This is primarily why I left X: couldn’t stand the “vibes.”

Bluesky is great. I've met multiple collaborators and friends through this site, I'm overwhelmed by interesting papers to read, when I post technical questions I get many informative responses. I've blocked an occasional weird person but then they're gone and I don't care.

#XAI, #neurosymbolic methods #nesy and #causal #representation #learning #CRL all care about learning #interpretable #concepts, but in different ways. We are organizing this #ICLR2026 workshop to bring these three communities together and learn from each other 🦾🔥💥 Submission deadline: 30 Jan 2026

The United States was the gold standard for science and technology for decades, and there was never any reason that had to end.

I take comfort in knowing that Schumer is probably writing the sternest of emails to the president right now.

Good tips, personally doing the "don't focus on on the bad arguments" in the new year

📢Please share📢 We have an opening for an exciting fully-funded PhD project on computer vision and machine learning applied to biodiversity monitoring with amazing Serge Belongie @belongielab.org and @aicentre.dk. Application deadline coming up on 15 January! phd.tech.au.dk/for-applican...

New Perspective from myself, Sarah Heilbronner and @myoo.bsky.social . “Rethinking the centrality of brain areas in understanding functional organization” in Nature Neuroscience. 🧵 rdcu.be/eVZ1A

📢 Join us, the Haberkern lab, @uni-wuerzburg.de for a postdoc studying neural circuit mechanisms of navigation. You’ll spearheading neurophysiology experiments on our brand new 2P! ⏳ Apply by 28th February 2026 Details: www.haberkernlab.de/docs/ENPostd... #neuroscience #academicjobs #postdoc

Rick Steves sees the world around him clearly—including the world right around where he lives.

Goal selection through the lens of subjective functions: arxiv.org/abs/2512.15948 I welcome any feedback on these preliminary ideas.

fMRI signals “up,” but neural metabolism might be going “down.” In our @natneuro.nature.com paper, we demonstrate that about 40% of voxels with robust BOLD responses exhibit opposite oxygen metabolism, revealing two distinct hemodynamic modes. rdcu.be/eUPO8 funds @erc.europa.eu #neuroskyence 🧵:

“Why AGI Will Not Happen” by Tim Dettmers. timdettmers.com/2025/12/10/w... This essay is worth reading. Discusses diminishing returns (and risks) of scaling. The contrast between West and East: “Winner takes all” approach of building the biggest thing vs a long-term focus on practicality.

LLMs didn’t move language modeling research from linguists to AI people, they just moved it from computer scientists who thought language was interesting to computer scientists who thought language was boring

Sorry I have so few childhood heroes left you can't take Oliver Sacks

Announcing the ICML 2026 policy for LLMs in reviewing! Reviewers and authors both pick either conservative or permissive LLM use, and will be matched accordingly. Importantly: authors on papers who choose conservative must obey the conservative policy as reviewers.

Spread the word: I'm looking to hire a postdoc to explore the concept of attention (as studied in psych/neuro, not the transformer mechanism) in large Vision-Language Models. More details here: lindsay-lab.github.io/2025/12/08/p... #MLSky #neurojobs #compneuro

"Move to the center. Inject some civility into your hate speech."

By “sovreignty” he means “states should be weak enough so that billionaires like me should be able to treat them as feudal vassals” bsky.app/profile/lora...

Good researchers obsess over evals The story of Olmo 3 (post-training), told through evals NeurIPS Talk tomorrow. Upper Level Room 2, 10:35AM. Slides: docs.google.com/presentation...

**How distributed is the brain-wide network that is recruited for cognition?** That goes to the top of the list! #neuroskyence doi.org/10.1038/s415...

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

NEW: Elon Musk's Grok chatbot will, with minimal prompting, provide residential addresses of everyday Americans. Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for. futurism.com/future-socie...

Finally got the job ad—looking for 2 PhD students to start spring next year: www.gao-unit.com/join-us/ If comp neuro, ML, and AI4Neuro is your thing, or you just nerd out over brain recordings, apply! I'm at neurips. DM me here / on the conference app or email if you want to meet 🏖️🌮

If you're at #NeurIPS2025 tomorrow (Dec 3, 11:00–14:00 PST), Brown Ebouky will present our new work “Eliciting Reasoning in Language Models with Cognitive Tools” where we combine cognitive architectures with #agentic workflows to enhance #LLM reasoning 🧠 Check it out here neurips.cc/virtual/2025...

