I'm worried about outsourcing to a machine something that's part of our common endeavour to figure out the world. It's not enough that stuff is figured out, it's about **us** figuring it out! I don't remember phone numbers anymore – I outsourced that to my phone. I don't want that for my science.

Now in PRX: Theory linking connectivity structure to collective activity in nonlinear RNNs! For neuro fans: conn. structure can be invisible in single neurons but shape pop. activity For low-rank RNN fans: a theory of rank=O(N) For physics fans: fluctuations around DMFT saddle⇒dimension of activity

I'm really happy to share our latest work: “Cholinergic heterogeneity facilitates synchronization and information flow in a whole-brain model” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Forget the Hard Problem. Here comes the "Lobster Problem of Consciousness" 🧠 onhumans.substack.com/p/can-the-br... with @matthewcobb.bsky.social

Thrilled that our paper is out today in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s4...

Very nice thread, but can't get on board with taking all the panels to external software just for the panel labels and layout 🙅 I always use subplot_mosaic (Tutorial from matplotlib docs: tinyurl.com/3efsadeb) and add the panel labels with fig.text(), no third-party software needed!

#eNeuro | Energy Constraints Determine the Selection of Reaching Movement Trajectories in Macaque Monkeys https://www.eneuro.org/content/12/10/ENEURO.0385-24.2025

Jane Goodall offers sage advice for the rest of us. #3E

NEW | Surging wind and solar power helped make electricity in Spain CHEAPER than in most European countries. 📈 As wind and solar grows… 📉 …The influence of costly fossil fuels on the electricity price shrinks https://loom.ly/8DEmqVc

I've been waiting some years to make this joke and now it’s real: I conned somebody into giving me a faculty job! I’m starting as a W1 Tenure-Track Professor at Goethe University Frankfurt in a week (lol), in the Faculty of CS and Math and I'm recruiting PhD students 🤗

So cool to walk from Ising models to recurrent network dynamics at the Braitenberg prize ceremony of Sara Solla! At #bernstein conference #compneurosky

Undecided which workshop to attend at #BernsteinConference ? We put together a stellar lineup for a satellite workshop on the effects of top-down signals on neuronal dynamics! 🧠✨📣 Join us tomorrow in room 0.101 ! bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co... With @ackurth.bsky.social

Our preprint has been accepted at #NeurIPS2025! 🎉 I will be presenting TMCL in just two weeks at the #BernsteinConference. Hope to see some of you there! @bernsteinneuro.bsky.social Many thanks to my advisor Willem Wybo, and to Emre Neftci for the great support.

Very excited for this year Bernstein! @bernsteinneuro.bsky.social We'll bring a bunch of new work, here's a thread with the summaries. Please check them out if you are interested in (low rank) RNN and distributed computations.

On the first workshop talk (Monday), I'll make the case that everything might be everywhere when you decode, but that is not the end of the story: different regions have very different dynamics and encoding geometries. This workshop is organized by @aitormg.bsky.social and @ackurth.bsky.social

A position paper urging academia to be critical of AI technologies is an excellent wake-up call. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @olivia.science www.the-geyser.com/are-we-losin...

gave a short lecture this morning on principles of computational modelling, always try to stress the point made by @romainbrette.bsky.social that adding details to a model does not automatically make it more realistic. The wooden airplane model has more 'details' but only the paper model can fly

Fourier transform of Google Trends of Fourier transform 🧪

The shitty first draft is and always will be the number one strategy for writing well. Editing is a craft you can hone. Writing from scratch is a different dumpster fire every time you put a pen to a blank page.

If you're at/watching #CCN2025, check out work from my lab: "DynVision: a toolbox for building temporally realistic CNNs" Robin Gutzen, Poster B104 tomorrow "Reward Prediction Error-based Attention Explains Learning Curves" Mingze Li Leukos, Poster C96 & contributed talk Friday morning.

