🚨🚨New open resource for EEG researchers 🚨🚨 Want to work with neural synchrony and intersubject correlation of EEG? We released ready-to-use correlated components spatial filters for the 64-channel 10–20 montage.

This is arguably the biggest attack on American science yet. Peer review is the cornerstone of our scientific enterprise and this will make it irrelevant. Please make noise over this. And Congress - impeach Russell Vought.

@russpoldrack.org @kordinglab.bsky.social Want to build something like this? jerlich.substack.com/p/synthetic-...

This paper changed my mind on how visual processing works in the brain. We knew it was dynamic given all the recurrent connections. But I thought it would converge to a fixpoint during a fixation. Not so, it seems ... The dynamic captures different aspects of the stimulus at different times. Nice.

Where, exactly, does learning happen in the brain? Out today in @nature.com, we identify a synaptic locus of birdsong learning and show that the circuit can be tuned to make birds learn faster - but at a cost. Read on👇 #neuroskyence 🧪 #prattle 💬 #bioacoustics Shareable link: rdcu.be/fiyrS

Now out in Nature Machine Intelligence @NatMachIntell “Adopting a human developmental visual diet yields robust and shape-based AI vision”: doi.org/10.1038/s422.... A wonderful case where brain inspiration improved AI. With @martisamuser.bsky.social, Radek Cichy and @timkietzmann.bsky.social .

"Quality is a relic now. Nobody wants it. Nobody pays for it. Nobody measures it. The metric is velocity. The metric is how fast you can ship a 3,167-line function that burns a quarter million API calls daily and call it 100% AI-written." 🔥 techtrenches.dev/p/the-snake-...

Children exhibit visual understanding from limited experience, orders of magnitude less than our best models. We introduce the Zero-shot World Model (ZWM). Trained on a single child's visual experience, BabyZWM rapidly generates competence across diverse benchmarks with no task-specific training. 🧵

Extremely cool paper 😎 All elementary functions from a single binary operator arxiv.org/abs/2603.21852

A neurodevelopment-inspired warm-up strategy to address uncertainty calibration: networks are briefly trained on random noise and labels before exposure to real data, leading to well-calibrated confidence and strong detection of unknown inputs. Cool results! #NeuroAI www.nature.com/articles/s42...

French government switching to #linux 🇫🇷❤️🐧 "2026 is set to be l’année de Linux." 😅👌 magnifique! share.google/xHwAIaMQuFzz...

For #NSF and #NIH watchers, Grant Witness now has interactive data on numbers of grants and total funding obligations, broken down by institute and directorate, new awards and non-competitive renewals. The stranglehold on new awards is still a disaster. grant-witness.us/funding_curv...

NEW preprint with @stephen-ramanoel.bsky.social and @mobilebrainimaging.bsky.social 🎉 In this final study of my PhD, we combined immersive virtual reality with mobile EEG and gait analysis during a path integration task, recording from 30 young and 32 older adults www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

My NIH update Let me start by saying again how glad I am that NIH is now posting these curves on the Reporter front page. It is satisfying that leading by example from outside has led to this change and (I hope) reflects a commitment for NIH_leadership™ to hold itself accountable for this. 1/6

🎉 Excited to share our publication in PNAS! 🎉 What happens when our stream of consciousness turns towards the body? Our fMRI study of 536 individuals finds that 'body-wandering' is associated with patterns of brain connectivity, physiology, affect, and mental health: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

"We present The AI Scientist, which creates research ideas, writes code, runs experiments, plots and analyses data, writes the entire scientific manuscript..." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Humans happen to have the same problem... pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32483374/ Conclusion : AI is human? 🤪😱🤦

In case you missed it-- check out our Paper Skygest preprint! ⤵️

Is there a single "interoceptive sense"? Our new study in @commspsychol.nature.com says: probably not. In 241 participants, cardiac and respiratory interoception were completely uncorrelated — only subjective confidence was shared across domains. www.nature.com/articles/s44... #psychscisky 🧪

New @bodybrainbehaviour.bsky.social preprint, and this is a big one for the lab: @teresaberther.bsky.social did the deepest of dives into #gut-brain coupling with MEG and HD gastrography. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A brief 🧵on our first trip into this corner of #brain-body #neuroskyence:

Russell Vought's OMB is continuing to hold up funds at NIH. www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...

