⚫️ Excited to announce the NeuroAI Symposium 2026! ⚫️ Join us for a day of talks, posters, and discussion. Bringing together researchers at the intersection of Neuroscience & AI 🧠🤖. ✅ Free registration 📍 Tübingen, Germany 📅 May 5, 2026 👉 Learn more & register: neuroaisymposium.com #NeuroAI

New paper out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social 🎉 What determines contextual modulation in V1? Why does the visual surround sometimes facilitate and sometimes suppress a neuron's response to its preferred stimulus?

Want to talk to the past? Here' an LLM "trained entirely from scratch on a corpus of over 28,000 Victorian-era British texts published between 1837 & 1899, drawn from a dataset made available by the British Library" Quite different from an LLM roleplaying a Victorian. huggingface.co/spaces/tvent...

🚨It seems that PFC is not only the CEO of the brain but is also contributing to vision even in the absence of a task! 🧵 1/4 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A great entry into the proposals available for physiologically plausible gradient descent! I think the way they use dendrite targeting inhibition in this model is particularly elegant. Time to start testing these ideas folks!!! #neuroscience 🧪 #NeuroAI

Computationally formalising a verbal theory is an eye-opening experience because it forces you to openly state all the assumptions that the theory rest on

🚨 We're very happy to introduce TRIBE v2: a foundation model of the brain's responses to sight, sound & language. 📄 Paper: ai.meta.com/research/pub... ▶️ Demo: aidemos.atmeta.com/tribev2/ 💻 Code: github.com/facebookrese... 🤗 Model: huggingface.co/facebook/tri...

Excited that my paper on metacontrol in humans and neural networks with @summerfieldlab.bsky.social and @lhuntneuro.bsky.social is out in PNAS! We examine the way that predictive representations of control enable behavioral adaptation across settings, and pathologies: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🧵 New preprint led by @bingbrunton.bsky.social, @elliottabe.bsky.social, @lawrencehu.bsky.social We gave a worm brain control of a fly body and it walked What did we learn? Nothing, other than deep reinforcement learning is effective We call it the digital sphinx www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

How academic are different cities in Germany? The one definite ranking. #exinit @unituebingen.bsky.social

1/3 New paper accepted at ICRL World Model workshop: Dreamer-CDP: Improving Reconstruction-free World Models for RL. We introduce a Dreamer variant that learns world models without reconstructing pixels. arxiv.org/abs/2603.07083

Happy to share a new preprint from my PhD thesis! “A novel framework for expanding RNNs with biophysical detail to solve cognitive tasks” 🧠💻 📝 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @jonescompneurolab.bsky.social

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

The IgNobel Prizes, usually bestowed at a ceremony in Cambridge, Mass, are moving to Europe this year due to security concerns for honorees and journalists coming to the US from abroad. I bet I know who's going to win the IgNobel Peace Prize this year. arstechnica.com/science/2026...

The actual audience when you deliver a talk 🙂🙂😗😊🧐🤓🙂 🙂🤔🥱🤔🙂🤨🙂 ☺️🙂😊🙂☺️😌🧐 What you see when you deliver a talk 🤨🥱🥱🤨🤨🥱😑 🥱🤨🤨🥱😑😐😐 🤨🥱🥱🤨🤨🥱😑

Dissecting Spectral Granger Causality through Partial Information Decomposition arxiv.org/abs/2603.07634

Going to Cosyne? There will be a "Biologically-inspired Artificial Intelligence: Challenges and Opportunities" workshop on Monday 16th! 🧠 Exciting lineup of speakers alongside the opportunity to present your #NeuroAI poster, more info on program & poster signup below! #compneuro #neuroscience

DNN models of the brain are getting bigger. Are we replacing one complicated system in vivo with another in silico? In new work, we seek the *smallest* DNN models of visual cortex, balancing prediction with parsimony. It turns out these compact models are surprisingly small! rdcu.be/e5H8G

📢 PhD position in the NeuroAI of Language Why can LLMs predict brain activity so well? We're hiring a PhD student to find out -- AI interpretability meets neuroimaging Deadline March 20 Please RT 🙏 👇 mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/fully-funded-4-year-phd-position-neuroai-language

I am totally pumped about this new work . "Task-trained RNNs" are a powerful and influential framework in neuroscience, but have lacked a firm theoretical footing. This work provides one, and makes direct contact with the classical theory of random RNNs: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Delighted to share this paper led by @hannahmcdermott.bsky.social . We examined dynamics of prediction effects (sharpening vs dampening) and found they’re completely different across time scales!

Peer review would be easier if we stopped treating it like combat with the authors. Results want to be free, and perfect is the enemy of good. Do the data support the conclusions? If so, that’s enough. A paper isn’t a blank slate for projecting your own ideas.

