I think it is very important to talk more about the deep problems of functional connectivity,

become my colleague at penn bioengineering: apply.interfolio.com/173716

He’s going to spend 25% of his life to live 10% longer, isn’t he? We need to teach opportunity cost more in our schools.

For those interested in open neuroscience learning tools, check out the preprint for “RetINaBox: A hands-on tool for experimental neuroscience" that a couple students in my lab worked on in collaboration with the Trenholm lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧠📈 🧪

At a meeting in 2000, a prominent researcher accused John Duncan and me of "turning cortex into a bowl of porridge". Hey, if the data shows a bowl of porridge, that's what it is. Sorry if that is uncomfortable or inconvenient.

This point by @earlkmiller.bsky.social is very much obvious from a mainstream deep learning perspective. Why would neurons specialize?

Is This the End of the Growth Mindset Theory? | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

In our capitalist society, we worship competition But in academia it can be harmful Encouraging secrecy over collaboration, withholding of data, misappropriation of ideas, and even questionable research practices

Come join us at University of Toronto. We're hiring a Professor of computational cognitive neuroscience. #neuroAI #compneuro jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

I can hear it speak my language! Hasta la vista, baby!

#Neuro4Pros 4ever 🧠🤓 Grateful for a week of learning from & being in community with fellow early career profs & amazing facilitators @gunnarblohm.bsky.social @kordinglab.bsky.social @meganakpeters.bsky.social @yaelniv.bsky.social @patrickmineault.bsky.social Hannah Bayer 📸: @mohebial.bsky.social

Had a fabulous time at the gorgeous QUBS discussing science, mentorship, and community. Grateful to @kordinglab.bsky.social, @gunnarblohm.bsky.social ❤️ our facilitators, and everyone who made it so meaningful. Proud of the friendships we built. #wethepeople

Run don’t walk to the #Neuro4Pros summer school if it happens again and you’re an early career prof Thanks again for the absolute best time ⭐️ @gunnarblohm.bsky.social @kordinglab.bsky.social @yaelniv.bsky.social @meganakpeters.bsky.social @patrickmineault.bsky.social, and Hannah Bayer

you guys. i am REALLY bad at steering a canoe. @neurograce.bsky.social is truly a saint for putting up with me 🙏 at least i didn't capsize us! (team building exercises @ #neuro4pros! h/t to @gunnarblohm.bsky.social & @kordinglab.bsky.social for organizing such a stellar group, & it's only day 2!)

hello again from LAX! it's 6am & i'm on my way to Neuro4Pros, hosted & organized by @gunnarblohm.bsky.social & @kordinglab.bsky.social! compneurosci.com/Neuro4Pros/i... looking forward to talking mentorship, scicomms, project management, & open science infrastructure w/ all you brilliant people!

Just in time for @kordinglab.bsky.social's visit, my blue oysters fruited! Konrad and I will be running our new neuroscience leadership camp starting tomorrow with the most amazing group of participants! compneurosci.com/Neuro4Pros/i...

Dropout is signal dependent (proportional) noise. Neurons tend to have it. Is dropout just a cheap implementation of signal dependent noise?

I've started using this tool to guide new papers and projects and it's awesome; @kordinglab.bsky.social made something really cool here! Highly recommend for all scientists :)

#C4R25 Conference speaker highlights - Join our PI, @kordinglab.bsky.social for a demo of his new app, the Scientific Project Planner. A hands-on session to get your study started rigorously. 🗓️ September 9 Space is limited. RSVP at C4R.io/conference

Planning your first scientific project as the term is about to start? Teaching a project based course? I am working on an app that should help. planyourscience.com Still looking for feedback. Much simpler than any previous version. Works on mobile. Good science, much AI.

Neuroscience students asked us to teach a PRACTICAL course on experimental methods, and it is now on YouTube! Please like and repost to help us get the word out! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization 🧵

Need a coi list? Just a reminder that it does not need to be hard.

Its a new term and a lot of us are preparing their lectures. I am a huge fan of online ways of teaching. And my student Joey Rudoler @jrudoler.bsky.social made a great online stats course. Shiny app and all. Modern take on stats. Thought some of you may appreciate.

