The kind of concept you hear once and you never forget. If you know what the electrode records. You know what it stimulates.

Applications are open for the 2026 Paris Spring School of Imaging and Electrophysiology! It’s a great way to discover Paris (❤️) while learning a pretty wide range of techniques for neuroscience, in a fantastic environment. Share widely: parisneuro.ovh

Sequences are everywhere! In every brain region. And are written in stone. Invariant Activity Sequences Across the Mouse Brain. Out today, by Célian Bimbard, with @kenneth-harris.bsky.social. Based on data by Célian and by @intlbrainlab.bsky.social. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

🔬 We're hiring a Junior Group Leader for Data-Driven Digital Twins/System Models in medicine/life sciences at @uni_goettingen! Perfect opportunity for early-career researchers who want to: - Lead their own research group - Work at the intersection of AI, simulation, and biomedicine

Our paper on data constrained RNN that generalize to optogenetic perturbations now citable on eLife: doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

We should just use standardized test scores + grades to admit students into college. Everything else is way too easy to game, allowing the extremely rich to dominate access to prestigious colleges. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... I've been saying this for a long time, but the data makes it clear.

1/ Why does RL struggle with social dilemmas? How can we ensure that AI learns to cooperate rather than compete? Introducing our new framework: MUPI (Embedded Universal Predictive Intelligence) which provides a theoretical basis for new cooperative solutions in RL. Preprint🧵👇 (Paper link below.)

How I contributed to rejecting one of my favorite papers of all times, Yes, I teach it to students daily, and refer to it in lots of papers. Sorry. open.substack.com/pub/kording/...

The big AI labs continue to be infuriatingly opaque about the actual figures for their total electricity and water consumption The best report I have seen from them so far is this one from Mistral in July, but it still left unanswered questions for me simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/22/...

I am impressed by the improvement with Gemini 3 and nano 🍌. I used nano banana to make scientific figures. With 2.5 it was repetitively putting a human brain inside the 🐭 head. Now it draws an accurate mouse brain anatomy even seems to locate correctly the cortical areas. Big jump imo

Our work on training biophysical models with Jaxley is now out in @natmethods.nature.com. Led by @deismic.bsky.social, with @philipp.hertie.ai, @ppjgoncalves.bsky.social & @jakhmack.bsky.social et al. Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Whoopsy

I’m looking for interns to join our lab for a project on foundation models in neuroscience. Funded by @ivado.bsky.social and in collaboration with the IVADO regroupement 1 (AI and Neuroscience: ivado.ca/en/regroupem...). Interested? See the details in the comments. (1/3) 🧠🤖

Introducing CorText: a framework that fuses brain data directly into a large language model, allowing for interactive neural readout using natural language. tl;dr: you can now chat with a brain scan 🧠💬 1/n

Reminder this is happening this Wed/Thu. Free spiking neural network conference - registration required (see below).

This was a fabulous, once in a lifetime colloquium -- and now the videos are available in high quality on the College de France web site @college-de-france.fr www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co... With talks by Edvard Moser, Nancy Kanwisher, Liz Spelke, Manuela Piazza, Luca Bonatti and more!

LLMs are trained to compress data by mapping sequences to high-dim representations! How does the complexity of this mapping change across LLM training? How does it relate to the model’s capabilities? 🤔 Announcing our #NeurIPS2025 📄 that dives into this. 🧵below #AIResearch #MachineLearning #LLM

#EPFL has an open faculty position - tenure track or tenured!! - in AI driven biophysics. Deadline is Nov 15th. Please spread the word! www.epfl.ch/about/workin...

New #NeuroAI preprint on #ContinualLearning! Continual learning methods struggle in mostly unsupervised environments with sparse labels (e.g. parents telling their child the object is an 'apple'). We propose that in the cortex, predictive coding of high-level top-down modulations solves this! (1/6)

The team just picked up the latest data from the Swiss National Parc. Full of goodies - find out more about the first paper from the project: eceo-epfl.github.io/MammAlps/

Applications open for postdoc fellowships at the @epfl-ai-center.bsky.social, deadline Nov 3. www.epfl.ch/research/fun.... Great opportunity to work with our world class faculty; the fellowship is set up for collaboration between multiple labs, including my #NeuroAI group 🤖🧠🧪

Neuralink is making viral posts for bringing voice synthesis to non-verbal ALS patients. Great And let's non forget the academic groups that have shown the way (Willett et al. 2023). And continue to lead the innovation in this field: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

(YouTube) From LSD to AI with Switzerland's brain explorers www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqnA... via @trackingactions.bsky.social

Travel awards are available for undergraduate students looking to attend #Cosyne25! The application is short, and the deadline is Nov 12. @cosynemeeting.bsky.social Application: shorturl.at/6NEyk More info: www.cosyne.org/travel-grants (1/2)

