I’ll be presenting a new biologically plausible associative memory model tomorrow at the Bernstein Conference, in the Hippocampal Memory Circuits workshop. Supervised by Peter Latham, in collaboration with @krotov.bsky.social @apalmigiano.bsky.social @saxelab.bsky.social @yiotapoirazi.bsky.social.

Congratulations to @samuel-liebana.bsky.social, (@saxelab.bsky.social, @gatsbyucl.bsky.social) on receiving a @wellcometrust.bsky.social Early-Career Award! 🎉 The 5-year award will fund his research into how brains, both biological and artificial, learn. @jerlich.com Read the news ⤵️

Dr Samuel Liebana granted Wellcome Early-Career Award | Sainsbury Wellcome Centre

This prestigious award recognises Dr Liebana’s innovative research on how brains – both natural and artificial – learn.

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🙋Are you interested in bridging theory & experiments? Applications are open for 2027 entry to the Gatsby Unit & SWC joint PhD programme. Join us and be part of a vibrant research community! 💰 Fully-funded 4-year programme ℹ️ www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science... @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social

📖 Check out the next ELLIS x @unireps.bsky.social Speaker Series session, featuring speakers: 🔵 @devon-jarvis.bsky.social (Wits Uni) 🔴 Jan Bauer (UCL, Gatsby Unit) 📅 21 September ⏰ 16:00 CEST 📍 Virtual 🔗 More info: https://unireps.org/speaker-series/

How do organs communicate across the body? A new Nature study from @gatsbyucl.bsky.social and collaborators used WHOLISTIC to reveal previously unknown body-wide cellular circuits in living vertebrates. www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...

New imaging method reveals cellular activity across the whole zebrafish body

A new imaging platform developed by researchers at UCL and Janelia Research Campus can track cellular activity across almost the entire body of a living zebrafish, revealing how organs communicate.

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Applying to the #ELLISPhD Program? If you are selecting a Gatsby Unit faculty member as your main supervisor, please don't forget to apply to the Gatsby Unit PhD Programme in parallel. Our deadline is 9 November 2026.

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🎓 Ready for a PhD in AI/ML? The #ELLISPhD Program connects top students with leading researchers across Europe. The application portal opens on 1 Oct. Register now to join the virtual info session on 30 Sep. All info at https://bit.ly/3TrH9CJ

Interested in a #PhD in machine learning & theoretical neuroscience? Applications for 2027 entry to the Gatsby Unit PhD programme are now open! 💰 Fully-funded 4-year programme 🤝 Close links to @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social ℹ️ www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...

Whole-body cellular activity imaging in zebrafish, headed by Virginie Ruetten @vmsruetten.bsky.social - new paper is out: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Imaging cellular activity across all organs reveals body-wide circuits - Nature

An imaging system developed to record cellular activity throughout the whole body of zebrafish captures cellular organ dynamics and identifies multiple distributed circuits.

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Sainsbury Wellcome Centre@sainsburywellcome.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Join us for 'What can Neuroscience teach us about the Mind?', a 1-day symposium exploring whether neural mechanisms can truly explain behaviour, and what this means for minds both biological and artificial. Free and open to all: www.sainsburywellcome.org/events/stude...

How does sleep consolidate muscle memories? New research from @mstephensonjones.bsky.social lab & @gatsbyucl.bsky.social in @natneuro.nature.com reveals that motor-skill memories are replayed in the striatum during sleep, independently of the hippocampus. www.sainsburywellcome.org/blog/muscle-...

Muscle memories: how does sleep produce consolidation? | Sainsbury Wellcome Centre

Sleep not only makes us feel better, but it’s vital for helping us form memories and learn new skills. For many years, neuroscientists have studied how the brain consolidates episodic memories during ...

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Just over a week left to apply to our new early career fellowship sponsorship scheme ⤵️

Sainsbury Wellcome Centre@sainsburywellcome.bsky.social · 4mo ago

SWC & @gatsbyucl.bsky.social are looking to sponsor early career researchers in mechanistic theories of neural computation for external fellowships. Join a collaborative, world-class community at the interface of theory and experiment. Apply by 16 July www.sainsburywellcome.org/content/fell...

