𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝘆 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗳𝗠𝗥𝗜? We employed Switching Linear Dynamical Systems to investigate the dynamics of resting-state networks They are dynamic, not static! Work with Xiaoyu Zhao with lots of new methods. Thread. #neuroskyence www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

happy that our article about mu & alpha rhythm waveform shape in development is now finally out in the open: doi.org/10.1162/jocn... oscillation frequency changes across development (one of the most robust findings in the oscillation world). in this work, we also look at waveform shape changes.

Very excited about this new work from the omnipotent Owen, with me and Ashok Litwin-Kumar! Can we reconcile low- and high-dimensional activity in neural circuits by recognizing that these circuits ~multitask~? (Plausibly, yes 😊)

I have successfully defended my PhD. You may address all correspondence to me as "Dr."! 🎓 of 🧠!

Can we achieve nonlinear multimodal neural fusion while also enabling real-time recursive decoding for #BCI? In our third paper at #NeurIPS2025, we present MRINE, which does exactly that — improving decoding even for modalities w/ distinct timescales & distributions. 👏 Eray Erturk 🧵 Paper Code ⬇️

This paper deserved its spot in my special @zotero.org collection:

𝗗𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 Oldie but goodie. doi.org/10.1103/RevM... #neuroskyence

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Cool PI, great lab, vibrant city for science! What else one needs!

Our group is at NeurIPS and EurIPS this year with four papers and one workshop poster. If you are either curious about SBI with autoML, with foundation models, or on function spaces or about differentiable simulators with Jaxley, have a look below 👇 1/11

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I still see much focus on single factor coding in studies of medial temporal cortex. Although our results in primate hippocampus indicates a more mixed code www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

📍Excited to share that our paper was selected as a Spotlight at #NeurIPS2025! arxiv.org/pdf/2410.03972 It started from a question I kept running into: When do RNNs trained on the same task converge/diverge in their solutions? 🧵⬇️

Submitting PhD thesis ☑️ Get it out of your system ⭕️

Modern way of thesis writing!

How do we make sense of scientific literature that is growing explosively to the point where no-one could read all the relevant papers, and is contaminated with fraudulent and LLM-generated papers? I think that science isn't currently equipped to deal with this, and we need to. #science #metascience

The human brain responds to the sounds of both familiar and unfamiliar languages in a similar way, according to research in Nature. The findings might guide future approaches to language learning and rehabilitation. go.nature.com/4ppvsHb #Neuroskyence 🧪

PhD's calendar state before the thesis submission: 22nd: Overleaf's trial ends 23rd: DeepL end of trial 24th: Grammarly end of trial

Catch me at the DANDI/NWB booth (3831) today at 1 pm for a live demo of this online textbook I developed with a former student of mine! #SfN25 #SfN2025 @sfn.org (Or check it out for yourself 👉 nwb4edu.github.io )

Our work on training biophysical models with Jaxley is now out in @natmethods.nature.com. Led by @deismic.bsky.social, with @philipp.hertie.ai, @ppjgoncalves.bsky.social & @jakhmack.bsky.social et al. Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

For my academic fellows: Affinity softwares are completely free now (alternative to Photoshop, illustrator and InDesign). Apparently the company was bought by Canva and they went on full generous mode! www.affinity.studio

What changed your perspective on scientific writing? How did it improve? Any useful experience/tip would be welcome!

Starting to learn Vim is not a mistake by itself. Though starting it right before your PhD defense is certainly a mistake. Btw, check out www.vimtutor.sh to learn Vim. Good stuff there!

Reviewer 2, seeing my paper!

Talks from #SNUFA 2025 are now available on YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?lis... 🤖🧠🧪

If you're interested in dynamical systems analysis for neuroscience, definitely check out @oliviercodol.bsky.social 's revised version of our RL paper! Very cool results in the new Fig 6, worth it regardless of if you saw our previous version or if it's all new. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Here is the results! I have mixed feeling about it! It's too textbook-y! 🧠

I rarely post things like this, but my friend’s mom needs urgent help for CAR-T cell therapy — it’s her only hope. Please take a second to visit the link and share it forward. It could make a real difference. 🙏 www.dimaan.ir/en

You never know! #paris

*Neurocomputational architecture for syntax/learning* Neuroscience & Philo Salon: join our discussion with @elliot-murphy.bsky.social with commentaries by @wmatchin.bsky.social and @sandervanbree.bsky.social Nov 5, 10:30 am eastern US Register: umd.zoom.us/my/luizpesso... #neuroskyence

