How does the structure of a neural circuit shape its function? @neuralreckoning.bsky.social & I explore this in our new preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🤖🧠🧪 🧵1/9

We're hiring,, of interest to people in spiking neural networks and neuromorphic particularly. See below. 👇 Note the deadline for applications is very soon! Apologies for this but various admin necessities made it unavoidable.

Hiring a post-doc at Imperial in EEE. Broad in scope + flexible on topics: neural networks & new AI accelerators from a HW/SW co-design perspective! w/ @neuralreckoning.bsky.social @achterbrain.bsky.social in Intelligent Systems and Networks group. Plz share! 🚀: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

We had an incredible gathering at UK Neural Computation 2025 @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social last week 🇬🇧 Macron missed out... Some of the UK’s very best at the frontier of comp neuro. Thanks to our sponsors ARIA + Crick & UKNC team: @markdhumphries.bsky.social + @neuralreckoning.bsky.social!

Tickets for UKNC25 @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social close tomorrow 5pm BST! Register here: neuralcomputation.uk/registration...

Excited for the UK Neural Computation Conference 2025 @ Imperial, 9th - 11th July! 🚀 World leading scientists working in brain computation - from experimental to modelling, mathematics & ML (+ all combinations thereof). Registration closes 1st July! Plz share: neuralcomputation.uk

Almost last call to register for UK neural computation conference in London July 10-11. Registration deadline is July 1st. We have some great talks and posters as well as a session on funding with ARIA. 🤖🧠🧪 Look forward to seeing you all there. Now click here 👇 neuralcomputation.uk

Excited for the UK Neural Computation Conference 2025 @ Imperial, 9th - 11th July! 🚀 World leading scientists working in brain computation - from experimental to modelling, mathematics & ML (+ all combinations thereof). Registration closes 1st July! Plz share: neuralcomputation.uk

We propose a novel framework that disentangles the concepts of “hardware” and “state” within the NCA. For us: - Rules = "Physics" dictating state transitions. - Hardware = Immutable + heterogeneous scaffold guiding the CA behaviour. - State = Dynamic physical & computational substrate.

Super awesome work by @solarpunkgabs.bsky.social - training neural cellular automata directly to solve tasks via matrix operations!

Registration is open for UK Neural Computation 2025 10th/11th July! We are offering 8 conference fellowships to support attendance. ***Abstract submission deadline is 12th May!*** neuralcomputation.uk/submission.h... Register here: neuralcomputation.uk/registration... Any q's - get in touch!

Come along to the UK neural computation conference! Registration now open. Check out this awesome set of speakers, and even more importantly loads of opportunities to interact with your fellow computationally minded UK neuroscientists (including a mind matching session hopefully).

Registration open for UK Neural Computation 2025 @Imperial neuralcomputation.uk/registration... ECR day: 9 July, ~30 free places Main meeting: 10-11 July Pls share! Sponsors @aria-research.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk Organisers: @danakarca.bsky.social @neuralreckoning.bsky.social & me

Abstract submissions are now open for the UK Neural Computation Conference! (Deadline 12th May). We also have ARIA sponsored travel funds for ECRs! 💥 Submit here: neuralcomputation.uk/submission.html Genreal info: neuralcomputation.uk Registration open May. Any qs get in touch + plz share!

Abstract submission is open for UK Neural Computation 2025 @ Imperial College (9-11 July) neuralcomputation.uk/submission.h... Deadline: 12 May Please share All info: neuralcomputation.uk Sponsors: ARIA; Francis Crick Institute Organisers: @danakarca.bsky.social @neuralreckoning.bsky.social

I wrote a thing for @thetransmitter.bsky.social. The attack on scientific infrastructure happening in the US shows that relying on any one country is not a good option for science. We need to start supporting and building international, decentralised infrastructure for science.

For our next UCL #NeuroAI online seminar, we are happy to be hosting Dr Dan Goodman @neuralreckoning.bsky.social (@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social). 🗓️Wed 12 Feb 2025 ⏰2-3pm GMT Talk title: Neural architectures: what are they good for anyway?

New preprint: "The geometry of the neural state space of decisions", work by Mauro Monsalve-Mercado, buff.ly/42wVHD5. Surprising results & predictions! (Thread) We analyze neuropixel population recordings in macaque area LIP during a reaction time, random-dot motion 1/

We are hosting UKNC 2025 @ imperial! 💥 Fantastic set of speakers, see at neuralcomputation.uk Super exciting time to be working at the intersection of comp neuro/AI & applications. Save the dates: 9th July - ECR day 10th & 11th July - Main event Any questions get in touch! Plz share!

We are hosting UKNC 2025 @ imperial! 💥 Fantastic set of speakers, see at neuralcomputation.uk Super exciting time to be working at the intersection of comp neuro/AI & applications. Save the dates: 9th July - ECR day 10th & 11th July - Main event Any questions get in touch! Plz share!

