David Sussillo
@sussillodavid.bsky.social
📤 976
📥 253
📝 44
Neural reverse engineer, scientist at Meta Reality Labs, Adjunct Prof at Stanford.
pinned post!
Coming March 17, 2026! Just got my advance copy of Emergence — a memoir about growing up in group homes and somehow ending up in neuroscience and AI. It’s personal, it’s scientific, and it’s been a wild thing to write. Grateful and excited to share it soon.
about 2 months ago
7
183
37
2026 Internships at CTRL Labs at Meta Reality Labs It's intern application season for summer 2026 with the CTRL Labs (Electromyogram (EMG)) team at Meta Reality Labs! 🚀 You can see our latest work covered in this Nature article.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
loading . . .
A generic non-invasive neuromotor interface for human-computer interaction - Nature
A high-bandwidth neuromotor interface offers performant out-of-the-box generalization across people.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09255-w
17 days ago
1
32
10
reposted by
David Sussillo
Melanie Mitchell
28 days ago
Terrifying insanity. What can be done to stop this?
add a skeleton here at some point
4
42
13
reposted by
David Sussillo
David G. Clark
28 days ago
(7/26) The most surprising phenomenology happens after input cessation at t≥0: neurons continue oscillating long after stimulation ends, with lifetimes exceeding any intrinsic system timescale, including the plasticity forgetting timescale, by an order of magnitude (panel iii).
1
3
2
Coming March 17, 2026! Just got my advance copy of Emergence — a memoir about growing up in group homes and somehow ending up in neuroscience and AI. It’s personal, it’s scientific, and it’s been a wild thing to write. Grateful and excited to share it soon.
about 2 months ago
7
183
37
reposted by
David Sussillo
Stephanie Naufel
about 2 months ago
FUNDING OPPORTUNITY: Motor Learning and Neuromotor Ethics Our Reality Labs EMG Foundational Research team is pleased to announce an RFP! The topic is on motor learning for EMG-based HCI and the related neuromotor ethics. Submissions are due September 1!
www.meta.com/blog/reality...
loading . . .
Request for Proposals: Motor Learning & Neuromotor Ethics | Meta Quest Blog
To foster innovation in this area, and to deepen our collaboration with academia, Reality Labs’ EMG Foundational Research team is pleased to invite faculty to submit their ideas to this request for re...
https://www.meta.com/blog/reality-labs-emg-call-for-research-proposals/
0
14
12
www.meta.com/blog/reality...
loading . . .
Request for Proposals: Motor Learning & Neuromotor Ethics | Meta Quest Blog
To foster innovation in this area, and to deepen our collaboration with academia, Reality Labs’ EMG Foundational Research team is pleased to invite faculty to submit their ideas to this request for re...
https://www.meta.com/blog/reality-labs-emg-call-for-research-proposals/
about 2 months ago
1
13
2
Open-sourced EMG data plus training/testing scripts to make contact with our results at 100 users for each three tasks (discrete gestures, 1D wrist navigation, and handwriting).
github.com/facebookrese...
add a skeleton here at some point
2 months ago
1
37
4
Explainer threads đź§µ are generous. They help science be a community, not a contest. Keep 'em coming!
add a skeleton here at some point
4 months ago
6
50
2
reposted by
David Sussillo
Gautam Kamath
4 months ago
It's been one year since Jim Simons passed away. He remains one of the greatest philanthropists of our time. His commitment to fundamental scientific research was truly extraordinary and remains essential for advancing humanity.
www.simonsfoundation.org/2024/05/10/s...
loading . . .
Simons Foundation Co-Founder, Mathematician and Investor Jim Simons Dies at 86
Simons Foundation Co-Founder, Mathematician and Investor Jim Simons Dies at 86 on Simons Foundation
https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2024/05/10/simons-foundation-co-founder-mathematician-and-investor-jim-simons-dies-at-86/
1
29
7
reposted by
David Sussillo
Nicole Rust
4 months ago
30 days to the launch of Elusive Cures! I learned so much writing it, and I want to share it. For the next 30 days, I'll post brain & mind research breakthroughs on odd days, and highlight unmet needs on even ones.
#ElusiveCures30
First breakthrough: /1
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
loading . . .
Elusive Cures
A neuroscientist’s bold proposal for tackling one of the greatest challenges of our time—brain and mental illnesses
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691243054/elusive-cures
2
76
29
reposted by
David Sussillo
Nicole Rust
5 months ago
Calling all science advocates!! Carlos Brody+ are creating a searchable database of tangible science benefits, and they need you.
publicusaresearchbenefits.com
They are asking for suggestions - from brief to lengthy. The database is state-searchable, so all 50 states. Please spread the word!
loading . . .