We can now define a set of rules of good science and automatically flag violations, and help users avoid violations. But we may kill creativity in the process. Which rules should we enshrine? How should we manage a system where some need rules and others are stifled by them?

New CNeuroMod-THINGS open-access fMRI dataset: 4 participants · ~4 000 images (720 categories) each shown 3× (12k trials per subject)· individual functional localizers & NSD-inspired QC . Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2507.09024 Congrats Marie St-Laurent and @martinhebart.bsky.social !!

Is involuntary hospitalization killing people instead of saving them? www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary...

I'm curious if any senior nonhuman primate Neuro-AI researchers would be interested in joining Queen's University if we were to obtain a research chair position (full professor level)? Could you please send me a confidential message to indicate your interest? [email protected]

This line strikes me most. We're doing this work not for our blink-of-an-eye lives. It's for our whole species. What future generations build from depends on our integrity in the present. It's wrong to corrupt the body of knowledge humanity has been building since its origins for personal gain.

1/3) This may be a very important paper, it suggests that there are no prediction error encoding neurons in sensory areas of cortex: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... I personally am a big fan of the idea that cortical regions (allo and neo) are doing sequence prediction. But... 🧠📈 🧪

This is a great paper that I missed at the time. Worked example of how neuroscience methods could lead to a wrong conclusion on figuring out a tiny neural network. Like @kordinglab.bsky.social "could a neuroscientist understand a microprocessor" but even simpler.

Reporducibility in fly immunity. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... great paper. To me the fact that people who move between teams do better research is quite interesting. Collaboration imho is key to good science.

Attractors are usually not mechanisms - new blog post: open.substack.com/pub/kording/...

Every generation has been richer for a long time and, yet, people feel we live in worse times than the past. Are you all believing the future will tank? Mostly because of AI? Difference academia vs industry? Are my friends just drawn non-randomly?

Melanie Segado, Felipe Parodi, Jordan K. Matelsky, Michael L. Platt, Eva B. Dyer, Konrad P. Kording: Grounding Intelligence in Movement https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02771 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.02771 https://arxiv.org/html/2507.02771

Who doesn't like a good model of the brain? Yet, from simple regression to neural nets, some limitations keep popping up (e.g., overfitting) @mjwolff.bsky.social & I saw some cool but puzzling data, ran a quick analysis & found one such limitation: model mimicry. Now in #naturecommunications &🧵below

Finally a brain study with a network that makes sense to me.

Well study authors finally admit they have no stance on whether measuring more or less "brain activity" within the context of their task measurement is good or bad despite previous quotes about brain health. Pitchforkers can issue their apologies via my venmo. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is quite correct in the most important sense. I'll tell you a story: over ten years ago, I built an automatic p-hacker (in Matlab, I'm old). It took some data, changed more or less every analysis parameter possible, used every outlier management schema, etc. and then subgroups. It could...

Why I believe that every cell does gradient descent (and maybe even partially backpropagation) open.substack.com/pub/kording/...

🚨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

Thanks so much for everyone who came out in person or online to hear me talk about our LLM course today at UNSW. thebullshitmachines.com

AI folks and Econ folks have different ways of eliciting utility functions (irl vs experiments). There must be someone who nicely combines both philosophies?

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Should we shut down the field of mechanistic interpretability? arxiv.org/html/2502.20...

Why do humans (and other animals) blink synchronously with both eyes? Would life not be less dangerous if at any point of time at least one eye could see?

Had fun presenting at @kempnerinstitute.bsky.social on Theories of rapid learning, creativity, and reasoning: of mice and machines. Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLmK... Papers: Learning: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Creativity: arxiv.org/abs/2412.20292 Math Reasoning: arxiv.org/abs/2502.07154

Apparently people appreciate highly focused talks. I will do my best to comply in the future. 1 talk, 1 idea it is. Its a bit hard for us older folks as we probably have accumulated many ideas.

Konrad Körding of @UPenn.edu explains why causality is so difficult to uncover in neuroscience. @kordinglab.bsky.social‬ #NeuroAI2025 #AI #ML #neuroscience

Patricia Smith Churchland, an APA Pacific Division past president, is co-editor-in-chief of the new Journal of NeuroPhilosophy (JNphi), which is currently accepting submissions for upcoming issues. Learn more at www.jneurophilosophy.com