Jean-Rémi King
@jeanremiking.bsky.social
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Researcher in Neuroscience & AI CNRS, Ecole Normale Supérieure, PSL currently detached to Meta
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I'm very pleased to share our latest study: ‘Emergence of Language in the Developing Brain’, by L Evanson, P Bourdillon et al: - Paper:
ai.meta.com/research/pub..
. - Blog:
ai.meta.com/blog/meta-fa..
. - Thread below 👇
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📣 Our latest brain-to-text decoding results from our Brain team is out: "Towards decoding individual words from non-invasive brain recordings" 📄
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
👥 Led by Stéphane d'Ascoli & w/ Corentin Bel, Jérémy RAPIN, Hubert Banville, Yohann Benchetrit and Christophe Pallier
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🎉 Our paper has been selected for a Neurips Spotlight: “Scaling and Context Steer LLMs along the Same Computational Path as the Human Brain” 👥led by J Raugel, w/ S. Ascoli, Rapin &
@valentinwyart.bsky.social
📄https://openreview.net/pdf?id=4YKlo58RcQ 📍 Hall C-E Poster #2006 🧵thread 👇
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🧠How does the hierarchy of speech representations unfolds in the human brain? Our latest work, led by
@lauragwilliams.bsky.social
, together with Alec Marantz and
@davidpoeppel.bsky.social
, is now out in PNAS:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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BrainHack Donostia
3 months ago
Jean-Rémi King - The Emergence of Language in the Human Brain We’re excited to announce that
@jeanremiking.bsky.social
, CRNS researcher at the ENS Paris & leader of Meta’s Brain & AI team, will be sharing groundbreaking insights into how language emerges in the human brain at BHD2025!
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Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL)
4 months ago
[2/2] 📊 His research uses encoding and decoding approaches to show how modern speech and language models account for brain responses to natural speech, measured with EEG, MEG, iEEG, and fMRI, even in children aged 2 to 12. 📆 November 19–21, 2025. +info 👇
brainhack-donostia.github.io
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Can self supervised learning help understand how the brain learns to see the world? Our latest study, led by Josephine Raugel (FAIR, ENS), is now out: 📄
arxiv.org/pdf/2508.18226
🧵 thread below
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CNSP Workshop
5 months ago
🚨 Just over a week left to register for the
#CNSP2025
Online Workshop (details in post below)! 🚨 Link to the workshop registration form:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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CNSP Workshop
5 months ago
Our first Keynote Speaker this year will be Jean-Rémi King
@jeanremiking.bsky.social
(CNRS) who leads the Brain & AI team
@metaai.bsky.social
. He will be giving an exciting talk on the "Emergence of Language in the Human Brain".
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Had a blast chatting with
@neildegrassetyson.com
on
@startalkradio.bsky.social
’s podcast about how AI and neuroscience come together
startalkmedia.com/show/mindrea...
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Mindreading with Jean Rémi-King - StarTalk Special Edition
What would it take to read someone’s mind? Neil deGrasse Tyson, Chuck Nice, & Gary O’Reilly explore the science of decoding our thoughts w/ Jean-Rémi King.
https://startalkmedia.com/show/mindreading-with-jean-remi-king/
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BrainHack Donostia
5 months ago
We are honoured to welcome
@jeanremiking.bsky.social
to BrainHack Donostia 2025! Dr. King is a CNRS researcher based at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, currently leading the Brain & AI team at Meta AI, combining expertise in cognitive neuroscience and machine learning.
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Lucy (Mingfang) Zhang
5 months ago
Excited to be with my team at
#ccn2025
this week! I’ll be presenting part of the workshop on Thursday. Come say hi!
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We’re very happy to share 3 highlights of our Brain and AI team for
#CCN2025
's week: 1. 🏆1st place for the Algonauts competition: paper, thtread and code below 2.🗣Keynote: Language in the Brain:
2025.ccneuro.org/k-and-t-lang...
3. 🚀Tutorial: Scale your decoding pipeline in the notebook
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Cogan Lab
7 months ago
Last week,
@danielsexton16.bsky.social
(7th year Neurosurgery Resident at Duke University) presented Linnea Evanson and colleagues' new paper on comparing the development of language from childhood to adulthood and how it relates to LLMs. This 🧵 explores our thoughts (🤍 & ❔)
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Academia is often a long dry road, but every now and then you get the most amazing comment 🤗
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7 months ago
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micha heilbron
8 months ago
New preprint, w/
@predictivebrain.bsky.social
! we've found that visual cortex, even when just viewing natural scenes, predicts *higher-level* visual features The aligns with developments in ML, but challenges some assumptions about early sensory cortex
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Higher-level spatial prediction in natural vision across mouse visual cortex
Theories of predictive processing propose that sensory systems constantly predict incoming signals, based on spatial and temporal context. However, evidence for prediction in sensory cortex largely co...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.15.654212v1
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Our EEG-Foundation Challenge, on more than 3,000 subjects, is accepted at
#Neurips
2025, go check it out:
eeg2025.github.io
Led by B Aristimunha D Truong P Guetschel and SY Shirazi!
