Adeel Razi
@adeelrazi.bsky.social
Computational Neuroscientist, NeuroAI, Causality. Monash, UCL, CIFAR. Lab: https://comp-neuro.github.io/
Excited to be presenting our symposium, "From synapse to self: computational, brain imaging and preclinical perspectives on psilocybin’s therapeutic mechanisms", at #NeuroAlliance2026! Featuring: 🧠 Claire Foldi 🧠 @lenaedibrainz.bsky.social 🧠 @adeelrazi.bsky.social 🧠 Nicholas Everett
🎉 Registration is now OPEN for the 2026 OHBM Australian Chapter Annual Meeting! 🇦🇺🧠🇦🇺 Get your ticket now! 🎟️🎟️🎟️ Registration: events.humanitix.com/ohbm-austral... 📝 Submit your abstract: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 🏆 Nominate a colleague (or yourself) for an award: ohbm-aus.github.io/awards/
OHBM Australia Meeting 2026
Uniting the Australian human brain mapping community.
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✨ The State of the Brain 2025 features leading voices from last year's Annual Meeting, highlighting major advances in brain imaging research 🔗 apertureneuro.org/issue/13963-... @lucinauddin.bsky.social @elvisha.bsky.social @sharnajamadar.bsky.social @gozziale.bsky.social @adeelrazi.bsky.social
Scientists are not immune to belief. Psychedelic researchers who were transformed by psychedelics Meditation scientists who built their careers around contemplative practice AI researchers convinced deep learning is the only path to intelligence Article here: adeelrazi.substack.com/p/when-exper...
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Why are there so many “foundation models” for brain if the goal is to have a single foundation model? I am often asked this question these days so I thought to put it out here. The short answer is that we are still in the exploration phase, not the consolidation phase. Theard 1/n 🧵👇
Wow. What a project 🤩 amid a stellar lineup of other possible collaborators including @smfleming.bsky.social @introspection.bsky.social @meganakpeters.bsky.social @adeelrazi.bsky.social - these projects sound so exciting! an incredible opportunity for early career researchers #neuroskyence
Ida Momennejad@neuroai.bsky.social · 3mo ago📢Become an AI Sentience scholar. Apply by Tues April 28! @neddo.bsky.social & I are looking for a grad student/postdoc w expertise in survey studies/modeling & topic - 6 months part-time online collab - 8hrs/week June-Dec 2026 - Up to $5k stipend, $3k project costs neuromatch.io/ai-sentience... 1/n
🚨 JOB alert: 📢 We are looking for a PhD student to work on our international @wellcometrust.bsky.social project on information gathering in OCD and Schizophrenia! If you have a background in computational psychiatry / neuroimnaging and speak German, apply here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...
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"The Self-Evidencing Agent" - my new book - is out now with @mitpress.bsky.social Can be purchased, or just download the whole thing for free, via the 'Open Access' option. I'm grateful to @anilseth.bsky.social and Karl Friston for the generous endorsements. mitpress.mit.edu/978026255389...
The Self-Evidencing Agent
What is it to be a human individual, an agent? According to Jakob Hohwy, it is to “self-evidence,” to actively seek out sensory evidence for one&...
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Maths! And Brains! In Melbourne!! Swoon 🧠 ECRs, you only have until 20th Feb to submit your abstracts. Registration is free (but you must attend) & prizes awarded to the highest quality posters and flash talks. Submit your abstracts here & see 👇 for more lnkd.in/dZtndkH3
Adeel Razi@adeelrazi.bsky.social · 6mo ago📢Maths in the Brain Workshop 2026 in Melbourne. We will bring together researchers across Australia with a shared interest in understanding the brain from a quantitative perspective. This year's keynote is delivered by Professor James Cole, University College London. 1/4🧵
📢Maths in the Brain Workshop 2026 in Melbourne. We will bring together researchers across Australia with a shared interest in understanding the brain from a quantitative perspective. This year's keynote is delivered by Professor James Cole, University College London. 1/4🧵
Thread 2: A way to see a stochastic differential equation is the equation below representing how X evolves in time. dW is a "stochastic increment" -- it is introducing "randomness". But a LOT changes because of that, and it is the reason the below representation is not actually a good one! (1/n)
What do we actually mean when we say “generative model” in neuroimaging? The term is everywhere, in neuroscience and AI, but its meaning is often assumed rather than stated. In a new bioRxiv perspective, we asked how researchers really use and understand it. 🧵
Our new paper, led by Brett Kagan and Valentina Baccetti, proposes a quantifiable, substrate-independent hierarchy of information processing to identify necessary conditions for agency, grounding agency in measurable dynamics rather than vague labels. arxiv.org/abs/2601.03498
A Quantifiable Information-Processing Hierarchy Provides a Necessary Condition for Detecting Agency
As intelligent systems are developed across diverse substrates - from machine learning models and neuromorphic hardware to in vitro neural cultures - understanding what gives a system agency has becom...
