Academic career symbolized in a picture. #Ichbinhannah #postdocchatter

I once saw a (very interesting) talk about sleep in which the speaker started by saying that we don't really know how to define sleep, and then proceeded to operationalize sleep in flies as basically periods when they are still for a long time. This got me thinking...

www.aft.org/column/why-f... New book by Randi Weingarten President, AFT “They fear what educators do—the teaching of critical thinking, of honest history, of pluralism—because their brand of greed, power and privilege cannot survive in a democracy of diverse, educated citizens.”

Our #AI #DynamicalSystems #FoundationModel DynaMix was accepted to #NeurIPS2025 with outstanding reviews (6555) – first model which can *zero-shot*, w/o any fine-tuning, forecast the *long-term statistics* of time series provided a context. Test it on #HuggingFace: huggingface.co/spaces/Durst...

Can’t help but feel that we are living in an era of overwhelming anti-intellectualism on every front, with AI being the corporate vanguard of this cultural emptiness.

The field of neuroscience makes a lot more sense if you see it as a generation-long battle between the “Marrian” program of focusing on function and hoping a brain falls out and the “Markramian” program of building a brain and hoping function falls out and tbh I think they’ve both failed.

Friday’s AIND JC lead by Shawn Olsen and I on the Brody lab preprint ran 90+ min, unusual. Nice paper, spirited discussion. Make a clear argument that to grasp behavior we need multiregional, multi-neuron, simultaneous single-trial data. Below quotes from the paper. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

"Here, we showed that different areas of the mouse cortex have qualitatively distinct types of evoked network dynamics, likely in part due to area-specific circuit-connectivity patterns."

whoah, TIL

Just showing off how my office looks when we DON'T work until late 😎

Are you employed by a public organisation in Europe, have experience in #research #policy #analysis and would like to work with the ERC for a few years? We are offering a #secondment #position in the team that directly supports the ERC's Scientific Council. #Job details 👉 link.europa.eu/GCjrqD

How does the brain decide? 🧠 Our new @nature.com paper shows that neural activity switches from an 'evidence gathering' to a 'commitment' state at a precise moment we call nTc. After nTc, new evidence is ignored, revealing a neural marker for the instant when the mind is made up. rdcu.be/eGUrv

The modern world is so complex, it can feel impossible for a person to truly understand the impacts of their own actions and decisions, and this used to leave me a bit paralyzed. But one silver lining of 2025 is that there is absolutely no fucking moral ambiguity about what it is going on anymore.

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🚨 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-...

Very grateful to be among an inspiring group of @ukri.org Future Leaders Fellows for the next 4-7 years. We will infuse brain anatomy into AI to study shared principles and important differences in cognition across species. www.ukri.org/news/ukri-an...

L’organisation Anti-Defamation League a recensé, depuis 20 ans, les meurtres ou séries de meurtres commis aux Etats-Unis par des membres de groupes extrémistes. Une très large majorité des meurtriers (347 sur 371) sont liés à des organisations d’extrême droite. Tous les détails ➡️ bit.ly/4n6DlQQ

Might focused ultrasound one day replace DBS? UK Scientists built a 256-panel focused ultrasound helmet that can precisely target deep brain regions. Using theta-burst TUS, they stimulated the LGN and found visual cortex activity with effects lasting up to 40 minutes. #neuroskyence #ultrasound

Is anarchist science possible? As an experiment, we got together a large group of computational neuroscientists from around the world to work on a single project without top down direction. Read on to find out what happened. 🤖🧠🧪

Just showing off how my office looks when I work until late🤓

We asked (and partially answered?) this question during covid in this paper jbarbosa.org/files/Barbos... Back then @yaelniv.bsky.social's repo was the best nimh-dsst.github.io/OpenCogData/

Yes, this whole AI thing is playing out exactly like the 1980s movies predicted! youtu.be/WnTKllDbu5o?... More input! 😜

It's sad to leave Berlin behind but the move to Frankfurt came with no more online Bernstein? Why? 😭 @bernsteinneuro.bsky.social

I take it back. @proton.me drive sucks big time, don't use it. Unless you want to pay to be a beta tester of the worst app around all the while being gaslighted by the customer support for months. Is there any serious alternative to Dropbox or google drive?

