What happens when a young person is released from the child welfare system? Join me with David Sussillo (@sussillodavid.bsky.social), a neuroscientist who has just written about his emergence from a difficult childhood to a successful life. eagleman.com/podcast/149

Why do kids need a future to aim for? Join me this week with neuroscientist David Sussillo (@sussillodavid.bsky.social) as we discuss the interaction of childhood trauma and resilience. eagleman.com/podcast/149

Today was my last day at Meta Reality Labs. As you can see, I handled my departure with dignity and restraint. But really: I’m proud of the team, proud of the groundbreaking EMG work we accomplished, and grateful for the chance to help build something hard and worthwhile with excellent people.

If you're going to the PSA this year and you want to pre-read David Sussillo's new book and attend the SPAN session, message me to arrange for SPAN to send you a copy of the book! The book is yours to keep, just attend the session and enjoy the conversation.

Honored to share my story of growing up in group homes, and my work in neuroscience, on Armchair Expert!!

In a Q&A about his new book, “Emergence,” @sussillodavid.bsky.social talks candidly about luck, persistence and why he decided to write about his journey into neuroscience. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/computationa...

We're excited to announce a special SPAN at the PSA 'Meet the Author' session with @sussillodavid.bsky.social! Join us as we discuss David's new book. If you are interested in pre-reading and attending, please email us (details below).

“I actually got kicked out of my first lab,” @sussillodavid.bsky.social reveals in a Q&A about his new book, “Emergence: A Memoir of Boyhood, Computation, and the Mysteries of Mind.” He talks about his challenging upbringing, his luck to land in Larry Abbott’s lab, and more. bit.ly/4rEu18t

Happy publication day, @sussillodavid.bsky.social. 🥂 To everyone else: Read.This.Book. I laughed & cried (on repeat). As I read, I developed an urgency to find out: How did Daivd make it through? The words "resilience and transformation" don't even begin to describe this. You will be moved.

Dynamic Computation & Explanation in Neuroscience Workshop, @ Stanford.Talks by @engeltatiana.bsky.social @aaronbatista.bsky.social @zoedrayson.bsky.social @bayesianboy.bsky.social @sussillodavid.bsky.social, @lndriscoll.bsky.social Newsome Druckmann Chirimuuta, Barack Cao Burnston Solla & others! 🧠

Forgot to x-post! Honored to share this Neuron interview in which I discuss my childhood, getting a PhD, and RNN reverse engineering and its application to brain data. I also talked about my industry/academic life. authors.elsevier.com/a/1mjFW3BtfH...

The audiobook sample is live on SoundCloud for my memoir, Emergence! A neuroscientist reading his own memoir… I'll let you decide if that was a good idea. m.soundcloud.com/hachetteaudi...

Elusive Cures is my first book. I was surprised by how much was required to make it happen (beyond writing it). If you're curious, here's the who and how behind it ... 🧵 (My amazing publisher: @princetonupress.bsky.social)

A remarkable journey of resilience and transformation, from the chaotic corridors of group homes to the halls of Columbia and Stanford, EMERGENCE is a coming-of-age tale where heartbreak and humor meet the scientific wonder of modern artificial intelligence. 🔗 Preorder: tinyurl.com/fzcxb5ea

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...

Terrifying insanity. What can be done to stop this?

(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).

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.

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...

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...

Explainer threads 🧵 are generous. They help science be a community, not a contest. Keep 'em coming!

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...

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...

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!

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.

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.

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...

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!

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.

Grace's critique is spot on. Perhaps one function of dynamics is to switch from representation to representation?

Hey #neuroskyence check out the line-up for the first annual #SPAN2025 meeting. Our neuro representation is strong💪: @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!

Human-Computer Input via a Wrist-Based sEMG Wearable www.meta.com/blog/quest/s...

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).

New 716 hour EMG dataset just dropped ✨ ai.meta.com/blog/open-so...