New preprint from Jasper Teutsch & Rohan Rao in Abhi Banerjee's lab showing that switching from choice- to cue-driven behavioural strategies is driven by lOFC In collaboration with Silvia Maggi & I, using our Bayesian strategy analysis doi.org/10.7554/eLif... doi.org/10.64898/202...

Distinct Orbitofrontal Feedback Signals Shape Sensory Behavioral Strategies during Flexible Learning

Animals adapt their behavior by integrating sensory evidence with prior experience and contextual information. Understanding how animals employ specific behavioral strategies to integrate these variab...

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Help needed! I'm part of a team tasked with creating a 2nd year undergraduate module/course "Computational Skills for Psychologists" Its remit is the fundamentals of coding and good practice. Any advice from others who've done similar courses? (Assume no programming knowledge. Assume Python)

Help needed! I'm part of a team tasked with creating a 2nd year undergraduate module/course "Computational Skills for Psychologists" Its remit is the fundamentals of coding and good practice. Any advice from others who've done similar courses? (Assume no programming knowledge. Assume Python)

More nuanced take on the impending end of artisanal neuroscience thanks to the AI Industrial Revolution Thoughtful piece from Kenneth Harris One question - who are the Luddites in this analogy? www.thetransmitter.org/artificial-i...

Mass-produced science is coming. What happens to scientists?

Artificial intelligence may soon enable researchers to generate high-quality science at a previously unimaginable speed.

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Adding to all the takes on this, something that is missed and why I don't think AI will progress beyond research assistant in neuroscience is so much of the work is embodied. Not just in that "an LLM doesn't have a body" but so much of the knowledge is only gained through embodiment.

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

At Cosyne, Chris Olah from Anthropic told us that neuroscientists had “3-4 years left to make a contribution” Why was not clear. Perhaps he was hinting at the below graph accompanying today’s Claude Science launch. Apparently we’ll all be obsolete soon.

At Cosyne, Chris Olah from Anthropic told us that neuroscientists had “3-4 years left to make a contribution” Why was not clear. Perhaps he was hinting at the below graph accompanying today’s Claude Science launch. Apparently we’ll all be obsolete soon.

The Group for Neural Theory is an enviable place to work. At the heart of Paris’s Left Bank, it’s a literal stone’s throw from the Pantheon And it has a remarkable training record On the occasion of its 20th birthday celebrations this week, here’s a further sample of its alumni… gnt20.github.io

So hyped for this! What a privilege to have spent 4 years in this little corner of Paris. GNT has had such a profound impact on the computational neuroscience community. Paris is one of the best places in the world to do neuroscience and the GNT has been fundamental to that Here's to 20 more years🍻

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

The Group for Neural Theory is an enviable place to work. At the heart of Paris’s Left Bank, it’s a literal stone’s throw from the Pantheon And it has a remarkable training record On the occasion of its 20th birthday celebrations this week, here’s a further sample of its alumni… gnt20.github.io

The Group for Neural Theory is an enviable place to work. At the heart of Paris’s Left Bank, it’s a literal stone’s throw from the Pantheon And it has a remarkable training record On the occasion of its 20th birthday celebrations this week, here’s a further sample of its alumni… gnt20.github.io

The Group for Neural Theory is celebrating its 20th birthday this week with a party in Paris! gnt20.github.io One thing we’re celebrating is its remarkable training record A thread…

The Group for Neural Theory is celebrating its 20th birthday this week with a party in Paris! gnt20.github.io One thing we’re celebrating is its remarkable training record A thread…

A few years ago a pioneering study showed 70 teams of neuroimagers analysing the same dataset couldn’t agree on answers to the same basic questions (my take on that study is below) Now another brave team are aiming to do the same test for systems neuroscience… medium.com/the-spike/se...

Seventy Teams of Scientists Analysed the Same Brain Data, and It Went Badly

What the latest fMRI “crisis” means for the rest of science

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Tremor is highly heterogeneous, leading to a familiar clinical puzzle: with deep brain stimulation (DBS), we can sometimes suppress a patient's rest tremor almost completely, while action tremor remains bothersome. www.cell.com/cell-reports...

I had a peek at the workshop program today and it's PACKED with amazing talks

Mark D Humphries@markdhumphries.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The Group for Neural Theory in Paris turns 20 this year Come help us celebrate! June 11-12 at ENS, Paris. Keynotes: @jpillowtime.bsky.social / Cristina Savin /Ashok Litwin-Kumar Talks from GNT alumni Register for free, by May 20th www.eventbrite.com/e/gnt-turns-...

