Academic practice is universal, beneficial to all, it should be protected universally and treated globally as well.

Athena Akrami@athenaakrami.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Support academic institutions under attack" A short correspondence with @sepikeshavarzi.bsky.social and @roozbehkiani.bsky.social -- Defending academic life is not peripheral to the mission of science. It is part of it. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Neuromatch has been denied our Office of Foreign Assets Control "Iran license" renewal. We had renewed successfully before, but now our request is “inconsistent with current U.S. foreign policy.” I am absolutely gutted by this denial.

Neuromatch@neuromatch.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We have difficult news to share. Neuromatch's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) license renewal, which has allowed us to include participants residing in Iran since 2020, has been denied by the United States Government.

1) Over the past 6 years, I’ve had the privilege of contributing to the inclusion of Iran in Neuromatch.I witnessed how much it can change lives.For many Iranian researchers, opportunities like Neuromatch were never just educational programs,but were rare bridges to a global scientific community.

Neuromatch@neuromatch.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We have difficult news to share. Neuromatch's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) license renewal, which has allowed us to include participants residing in Iran since 2020, has been denied by the United States Government.

Lately, I have joined to a prominent team of AI solutions for e-commerce. The team is focused on fostering a system that makes digital environment aligned with human cognition. It is fun to do applied neuroscience research. This is the very first step, read my piece: medium.com/@elnaz.karam...

E-commerce Is Not a Platform. It’s a Cognitive System

You open an online store. Hundreds of products. You scroll. Pause. Compare. And somehow… it feels harder, not easier.

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Universities are supposed to be a censers of learning and hope, not targets. Striking them, whatever the justification, erodes norms that protect science, knowledge, civilization, and future of the next generation. Academics, don’t let that become normal… #SharifUniversity #academia #war

Amirreza Bahramani@amir137.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Last night, US/Israeli strikes bombed Sharif University, my alma mater, heavily damaging the IT Center, Philosophy of Science building, EE, and more. Trump spoke of sending Iran "back to the Stone Age." That is the goal of this war. Scientists worldwide should speak up against these atrocities.

Last night, US/Israeli strikes bombed Sharif University, my alma mater, heavily damaging the IT Center, Philosophy of Science building, EE, and more. Trump spoke of sending Iran "back to the Stone Age." That is the goal of this war. Scientists worldwide should speak up against these atrocities.

1) This is the Laser and Plasma Research Institute at Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, following recent airstrikes. As a neuroscientist, it’s gut-wrenching to see. This facility was pioneering optical methods to visualize neural activity in real-time. Said purely academic reseache center,

Pasteur Institute of Iran, founded in 1920 now destroyed by Israel-US bombing😞 It played a pivotal role in developing vaccines & public health services, for over a century, now gone😞 A few days ago a pharmaceutical plant was bombed, accused of making anesthetic fentanyl #War #PasteurInstituteIran

What if heat and cold weren’t just experiences but signals? Wearables are turning thermal exposure into something we can actually observe: how the body reacts, and how it recovers. Short piece on this idea: medium.com/@elnaz.karam...

Heat, Cold, and the Measurable Body

For a long time, heat and cold belonged mostly to feeling.

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#Science-community, please read this and try to support your colleagues #Iran www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We're already in the phase that each of us (Iranians) by now know someone killed/injured in our circle of friends/family. And this is despite the continued internet blackout, when millions haven't still managed to hear from their family/friends since Thursday, January 8th. This tells a lot ... 😥😥

It’s becoming almost a year that I started looking for a job. Yes, I’ll never forgive my former employer for what he did to me. But what was harder is the prejudice and discriminationI face here everyday to get my life in back in order. I was thinking of moving back home. Now where is home? #iran

⚠️ New paper alert and what a way to end 2025! 🎉 Happy to share our story “Sleep-dependent infraslow rhythms are evolutionarily conserved across reptiles and mammals.” published today in Nature Neuroscience. Sleeping dragons 🦎 and functional ultrasound! Read the full paper here: rdcu.be/eWJHb 1/8

Sleep-dependent infraslow rhythms are evolutionarily conserved across reptiles and mammals

Nature Neuroscience - Bergel et al. show that an infraslow rhythm connecting the brain and body during sleep is shared by lizards, mammals and birds, revealing an ancestral process and reshaping...

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1. My take away from this is A good scientist and a professor should have accountability: Konrad says sorry! Doesn’t say we all make mistakes but the paper found its way anyways… he took the responsibility and apologized. Something that academics should learn.

Konrad Kording@kordinglab.bsky.social · 8mo ago

How I contributed to rejecting one of my favorite papers of all times, Yes, I teach it to students daily, and refer to it in lots of papers. Sorry. open.substack.com/pub/kording/...

New post: The Electric Motor and the Drill LLM chat bots are like electric motors: can do anything, bad at everything. The problem is UI/UX. AI should be more like power tools. I built a science planner around this philosophy. 10,000 scientists use it now. open.substack.com/pub/kording/...

The Electric Motor and the Drill - we use AI in the wrong way

Power tools are better than general purpose tools for most applications, my science planning app planyourscience.com is a result of this philosophy

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1.Ok, If I say something like this to my uncle/MP, I’ll probably hear: “Sure, science is important —but when unemployment kills and families can’t pay rent, why should taxpayers cover lifetime salaries, and multi-million-dollar labs for basic research?” honestly, that’s not an unreasonable question.

