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INTERSTELLAR was released 11 years ago today. The 9th feature film of director Christopher Nolan, and one of the biggest science fiction epics of the 21st century, the story of how it was made will have you wondering at our place in the stars… 1/50

LLMs have enabled interaction w/ various kinds of data (image/audio/math/action) through language—a true breakthrough of our times. Ofc, as neuroscientists we are curious if this extends to brain data. @initself.bsky.social's answer: yes, we can flexibly "read out" a lot! Limits remain to be seen.

A cool summary of our paper!

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So… who’s up for starting a revolution? (Rhetorical question)

A hard ARC problem from Fig. 1 of www.nature.com/articles/s41... Am I the only one who thinks in the test solution, the “overtaken” dots could be red?

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How well do classifiers trained on visual activity actually transfer to non-visual reactivation? #Decoding studies often rely on training in one (visual) condition and applying it to another (e.g. rest-reactivation). However: How well does this work? Show us what makes it work and win up to 1000$!

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Great point. I think there is some evidence that ICL emerges before RLHF and instruction tuning (eg arxiv.org/abs/2205.05055), though I can’t remember any controlled experiments that directly dissociate the effects.

The reason why NeuroAI won’t magically solve everything. We face the same general challenges neuro/psych have had since their inception.

all about readout 😇

We apply our model to survey the spiking irregularity across cortical areas and find that Poisson irregularity is a rare exception, not a rule. Our results show the need to include non-Poisson spiking in inferring neural dynamics from single trials.

We’re recruiting a postdoctoral fellow to join our team! 🎉 I’m happy to share that I’ve opened back up the search for this position (it was temporarily closed due to funding uncertainty). See lab page and doc below for details!

"Also: It is my opinion that neuroscience has stagnated over the past one or two decades." "My field is spinning wheels with new data and new publications without new findings or conclusions." relatable and guilty

Interesting paper suggesting a mechanism for why in-context learning happens in LLMs. They show that LLMs implicitly apply an internal low-rank weight update adjusted by the context. It’s cheap (due to the low-rank) but effective for adapting the model’s behavior. #MLSky arxiv.org/abs/2507.16003

Excited to share our new review in #AnnualReviews Psychology on the role of time in perceptual organization! doi.org/10.1146/annu...

Long time in the making: our preprint of survey study on the diversity with how people seem to experience #mentalimagery. Suggests #aphantasia should be redefined as absence of depictive thought, not merely "not seeing". Some more take home msg: #psychskysci #neuroscience doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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This is awesome. Drag and drop a brain MRI scan into the window and it does tissue segmentation in the browser (in about 8 seconds), then creates a 3D mesh suitable for 3D printing. This has been an hours-to-days long process for us in the past, all in a couple minutes. 🤯 brain2print.org

A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue. The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea. From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...

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Excited to release the SPOT grid: a new image set that factorially crosses scene-object & texture-pattern pairings. We hope these stimuli will be useful to researchers aiming to (partially) disentangle the contributions of lower- and higher-level visual features to behavior & brain activity. 1/

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"crossing the start line" is apt.

Our article is out in Annual Review of Vision Science: “Visual Image Reconstruction from Brain Activity via Latent Representation” We trace the path from early brain decoding to modern NeuroAI, highlight progress & pitfalls, and discuss future directions www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

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This point by @earlkmiller.bsky.social is very much obvious from a mainstream deep learning perspective. Why would neurons specialize?

We’re hiring! We’re looking for two RAs to work with @tessamdekker.bsky.social and @ronimaimon.bsky.social on visual neuroscience experiments with children and adults, both with and without eye disease using cutting-edge neuroimaging and behavioral methods. Apply by 16 Oct! t.ly/q3aYe #neurojobs

To our surprise, spatial navigation areas—not visual cortex—responded strongest to objects! We replicated this in awake and anesthetized mice and confirmed it with electrophysiology. Postsubiculum (PoSub), a hub of the head-direction system, was the top hit! 🎯 4/

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hmmmm, interesting viewpoint.

Our new lab for Human & Machine Intelligence is officially open at Princeton University! Consider applying for a PhD or Postdoc position, either through Computer Science or Psychology. You can register interest on our new website lake-lab.github.io (1/2)

Worth a watch. Esp. on how proudly some express racism, fascism, and neo-nazism. (and on how clueless and in all-sorts-of-rabbit-holes some have fallen)

Journal publishers *are* bundling your papers up in "data licensing agreements" for big tech companies to use for AI model training. Our publisher, T&F, got £75m from Microsoft for that last year alone.

I think the church of everything is everywhere should check tumor removal surgeries. They all start by making sure they won't remove a specific function when removing a specific region. Can you guess how they do it? @benhayden.bsky.social @pessoabrain.bsky.social hint: it is not with decoders

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Will also talk about this work tomorrow, 25Aug, at the Computational modeling session at #ECVP at 8:30! …and an impromptu poster on Wed 27Aug in the afternoon poster session 5 at 15:30 Come have a chat on how to model scene processing in the brain!

Excited to announce the first workshop on CogInterp: Interpreting Cognition in Deep Learning Models @ NeurIPS 2025! 📣 How can we interpret the algorithms and representations underlying complex behavior in deep learning models? 🌐 coginterp.github.io/neurips2025/ 1/4

#CCN2025 is over. Over 5 days there were 6 fantastic keynotes, 550 posters, 3 community events, 3 keynote & tutorials, 3 generative adversarial collaborations, 8 Satellite events, 1 community lunch meeting, 1 cross-conference hackathon, 1 competition, coffee all day, stroopwafels on day 1,

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Check out @catrinahacker.bsky.social's #CCN2025 poster this afternoon! We've long worked with spikes. Here we ask: would we have made the same inferences about memory with the signals often recorded in human neurosci (iEEG, LFPs)? The answer surprised me. Not only yes! but with 3-fold *less* data.

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CONVERSATIONS ON CONSCIOUSNESS How the CCN Community Can Contribute #CCN2025 on Wednesday 13th (10am 🇪🇺) Livestream link below ➡️ Exploring the possibility of Computational Consciousness Science ➡️ Discussing three Templeton World Charity Foundation Adversarial Collaborations