(1/n) How can we infer single-trial communication between 🧠 regions? Check out our ICML 2025 paper: “Accurate Identification of Communication Between Multiple Interacting Neural Populations,” by Belle Liu and @jsacks.bsky.social in my lab: arxiv.org/abs/2506.19094

I told you we’d be back

I for one am not sure what makes a theory formal but I like thinking about my theories dressed up in a cute little tuxedo 🥰🤵

yesterday, my postdoc funding (salary and research funds) was cancelled by the National Science Foundation, effective immediately. I received the same generic, vaguely threatening, typo-ridden email as many of my colleagues who have had their awards terminated recently. (1/n)

The PhD students started writing motivational quotes on the whiteboard

We're disappointed to see Ben Barres's powerful book "The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist" among the ~400 titles removed from the Naval Academy Library. Needless to say, we're proud to have published his book and will keep it — and his memory — alive.

Big day for Brians! Please tag a Brian who should join us in this research. Scientists have learned a lot about brains, but they know hardly anything about Brians. That's why we're shifting from brain science to Brian science. 🧠📈 alleninstitute.org/news/announc...

Super excited about our 2-day @cosynemeeting.bsky.social workshop on learning that pays tribute to the diversity of timescales, teaching signals and circuits that work together to shape adaptive behaviors, and where we hope to bridge insights from behavior, dynamics, and learning rules! #cosyne2025

Excited to share our #cosyne25 workshop on learning across timescales! Check out our awesome line-up of speakers across both days: learning-fast-and-slow.github.io

As we gear up for #cosyne2025, let's be aware of everyone we're missing. Most can't speak. So how about a roll call - one that doesn't name names? I know of >15 individuals from NIH that can't travel (b/c ban). +2 posters that will be delivered by PIs b/c trainees can't travel (visas). You? /1

Visa/ green card holders in the US who had planned to go to @cosynemeeting.bsky.social , what are your current thoughts about leaving and reentering the US / has your university issued any new directive? I'm happy to dm/ chat over Signal too. #cosyne25 #neuroskyence

Programming midi drums always reminds me of spike trains

Unironically should be a new standard

Putting 4'33 on loop to get in the zone and get some work done

Imagine the whole world looking this. It is actually pretty easy to improve our lives, no need for new tech magic or some mars migration BS: just abolish cars from city centres

Warm up GPUs

What papers do you like that demonstrate the use of 'orthogonal subspaces' for encoding information in neural populations? #neuroskyence #compneuro #neuroAI

Can the motor system use sensory expectations to prepare for unexpected events? Excited to share my latest work with @andpru.bsky.social – where we establish that sensory expectations shape neural population dynamics in motor circuits! 🧵 and paper below 1/

petition to change the word describing ChatGPT's mistakes from 'hallucinations' to 'confabulations' A hallucination is a false subjective sensory experience. ChatGPT doesn't have experiences! It's just making up plausible-sounding bs, covering knowledge gaps. That's confabulation

I've probably shared this with you before but just in case I haven't, one of my favorite Photoshop jobs I've ever done

Cosyne undergrad travel grants!

rate my ride

It's always "how neuron spike" and not "how neuron feel"

2257 sounds like a Tigran subdivision of 4/4

"Approximate posterior" is a beautiful name for a girl

Drake: "coltrane changes can't be that bad, right?" Drake after looking at the chart:

New piece. A long deep dive piece into the reasons beyond the punditry and headlines as to why Harris and Democrats as a whole failed in 2024. I firmly believe this is about far more existential, psychological, and structural reasons than it has been depicted as. Here’s why.

OK If we are moving to Bluesky I am rescuing my favourite ever twitter thread (Jan 2019). The renamed: Bluesky-sized history of neuroscience (biased by my interests)

Me going anywhere in Texas outside Austin

Obligatory reunited with Travis photo

1/ I work in #NeuroAI, a growing field of research, which many people have only the haziest conception of... As way of introduction to this research approach, I'll provide here a very short thread outlining the definition of the field I gave recently at our BRAIN NeuroAI workshop at the NIH. 🧠📈