Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026. The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social. Please apply here until Nov 25: www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...

New awareness campaign

Interested in #neuroscience + #AI and looking for a PhD position? I can support your application @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social ✅ Check your eligibility (below) ✅ Contact me (DM or email) UK nationals: www.imperial.ac.uk/life-science... Otherwise: www.imperial.ac.uk/study/fees-a...

Really enjoyed reading this short opinion piece by Tim O'Leary. I think it echoes the classic Feynman quote "what I cannot create I do not understand". I think engineering approaches such as neuromorphic computing will prove fundamental to scientific understanding of how biological brains work

Proud to have contributed to @gaiabianchini.bsky.social and @flor-iacaruso.bsky.social new paper on how the superior colliculus temporally integrates multisensory information

> Computing has always been a seesawing discipline. We had the AI winters of the 1970s and the 1990s, and we had the dot. com crash and the ensuing “Image Crisis.” It seems another crisis is upon us. Will we ever learn? It is time for some serious thinking! cacm.acm.org/opinion/comp...

Researchers at the Crick found that virgin female mice can become aggressive towards pups when hungry, but only in certain hormonal states. It highlights the importance of understanding hormones when observing how different physical states interact in the brain. www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-10...

Happy Sarkozy in prison Day

Join us *next Monday*! #CrickXrays25 X-ray #nanoimaging of biological tissues 🇬🇧🌐 @crick.ac.uk & online tinyurl.com/crickxrays25 Sponsored by @dectris.bsky.social, @webknossos.org and @biologists.bsky.social and backed by @brukercorporation.bsky.social and Histomography

So a small update on French politics for my English speaking followers the guy who had been charged with forming a government and came up with the same government than the previous government has quit this morning following the announcement of his government and is now in charge of forming a new one

Applications for Doctoral Clinical Fellowships at the Crick, including a project in my lab, are now open! Please share widely!

Many AI researchers draw inspiration from neuroscience. Naomi Saphra favors a different analogy. Interpretability, in her view, should take a cue from evolutionary biology.

GUESS WHAT WEEK IT IS

I collected some materials on critical AI from my perspective; hope it's useful: olivia.science/ai "CAIL is as an umbrella for all the prerequisite knowledge required to have an expert-level critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims"

Life in academia according to autobiographies of Nobel laureates

Our pre-print is out! Critical point drying of brain tissue for x-ray phase contrast imaging. @apeart.bsky.social @yuxinzhang.bsky.social @jkbrmn.bsky.social @apacureanu.bsky.social @andreas-t-schaefer.bsky.social @carlesbosch.bsky.social @esrf.fr @crick.ac.uk bioarXiv: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Reading about this brought to mind a piece I wrote two years ago, inspired by one of my favourite authors. Ursula K. Le Guin emphasized that there’s a big difference “between production of a market commodity and the practice of an art.” OpenAI’s AI-generated movie offers us nothing.

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Is anarchist science possible? As an experiment, we got together a large group of computational neuroscientists from around the world to work on a single project without top down direction. Read on to find out what happened. 🤖🧠🧪

Hugh Bonneville started his live ITV London News interview on Downton Abbey by talking about Gaza.

Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”

The contrast in reporting these stories is nuts, right? It's not just me?

ChatGPT, comment on éteint un incendie rapidement ? Réponds en breton

We were asked to write a commentary on NeuroAI for Nat. Rev. Neuro. with Sadra Sadeh, so here it is: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

1 in 3 doctors were born overseas. 1 in 2 builders were born overseas. 1 in 6 nurses were born overseas. 1 in 4 transport workers were born overseas. 1 in 7 UK business founders were born overseas. 1 in 5 university academics were born overseas. The UK would be screwed without them.

1/N What are the organizational principles underlying crossmodal cortical connections? We address this in this new preprint, led by @alexegeaweiss.bsky.social & ‪@bturner-bridger.bsky.social‬ in collab w/ ‪@petrznam.bsky.social‬ @crick.ac.uk www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

How does the structure of a neural circuit shape its function? @neuralreckoning.bsky.social & I explore this in our new preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🤖🧠🧪 🧵1/9

Preprint update: The new version of #SPARKS🎇 is out! Everything's in here: sparks.crick.ac.uk A thread on what changed 🧵👇 @flor-iacaruso.bsky.social @sdrsd.bsky.social @alexegeaweiss.bsky.social #neuroskyence #NeuroAI #ML #BioInspiredAI

Boiling here at home in Cyprus but I put the finishing touches a couple of days ago on this preprint: What Does 'Human-Centred AI' Mean? doi.org/10.48550/arX... Wherein I analyse HCAI & demonstrate through 3 triplets my new tripartite definition of AI (Table 1) that properly centres the human. 1/n

Check out our new review/perspective (w/ @juangallego.bsky.social & Devika Narain) on neural manifolds in the brain! It was a lot of fun to think through these ideas over the past couple of years, and I'm excited it's finally out in the world! 🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📄: rdcu.be/ex8hW

Traditional liberal parties' (read: Labour, Macron, the SPD) habit to just bow down to fascist anti-migrant and genocidal rhetoric is leading straight to this globally at a frightening speed. So happy to finally see an alternative emerge in the UK: consider joining yourparty.uk!