Is Muon as good as they say? We looked beyond training speed and found a hidden cost: Muon loses the simplicity bias of older optimizers like gradient descent — and this matters for generalization. Led by Sara Dragutinović and advised by Rajesh Ranganath arxiv.org/abs/2603.00742

👋 At #ICML2026? Don't forget to visit our researchers' posters:

👋 Will you be at ProbML 2026? Don't miss: Invited Talk: A Bayesian approach to causal reasoning and scientific discovery. A Dhir Poster: RAMP: Recognition parametrisation by Amortised Message Passing. L Fox, K Biegun, J Heald, S Hromadka, A Rosinski, M Sahani

The Neuroinformatics Unit is going to #FENS2026. Come and chat to us if you're interested in open source neuroscience software!

Just announced: @ucl.ac.uk will host the new Science of Fundamental AI Research (SOFAIR) Lab, a major new research lab to develop innovative, open-source AI systems, to help secure the UK’s position as a global leader in AI.

National research lab based at UCL will make AI more accessible

UCL will host a major new lab to develop innovative, open-source AI systems, to help secure the UK’s position as a global leader in AI.

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SWC & @gatsbyucl.bsky.social are looking to sponsor early career researchers in mechanistic theories of neural computation for external fellowships. Join a collaborative, world-class community at the interface of theory and experiment. Apply by 16 July www.sainsburywellcome.org/content/fell...

The AAE Workshop deadline is in 3 weeks — have you applied yet? 📅 June 18–19 📍 Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, London Join us for two days on causal inference, adaptive experiments, bandits, and RL. 🔗 t.co/Zar0qWhgA8

Houssam Zenati, Arthur Gretton: Semiparametric Efficient Test for Interpretable Distributional Treatment Effects https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08034 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.08034 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.08034

🌟 Curious about life sciences? Join our Science Fair on 13 June 2026 at UCL! Hands‑on experiments, interactive demos, short talks and more — free and open to all. Register: https://bit.ly/4darPQT #FLSScienceFair #LifeSciences #STEM #UCL

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and subject to limited capacity. Apply now to join us!

aaeworkshop.bsky.social@aaeworkshop.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🚀 Excited to announce the Advances in Adaptive Experimentation (AAE) Workshop! 📅 June 18–19 🔗 t.co/Zar0qWhgA8 Join us at @gatsbyucl.bsky.social in London for two days at the frontier of causal inference 🧩, adaptive experiments 🔁, and bandits/RL 🤖!

Zikai Shen, Dimitri Meunier, Houssam Zenati, Arthur Gretton, Nathan Kallus, Aur\'elien Bibaut: Instrumental Variable Analysis Without Structural Equations https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24660 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.24660 https://arxiv.org/html/2604.24660

We’re opening our doors on Saturday 13 June for a Science Fair full of fun, discovery, and interactive activities for all ages. Bring the whole family and dive into a world of experiments, demonstrations, and surprising scientific wonders. Sign up here: www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...

👋 Will you be at #ICLR2026? Stop by our researchers' posters to learn more about their work!

Postdoc opening! Come work with us on deep learning theory relevant to AI safety Deadline: 7 Apr 2026 Details and application: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

​⏰ Only three weeks left to apply! ​This year the school focuses on one of the most active frontiers at the intersection of AI and CogSci: Language Acquisition. ​Join our incredible lineup of speakers and start new interdisciplinary collaborations 👇 www.analytical-connectionism.net/school/2026/

Stefano Sarao Mannelli@stefsm.bsky.social · 8mo ago

📢 We’re now accepting applications for the 2026 School on Analytical Connectionism dedicated this year to Language Acquisition. 📍 Gothenburg, Sweden 🗓️ August 17–28, 2026 ☠️ Apply by April 17! 🔗 analytical-connectionism.net/school/2026/ 👇 Meet the experts joining us this summer!

Don't miss NIU Senior Research Software Engineer @nikosirmpilatze.com talking about our Python package for behavioural quantification, movement. April 2nd, 12h30-14h00 CET. Online on Zoom, registration needed: helsinki.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Meet our next IDW2026 Spotlight, Mohadeseh Shafiei Kafraj. Mohadeseh is a PhD student at @gatsbyucl.bsky.social, working on mathematical models of associative memory. Find out about her research to understand human memory by visiting: linktr.ee/ucllifescien...

📢 Heading to #COSYNE2026? Don't forget to check out our researchers' posters:

📢 Job alert - Deep Learning Theory & AI Safety Applications open for a postdoc fellow (@saxelab.bsky.social lab) to study artificial deep networks using techniques from applied maths & stat physics. ⏰ Deadline: 26 Mar 2026 🤝 In collaboration with @stefsm.bsky.social ℹ️ www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...