Recently, van der Stigchel and colleagues posted a provocative commentary suggesting that we should be wary of bots in online behavioral data collection (🧵by @cstrauch.bsky.social here: bsky.app/profile/cstr...). But should we? Here is my response letter osf.io/preprints/ps.... 1/5

NEW from the #KempnerInstitute: InputDSA, a tool to separate intrinsic dynamics from input-driven effects—enabling accurate, efficient comparisons of complex systems with external inputs. Read the #DeeperLearning blog post by @annhuang42.bsky.social & @kanakarajanphd.bsky.social: bit.ly/4bkrvy9

RIP redundancy reduction? Beautiful work by Liu & colleagues showing that neural redundancy increases with learning, as predicted by a Bayesian model: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

DNN models of the brain are getting bigger. Are we replacing one complicated system in vivo with another in silico? In new work, we seek the *smallest* DNN models of visual cortex, balancing prediction with parsimony. It turns out these compact models are surprisingly small! rdcu.be/e5H8G

NEW: #Kempner researchers develop a mean-field theory of task-trained RNNs that bridges random and learned connectivity—and find macaque motor cortex is best captured by an intermediate, task-specific recurrent structure. Read the blog post 👇 🔗 bit.ly/47f3Ldl

Orbitofrontal cortex drives predictive filtering of sensory responses www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroskyence

NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26) Directorates to follow 1/10

The impact is already hitting science agencies hard. The NIH—the world's largest public biomedical research funder—has had to rely on leftover stopgap funds. New grant awards have slowed to a trickle — exacerbating the effects of a record-long shutdown in October. (h/t @jeremymberg.bsky.social)

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"Post-Learning Offline Pauses Support Consolidation Beyond the Mind-Wandering State" www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...

𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁/𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰 So we model the dynamics. Version of record of our paper is available. #neuroskyence elifesciences.org/articles/102...

CCN Proceedings submission deadline coming up soon! Feb 9 - abstract and metadata Feb 12 - full paper PDF

Very cool work on how distributed, recurrent neural circuits cooperate to implement evidence accumulation. www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Another horrific ICE shooting in Minneapolis. Man wrestled to the ground by federal agents, then shot multiple times. www.reddit.com/r/Minneapoli... @startribune.com is there: www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

A long, absolutely must-read article from Cory Doctorow: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Wanna compare dynamics across neural data, RNNs, or dynamical systems? We got a fast and furious method🏎️ The 1st preprint of my PhD 🥳 fast dynamical similarity analysis (fastDSA): 📜: arxiv.org/abs/2511.22828 💻: github.com/CMC-lab/fast... I’ll be @cosynemeeting.bsky.social - happy to chat 😉

🚨 New paper in @pnas.org to end 2025 with a bang!🚨 Behavioral, experiential, and physiological signatures of mind blanking www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... with Esteban Munoz-Musat, @arthurlecoz.bsky.social @corcorana.bsky.social, Laouen Belloli and Lionel Naccache Illustration: Ana Yael. 1/n

Cortical field coupling (aka volume conduction) lamina-to-lamina (1) and column-to-column (2). (1) www.jneurosci.org/content/41/3... (2) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

1 To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised! 🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Well done Swissuniversities! @snsf.ch et al. once again leading the charge (see previous special issue announcement). Funders and institutes hold the cards. If they don't pay the profiteers, we researchers will just adapt. We don't need Nature. Nature needs us. #SciPub #ResearchIntegrity

And here I thought naively that my uptick in citation in 2025 on Google Scholar was due to my terrific scholarly contributions. Turns out, EVERYONE I know has had an uptick in citation in 2025. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Academic publishing is broken. Anyone in the business of stringing words together is on notice.

Horrifying glimpse into a possible future of the scientific information ecosystem. Fake papers cited dozens of times in real journals, and indexed in our most commonly used databases -- As this grows, it could become a corruption of the literature impossible to undo. 1/2 #academicsky 🧠🟦

Wow. In fMRI, up is up and down is down, sometimes, but sometimes it's the other way around. This finding trashes the main claim on the default mode network, which states that it's brain areas have higher neural activity during internally oriented throught. Turns out, it's the other way around. 😂😂

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

We should just use standardized test scores + grades to admit students into college. Everything else is way too easy to game, allowing the extremely rich to dominate access to prestigious colleges. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... I've been saying this for a long time, but the data makes it clear.

Taming the chaos gently: a predictive alignment learning rule in recurrent neural networks www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Jonny Smallwood @themindwanders.bsky.social was a beloved friend and mentor. He was taken from us too soon. His was a beautiful mind who understood the beauty of minds. As ever before, his kind voice guides me and his work will continue. We miss you Jonny. www.cbs.mpg.de/news/obituar...