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EEG Challenge (2025)
From Cross-Task to learning subject invariance representation in EEG decoding
https://eeg2025.github.io/
7 months ago
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🔎We're looking for volunteers to study the brain: - Native English? - 🇫🇷in Paris? - 🧠Want to participate in a brain imaging experiment? - 💶 8 sessions of 2 hours paid 80€ each - 📩 contact:
[email protected]
Please RT :)
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🚨Our Brain & AI team at Meta opens a new contingent worker position in US (or UK). If you have solid Python experience and/or a background in neuroimaging, you can apply at
tinyurl.com/58cdam26
(We also have 1 postdoc and 1 research engineer position in Paris here:
tinyurl.com/4mxn6ydb
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🚨Our Brain & AI team at Meta opens a new contingent worker position in US (or UK). If you have solid Python experience and/or a background in neuroimaging, you can apply here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
8 months ago
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Our latest brain-to-image decoding model is now available on HuggingFace: "Dynadiff: Single-stage Decoding of Images from Continuously Evolving fMRI", led by Marlène Careil and Yohann Benchetrit: - Paper:
arxiv.org/pdf/2505.14556
- Github:
github.com/facebookrese...
- Thread: 👇
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ILCB_France
8 months ago
🚨 5 days left to apply for the ILCB Summer School 2025! 🚀 Join us in Marseille to explore the latest in Language, Communication & the Brain with top experts! 🗓️ Dates: Sept 1-5, 2025 📍 Location: CIRM, Marseille, France 🔗 Apply now:
columbo.univ-amu.fr/index.php/53...
#SummerSchool
#Neuroscience
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2025 ILCB Summer School Application
https://columbo.univ-amu.fr/index.php/535796?lang=en
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CNSP Workshop
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We are also thrilled to announce that this years workshop will feature keynote talks by Jean-Rémi King
@jeanremiking.bsky.social
(Meta/CNRS) and Sam Nastase
@samnastase.bsky.social
(Princeton). Stay tuned for more information on this!
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Oops, and now without broken links: - paper:
ai.meta.com/research/pub...
- blog:
ai.meta.com/blog/meta-fa...
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I'm very pleased to share our latest study: ‘Emergence of Language in the Developing Brain’, by L Evanson, P Bourdillon et al: - Paper:
ai.meta.com/research/pub..
. - Blog:
ai.meta.com/blog/meta-fa..
. - Thread below 👇
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Patrick Mineault
8 months ago
Excited to dig into this, from
@jeanremiking.bsky.social
's group. Compares neural representations of language across age. The stimulus? Le Petit Prince.
ai.meta.com/research/pub...
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Emergence of Language in the Developing Brain | Research - AI at Meta
A few million words suffice for children to acquire language. Yet, the brain mechanisms underlying this unique ability remain poorly understood. To...
https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/emergence-of-language-in-the-developing-brain/
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Thomas Serre
8 months ago
🚨 New preprint alert! Our latest study, led by @DrewLinsley, examines how deep neural networks (DNNs) optimized for image categorization align with primate vision, using neural and behavioral benchmarks.
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🔴 Our `Brain and AI` team at Meta has a new Research Engineer position in Paris to work on infrastructure and scale deep learning experimentations:
www.metacareers.com/jobs/1769841...
We'll favor industry experience or Github track record.
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https://www.metacareers.com/jobs/1769841..
8 months ago
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Virginie van Wassenhove
8 months ago
www.universite-paris-saclay.fr/en/news/welc...
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Welcome initiatives for American researchers
https://www.universite-paris-saclay.fr/en/news/welcome-initiatives-american-researchers
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How about a stackoverflow-like interface for peer review: Best criticisms move to the top. If the paper is highly voted and the best criticisms are meh, good chances it’s a good paper.
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🚨Job alert: Postdoc in our Brain & AI team at Meta, Paris to work on self supervised learning and fMRI. Apply here:
www.metacareers.com/jobs/6951286...
(And please feel free to RT)
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Brain & AI
Meta's mission is to build the future of human connection and the technology that makes it possible.
https://www.metacareers.com/jobs/695128626408652/
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Joao Barbosa
10 months ago
CNRS AI rising talents program is looking for PIs in the field of ML and related disciplines. Candidates working at the interface of AI and neuroscience are encouraged to apply. Comes with a package of up to 1M€
www.ins2i.cnrs.fr/en/cnrsinfo/...
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Choose France - CNRS AI Rising Talents
As part of the French Strategy in Artificial Intelligence (AI), the Choose France - CNRS AI Rising Talents program offers exceptionally tal
https://www.ins2i.cnrs.fr/en/cnrsinfo/choose-france-cnrs-ai-rising-talents
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Jérémie Barral
10 months ago
Job alert! Postdoc position in auditory neuroscience. Funded by the Fondation Bettencourt Schueller. Work in Paris (France) at
@pasteur.fr
/
@cnrs.fr
/ Institut de l'Audition.