How does our brain excel at complex object recognition, yet get fooled by simple illusory contours? What unifying principle governs all Gestalt laws of perceptual organization? We may have an answer: integration of learned priors through feedback. New paper with @kenmiller.bsky.social! 🧵

Excited to share our new work with @engeltatiana.bsky.social! RNNs are often used to explore how the brain may solve specific tasks. We show that, depending on the architecture, RNNs find distinct circuit solutions, behaving differently when exposed to novel stimuli. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Want the freedom of a fancy fellowship, but not the year-long wait or arduous application? Come join my lab! Work on neuroscience and AI, explore your creativity, be independent or work closely with me, collaborate widely, and have a lot of fun! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Spiking NN fans - the #SNUFA workshop (Nov 5-6) agenda is finalised and online now. Make sure to register (free) soon. (Note you can register for either day and come to both.) Agenda: snufa.net/2025/ Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/snufa-2025... Thanks to all who voted on abstracts! 🤖🧠🧪

Delighted to share our new paper, now out in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... "Hierarchical dynamic coding coordinates speech comprehension in the brain" with dream team @alecmarantz.bsky.social, @davidpoeppel.bsky.social, @jeanremiking.bsky.social Summary 👇 1/8

CogNeuroLanguage: new by @lauragwilliams.bsky.social & @jeanremiking.bsky.social (w Alec Marantz & me) shows how the brain maintains-updates continuously unfolding lang hierarchy during comprehension, anchoring ling theories to biological implementation www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #neuroskyence

Dimensionality reduction usually loses information. - PCA loses the non-linear cycling. - t-SNE distorts the distances between the three populations -- Diffusion maps compress the early state cells and lose the cycling. Fig. 2e from nature.com/articles/s41...

My Microsoft Teams doesn't allow me to sign in as the software is outdated. The update button doesn't work, and I have to re-download the whole thing from their website. It reminds me of the time when I was using Windows, and for upgrading the version, I had to reinstall every single thing! 🪟

ok, imagine you have an oscillation that is not symmetric around 0 (small direct current shift) with some amplitude modulation, for instance with 1/f-dynamics. ➡️ then these 1/f-dynamics will show up in low frequency part of spectrum (red); in addition to around oscillation peak (yellow).

I have open positions for graduate students in my lab. If you’re interested in joining, please apply through the Mila form. I’m particularly interested in (thread below): 1/3 🧠🤖 #MLSky

The number of academic software tools in the world only grows with time, and learning new ones is daunting. Here, my postdoc @rgast.bsky.social spoke about PyRates, a model translator that lets you study dynamical systems with a whole suite of tools built in Python, Julia, Matlab, and Fortran.

New paper out with David Pascucci! We hash out our opposing views on the probabilistic nature of perception and cognition are probabilistic. It was a very rewarding undertaking: the challenge of disagreement coupled with the satisfaction some consensus. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

When part of a word is replaced by noise, humans still hear the whole word. How do brains do this? New from Meliza group in @natcomms.nature.com Le et al. study this in zebra finches, a model system for vocal learning www.nature.com/articles/s41... #prattle 💬 #neuroskyence 1/5

🎉 "High-dimensional neuronal activity from low-dimensional latent dynamics: a solvable model" will be presented as an oral at #NeurIPS2025 🎉 Feeling very grateful that reviewers and chairs appreciated concise mathematical explanations, in this age of big models. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/2

New in @pnas.org: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... We study how humans explore a 61-state environment with a stochastic region that mimics a “noisy-TV.” Results: Participants keep exploring the stochastic part even when it’s unhelpful, and novelty-seeking best explains this behavior. #cogsci #neuroskyence

🚨 New preprint! “A Computational Perspective on the No-Strong-Loops Principle in Brain Networks” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Over the past 3 years, we’ve been investigating why cortical networks avoid strong reciprocal loops — and what this means for computation.

I’m super excited to finally put my recent work with @behrenstimb.bsky.social on bioRxiv, where we develop a new mechanistic theory of how PFC structures adaptive behaviour using attractor dynamics in space and time! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue. The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea. From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...

New preprint! What happens if you add neuromodulation to spiking neural networks and let them go wild with it? TLDR: it can improve performance especially in challenging sensory processing tasks. Explainer thread below. 🤖🧠🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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