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I am in Karachi. Let’s meet if you like to talk about brains, models, and machines!
1/ Why does RL struggle with social dilemmas? How can we ensure that AI learns to cooperate rather than compete? Introducing our new framework: MUPI (Embedded Universal Predictive Intelligence) which provides a theoretical basis for new cooperative solutions in RL. Preprint🧵👇 (Paper link below.)
Joint modelling of brain and behaviour dynamics with artificial intelligence www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Joint modelling of brain and behaviour dynamics with artificial intelligence - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Artificial intelligence is rapidly advancing our mechanistic understanding of the shared structure between the brain and higher-order behaviours. In this Review, Mathis and Mathis synthesize state-of-...
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📢Generative Models in Neuroimaging Survey We’re running a short survey on how neuroimaging (aka #OHBM) community defines, uses & evaluates generative models, from biophysical simulations to ML-based approaches 👉 t.co/lRQj4qmknO @ohbmofficial.bsky.social @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social
Jonny Smallwood @themindwanders.bsky.social was a beloved friend and mentor. He was taken from us too soon. His was a beautiful mind who understood the beauty of minds. As ever before, his kind voice guides me and his work will continue. We miss you Jonny. www.cbs.mpg.de/news/obituar...
Obituary – Jonathan Smallwood
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What is consciousness, and could AI have it? It's an honour to be giving the 2025 Voltaire Lecture, this Hallowe'en (Fri 31/10), for @humanists.uk, at @conwayhall.bsky.social in London, 19:30-21:00 (also livestreamed) humanists.uk/events/volta... 👻
What is consciousness, and could AI have it? | The Voltaire Lecture 2025, with Professor Anil Seth
Professor Anil Seth is a neuroscientist, author, and public speaker who has pioneered research into the brain basis of consciousness for more than 20 years
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This is BIG. Nobody was expecting this cure to work or even if it was possible ever to treat HD!
We are hiring for our psilocybin clinical trial. 1. Research Officer (testing and screening), 2 positions careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo... 2. Research Officer (Peer Navigator) careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo... DM if you have questions. @wellcomeleap.bsky.social
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Thank you very much @prelights.bsky.social and uMontreal Neuro team for coosing and covering our preprint.
preLights@prelights.bsky.social · 11mo agoPsilocybin restructures brain activity depending on the sensory context in which it is taken Read this new #preLight by uMontreal Neuro preLighters Loïk Holdrinet, Nour Eltaani and Emma Clini talking about the #preprint of Devon Stoliker, @adeelrazi.bsky.social and the team.
Integrating and interpreting brain maps | doi.org/10.1016/j.ti... Imaging and recording technologies make it possible to map multiple biological features of the brain. How can these features be conceptually integrated into a coherent understanding of brain structure and function? ⤵️
We are hiring for our brand new psilocybin clinical trial. Please DM if you have questions! 1. Senior Research Fellow (Clinical Trial Lead) careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo... 2. Senior Clinical Psychotherapist careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
Do you like brain network hubs?🧠🌐✳️Do you like genes?🧬What about neurodevelopment?👶What if I told you the latest work by @garedaba.bsky.social and myself combined all of these?🤯🤯🤯 See Gareth's thread for a primer of our findings, then read the paper for the details! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Transcriptomic divergence of network hubs in the prenatal human brain
Connections in the human brain are not uniformly distributed; instead, a dense network of long-range projections converge on highly connected hub regions located in transmodal, paralimbic, and associa...
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Gareth Ball@garedaba.bsky.social · last yr.New preprint with @stuartoldham.bsky.social
Can a Universal Basic Income (UBI) become feasible—even if AI fully automates existing jobs and creates no new ones? We derive a closed-form UBI threshold tied to AI capabilities that suggests it's potentially achievable by mid-century even under moderate AI growth assumptions:
🧵Training binary or spiking neural networks is hard. Gradients vanish, surrogates are noisy, batchnorm is brittle. We propose a Bayesian approach based on KL divergence minimization—and it works. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.17962 Work by James Walker & Moein Khajehnejad @neuro-ai.bsky.social 1/6
A Principled Bayesian Framework for Training Binary and Spiking Neural Networks
We propose a Bayesian framework for training binary and spiking neural networks that achieves state-of-the-art performance without normalisation layers. Unlike commonly used surrogate gradient methods...
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