#neuroscience
#hearing
#optogenetics
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CoNLL 2025
10 months ago
🚨 Guest Speaker Alert! 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce that
#CoNLL2025
will feature: 🥁 Raquel Fernández (University of Amsterdam) & Jean-Rémi King (
@jeanremiking.bsky.social
, CNRS / Meta AI)! 🎤✨ Check out their awesome work!👇
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MIT Kids Brains
10 months ago
The Saxe Lab @ MIT is hiring! We seek one lab manager to start in summer 2025. Research in our lab focuses on social cognition (learn more on
saxelab.mit.edu
). Please apply at:
tinyurl.com/saxe2025
(Job ID 31993). Review of applications starts on March 24, 2025. Sharing appreciated. Thank you!
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Saxelab Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at MIT |
https://saxelab.mit.edu/
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Jarod Levy
11 months ago
🔥”Brain-to-Text Decoding” is now out on ArXiv:
arxiv.org/abs/2502.17480
Our paper from AI at Meta and
@bcbl.bsky.social
presents Brain2Qwerty, an AI model that decodes text from non-invasive recordings of the brain. Below a detailed thread 🧵1/7
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Our Brain-to-Text study is now on arXiv, check out the thread! 👇
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11 months ago
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The thread from our latest study:
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Floris de Lange
almost 2 years ago
🚨Job alert!🚨 Are you curious about curiosity, and looking for a post-doc position? Then please consider applying:
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
Feel free to e-mail/DM me if you have questions. Thanks very much for sharing/re-posting!
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Very happy to have had our studies featured by the BBC:
www.bbc.com/audio/play/w...
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11 months ago
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ILCB_France
11 months ago
Hello Bluesky! 🌍🧠 We’re the Institute of Language, Communication & the Brain (@ILCB), uniting experts in linguistics, neuroscience, psychology, medicine & AI to study how humans process language. Follow us for research insights, events & collaborations! 📖
#CognitiveScience
#Linguistics
#ILCB
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You can even go much further back in time for a formalization of tree structures in language (with some pretty fancy topological visualizations):
www.polysyllabic.com?q=book/expor...
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Very happy to have participated in this *beautiful* documentary from Florent Muller, on the frontiers between humans and machines, following next
@yann-lecun.bsky.social
and so many humbling figures of AI:
www.france.tv/documentaire...
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France TV - Replay et Direct tv des chaînes France Télévisions (ex Pluzz)
Retrouvez toutes les vidéos, articles et podcasts des programmes des chaînes de France Télévisions.
https://www.france.tv/documentaires/documentaires-societe/l-homme-a-la-machine/
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🚨Job alert: Postdoc at FAIR Paris with the DINO team, the crème de la crème of SSL in computer vision:
www.metacareers.com/jobs/5024761...
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Postdoctoral Researcher - Computer Vision (PhD)
Meta's mission is to build the future of human connection and the technology that makes it possible.
https://www.metacareers.com/jobs/502476149187757/
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Our latest studies on the decoding text from brain activity, reviewed by MIT Tech Review
@technologyreview.com
www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/07/1...
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MIT Technology Review
11 months ago
Meta hopes neuroscience will give it an advantage in the AI race.
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Meta has an AI for brain typing, but it’s stuck in the lab
The social network company hopes neuroscience will give it an advantage in the AI race.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/07/1111292/meta-has-an-ai-for-brain-typing-but-its-stuck-in-the-lab/?utm_medium=tr_social&utm_source=bsky&utm_campaign=site_visitor.unpaid.engagement
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Two new studies from our team we're particularly happy about: Study 1:
ai.meta.com/research/pub...
Study 2:
ai.meta.com/research/pub...
Blog 3:
ai.meta.com/blog/brain-a...
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You can check out Théo's MEG decoding paper on minimalist language composition here:
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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🚨Job alert (Please RT) What: masters internship and/or PhD positions Where: Rothschild Foundation Hospital (Paris, France) Topic: AI and Neuroscience Supervised by: Pierre Bourdillon and myself Apply here:
forms.gle/KKnea2QAjhAe...
Deadline: Feb 5th
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12 months ago
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Laura Gwilliams
12 months ago
postdoc opportunity in
@alexwoolgar.bsky.social
and my lab, based in Cambridge UK! seeking someone with excellent analytical skills to join our project using time-resolved human neuroimaging to study receptive language processing in non-speaking autistic individuals 🧠✨
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48835/
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Postdoctoral Research Associate (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Fixed Term) in the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge.
https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48835/
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Kyutai
12 months ago
Meet Helium-1 preview, our 2B multi-lingual LLM, targeting edge and mobile devices, released under a CC-BY license. Start building with it today!
huggingface.co/kyutai/heliu...
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kyutai/helium-1-preview-2b · Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
https://huggingface.co/kyutai/helium-1-preview-2b
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