If you're at #NeurIPS2025 tomorrow (Dec 3, 11:00–14:00 PST), Brown Ebouky will present our new work “Eliciting Reasoning in Language Models with Cognitive Tools” where we combine cognitive architectures with #agentic workflows to enhance #LLM reasoning 🧠 Check it out here neurips.cc/virtual/2025...

📢 Postdoc position 📢 I’m recruiting a postdoc for my lab at NYU! Topics include LM reasoning, creativity, limitations of scaling, AI for science, & more! Apply by Feb 1. (Different from NYU Faculty Fellows, which are also great but less connected to my lab.) Link in 🧵

“I will die on the hill that population coding is the relevant level of encoding information in the brain.” In the latest “This paper changed my life,” Nancy Padilla-Coreano discusses a paper on mixed selectivity neurons. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/this-paper-c...

Thanks! And check out our new review on mixed selectivity, please and thanks. doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Update from OpenReview

CMT not looking so bad now 😅 #ICLR2026 #OpenReview

OpenReview was breached. The names of authors, reviewers, ACs, etc, for all past and current conferences were visible for a time, making nothing anonymous anymore. These data have been released for this year's ICLR, but I fear it's also the case for the past 10 years of conferences.

I have a PhD project open for application about "Habituation of Paramecium, the “swimming neuron”" on the DIM C-Brains programme, for a PhD in Paris. Open for students with a Master outside France. Get in touch if interested! dim-cbrains.fr/en/phd-progr...

Just a few days left to apply for a PhD opportunity in the Talbot group! ⏰ Deadline 2nd December 2025 👇👇

Social Media Giants and Payment Services will be held liable for reimbursing victims of financial scams. This basicly means they will be come liable for fraudulent ads published through their services. www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...

🏹 Job alert: Principal Investigators in artificial intelligence and machine learning at @ellisinstitute.fi 📍 Helsinki 🇫🇮 📅 Apply by Jan 12th 🔗 https://www.ellisinstitute.fi/PI-recruit-2026

When @natrevneuro.nature.com asked me to highlight a paper that influenced both my field and my own research, I immediately thought of the work on mixed selectivity by @matrig.net, @stefanofusi.bsky.social, and colleagues. More on this journal club: rdcu.be/eRKLk

🚀 Introducing TMLR Beyond PDF! 🎬 This is a new, HTML-based submission format for TMLR, that supports interactive figures and videos, along with the usual LaTeX and images. 🎉 Thanks to TMLR Editors in Chief: Hugo Larochelle, @gautamkamath.com, Naila Murray, Nihar B. Shah, and Laurent Charlin!

Olmo 3 is notable as a "fully open" LLM - all of the training data is published, plus complete details on how the training process was run. I tried out the 32B thinking model and the 7B instruct models, + thoughts on why transparent training data is so important simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/22/...

This study show that using poems to jailbreak LLMs is... super effective? What the heck.

Trust in science will increase when we stop all the money being used to fund anti-science political attacks and spread disinformation.

Excited to announce our book “Neuroevolution: Harnessing Creativity in AI Agent Design” by Sebastian Risi, Yujin Tang, Risto Miikkulainen, and myself. We explore decades of work on evolving intelligent agents and shows how neuroevolution can drive creativity in deep learning, RL, LLMs and AI Agents!

Life Sciences PhD studentships available in amazing Glasgow! Deadline Jan 12 General details here: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl... My project, on cognitive mapping in 3D space in mice and humans, available here: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...

The US government should subsidize Open AI rather than OpenAI

Pleased to share that our survey "Getting aligned on representational alignment" — on representational alignment across cognitive (neuro)science and machine learning — is now published in TMLR! openreview.net/forum?id=Hiq... Kudos to @sucholutsky.bsky.social @lukasmut.bsky.social for leading this!

The Principles of Diffusion Models It traces the core ideas that shaped diffusion modeling and explains how today’s models work, why they work, and where they’re heading. www.arxiv.org/abs/2510.21890

I’m recruiting a postdoctoral researcher on a fully funded 2-year contract. The topic is developing and implementing new parallel graph algorithms, with applications to data-driven transportation and logistics. Details and application procedure below ⬇️ Reach out if you have any questions!

Still a couple of days to apply to the ELLIS PhD program, DL Oct 31, 2025: ellis.eu/news/ellis-p... I am especially looking for students interested in developing new approaches for distribution shifts in my new ERC AdG www.ellisinstitute.fi/a-revolution... but also other topics, see kaski-lab.com

#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...