We're organising a #Cosyne workshop on biologically-inspired AI on Monday 16th with @achterbrain.bsky.social! 🧠 We've got an incredibly exciting array of speakers, and you have the possibility to sign up to present your poster on #NeuroAI! More info below ⬇️ #compneuro #neuroscience #neuroskyence

Going to Cosyne? There will be a "Biologically-inspired Artificial Intelligence: Challenges and Opportunities" workshop on Monday 16th! 🧠 Exciting lineup of speakers alongside the opportunity to present your #NeuroAI poster, more info on program & poster signup below! #compneuro #neuroscience

Enjoyed @giacomoi.bsky.social commentary in PNAS on how #NeuroAI and Neuromorphic Engineering should come together to allow brain circuit motifs to positively influence the design of computing systems: Biological fidelity: The engine driving the neuromorphic renaissance www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

Let me know if you are in San Diego for #Neurips and wanted to chat about #compneuro / #neuroAI and neuroscience-inspired computing!

How do brain areas control each other? 🧠🎛️ ✨In our NeurIPS 2025 Spotlight paper, we introduce a data-driven framework to answer this question using deep learning, nonlinear control, and differential geometry.🧵⬇️

A beautiful summary of our paper! Thank you @neurosock.bsky.social

neurosock@neurosock.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The hippocampus is not a library, it is a simulation engine. HPC is known for storing maps of the environment but not so known for generating planned trajectories. This paper proposes that recurrence in CA3 is crucial for planning. A🧵with my toy model and notes: #neuroskyence #compneuro #NeuroAI

One example of how multiplexing might be implemented in the brain was shown in the great work by Thomas Akam with Dmitri Kullmann, a decade ago. The papers are cited well but the general multiplexing idea never really took the field by storm as much as it deserved www.nature.com/articles/nrn...

Oscillatory multiplexing of population codes for selective communication in the mammalian brain - Nature Reviews Neuroscience

The function of brain oscillations remains unclear, although a role in controlling the flow of signals among anatomically connected networks has been proposed. In this Opinion article, Akam and Kullma...

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Cian O'Donnell@cianodonnell.bsky.social · 8mo ago

100%. I'm a fan of the idea of multiplexing here, that different receivers can decode different information from the same broadcasted signal.

Postdoc fellowship opportunity for ECRs (<3 yrs post-PhD). Note that if you want to apply to work with me as your mentor, our dept has an internal deadline of Dec 4th so please email me asap. Our internal process is shorter than the full application. 🤖🧠🧪 royalcommission1851.org/fellowships/...

Brains have many pathways / subnetworks but which principles underlie their formation? In our #NeurIPS paper lead by Jack Cook we identify biologically relevant inductive biases that create pathways in brain-like Mixture-of-Experts models🧵 #neuroskyence #compneuro #neuroAI arxiv.org/abs/2506.02813

Check out this cool new work lead by @pengfei-sun.bsky.social !

Dan Goodman@neural-reckoning.org · 9mo ago

Psst - neuromorphic folks. Did you know that you can solve the SHD dataset with 90% accuracy using only 22 kb of parameter memory by quantising weights and delays? Check out our preprint with @pengfei-sun.bsky.social and @danakarca.bsky.social, or read the TLDR below. 👇🤖🧠🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2510.27434

With my great advisors and colleagues, @achterbrain.bsky.social @zhe @danakarca.bsky.social @neural-reckoning.org, we show that if heterogeneous axonal delays (imprecise) can capture the essential temporal structure of a task, spiking networks do not need precise synaptic weights to perform well.

Dan Goodman@neural-reckoning.org · 9mo ago

Psst - neuromorphic folks. Did you know that you can solve the SHD dataset with 90% accuracy using only 22 kb of parameter memory by quantising weights and delays? Check out our preprint with @pengfei-sun.bsky.social and @danakarca.bsky.social, or read the TLDR below. 👇🤖🧠🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2510.27434

Come be our colleague at EPFL! Several open calls for positions 🧪🧠🤖 * Neuroscience www.epfl.ch/about/workin... (deadline Oct 1) * Life Science Engineering www.epfl.ch/about/workin... * CS general call www.epfl.ch/about/workin... * Learning Sciences www.epfl.ch/about/workin...

Faculty Position in Neuroscience

The School of Life Sciences at EPFL invites applications for a Tenure Track Assistant Professor position in Neuroscience. At EPFL researchers develop and apply innovative technologies to understand br...

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Statistical methods for dissecting interactions between brain areas www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Statistical methods for dissecting interactions between brain areas

The brain is composed of many functionally distinct areas. This organization supports distributed processing, and requires the coordination of signals…

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ATTN🚨: I will be looking for PhD students through NYU's Center for Data Science PhD program this year. Applicants should have an interest in either NeuroAI (specifically biological attention or AI interpretability) or ML for Remote Sensing. Visit my lab website for more info: lindsay-lab.github.io

Could we understand vision as a type of problem-solving? In this new paper, we develop a computational model that iteratively refines the hypothesis about the visual input with evolutionary search. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... work led by @tarunkhajuria.bsky.social #visionscience #neuroAI

This is really funny…

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 12mo ago

The FT has been consistently good on this stuff, the only outlet to really take coreweave seriously, had great reporting, probably my fav business outlet. The Altman oil piece by bryce elder is one of the most devastating things I've ever read www.ft.com/content/b180...