Paper v1 is here (will be updated soon): www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

If you weren't able to catch Robin's poster during the session, check it out here #CCN2025 #neuroskyence #compneuro #neuroai

I'll be presenting some of my new work on EEG mental imagery, oscillations and (functional) connectivity! If you are still at #CCN2025 make sure to drop by poster C159 today :)

Appreciate @davidpoeppel.bsky.social's reminder to scientists of their role in this time, at #CCN2025 (the reminder may be even more pertinent to non-US colleagues who have a chance to prevent the some of the worst effects before they really arrive)

Sad to miss #CCN2025. It will be the 1st conference where a PhD working w/ me will speak 😭 go see Lubna's talk (Friday) about distributed neural correlates of flexible decision making in 🐒, work done in collaboration w/ @scottbrincat.bsky.social @siegellab.bsky.social & @earlkmiller.bsky.social

We start strong on Monday at 15h, when we organize the Satellite Workshop 'RNNs making decisions' together with @molanomazon.bsky.social. Speakers @summerfieldlab.bsky.social, @veronicachelu.bsky.social, @seanfw.bsky.social and others: sites.google.com/view/rnnsmak...

Didn’t want to believe this was true. It’s true.

‘Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method

📰 I really enjoyed writing this article with @thetransmitter.bsky.social! In it, I summarize parts of our recent perspective article on neural manifolds (www.nature.com/articles/s41...), with a focus on highlighting just a few cool insights into the brain we've already seen at the population level.

1 To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised! 🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Our paper just out in Nature Communications! www.nature.com/articles/s41... We introduce curved neural networks naturally introducing high-order interactions showing: • explosive phase transitions • enhanced memory retrieval via self-annealing • increased memory capacity through geometric curvature

Wake up, babe. A new mapping stimulus just dropped.

Introducing our new favorite stimulus. A few minutes are enough to map the visual preferences of thousands of neurons. Mapping the visual cortex with Zebra noise and wavelets www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... By Sophie Skriabine and Max Shinn, with Samuel Picard and @kenneth-harris.bsky.social

1/ Mapping synaptic connectivity between individual neurons is extremely laborious. We developed BRISC, a new method that makes it possible to map inputs onto 100s of neurons in the same animal in a matter of weeks! Led by Alex Becalick and @antblot.bsky.social. 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

THREAD Universities and Researchers Save The World All the Time In July 2025 Superman once again saved the world on the big screen. Luckily for us, humanity's ranks are filled with real superheroes who are saving the world every day (to less cinematic fanfare.) Here are 5 massive wins: 1/8

Undecided whether to attend the #BernsteinConference2025 ? @ackurth.bsky.social and myself put together a stellar lineup for a satellite workshop on the effects of top-down signals on neuronal dynamics! 🧠✨📣 bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...

Are you at the @cnsorg.bsky.social conference? Do you like networks? Brain-like networks? Pretty and structure rich networks? 🙇‍♂️🧠🕸 Come to my Poster 204 this afternoon (or anytime today)!! The poster is right next to the coffee! ☕️ 😉 #CNS2025 #CNS2025Florence 🇮🇹🍝

Textbook neuroscience teaches that anatomy dictates function. But which aspects of anatomy determine differences in function between species? We think neuroscience is now well-placed to tackle this question. Here is our attempt at one piece of the puzzle: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

How about some science to cleanse the timeline? Some nice physics to infer the properties of neural manifolds from brain data 💫🧠 "Characterizing Neural Manifolds' Properties and Curvatures using Normalizing Flows" arxiv.org/abs/2506.12187

🛰️ The selected Satellite Workshops of the #BernsteinConference 2025 are now listed on our website! Take a look 👉 bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...

A Brief History of Young People Today Don't Want to Work 🧵

I've been writing a textbook on computational cognitive neuroscience, which has prompted me to assess the evidence supporting various theoretical ideas. It's striking to me how some ideas have an extraordinary shelf life despite weak evidence.

Going to the hospital because I broke my wrist smashing the endorse button: www.understandingai.org/p/i-got-fool...

Two weeks left to apply!!

In this new study we show that cortical resting-state activity is hierarchically organized 🧠 Cool work by @aitormg.bsky.social

Spontaneous spiking statistics form unique area-specific fingerprints and reflect the hierarchy of cerebral cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.13.653871v1

New preprint alert 📣📣📣 New results showing how strong the link between brain dynamics and structure is 💫👀🧪 "Spontaneous spiking statistics form unique area-specific fingerprints and reflect the hierarchy of cerebral cortex" 🐾🧠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

If you need to compare matrices or two-dimensional data that can be brought into matrix form, consider using Singular Angle Similarity: journals.aps.org/prxlife/abst...

RIP Issac Newton (aka the last alchemist), you would have loved watching the physicists get annoyed because they accidentally turned lead into gold theconversation.com/physicists-a...