How does a couple of cells become a brain? Join us on 12/9, 10-12pm PT for a webinar presenting the findings from 12 papers mapping brain development in new detail. 🔗 https://alleninstitute-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_phxk87APQh-kgRYqp0jO5Q#/registration Image: Jasiek Krzysztofiak/@nature.com

Closing tabs with papers I promised myself i'll read

pursuing an academic career is like thinking the stripper loves you

Every academic has one superpower: the ability to turn a five-minute task into a three-month digression

If you're interested in dynamical systems analysis for neuroscience, definitely check out @oliviercodol.bsky.social 's revised version of our RL paper! Very cool results in the new Fig 6, worth it regardless of if you saw our previous version or if it's all new. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Another casualty of the LLM revolution. In "arXiv’s CS category, review articles and position papers must now be accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review."

Happy Halloween

“The bad review will come from your list of suggested reviewers”

Having a PhD means you can find the word “unfortunately” in an email faster that the search function

Talk announcement (on site/ hybrid): Tuesday, October 28 at 10:00 am. The talk will be given by our guest from Zurich, Prof. Dr. Melika Payvand. The title of the talk is: Physical Computation: From Neural Morphology to Silicon (and beyond) Substrates More details in the attached PDF.

Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage

The true academic method: overthink, underdeliver, cite yourself.

In academia, the pinnacle of achievement is a pdf no one can access and I think that's beautiful

Sidney Pontes-Filho uses critical neural CA for reservoir computing #DistributedCiphers #ALIFE2025

Takashi Ikegami and Hiroki Iizuka open the Generative Artificial Life satellite #ALIFE2025

Distributed neural computation and the evolution of the first brains https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.03.680388v1

Can a single cell learn? Even without a brain, some microbes show simple forms of cognition. Can this basal cognition be engineered? Check our new paper with @jordiplam.bsky.social on the minimal synthetic circuits & their cognitive limits. @drmichaellevin.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Selfishly, I’ll plug our tool LLM agent in system #AmadeusGPT - which lets you vibe code your behavioral analysis ;) and even gives you interpretable and verifiable outputs! www.mackenziemathislab.org/amadeusgpt

One hundred years ago, a 23-year-old postdoc named Werner Heisenberg completed a calculation that would become the heart of quantum mechanics, a radical yet stunningly accurate theory of the atomic and subatomic world. www.quantamagazine.org/its-a-mess-a...

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...

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

Do memories need embodiment, but not necessarily neurons? Some hints ⬇️ www.quantamagazine.org/what-can-a-c...

I finally had time to update PyCX to ver. 1.2! Many new models and bug fixes. Enjoy!! github.com/hsayama/PyCX

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.

🧠 Gewebestrukturen aus dem Labor: #Hirnorganoide sind ein Modellsystem des Gehirns und imitieren Teile der Hirnfunktion. Damit ermöglichen sie einen experimentellen Zugang zu Forschung am Organ. Ein Digitales Dossier gibt einen Überblick: interaktiv.leopoldina.org/hirnorganoide/

Finally published: “Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience: overcoming the clash of research cultures” www.nature.com/articles/s41... Looking for ways to better understand different neuroscientific perspectives and enable productive collaborations

Do you like neuronal networks and maybe also programming? 🧮🕸️💻 I am looking for a research assistant to work on the general topic of neuronal network models, either theoretically or with a link to specific model organisms. Please see below for more details. ⬇️ #research #neuronalnetworks #kiel #cau

A gym that you go to but instead of working out you write papers

Episode #30 in #TheoreticalNeurosciencePodcast: On co-dependent excitatory and inhibitory plasticity – with Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social theoreticalneuroscience.no/thn30 How can excitatory and inhibitory synaptic plasticity, co-exist in spiking neural network models? With co-dependence!

#forest #sky #path #hamburg #silentsunday

Got prov. approval for 2 major grants in Neuro-AI & Dynamical Systems Reconstruction, on learning & inference in non-stationary environments, out-of-domain generalization, and DS foundation models. To all AI/math/DS enthusiasts: Expect job announcements (PhD/PostDoc) soon! Feel free to get in touch.

How should #multisensory signals be combined when they are structured in time? To explore this, we: * Introduce a new multisensory task * Compare several models TLDR: * Prior models perform suboptimally * Our new model performs ≈ an RNN, while using less than 1/10th the number of parameters.

✨Excited to share that our new paper is now out in iScience!✨ 🧠 We show that people can coordinate surprisingly well in novel interactions by violating others' expectations - without requiring deep, recursive reasoning about others’ beliefs. 📄 Read the full paper here: www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

🚨Preprint Alert: Who Does What in Deep Learning? Multidimensional Contribution of Neural Units using Game Theory: arxiv.org/abs/2506.19732 The result of my MSc thesis is out with @kayson.bsky.social @fatemehhadaeghi.bsky.social @patrickmineault.bsky.social @kordinglab.bsky.social, Claus C. Hilgetag

Wonderful work by Shrey and Kayson in developing an XAI method for exploring the contribution of any computational unit (e.g., nodes, experts, communities, filters) within neural networks. It enables analysis of both their influence on each other and their overall impact on task performance.

We started the workshop at #OCNS2025 with some very cool presentations by @gzamora-lopez.bsky.social, Mariia Popova, and Douglas Zhou on network structure and dynamics. The door is open (room 101), come by if you’re interested. Here’s the full program: sites.google.com/view/cns2025...

‪ @gzamora-lopez.bsky.social @raphaelbergoin.bsky.social #neuroskyence #compneurosky @mgiugliano.bsky.social #cns2025 CNS*2025 in Florence Join us to the workshop "Population activity : the influence of cell-class identity, ...." organized with S, Olmi and M. GIUGLIANO on 8/9 July doocn.org

Reminder: our workshop at CNS*2025 next week about structure, dynamics and function in neuronal networks- please come along when you are in Florence. sites.google.com/view/cns2025...

90% of doing science is being open to new ideas.

PhD/Postdoc position in Computational Neuroscience at the Institute of Neuroinformatics (UZH and ETH Zürich): we are investigating the neural circuits underlying perception and learning in uncertain environments: www.ini.uzh.ch/en/research/... #PhD #ComputationalNeuroscience #UZHZurich #ETHZurich

We are organizing a workshop at CNS*2025 in Florence, Italy. It will be about structure, dynamics and function in neural networks. Please see the homepage for more details. sites.google.com/view/cns2025...

What's going on here? www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5nE...

New paper out today! 🤓

Connectome architecture favours within-module diffusion and between-module routing https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.10.637586v1

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Got some time series data from a neural network but don't know the network structure? @nlaasch.bsky.social has some suggestions. Read about them in our updated preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1..., now with 19 new supplementary figures. Enjoy!

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