The AAE Workshop deadline is in 3 weeks — have you applied yet? 📅 June 18–19 📍 Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, London Join us for two days on causal inference, adaptive experiments, bandits, and RL. 🔗 t.co/Zar0qWhgA8

Houssam Zenati, Arthur Gretton: Semiparametric Efficient Test for Interpretable Distributional Treatment Effects https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08034 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.08034 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.08034

🌟 Curious about life sciences? Join our Science Fair on 13 June 2026 at UCL! Hands‑on experiments, interactive demos, short talks and more — free and open to all. Register: https://bit.ly/4darPQT #FLSScienceFair #LifeSciences #STEM #UCL

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and subject to limited capacity. Apply now to join us!

Zikai Shen, Dimitri Meunier, Houssam Zenati, Arthur Gretton, Nathan Kallus, Aur\'elien Bibaut: Instrumental Variable Analysis Without Structural Equations https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24660 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.24660 https://arxiv.org/html/2604.24660

We’re opening our doors on Saturday 13 June for a Science Fair full of fun, discovery, and interactive activities for all ages. Bring the whole family and dive into a world of experiments, demonstrations, and surprising scientific wonders. Sign up here: www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...

👋 Will you be at #ICLR2026? Stop by our researchers' posters to learn more about their work!

Postdoc opening! Come work with us on deep learning theory relevant to AI safety Deadline: 7 Apr 2026 Details and application: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

​⏰ Only three weeks left to apply! ​This year the school focuses on one of the most active frontiers at the intersection of AI and CogSci: Language Acquisition. ​Join our incredible lineup of speakers and start new interdisciplinary collaborations 👇 www.analytical-connectionism.net/school/2026/

Don't miss NIU Senior Research Software Engineer @nikosirmpilatze.com talking about our Python package for behavioural quantification, movement. April 2nd, 12h30-14h00 CET. Online on Zoom, registration needed: helsinki.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Meet our next IDW2026 Spotlight, Mohadeseh Shafiei Kafraj. Mohadeseh is a PhD student at @gatsbyucl.bsky.social, working on mathematical models of associative memory. Find out about her research to understand human memory by visiting: linktr.ee/ucllifescien...

📢 Heading to #COSYNE2026? Don't forget to check out our researchers' posters:

📢 Job alert - Deep Learning Theory & AI Safety Applications open for a postdoc fellow (@saxelab.bsky.social lab) to study artificial deep networks using techniques from applied maths & stat physics. ⏰ Deadline: 26 Mar 2026 🤝 In collaboration with @stefsm.bsky.social ℹ️ www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...

Do you want to spend the summer being paid to contribute to open source neuroscience software? We are taking part in Google Summer of Code again, offering paid, remote placements to work on one of our tools. Open to (nearly) everyone worldwide. More details: neuroinformatics.dev/get-involved...

Excited to launch Principia, a nonprofit research organisation at the intersection of deep learning theory and AI safety. Our goal is to develop theory for modern machine learning systems that can help us understand complex network behaviors, including those critical for AI safety and alignment. 1

Why don’t neural networks learn all at once, but instead progress from simple to complex solutions? And what does “simple” even mean across different neural network architectures? Sharing our new paper @iclr_conf led by Yedi Zhang with Peter Latham arxiv.org/abs/2512.20607

Read the story behind the first @neuroinformatics.dev Open Software Week, in a series of blogposts for @softwaresaved.bsky.social The second edition will be even more awesome. Remember to apply by the end of January: neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar...

📣 Excited to co-organize the 2nd Workshop on Scientific Methods for Understanding Deep Learning at ICLR in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (April 26 or 27, 2026)!! 🔎🤖 🇧🇷 If you work on the why/how of deep learning, we are looking forward to reading your submission! 👇 #ICLR2026 #Sci4DL

📢 Applications open on 19 Jan for the 7-week #Mathematics #SummerSchool in London. You will develop the maths skills and intuition necessary to enter the #TheoreticalNeuroscience / #MachineLearning field. Find out more & register for the information webinar 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...

Under He/Lecun inits, theory implies Kernel OR Unstable regimes as width→∞. Discrepancies (e.g. feature learning) are seen as finite width effects. Our #NeurIPS2025 spotlight refutes this: practical nets do not converge to kernel limits; Feature learning persists as width→∞🧵

At #NeurIPS ? Visit our posters! 🧵 Demystifying Spectral Feature Learning for Instrumental Variable Regression: #2600, Wed 11am Regularized least squares learning with heavy-tailed noise is minimax optimal: #3012, Wed 4:30pm ✨spotlight✨ 1/2

Find us at NeurIPS, Thur 4:30 pm #2115! We know networks have to be both plastic and stable but we're used to thinking about computations, such as memory, as additional requirements. Instead, we find that almost all stable & plastic networks display simple memory abilities.

👋 Will you be at #NeurIPS? Stop by our researchers' posters to learn more about their work!

The date should of course be August 17-28 2026!

📢 Project Research Internship (spring 2026) Apply now to work with Dr Leena Chennuru Vankadara (@leenacvankadara.bsky.social) on the fundamental principles governing the behaviour of modern large-scale machine learning systems. ⏰ Deadline: 18 Dec 2025, 1pm GMT ℹ️ www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...

✈️ Heading to #SfN25? Check out Kira's (@kiradust.bsky.social) work "Autistic individuals learn to exploit temporal regularities in simple but not complex contexts" at Early Career Poster Session (Nov 15 18:45-20:45, A21) or Autism: Behavioral Analysis session (Nov 16 13-17, A27). Don't miss it!