🎉 "High-dimensional neuronal activity from low-dimensional latent dynamics: a solvable model" will be presented as an oral at #NeurIPS2025 🎉 Feeling very grateful that reviewers and chairs appreciated concise mathematical explanations, in this age of big models. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/2

** New ** Seeking Postdoctoral Research Fellow (3 yrs) for ESRC project on skilled reading in Arabic. Based in my lab at @rhulpsychology.bsky.social and collaborating with @denisdrieghe.bsky.social (Soton) and Sami Boudelaa (UAE). Please share! jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

New in @pnas.org: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... We study how humans explore a 61-state environment with a stochastic region that mimics a “noisy-TV.” Results: Participants keep exploring the stochastic part even when it’s unhelpful, and novelty-seeking best explains this behavior. #cogsci #neuroskyence

Today is the last day for submissions to the free online SNUFA spiking neural network workshop! This is a great opportunity to present your work (hundreds of participants and sometimes thousands of YouTube views per talk), and abstract submission is easy (300 words). Do it now! 🤖🧠🧪 snufa.net/2025/

We're hiring again for AI research engineering roles: Join the team behind the Apertus LLM, if you share our passion to work on impactful AI that's truly open. careers.epfl.ch/job/Lausanne...

Truly honored (and a little overwhelmed) to see our work featured in The Transmitter's "This Paper Changed My Life." Huge thanks to @neural-reckoning.org for the kind words - and to our amazing community that keeps pushing spiking neural network research forward 🙏

Submissions (short!) due for SNUFA spiking neural networks conference in <2 weeks! 🤖🧠🧪 forms.cloud.microsoft/e/XkZLavhaJe More info at snufa.net/2025/ Note that we normally get around 700 participants and recordings go on YouTube and get 100s-1000s views. Please repost.

Thrilled to share that our work is now published in Science! ✨ We found a preference for visual objects in the mouse spatial navigation system where they dynamically refine head-direction coding. In short, objects boost our inner compass! 🧭 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵1/

📣 NEW -- In The Economist, discussing the privacy perils of AI agents and what AI companies and operating systems need to do--NOW--to protect Signal and much else! www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

Become a Theory Fellow at Janelia. 🔍 Use computation & theory to tackle biological problems. 🖥️ Leverage state-of-the-art computational infrastructure 🤝 Collaborate across scientific disciplines Apply by Nov. 3 @ https://janelia.link/theoryfellowprogram

🤖📰 Effective YESTERDAY: China has mandated a digital watermark for all AI-generated content. www.cac.gov.cn/2025-03/14/c... Translating in 🧵.

Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):

incredible Ada Lovelace quote highlighted in a talk by Steve Furber. She spells out the dream of computational neuroscience, 2 centuries ago. The sheer ambition 🤩

Is there any Bernstein member out there willing to support my membership application? 🙏 @bernsteinneuro.bsky.social is one of my favorite conferences and I have been going for a while, but never became a member and would like to.

This summer I am on a scientific train tour 🧪🧠 🚂 now in Florence for CNS conference. Austrian night trains are amazing. I tested the new mini-sleeper cabin (economy class). 5 ⭐ sleeping experience, but a bit small to eat the (included!) breakfast 🍞 ☕

chng.it/JMwKks7RfZ Sauvons le Palais de la Découverte! ✍️

Karolinska is looking for 20 (!!) assistant professors and offering 6 year appointments with ~1M USD startup packages. ki.se/en/about-ki/...

And one more again at McGill in artificial intelligence in Psychiatry can-acn.org/assistant-pr...

We’ve successfully automated part of the (neuro)scientific process. Now I may be out of a job. After a lot of iterations, here’s our framework for automatic discovery, built to embrace degeneracy and the realities of underconstrained modeling.

We just pushed “Memory by a 1000 rules” onto bioRxiv, where we use clever #ML to find #plasticity quadruplets (EE, EI, IE, II) that learn basic stability in spiking nets. Why is it cool? We find 1000s!! of solutions, and they don’t just stabilise. They #memorise! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Now there are so many GPU super computers in Europe 😍 When I need FLOPs, I know some idle GPUs are waiting for me somewhere... The hard part is, I don't know where. And I don't know who to ask

If you're finishing your camera-ready for ACL or ICML and want to cite co-first authors more fairly, I just made a simple fix to do this! Just add $^*$ to the authors' names in your bibtex, and the citations should change :) github.com/tpimentelms/...

🔎We're looking for volunteers to study the brain: - Native English? - 🇫🇷in Paris? - 🧠Want to participate in a brain imaging experiment? - 💶 8 sessions of 2 hours paid 80€ each - 📩 contact: [email protected] Please RT :)