Searchable database of tangible benefits that federally-funded research gave us.
A crowd-sourced site. Health and Well-being. National Security. Prosperity.
https://publicusaresearchbenefits.com/
1
51
49
Come see Nishal’s poster today at
#cosyne2025
(Session 2, 2-051)! We’ve added a per-trial inferred bias to LFADS, boosting interpretability by turning multistable dynamics into contextual ones. Less murky, more meaningful with many practical applications such as denoising data.
6 months ago
0
8
2
reposted by
David Sussillo
Philip Sabes
6 months ago
Are you an ambitious scientist or engineer? Do you want to do hard engineering that will transform lives and advance science? Come join us to build next-generation neurotechnology at Integral.
add a skeleton here at some point
1
23
12
reposted by
David Sussillo
The Transmitter
6 months ago
How can we make progress in developing a general model of neural computation rather than a series of disjointed models tied to specific experimental circumstances, ask Eva Dyer and
@tyrellturing.bsky.social
in the latest entry in our NeuroAI series.
www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/acce...
loading . . .
Accepting “bitter lesson” and embracing brain’s complexity
To gain insight into complex neural data, we must move toward a data-driven regime, employing large models trained on vast amounts of data. Experts weigh in.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/accepting-the-bitter-lesson-and-embracing-the-brains-complexity/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=org-social&utm_campaign=20250326-embracing-brains-complexity
8
56
39
reposted by
David Sussillo
Marino Pagan
6 months ago
1/7 Our paper on individual variability in decision-making is finally out in
@nature.com
! Inspired by the classic work by Mante and Sussillo, we trained many rats to solve context-dependent decision-making, and we found that different brains use different neural mechanisms to solve the same task!
loading . . .
Individual variability of neural computations underlying flexible decisions - Nature
Behavioural experiments to study decision-making in response to context-dependent accumulation of evidence provide testable models that are consistent with the heterogeneity in neural signatures among...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08433-6
6
237
91
We're hiring! Join Meta Reality Lab's EMG Wristband foundational research team! ⚡️ We're seeking research scientists with systems neuro/ML/AI/BCI/EE backgrounds, with skills on a spectrum from modeling to experimental expertise, as well as generalists who excel in both areas.
8 months ago
2
31
13
Grace's critique is spot on. Perhaps one function of dynamics is to switch from representation to representation?
add a skeleton here at some point
8 months ago
0
9
0
reposted by
David Sussillo
David Barack
8 months ago
Hey
#neuroskyence
check out the line-up for the first annual
#SPAN2025
meeting. Our neuro representation is strongđź’Ş:
@russpoldrack.bsky.social
!
@sussillodavid.bsky.social
!
@theamygdaloid.bsky.social
! Tali Sharot!
@jenbussell.bsky.social
! Many more—check it out, be sure to submit your abstracts!
add a skeleton here at some point
1
27
8
Human-Computer Input via a Wrist-Based sEMG Wearable
www.meta.com/blog/quest/s...
loading . . .
Human-Computer Input via an sEMG Wristband | Meta Quest Blog
Today, we’re releasing a white paper that provides background on sEMG, describes its potential as a new input paradigm for human-computer interaction, and explains how sEMG sensing and its device inpu...
https://www.meta.com/blog/quest/surface-emg-wrist-white-paper-reality-labs/
9 months ago
0
8
2
Imagine all the amazing science one could do if these EMG recordings were paired up with multi electrode recordings in motor cortex. (Speaking as an academic neuroscientist, not a Meta scientist).
add a skeleton here at some point
10 months ago
1
20
3
10 months ago
5
30
3
reposted by
David Sussillo
Patrick Mineault
10 months ago
New 716 hour EMG dataset just dropped ✨
ai.meta.com/blog/open-so...
loading . . .
Advancing Neuromotor Interfaces by Open Sourcing Surface Electromyography (sEMG) Datasets for Pose Estimation and Surface Typing
We’re releasing emg2qwerty and emg2pose—two large datasets and benchmarks for sEMG-based typing and pose estimation, as part of the NeurIPS 2024 Datasets and Benchmarks track.
https://ai.meta.com/blog/open-sourcing-surface-electromyography-datasets-neurips-2024/
0
59
22
you reached the end!!
feeds!
log in