AI writing and reviewing and reading and citing academic papers. 🤖🫧💥 youtu.be/sg8lBUJuLCg?...

We took a stab at how to infer both the dynamics and control parameters of partially-observable systems. It’s a nasty problem, but @vgeadah.bsky.social made tremendous progress, ending up with some really elegant formalisms.

If you're interested in research co-creation, I have helped developing a guide for co-creation with @connectedminds.bsky.social and you can find it here: www.yorku.ca/research/con...

Narrator: They did not learn any lessons from COVID. "Wash your hands" and "don't panic" is as far as they ever got with infection control. www.bmj.com/content/391/...

Another senior position, this one in social/affective psychology at Queen's: www.queensu.ca/psychology/s...

I am looking to hire a great postdoc to join our lab in sunny Eugene at the University of Oregon for fun behavioral/fMRI experiments on sensorimotor control in young and older adults. Please share/get in touch if interested! pages.uoregon.edu/mmar/

It's been a couple weeks, but I keep thinking back to this exchange. What a truly inspiring group! ❤️

www-nature-com.proxy.queensu.ca/articles/s41... Dr. Greg van Anders Nature Communication paper on "Sufficient is better than optimal for training neural networks."

🇨🇦 If you are a Canadian who still wants to travel to the US, you may want to put that thought aside. The US Thought Police want your social/personal history for the last five years. If you have said anything against Felon 47 you might be banned or jailed. US Tourism is dead. #CanadaSky🇨🇦

German newspaper Der Spiegel today's title story: "Two villains, one goal"

hear, hear. Grace Lindsay puts it perfectly: international science, drawing from people around the world, is "the only way to get the best work done". diversity in background, perspective, culture is not just "nice" -- it's crucial to the breakthroughs that will change our world for the better.

Canada is strengthening its NHP research! 👏👇

📣We have 2 open faculty positions for senior researchers in Neuroscience at Queen's University! healthsci.queensu.ca/administrati... 1. a new Director for our Centre for Neuroscience Studies 2. a non-human primate NeuroAI researcher Please share widely and reach out for questions!

When you get fascists, you will have to punch them in the face sooner or later. And sooner is always much better

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

When academics from elite institutions insist that academia is just a job... 🤨 Things are bad, friends, as if we haven't already realised it. Have a lovely Sunday! 😏 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Reflecting back on this post I wrote in January now, as we reach the end of 2025. In it I argue that 2025 needed to be the year of human (not AI) agency, and in many ways I feel that it has. 🧵

👏 Honestly, everyone should follow their example...

Love and compassion are forms of resistance- David Byrne Pic of the day #photography

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Thinking about shopping on Amazon for Cyber Monday? Watch this first. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FaRBjqYsXRE

New students often ask me: When did you feel confident about a career in academia?Whats your motivation? I don’t have all the answers, but I do have lessons learned through experience. I wrote a short piece for anyone starting, or recalibrating, their neuroscience journey. medium.com/@kohitij_716...

All reviewers should read this 👇

"Neuroscientists need better training in computational methods." We got you. Join us in July: neuromatch.io/courses/ Our #ComputationalNeuroscience course is the perfect way to gain practical experience and build a strong foundation in this field.

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A beautiful summary of our paper! Thank you @neurosock.bsky.social

Nature Sci Rep publishes incoherent AI slop. eLife publishes a paper which the reviewers didn't agree with, making all the comments and responses public with thoughtful commentary. One of these journals got delisted by Web of Science for quality concerns from not doing peer review. Guess which one?

fabulous resource. are you a new PI? get yourself added to the list!

Relevant from multiple perspectives these days... (from: gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2007/10/corr...)

One example of how multiplexing might be implemented in the brain was shown in the great work by Thomas Akam with Dmitri Kullmann, a decade ago. The papers are cited well but the general multiplexing idea never really took the field by storm as much as it deserved www.nature.com/articles/nrn...

It feels like the converastion about manifold dimensionality is back, so I thought I'd share a paper that explains nicely why measuring the "embedding dimensionality" of a manifold (e.g., counting PCs) can be very different from its actual "intrinsic dimensionality (DoFs) doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

Everyone should be using this! 👇

A G1 Humanoid has arrived! Ingenuity Labs at Queen's University welcomes a new robot to their fleet. This new member will help facilitate collaborative high impact research initiatives and will help secure significant sources of funding! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr6G...

The Ethical Considerations Microcredential Course has launched! Learners will apply a bioethics lens to evaluate neurotechnologies across various sectors. neurotechmicrocreds.com/courses/neur...

These are critical "experiments" to test real world readiness of AI models. TL;DR: not ready www.cbsnews.com/news/why-ant...

Because we can all see how well Americans are doing with the less regulated tech world of the US 🫣. What is the EU thinking? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/t...

Disgusting! www.downtoearth.org.in/environment/...

The Ponizsa illusion - Kanizsa triangle produces Ponzo illusion, but oddly it inverts apparent depth: the longer line looks closer! Also has an inversion effect like we studied in Altan et al 2025 Proc Roy Soc (doi.org/10.1098/rspb...) but it's also in reverse! 🤔 #visionscience #psychscisky

Sea urchins are mostly brains in a spiky shell? Soo cool! 🤯 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

💯 agree with this and their conclusions 👇

What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma. It's *scientific publishing*. We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇

Research in primate brains has been essential for the development of brain-computer interfaces and artificial neural networks. New funding and policy changes put future such advances at risk, write Cory Miller, @movshon.bsky.social and Doris Tsao. #neuroskyence bit.ly/47MXYLH

Faint #Aurora over Kingston, Ontario

What Would it Take to Convince a Neuroscientist That an AI is Conscious? I, @anilseth.bsky.social, and Michael Graziano weigh in: gizmodo.com/what-would-i... Thanks to Ellyn Lapointe for the opportunity to write about this.