"...When we claim the world cannot improve, we are stealing from the future something invaluable, which is the possibility of #progress..."

Here is a whole-#brain #MRI protocol that resolves the venous network at 0.35 millimeters in under 7 minutes. Actually this will be very useful for diseases like #Alzheimer where neurodegeneration, atrophy and veins are involved www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Someone at AI Research Roundup made a video about our SharpXR: Structure-Aware Denoising for Pediatric X-Rays www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXFY... #AI #MachineLearning #DeepLearning #MedicalImaging #Denoising #PediatricRadiology #ChestXRay

#AI can predict 130 diseases from 1 night of sleep🛌 This foundation model (#SleepFM) trained on #sleep recordings using brain, heart, muscle & breathing signals combined, can predicts risks for #dementia, #heart failure, #kidney disease, and #stroke, etc years before

Happy New Yeah! May this new turn of the Earth around the Sun brings you joy... and don't mind me entering apartment by the window

In "Graph Attention Networks for Detecting #Epilepsy from EEG Signals Using Accessible Hardware in Low-Resource Settings" @IEEEembs ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/112... we trained a model on Colab and deploy it on Rasberrypi, using data afffordable #EEG #bioengineering #medtech #wearables

I always found the Ezra Klein Show a source of inspiration, I haven't finished the new book, but in this super-polarizing moment, I found it refreshing, pushing back against the politics of scarcity. more houses, more clean energy, more opportunity, instead of the usual austerity

New paper out:"Graph Attention Networks for Detecting #Epilepsy from #EEG Signals Using Accessible Hardware in LowResource Settings" with S. Mazurek & S. Moore ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/112... Code: github.com/alecrimi/eeg... We propose portable EEG & GAT to easy diagnosis in rural areas

I hate Pigeons🕊️ they ruin my balcony and destroy my garden, now they are on @ScienceMagazine "Global screen for magnetically induced neuronal activity in the pigeon #brain" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Their balance organs also detect weak electromagnetic fields to orient in space

We have this paper finally online 🧠🧠🧠: "Modeling the Spread of Misfolded Proteins in #Alzheimer’s Disease using Higher-Order Simplicial Complex Contagion", big shout to Marcin, @iacopoiacopini,@lordgrilo & V.Latora ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/112... Free on MedrXiv! Code: github.com/mwardynski/M...

🧠➡️🤖 This paper shows how oscillatory sync can power “HoloGraph” a brain-inspired model outperforming classic #GNNs on complex structures www.nature.com/articles/s41... #AI

Frugal #innovation: Under Blockade, G4za’s Doctors to Unveil the First-Ever Locally Made #3Dprinted External #Fixator, Built with #SolarPower and Recycled Materials: glia.org/blogs/press-...

For #ReservoirComputing lovers,I found a challenging #attractor, the Thomas': dx = np.sin(y) - b * x dy = np.sin(z) - b * y dz = np.sin(x) - b * z x += dx * dt y += dy * dt z += dz * dt 3k neurons yet 67% correlation. Here is the code for you github.com/alecrimi/mag...

We have a new paper: "Graph Convolutional Networks for Classification and Explanation of Traumatic #Brain Injury" with T.Curreri & S.Vitabile from @unipa_it, E.Rostami from @karolinskainst, J.FalcoRoget. GNN were used to find common neurodegenerative after #TBI ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp....

Vicarious body maps bridge #vision and #touch in the human #brain www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Reservoir computing is good for #neuroAI because 1. it avoids the biological implausibility of backpropagation 2. it naturally models temporal dynamics 3. Random recurrent reservoirs naturally sit near the edge of chaos (complexity is good) I can continue... #AI #neuromorphic

📊 Varoufakis’ #Technofeudalism: left part shows the classic Marxist model: land, labour, and capital create exchange value, from which capitalists extract surplus value. right, Cloud #Capitalism: surplus is no longer extracted via production, but by control over digital access

Behold Jaxley: differentiable simulator for biophysical neuron models, written in the Python library #JAX, because we needed something more than #tensorflow. Imagine a sweet RNN models with Hodgkin–Huxley-type neurons 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroAI

Can I show you how the MNIST dataset is used using a #spiking neural networks (not convolutional neural networks)? #AI #machinelearning

Next Friday 21st, I ll be at The DigiHealth session of the DataScienceConference in Belgrade at the seesion about Stroke and 𝗔𝗜 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝘄𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗢𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 datasciconference.com/new-speakers/ You can get 20% access with my code: "dscbuddy"

just some #sea #drawings of Katherine Quinn, google her

we are merging macro with micro scale🧠connectome, in the meanwhile I share with you my recreation of Kasabov Neucube in #Python, #spiking #neuralnetwork 🗠🗠🗠 (SNN) model, #brain portion simulation: Blue dots→ excitatory neurons Red dots→ inhibitory neurons github.com/alecrimi/eeg...

the first songbird #basalganglia #brain connectome: -8,500 automated neuron reconstructions -20 million synapses -16 cell types www.songbird-connectomics.org

Given all research I have seen on disintegration of plaques, I was wondering why nobody thought about human applications: "A wearable spatiotemporal controllable ultrasonic device with amyloid-β disaggregation for continuous #Alzheimer’s disease therapy" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🧠 how the brain understands speech: it encodes sounds → words → meaning in a hierarchical dynamic code (HDC). Higher-level features evolve slower, letting the brain track language over time without interference. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #Neuroscience #Language

