⌛️ Deadline approaching! Applications for the #KempnerInstitute Research Fellowships close Oct. 1. We welcome postdocs exploring the foundations of #intelligence or applications of #AI to apply. 👉 Learn more & apply: bit.ly/3UvpSpe #LLMs #NeuroAI #ML

This paper shows that some human "gestalt" style visual processing can emerge in purely feedforward deep nets with the right inductive biases and fine-tuning: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... 🧠📈 🧪 #NeuroAI

The Algonauts Challenge submission is over: > 60 teams participated! To be considered in the winners selection process, please post your report/code by July 25th. We will announce the winners on August 5th! #NeuroAI #CompNeuro #neuroscience #AI #CCN2025 #hessianAI #CNeuroMod algonautsproject.com

Excited to announce the Foundation Models for the Brain and Body workshop at #NeurIPS2025! 🧠📈 🧪 We invite short papers or interactive demos on AI for neural, physiological or behavioral data. Submit by Aug 22 👉 brainbodyfm-workshop.github.io

Exciting new preprint from the lab: “Adopting a human developmental visual diet yields robust, shape-based AI vision”. A most wonderful case where brain inspiration massively improved AI solutions. Work with @zejinlu.bsky.social @sushrutthorat.bsky.social and Radek Cichy arxiv.org/abs/2507.03168

Announcement: Workshop at #CCN2025 🧠 Modeling the Physical Brain: Spatial Organization & Biophysical Constraints 🗓️ Monday, Aug 11 | 🕦 11:30–18:00 CET | 📍 Room A2.07 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/CCN-physical... #NeuroAI @cogcompneuro.bsky.social

So excited that our excellence cluster 'The Adaptive Mind' got funded! 🥳 Looking forward to lots of great science and projects! #TheAdaptiveMind #ExcellenceInitiative 👁️🧠🤖

Applications are open for the 2025 Flatiron Institute Junior Theoretical Neuroscience Workshop! A two-day workshop 7/10-7/11 in NYC for PhD students and postdocs. All travel paid. Apply by April 14th.🧠🗽🧑‍🔬http://jtnworkshop2025.flatironinstitute.org/ @flatironinstitute.org @simonsfoundation.org

New preprint “Monkey See, Model Knew: LLMs accurately predict visual responses in humans AND NHPs” Led by Colin Conwell with @emaliemcmahon.bsky.social Akshay Jagadeesh, Kasper Vinken @amrahs-inolas.bsky.social @jacob-prince.bsky.social George Alvarez @taliakonkle.bsky.social & Marge Livingstone 1/n

I am excited to share that my undergraduate research has now been accepted to #ICLR2025. 📎: openreview.net/pdf?id=wMgr7... 🧑‍💻: github.com/BashivanLab/... Tweeprint🧵⬇️

In the physical world, almost all information is transmitted through traveling waves -- why should it be any different in your neural network? Super excited to share recent work with the brilliant @mozesjacobs.bsky.social: "Traveling Waves Integrate Spatial Information Through Time" 1/14

People talk a lot about objects, but what about the softness of a cushion, the greenness of an emerald, or the viscosity of oil? In our work just published @pnas.org, we shed light on how we make sense of the hundreds of materials around us. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

1/ Our paper appeared in @Nature today! www.nature.com/articles/s41... w/ Fiete Lab and @khonamikail.bsky.social . Explains emergence of multiple grid cell modules, w/ excellent match to data! Novel mechanism for applying across vast systems from development to ecosystems. 🧵👇

1/ Super-excited to share our new work “Episodic and associative memory from spatial scaffolds in the hippocampus”, that just appeared in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s41... Key insights and ideas 👇#tweeprint

CCN 2025 Area Chair Nomination Intrigued about supporting CCN’s new 8-page conference proceedings track? 📄 Fill out this form to nominate yourself or a colleague to act as (Senior) Area Chair at CCN25. forms.gle/MTBgZZxQaDY8...

For #CCN2025 in Amsterdam, we will, for the first time, have conference proceedings that include both full length peer-reviewed papers and the traditional 2-page track! Deadlines for submissions: 17th February for full papers ( abstract only; full paper on 20th FEB) & 10th April for 2 pagers.

