Talks from #SNUFA 2025 are now available on YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?lis... 🤖🧠🧪

A significant new development in the Imperial College pay dispute. The Joint Trade Unions have uncovered that key 2018 pay benchmarking recommendations—based on extensive staff consultation—were quietly set aside by College management. Read the full update here: ucu.imperial.ac.uk/archives/1143

My prediction is that LLM peer review will slow down science. It will do this for precisely the same reasons that contemporary peer review does and some extra ones. Start by reading @hansonmark.bsky.social thread below, then read on. 🧵

My prediction is that LLM peer review will slow down science. It will do this for precisely the same reasons that contemporary peer review does and some extra ones. Start by reading @hansonmark.bsky.social thread below, then read on. 🧵

We're about to go live for the last session of SNUFA 2025!

#SNUFA day 2 starting in a few minutes. Lots of neuromorphic computing and SNNs. Check out snufa.net/2025 for agenda and links to join.

Day 2 of #SNUFA is starting in a few hours (1pm GMT). While yesterday was more classical comp neuro, today has a bit more of an engineering and neuromorphic focus. Hope to see you there!

Thank you for indulging me everyone. ❤️🦔

We are live! Click agenda link below to join.

It's #SNUFA day! Starting at 1pm GMT (in 3h at the time of writing this). You can still register throughout the workshop, and click on the event page to get the zoom link to join.

🚨Job alert🚨 The lab has up to *3 postdoc openings* for comp systems neuroscientists interested in describing and manipulating neural population dynamics mediating behaviour This is part of a collaborative ARIA grant "4D precision control of cortical dynamics" euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/383909

Interesting survey of LLM use in neuroscience. Personally I find myself not convinced by these use cases. The most promising to me is using them as a form of enhanced search engine. I find it telling, but also reassuring, that all these researchers discuss the necessity to human verify results.

Interested in #neuroscience + #AI and looking for a PhD position? I can support your application @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social ✅ Check your eligibility (below) ✅ Contact me (DM or email) UK nationals: www.imperial.ac.uk/life-science... Otherwise: www.imperial.ac.uk/study/fees-a...

This Thursday I will present my last paper at the #SNUFA workshop. You can register and attend for free here: snufa.net/2025/ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/snufa-2025...

This brought me joy.

Reminder this is happening this Wed/Thu. Free spiking neural network conference - registration required (see below).

Many of our big insights into brain function come from trying to mimic it, writes @timothyoleary.bsky.social. This lesson should guide how we organize research programs. www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur... #neuroskyence

Proud to have contributed to @gaiabianchini.bsky.social and @flor-iacaruso.bsky.social new paper on how the superior colliculus temporally integrates multisensory information

I eat breakfast once a day, at a rate of 11.6 microhertz, which (if you could hear that low) would be approximately a B, just more than 25 octaves below middle C. OK, back to preparing that lecture on pitch...

Good showing from the 'scary house'.

Reminder everyone that #SNUFA is next week! Make sure to register in advance to get emailed the link to join.

Reminder everyone that #SNUFA is next week! Make sure to register in advance to get emailed the link to join.

New paper, with @rkhashmani.me @marielpettee.bsky.social @garrettmerz.bsky.social Hellen Qu. We introduce a framework for generating realistic, highly multimodal datasets with explicitly calculable mutual information. This is helpful for studying self-supervised learning arxiv.org/abs/2510.21686

Imperial UCU members are on strike today and tomorrow. This action covers all parts of the College — academic, technical, administrative, and operational. It’s about fairness, dignity, and pay that keeps pace with the cost of living.

My effort for this year.

OK London, not bad. #photography

Join the team at Janelia to use #theory, computation, and modeling to tackle bold questions in #biology. Collaborate across scientific disciplines to drive discovery. Apply by Nov. 3 @ https://janelia.link/theoryfellowprogram #computationalbiology #sciencecareers

I started using the "flag message" function in my email to try to get it under control. For a brief, glorious moment it seemed like it was working. Finally, I had found the solution to this intractable problem. But now every email in my inbox has a flag next to it and I'm back where I started.