The Group for Neural Theory in Paris turns 20 this year Come help us celebrate! June 11-12 at ENS, Paris. Keynotes: @jpillowtime.bsky.social / Cristina Savin /Ashok Litwin-Kumar Talks from GNT alumni Register for free, by May 20th www.eventbrite.com/e/gnt-turns-...

GNT TURNS 20!

This workshop will celebrate 20 years of neural theory!

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OK, what am I missing? Claims neurons are ~ a logistic function because inputs sum additively But analysis uses as “inputs” any other neuron in the same recording So appears to be rediscovering that neurons are linearly correlated And that’s it? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Simple input–output dependencies explain neuronal activity - Nature Physics

In neurons, the mapping from inputs to output involves complex biophysical processes. Despite this complexity, it is now shown that simple artificial models explain a large fraction of the variability...

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The Group for Neural Theory in Paris turns 20 this year Come help us celebrate! June 11-12 at ENS, Paris. Keynotes: @jpillowtime.bsky.social / Cristina Savin /Ashok Litwin-Kumar Talks from GNT alumni Register for free, by May 20th www.eventbrite.com/e/gnt-turns-...

GNT TURNS 20!

This workshop will celebrate 20 years of neural theory!

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It’s done! Just submitted the manuscript for my next book “The Latent Brain” In it I argue why and how we’ve shifted from single neurons to their collective, latent activity in our quest to understand how brains create minds Due early 2027 from @harvardpress.bsky.social

Really pleased that this work with @dudman.bsky.social is now out in Neuron: A global dopaminergic learning rate enables adaptive foraging across many options

Neuron@cp-neuron.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It’s done! Just submitted the manuscript for my next book “The Latent Brain” In it I argue why and how we’ve shifted from single neurons to their collective, latent activity in our quest to understand how brains create minds Due early 2027 from @harvardpress.bsky.social

“Conferences were much more exciting as a young, early-career researcher, when every contact felt like an instant friend and every new city, a gift” My most recent blog post on the effect of age on travel perceptions occamstypewriter.org/mindthegap/2...

Ahead of @thetransmitter.bsky.social's first-ever University Roadshow in the United Kingdom, here’s a roundup of news and perspectives featuring U.K.-based neuroscientists. #neuroskyence

Highly recommend this series by @markdhumphries.bsky.social if you are interested in neuroscience. I have been irregularly reading it for about 5 years. Always great! medium.com/the-spike/20...

2025: A Review of the Year in Neuroscience

Enlightening the brain

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Job! My lab is hiring a pre-doctoral research assistant to work on the neural computations of foraging, seeking common cross-species algorithms. In collaboration with @brainapps.bsky.social & Nathan Lepora. Closes April 21st Pls share! jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

How can we build better experiment-theory collaborations in neuroscience? We're hosting a series of 6 in-person, interactive workshops to discuss this. Come along! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand...

#Cosyne2026 How does motor cortex control discrete and rhythmic movements of the arm - the same or different? Find out at our poster 3-014 this afternoon! Work led by @andreacolins.bsky.social

New paper alert! 🚨 We found that the brain's compass is remarkably stable at two scales 1️⃣ the system maintains its internal organization for weeks 2️⃣ It "remembers" its orientation for weeks, even after a single visit This may be key to how the brain aligns its other maps. Paper: rdcu.be/e3waP

Just added this to my WordPress site, so it's free to read. homunculusmusic.wordpress.com/2026/02/14/e...

Epstein’s ugly world of science

As with Peter Mandelson, so in the science world: the Epstein files are not telling us anything that most ordinary punters didn’t already know, but are revealing the full, rotten, appalling extent …

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I missed some exciting stuff last year!

Mark D Humphries@markdhumphries.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Just published my review of neuroscience in 2025, on The Spike. The 10th of these, would you believe? This year we have foundation models, breakthroughs in using light to understand the brain, a gene therapy, and more Enjoy! medium.com/the-spike/20...

I can't believe it took me this long to find @markdhumphries.bsky.social on Bluesky, but his annual review makes up for the lost time. On excellent form as always.

Mark D Humphries@markdhumphries.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Just published my review of neuroscience in 2025, on The Spike. The 10th of these, would you believe? This year we have foundation models, breakthroughs in using light to understand the brain, a gene therapy, and more Enjoy! medium.com/the-spike/20...