Happy to share our preprint with @neworderofjamie.bsky.social , @danakarca.bsky.social and @drtnowotny.bsky.social ! We’ve been working on a neuron position learning algorithm by coupling space and time! See manuscript below 👇

🚨new work with the dream team @danakarca.bsky.social @loopyluppi.bsky.social @fatemehhadaeghi.bsky.social @stuartoldham.bsky.social @duncanastle.bsky.social We use game theory and show the brain is not optimally wired for communication and there’s more to its story: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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

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

Exploiting heterogeneous delays for efficient computation in low-bit neural networks

Neural networks rely on learning synaptic weights. However, this overlooks other neural parameters that can also be learned and may be utilized by the brain. One such parameter is the delay: the brain...

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How does the structure of a neural circuit shape its function? @neuralreckoning.bsky.social & I explore this in our new preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🤖🧠🧪 🧵1/9

We're hiring,, of interest to people in spiking neural networks and neuromorphic particularly. See below. 👇 Note the deadline for applications is very soon! Apologies for this but various admin necessities made it unavoidable.

Danyal Akarca@danakarca.bsky.social · last yr.

Hiring a post-doc at Imperial in EEE. Broad in scope + flexible on topics: neural networks & new AI accelerators from a HW/SW co-design perspective! w/ @neuralreckoning.bsky.social @achterbrain.bsky.social in Intelligent Systems and Networks group. Plz share! 🚀: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

Hiring a post-doc at Imperial in EEE. Broad in scope + flexible on topics: neural networks & new AI accelerators from a HW/SW co-design perspective! w/ @neuralreckoning.bsky.social @achterbrain.bsky.social in Intelligent Systems and Networks group. Plz share! 🚀: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

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We had an incredible gathering at UK Neural Computation 2025 @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social last week 🇬🇧 Macron missed out... Some of the UK’s very best at the frontier of comp neuro. Thanks to our sponsors ARIA + Crick & UKNC team: @markdhumphries.bsky.social + @neuralreckoning.bsky.social!

Tickets for UKNC25 @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social close tomorrow 5pm BST! Register here: neuralcomputation.uk/registration...

Danyal Akarca@danakarca.bsky.social · last yr.

Excited for the UK Neural Computation Conference 2025 @ Imperial, 9th - 11th July! 🚀 World leading scientists working in brain computation - from experimental to modelling, mathematics & ML (+ all combinations thereof). Registration closes 1st July! Plz share: neuralcomputation.uk

Excited for the UK Neural Computation Conference 2025 @ Imperial, 9th - 11th July! 🚀 World leading scientists working in brain computation - from experimental to modelling, mathematics & ML (+ all combinations thereof). Registration closes 1st July! Plz share: neuralcomputation.uk

Almost last call to register for UK neural computation conference in London July 10-11. Registration deadline is July 1st. We have some great talks and posters as well as a session on funding with ARIA. 🤖🧠🧪 Look forward to seeing you all there. Now click here 👇 neuralcomputation.uk

Excited for the UK Neural Computation Conference 2025 @ Imperial, 9th - 11th July! 🚀 World leading scientists working in brain computation - from experimental to modelling, mathematics & ML (+ all combinations thereof). Registration closes 1st July! Plz share: neuralcomputation.uk

We propose a novel framework that disentangles the concepts of “hardware” and “state” within the NCA. For us: - Rules = "Physics" dictating state transitions. - Hardware = Immutable + heterogeneous scaffold guiding the CA behaviour. - State = Dynamic physical & computational substrate.

Super awesome work by @solarpunkgabs.bsky.social - training neural cellular automata directly to solve tasks via matrix operations!

Gabriel Béna 🌻@solarpunkgabs.bsky.social · last yr.

New #Preprint Alert!! 🤖 🧠 🧪 What if we could train neural cellular automata to develop continuous universal computation through gradient descent ?! We have started to chart a path toward this goal in our new preprint: arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2505.13058 Blog: gabrielbena.github.io/blog/2025/be... 🧵⬇️

Registration is open for UK Neural Computation 2025 10th/11th July! We are offering 8 conference fellowships to support attendance. ***Abstract submission deadline is 12th May!*** neuralcomputation.uk/submission.h... Register here: neuralcomputation.uk/registration... Any q's - get in touch!

Mark D Humphries@markdhumphries.bsky.social · last yr.

Conference Fellowships for the UK Neural Computation meeting are now available, to support presenting authors; sponsored by @aria-research.bsky.social Includes fee waiver and attendance expenses Apply here by May 23rd neuralcomputation.uk/fellowships.... p.s. UKNC abstracts due by May 12th!

Come along to the UK neural computation conference! Registration now open. Check out this awesome set of speakers, and even more importantly loads of opportunities to interact with your fellow computationally minded UK neuroscientists (including a mind matching session hopefully).

Mark D Humphries@markdhumphries.bsky.social · last yr.

Registration open for UK Neural Computation 2025 @Imperial neuralcomputation.uk/registration... ECR day: 9 July, ~30 free places Main meeting: 10-11 July Pls share! Sponsors @aria-research.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk Organisers: @danakarca.bsky.social @neuralreckoning.bsky.social & me

Registration open for UK Neural Computation 2025 @Imperial neuralcomputation.uk/registration... ECR day: 9 July, ~30 free places Main meeting: 10-11 July Pls share! Sponsors @aria-research.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk Organisers: @danakarca.bsky.social @neuralreckoning.bsky.social & me

Abstract submissions are now open for the UK Neural Computation Conference! (Deadline 12th May). We also have ARIA sponsored travel funds for ECRs! 💥 Submit here: neuralcomputation.uk/submission.html Genreal info: neuralcomputation.uk Registration open May. Any qs get in touch + plz share!

