authors.elsevier.com/c/1nA3C_KOmx... new paper in Neuron in which we argue that many claims on consciousness in AI & animals etc are inconsistent. they are driven by theories/views that are not really supported by empirical evidence. they confuse subjective experience w/ cognition or perception

There's one week left to apply to become this Fall's BCS Rising Star speaker 🌟 Please make sure to apply if you're a postdoc in the Brain & Cognitive Sciences🧠 Reposts are appreciated! 🪐

Want a free copy of my new memoir, Emergence? Of course you do. :) 25 signed hardcovers up for grabs on Goodreads. It takes about ten seconds to enter. Good luck! 🤞 tinyurl.com/EmergenceGiv...

Some incredibly exciting news that still feels a bit surreal: I am starting my research group @mpicybernetics.bsky.social! The best part? We are hiring at all levels! Curious about the science we plan to tackle, read along :) #NeuroSky

I'm giving a talk today at Vision Science Society #VSS2026 Feedback-Mediated Prior Integration Unifies Gestalt Perceptual Organization 5pm, Room 2 Come for the pretty (familiar!) pictures, stay for a theory of how the brain integrates priors with sensory processing. Another round, Tampa VSS!

100% minus the fact that Vafa's model mentioned here needed a regularization tweek that a work involving @andreastolias and @suryaganguli.bsky.social fixed.

Nadine Dijkstra's talk at the MIT Consciousness Club is now available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rciv....

Very excited to share new work by Leonardo Lupori. In mice, a single dose of the antipsychotic clozapine results in changes to behavior and cortical activity patterns that remain detectable a week later. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The recording of Mel Goodale's talk at the MIT Consciousness Club is now available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kThw....

Applications are now open for our Junior Theoretical Neuroscientists Workshop which will take place July 21 - 24, 2026 at the Center for Computational Neuroscience @flatironinstitute.org Learn more and apply by April 15 at www.simonsfoundation.org/event/jrwork...

To accommodate applicants and PIs attending Cosyne, we’ve extended the MCN application deadline to Sunday, Mar 22. Please repost.

Congratulations to Ian Thornton and colleagues who published their Mainz-Linez illusion in i-Perception (@pec-ipe.bsky.social): the red dots appears to wave left and right when one looks at one of the black dots, but they actually move straight journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Highly recommended!

I'll be at Cosyne workshops next week (16th and 17th). We are hiring at Astera NeuroAI. If you are at Cosyne workshops next week and want to learn more about this exciting research team we are building at Astera, please DM me or email me at [email protected]

I'm sad to have had to miss #Cosyne2026 last minute for multiple reasons. Do genetically-defined cell populations encode visual information in fundamentally different ways? 2-min video overview + interactive AI Q&A + full poster: toosi.github.io/research/cosyne2026-poster.html

The Cowley Group at CSHL has an opening for a bioAI PhD student to start Fall 2026 to work on closed-loop AI models for visual processing (see below). You *must* have a Master's degree in a quant/eng/cs field. www.cshl.edu/phd-program/... Please reach out to me if interested! I'll be at Cosyne.

Cool! This is generative inference’s prediction for human perception in this illusion: the squares are no longer squares! Try it for yourself here: huggingface.co/spaces/ttoos...

Hi all! My lab at the University of Bern @unibe.ch 🇨🇭, funded by @snsf.ch, opening in April 2026, is looking for candidates for several fully-funded positions: a postdoctoral scientist, PhD student(s) and a laboratory technician. Please share (and apply)!

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

A functional influence based circuit motif that constrains the set of plausible algorithms of cortical function https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.29.702557v1

Apply to work with Jeff. You'll enjoy great science and collaboration with a caring PI.

Hierarchical processing and polarization encoding in the cephalopod visual system https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.08.698312v1

I will be presenting part of this work in workshop on Interpreting Cognition in Deep Learning Models, CogInterp Unifying Gestalt Principles Through Inference-Time Prior Integration Dec 7th, Room 5AB #NeurIPS2025 @neuripsconf.bsky.social Also, some cool papers!👇 coginterp.github.io/neurips2025/...

Please help me find the answer to this question by reposting or tagging people who might know. What is a proper #?

I guess it’s now well established that locomotion boosts the signal-to-noise ratio of visual cortical responses in mice. Is there any evidence that locomotion also enhances visual recognition performance at the behavioral level?