Very glad to see that someone is doing the important work of aligning AI alignment. alignmentalignment.ai

Strong emergence

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🪰 How do dozens of tiny fly muscles cooperate to move a leg? We’re excited to share the first 3D, data-driven musculoskeletal model of Drosophila legs based on Hill-type muscles, running in OpenSim and MuJoCo simulation environments. Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2509.06426

🏹 Job alert: Two Faculty positions AI in Biology, EMBL Heidelberg 🇩🇪 🔷 Group Leader - AI in Biology: https://bit.ly/3K15NoC 🔷 Team Leader - AI Engineering & Automation: https://bit.ly/4nrzA8z 📅 Apply by Nov 2nd

Perhaps the only CEO we should be listening to

⏳ Deadline is next Friday! Apply now to join our #SfN25 workshop on pynapple & nemos. Learn to analyze & model neural data using software developed at @flatironinstitute.org Accommodations + meals included! 👉

𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻-𝘄𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 Spatially distributed and regionally unbound cellular resolution brain-wide processing loops in mice 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀? Dynamical processing winding through most brain regions. Looks like a must read. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroskyence

#Cosyne2026 is now open for business! Show us what you got both for the main meeting & workshop proposals 🧠🥳🧠🥳🧠

🧠 New preprint: Why do deep neural networks predict brain responses so well? We find a striking dissociation: it’s not shared object recognition. Alignment is driven by sensitivity to texture-like local statistics. 📊 Study: n=57, 624k trials, 5 models doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Excited to share my latest work with @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social & @andpru.bsky.social! We asked: How does the motor cortex account for arm posture when generating movement? Paper 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/10

Hearing this argument always reminds me of earthquakes! You can decode them miles away from the site, but detectability doesn’t make the epicenter anything other than the epicenter.

Let's recap: Everything* is everywhere** * Except language, motor, memory, facial recognition, spatial perception, ... ** Except white matter, human brains, or anything else that is not a mouse brain

Yes, and how can one ignore the vast neuropsychology literature showing specificity of deficits following brain damage? The field of neuropsychology wouldn't even exist if everything was everywhere.

Of course. It’s extraordinarily that we even need to have this discussion - again - I despair.

Complementary approach: simultaneous recordings allow analyses to see who leads and who lags. Among other results stemming from simultaneous recordings, in this preprint we show that during decision-making, frontal cortices and striatum lead, other regions lag. doi.org/10.1101/2024...

I think the church of everything is everywhere should check tumor removal surgeries. They all start by making sure they won't remove a specific function when removing a specific region. Can you guess how they do it? @benhayden.bsky.social @pessoabrain.bsky.social hint: it is not with decoders

✏️ 🎓 Check out the upcoming Winter School on Causality and Explainable AI in Paris! For Master's & PhD students, the program combines lectures, tutorials, and interdisciplinary discussions. Sponsored by the ELLIS Unit Paris 📍 Paris 🇫🇷 📅 October 20-24 🔗 https://xai-winter-school.github.io/

Sad day for people that still believe correlation implies causation 🤡

📢 I am delighted to announce that from Oct. 1st I will join the Institute of Computer Science (@ics-cas.bsky.social), of The Czech Academy of Sciences (@czechacademy.bsky.social). I am very much looking forward to this new chapter in my career and life, and to work with my new colleagues.

Come join us at University of Toronto. We're hiring a Professor of computational cognitive neuroscience. #neuroAI #compneuro jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

#Neuro4Pros 4ever 🧠🤓 Grateful for a week of learning from & being in community with fellow early career profs & amazing facilitators @gunnarblohm.bsky.social @kordinglab.bsky.social @meganakpeters.bsky.social @yaelniv.bsky.social @patrickmineault.bsky.social Hannah Bayer 📸: @mohebial.bsky.social

Neural networking night season 2 Come hangout with the neuroscience community from Paris. First negroni is free!

Dear #ParisNeuroscience community, here is the schedule of the upcoming 'Neural Networking Night' season !