Adrien Peyrache@apeyrache.bsky.social · 9mo ago

A chemical extracted from carrot roots helped pave the way for flat-screen TVs, and six other discoveries that unintentionally changed the world. Perfect talking points for when you need to defend basic science, whether it’s to your grumpy uncle or your MP. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

As a person transitioning from research to clinic/industry back and forth, I only wish that researchers could understand that science is not under attack, scientists aren't under attack, not even their approach, their manner of practice is…, only if they understood this and improved themselves…

Thrilled to announce I'll be joining the Division of Neuroscience at @manchester.ac.uk as a Lecturer in Feb '26! The DuLab will explore how the brain integrates sensory streams into internal maps 🌐 using the rodent head-direction circuit, the 'neural compass', as a starting point for the journey 🧭

Really excited to share this Opinion piece we've been working on with fellow head-direction cell geeks @apeyrache.bsky.social @desdemonafricker.bsky.social and (bsky-less?) Andrea Burgalossi! While head-direction cells pop up in many cortical regions, we think that one of them is quite unique (1/8)

The postsubiculum as a head-direction cortex

The organisation of thalamocortical networks follows a conserved structure. Traditionally, these are divided into primary sensory systems that receive…

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Deeply embarrassing that Scientific American would lend its name to this claptrap.

Scientific American@sciam.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

1/ I’ve lived this, I’ve studied it, and I’m using my experience to highlight broader inequities that many of us face. BUT I wrote this piece solely with a researcher’s eye 👀 It’s not a personal account. It’s an evidence-based look at how “fit” shapes belonging and power. medium.com/@elnaz.karam...

Fyi if you're an educator looking for videos about the brain and/or how neuroscience is done, check out @brainfacts.org's YouTube page: youtube.com/@brainfactsorg It includes submissions to their Brain Awareness Week video contest, which can be quite fun! #neuroskyence

BrainFacts.org

BrainFacts.org is an authoritative source of information about the brain and nervous system for the public. The site is a public information initiative of The Kavli Foundation, the Gatsby Charitable F...

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So excited to see this preprint released from the lab into the wild. Charlotte has developed a theory for how learning curriculum influences learning generalization. Our theory makes straightforward neural predictions that can be tested in future experiments. (1/4) 🧠🤖 🧠📈 #MLSky

Charlotte Volk@charlottevolk.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🚨 New preprint alert! 🧠🤖 We propose a theory of how learning curriculum affects generalization through neural population dimensionality. Learning curriculum is a determining factor of neural dimensionality - where you start from determines where you end up. 🧠📈 A 🧵: tinyurl.com/yr8tawj3

Honored to be awarded the FRQ–IVADO Research Chair in "Social Neuro-AI & Inter-Personalized Psychiatry"! Grateful to my team & colleagues at @cra-chusj.bsky.social & @mila-quebec.bsky.social, and my family for their support 🙏 Excited to keep bridging social neuroscience, AI & precision psychiatry🚀

IVADO@ivado.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🔷 IVADO announces 6 new #AI #research chairs with the support of the Fonds de recherche du Québec. Awarded to professors from our 5 partner universities, they reflect the excellence and diversity of AI research in Québec. 👉 ivado.ca/en/2025/09/2... @fondsrechercheqc.bsky.social #R3AI

Today is my first day as Director, Research & Innovation and CRCHUM Research Centre @crchum.bsky.social (University of Montreal's main Research & Teaching Hospital). Also starting a new research group @umontreal.ca. Stay tuned for updates along this new collective journey!

"I feel that there’s nothing more important than to pass on, to my son, the little piece of nothing and everything that I’ve observed — the happiness that comes from watching a dragonfly, spider, frog, lizard, elephant, parrot, mouse, orangutan, or ladybug."

Self-Medicating Chimps, Pugilistic Shrimp, and Other Remarkable Animals: An Illustrated Guide

A catalog of wondrous beings, excerpted from Emmanuelle Pouydebat's book "Atlas of Poetic Zoology."

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Jane Goodall understood better than most the impact humans have had on the planet. Having witnessed so much environmental deterioration during her lifetime, she was as much an activist as a scientist. Read our piece from 2024 on the legendary primatologist. 💚

Jane Goodall Thinks It’s Not Too Late to Save the World

The world, the famed primatologist says, isn’t what it used to be—but there’s still time to save it, if we treat crises like climate change, biodiversity loss, and poverty as one.

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I am playing with Muse device as a part of my work, Today I tried the resistance meditation that is centered around refuge. I realized that I have no stability refuge except my family, which are in Iran so not a real refuge… I am more nervous after my meditation now 🤦‍♀️

The CTRL-Labs decoding model paper is out! Saw this presented at Cosyne this year, very cool to see it out. I would say this is the clearest demonstration of scaling laws in neural decoding to-date. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧠📈 🧪

A generic non-invasive neuromotor interface for human-computer interaction - Nature

A high-bandwidth neuromotor interface offers performant out-of-the-box generalization across people.

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If you're interested in spiking neural networks, you should know about surrogate gradient descent and @fzenke.bsky.social's SPyTorch tutorial which shows just how easy it is to apply this method that's changing the whole field. Check out my paean below. 👇

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 11mo ago

In our latest “This paper changed my life,” @neural-reckoning.org explains how @fzenke.bsky.social's 2019 paper, and its related coding tutorial SpyTorch, made it possible to apply modern machine learning to spiking neural networks. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/this-paper-c...