I am impressed by the improvement with Gemini 3 and nano 🍌. I used nano banana to make scientific figures. With 2.5 it was repetitively putting a human brain inside the 🐭 head. Now it draws an accurate mouse brain anatomy even seems to locate correctly the cortical areas. Big jump imo

Response dynamics in macaque ventral stream recapitulate the visual hierarchy https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.11.686115v1

Our lab is looking for a postdoc! We have interesting projects and cutting-edge techniques such as Neuropixels Opto, Light Beads Microscopy and more. We would be delighted to receive your application. Deadline is 25 November 2025. More info here: www.ucl.ac.uk/cortexlab/po...

Project structure for scientific coding projects - the latest in my Better Code, Better Science series open.substack.com/pub/russpold...

I’m looking for interns to join our lab for a project on foundation models in neuroscience. Funded by @ivado.bsky.social and in collaboration with the IVADO regroupement 1 (AI and Neuroscience: ivado.ca/en/regroupem...). Interested? See the details in the comments. (1/3) 🧠🤖

How does our brain excel at complex object recognition, yet get fooled by simple illusory contours? What unifying principle governs all Gestalt laws of perceptual organization? We may have an answer: integration of learned priors through feedback. New paper with @kenmiller.bsky.social! 🧵

New faculty job opening at @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social Come be our colleague! Application deadline: November 22 apply.interfolio.com/176153

Today in Nature Machine Intelligence, Kazuki Irie & I discuss 4 classic challenges for neural nets — systematic generalization, catastrophic forgetting, few-shot learning, & reasoning. We argue there is a unifying fix: the right incentives & practice. rdcu.be/eLRmg

Next week, our usual weekly predictive processing meeting will be a journal club. Hyeyoung Shin will present our recent shared publication: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Note the different time: Oct 20 at 4PM PST, meeting details : allenneuraldynamics.github.io/openscope-co... Open to All!

Map of spiking activity underlying change detection in the mouse visual system https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.17.683190v1

Vision people: what's the best encoding model for V4? I know brainscore has a ranking of trained models, but do we know what best captures tuning to orientation, spatial frequency, and color? Is there a "bank of filters" model that's better than trained ones? #neuroskyence

A study led by Cina Aghamohammadi is now out in ‪@natcomms.nature.com‬! We developed a mathematical framework for partitioning spiking variability, which revealed that spiking irregularity is nearly invariant for each neuron and decreases along the cortical hierarchy. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Distributed neural computation and the evolution of the first brains https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.03.680388v1

Tomorrow , we will host a public presentation from Farzaneh Najafi on her lab recent publication on temporal predictive processing : allenneuraldynamics.github.io/openscope-co... All are welcome to join at 10AM PST time. The Microsoft team link is in the meeting link.

If you're interested in doing your PhD with us, please apply via the ELLIS PhD program! We're looking for talented people interested in the intersection of machine learning and neuroscience.

Super cool data and analysis!

🚨 New preprint alert! 🧠🤖 We propose a theory of how learning curriculum affects generalization through neural population dimensionality. Learning curriculum is a determining factor of neural dimensionality - where you start from determines where you end up. 🧠📈 A 🧵: tinyurl.com/yr8tawj3

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

Apply to Laureline's lab! Amazing science, awesome mentor.

Exciting news! 🎉 Our Computational Neuroscience course has been awarded NIH BRAIN Initiative funding! Students will get hands-on experience w real BRAIN Initiative datasets, helping them build computational skills that are essential for the future of neuroscience. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

This is one of my favourite things ever. From the awesome @kristorpjensen.bsky.social

At Neurips? You can now check out @herrickfung.bsky.social ‘s new work on modeling individual differences at two workshops! Much more to say on this awesome colab with @dobyrahnev.bsky.social very soon. 🙂

New preprint! How can you remember an image you saw once, even after seeing thousands of them? We find a role for humble mid-level visual cortex in high-capacity, one-shot learning. doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.22.677855 🧵🧪1/

🚨Our NeurIPS 2025 competition Mouse vs. AI is LIVE! We combine a visual navigation task + large-scale mouse neural data to test what makes visual RL agents robust and brain-like. Top teams: featured at NeurIPS + co-author our summary paper. Join the challenge! Whitepaper: arxiv.org/abs/2509.14446

New work from the lab, mismatch responses consistent with spatial but not temporal predictive coding theory.