Introducing CorText: a framework that fuses brain data directly into a large language model, allowing for interactive neural readout using natural language. tl;dr: you can now chat with a brain scan 🧠💬 1/n

Awesome work from @maxhodak.bsky.social and the Science Corp team

Can’t recommend this opportunity strongly enough!!

An exciting collaboration is underway. @thetransmitter.bsky.social is partnering with @neuromatch.bsky.social to serve the computational neuroscience community and help connect neuroscientists across all career stages. www.thetransmitter.org/neuromatch-p... #neuroskyence

typical corrupt science

Eva Dyer and I wrote an opinion piece for @thetransmitter.bsky.social on why neuroscience needs to embrace complexity and accept the "bitter lesson" by using a data-driven regime at scale. With commentary from several wonderful researchers! 🧠📈 #NeuroAI 🧪

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

Not to toot my own horn, but Neuromatch's NeuroAI course is one of the best places to learn about this exciting area of neuroscience. Students and postdocs, apply!

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Do some science! Make some friends!

At the moment, mansion-sized Asteroid 2024-YR4 has a one-in-fifty chance of hitting Earth in the next eight years. Now might be a bad time to reduce spending on Science. Just sayin’.

(1/30) New preprint! "Symmetries and continuous attractors in disordered neural circuits" with Larry Abbott and Haim Sompolinsky bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Remember how, when the lockdowns started, every organization said "we only have two weeks of cash on hand and will shut down if we don't get assistance"? That's basically happening to every single lab and NGO right now, except for no actual reason.

Worth also pointing out that there are many "tests so easy no AI system can pass them". Moravec's paradox remains. E.g., arxiv.org/abs/2404.12390

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I don't think traditional systems neuroscience fits my definition, as it has rarely concerned itself with general principles of intelligence that apply to non-biological systems.

So, they set up the ARC prize specifically to have limits on how much compute you can use, required the submissions to be open-sourced, and then OpenAI just went ahead and crushed it with >$1m of compute from a closed model with no idea how it works anyway? Do I have that right?

I like this definition (although it’s not the one I’ve typically espoused). It basically says that #NeuroAI is intelligence science writ large. And the name works because our current options for intelligence are either neural or artificial

Have a read of @davidamarkowitz.bsky.social’s proposal to accelerate intelligence science with new institutions in @thetransmitter.bsky.social #NeuroAI

Estimate from @mbeisen.bsky.social that about $1.5B (3%) of the $50B NIH budget goes to publishing fees. If we are looking to cut government waste, this might be a good place to start.

The magnum opus drops!

The time is now to argue vociferously for immense societal and economic value of public investment in scientific research. But unfortunately that argument must be made not to the choir in our beautiful blue bubble here, but in the arena of X where said value is now questioned: x.com/suryaganguli...

Unpopular opinion: If you are a scientist who doesn't participate in science advocacy outside your filter bubble, you are doing yourself a disservice. Bluesky is intellectually fun, but the people who will soon be making decisions about government science funding priorities are not on here.

We (w/ @seanescola.bsky.social & K Lakshminarasimhan) recently wrote a review covering different types of thalamocortical models for motor control. Here is a link to a related talk. Giving a wide perspective & discussing a large body of work was both very challenging & rewarding. Thank you, Andrew!

May future generations remember this as a day when the USA turned away from division and hatred and corruption and toward an inclusive, democratic future.

New Nat Neuro paper on how task demands determine if a motor program remains under cortical control or can be subcortically consolidated. Great to work with Kevin Mizes, Jack Lindsey, and @olveczky.bsky.social on this project. Paper: rdcu.be/dY5q1 Tweeprint: twitter.com/KevinMizes/s...

For all those who have adopted a purposeful apolitical stance on social media (for reasons!) but also care very deeply about how this next week will unfold, solidarity and ❤️.

Check out these events to have a direct impact on the election through phone banking and in person efforts events.democrats.org And if you're a millennial like me & think "ugh talking on the phone is uncomfortable", just take a minute to remind yourself how uncomfortable a second Trump term will be

If one argues the computation is what the universe does, then the award totally scans

On the heels of #NAISys, the Nobel prize in physics goes to #NeuroAI! Clearly the credit goes the prescience of organizers @tonyzador.bsky.social @tyrellturing.bsky.social & Doris Tsao

There was a lot of discussion on Bsky and X about the Hu et al. paper when it came out. Here Deng et al. find that the method used in that paper (Fitcoal) can generate gradual demographic change as sharp drops in population size.

Nice piece on why the concept of manifolds is useful in #neuroskyence. Relevant to a number of the great talks we just heard at #NAISys at CSHL including by @sueyeonchung.bsky.social, Alex Williams, Nancy Kanwischer, and others

First episode of our new podcast is out! Episode 1: "What is Intelligence?" It's hard to fully answer this question, but we had some great discussions about it with superstars Alison Gopnik and John Krakauer. Give it a listen! complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/nat...

Okay people, #neuroAI me