Had great fun discussing some recent work and the value of toy models in neuroscience last night! Our next workshop will be: * 16.04 * 16-20:30 * At the Crick Sign up (for free) and come along! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand...

If you're in London next Thursday afternoon/evening, come along to our seminar/workshop on how to get theory and experiment working together better in neuroscience. There'll be a short talk by @marcusghosh.bsky.social on "A taxonomy of recurrence" (see below) and a long discussion with free food.

How can we build better experiment-theory collaborations in neuroscience? We're hosting a series of 6 in-person, interactive workshops to discuss this. Come along! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand...

If you want to tackle the "biggest problem holding neuroscience back right now" - comparing mechanisms of cognition across species - join us in @ox.ac.uk and @tcddublin.bsky.social . Please share! 3x Job Details below: (fantastic article @suthanalab.bsky.social ) #neuroskyence #neurojobs

Had a great week teaching at The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in Cape Town! With fellows from @schmidtsciences.bsky.social

PhD opportunity in "The role of neural development in multimodal intelligence" with me, @marcusghosh.bsky.social and @flor-iacaruso.bsky.social. Read details below 👇. Note there's a very short window for applying (deadline Feb 27). 🤖🧠🧪 www.imperial.ac.uk/school-of-co...

I’m a bit late to reading this article by @marcusghosh.bsky.social in the @thetransmitter.bsky.social I really enjoyed it. I’m definitely pro toy mathematical models, I believe they can be informative and push research forward.

Happy to share our preprint with @neworderofjamie.bsky.social , @danakarca.bsky.social and @drtnowotny.bsky.social ! We’ve been working on a neuron position learning algorithm by coupling space and time! See manuscript below 👇

Come do your PhD with me and @ktsetsos.bsky.social ! It's such an exciting time for cognitive and computational neuroscience at @tcddublin.bsky.social . And in this PhD you get to do both!

For the first Learning Club @cmc-lab.bsky.social in 2026, @marcusghosh.bsky.social on Jan 15, Thu, 2pm CET, will tell us about his recent paper (👇) [joint work w/ @neural-reckoning.org]. Want to attend, send an empty email to virtual [email protected] to get the link!

Just published my review of neuroscience in 2025, on The Spike. The 10th of these, would you believe? This year we have foundation models, breakthroughs in using light to understand the brain, a gene therapy, and more Enjoy! medium.com/the-spike/20...

Adam Kampff prioritized spreading knowledge over publishing flashy papers in prestigious journals, but colleagues say his mark on neuroscience was undeniable. The researcher and educator passed away on 9 December. By Lauren Schneider www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...

Toy models, just in time for Christmas! Excited to share my first article for @thetransmitter.bsky.social #neuroskyence

I'm excited to be teaching with @trendcamina.bsky.social again this summer. Come along!

🚨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...

Adam was a truly inspiring scientist. He made neuroscience fun and exciting, and made everything seem possible. The Behaviour and Neural Systems course was formative for many of us. The photo below is from my time @champalimaudr.bsky.social in 2016.

Finally got the job ad—looking for 2 PhD students to start spring next year: www.gao-unit.com/join-us/ If comp neuro, ML, and AI4Neuro is your thing, or you just nerd out over brain recordings, apply! I'm at neurips. DM me here / on the conference app or email if you want to meet 🏖️🌮

📍Excited to share that our paper was selected as a Spotlight at #NeurIPS2025! arxiv.org/pdf/2410.03972 It started from a question I kept running into: When do RNNs trained on the same task converge/diverge in their solutions? 🧵⬇️

We're almost at the end of the year, and that means an end-of-year review! Send me your favorite NeuroAI papers of the year (preprints or published, late last year is fine too).

🔥 Big news! #TReNDCaMiNA 2026 is back! Heading to the cool highlands of Nyeri at @DeKUTkenya 🗓️ Appl open: 15 Dec 2025 – 26 Jan 2026 💻 Learn #compneuro & ML in a refreshing environment. 🔗 Details & application in the link 📣 Share & tag friends! trendinafrica.org/trend-camina/

Psst - neuromorphic folks. Did you know that you can solve the SHD dataset with 90% accuracy using only 22 kb of parameter memory by quantising weights and delays? Check out our preprint with @pengfei-sun.bsky.social and @danakarca.bsky.social, or read the TLDR below. 👇🤖🧠🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2510.27434

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...

Are #NeuroAI and #AINeuro equivalent? @rdgao.bsky.social draws a nice distinction between the two. And introduces Gao's second law: “Any state-of-the-art algorithm for analyzing brain signals is, for some time, how the brain works.” Part 1: www.rdgao.com/blog/2024/01...

