Many thanks to @klaus-tschira-stiftung.de and @gso-forresearchers.bsky.social for this wonderful opportunity to study the mechanisms underlying naturalistic decision processes in the context of foraging behavior! We’ll also soon have openings for PhD students, stay tuned!

🎉 @roxana-zeraati.bsky.social has been awarded the @klaus-tschira-stiftung.de Boost Fund! Moving beyond short-term trials to naturalistic scenarios: Roxana will explore how we decide in changing environments. 🔗 www.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/zeraati-tsch... #DecisionMaking #ComputationalNeuroscience

Enthusiastic to present our latest results for you and get your feedback.

Are you #Coayne2026? Wanna know how we can have a common notion of state in mind and machines and find them in an unsupervised fashion with temporal embeddings based on dynamic similarity check @armanbehrad.bsky.social and @maxschwabe.bsky.social’s poster today, 3-001!

3-001, poster session 3 (Sat, Mar. 14, 13:15): @armanbehrad.bsky.social on unsupervised method to find behaviorally relevant internal states from data. We tested it w/ RNN & monkey data doing cognitive tasks & RNN trained with deep RL on a naturalistic plum tracking task.

3-008 poster session 3 (Sat, Mar. 14, 13:15) [in collaboration w/ Zahra Monfared's lab zmonfared.github.io/DSAIlab/]: Anima will present how can we capture dynamics of transient activities such as well-known sharp wave ripples (SWR) based principled tools from dynamical system.

Are you at #Coayne2026? Did you enjoy our 1-031 posters on Thursday? Then don’t miss our 3-001 and 3-008 today 😉

If you are interested in analyzing sharp wave ripples with tools from dynamical system check out poster 3-008 at #Cosyne2026!

Can't wait to see these results at #cosyne2026

Don't miss @maxschwabe.bsky.social's poster this evening (our master's student and presenter awardee 🎉) on decomposing RNN dynamics during naturalistic decision-making! It was a joint work with @armanbehrad.bsky.social and @roxana-zeraati.bsky.social!

Looking forward to learn more at #Cosyne2026, and get feedback on our work (1-031, 3-001, and 3-008 also see thread 👇).

If you are interested in decomposing neural dynamics to understand how RNNs solve naturalistic decision-making tasks, visit 1-031 today at 20:30 and sai hi to @maxschwabe.bsky.social!

It was a blast to be at #MBBS2026 for the first time and presenting the first #brainbody research of the @cmc-lab.bsky.social! Learn a lot in Berlin (thanks to the organizers ❤️) and heading to #cosyne2026 for the second round of excitement 🤩

At #MBBS2026, Shervin Safavi @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social @cmc-lab.bsky.social presents their in-silico findings of #oscillator dynamics in #brainbody #embodied agents, stressing the role of #homeostatic state in #RL! ⭐️ #MBB #MindBrainBody #neuroskyence

CMC lab is heading to #Cosyne2026, with 3 wonderful posters (1-031, 3-001, and 3-008 also see thread 👇), 2 new enthusiastic team members (@clairesturgill.bsky.social and @maxschwabe.bsky.social ), and tons of excitement for discussions and new ideas!

This is very cool. Much faster DSA. Although we still don't know what DSA findings actually mean about brains.

In our Learning Club @cmc-lab.bsky.social today (Feb 19, Thu, 2pm CET), @neurostrow.bsky.social will tell us about his recent paper (👇). Want to attend? Send an empty email to virtual [email protected] to get the link!

Our next paper on comparing dynamical systems (with special interest to artificial and biological neural networks) is out!! Joint work with @annhuang42.bsky.social , as well as @satpreetsingh.bsky.social , @leokoz8.bsky.social , Ila Fiete, and @kanakarajanphd.bsky.social : arxiv.org/pdf/2510.25943

Built a domain-agnostic peak detection algorithm and now hunting for datasets with known/annotated peaks to test it on 👀 Any domain works—signals,bio,astro,finance, spectroscopy, etc. Got data or know a benchmark? Would love pointers 🙌 #SignalProcessing #DataScience #TimeSeries #OpenData #Research

For the first Learning Club @cmc-lab.bsky.social in 2026, @marcusghosh.bsky.social on Jan 15, Thu, 2pm CET, will tell us about his recent paper (👇) [joint work w/ @neural-reckoning.org]. Want to attend, send an empty email to virtual [email protected] to get the link!

How does the structure of a neural circuit shape its function? @neuralreckoning.bsky.social & I explore this in our new preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🤖🧠🧪 🧵1/9

Wanna compare dynamics across neural data, RNNs, or dynamical systems? We got a fast and furious method🏎️ The 1st preprint of my PhD 🥳 fast dynamical similarity analysis (fastDSA): 📜: arxiv.org/abs/2511.22828 💻: github.com/CMC-lab/fast... I’ll be @cosynemeeting.bsky.social - happy to chat 😉

We made DSA up to 150 times faster 🤯 by introducing 3 new optimization objectives and solvers to speed up the DSA alignment step. Instead of enforcing exact orthogonality at every iteration, we use faster formulations that approximate or penalize the constraint.

