We recently pushed Jupyter Book 2, which was a breaking change for many of our users! We considered publishing a completely different package (e.g., `jupyter-book2`) but decided against it. Here's a quick rationale why:

Do you know someone qualified to be an Area Chair for #ICML2026?🤔 (...maybe yourself?) If so, then nominate them to be an Area Chair! Nomination closes November 17, 2025, so don't delay!🚀🚀🚀 Nomination form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The Flatiron Institute is #hiring! View our numerous open computational researcher positions: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/flatiron/careers/ #science

I'm on the academic job market! I design and analyze probabilistic machine-learning methods---motivated by real-world scientific constraints, and developed in collaboration with scientists in biology, chemistry, and physics. A few highlights of my research areas are:

Good news everyone: #Duke Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy (SSNAP) are back!! We are now accepting applications for SSNAP 2026, which will take place from May 26 to June 6, 2026. #neuroscience #philosophy #brain Please spread the word! ssnap.submittable.com/submit

🚨 UNC Psych & Neuro is hiring TWO Teaching Assistant Professors (one Psych, one Neuro) starting July 2026! If you love creating engaging classroom experiences and mentoring undergrads, please consider applying or sharing widely. Check it out + apply by Jan 14 unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/308...

The best falafel is made from carpet. Don't blame me: it's Science!

It’s grad school application season, and I wanted to give some public advice. Caveats: -*-*-*-* 
> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees 
> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases

The academic job market is doing something very good: A lot of searches are *NO* longer asking for reference letters until applicants make the short list. This makes is easier to apply for jobs, reduces the letter writing load for faculty, and makes the review process easier for committee members.

First paper from the lab! We propose a model that separates estimation of odor concentration and presence and map it on olfactory bulb circuits Led by @chenjiang01.bsky.social and @mattyizhenghe.bsky.social joint work with @jzv.bsky.social and with @neurovenki.bsky.social @cpehlevan.bsky.social

Now in PRX: Theory linking connectivity structure to collective activity in nonlinear RNNs! For neuro fans: conn. structure can be invisible in single neurons but shape pop. activity For low-rank RNN fans: a theory of rank=O(N) For physics fans: fluctuations around DMFT saddle⇒dimension of activity

JupyterBook 2 is released! This is now built on top of the @mystmd.org engine directly. 🚀 Please reach out on our GitHub discussions if you have any problems upgrading.

Come be my colleague! The Wu Tsai Institute at Yale has two faculty searches ongoing: - One in computational cognitive science (due Dec 1) - One in neurodevelopment (rolling) 🧠🤖

Want the freedom of a fancy fellowship, but not the year-long wait or arduous application? Come join my lab! Work on neuroscience and AI, explore your creativity, be independent or work closely with me, collaborate widely, and have a lot of fun! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

I just skimmed the paper (too fast...) and it seems like they're using more than the output sequence and actually the full logits of the output for reconstruction.

At no point can you accurately predict what will happen. I love it.

🗣️💬 Your brain understands what someone says *and* who said it -- how? 🧠 @eintzandt.bsky.social @ralphpeterson.bsky.social & Dan Sanes show in Mongolian gerbils that both vocalization type & social identity can be decoded from neural activity in auditory cortex #prattle 💬 #neurosky #neuroskyence

Super excited to share the first part of my thesis work! Perhaps how you might be able to both recognize someone’s voice *and* understand what they’re saying, we find that both social identity and vocalization category can be decoded from gerbil auditory cortex activity👂🧠 tinyurl.com/4fba6wk4

It was a privilege to develop the website to showcase the release of this basal ganglia connectome! Congratulations to everyone involved 😊🎉 Check out interactive 3D models, analysis you can perform in your browser, & our interactive matrices; all on the website! songbird-connectomics.org

Note: this has a computational scientist track! It’s for you, too, math nerds!

Applications for our Fellows-to-Faculty Award are now open! This program supports early career scientists in #autism or #neuroscience research by facilitating their transition into tenure-track faculty positions. Apply by 1/14/2026: www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/10/31/a... #science

People emphasizing circles in dimensionality reduced trajectories are emphasizing the wrong thing imho. In a spatiotemporally low-pass world, dimensionality reduction literally reveals the fourier bases.

Join us in two weeks for the BRAIN Initiative Alliance’s Toolmakers Showcase Social at #SfN25! Learn more and register: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/brain-initiative-alliance-social-toolmakers-showcase/ #science #neuroscience

My partner works at one of these food banks (foodbankcenc.org/give). Demand for food ALREADY far exceeds supply (less funding, fewer donations from companies/individuals due to...everything). If you are able, please donate to a local food bank

They're close. Put them over the top!

at porch-durham.org , foodbankcenc.org/locations/du... or umdurham.org . Let me know what you gave and to whom (no proof, can dm if you want) and we will get this done.