Substantially, we have Spotify and an #AI doctor 👨🏻‍⚕️🥼℞☤🩺👩🏻‍⚕️💊 🎧 OpenEarable 2.0: Open-source headphones that play music AND track 30+ health metrics! Heart rate, blood oxygen, temperature & movement detection, it's redefining wearable tech dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

I survived @MLinPL 2025, the community of #machinelearning in #Poland is really growing insanely, plus the location of the Copernicus #science center must be amazing for kids

🧠Electrophysiological approaches track activities of neurons, usually regardless the cell-types or #brain areas recorded, without further molecular or histological analysis. I found this multi-modal contrastive learning method to identify from activity ibl-nemo.github.io

Fighting #globalwarming ♽🌱♻️🌍💚♻ Side project: creating a Greenshade for lowering the temperature outside (ivy releases microdrops of water through the geotextile. Current challenge: ivy growing slowly to cover the whole geotextile. See the length in the current prototype

🧠 1/ It’s not the thought that counts "Allostasis is predictive regulation, distinguished from the concept of homeostasis, which involves reactive regulation to perturbations that return a system back to an optimal set point." The brain primary job isn’t to think but to regulate

Lipid #brain atlas is out. This is so fat! t.co/q3AeqGsIS1

Cell2Sentence, imagine telling a sequence of genes to an #LLM and getting which cell is it. "Scaling Large Language Models for Next-Generation Single-Cell Analysis" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #biology #genetics #AI #ML

Anyone in #Warsaw this weekend? I am at #ML in PL on Friday conference.mlinpl.org/program, and at Aspects of #neuroscience on Saturday aspectsofneuroscience.fuw.edu.pl

Review paper arguing that the #brain has a built-in mental brake that stops unwanted thoughts. Via a fronto-temporal pathway, it relies on GABA to calm mental loops. Weak brakes may underlie #PTSD, #OCD, anxiety, and #depression www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I am animating #brain 🧠 tractography from #Blender. Just a few tracts, because my old laptop explodes :-) Do you want to know the details on how to set those dynamic materials? #b3d #Neuroscience

Chalks and Bronzes. Hendrik Andersen was a Norwegian #Sculptor who after living in US and France moved stably in #Rome, where he had a house (one room studio, one room museum, and the rest for living), at his death he donated the house with everything in it to the city of Rome.

#DarkMatter #Berlin, a playground of light, sounds,for topology, symmetry, and abstract structures emerge in art, architecture, and interactive exhibits 🪐✨

Finally solved the mystery of the strange drones invading Europe

🧠#Creativity actually slows down the brain’s aging process. A new study suggests it can—and the effects are measurable. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Keep dancing, playing, painting... and also videogames #Alzheimer #dementia #alzheimersawareness #neuroimaging

1/3 🧠"#Macroeconomic income inequality, brain structure & function, and mental health." Income inequality doesn’t just shape society — it shapes the brain. Children growing up in more unequal U.S. states had thinner cortex, smaller surface area, and altered #brain connectivity

Robot Navigates Tough Terrain With New 3D Mapping Technique. The bot autonomously jumps and crawls cluttered spaces with ease spectrum.ieee.org/robot-naviga... Original Paper: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/111... #robotics

Join me and other people talking about #topological data analysis and brain🧠 , next Friday at the University Mercatorum of Rome, Italy, for "Cutting-Edge perspectives on #brain networks" or follow online: www.unimercatorum.it/eventi/cutti...

Amazing paper:"Arousal as a universal embedding for spatiotemporal brain dynamics"🧠🐁 𒅒𒈔 www.nature.com/articles/s41... you can even find the #autoencoder based code: github.com/ryraut/arous... but dear #Brain people🧠, why do you find cool brain dynamics, state trajectories, embedding?

Amazing stuff about #BCI and #Parkinson: "Invasive neurophysiology and whole #brain connectomics for neural decoding in patients with brain implants" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#OpenSource #Robotic Hand That Costs Just $300. @TetherIA_ai officially launched its robotic hand: - 314 USD -CAD, electronics, and firmware are all open source -7 Active Degrees of Freedom (16 joints) with a tendon-driven design -400 grams dear #biologists someone can pipette for you

Li #attractor=chaotic vibes like Lorenz/Chen use its wild dynamics for #ReservoirComputing to process time series. The truth: just use it because it looks cool⚔🏴‍☠️🌊 def dequan_li(x,y,z): dx = a*(y - x) + y*z dy = b*x - x*z+y dz = c*z + x*y/3 return dx,dy,dz

Spiking #Brain, a new bio-inspired #LLM doing everything more efficiently, faster, with less data: - 100x TTFT on 4M token inputs - 97% energy savings The scariest part of this is that they don't use #Nvidia but those alternative Chinese Metax #GPUs Thoughts? @ceciletamura.bsky.social 👇

Targeting the cells at the center of #ALS: "Enhancer AAVs for targeting spinal motor neurons and descending motor pathways in rodents and macaque" www.cell.com/cell-reports...

I am honest with you guys, I am on a low budget building #drones

#Summer is over, and I share my Summer reading list of non-scientific #books. All recommended except "Rise and decline of nations" (I found it too formal and bit outdated)