Finally got the job ad—looking for 2 PhD students to start spring next year: www.gao-unit.com/join-us/ If comp neuro, ML, and AI4Neuro is your thing, or you just nerd out over brain recordings, apply! I'm at neurips. DM me here / on the conference app or email if you want to meet 🏖️🌮

free startup idea: AI to lubricate the university administrative procedural system

hey I'm reposting this for no reason at all today... www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

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...

Just 1 week to apply! 4 year @erc.europa.eu funded PhD position working in an interdisciplinary team to study #culturalEvolution as a process of reuse, recombination, and creative re-engineering of past solutions. Details 👉 hmc-lab.com/ERCPhDCultur... 🙏Please share!

what will we achieve first: 1. world peace 2. off-ball screens in pickup basketball ?

this is the kind of stuff one could only dream of in primates

sounds about right

New post in @jocnforum.bsky.social by Early Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social: "Principles for proper peer review" doi.org/10.21428/8e6...

Manuel Brenner and I managed to organize this workshop not knowing we were gonna end up being new neighbors this month. The lineup speaks for itself. There were some last minute cancellations so we jumped in to fill their big shoes and will talk about the future directions of the new labs too!

I've been waiting some years to make this joke and now it’s real: I conned somebody into giving me a faculty job! I’m starting as a W1 Tenure-Track Professor at Goethe University Frankfurt in a week (lol), in the Faculty of CS and Math and I'm recruiting PhD students 🤗

🚨 2 Postdoc openings in Neuroscience – Liège, Belgium 🚨 We are recruiting for a project on brain development & autism that includes: ⚡ Neuropixels recordings ⚡ Opto/chemo ⚡ Behavior ⚡ Neural network modeling If you know someone, tag them or RT for visibility! 🙏 www.fens.org/careers/job-...

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From hackathon to release: sbi v0.25 is here! 🎉 What happens when dozens of SBI researchers and practitioners collaborate for a week? New inference methods, new documentation, lots of new embedding networks, a bridge to pyro and a bridge between flow matching and score-based methods 🤯 1/7 🧵

arguably the most important component of AI for neuroscience: data, and its usability

My PhD journey has officially come to end with a Summa Cum Laude, thanks to all the amazing people who’ve supported me along the way, especially my advisors Anna Levina and @engeltatiana.bsky.social! Which apparently coincided with graduation from a witchcraft and wizardry school 😉 #neuroskyence

asked Claude to brainstorm for a new blogpost given two previous ones and it immediately starts talking like me. let's just say it's very...disconcerting. also TIL I'm a snarky asshole lol.

some advice I got years ago: if you get lots of questions after your talk, even if they sound mean (they're usually not), it means you did work that people actually bought into and can engage with.

Inria is opening a Junior Professor Position (tenure track) at Saclay on the topic of Cognitive Computational Neuroscience. This junior professorship is part of the development of computational cognitive neuroscience within @univparissaclay.bsky.social #Neurospin @neuropsi.bsky.social and #inria

Excited to present our work on compositional SBI for time series at #ICLR2025 tomorrow! If you're interested in simulation-based inference for time series, come chat with Manuel Gloeckler or Shoji Toyota at Poster #420, Saturday 10:00–12:00 in Hall 3. 📰: arxiv.org/abs/2411.02728

I am teaching my phd writing workshop course this quarter, question: are there any words/phrases said to you by an advisor/mentor that stuck with you, were memorable, or particularly helpful? If so please reply below!

