Sean Escola
@seanescola.bsky.social
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Came for the neuro; stayed for the AI.
https://sean-escola.github.io/
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Victoria Bosch
about 1 month ago
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
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Awesome work from
@maxhodak.bsky.social
and the Science Corp team
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about 2 months ago
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Can’t recommend this opportunity strongly enough!!
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The Transmitter
5 months ago
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
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Guillotine Hunger Force
7 months ago
typical corrupt science
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Blake Richards
9 months ago
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
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Josh Marshall
9 months ago
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.
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Patrick Mineault
9 months ago
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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Neuromatch
9 months ago
🌟 Teaching Assistants are who make Neuromatch Academy run! 🌟 Thinking of becoming a Teaching Assistant (TA) for Neuromatch or Climatematch Academy? Here’s why you should GO FOR IT! 🚀 Learn more and apply here:
neuromatch.io/courses/
#Education
#TA
#TeachingOpportunity
#mentorship
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Do some science! Make some friends!
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
10 months ago
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’.
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David G. Clark
11 months ago
(1/30) New preprint! "Symmetries and continuous attractors in disordered neural circuits" with Larry Abbott and Haim Sompolinsky bioRxiv:
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Symmetries and Continuous Attractors in Disordered Neural Circuits
A major challenge in neuroscience is reconciling idealized theoretical models with complex, heterogeneous experimental data. We address this challenge through the lens of continuous-attractor networks...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.26.634933
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David Pfau
11 months ago
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.
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Melanie Mitchell
11 months ago
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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Adam Marblestone
11 months ago
🚀 Calling all visionary scientists and engineers! Announcing our call for Focused Research Organization proposals in the UK. 🔬Submit your concept paper by Feb 7 & full proposal by March 28. More here:
www.convergentresearch.org/frost-uk
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FROST UK — Convergent Research
https://www.convergentresearch.org/frost-uk
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Blake Richards
12 months ago
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.
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David Pfau
12 months ago
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?
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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
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Have a read of
@davidamarkowitz.bsky.social
’s proposal to accelerate intelligence science with new institutions in
@thetransmitter.bsky.social
#NeuroAI
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12 months ago
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Tony Zador
about 1 year ago
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.
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The magnum opus drops!
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about 1 year ago
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Surya Ganguli
about 1 year ago
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...
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https://x.com/suryaganguli/status/1858649108376154519?s=46
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David A. Markowitz
about 1 year ago
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.
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Laureline Logiaco
about 1 year ago
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!
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Sean Carroll
about 1 year ago
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.
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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:
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Kevin Mizes on X: "Happy to see the story on motor cortex finally out in @natureneuro today! https://t.co/PRIUV0Asrh" / X
Happy to see the story on motor cortex finally out in @natureneuro today! https://t.co/PRIUV0Asrh
https://twitter.com/KevinMizes/status/1853434842475855987
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Randall Munroe
about 1 year ago
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Nicole Rust
about 1 year ago
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 ❤️.
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Grace Lindsay
about 1 year ago
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
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If one argues the computation is what the universe does, then the award totally scans
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about 1 year ago
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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
about 1 year ago
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Andy Foote
about 1 year ago
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.
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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
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about 1 year ago
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Melanie Mitchell
about 1 year ago
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...
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Okay people,
#neuroAI
me
about 1 year ago
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