Neuroscience has become increasingly concerned with prediction, and machine learning with causal explanation, with each field adopting methods from the other, writes @gershbrain.bsky.social. Will this bring us closer to understanding neural systems? www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...

Today NeurIPS is announcing our official satellite event in Paris. After responding to the call from Ellis following the success of EurIPS in December, we are pleased to reach a new milestone by joining forces with the NeurIPS organizing committee for the 2026 edition.

Our paper “Multifidelity Simulation-based Inference for Computationally Expensive Simulators” has been accepted at ICLR 2026! 🥳 We hope this can be a practical solution for anyone analysing and doing inference on computationally expensive simulators. Paper: openreview.net/pdf?id=bj0dc...

Having a hard time believing this ides of March story, you're telling me senators did something other than send out fundraising texts

Happy Pi Day to all who celebrate.

A fair coin "knows" π. Stop flipping when heads first outnumber tails. The expected fraction of heads is π/4. Average many trials → estimate π. Result by J. Propp, animated for #PiDay. Made with #Python #NumPy #Matplotlib and @marimo.io #Mathematics #MathArt #CreativeCoding

A paid summer internship is available in Microsoft Research NYC for a *PhD student later in their degree*, with experience designing human questionnaires/experiments, collecting data on prolific, running statistical analysis, and writing papers. If you know exceptional candidates please ping me. 🙏

🏹 Job alert: Postdoctoral Researcher (Postdoc) - Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) Beyond LLMs (ARC-AGI-3 Focus) (m/f/d) 📍 Hannover 🇩🇪 ⏰ Apply by March 27th 🔗 https://bit.ly/4u3rbfr

🏹 Job alert: PhD and Postdoc Positions in Visual Computing at University of Bonn 📍 Bonn 🇩🇪 🔗 https://bit.ly/4tWnyb8

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We're looking for a postdoc starting this summer to join our efforts in understanding the capacity limits of cognition: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

Even the most brilliant detective can't solve a case without finding the clues first. Yet most "thinking" VLMs make this exact mistake: they entangle visual search and complex logic into one giant, expensive chain of thought. Stop burning through tokens in the dark. Ignite a SPARC. ⚡

PhD opportunity in "The role of neural development in multimodal intelligence" with me, @marcusghosh.bsky.social and @flor-iacaruso.bsky.social. Read details below 👇. Note there's a very short window for applying (deadline Feb 27). 🤖🧠🧪 www.imperial.ac.uk/school-of-co...

If you work at the intersection of computational neuroscience and machine learning, consider applying for this postdoc position (January 2027 start date): academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15868 An opportunity to work with a great group of people across Harvard, MIT, and UC Berkeley.

ArXiv preprint server clamps down on AI slop | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

🏹 Job alert: Postdoctoral Researcher in Logical Reasoning and Machine Learning at Helsinki University 📍 Helsinki 🇫🇮 📅 Apply by Feb 5th 🔗 https://bit.ly/4jYDoO0

Our journey at Sakana AI is just getting started. We are looking for people to help us pioneer the next generation of AI—building from Japan to the world. Join us: sakana.ai/careers

~everyone I know agrees about this; we’re not being loud about it yet, but I can feel that coming

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

Our new paper (with @biotay.bsky.social) is out and on the cover story of @currentbiology.bsky.social !!!! Veronika, a Carinthian mountain cow flexibly uses a “multi-purpose tool” to scratch herself. A video and more information will follow in the comments. www.cell.com/current-biol...

⏳ Just over 2 weeks left to apply! ⏳ We are looking for talented Cognitive Neuroscientists to join our team at Trinity College Dublin for postdoc positions funded by a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator grant. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV296/r... www.ktsetsoslab.net/_files/ugd/0...

📢 Applications open on 19 Jan for the 7-week #Mathematics #SummerSchool in London. You will develop the maths skills and intuition necessary to enter the #TheoreticalNeuroscience / #MachineLearning field. Find out more & register for the information webinar 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...

My department in Edinburgh is hiring a lecturer (assistant prof) in Software Engineering: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Now that Bluesky is pro-AI we should try to trigger another wave of immigration from Twitter. Maybe we could organize an unofficial "Bluesky AI week" where we try to get lots of Bluesky-curious folks to try it out.

We are hiring Members of Technical Staff (Research Engineers)! Current LLM agents lack reliability, creating a gap between demos and production. We solve this by automating the complex workflow of debugging, evaluation, and iteration required to make agents robust. 👇

One of my favorite findings: Positional embeddings are just training wheels. They help convergence but hurt long-context generalization. We found that if you simply delete them after pretraining and recalibrate for <1% of the original budget, you unlock massive context windows. Smarter, not harder.

This 100%. Musk has made it very clear that he will always tip the scale towards his opinion. No one else can possibly "win". Accept that Twitter is dead. X is wearing its skin.

We’re hiring. sakana.ai/careers/#sof...

Some folks have wanted to list Claude as a co-author on @arxiv.bsky.social submissions, which is not permitted. But if it had been allowed, so many Claude-written papers have been rejected at this point, that Claude would be banned from the platform

LLMs are certainly not just glorified k-nn, but there are certainly many glorified k-nn aspects to them. Not in a bad way, k-nn are surprisingly powerful methods.

I'm glad to see this pressure on Google and Apple. If any other company was running an active CSAM generator in public you better believe it would have been removed from their app stores by now www.wired.com/story/x-grok...

With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world: gershmanlab.com/textbook.html It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class. My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.

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.

📢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...