📢 Save the date! Join us for the next @ellis.eu and @unireps.bsky.social Speaker Series! 📅16th September – 16:00 CEST 📷 ethz.zoom.us/j/66426188160 🎙️ Speakers: Keynote by Jacqueline Gottlieb & Flash Talk by William Dorrell 🔵🔴Stay updated by joining our Google group: groups.google.com/u/2/g/ellis-...

🧠✨ How closely do AI models mirror the human brain? Join us for @irisgroen.bsky.social’s talk: “Alignment of visual representations in AI and human brains: beyond object recognition” 📅 8th September @unireps.bsky.social x @ucl-neuroai.bsky.social meetup 🔗 Zoom link: ethz.zoom.us/j/66426188160 1/4

🚨 Registration for the @unireps.bsky.social x @ucl-neuroai.bsky.social meetup (Sept 8) is now closed & sold out for in-person attendance! But good news — you can still join us online 👩‍💻✨ 🔗 Zoom link: ethz.zoom.us/j/66426188160 We can’t wait to see you there! 🎉

📢 Deadline Extended! The submission deadline for the UniReps Workshop (technical tracks: Ext. Abstracts & Proceedings) is now August 29 (AoE). ⏰ NEW deadline: August 29 (AoE) ⏰ 🔵Submit: t.co/rRMRKRkKtY 🔴CfP: t.co/JsjgbyTabL See you at NeurIPS 25🚀

It’s been a real pleasure visiting @devon-jarvis.bsky.social lab @caandl-lab Wits University this week and giving a talk – great discussions and inspiring work happening here! 🇿🇦

Our #CCN2025 GAC debate w/ @gretatuckute.bsky.social, Gemma Roig (www.cvai.cs.uni-frankfurt.de), Jacqueline Gottlieb (gottlieblab.com), Klaus Oberauer, @mschrimpf.bsky.social &‬ @brittawestner.bsky.social asks: 📊 What benchmarks are useful for cognitive science? 💭 2025.ccneuro.org/gac

Had a wonderful first day @ CCN in Beautiful Amsterdam ! 🌷

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🏆 Excited to announce that we will feature Best Paper and Best Reviewer awards! 🎁 Winners will receive paid NeurIPS registrations! 👉Submit your work openreview.net/group?id=Neu... 👉 Sign up to review forms.gle/tDE4kJqVubES... See you in San Diego! 🚀

🎓Thrilled to share I’ve officially defended my PhD!🥳 At @gatsbyucl.bsky.social, my research explored how prior knowledge shapes neural representations. I’m deeply grateful to my mentors, @saxelab.bsky.social and @caswell.bsky.social, my incredible collaborators, and everyone who supported me!

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!🌴🇺🇸

How do task dynamics impact learning in networks with internal dynamics? Excited to share our ICML Oral paper on learning dynamics in linear RNNs! with @clementinedomine.bsky.social @mpshanahan.bsky.social and Pedro Mediano openreview.net/forum?id=KGO...

🚀Exciting News! 🚀 Join us for the first UniReps x @ucl-neuroai.bsky.social Meetup at @ucl.ac.uk @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social on Sept 8, 2025! 🎉 🎙️ Keynote by @irisgroen.bsky.social (University of Amsterdam) 📍 Register now! 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🥳 Congratulations to Clementine Domine (@clementinedomine.bsky.social) on passing her PhD viva with minor corrections! 🎉 🔖 Balancing Learning Regimes: The Impact of Prior Knowledge on the Dynamics of Neural Representations

👉 Join our Google group for more updates: groups.google.com/u/2/g/ellis-...

🎉 The first @ellis.eu × Unireps Speaker Series (Reading Group associated with Ellis PhD & Postdoc Program) session is happening soon! 🔜 🗓️ When: 29th May 2025 – 16:30 CET 📍 Where: ethz.zoom.us/j/66426188160 🎙️ Who: Andrew Lampinen @lampinen.bsky.social (Keynote) & Jack Lindsey (Flash Talk)

Our paper "Solve Layerwise Linear Models First to Understand Neural Dynamical Phenomena" has been accepted as a position paper to ICML 2025! arxiv.org/abs/2502.21009 These models offer a tractable path to understanding complex neural dynamics—before diving into full nonlinearity. 1/4

Had so much fun presenting our two posters at ICLR with @devon-jarvis.bsky.social and Nico Anguita ! Thanks to everyone who came by and chatted!

See you tomorrow, 4-5pm BST (note that it's not our usual time). Dont forget to register to receive the attendance link! ⬇️

For our next UCL #NeuroAI online seminar, we are happy to host Dr Shaul Druckmann (@stanforduniversity.bsky.social, @stanfordpsy.bsky.social). 🗓️Wed 16 April 2025 ⏰4-5pm BST Talk title: 'Relating circuit dynamics to computation: robustness and dimension-specific computation in cortical dynamics'

🎨I’ll be giving a short talk at Reimagining Anthropocene Futures—an evening of art, ideas & imagination at UCL, part of an ongoing collaboration with artist Mary Yacoob Join us Friday, June 6, 4:30–7pm! Free tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/reimaginin...

