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Professor, Northwestern University Computational neuroscience | Neural manifolds
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Santa Fe Institute
3 days ago
Are you a journalist with a deep interest in complexity? Each year, the Santa Fe Institute invites two experienced journalists to join the Complex Systems Summer School through the CSSS Journalism Fellowship. Application deadline: Feb. 4, 2026 Learn more:
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Carl Zimmer
7 days ago
Given all the recent buzz about how great ChatGPT has gotten, including its prowess with images, I figured I'd check in on its anatomical skills. Nope.
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Grace Lindsay
8 days ago
Easy action to do right now đ You don't need to be in earth sciences; just let them know you value high quality research and recognize how important it is to the country.
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Mitya
14 days ago
Delighted to talk at Brown about our self-supervised neuronal algorithm for modeling biological circuitsâand challenging backprop along the way. Thanks to @leokoz8 for the kind invitation!
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CCBS Seminar: âWhat does the neuron do? A self-supervised dynamical model for neuroscience and AI"
YouTube video by Brown University
https://youtu.be/AF3Uhrm__U4?si=AUj1WIT-u2n3aeJt
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Mitya
22 days ago
Biological neurons cluster dynamical stimulus trajectories to predict whatâs coming and infer what just happened. If youâre at NeurIPS, stop by our poster #2107 â on display now until 2pm
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Mitya
24 days ago
Interested in algorithmic neuron models and learning rules at the intersection of neuroscience, AI, dynamical systems, and control theory? Have a PhD in neuroscience, physics, EE, or math? Consider joining us:
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If youâre at NeurIPS, feel free to DM me.
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The Viking (Gunnar Blohm)
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BWJones
26 days ago
I send money to
@wikipedia.org
every year. This is something you can do to make a difference and fight against AI slop.
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Laura Helmuth
27 days ago
Sign at an outdoor classroom for a nature center: âThink outside. No box required.â
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Juan Gallego
about 1 month ago
It feels like the converastion about manifold dimensionality is back, so I thought I'd share a paper that explains nicely why measuring the "embedding dimensionality" of a manifold (e.g., counting PCs) can be very different from its actual "intrinsic dimensionality (DoFs)
doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2021.08.002
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Mark Histed
about 1 month ago
One thing I feel strongly about: The NIH peer review system is the beating heart of the agency and the whole US biomedical research agency. It is the worst system for assigning grants but no other system has been developed that is better. It draws democratically from the scientific community.
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ClĂŠment Canonne
about 1 month ago
In case you aren't already aware of one of the nerdiest, nich-est online games: TeXnique, where the goal is to type LaTeX formulae as quickly as possible.
texnique.xyz
It is "fun."
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Grace Lindsay
about 1 month ago
PSA to academics posting threads about your paper here: you can (and should) post the link to the paper in the first post. Your X/Twitter brain rot have have you thinking otherwise, but please free yourself of that. (Also you can call them 'blue-prints' if you want).
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Eric Topol
about 1 month ago
We've seen some remarkable outcomes in people with advanced, refractory cancers, including pancreatic, melanoma, and renal, with personalized neoantigen mRNA vaccines. But this work is now endangered.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/pers...
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Barry Butler Photography
about 1 month ago
Today over Chicago's Lakefront
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Jane Wang
about 1 month ago
Can't tell you how great it is to finally be able to release and talk about this work, SIMA 2, the next step toward embodied intelligence in rich, interactive 3D worlds!
deepmind.google/sima
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SIMA 2: A Gemini-Powered AI Agent for 3D Virtual Worlds
Introducing SIMA 2, the next milestone in our research creating general and helpful AI agents. By integrating the advanced capabilities of our Gemini models, SIMA is evolving from an instruction-follâŚ
https://deepmind.google/blog/sima-2-an-agent-that-plays-reasons-and-learns-with-you-in-virtual-3d-worlds/
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JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg
about 1 month ago
Itâs baby octopus season đđŚ Saw this little guy last night with the Salish Sea School in Anacortes, WA as part of their free community dock walk I volunteer as an interpreter for. We can tell it is a giant pacific octopus from the single line of chromatophores on each arm.
