🚨 Deadline approaching! Applications for both the Gatsby-only (theory-focused) and SWC-Gatsby joint (computational/data-focused) PhD programs are due next Monday! New courses on the theory of learning are coming soon! Join our inspiring, curious, and collaborative community

Travel awards are available for undergraduate students looking to attend #Cosyne25! The application is short, and the deadline is Nov 12. @cosynemeeting.bsky.social Application: shorturl.at/6NEyk More info: www.cosyne.org/travel-grants (1/2)

Submission deadline extended! Submit your poster or lightning talk abstract by Wednesday 15th October 2025, 12:00pm

The Wu Tsai Institute at Yale is hiring another faculty member in neurocomputation. Come work with us in a growing community at the interface of neuroscience and AI! More info below 👇

🙋Are you interested in bridging theory & experiments? Applications are now open for 2026 entry to the Gatsby Unit & SWC joint PhD programme. Join us and be part of a vibrant research community! 💰 Fully-funded 4-year programme ℹ️ www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science... @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social

Interested in doing a Ph.D. to work on building models of the brain/behavior? Consider applying to graduate schools at CU Anschutz: 1. Neuroscience www.cuanschutz.edu/graduate-pro... 2. Bioengineering engineering.ucdenver.edu/bioengineeri... You could work with several comp neuro PIs, including me.

👋 Attending #ICML2025 next week? Don't forget to check out work involving our researchers!

Almost last call to register for UK neural computation conference in London July 10-11. Registration deadline is July 1st. We have some great talks and posters as well as a session on funding with ARIA. 🤖🧠🧪 Look forward to seeing you all there. Now click here 👇 neuralcomputation.uk

Congratulations to Adrienne Fairhall, Prof. of Neurobiology and Biophysics, Adjunct Prof. of Applied Mathematics, and Adjunct Prof. of Physics, who has just been elected to the National Academy of Sciences! 🍾 🎉

This is insane. Republicans have inserted language into the budget reconciliation bill that would ban states from regulating AI in any capacity for 10 years. from @404media.co www.404media.co/republicans-...

There are few fully-funded PhD positions left for this year’s Theoretical Neuroscience/ Machine learning program at Gatsby! Apply by May 27 and start in September. Please distribute broadly

📢 Applications are open for 2025 Analytical Connectionism! Topical focus: bias in learning Learn key connectionist models & analytical tools for neural-network analysis, and work on novel projects with faculty & postdoc mentors ⏰ Apply by 18 April ℹ️ www.analytical-connectionism.net/school/2025

We’re looking for interns at the Palmigiano Lab in the Gatsby Unit! Learn more about us at www.palmigianolab.com. These are 3-month, paid internships focused on theoretical and CS-based neuroscience projects. Apply centrally through the Gatsby website: www.ucl.ac.uk/gatsby/vacan.... Deadline Jan 17!

Interested in theoretical neuroscience or machine learning but come from a non-quantitative background? This summer school is for you! Learn the foundational theory needed to excel in a quantitative PhD in 7 weeks. Apply by feb 7!

(1/5) Fun fact: Several classic results in the stat. mech. of learning can be derived in a couple lines of simple algebra! In this paper with Haim Sompolinsky, we simplify and unify derivations for high-dimensional convex learning problems using a bipartite cavity method. arxiv.org/abs/2412.01110