/ex8hW

Thanks for sharing these @wbialek.bsky.social See Les Houches "Ambitions for theory in physics of life" (notes from Bill Bialek)👇

Two new additions to the library: "Renormalization" by the great Phil Nelson & "Theoretical Neuroscience" by none other than XJ Wang! @xjwang.bsky.social thanks for the much needed missing textbook.

Oh hey I was reading about him yesterday! What an absolutely cool person! Tommy Poggio on Werner Richardt (founder of Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics @mpicybernetics.bsky.social ) dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/ha...

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Good Scientific American story about the letters of dissent from 4 federal science agencies (to date)... www.scientificamerican.com/article/trum...

No better time to call or email your members of Congress. Next year’s NIH budget is being debated in the Senate. A new nonpartisan campaign is making it easy to defend science and protect America’s innovation. Just follow this link to contact your representatives: www.protectscienceandinnovation.org

Oh hey Tim and Gaute, fav duo :) looking forward to this I will try. If I immediately die, it is your fault Tim @tpvogels.bsky.social and you will owe me a drink !

Here is my colleague Adam Riess, Nobel laureate, sharing his thoughts on advocating for science at a recent event at the US Capitol. aas.org/posts/news/2...

Hosting @lmprida.bsky.social , Liset who gave an update insightful talk "Illuminating the cellular basis of hippocampal cognitive maps."

listen to XJ Wang Fantastic discussion—his perspective feels like a breath of fresh air. It’s refreshing to hear someone who isn’t confined to framing everything in terms of “cognitive tasks,” but instead views them as conduits for exploring the dynamical systems underpinning cortical function.

@lmprida.bsky.social Looking forward to @lmprida.bsky.social Liset's talk tomorrow "Illuminating the cellular basis of hippocampal cognitive maps" bcs.mit.edu/events/speci...

Do you study neural systems with feedback at different temporal-, spatial-, hierarchical-, data-, or computational- scales? Have you submitted your abstract to the "Neurocybernetics at Scale" symposium? Due to multiple requests, new abstract submission deadline is 18 July! #AI4Science #cybernetics

Back in the US from a tour of science in Europe. Ok, where were we? Oh I see... from the official account of the White House 😂 @theonion.com go to bed! We don't need you anymore

Come to my "Last Talk" of my "Italian tour" this afternoon at #CNS2025 "State-Dependent Dynamics: A Lens through Entropy, Coupling and Topology" We have a fantastic group of speakers and will have a panel discussion in the evening sched.co/1z9OG.

Join us for great talks & discussions #CNS2025 Florence, come to the @CNSorg workshop , happening now! "Theoretical and experimental approaches towards understanding brain state transitions" sched.co/1z9OG

Part IV of my "Italian tour" #CNS2025 Florence, come to the @CNSorg workshop Jul 9th that I am organizing w Andre (Peterson). We have invited great speakers. "Theoretical and experimental approaches towards understanding brain state transitions" sched.co/1z9OG

Part III of my "Italian tour" Happily blessed by master Leonardo presenting posters P63: State-Dependent Topology and Directional Causality During Sleep and Wakefulness P64: Anatomically and Functionally Constrained Bio-Inspired Recurrent Neural Networks Outperform Traditional RNN Models

Part III of my "Italian tour", #CNS2025 Florence Posters - P63: casuality, state-dependence, Sharp-Wave Ripples, Hippocampus-Coretx - P64: Neuro-Inspired Network, connectomics, Ca Imaging, Cortex The posters are located right under the nose of master Leonardo who gave his blessing

When Adriatic gives you the best Renormalization-Inspired "coarse graining" example for a talk on Excitation/Inhibition and Emergent Oscillation !!!! Now heading to Florence for #CNS2025 , part III & IV of my "Italian (Neurophysics)Tour"...

The full ruling explaining why NIH grant cuts are illegal came out today. It's just as blistering as the judge's oral remarks. And it uncovers fresh details in DOGE's role orchestrating the cuts — and on the cuts at Columbia. Here are my top highlights from the 103-page ruling. 🧵

Part II of my "Italian tour" Arrived in Trieste Tomorrow, I will be giving a talk at ICTP @ictpnews QLS Seminar - "A Complex Systems Physics Framework for Cortical States: From E/I Balance to Emergent Oscillations" indico.ictp.it/event/11070

My "Italian tour" begins (giving 5 presentations in 10 days), I will talk about "Symmetry's Edge: Multiscale Dynamics of Excitation and Inhibition" in StatPhys29 satellite "Collective Here is the zoom link unipd.zoom.us/j/89751980137 Fantastic program! liphlab.github.io/NeuroStatPhy...

Daniel Messenger (LANL) discusses how weak-form inference methods can help derive macroscale descriptions from microscale observations. The approach is robust against noise and non-smooth dynamics, with applications from cell migration to kinetic-hydrodynamic systems. 

Some good news about Grants.gov! wapo.st/4kwXOMV

Looking forward to reading this @chriswlynn.bsky.social : arxiv.org/abs/2506.01909

Congratulations Dan! @dlevenstein.bsky.social Wonderful! Go work w Dan if you are looking for a PhD/postdoc position.

hanging out with strangers in a campus pub should be considered part of the serious process of thinking

interesting work from Paul @paulmasset.bsky.social and @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social see the commentary: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Nice!

Impossible to focus on sci given what is going on, worried for relatives, friends & students in Iran, yet hoping that they soon be free. Looking forward to this, & must put together my talk: "Collective Dynamics & Information Processing in Neural Systems" liphlab.github.io/NeuroStatPhys_…

📢Another announcement (sorry for long absence): #CNS2025 Florence, come to the @CNSorg workshop Jul 9th that I am organizing w Andre. We have invited great speakers. "Theoretical and experimental approaches towards understanding brain state transitions" sched.co/1z9OG

Here is another, a new paper that I finished a few weeks ago but hadn't a chance to announce it. 'Rethinking Physical Complexity in the Data-Driven Era' introduces a unified framework for statistical, algorithmic, and dynamical complexity measures. 📜1/n arxiv.org/html/2505.07...

Due to personal issue, I have not had a chance to make some annoucements on work...here is an extended/revised version. I am very happy with this now "Symmetry’s Edge in Multiscale Cortical Dynamics" This work reveals fundamental organizing principles 1/n arxiv.org/html/2306.11...

Fully revised version out in the open ODIN: Open Data In Neurophysiology: Advancements, Solutions & Challenges arxiv.org/abs/2407.00976

Out now in @nathumbehav.nature.com: Cuts to NIH funding will impact the economy and employment nationwide. We visualize these losses and advocate for a theory-driven approach to communicating local, self-relevant impact. w/ @joshuasweitz.bsky.social + SCIMaP team: www.nature.com/articles/s41...