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Sean Carroll
about 2 months ago
Day 2 of the
#NaturalPhilosophy
Symposium concluded with a panel discussion featuring the day's speakers: Alan Guth, Jennifer Nagel, David Albert, Simon DeDeo, Emily Riehl, and Anil Seth. Stay tuned for the exciting final day of the Symposium!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Apnv...
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Carolyn Bertozzi
about 2 months ago
Yet another epic fascinating bluetorial from
@jeremymberg.bsky.social
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Juan Gallego
about 2 months ago
đ¨Job alertđ¨ The lab has up to *3 postdoc openings* for comp systems neuroscientists interested in describing and manipulating neural population dynamics mediating behaviour This is part of a collaborative ARIA grant "4D precision control of cortical dynamics"
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/383909
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3 Postdoctoral Research Fellows
Champalimaud Foundation (Fundação D. Anna de Sommer Champalimaud e Dr.
https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/383909
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Eric Topol
about 2 months ago
For children and teens, heart and blood vessel complications of Covid overshadow the very rare and short-term risk of vaccinations, a new report from nearly 14 million kids
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Science Magazine
about 2 months ago
Do you have what it takes to win Scienceâs
#DanceYourPhD
competition? We want you to top last yearâs food-themed frolic from the Helsinki chemist who dressed up as a chili pepper. Or maybe you can get
#AI
to dance on your behalf? Learn more:
https://scim.ag/3LuVObX
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Neuron
about 2 months ago
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Multisensory integration in the mouse ventral visual thalamus mediates stress coping via locus coeruleus-related circuits
Huang et al. redefined the vLGN/IGLâa region traditionally associated with visionâas a multimodal hub critical for stress resilience in mice. Locus coeruleus inputs to this region translate salient stimuli into adaptive behaviors, a process through which environmental enrichment fosters enhanced stress coping.
http://dlvr.it/TP4Xjy
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Nigel Goldenfeld
about 2 months ago
đ§Şâď¸Max Born won the Nobel Prize in Physics for giving the correct interpretation of the wave function in a footnote to his paper in 1926. The rest of the paper incorrectly states that the wave function amplitude gives the probability. The mind boggles about what Nature's bot would say about that.
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So my reviewers were bots before we knew bots existed?
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Dr Selena Wisnom
about 2 months ago
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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The Royal Society
about 2 months ago
Born
#OnThisDay
in 1815 was George Boole FRS. Boole was a mathematician, logician and philosopher who helped establish modern symbolic logic and whose algebra of logic, now called Boolean algebra, is fundamental to the design of digital computer circuits:
https://bit.ly/3g1qY9c
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Eric Topol
about 2 months ago
Why fundamental research is fundamental to progress, seeding major breakthroughs Editorial
@nature.com
this week And 7 basic science discoveries that changed the world
nature.com/articles/d41...
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Simons Foundation
about 2 months ago
Applications for our Fellows-to-Faculty Award are now open! This program supports early career scientists in
#autism
or
#neuroscience
research by facilitating their transition into tenure-track faculty positions. Apply by 1/14/2026:
www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/10/31/a...
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Applications for Fellows-to-Faculty Awards Now Open
Applications for Fellows-to-Faculty Awards Now Open on Simons Foundation
https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/10/31/applications-for-fellows-to-facutly-awards-now-open/
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.
about 2 months ago
The amount of AI generated art in slides at this conference, primarily used by older scientists, is killing me. Scientists please. Donât use these ai platforms to make your figures or slides. They look bad and I have yet to see them meaningfully improve the message of talks.
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Eric Topol
about 2 months ago
Fixing my typo on myocarditis 1-3 cases per 100,000 male adolescents! Sorry I messed it and still no editing function here
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