It is very convenient to be able to point people to @neuromatch.bsky.social materials to get them up to speed for a compneuro modeling project. All computational fields should create one of these courses! (except climate science, deep learning, and neuroAI for which we also already have them!)

Monkey See, Model Knew: LLMs accurately Predict Human AND Macaque Visual Brain Activity Colin Conwell, @emaliemcmahon.bsky.social, Akshay Vivek Jagadeesh, Kasper Vinken, @amrahs-inolas.bsky.social, @jacob-prince.bsky.social, George Alvarez, @taliakonkle.bsky.social and Marge Livingstone

New paper with @leonlufkin.bsky.social and @eringrant.bsky.social! Why do we see localized receptive fields so often, even in models without sparisity regularization? We present a theory in the minimal setting from @aingrosso.bsky.social and @sebgoldt.bsky.social

How do a neural network's final parameters depend on its initial ones? In this new paper, we answer this question by analyzing the training Jacobian, the matrix of derivatives of the final parameters with respect to the initial parameters. https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.07003

Ready for #NeurReps2024? Our schedule at @neuripsconf.bsky.social is out 📅 neurips.cc/virtual/2024... Join us this Saturday! 🧠 With @eerosim.bsky.social @taliakonkle.bsky.social Stefanie Jegelka, Srinivas Turaga, Ilker Yildirim and Savannah Thais

I am excited to share the last work of my postdoc as a Swartz Fellow at NYU on the dynamic routing of large-scale cognitive networks in the neocortex! 🌐🧠 Here's a quick breakdown: 🧵 preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Another cool "digital twin" work from Wood’s lab After the virtual chicks, this time: "We embodied artificial neural networks in artificial fish and raised the artificial fish in virtual fish tanks that mimicked the rearing conditions of biological fish" #NeuroAI www.nature.com/articles/s41...

NEW: we have an exciting opportunity for a tenure-track professor at the #KempnerInstitute and the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). Read the full description & apply today: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14362 #ML #AI

Wish we had polls here but in their absence: can ML people tell me how they would define "ablation" or "ablation study"? As someone who frequently translates between neuroscience and ML, I fear this is another term that we both use, but slightly differently. #MLsky

Unveiling the Possible Origins of Visual Category Information in the Brain brain.harvard.edu/hbi_news/unv... @jacob-prince.bsky.social @taliakonkle.bsky.social

Want to be part of the NeuroAI community CSHL ? Applications are open for outstanding graduate students in Artificial Intelligence to spend the summer at CSHL as NeuroAI Interns. Deadline: Dec 10th, 2024. Please spread the word! www.schooljobs.com/careers/cshl... @cshlaboratory.bsky.social

How do we represent 3D world knowledge for spatial intelligence in next-generation robots? We recently wrote an extensive survey paper on this emerging topic, covering recent state-of-the-art! 🦾 🚀 Check it out below. Feedback/Suggestions welcome! 📖arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2410.20220

I'm TAing for a class and wanted to put together a (short) list of papers that are a good, accessible intro for students to get started in mech interp. An ask for the community: what papers would you add / which papers am I missing? (1/n)

The Visual Learning Lab at UC San Diego is looking for a postdoctoral research fellow to join our lab! Read more about our lab at www.vislearnlab.org

UW-Madison Psychology is hiring a new assistant professor in the area of computational approaches to language (broadly construed). Please share with interested parties! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

This paper from Claudia Clopath's lab is very exciting for me. I've been musing for a while now that the challenge of approximating gradient descent is probably made way easier in the brain by feedback signals for control. Here they show it!!! openreview.net/forum?id=xav... 🧠📈 #NeuroAI 🧪

📣 My department at NYU is hiring a theoretical neuroscientist! apply.interfolio.com/157767 This is *open rank* tenure / tenure-track position. Application deadline is Dec 31. NYU is a great place to work, please apply!

Sharing some new work! A big dream in AI is to create world models of sufficient quality that you can train agents within them. Classic simulators lack visual diversity and realism. GenAI lacks physical accuracy. But combining the two can work pretty well! Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2411.00083

After a great conference in Boston, CCN is going to take place in Amsterdam in 2025! To help the exchange of ideas between #neuroscience, cognitive science, and #AI, CCN will for the first time have full length paper submissions (alongside the established 2 pagers)! Info below👇 #NeuroAI #CompNeuro