Broad peer review is crucial for a healthy scientific literature, but neuroscientists turn down review requests too often. Simple math suggests that small groups of scientists can significantly bias the literature, writes @jvoigts.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/l...

Raccoon information seeking! Very cool work on raccoons optimizing information gain in puzzle solving from @sarahba.bsky.social and lab: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Orbitofrontal cortex drives predictive filtering of sensory responses www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroskyence

Why are tactile sensations suppressed during movements? In our new preprint, we explain this as optimal integration of sensory signals with an internal model. Work led by @fatatai.bsky.social with Dimitris Voudouris, Katja Fiehler and @c-rothkopf.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

After several years of work, my lab is starting to put out our first papers on learning in a unicellular organism (Stentor coeruleus). Here we show evidence for a form of associative learning in Stentor: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

This paper on how the brain may do gradient descent is very cool: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Renormalization in the brain? With @andreasantoro.bsky.social and @jesseba.bsky.social we're organizing a workshop at @cosynemeeting.bsky.social (Lisbon, March 16) on how coarse-graining principles from physics can explain neural computation across scales. nplresearch.github.io/neurorenorm2...

1. Kevin Gross and I have a new paper out today PLOS Biology. We used economic models based around screening games and the market for unpaid labor to highlight a meltdown cycle threatening peer review.

Our bilingualism paper is now published in PNAS. We used fMRI to compare semantic brain representations in English-Chinese bilinguals. Semantic representations are largely shared across languages, but finer-grained differences modulate how meaning is represented. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

TBH the thing that is most sad about the loss of ~2015-2021 era science twitter is the loss of a public square where grad students can see, and participate in, the diversity of expert opinions in the field. It really shaped how I see science.

We've posted a new fMRI study of semantic relations (has-part, is-a, made-of, etc.), a key aspect of language. We find that relations are represented in the same brain regions as are other semantic concepts, though voxels tend to be selective for only one relation or another. doi.org/10.64898/202...

These findings align well with what @clarepress.bsky.social and I discuss in our "Forward and backward prediction" paper, see www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Which "statistic" governs statistical learning? Find out in this new article of our lab: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

The strongest version of this illusion I’ve seen! Absolute head-wrecker!

underappreciated concept 🙂 for more dipoles: neighboring dipoles have different orientations & can have different stimulus preferences. so even though topographies look similar, subtle differences remain. maybe that's why it is possible to decode information from relatively few sensors?

Recent work has shown how vulnerable online survey research is to LLMs. Motivated by this, we examined our online Posner cueing data from Prolific. It's concerning. We now must carefully consider when (or whether?) online behavioral data can be trusted. see our comment: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Hiring now! 📢 The CRC 1233 Robust Vision consortium at @unituebingen.bsky.social is looking for a Research Coordinator to lead science management, support project execution, and help steer our interdisciplinary research in neuroscience, machine learning and computer vision.

Man I really need to go back and watch this show again

I think this is worth a read A perspective at how AI is becoming part of how we work 👇👇👇

Our paper is out in @natneuro.nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s41... We develop a geometric theory of how neural populations support generalization across many tasks. @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social @flatironinstitute.org @kempnerinstitute.bsky.social 1/14

New preprint with Giovanni Pezzulo: arxiv.org/abs/2602.08079 Bootstrapping Life-Inspired Machine Intelligence: The Biological Route from Chemistry to Cognition and Creativity

Why don’t neural networks learn all at once, but instead progress from simple to complex solutions? And what does “simple” even mean across different neural network architectures? Sharing our new paper @iclr_conf led by Yedi Zhang with Peter Latham arxiv.org/abs/2512.20607

"The Self-Evidencing Agent" - my new book - is out now with @mitpress.bsky.social Can be purchased, or just download the whole thing for free, via the 'Open Access' option. I'm grateful to @anilseth.bsky.social and Karl Friston for the generous endorsements. mitpress.mit.edu/978026255389...

By end of Feb @bsky.app will be the 2nd largest social media source for research sharing in our database - Google+ managed 945,000 mentions of research during its life - Facebook pages (not people's profiles) have shared papers 6.6m times - Reddit = 600k Bluesky is currently at 6m and climbing

How to start the year off right 😊 Our commentary in Nature Mental Health proposes using AI and VR to simulate experiences similar to those produced by traditional psychedelics, offering a novel pathway to advance psychedelic-assisted therapy research🤩 Link 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

At @elife.bsky.social you can now include explainer videos with every figure. Like going to a seminar while you engage with the paper. First example here elifesciences.org/articles/106... Click the arrows next to each figure to get a video of @mathiassablemeyer.bsky.social explaining it for you!