New preprint! 🧠 How do RNNs learn abstract rules from sequences, independent of specific stimuli? By Vezha Boboeva, with Alberto Pezzotta & George Dimitriadis "From sequences to schemas: low-rank recurrent dynamics underlie abstract relational representations" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Last night, US/Israeli strikes bombed Sharif University, my alma mater, heavily damaging the IT Center, Philosophy of Science building, EE, and more. Trump spoke of sending Iran "back to the Stone Age." That is the goal of this war. Scientists worldwide should speak up against these atrocities.

Even with everything happening across our region, we’re continuing to create space for learning, connection, and science. Applications are now open for students & TAs Deadline: April 19 Apply now ↓ arabsinneuro.org/school/ #ArabCompNeuro26 #Neuroscience #CompNeuro #ArabSTEM #MENA #STEM

You have 10 minutes of task fMRI to map functional brain regions in an individual. Three decisions matter: How do you localize regions? Which tasks do you include? How do you arrange tasks in your experiment? Here, we tackle all three! Preprint👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

How does an animal choose between exploring for a better food source and taking advantage of a known one? Our recent work in Current Biology demonstrates how recent feeding and metabolic state dynamically influence fly local search. bit.ly/3PfrIv3 #Science #Neurosky #Foraging #Drosophila

I'm at #COSYNE2026 this week. Will be presenting our work on the relationships integrating vascular, metabolic and neural activities with a focus on neurodegeneration progression. We investigated this question using a neural network simulation. Lets chat there ;)

Cool! This is generative inference’s prediction for human perception in this illusion: the squares are no longer squares! Try it for yourself here: huggingface.co/spaces/ttoos...

Reminder that Francesca Albanese is not being targeted for a sentence twisted and lifted out of context in a speech. She is being targeted for daring to name the names of giant companies complicit in the crime of genocide. They would rather destroy international law than be accountable to it.

Meet Dr Earvin Tio, our second speaker this Thursday. Remember to register at tinyurl.com/4wr7h9wd To stay updated on our webinars, events, and more, subscribe to our mailing list: forms.gle/CJEGWiQ8SvkZ... #MentalHealth #Neuro #AI #ML #Resilience #PsychResearch

Join us this Thursday, 5th February 2026, as we launch our webinar series for the year 2026. Register at tinyurl.com/4wr7h9wd Do not miss it. 😊 To stay updated on our webinars, events, and more, subscribe to our mailing list: forms.gle/CJEGWiQ8SvkZ...

Let's talk about "grumpy lab person". Many labs have them. With an eye to keeping science at its most rigorous, they cross the line into criticism that's too harsh. They are the ones who risk killing your scientific spirit. They are reviewer 2. /1

Solidarity with Iranians fighting for freedom against all forms of autocracy... and for self-determination against all forms of colonialism

Venezuela must return the land that is Venezuelan land, and the oil that lies under Venezuelan land, to its rightful owner, the United States. Otherwise, we have no option but to take the land and oil (which again, belongs to us and not to Venezuela). Thank you for your attention to this matter.

We love to fetishize "top" researchers and give them special big pots of money. But we get far more science by spreading money among all researchers (closer to the NSERC DG model). This old post is magically relevant again... scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2015/05/12/w...

Let in these incredible students from Gaza: www.france24.com/en/middle-ea... This administration ignores its own faculty members pleading for our admitted students to be allowed to leave Gaza and come to Canada. We need their talents, their perseverance. They are the very best of the academy.

Been talking to many postdocs in Canada on the job market right now. There is a consensus on a feeling of betrayal that the system does not value the Canadian postdoctoral training. It has been explicitly known for long enough that Canada favors US-based scientists but now that's explicit.

Check out our recently updated calendar, featuring the top neuroscience meetings and events through September 2027. Are you organizing a neuroscience conference? Share it with us at [email protected]. www.thetransmitter.org/events/?utm_... #neuroskyence

Need more fMRI data (beyond the amazing NSD)? Introducing MOSAIC! Incredible effort led expertly by Ben Lahner, with help from grad student Mayukh Deb. Work in collaboration with the amazing Aude Oliva! @neurosky.bsky.social. More below..

THREAD One Year of tracking research communication on @bsky.app This time last year we officially added the Bluesky social platform to the places where we track research communication and article sharing. Here are some of the most viral articles that gained traction in the last 12 months. 1/14

To protect and serve war criminals

Back to our regularly scheduled program... 🧠 Happening this week (Dec 4th)! 🧠 Register here: tinyurl.com/2zrn3b6w 🧠 Stay up to date by subscribing to our mailing list: t.co/Oa9dLowy1h 🧠 @canacn.bsky.social @westernu.ca @uoftpress.bsky.social 🧠 #Neuroscience #science

Investigating individual-specific topographic organization has traditionally been a resource-intensive and time-consuming process. But what if we could map visual cortex organization in thousands of brains? Here we offer the community with a toolbox that can do just that! tinyurl.com/deepretinotopy

fabulous resource. are you a new PI? get yourself added to the list!

