Huntington's disease has been successfully treated for the first time, doctors tell BBC

A very real message I sent my class today: "I have confirmation that the philosophy department has been vanquished – we have our original lecture hall back."

Now out in @nature.com: Our study discovering a neural circuit in Drosophila that predictively inhibits proprioceptor axons during voluntary leg movements, such as walking and grooming. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

When reviewer #2 just has ‘a few concerns’

Day on the water

Got some good news 👀

We don't need to accept traffic deaths as inevitable. They're not.

Beautiful day for a race 🏃

Excited to share my latest work with @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social & @andpru.bsky.social! We asked: How does the motor cortex account for arm posture when generating movement? Paper 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/10

Why LLMs can’t represent human experience

Emergence is something we should be thinking deeply about in computational neuroscience. When we say 'computation through dynamics' what we're really talking about is different types of emergent computation (probably Type 1-2 as defined here) @seanmcarroll.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2410.15468

"Bhattacharya is the American Lysenko and must be removed as NIH Director." rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/bhattachar...

Percentage of treatments tested on animals that get approved for humans: 5% Percentage of treatments for humans that were tested in animals: 100% www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Living my best millennial life.

Back from the backcountry

A wonderful program that made clear how important theory is to progress in neuroscience. Funny story: I walked to the conference one day with Xiao-Jing Wang and not knowing who he was I attempted to explain RNNs to him.

No one is going to fine tune their way to AGI

Neuroscientists ask me, “What about IRB approval? Signal noise? Artifact rejection?” And I tell them: signal is just noise that believes in itself.

I wrote a Comment on neurotheory, and now you can read it! Some thoughts on where neurotheory has and has not taken root within the neuroscience community, how it has shaped those subfields, and where we theorists might look next for fresh adventures. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is really sad to read. Personally, I find being short a gift. If you're superficial enough to be offput by height – thank u, next

First lab paper means ice cream cake with an ATHENA logo!!

There are a lot of terrible things going on in the world. But – here’s the first chili pepper of the season.

Air Canada executives right now

I am happy to announce that I am nearly caught up on all the work I had from Spring semester and boy am I ready for summer vacation what's that you say

We're thrilled to introduce ATHENA: Automatically Tracking Hands Expertly with No Annotations – our open-source, Python-based toolbox for 3D markerless hand tracking! Paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10....

"Not long after we met, I knew I wanted to spend my life with you. Let me know if you’d like these opening lines to be warmer or more emotional. Do you want me to personalize them in some way?"

"...researchers may lose connection with their data. The field risks creating a generation of neuroscientists capable of executing sophisticated analyses but unable to critically evaluate their results."

Well, this is a huge Executive Order power grab... www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... 1/3

Behold, an actual entry in my todo list..

Coming March 17, 2026! Just got my advance copy of Emergence — a memoir about growing up in group homes and somehow ending up in neuroscience and AI. It’s personal, it’s scientific, and it’s been a wild thing to write. Grateful and excited to share it soon.

Nature is insane

LLMs are stuck in Plato's Cave "While the Human Connectome Project is busy reconstructing the human brain neuron by neuron, LLMs are trying to skip the neurons all together and reconstruct the mind from the shadow it casts on the Internet." sergeylevine.substack.com/p/language-m...

Okay so I found this video so inspiring that I built myself a bird detection box running on BirdNET-Go

Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird. (he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...

From IBM, 1979

We put out this preprint a couple months ago, but I really wanted to replicate our findings before we went to publication. At first, what we found was very confusing! But when we dug in, it revealed a fascinating neural strategy for how we switch between tasks doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.29.615736 🧵

Wonderful race! Just way too hot

Life in the clouds

In my latest (and last!) column for Science’s Expert Voices series, I write about the reasons behind AI chatbots’ “deceptive” behaviors (and why Claude threatened a fictional CEO with blackmail). www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Are you a graduate student in #Ukraine interested in machine learning and neuroscience? My research lab at #UofT is now accepting applications for remote thesis supervision. (1/3) #neuroAI #compneuro @vectorinstitute.ai @uoft.bsky.social @uoftcompsci.bsky.social @uhn.ca

I'm curious if any senior nonhuman primate Neuro-AI researchers would be interested in joining Queen's University if we were to obtain a research chair position (full professor level)? Could you please send me a confidential message to indicate your interest? [email protected]

Last message I received from Frank: "Hope you are doing well" A wonderful and kind human being who had a huge impact on people.

The baby squirrel we found survived and is being reintroduced to the wild with 4 other friends! We’ll be watching them explore

Ozzy going out after raising $190 million for sick kids and a Parkinson’s cure is metal AF.

Missing the mountains

I forgot that this happened! It was a fantastic year. My opinion so far: 1. Prioritize people. Finding good people and supporting them is critical. 2. Don't rush with grants. That's what startup is for. Do the research. 3. Invest in your teaching. It will pay you back with interest.

Excited to have gotten an NSERC Discovery Grant! 🤩 www.yorku.ca/yfile/2025/0...

Great effort by @mkashefi.bsky.social on this one, no shortcuts taken.

Really rude of Reviewer #3 to talk about my paper on social media