Anybody else worried that because of the long standing Republican war on SNAP people are going to experience painful hunger. Lets do something. @nanopharmnc.bsky.social and i are going to donate to some local nc food banks. Join us! Gonna match up to $500.

Pynapple v0.10 is out with major changes. Unified tuning curve function now returns an xarray object, plus new flexible template-matching decoding. Join us at the Flatiron workshop this February to learn Pynapple and other tools for neural data analysis from @flatironinstitute.org.

There are just over two weeks to apply to our #FlatironCCB Flatiron Research Fellow postdoc positions! Deadline is 11/15: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/flatiron/careers/?tab=job-openings&center=ccb #science #biology

NEW PUBLIC DATASET ALERT! Just published in Nature Scientific Data. We're happy to publicly release another medical imaging dataset: Duke University Cervical Spine MRI Segmentation Dataset (CSpineSeg). Here are some details:

New paper, with @rkhashmani.me @marielpettee.bsky.social @garrettmerz.bsky.social Hellen Qu. We introduce a framework for generating realistic, highly multimodal datasets with explicitly calculable mutual information. This is helpful for studying self-supervised learning arxiv.org/abs/2510.21686

The songbird basal ganglia connectome https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.25.684569v1

Looking for a PhD program where you can study vision from different perspectives (computer vision, visual neuroscience, visual perception, image processing)? Consider applying to NYU! visionscience.com/pipermail/vi...

We are hiring!

Deadline for applications- November 1st!

What if we did a single run and declared victory

I answered in thread but it might be of interest. My current advice is to use the stderr of the median (bootstrapped), with a separate metric for reliability if needed. The latter is less standard - we have been reporting e.g. 80% perf quantile and its stderr (bootstrapped).

Looking for a PhD program where you can study computational neuroscience? NYU has a fantastic array of researchers covering the field: groups.google.com/g/systems-ne...

Please repost!!: We are searching for new AI-Bio faculty at Duke to be part of a new Discovery AI center. Looking for faculty who focus on pushing boundaries in ML model development in a highly interactive environment. DEADLINE for applications- Nov 1st!! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

How does life evolve to adapt to modern cities? Out now in Science, my PhD work with @lindymcbr.bsky.social uncovers the ancient origin of the “London Underground mosquito” – one of the most iconic examples of urban adaptation. 🧵(1/n) @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ady4515

Apply to become a CSHL-Simons Fellow in Neuroscience! Run your own lab, pursue bold ideas, join a highly collaborative community! All areas including experimental or computational neuro, including NeuroAI & systems PhD required; ≤~1 yr postdoc www.cshl.edu/about-us/car...

Apply to the new CSHL grad program in BioAI/neuroAI! (Masters degree or equivalent required in a quantitative area such as computer science, physics, mathematics, or engineering) www.cshl.edu/phd-program/...

Applying to do a postdoc or PhD in theoretical ML or neuroscience this year? Consider joining my group (starting next Fall) at UT Austin! POD Postdoc: oden.utexas.edu/programs-and... CSEM PhD: oden.utexas.edu/academics/pr...

CDS Asst. Prof. @neurograce.bsky.social has launched a YouTube channel, “5 Minute Papers on AI for the Planet,” translating climate-AI research into short video explainers, inspired by her course at CDS, “Machine Learning for Climate Change.” nyudatascience.medium.com/cds-grace-li...

🧠🌟🐭 Excited to share some of my postdoc work on the evolution of dexterity! We compared deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. We found that forest mice have: (1) more corticospinal neurons (CSNs) (2) better hand dexterity (3) more dexterous climbing, which is linked to CSN number🧵

The Tschida Lab is recruiting a new PhD student this cycle! We have ongoing projects related to (1) neural circuits that regulate vocal communication across behavioral contexts and/or development and (2) motor control of different vocalization types. Please RT! Strong neuro background a plus.

Yesterday, I received as a gift in the mail two volumes of conference proceedings from a workshop held at the UK’s National Physical Lab in 1958. Under normal circumstances, I would not have been excited, but over the last couple of months, I’ve been reading some history. 1/

Suzanne Haber was just elected to the National Academy of Medicine! Her work on the organization of the cortex and basal ganglia has had a huge impact. Please take the opportunity to congratulate her the next time you see her. www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/story/u...