‼️ Interested in the emergence of similar representations in diverse systems? Check out the September meetup by @unireps.bsky.social ⬇️

🚀Exciting News! 🚀 Join us for the first UniReps x @ucl-neuroai.bsky.social Meetup at @ucl.ac.uk @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social on Sept 8, 2025! 🎉 🎙️ Keynote by @irisgroen.bsky.social (University of Amsterdam) 📍 Register now! 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🚀 An other Exciting news! Our paper "From Lazy to Rich: Exact Learning Dynamics in Deep Linear Networks" has been accepted at ICLR 2025! arxiv.org/abs/2409.14623 A thread on how relative weight initialization shapes learning dynamics in deep networks. 🧵 (1/9)

Make sure to sign up as a speaker! Excited to hear from everyone.🔵🔴

📢 We are thrilled to introduce the ELLIS (@ellis.eu) x UniReps Speaker Series!📢 🔵🔴 Each monthly session features a 40-min Keynote talk and a 20min-Flash talk. 📜 You can nominate yourself or another researcher as a speaker by filling out the nomination form: forms.gle/EbHatQW7zoVi...

Our paper, “A Theory of Initialization’s Impact on Specialization,” has been accepted to ICLR 2025! openreview.net/forum?id=RQz... We shows how neural network can build specialized and shared representation depending on initialization, this has consequences in continual learning. (1/8)

Thank you to all the organizers, amazing speakers, and EVERYONE who turned out to #standupforscience NYC today! @standupforscience.bsky.social (2nd photo not mine but was shared and was a spectacular view!)

Why do we even have to do this? I wondered the whole time at Stand for Science. 🧪 But it was inspiring to see so many people committed to fighting for truth, science, and justice!

In an unprecedented move, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has begun mass terminations of research grants that fund active scientific projects because they no longer meet “agency priorities”…. 🧪 #AcademicSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I've created a @gatsbyucl.bsky.social starter pack! Let me know if you’d like to be included, or just jump in to see what we're talking about. Either way, a retweet would be greatly appreciated! 🚀 go.bsky.app/4g6Ro4U go.bsky.app/AErHDon

🔵🔴 Curious about unifying representations and sharing breakthrough ideas with fellow scientists? The ELLIS (@ellis.eu) UniReps Speaker Series is your chance to dive in!

Want to be part of the conversation? Nominate yourself—or a fellow researcher—as a speaker using our [nomination form](forms.gle/o9GjZn5dr5mm...). If there is a match, we’ll reach out with more details.

We had an amazing poster session! Congratulations again to all the authors🎉🎉

New preprint out with @summerfieldlab.bsky.social! When does new learning interfere with existing knowledge? We compare continual learning in humans and artificial neural networks, revealing similar patterns of transfer & catastrophic interference (1/8) osf.io/preprints/ps...

Thanks to @annduan.bsky.social Ella Svahn, @clementinedomine.bsky.social Lillianne Teachen, Sandra Reinert and Elena Ghirardello for their inspiring contributions. @ucllifesciences.bsky.social #February11 #WomenInScience #GirlsInScience #WomenInSTEM

📢 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

Go check it out if you want to see me awkwardly posing with the amazing @unireps.bsky.social awardees! 😆🏆

🔵🔴Better late than never! We're excited to finally share pictures from the Best Paper Awards Ceremony of the last edition of #UniReps at #NeurIPS! 📸🏆 Check them out in our latest blog post: 👉 unireps.org/blog/2025/un... Congratulations again to all the authors!🎉

For our next UCL #NeuroAI online seminar, we are happy to be hosting Dr Dan Goodman @neuralreckoning.bsky.social (@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social). 🗓️Wed 12 Feb 2025 ⏰2-3pm GMT Talk title: Neural architectures: what are they good for anyway?

🚀 Did you attend the 2nd UniReps workshop on Unifying Representations in Neural Models? We’d love your feedback! Take 2 minutes to fill out our form & help shape future workshops in ML, Neuroscience, & Cognitive Science.📋 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

📢 Apply now for the 7-week #Mathematics #SummerSchool in London! You will develop mathematics skills and intuition necessary to enter the #TheoreticalNeuroscience or #MachineLearning field. ℹ️ www.ucl.ac.uk/gatsby/study-and-work/gatsby-bridging-programme Please help spread the word!

🔵🔴🎉 Stefanie Jegelka from MIT is the last speaker of our UniReps workshop, talking about "Parameter Symmetries in Neural Networks: what they affect and what to do with them"

🎉 Good news! The fun doesn’t stop after the first social! Join us for a joint party with @neurreps.bsky.social and NeuroAI. Don’t miss out—scan the QR code to register now! 🚀

🔵🔴 Excited to hear from Neel Nanda on "Open Problems in Universality: A mechanistic interpretability perspective" 👏

Welcome back! 🥳 Starting off after lunch is Marco Cuturi, talking about "On Using Optimal Transport Distances to Regularize Representation Learning". 🔵🔴

We are now starting the panel discussion with Matthew Leavitt, Erin Grant and Alex Williams, moderated by @clementinedomine.bsky.social 😍 What an amazing panel to share perspectives of unifying representations 🔵🔴

We continue with Chenyu Wang, presenting "An Information Criterion for Controlled Disentanglement of Multimodal Data" 👏

Coming right up - "Modern Hopfield Networks meet Encoded Neural Representations - Addressing Practical Considerations" by Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood from IBM Research ✨