Can large language models play simple arcade games? Kind of. Sometimes. Slowly, and not as well as a simple search algorithm. And only if you format the input right. Of course, we made a benchmark to investigate this in more detail, because that's what we do. Paper here: arxiv.org/html/2508.08...

Great and detailed blog post on compositionality, written by Eric Elmoznino: ericelmoznino.github.io/blog/2025/08... #compneuro #neuroai #neuroscience

#CCN2025 is over. Over 5 days there were 6 fantastic keynotes, 550 posters, 3 community events, 3 keynote & tutorials, 3 generative adversarial collaborations, 8 Satellite events, 1 community lunch meeting, 1 cross-conference hackathon, 1 competition, coffee all day, stroopwafels on day 1,

I'm curious if any senior nonhuman primate Neuro-AI researchers would be interested in joining Queen's University if we were to obtain a research chair position (full professor level)? Could you please send me a confidential message to indicate your interest? Gunnar.blohm@queensu.ca

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Sad to miss #CCN2025. It will be the 1st conference where a PhD working w/ me will speak 😭 go see Lubna's talk (Friday) about distributed neural correlates of flexible decision making in 🐒, work done in collaboration w/ @scottbrincat.bsky.social @siegellab.bsky.social & @earlkmiller.bsky.social

The registration desk for the first day is now open! If you are looking for information to get to the venue, you can find it here: 2025.ccneuro.org/venue-inform... Look out for the CCN banners!

CogCompNeuro@cogcompneuro.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Welcome to the first day of #CCN2025 ! 🧠 Today, we're starting with networking, opening remarks, and two fantastic keynotes from Nancy Kanwisher and Anna Schapiro. More details in the thread below 👇

Less than 2 weeks until CCN 2025 in Amsterdam! Here's everything you need to know to prepare for the 8th Cognitive Computational Neuroscience conference, August 12-15 at University of Amsterdam 🧠

I wrote an article earlier in the week arguing that we need to give junior researchers more independence earlier, and this should be our focus, not moonshot mega projects led by senior researchers. I was surprised how much agreement I'm seeing. So next question: how do we do this?

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · last yr.

Large-scale projects run the risk of stifling scientific independence. Instead, let’s explore alternative mechanisms of collaboration, writes @neuralreckoning.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/funding/neur...

#NeuroAI finds itself facing an interesting question these days: 1) which of these now-many schemes for bio-plausible credit assignment actually operate in the brain? -and if more than one- 2) how the hell do they operate when they, inevitably, interact?

Friedemann Zenke@fzenke.bsky.social · last yr.

1/6 Why does the brain maintain such precise excitatory-inhibitory balance? Our new preprint explores a provocative idea: Small, targeted deviations from this balance may serve a purpose: to encode local error signals for learning. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... led by @jrbch.bsky.social

Now out 🚨 🧪 : our preprint describing dynamics of an extended frontal lobe network (4 cortical regions) in monkeys solving complex multi-step spatial problems! We observe distributed codes for goals, states, and planned moves across PFC! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroscience #compneuro 🧵👇

Neural dynamics of an extended frontal lobe network in goal-subgoal problem solving

Complex behavior calls for hierarchical representation of current state, goal, and component moves. In the human brain, a network of “multiple-demand” (MD) regions underpins cognitive control. We reco...

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www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Compositional pretraining improves computational efficiency and matches animal behaviour on complex tasks - Nature Machine Intelligence

Hocker et al. demonstrate a method for training recurrent neural networks, which they call ‘kindergarten curriculum learning’, involving pretraining on simple cognitive tasks to improve learning effic...

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On behalf of Nicole Carr: new preprint from the Chand/Moore labs! High-resolution laminar recordings reveal structure-function relationships in monkey V1. 1/4 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

High–resolution laminar recordings reveal structure–function relationships in monkey V1

The relationship between the structural properties of diverse neuronal populations in the monkey primary visual cortex (V1) and their functional visual processing in vivo remains a critical knowledge ...

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Screen shots from BBC Click during the experiment. Now to reveal some of that that mad experiment is telling us:

Hugo Spiers@hugospiers.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

Just a few months until Cognitive Computational Neuroscience comes to Amsterdam! Check out our now-complete schedule for #CCN2025, with descriptions of each of the Generative Adversarial Collaborations (GACs), Keynotes-and-Tutorials (K&Ts), Community Events, Keynote Speakers, and social activities!

CogCompNeuro@cogcompneuro.bsky.social · last yr.

A detailed schedule for CCN2025 is available on our website now, including the specific keynotes / GACs / community events taking place: 2025.ccneuro.org/schedule-of-... The early bird registration deadline is coming up this Friday (23rd May)!