New preprint! What happens if you add neuromodulation to spiking neural networks and let them go wild with it? TLDR: it can improve performance especially in challenging sensory processing tasks. Explainer thread below. 🤖🧠🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Truly honored (and a little overwhelmed) to see our work featured in The Transmitter's "This Paper Changed My Life." Huge thanks to @neural-reckoning.org for the kind words - and to our amazing community that keeps pushing spiking neural network research forward 🙏

The misleading manifold? The current debate (decoding vs causal relevance) and a toy example I gave in the thread below got me thinking about a related issue: how decoding may reflect structure more than function. 🧵 1/5

Proud to have been a part of this, a great example of distributed async science! Huge thanks to @marcusghosh.bsky.social, @neuralreckoning.bsky.social, @tfiers.bsky.social, @krhab.bsky.social and others for putting in the bulk effort 🙌

Being part of this grassroots 🌱 neuroscience collaboration was a great experience! Keep an eye out for our next collaborative effort

I'll be presenting this work at #CCN2025 tomorrow (A173). Come and say hi or message me if you'd like to meet up!

How does the structure of a neural circuit shape its function? @neuralreckoning.bsky.social & I explore this in our new preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🤖🧠🧪 🧵1/9

Preprint update: The new version of #SPARKS🎇 is out! Everything's in here: sparks.crick.ac.uk A thread on what changed 🧵👇 @flor-iacaruso.bsky.social @sdrsd.bsky.social @alexegeaweiss.bsky.social #neuroskyence #NeuroAI #ML #BioInspiredAI

Hiring a post-doc at Imperial in EEE. Broad in scope + flexible on topics: neural networks & new AI accelerators from a HW/SW co-design perspective! w/ @neuralreckoning.bsky.social @achterbrain.bsky.social in Intelligent Systems and Networks group. Plz share! 🚀: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

How can we best use AI in science? Myself and 9 other research fellows from @imperial-ix.bsky.social use AI methods in domains from plant biology (🌱) to neuroscience (🧠) and particle physics (🎇). Together we suggest 10 simple rules @plos.org 🧵 doi.org/10.1371/jour...

New preprint for #neuromorphic and #SpikingNeuralNetwork folk (with @pengfei-sun.bsky.social). arxiv.org/abs/2507.16043 Surrogate gradients are popular for training SNNs, but some worry whether they really learn complex temporal spike codes. TLDR: we tested this, and yes they can! 🧵👇 🤖🧠🧪

Had a great time discussing multisensory integration @imrf.bsky.social! And really enjoyed sharing our new work too

It’s been a minute (11 years) since my last @imrf.bsky.social I’m excited to seeing all the great research. And I’m delighted to give a talk on Friday about Rebecca Brady’s PhD new modelling studies in collab w @bizleylab.bsky.social and @jennycampos.bsky.social 1/2 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Off to my first @imrf.bsky.social conference! I'll be giving a talk on Friday (talk session 9) on multisensory network architectures - new work from me & @neuralreckoning.bsky.social. But say hello or DM me before then!

Had a great time teaching on the @trendcamina.bsky.social summer school in Zambia! Awesome students and super TAs: @akoumoundourou.bsky.social, @tomnotgeorge.bsky.social, @jsoldadomagraner.bsky.social, @ashvparker.bsky.social, @pollytur.bsky.social, @skuechenhoff.bsky.social

Thrilled to see our TinyRNN paper in @nature! We show how tiny RNNs predict choices of individual subjects accurately while staying fully interpretable. This approach can transform how we model cognitive processes in both healthy and disordered decisions. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

(1/7) New preprint from Rajan lab! 🧠🤖 @ryanpaulbadman1.bsky.social & Riley Simmons-Edler show–through cog sci, neuro & ethology–how an AI agent with fewer ‘neurons’ than an insect can forage, find safety & dodge predators in a virtual world. Here's what we built Preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2506.06981

The Centauromachy begins

🚨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

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.

Looking forward to reading this #multisensory paper! 👀➕🔊

Really interesting work from @solarpunkgabs.bsky.social & @neuralreckoning.bsky.social!

Fellows from @imperial-ix.bsky.social, including myself, recently visited AIMS Cape Town! We ran tutorials to show the students how we apply methods from AI to different scientific domains; from particle physics to public health (@ojwatson.bsky.social) and #neuroscience.

Really neat work from @yang-chu.bsky.social & @neuralreckoning.bsky.social! 🔊👀

Excited to lead one of these projects with @sarabssethi.bsky.social! We’ll work on new algorithms for evolving neural network architectures. 🚀🌝

Looking for an exciting fellowship in AI & Neuro, with competitive salary (~£100k)? We got a new position in the lab at Oxford, working with @somnirons.bsky.social and me! 🧪 Our project: encode.pillar.vc/projects/beh... General info: encode.pillar.vc #compneuro #neuroai #neuroscience #sciencejobs

How can we explore the space of computational models in #neuroscience 🧠? Picture a mouse navigating an environment with light and dark areas. 🧵1/10