🔥 We're very pleased to release our latest study 🧠: "Temporal structure of the language hierarchy within small cortical patches" Paper → arxiv.org/abs/2604.03021 🧵 Summary thread below: 1/7

Also: I'm going to be interviewing candidates for this Research Programmer position over the next three weeks. If you have experience with ML pipelines and want to contribute to some very cool joint neural/behavioral analysis projects, consider applying! recruiting2.ultipro.com/SCR1003TSRI/...

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Do you have a Republican rep? Probably worthwhile to spend the day yelling at them and telling all your neighbors to do the same

Dear US citizens, Please, do as much as you can to stop this madness. Don't let your president use a nuclear bomb on Iran. The world has suffered enough! Call your senators! Stop him! Please!

Last night, US/Israeli strikes bombed Sharif University, my alma mater, heavily damaging the IT Center, Philosophy of Science building, EE, and more. Trump spoke of sending Iran "back to the Stone Age." That is the goal of this war. Scientists worldwide should speak up against these atrocities.

I don't know about that, but I do know that defending a PhD would count on Resume! 😎👨‍🎓

Attention fluctuates over time and across contexts—how is this reflected in the brain?🧠 Fitting a dynamical systems model to fMRI data, we show that the geometry of neural dynamics along the attractor landscape reflects changes in attention. Out in @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy Nowruz and the first day of spring to anyone who celebrates! 🌷🪻 #Nowruz #Noruz

For those traveling to #cosyne2026, sad to miss catching up this year, but here's two posters you should check out: 1) Complementary roles of spatial tuning and population geometry in place- vs. memory-guided navigation w/ @audiodrome.bsky.social @apeyrache.bsky.social @tyrellturing.bsky.social.

Are you at #cosyne2026 and looking for a postdoc position? CATNIP = Neural Dynamics Lab is hiring! catniplab.github.io/postdoc-hiri...

Happy to see you at #cosyne2026 to show you the unrolled version! [3-221] | March 14 | 1:45pm - 4:15pm |

How does circuit structure shape neural activity? The lab of @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social Prof. Wulfram Gerstner shows that distinct neural circuits can produce similar low-dimensional dynamics, while retaining clear signatures in single neuron and population activity data: doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

I don't think there's enough time for the poster presentation. Such good posters and so little time! #cosyne2026

Happy to see you at #cosyne2026 to show you the unrolled version! [3-221] | March 14 | 1:45pm - 4:15pm |

Excited to give a talk at #Cosyne2026 about my PhD work! We show that RNNs trained on visual search converge on brain-like solutions, producing primate-like behavior and neural representations. Happy to chat if you're at Cosyne! 📅 March 15, 2026 📍 Lisbon, Portugal www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New PhD and post-doc job openings! Join me and Prof. Nina Kazanina @ Uni Geneva, Switzerland, to take part in an exciting project on relations and binding in language and vision, explored with cutting-edge neurophysiology (#iEEG and MEG). Full details in the job offer below.

New preprint from the lab! Ábel Ságodi developed a theory of approximating dynamical systems that goes beyond finite time. #theoreticalNeuroscience Follow @neurabel.bsky.social Universal Approximation Theorems for Dynamical Systems with Infinite-Time Horizon Guarantees. . arxiv.org/abs/2602.08640

🎉 🎉 Excited to share that our paper has just been published in Chaos. Here, we introduce Network Reciprocity Control (NRC) #algorithms that make it possible to systematically tune #reciprocity and directional #asymmetry in #networks while preserving density or total weight.

A projection atlas of excitatory and inhibitory inputs to the preBötzinger Complex: substrates for multimodal breathing control www.biorxiv.org/content/bior...

Calling all scientists: Support your Iranian colleagues www.nature.com/articles/d41...

7 days of digital black-out in Iran. One week of darkness... Approximately 20,000 innocent, empty-handed protesters got killed!

Over 12,000 people peacefully protesting against the current Iranian regime have been killed in just one week. These are among the darkest days of 2026. Shame on every country that recognizes the Iranian regime as a legitimate government that murders its own people.

I left Iran in Jan 9th. I was there to visit my family. Meanwhile protests and strikes began. I left the country with one of the few last flights before the digital blackout in Iran. I hugged my family and said goodbye in the airport and never heard from them since then. There is zero connection.

I came from Iran yesterday, by taking one of the last flights. The situation in Iran is unimaginable. There are unofficial reports that over 2000 protestors have been killed by the regime in the span of two nights, while the internet is cut off. The world must see this and must do something! #iran

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

Postdoc & PhD positions How intrinsic motivation underlies intelligent, open-ended and embodied behavior in natural and artificial agents Apply if interested sites.google.com/view/morenob...

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!