If you are interested in Bonsai and attending #SfN25 in San Diego, come and hang out by the Bonsai Foundation Booth 3726, Hall B2. Task logic, Harp devices, online real-time Machine Learning, new language features. We will be there everyday with live demos and open to chat about all things Bonsai!

Honored to have a research highlight featuring our work! A comprehensive overview of our results and their impact for future research and applications: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

💬 AI for Good Webinar Series 'From Molecules to Models' - today with @arthurgretton.bsky.social (@ucl.ac.uk, ELLIS Fellow) on causal effect estimation. 📅 Oct 29th 🕓 17:00-18:00 CET 🔗 Registration: aiforgood.itu.int/event/learn-... ℹ️ More info: ellis.eu/news/continu...

⏰ Deadline approaching for our PhD programmes! 👋 Apply by 3 Nov to join us and immerse yourself in world-class research and vibrant London life! Gatsby Unit: ucl.ac.uk/life-science... @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social: sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/... Joint: www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...

Looking forward to next week's Winter School on Causality and Explainable AI! xai-winter-school.github.io

Applying to the #ELLISPhD Program? If you are selecting a Gatsby Unit faculty member as your main supervisor, don't forget to apply to the Gatsby Unit PhD Programme in parallel. Our deadline is 3 Nov 2025. 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...

Congratulations to all the new SWC & @gatsbyucl.bsky.social PhD students for successfully completing Boot Camp! We are delighted to welcome you to the community. Students showcased their robots in our hotly anticipated annual @noblackboxes.bsky.social Robot Competition 🦾⚽💻

🙋Are you interested in bridging theory & experiments? Applications are now open for 2026 entry to the Gatsby Unit & SWC joint PhD programme. Join us and be part of a vibrant research community! 💰 Fully-funded 4-year programme ℹ️ www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science... @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social

Interested in a #PhD in machine learning & theoretical neuroscience? Applications for 2026 entry to the Gatsby Unit PhD programme are open! 💰 Fully-funded 4-year programme 🤝 Close links to @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social ℹ️ www.ucl.ac.uk/life-sciences/gatsby/study-and-work/gatsby-unit-phd-programme

A complete brain-wide activity map at single-cell resolution has been revealed for the first time. Researchers recorded from 650,000+ neurons across 279 brain areas to track decision-making in mice. Read the story: 🔗 www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/research...

Made possible only by the unique environment and amazing community at Janelia and the Gatsby. @hhmijanelia.bsky.social @gatsbyucl.bsky.social Feedback, ideas, or requests for transgenic lines, protocols, and code are warmly welcome!

ProbNum 2025 Keynote 2 ``Gradient Flows on the Maximum Mean Discrepancy'' by @arthurgretton.bsky.social ( @gatsbyucl.bsky.social and Google DeepMind. Slides available here: probnum25.github.io/keynotes

📢 ❗JOB OPPORTUNITY: Today is the closing date for this fantastic role we are funding at @gatsbyucl.bsky.social. ⏰ Apply before 23.59BST. 👇

Aeon is a new platform for continuous brain and behaviour research in naturalistic environments — already used in 15+ projects, including long-term social learning studies. 🔗 www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/blog/new... 📄 Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Are similar representations in neural nets evidence of shared computation? In new theory work w/ Lukas Braun (lukasbraun.com) & @saxelab.bsky.social, we prove that representational comparisons are ill-posed in general, unless networks are efficient. @icmlconf.bsky.social @cogcompneuro.bsky.social

Main takeaway: Valid representational comparison relies on implicit assumptions (task-optimization *plus* efficient implementation). ⚠️ More work to do on making these assumptions explicit! 🧠 CCN poster (today): 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=w... 📄 ICML paper (July): icml.cc/virtual/2025/poster/44890

Our #CCN2025 GAC debate w/ @gretatuckute.bsky.social, Gemma Roig (www.cvai.cs.uni-frankfurt.de), Jacqueline Gottlieb (gottlieblab.com), Klaus Oberauer, @mschrimpf.bsky.social &‬ @brittawestner.bsky.social asks: 📊 What benchmarks are useful for cognitive science? 💭 2025.ccneuro.org/gac

Sequential kernel embedding for mediated and time-varying dose response curves Appearing in Bernoulli: projecteuclid.org/journals/ber... with preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2111.03950 ...along with code! github.com/liyuan9988/K... Rahul Singh, Liyuan Xu

JOB: We're recruiting for a 2-year post doc fellowship based at @gatsbyucl.bsky.social working with Prof Arthur Gretton to create new statistically efficient causal and interaction models with the aim of elucidating cellular interactions ⏰closing 27 August 👉 details: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Does the brain learn by gradient descent? It's a pleasure to share our paper at @cp-cell.bsky.social, showing how mice learning over long timescales display key hallmarks of gradient descent (GD). The culmination of my PhD supervised by @laklab.bsky.social, @saxelab.bsky.social and Rafal Bogacz!

New from @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social, @gatsbyucl.bsky.social, NeuroGEARS & DataJoint: Aeon - an open-source platform combining long-term neural recording with naturalistic behavioural tracking in enriched habitats. 📑 Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🎓Thrilled to share I’ve officially defended my PhD!🥳 At @gatsbyucl.bsky.social, my research explored how prior knowledge shapes neural representations. I’m deeply grateful to my mentors, @saxelab.bsky.social and @caswell.bsky.social, my incredible collaborators, and everyone who supported me!

🥳 Congratulations to Rodrigo Carrasco-Davison on passing his PhD viva with minor corrections! 🎉 📜 Principles of Optimal Learning Control in Biological and Artificial Agents.

Come chat about this at the poster @icmlconf.bsky.social, 11:00-13:30 on Wednesday in the West Exhibition Hall #W-902!