Simultaneous detection and estimation in olfactory sensing https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.01.686013v1

So proud of my alma mater! Awesome. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

So I get that a Neuroscientist Couldn’t Understand a Microprocessor, and TBH I’m ok with that. But could a neuroscientist understand a deep RNN? Because that seems like a more pressing issue. *assuming you think the brain operates through the parallel activity of many connected input/output units

A study led by Cina Aghamohammadi is now out in ‪@natcomms.nature.com‬! We developed a mathematical framework for partitioning spiking variability, which revealed that spiking irregularity is nearly invariant for each neuron and decreases along the cortical hierarchy. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Over the past year, my lab has been working on fleshing out theory + applications of the Platonic Representation Hypothesis. Today I want to share two new works on this topic: Eliciting higher alignment: arxiv.org/abs/2510.02425 Unpaired learning of unified reps: arxiv.org/abs/2510.08492 1/9

Superposition has reshaped interpretability research. In our @unireps.bsky.social paper led by @andre-longon.bsky.social we show it also matters for measuring alignment! Two systems can represent the same features yet appear misaligned if those features are mixed differently across neurons.

retweeting because this needs a multiplier.

🚨Big news!🚨 The lab is relocating to Lisbon, joining a great team of experimental and theoretical neuroscientists, and the Neurotechnology Warehouse, a new initiative to bridge basic and translational research. I'll be sharing postdoc openings soon. Come join us in this new incarnation of the lab!

Join us for the 3rd edition of the UniReps Workshop at #NeurIPS2025! 🧠🤖 We're bringing together researchers from #AI, #Neuroscience, and #CogSci to explore why different neural models learn similar representations. 📝 Call for Papers is OPEN on OpenReview! 🌐 Website: unireps.org/2025/

📢 We're thrilled to announce that the UniReps workshop will return to @NeurIPSConf 25 for its 3rd edition! 🔵Check our new Call for Papers at: unireps.org/2025/call-fo... 🔴Submit your work at: openreview.net/group?id=Neu... See you in San Diego!🌴🇺🇸

Delighted to see our new collaboration on ecological neuroscience 🧩🌿🧠 announced today! A huge ❤️🙏🏼 to @simonsfoundation.org I’m so excited by this theory-driven question. It’s core to our research on adaptive intelligence & sensorimotor systems 🙌 #SCENE www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/04/24/s...

🚨 New paper on the limits of identifiability theory! Mathematical guarantees for neural representations are thrilling—especially in a field driven by trial and error. But sometimes theory lives in "fairyland" ... 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2504.13101

Wow this is really cool, especially since the sensors are so close; and awesome to see the downstream effect on head direction coding

A Perspective from the Ecker lab discusses the progress and challenges of using computer vision approaches for behavior studies of primates in natural environments. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Come do cool BCI experiments with wellcome trust fellow Mostafa!

Amazing work! I dreamt about getting this to work at such scale and predicting anatomical cell types from functional data ever since we wrote the what/where readout paper 🤩

After 7 years, thrilled to finally share our #MICrONS functional connectomics results! We recorded activity from ~75K neurons in the visual cortex of a single mouse, then mapped its wiring using electron microscopy. nature.com/immersive/d42859-025-00001-w/index.html

📣 Grad students and postdocs in computational and theoretical neuroscience: please consider applying for the 2025 Flatiron Institute Junior Theoretical Neuroscience Workshop! All expenses are covered. Apply by April 14. jtnworkshop2025.flatironinstitute.org

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We're bringing together leading researchers from top institutions worldwide to Split, Croatia this summer. If you're passionate about brain-inspired AI, computational neuroscience, or fundamental mathematical principles driving intelligence, this conference is the place to be!

Going to #Cosyne2025? Join us (w/ @mdiamantaki.bsky.social) for our exciting workshop Object-centric Neuronal Representations toliaslab.org/workshop/cos... Featuring diverse species💁‍♀️🐒🐁🐝🕷️🤖 Our goal: Discuss universal & species-specific principles of object-centric vision See you in Montreal🥳

Coming to the #Cosyne2025 workshops? Wanna dance on the final night? We got you covered. @glajoie.bsky.social and I have organized a party in Tremblant. Come and get on the dance floor y'all. 🕺 April 1st 10PM-3AM Location: Le P'tit Caribou DJs Mat Moebius, Xanarelle, and Prosocial Please share!

