Happy to answer any questions about the Kempner Fellowship! 🧠✨😊

Kempner Institute at Harvard University@kempnerinstitute.bsky.social · 2d ago

The application is now open for our Kempner Institute Research Fellowship! Postdocs studying the foundations of intelligence or applications of AI are encouraged to apply. Learn more and apply by Oct. 1: bit.ly/4pRzHNb

🍎 Next time you see a fly cleaning itself on your fruit salad, you might think about it differently! ⬇️ Read this wonderful piece by the Kempner team on our work on fly grooming, including a short interview with me about the project. Link to the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Kempner Institute at Harvard University@kempnerinstitute.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New study led by #KempnerInstitute Research Fellow Gizem Özdil (@gzmozd.bsky.social) used the fruit fly #connectome to identify neurons that help coordinate grooming — and experimentally confirmed one key prediction. Out now in @natcomms.nature.com! Read more here: bit.ly/4vn8NyG #neuroscience

The #KempnerInstitute is hiring! 👇 ⏰ Application deadlines approaching: • June 1: Kempner AI Fellows (post BS/MS) • June 8: Postdoctoral AI Researchers (post PhD) Learn more and apply: bit.ly/439R2Gp #AI #NeuroAI

Nice piece in @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social about our @kempnerinstitute.bsky.social! I say a few things in it.

Harvard's Kempner Institute Bet Big on AI. Now It Has to Prove Itself. | News | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard’s Kempner Institute made an early bet on owning its own AI computing cluster — a gamble that has quickly made it a rare academic hub for artificial intelligence research, even as private indus...

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The #KempnerInstitute is Hiring! 👇 Explore our opportunities: - Kempner AI Fellows: for BS- or MS- level researchers - Postdoctoral AI Researchers: for recent PhD recipients - Educational Content & Curriculum Developer Learn more and apply! bit.ly/439R2Gp #AI #NeuroAI

DNN models of the brain are getting bigger. Are we replacing one complicated system in vivo with another in silico? In new work, we seek the *smallest* DNN models of visual cortex, balancing prediction with parsimony. It turns out these compact models are surprisingly small! rdcu.be/e5H8G

Compact deep neural network models of the visual cortex

Nature - Parsimonious deep neural network models can be used for prediction of visual neuron responses.

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Now accepted at #ICLR 🎊🙂 See you in Brazil! 🇧🇷

Gizem Özdil@gzmozd.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🪰 How do dozens of tiny fly muscles cooperate to move a leg? We’re excited to share the first 3D, data-driven musculoskeletal model of Drosophila legs based on Hill-type muscles, running in OpenSim and MuJoCo simulation environments. Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2509.06426

Happy 2nd science birthday to the #KempnerInstitute! 🧠In our 2nd full year we reached 420+ members, 350+ papers, 3,200+ event attendees, and 3M+ GPU hours. See our strides in #intelligence research! Read the 2025 Annual Report: bit.ly/3LPSVmB @shamkakade.bsky.social @blsabatini.bsky.social

🪰 How do dozens of tiny fly muscles cooperate to move a leg? We’re excited to share the first 3D, data-driven musculoskeletal model of Drosophila legs based on Hill-type muscles, running in OpenSim and MuJoCo simulation environments. Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2509.06426

Big life update: I’m super excited to be joining the Kempner Institute as a Research Fellow! If you’re curious about my research plans or just want to connect, please reach out! 😊

Kempner Institute at Harvard University@kempnerinstitute.bsky.social · last yr.

Thrilled to announce the 2025 recipients of #KempnerInstitute Research Fellowships: Elom Amemastro, Ruojin Cai, David Clark, Alexandru Damian, William Dorrell, Mark Goldstein, Richard Hakim, Hadas Orgad, Gizem Ozdil, Gabriel Poesia, & Greta Tuckute! bit.ly/3IpzD5E

Please RT🙏 Reach out if you want to help understand cognition by modelling, analyzing and/or collect large scale intracortical data from 👩🐒🐁 We're a friendly, diverse group (n>25) w/ this terrace 😎 in the center of Paris! See👇 for + info about the lab We have funding to support your application!

European Commission@ec.europa.eu · last yr.

Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

📽️Recordings from our @cosynemeeting.bsky.social #COSYNE2025 workshop on “Agent-Based Models in Neuroscience: Complex Planning, Embodiment, and Beyond" are now online: neuro-agent-models.github.io 🧠🤖

Satpreet (Sat) Singh@satpreetsingh.bsky.social · last yr.

📣 Excited to announce our workshop "Agent-Based Models in Neuroscience: Complex Planning, Embodiment, and Beyond" at the upcoming @cosynemeeting.bsky.social #CoSyNe2025! 🧠🤖 🪱🪰🐟🐝🐭💪 Schedule: neuro-agent-models.github.io 🗓️ Join us in Mont-Tremblant, Canada, on March 31!

Big showing from the Rajan Lab at @cosynemeeting.bsky.social! We have posters on everything from multi-agent social foraging to neuromodulated neural networks. Catch us in Poster Sessions 2 & 3 🧠🤖 #Cosyne2025 #NeuroAI #CompSci #neuroskyence

Only 4 days to go until our workshop!! 🪰🐁🤖 If you're at COSYNE, don't miss out on incredible talks and inspiring panel discussions at "Agent-Based Models in Neuroscience: Complex Planning, Embodiment, and Beyond" on March 31 :) Check out the latest schedule: neuro-agent-models.github.io

🚨 SUPER excited to announce our Cosyne workshop on Neuro Agents! 🤖🐁🪰🧠 We have an incredible lineup of speakers, check out the program! neuro-agent-models.github.io See you in Canada! 🇨🇦 #Cosyne #Cosyne2025 #NeuroAI

Satpreet (Sat) Singh@satpreetsingh.bsky.social · last yr.

📣 Excited to announce our workshop "Agent-Based Models in Neuroscience: Complex Planning, Embodiment, and Beyond" at the upcoming @cosynemeeting.bsky.social #CoSyNe2025! 🧠🤖 🪱🪰🐟🐝🐭💪 Schedule: neuro-agent-models.github.io 🗓️ Join us in Mont-Tremblant, Canada, on March 31!

I wrote an introduction to RL for neuroscience last year that was just published in NBDT: tinyurl.com/5f58zdy3 This review aims to provide some intuition for and derivations of RL methods commonly used in systems neuroscience, ranging from TD learning through the SR to deep and distributional RL!

As you unwrap your holiday presents, consider how you coordinate your fingers and limbs. @gzmozd.bsky.social identified fly brain networks for body part coordination through experiments, biomechanical modeling, connectomics, and neural network simulations ! 🤖 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🧵 Ever seen a fly perform a full self-care ritual? 🪰 They meticulously rub their head and clean their antennae, ensuring every speck of dirt is gone. But how do they coordinate all those tiny body parts so seamlessly?👇