If you need an efficient tool to compare neural dynamics across neuroscience and AI, look no further!

Thrilled to see the first preprint of the lab out 🤩 Check it out if you need to compare dynamics in your data and RNN (or any other combinations of dynamical systems)!

Wanna compare dynamics across different systems? See our fast and furious method developed by us (@armanbehrad.bsky.social @mmdtaha.bsky.social, @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social) together with our wonderful collaborators! You can already use our code: github.com/CMC-lab/fast...

This work couldn’t have happened without my wonderful collaborators: @neurostrow.bsky.social and Ila Fiete (master minds behind the original DSA), @mmdtaha.bsky.social, Christian Beste, and @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social ; and support from the @cmc-lab.bsky.social .

Just published in JOSS: 'TranCIT: Transient Causal Interaction Toolbox' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.09302

In our Learning Club @cmc-lab.bsky.social today (Dec 4, Thu, 2pm CET), @hritz.bsky.social will tell us about his recent paper (👇) [joint work w/ Jonathan Cohen lab]. Want to attend, send an empty email to virtual [email protected] to get the link!

We put out this preprint a couple months ago, but I really wanted to replicate our findings before we went to publication. At first, what we found was very confusing! But when we dug in, it revealed a fascinating neural strategy for how we switch between tasks doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.29.615736 🧵

Very much looking forward to this exciting lineup! Also excited about presenting our work on how timescales of environmental dynamics affect foraging decisions (Wednesday), a work together w/ Tiffany Ona, @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social, Bruno Cruz, @xindipoo.bsky.social and Peter Dayan

The final paper of my PhD is now out as a preprint. This is a follow-up piece in series of two companion papers modelling awareness and suppression in a new variant of continuous flash suppression. arxiv.org/abs/2510.17154 🧵 1/3

Don't miss our posters at #BernsteinConference 😍

If you are @ #BernsteinConference we have 4 posters, thread👇 P II 25, Tue 18–19:30: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B... P IV 5, Wed 14-15:30: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B... P II 25, Tue 18-19:30: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B... P I 11, Tue 16:30-18: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B...

What defines a brain state? 🧠 If you are also interested in answering this question, join us in "Toward a joint definition of neural-behavioral states", #BernsteinConference full-day workshop, Co-orgnized by @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social and I. (1/4)

Don't miss today's workshop by two of our members (@armanbehrad.bsky.social‬ and @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social) on brain state! bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co... #BernsteinConference

Very much look forward to our workshop (co-organized with @armanbehrad.bsky.social) today with a great lineup of speakers who combine a wide spectrum of approaches and methods to have a joint definition of brain-behavior state! bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co... #BernsteinConference

On the Thursday's morning we continue with @colehurwitz.bsky.social, @engeltatiana.bsky.social, @apalmigiano.bsky.social, @acnavasolive.bsky.social, and I (4/4)

We continue with @memming.bsky.social, Justus Kautz, @maryamshanechi.bsky.social (3/4)

On the first day, we start with @neuralnestbird.bsky.social, @mehranahmadlou.bsky.social, @vmsruetten.bsky.social (2/4)

Oops, wrong time in the original post! It will be 15:30 CET 😉

In our Learning Club @cmc-lab.bsky.social today (Sep 25, Thu, 2pm CET), @dengpan.bsky.social will tell us about his recent paper (👇) [joint work w/ Rushworth lab]. Want to attend, send an empty email to [email protected] to get the link!

🚨We believe this is a major step forward in how we study hippocampus function in healthy humans. Using novel behavioral tasks, fMRI, RL & RNN modeling, and transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS), we demonstrate the causal role of hippocampus in relational structure learning.

In our Learning Club @cmc-lab.bsky.social today (Aug 18, Thu, 2pm CET), Samuel Liebana will tell us about his paper (www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... [joint work w/ @saxelab.bsky.social & @laklab.bsky.social]. Want to attend, send an empty email to [email protected] to get the link!

In our Learning Club @cmc-lab.bsky.social on Aug 28th, Thursday, 2 PM CET, @trinityjchung.com will tell us about her recent paper (👇). If you'd like to attend, send an empty email to [email protected] to get the link!

1/ What if we make robots that process touch the way our brains do? We found that Convolutional Recurrent Neural Networks (ConvRNNs) pass the NeuroAI Turing Test in currently available mouse somatosensory cortex data. New paper by @Yuchen @Nathan @anayebi.bsky.social and me!

#CCN2025, Poster C160: We present MoDSA – a fully unsupervised method for identifying behaviorally relevant neural states in both biological & artificial systems. Looking forward to seeing you there!

Wanna know how do agents forge better when have a model of their environment? Go to our wonderful collaborator, @roxana-zeraati.bsky.social B90 poster!

We'll also tell you about real foraging, and also fancier RL models ;-) A wonderful collaboration with @roxana-zeraati.bsky.social , Peter Dayan and @alleninstitute.org. bsky.app/profile/roxa...

If you are around for #CCN2025, come to B71 poster to know more how we (internally) forage for information and how RL can explain it!