Our summer program values mentorship as much as scientific skill-building, connecting Africa’s talents with experts in both #academia and #industry. Grateful to @neurokim.bsky.social & @ankahira.bsky.social for inspiring our 2025 cohort. @columbiauniversity.bsky.social @astra-zeneca.bsky.social

🧠 How do transformers learn relational reasoning? We trained small transformers on transitive inference (if A>B and B>C, then A>C) and discovered striking differences between learning paradigms. Our latest work reveals when and why AI systems generalize beyond training data 🤖

New work on relational reasoning in transformers! TLDR: Inductive biases of In-Weight and In-Context Learning in transformers are really different for relational reasoning, and pretraining can make a big difference for in-context. Check out @jessegeerts.bsky.social's thread for more!

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💥 Do we now have all the components necessary to reach #AGI, or are there more discoveries to be made? Can the study of the brain help provide them? We tackle these questions and more at our Conference on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and AI in sun-soaked Split, Croatia: www.neuromonster.org

Tomorrow is our @cosynemeeting.bsky.social workshop on Graph Neural Networks! From molecules to circuits to biomechanics to reasoning behaviors to social behaviors, neuroscience is rich with geometrically structured data. Our goal: demystify GNNs, talk opportunities for 🧠

@cosynemeeting.bsky.social workshops are almost here! Join GNN workshop w @neurokim.bsky.social and Sam Lewallen to hear @herrsaalfeld.bsky.social head of computation @hhmijanelia.bsky.social present on GNNs for learning structure and function underlying neural assemblies #cosyne2025

Her lab does impressive foundational work on geometric statistics and manifold learning, sure to be an amazing talk! Come for the GNNs, stay for the manifolds! #cosyne2025 @neurokim.bsky.social

More 🔥🔥 speakers at @cosynemeeting.bsky.social GNN workshop: @ninamiolane.bsky.social who runs the @geometric-intel.bsky.social lab at UCSB. She will take us beyond 🚀🚀 GNNs, presenting a survey of message passing topological neural networks for neuroscience

Rounding out our speakers @cosynemeeting.bsky.social GNN workshop is @dom-beaini.bsky.social of @mila-quebec.bsky.social and @valenceai.bsky.social. Come hear him tell us how to learn a…MOLECULE! Don’t forget brains 🧠 are made of chemicals ⚗️ and chemicals + graphs = 🫶

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Beautiful piece about Rumeysa Öztürk, the tufts student who was abducted and detained for political speech, which paints a picture of a warm, compassionate, beloved member of the Tufts community (my alma mater) from those who know her. as.tufts.edu/epcshd/news-...

Just over a week to #cosyne2025 workshops! Speaker profile number 2 for GNN workshop w/ @neurokim.bsky.social and Sam Lewallen is @kristinmbranson.bsky.social of @hhmijanelia.bsky.social! Kristin’s lab develops cutting edge machine vision approaches for quantitatively studying animal behavior.

Looking for an exciting fellowship in AI & Neuro, with competitive salary (~£100k)? We got a new position in the lab at Oxford, working with @somnirons.bsky.social and me! 🧪 Our project: encode.pillar.vc/projects/beh... General info: encode.pillar.vc #compneuro #neuroai #neuroscience #sciencejobs

Want to procedurally generate large-scale relational reasoning experiments in natural language, to study human psychology 🧠 or eval LLMs 🤖? We have a tool for you! Our latest #ICLR work on long-context/relational reasoning evaluation for LLMs ReCogLab! github.com/google-deepm... Thread ⬇️

Also shoutout to @jiaxuanqi.bsky.social, @schreinerdrew.bsky.social, Miles Martinez, @jmxpearson.bsky.social & Rich Mooney—amazing that we independently found complementary results & got to publish them together! Super exciting time for DA + motor learning research! 🎉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

TL;DR: Natural behavior is learned through dopamine-mediated reinforcement! Tons more cool analyses by Jon Kasdin, Alison Duffy, Nathan Nadler, (me 😉), Adrienne Fairhall, @neurokim.bsky.social & Vikram Gadagkar in the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... (7/7)

Countdown to #COSYNE2025! Leading up to @cosynemeeting.bsky.social GNN workshop w @neurokim.bsky.social and Sam, allow us to introduce our fabulous speakers, starting with @wesleyqian.bsky.social! Wesley is part of osmo.ai foundling team, using GNNs to digitize smell!

By studying songbirds, our own Vikram Gadagkar, @neurokim.bsky.social, Jonathan Kasdin and colleagues witnessed the role the brain’s reward machinery plays as the brain naturally learns over time through practice. Learn more! zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/songbirds-hi...

Not in my name. If you are a Jewish university affiliate and want to express that cuts to university research do not protect Jews and do not address anti-semitism, consider signing here: forms.gle/prnRbq69a6YN...

Calling all @cosynemeeting.bsky.social attendees! @neurokim.bsky.social, Sam Lewallen and I are organizing a 🔥🔥 workshop on graph approaches to neuroscience, including graph neural networks! For info see sites.google.com/bu.edu/gnnwo...

Washington Square Park, Friday 12-3pm in NYC! Safety tips: standupforscience2025.org/protest-safe...

🚨 Neuromatch Academy Course Applications are OPEN for 2025!! 🚨 Get your application in early to be a student or teaching assistant for this year’s courses! Applications are due Sunday, March 23. Apply & learn more: neuromatch.io/courses/ #mlsky #compneurosky #ai #climatesolutions #ScienceEdu 🧪

⚡️ 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 🧠🧪

Barto and Sutton receive the Turing award! Amazing recognition for two kind, pioneering, and genuinely inspiring scientists. Congratulations!! awards.acm.org/about/2024-t...

Coming out to Stand Up for Science on Friday at noon? Consider tuning in to this webinar!

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

A new pile of these pins arrived yesterday. DM me an address along with a pledge or description of what you are doing to advocate for science and I'll do my best to send one your way. (Note: it's a bit tricky to do internationally but don't hold back; I'll see if I can solve that problem).

Keynote Speakers: Prof Jay McClelland Prof Eve Marder Prof Wolfgang Maass Prof Christine Constantinople Prof @kanakarajanphd.bsky.social (@kempnerinstitute.bsky.social ) Dr Ida Momennejad @neuroai.bsky.social Dr Kim Stachenfeld @neurokim.bsky.social Prof Jakob Foerster

Recruiting phd/postdocs to mentor Undergrad Awardees!! This program brings UGs from across the 🌎 considering a career in neuro research Duties: meet students on 1st day, take them to a poster session, help them feel welcome. Apply: (very short!) form forms.gle/9hCniCA29ky5...

one of the most intriguing projects i've been involved in: automated scientific discovery in an area (human/animal RL) I've been working on forever. can an LLM do the job of my grad students? if it is backed up by super smart scientists incl @pcastr.bsky.social @neurokim.bsky.social & kevin miller

Very pleased to share our recent work, in which we use LLMs for automated discovery of interpretable models of animal behavior 🪰🐀🕵️‍♀️ that take the form of Python programs 🐍 See below for a summary of key results by @pcastr.bsky.social!

The Undergrad Travel Grant Program (deadline: Dec 6th) provides an opportunity for undergrads to learn more about comp systems neuro. It’s especially suited for students considering neuro graduate study! Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... More info: www.cosyne.org/travel-grants