"but the AI will replace scientists and solve physics"

Thanks so much for the shout-out, and congrats on your exciting work!! 🎉 🙂 Also, a good reminder to share that our work is now out in Cell Reports 🙏🎊 ⬇️ www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Ever wonder how LLM developers choose their pretraining data? It’s not guesswork— all AI labs create small-scale models as experiments, but the models and their data are rarely shared. DataDecide opens up the process: 1,050 models, 30k checkpoints, 25 datasets & 10 benchmarks 🧵

build your foundation model on this guy's brain. no line attractor for fear, only fixed point for idgaf.

legitimate reason to start drinking on a Friday afternoon

Looking forward to presenting our work on Latent Diffusion for Neural Spiking data tonight—Poster 1-108 & experience discussions on scaling in neuroscience firsthand at the foundation model workshop, where I'll talk both about our work on masked VAEs & latent diffusion for neural & behavioral data

sending everybody to this @patrickmineault.bsky.social blogpost because my rant on the apparent hubris in neuroscience is ... not as nicely worded. www.neuroai.science/p/what-are-f...

🚨 New paper on ArXiv: “Uncertainty quantification and posterior sampling for network reconstruction” TL;DR; We present an efficient method to sample the entire ensemble of possible network reconstructions that are compatible with an indirect observation, e.g. a dynamics. Short thread: 1/N

so like, what are endowments actually for??

absolute Michael Jordan energy here. Fuck them haters. the sad thing is that I have heard basically identical stories, down to the words said. Dudes aren't that creative I guess.

⚡️ Excited to introduce ZAPBench, our #ICLR2025 spotlight: The Zebrafish Activity Prediction Benchmark measures progress in predicting neural activity within an entire vertebrate brain (70k+ neurons!) Explore interactive visualizations, datasets, code + paper: google-research.github.io/zapbench 🧠🧪

oh my god the whole thing is literally executed like an undergrad CS project

Ending the night with this. *Get your hankies* A D-Day veteran called a gracious and humbled Zelenskyy a hero.

Yup. But even complete knowledge of every conceivable microscopic detail down to the quantum level wouldn't tell us "how the brain works". This is one of the lessons of the research on artificial neural networks: we know all parameters already, but understanding still eludes us. 🧵

Lakers fans chanting "thank you Nico" in the Mavs game is the energy Canada and Europe need while snatching up US science talent right now

Feeling like academia is in pretty bad shape? You're not alone. @clarekelly.bsky.social and I previously wrote about the need to collectively rethink and reshape scientific practice: the academic doughnut. Read more at elifesciences.org/articles/84991 But, have these ideas changed anything? 👇

good guy to work for and with

🙏 Please help us improve the SBI toolbox! 🙏 In preparation for the upcoming SBI Hackathon, we’re running a user study to learn what you like, what we can improve, and how we can grow. 👉 Please share your thoughts here: forms.gle/foHK7myV2oaK... Your input will make a big difference—thank you! 🙌

a whole flowchart that could have been communicated in one sentence. ...it would be funny if it wasn't horrifying, truly one for the ages.

1) Some exciting science in turbulent times: How do mice distinguish self-generated vs. object-generated looming stimuli? Our new study combines VR and neural recordings from superior colliculus (SC) 🧠🐭 to explore this question. Check out our preprint doi.org/10.1101/2024... 🧵

batman: what drove you to this dark madness? villain: ...you see, I was an NIH-funded postdoc in 2025...

I thought I was just an asshole

"exhaust fumes" made it into the official abstract! hence completing the journey from an epiphenomenal shitpost blog to a full-blown review paper. all thanks to this cast of co-authors (esp. Sander), our TICS editor Lindsey Drayton, and two very engaged reviewers (@danielemarinazzo.bsky.social)

yesterday my grandma (that lives with my parents in Canada) told me in Beijing they were handing out robots that do your dishes, laundry, and groceries for 3 grand a unit. Grandma living in 2055 already.

Come From Away is possibly the greatest piece of Canadian propaganda ever produced and I am ALL FOR IT 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

one word comes to mind reading through the thread: elegant. really beautiful combination of behavior and brain

Can we build neural networks whose structure and computational abilities match a real brain? We are not quite there yet, but recent work by @lappalainenjk.bsky.social et al. shows a strategy for getting closer to this goal. Read more on our blog: www.machinelearningforscience.de/en/improving...