Happy New Year everyone! ✨🎉 I hope the new year has begun peacefully and promises good health and prosperity for you.

🚨new work with the dream team @danakarca.bsky.social @loopyluppi.bsky.social @fatemehhadaeghi.bsky.social @stuartoldham.bsky.social @duncanastle.bsky.social We use game theory and show the brain is not optimally wired for communication and there’s more to its story: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Joint modelling of brain and behaviour dynamics with artificial intelligence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A remarkable journey of resilience and transformation, from the chaotic corridors of group homes to the halls of Columbia and Stanford, EMERGENCE is a coming-of-age tale where heartbreak and humor meet the scientific wonder of modern artificial intelligence. 🔗 Preorder: tinyurl.com/fzcxb5ea

Our new manuscript, led by Emily Corrigan, examines inhibitory neuron diversity across approximately 160 million years of evolutionary divergence, as part of BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network (BICAN) developing brain atlas package: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 (thread 👇)

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! 🤖🧠🧪

🚨 New preprint! “A Computational Perspective on the No-Strong-Loops Principle in Brain Networks” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Over the past 3 years, we’ve been investigating why cortical networks avoid strong reciprocal loops — and what this means for computation.

A thought-provoking perspective from the visionary @giacomoi.bsky.social, calling for neuromorphic computing to return to its root: fundamental neuroscience; an inspiring vision for the future of NeuroAI 🤩

🚨 New preprint! “A Computational Perspective on the No-Strong-Loops Principle in Brain Networks” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Over the past 3 years, we’ve been investigating why cortical networks avoid strong reciprocal loops — and what this means for computation.

Interested in Network hubs, cortical hierarchies, and gradients? Ever wonder where they come from? Check our latest review, where we cover different approaches to mapping hubs, models for their evolution, and mechanisms for how they develop: osf.io/preprints/os...

Have you ever been transfixed by the colour palette of the Melbourne tram network? Well I have... so I made a package called {melbourne}! So far it includes a colour palette called "melb_trams()". More to come, stay tuned! 🔗 Check it out: github.com/dionnecargy/... #RStats #DataScience #Rcoding

Good morning folks. If you’re around #OCNS2025, maybe come by today for a chat about optimal communication in brain networks? ✨

Wonderful work by Shrey and Kayson in developing an XAI method for exploring the contribution of any computational unit (e.g., nodes, experts, communities, filters) within neural networks. It enables analysis of both their influence on each other and their overall impact on task performance.

🚨Preprint Alert: Who Does What in Deep Learning? Multidimensional Contribution of Neural Units using Game Theory: arxiv.org/abs/2506.19732 The result of my MSc thesis is out with @kayson.bsky.social @fatemehhadaeghi.bsky.social @patrickmineault.bsky.social @kordinglab.bsky.social, Claus C. Hilgetag

✨Excited to share that our new paper is now out in iScience!✨ 🧠 We show that people can coordinate surprisingly well in novel interactions by violating others' expectations - without requiring deep, recursive reasoning about others’ beliefs. 📄 Read the full paper here: www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

How should #multisensory signals be combined when they are structured in time? To explore this, we: * Introduce a new multisensory task * Compare several models TLDR: * Prior models perform suboptimally * Our new model performs ≈ an RNN, while using less than 1/10th the number of parameters.

1/ I am very excited to announce that our paper "The underlying structures of self-attention: symmetry, directionality, and emergent dynamics in Transformer training" is available on arXiv 💜 arxiv.org/abs/2502.10927 How is information encoded in self-attention matrices?How to interpret it? ⬇️

PhD fellowship to work with me and Benedetta Franceschiello on the analysis and modelling of fast sampled fMRI data! www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...

A Perspective on integrating multimodal data to understand cortical circuit architecture and function @alleninstitute.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to share our latest preprint on connectivity modulation with dual-site tACS! We show that in-phase tACS at 20 Hz can disrupt fMRI connectivity between the primary motor cortices, but also affects connectivity with other motor regions. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Found a #bifurcation (bifurcated ?) #tree outside the Royal Botanic garden, #Sydney 😬

🌟 Paper out in npj Unconventional Computing! www.nature.com/articles/s44... A system built with just a few neurons, yet able to solve a complex task — not by stacking layers or going deeper, but by embracing unconventional thinking. This is neuromorphic to me!

🚨 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 🧪

If you've finished your PhD in the last 4 years and your research could be considered as engineering, you might be interested in the RAEng research fellowship scheme which provides 5 years of funding to work in the UK. raeng.org.uk/research-fel...

🧵 How do psychedelics shape brain activity? Our new paper presents the largest neuroimaging study of psilocybin to date—revealing how context structures psychedelic brain states. Title: Psychedelics Align Brain Activity with Context Paper: lnkd.in/gt-kMR6d A thread 🧵👇 1/n

📢 We have a new #NeuroAI postdoctoral position in the lab! If you have a strong background in #NeuroAI or computational neuroscience, I’d love to hear from you. (Repost please) 🧠📈🤖

Abstract submission is open for UK Neural Computation 2025 @ Imperial College (9-11 July) neuralcomputation.uk/submission.h... Deadline: 12 May Please share All info: neuralcomputation.uk Sponsors: ARIA; Francis Crick Institute Organisers: @danakarca.bsky.social @neuralreckoning.bsky.social

👇 Motifs of brain cortical folding from birth to adulthood: structural asymmetry and folding-functional links | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Re-posting is appreciated: We have a fully funded PhD position in CMC lab @cmc-lab.bsky.social (at @tudresden_de). You can use forms.gle/qiAv5NZ871kv... to send your application and find more information. Deadline is April 30. Find more about CMC lab: cmclab.org and email me if you have questions.

Hi folks, @zhenqi.bsky.social from @misicbata.bsky.social lab will be presenting his work “Benchmarking methods for mapping functional connectivity in the brain” on Monday, Feb 3rd at 17:00 CET. You are welcome to register via: uni-hamburg.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #Neuroskyence #Neuroimaging

Somewhat old news here, but since I'm switching over from the other site: Happy to announce that my Computational Neuroscience textbook was published by MIT Press. The text and code is freely accessible: mitpress.mit.edu/978026254808... (click Open Access) drive.google.com/drive/folder... (1/n)

New preprint from me, @swathianil.bsky.social & @neuralreckoning.bsky.social. We consider how animals should combine multisensory signals in the naturalistic case where: ✅ Signals are sparse. ✅ Signals arrive in bursts. ✅ Sensory channels are correlated. To do so, we compare several models (🧠):

Long time coming. A very cool project that showcases the advantages of single neuron adaptation in RNNs. #PLOSCompBio: Neural networks with optimized single-neuron adaptation uncover biologically plausible regulari ... dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour... Props to V. Geadah and co-authors!

Excited to share our Network Reciprocity Control (NRC) algorithms for steering the degree of #asymmetry and #reciprocity in binary and weighted #networks while preserving fundamental network properties. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵

Different Subregions of Monkey Lateral Prefrontal Cortex Respond to Abstract Sequences and Their Components www.jneurosci.org/content/44/4... #neuroscience

Good afternoon folks. On December the 2nd at 15:00 CET, we will have Justin Hansen from @mcgillu.bsky.social presenting her recent work (and more). You can also join by registering via the link below: uni-hamburg.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #neuroscience

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻? The brain as a *heterarchy*! Wonderful and stimulating paper by Gmaz et al. doi.org/10.1016/j.co...