Visa/ green card holders in the US who had planned to go to @cosynemeeting.bsky.social , what are your current thoughts about leaving and reentering the US / has your university issued any new directive? I'm happy to dm/ chat over Signal too. #cosyne25 #neuroskyence

Applications are open for the summer school 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗱𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲. compneuronrsn.org Application deadline: March 31, 2025 Located in beautiful Eresfjord, Norway 🇳🇴 #Neuroscience #ComputationalNeuroscience #KavliNeuro @kavlintnu.bsky.social

🔵 New paper! We explore sparse coding, superposition, and the Linear Representation Hypothesis (LRH) through identifiability theory, compressed sensing, and interpretability. If you’re curious about lifting neural reps out of superposition, this might interest you! 🤓 arxiv.org/abs/2503.01824

LONG ISLAND! ☀️ Stand Up for Science sign-making event at Six Harbors Brewing Company in Huntington, NY on Monday, March 3rd from 5-8 pm! #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

🚨NTNU Discovery Pilot Grant secured for Innovation! We’re merging neuro-math and engineering to push brain-machine-interface boundaries!! With our team from dept of Math and Kavli! Stay tuned for updates as we progress! @benndunn.bsky.social @nwaniek.bsky.social @jonwhitlock.bsky.social

"Can a book be ahead of its time by 50 years?! The answer is a definitive ‘yes’ in the case of this phenomenal book by Francisco Varela. A real gem of a book about the philosophical foundations of biology and so much more." - Luiz Pessoa @pessoabrain.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026255140...

Do you love SAEs for interpretability research? Us too ❤️ But can they actually solve the task that they a designed to solve (sparse inference)? 🤓 We prove that they cannot! But small modifications (MLP encoders) help and actually lead to more interpretable sparse codes 🤩 arxiv.org/pdf/2411.13117

Academic workers across the country are organizing to call on our congressional representatives on Thursday, 1/30, at 3pm ET / 12pm PT to demand these restrictions be lifted immediately. There will be a training over zoom at the beginning of the event. Join us! form.jotform.com/250226137228...

Defunding academic sciences while teaming up with big tech companies seems also like a great strategy to make sure they have a monopoly on research and, ultimately, its monetisation. If NSF stops funding academic AI research, then we can only *hope* OpenAI et al will work for the good of humanity 😳

On Jan. 10, CSHL celebrated #NationalCutYourEnergyCostsDay with over $279k in @PSEG rebates. New, energy-efficient upgrades across campus empower CSHL’s cutting-edge science, like @david-klindt.bsky.social’s NeuroAI research.

The 2024 CSHL Summer Volleyball League Championship was a big hit, or spike if you will. Watch now to find out who won! www.cshl.edu/videos/the-2...

I see posts/discussions on 'world models' that seem polarised or move the goalpost. Imho, any system that fits data better then a max entropy normal has some, albeit imperfect, world model. If world models have to be 'perfect' (whatever that may mean) then no one has one 🤓

1/ Okay, one thing that has been revealed to me from the replies to this is that many people don't know (or refuse to recognize) the following fact: The unts in ANN are actually not a terrible approximation of how real neurons work! A tiny 🧵. 🧠📈 #NeuroAI #MLSky

"Amortization usually breaks down at planning because we have to navigate our uncertainties" ~ Karl Friston at NeurIPS NeuroAI workshop So much to unpack and ponder 🙏

Check out our #NeurIPS2024 spotlight "Get rich quick: exact solutions reveal how unbalanced initializations promote rapid feature learning." Thu 12 Dec 4:30-7:30 pm East Exhibit Hall A-C #2102 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2406.06158 Thread: x.com/KuninDaniel/...

Had an amazing time with @marcofm.bsky.social @danielkunin.bsky.social @david-klindt.bsky.social and Feng Chen doing science 🧑‍🔬 and surfing 🌊 in Santa Barbara for the Follow-on Program at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics! 🌴 #ScienceAndSurf #KITP

Are you a grad student in AI interested in neuroscience and neuroAI? Become a summer neuroAI intern at CSHL! www.schooljobs.com/careers/cshl...