Happy to share that I'll be talking about neuron position learning on the second day!

Spiking NN fans - the #SNUFA workshop (Nov 5-6) agenda is finalised and online now. Make sure to register (free) soon. (Note you can register for either day and come to both.) Agenda: snufa.net/2025/ Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/snufa-2025... Thanks to all who voted on abstracts! 🤖🧠🧪

My 1st PhD student Anindya Ghosh has a great new paper out in PLOS comp bio. We combine hoverfly recordings with modelling to show how target motion and optic-flow sensitive neuron outputs are combined together to generate behaviourally relevant sensorimotor responses. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

I'm sorry America, but I'm really looking forward to seeing what Trump builds for the whitehouse ballroom. Giant golden boob?

A new PhD opportunity with me at the intersection of mathematics, neuroscience, and data science, applying and developing topological data analysis (TDA) to understand the structure and function of the brain. Details: www.herts.ac.uk/__data/asset... Apply: www.herts.ac.uk/study/school...

This makes for worrying reading given what's happened in the US is likely coming to the UK when Farage and co get into power. We need to start strengthening research institutions now to protect them.

This can't be real can it? An AGI paper from many big names in the field that invents a metric of AGI and claims we're 58% of the way there, and then the references are fake, generated by an LLM? That's got to be an elaborate hoax doesn't it? It's too perfect.

Let the nut collecting begin! #photography

Excellent funding opportunity: $100k/year for two years for a postdoc position in Montreal. Apply if you're interested in joining Montreal's thriving #NeuroAI ecosystem.

Neuromatch Academy 2026 is coming! ✅ Hands-on projects ✅ Global community ✅ Affordable fees Applications open Feb 2026. Learn more: neuromatch.io/courses/ Sign up for updates: neuromatch.io/mailing-list/ #ComputationalNeuroscience #DeepLearning #ClimateScience #NeuroAI #Neuroscience #AI

Dear @elsevierconnect.bsky.social, having a default opt-in to marketing emails is in breach of the GDPR. Please correct this.

📣 BIG NEWS EVERYONE. I am so excited to announce… 🎉 I’m moving to University College London @ucl.ac.uk to join the Experimental Psychology department in @uclpals.bsky.social! 🎉 The big move happens in spring/summer. So I’m already exploring recruiting staff & students at UCL for fall 2026!

🚨Registration for Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025 closes October 20th 🚨 Speakers @mkflugge.bsky.social @aaronbornstein.bsky.social @benhayden.bsky.social @ellileadbeater.bsky.social @davidrobbe.bsky.social @dlbarack.bsky.social @becketebs.bsky.social uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanis...

Deloitte repaying the Australian government for a $440k report written by ChatGPT. Wasn't this always the model of consultancy firms? They write a plausible sounding case for doing what you already decided to do using recent grads with no real expertise? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

#Spiking #neural #networks ( #SNN ) running on continuous-time, noisy, and highly variable computing substrates can learn reliably with #ReinforcementLearning ... Not only in real brains, but also in mixed-signal #neuromorphic hardware! 😇

#SIlentSunday #Photography

It's coming! #photography

Does Macron hope that if he keeps reappointing Lecornu, eventually he'll rack up more days as PM than Liz Truss?

Nadeen Kort from Palestine turned unimaginable challenges into a story of resilience and hope. Despite living through violence that made attending university impossible, they found a way to continue their education with Neuromatch Academy. ➡️ Read more here: www.linkedin.com/posts/neurom...

We're now recruiting early career group leaders at the Crick to lead ambitious research programmes and explore bold scientific questions. Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research. Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

Last chance to vote on what gets promoted to a talk for #SNUFA 2025 spiking neural network conference. I'll finalise in a couple of hours.

From notebook sketches to a global movement! Titipat Achakulvisut helped shape the first Neuromatch logo...and with it, the identity of a worldwide education community in computational neuroscience. ➡️ Read more: www.linkedin.com/posts/neurom...