Rory @rory.bio is working on a large project to accelerate science 🧪 through high-quality & open-source software. To steer the project it would be amazing to hear from scientists across fields about problems in the scientific process *you* want to see solved! Tell Rory here flywhl-ideas.notion.site

@danakarca.bsky.social and I are working on a remaster using modern techniques. 😉

We're just getting started discovering how biology constrains the emergence of intelligence & behaviour + leveraging this w/ AI. Spatially embedded neuromorphic networks nature.com/articles/s42... Thank you Bratislav Misic & Filip Milisav: covering mine and @achterbrain.bsky.social recent work!

If the field of bio-learning rules leaves you confused as to what is and what is not actually "biologically plausible", we've got the tool here for you: A formalism to clarify what different learning algorithms actually mean when they say they're "local". #NeurIPS2023

Two years ago @danakarca.bsky.social & I wondered: Could the features we observe in brains across species be caused by shared functional, structural & energetic constraints?🧠⚡️   With our spatially embedded RNN we show this is true!   www.nature.com/articles/s42... 🧵 #neuroscience #compneuro #NeuroAI

A reminder of these positons! Do share with talented students and colleagues - do get in touch if you have any questions.

We have x4 Postdoc positions @ Cambridge, @ the fantastic MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, working on exciting comp neuro, imaging and NeuroAI projects… w/ @duncanastle.bsky.social, Petra Vertes + others! Link here: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/43796/ If you have any questions, hmu! (Do plz share!)

hello world: excited to share our preprint on low-dimensional architectures of longitudinal graded phenotypic variation in Alzheimer's and frontotemporal lobar degeneration, linked through to pathology and survival. #endFTD W/ @danakarca.bsky.social & others www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

*New paper* W/ Sofia Carozza (not a twit) & @danakarca.bsky.social, in PNAS The adaptive stochasticity hypothesis shorturl.at/clz02 Bottom line: heightened stochasticity makes brains robust to random/targeted attacks, but more often results in non-normative phenotypes Mini thread below!

Hello Bluesky/Twitter refugees! For my first post, I invite you to check out the latest work by @garedaba.bsky.social and myself where we look at thalamocortical gradients in human and mouse brains 🌈🧠🐭🌈 In short, we highlight evidence for a supra-nuclear axis of thalamocortical organisation

‼️Maths in the Brain 2023 ‼️ I’ll be speaking with some great scientists - my first time in Melbourne (23 Oct '23) 🦘 w/ @anilseth.bsky.social, @drbreaky.bsky.social, Ines Hipolito, Tao Tsuchiya, Reuben Rideaux & Nanda Ribeiro! Registration here, pls share!: www.eventbrite.com/e/workshop-2...

I have two invites for BlueSky. What’s the best way to share them?

Interested in associative memory and hopfield networks? Join us for the AMHN workshop at Neurips, linking #neuroscience and machine learning . I am very excited to support the organisers as part of the program committee! General information: amhn.vizhub.ai Call for papers: amhn.vizhub.ai/cfp/

Thrilled to announce that the MRC CBU is offering Cambridge's first Master’s in Cognitive Neuroscience. a An innovative course combining cutting-edge teaching & deep research experience in a cognitive neuroscience lab. www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/study-with-u...

Our view on the feasibility of artificial consciousness. We approach the question mainly from the perspective of biology/neuroscience and conclude that we are still far from conscious machines. w @macshine.bsky.social #neuroscience #PsychSkySci #consciousness arxiv.org/abs/2306.00915

V. excited by this in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, w/ Mark Johnson and @danakarca.bsky.social Can computational models tell us something fundamental about cognitive and brain development? We think so. We term it "computational neuroconstructivism". www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Finally on my way down under! ✈️ 🇦🇺 Extremely excited (an understatement) to be visiting the @macshine.bsky.social group, working closely with @christopherjwhyte.bsky.social on biophysical generative models of spiking networks. A new chapter!

In lieu of an introductory post, I want to re-share our latest preprint which leverages a novel thalamocortical spiking neural network to bridge the gap between the cellular mechanisms of perception studied in rodents and the behavioural signatures of conscious perception studied in cog neuro.

A key idea behind the brain's ability to flexibly compute is short-term plasticity! Beautifully reviewed by the late Mark Stokes: ‘Activity-silent’ working memory in prefrontal cortex: a dynamic coding framework www.cell.com/fulltext/S13... Great potential to influence ML methods! #neuroscience

(Porting over some tweets!) Last week @achterbrain.bsky.social and I were at CCN in Oxford, discussing various projects in spatial-embedding in computational neural network models. Here is some recent work on weighted generative models of human connectivity!

The one and only danakarca.bsky.social arrived on Bluesky! Give him a follow for some seriously cool Computational Neuroscience work - specifically Dan has been pushing to bring theoretical approaches from Computational Neuroscience to be used in Developmental Neuroscience!

Finally over to bluesky! I’m a computational neuro post-doc, working on neuro-AI and generative models in neuroscience. Looking forward to sharing more here 😎

At CCN23, Jonathan Cornford presented a super cool new preprint: Synaptic Weight Distributions Depend on the Geometry of Plasticity arxiv.org/abs/2305.19394 Jointly lead with Roman Pogodin, they develop a theory of cost of weight changes. Work done in Blake Richards group at Mila. #neuroskyence