Mark D Humphries@markdhumphries.bsky.social · last yr.

Abstract submission is open for UK Neural Computation 2025 @ Imperial College (9-11 July) neuralcomputation.uk/submission.h... Deadline: 12 May Please share All info: neuralcomputation.uk Sponsors: ARIA; Francis Crick Institute Organisers: @danakarca.bsky.social @neuralreckoning.bsky.social

Abstract submission is open for UK Neural Computation 2025 @ Imperial College (9-11 July) neuralcomputation.uk/submission.h... Deadline: 12 May Please share All info: neuralcomputation.uk Sponsors: ARIA; Francis Crick Institute Organisers: @danakarca.bsky.social @neuralreckoning.bsky.social

I wrote a thing for @thetransmitter.bsky.social. The attack on scientific infrastructure happening in the US shows that relying on any one country is not a good option for science. We need to start supporting and building international, decentralised infrastructure for science.

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

Scientific data and independence are at risk: We need to work with community-driven services and university libraries to create new multi-country organizations that are resilient to political interference. By @neuralreckoning.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/policy/scien...

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?

New preprint: "The geometry of the neural state space of decisions", work by Mauro Monsalve-Mercado, buff.ly/42wVHD5. Surprising results & predictions! (Thread) We analyze neuropixel population recordings in macaque area LIP during a reaction time, random-dot motion 1/

We are hosting UKNC 2025 @ imperial! 💥 Fantastic set of speakers, see at neuralcomputation.uk Super exciting time to be working at the intersection of comp neuro/AI & applications. Save the dates: 9th July - ECR day 10th & 11th July - Main event Any questions get in touch! Plz share!

Mark D Humphries@markdhumphries.bsky.social · 2y ago

Save the date! UK Neural Computation 2025 will be at Imperial College London 9 July: ECR day 10-11 July: main meeting 9 invited speakers, 4 talks from abstracts and many posters Abstract & registration opening soon Pls share! neuralcomputation.uk

We are hosting UKNC 2025 @ imperial! 💥 Fantastic set of speakers, see at neuralcomputation.uk Super exciting time to be working at the intersection of comp neuro/AI & applications. Save the dates: 9th July - ECR day 10th & 11th July - Main event Any questions get in touch! Plz share!

Mark D Humphries@markdhumphries.bsky.social · 2y ago

Save the date! UK Neural Computation 2025 will be at Imperial College London 9 July: ECR day 10-11 July: main meeting 9 invited speakers, 4 talks from abstracts and many posters Abstract & registration opening soon Pls share! neuralcomputation.uk

Rory @rory.bio is working on a large project to accelerate science 🧪 through high-quality & open-source software. To steer the project it would be amazing to hear from scientists across fields about problems in the scientific process *you* want to see solved! Tell Rory here flywhl-ideas.notion.site

Notion – The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.

A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team

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@danakarca.bsky.social and I are working on a remaster using modern techniques. 😉

We're just getting started discovering how biology constrains the emergence of intelligence & behaviour + leveraging this w/ AI. Spatially embedded neuromorphic networks nature.com/articles/s42... Thank you Bratislav Misic & Filip Milisav: covering mine and @achterbrain.bsky.social recent work!

Spatially embedded neuromorphic networks - Nature Machine Intelligence

A framework for training artificial neural networks in physical space allows neuroscientists to build networks that look and function like real brains.

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If the field of bio-learning rules leaves you confused as to what is and what is not actually "biologically plausible", we've got the tool here for you: A formalism to clarify what different learning algorithms actually mean when they say they're "local". #NeurIPS2023

Ezekiel Williams@ezekielwilliams.bsky.social · 3y ago

Excited to share my first 2nd author NeurIPS paper, w/ Colin Bredenberg, Cristina Savin, @tyrellturing.bsky.social, & Guillaume Lajoie! We formulate a mathematically grounded notion of locality for learning rules in neural nets. Useful for neuroscience & neuromorphics openreview.net/forum?id=rGN...

Two years ago @danakarca.bsky.social & I wondered: Could the features we observe in brains across species be caused by shared functional, structural & energetic constraints?🧠⚡️   With our spatially embedded RNN we show this is true!   www.nature.com/articles/s42... 🧵 #neuroscience #compneuro #NeuroAI

Spatially embedded recurrent neural networks reveal widespread links between structural and function...

A fundamental question in neuroscience is what are the constraints that shape the structural and functional organization of the brain. By bringing biological cost constraints into the optimization pro...

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A reminder of these positons! Do share with talented students and colleagues - do get in touch if you have any questions.

Danyal Akarca@danakarca.bsky.social · 3y ago

We have x4 Postdoc positions @ Cambridge, @ the fantastic MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, working on exciting comp neuro, imaging and NeuroAI projects… w/ @duncanastle.bsky.social, Petra Vertes + others! Link here: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/43796/ If you have any questions, hmu! (Do plz share!)