Only a few hours left to apply! $200 honourariums for all speakers 🤑

Well... AI field is filled with ppl who want to sound smart and AI does a relatively good job at that... I doubt The same ppl who used AI would have done a much better job themselves

Congratulations to @mabdelhack.bsky.social for being selected by @thetransmitter.bsky.social as a Rising Star in Neuroscience 2025. Learn more about their role in Arabs in Neuroscience here: www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...

Thank you to @thetransmitter.bsky.social for selecting me among the Rising Stars in Neuroscience 2025. It's an honor to be among a list of great scientists that I look up to. Check them out here: www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...

Canadian universities need to respect their job applicants more... Looking into my faculty job application, I found that Canadian universities ghosted me over 70% of the time in comparison to about 31% for European universities @futurepislack.bsky.social

HAPPENING TODAY 🚨🚨🚨 Come watch our webinar! Register here: tinyurl.com/4a45v6mu 🔬 And remember, you can stay up to date on webinars, events, and more by subscribing to our mailing list: t.co/Oa9dLowy1h @canacn.bsky.social

me at the end of class: here's a little speculative exercises; imagine you wake up from cryosleep in 2085. what's the kind of tech-society r/ship you'd like to see around you? students: no AI I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion

It’s hard not to feel insulted by the Canadian federal budget’s implication that researchers currently working in Canada aren’t good enough, so they’ll spend a bunch of taxpayer money to bring in “top talent” from elsewhere.

Are you at @sfn.org this month? We are too... come meet us and other Arab neuroscientists at 7 PM on Monday the 17th at the Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina

Happening next week! 🧠 Register here: tinyurl.com/4a45v6mu 🧠 Stay up to date by subscribing to our mailing list: forms.gle/CJEGWiQ8SvkZ... @canacn.bsky.social

📣 Travel Grants for #COSYNE25 📍 Computational & Systems Neuroscience #COSYNE will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, 12-15 March 2026. Undergrads & those from traditionally under-represented and under-served groups are encouraged to apply. Deadline is 12 November.

Between October 13-17th we ran the second edition of Ibn Sina Neurotech School hosted and sponsored by NYUAD Center for Brain and Health and @ibroorg.bsky.social We welcomed 18 students from across the world to learn hands-on about fMRI data collection and processing

Wondering what AiN has been up to recently? A lot! September 1-19, we conducted our Introduction to Computational Neuroscience Summer School for the 4th year in a row #ArabCompNeuro25 where we welcomes over 130 students and teaching assistants to learn more on basic of comp-neuro

🐦🔎 The findidfsoldiers.net database lists five doctors who, as per publicly available information, currently teach Medicine in Canadian universities. One went to serve after Oct. 7, 2023: substack.com/home/post/p-...

In this paper we use a new approach from control theory (engineering), a "disturbance observer", to see if it can be applied to visuomotor adaptation. This "DO model" is doing reasonably well.

OMG! i love it 😍

Help us fund more student travel to Abu Dhabi to attend #ISNeurotech25

Applications are open for our Diversity Mentorship Program! This program is open to undergraduates or recent graduates, anywhere in the world, who are interested in graduate studies in psychology. Apply here by Aug 25: psych.ubc.ca/diversity

www.npr.org/2025/07/06/g... From Anas Baba, NPR's producer in the Gaza Strip: "NEAR THE NETZARIM CORRIDOR, Gaza Strip —  What does it take to get food today in Gaza? It involves a perilous journey that I took myself.. I faced Israeli military fire, private U.S. contractors pointing laser beams

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...

EXCLUSIVE — The Onion has a full-page ad in today’s NYT featuring part of an editorial calling out congressional fecklessness towards Trump. They also sent a copy of their latest issue to every lawmaker. My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...

"War is peace... Freedom is slavery... Ignorance is strength"

Just so u know, these 'military ppl' & 'nuclear scientists' don't live in a cave, tucked away from the rest of the population. They live in residential areas, AMONG ordinary ppl. Media reports are quite disingenuous & outrageous... & to be clear, Israel has no right doing what it's doing. #NoToWar

Our paper is now accepted at Neural Networks! This work builds on our previous threads in X, updated with deeper analyses. We revisit brain-to-image reconstruction using NSD + diffusion models—and ask: do they really reconstruct what we perceive? Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... 🧵1/12

We are pleased to announce our keynote speaker for #ISNeurotech25 Prof. Nancy Kanwisher from MIT Only one week left before application deadline... APPLY NOW: arabsinneuro.org/school/isn/

The 2025 GRC on Cannabinoid Function in the CNS: Cannabinoid Neurobiology: Bridging Basic Science, Big Data, Biomarkers and Bedside Applications Across the Lifespan final program is here! Spots are going fast! Register soon for trainee talks! Reshare please! grc.org/cannabinoid-...