We're hiring,, of interest to people in spiking neural networks and neuromorphic particularly. See below. 👇 Note the deadline for applications is very soon! Apologies for this but various admin necessities made it unavoidable.

How can we best use AI in science? Myself and 9 other research fellows from @imperial-ix.bsky.social use AI methods in domains from plant biology (🌱) to neuroscience (🧠) and particle physics (🎇). Together we suggest 10 simple rules @plos.org 🧵 doi.org/10.1371/jour...

New preprint for #neuromorphic and #SpikingNeuralNetwork folk (with @pengfei-sun.bsky.social). arxiv.org/abs/2507.16043 Surrogate gradients are popular for training SNNs, but some worry whether they really learn complex temporal spike codes. TLDR: we tested this, and yes they can! 🧵👇 🤖🧠🧪

‘Boiling 🐸' effect makes people oblivious to threat of climate crisis, shows study ...people grasp climate change better through simple yes/no visuals. A frozen lake that no longer freezes hits harder than a temperature graph. Same data, clearer impact. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...

Yeah, let's give an American company access to loads of government data and pay them a load of money to run the government for us using software that systematically fabricates false information and has nasty racial biases. That'll surely stimulate the UK economy. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We developed a compact and open-source, low-cost photodetector system for neuroscience experiments doi.org/10.1016/j.oh... @flor-iacaruso.bsky.social

1/ Mapping synaptic connectivity between individual neurons is extremely laborious. We developed BRISC, a new method that makes it possible to map inputs onto 100s of neurons in the same animal in a matter of weeks! Led by Alex Becalick and @antblot.bsky.social. 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I just wrote a longer article expanding on the themes in the thread above, about how to move beyond peer review and make science better and more trusted, concluding with a slightly more concrete call to action. thesamovar.github.io/zavarka/tran...

La loi Duplomb vous plombe ? Il est encore possible de la contrer en faisant atteindre le seuil des 100 000 à cette pétition. Faites-la tourner massivement car il y a encore du travail pour y parvenir. Merci ! petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr/initiatives/...

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Si on gèle toutes les prestations sociales en 2026, il ne faudra pas faire semblant de s'étonner en 2028 quand on commentera les chiffres INSEE des inégalités.

Burnout is clinically understood as a combo of 6 factors—work overload, lack of control, insufficient rewards, breakdown in community, absence of fairness, & value conflicts—and only a fraction of it is under your control. Burnout is a systemic problem, so be kind to yourself and hard on the system.

Homeostasis can keep population-level responses stable in the face of neural drift and "vanishing neurons" Nice write up of a paper I'm looking forward to reading but that seems to add more wood to the "populations are more than the sum of their neurons" fire www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Les ingénieurs sont conçu par un système capitaliste pour faire de la résolution de problème. Et ils doivent résoudre le problème pour que le système continu. Si ce système est capitaliste, ils vont toujours raisonner selon ce paradigme. Toute autre analyse est non concevable.

Cela va sans dire mais les Nicolas qui ne sortent pas de l'imagination de la droite veulent la retraite à 60 ans, la dépénalisation des drogues, l'impôt sur la fortune, et lisent même @uneheuredepeine.bsky.social

Un texte intéressant et actuel par rapport à l’abrutissant recourt systématique à des agents conversationnels: framablog.org/2025/05/11/v... Pour vous encourager à lire ce texte, disons que cette tendance suivie au pas cadencé révèle un désir d’uniformisation de la société et …

Excited for this lineup and to present my poster on #SPARKS🎆 (sparks.crick.ac.uk)! Feel free to reach out if you'll be in Croatia next week and want to chat about brain encoding/decoding, neural manifolds, brain-inspired AI or systems neuroscience in general!

Info theory offers powerful measures for capturing complexity & interaction among elements of a complex system, like the brain! 🧠 Here's our new unified reference for key info-theoretic time series measures ft. 📊 visuals, ➗equations, & 💬descriptions: arxiv.org/abs/2505.13080