I'm getting excited for CPAL 2026!

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How can your AI be superhuman if it can't even beat a mouse?Lots of updates for this 2025 NeurIPS competition. Get your submission in! robustforaging.github.io Nov. 1 is the deadline. Please share widely. @garymarcus.bsky.social @dcower.bsky.social @tyrellturing.bsky.social @rowantmc.bsky.social

#Baltimore Mayor #BrandonScott invested in 42 summer youth camps, 29 literacy programs, extended the rec center hours to 11 p.m, planned block parties, opened the pools for safe fun, & opened several schools up for summer classes. Crime is down 62%. 🔥🔥 www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 A summary of @michaelgoard.bsky.social and Nora Wolcott’s awesome paper in @thetransmitter.bsky.social: www.thetransmitter.org/neuroendocri...

Very happy to see a Transmitter (@thetransmitter.bsky.social) piece on our recent work on estrous cycle modulation of hippocampal structure and function. Thanks to Sydney Wyatt (@sydneywyatt.bsky.social) for covering the work and its context: www.thetransmitter.org/neuroendocri...

I am very excited about our new paper just published in PNAS. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... It was a pleasure to work on this idea together with @leokoz8.bsky.social and Jean-Jacques Slotine.

Join us in beautiful Santa Barbara! We're hiring a full-time junior specialist/research technician to play a central role in data collection & analysis of brain imaging studies of pregnancy & menopause. Learn more & apply at: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02974 Or help us spread the word 💫

This Thursday at 5.20pm we are holding a webinar to reveal the first findings from our project studying how 100 people explore, navigate and evacuate space. Photos below show camera tracking at 2 timepoints in our experiment. For more info and a registration link: www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/res...

Foundational work. Get this in textbooks pronto. Brava Nora Wolcott, @wtredman.bsky.social, @emilyjacobs.bsky.social, @michaelgoard.bsky.social!

Very surprised (but very excited) to announce that I’ll be officially starting as an Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and as part of the new Data Science and AI Institute in July 2026!

New preprint out in eLife! Neurons in medical entorhinal cortex (MEC) develop responses to visual cues and reward as mice learn a visual Go/NoGo task. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

It’s here!!! Mike’s team putting out some beautiful science. 👇🏼🤩

Very excited to see this out and very lucky to have gotten to be a part of this awesome project!

High-Dimensional Dynamics in Low-Dimensional Networks. New preprint with a former undergrad, Yue Wan. I'm not totally sure how to talk about these results. They're counterintuitive on the surface, seem somewhat obvious in hindsight, but then there's more to them when you dig deeper.

At Princeton University we are being clear about our continued commitment to diversity and nondiscrimination, in full compliance with law (as opposed to executive order) and consistent with our ethical responsibilities as educators for the entire nation. www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025...

New Lab Preprint! "Independent Continuous Tracking of Multiple Agents in the Human Hippocampus" led by my graduate student Assia Chericoni. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🔵 New paper! We explore sparse coding, superposition, and the Linear Representation Hypothesis (LRH) through identifiability theory, compressed sensing, and interpretability. If you’re curious about lifting neural reps out of superposition, this might interest you! 🤓 arxiv.org/abs/2503.01824

How can neural nets extract *interpretable* features from data—& uncover new science? 👉 Discover our mathematical framework tackling this question w/ identifiability theory, compressed sensing, interpretability & geometry!🌐 By @david-klindt.bsky.social @rpatrik96.bsky.social C. O'Neill H Maurer

How does AI memorize information? How does ChatGPT remember your name? How do RNNs keep track of simple numbers? Our new paper led by Bariscan Kurtkaya & Fatih Dinc explores the geometry of short-term memory in neural networks—revealing limits in how information is stored!🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2502.17433

New paper with @aingrosso.bsky.social @sebgoldt.bsky.social and Zhangyang Wang “On How Iterative Magnitude Pruning Discovers Local Receptive Fields in Fully Connected Neural Networks“ accepted at the conference on parsimony and learning (CPAL) arxiv.org/abs/2412.06545 1/

Really cool analysis — heterogeneity in spatial firing-rate maps of (co-modular) grid cells is a) present in data, b) not noise, and c) useful for position encoding beyond what would be represented by a pure-grid module!

New "version of record" of our article on the effect of robust within-module grid cell variability on spatial coding in @elife.bsky.social. Check out @wtredman.bsky.social's explainer thread below:

Excited to have our paper “Robust variability of grid cell properties within individual grid modules enhances encoding of local space” out in @elife.bsky.social! Fun collab with co-first author @s-acosta.bsky.social, Xue-Xin Wei, & @michaelgoard.bsky.social elifesciences.org/articles/100... 1/

1/ Our paper appeared in @Nature today! www.nature.com/articles/s41... w/ Fiete Lab and @khonamikail.bsky.social . Explains emergence of multiple grid cell modules, w/ excellent match to data! Novel mechanism for applying across vast systems from development to ecosystems. 🧵👇

📣 Excited to announce our workshop "Agent-Based Models in Neuroscience: Complex Planning, Embodiment, and Beyond" at the upcoming @cosynemeeting.bsky.social #CoSyNe2025! 🧠🤖 🪱🪰🐟🐝🐭💪 Schedule: neuro-agent-models.github.io 🗓️ Join us in Mont-Tremblant, Canada, on March 31!

First preprint from our lab! An @jerlich.bsky.social collaboration We developed novel frameworks to study multi-agent decisions in mice. Mice flexibly shift their decision preference under social competition, by integrating real-time self and opponent information! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Perfect periodicity in grid cells would make decoding locations degenerate in large spaces. Slight distortions in grid patterns, as observed in vivo, solve this problem, enabling precise spatial navigation. Final version of the manuscript is now available 👇 elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

Grid cells have a geometry in time. Thanks to @azvollan.bsky.social l & @rjgardner.bsky.social for this heroic discovery. @ercresearch.bsky.social #KiloNeurons @m-bmoser.bsky.social @kavlintnu.bsky.social @nature.com @kavlifoundation.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

(1/30) New preprint! "Symmetries and continuous attractors in disordered neural circuits" with Larry Abbott and Haim Sompolinsky bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...