Mattia Rigotti
@matrig.net
Researcher in all things Neuro Also at mastodon.social/@matrig
Every time I’m disappointed in claude code, I try to remind myself that no one could be more disappointed than Ray Kurzweil when he realized our best hope for AGI is an AI that closes github issues and knows that if you're going to a car wash, you’d better take your car
Throughout history, persecuting scientists for saving lives is a frightening marker for the collapse of a society.
arXiv now hosts OVER 3 million scientific articles! 🤯 arXiv reached the 2 million article mark back in 2022 - it's only taken 4 years to add another million. Read more on the blog about this milestone and our record-bre... https://blog.arxiv.org/2026/07/09/arxiv-now-hosts-over-3-million-articles/
Hello world! 👋 We’re Minds, Machines, and Brains (MMB) 👤🤖🧠 a new open access journal from @mitpress.bsky.social exploring the principles of intelligence and cognition across natural and artificial minds. Submissions open this Fall! 🔗 direct.mit.edu/mmb
Minds, Machines, and Brains | MIT Press
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Assistant/Associate Professor in Computer Vision and Deep Learning
Assistant/Associate Professor in Computer Vision and Deep Learning
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tenuretracker.info@tenuretracker.bsky.social · 3w agoDelft University of Technology (@tudelft.nl) is hiring: Assistant/Associate Professor in Computer Vision and Deep Learning #professor #computerscience #computervision
Most neurons seem to be generalists, not specialists. Cortical circuits prioritize diversity over categorical structure. Rarely categorical, highly separable representations along the cortical hierarchy www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience www.newscientist.com/article/2581...
Rarely categorical, highly separable representations along the cortical hierarchy - Nature
Cortical circuits prioritize diversity over categorical structure, supporting a computational regime geared towards high-dimensional, highly separable neural representations.
nature.com
Went on X a sec to check who else finds the #NeurIPS2026 multi-phase rebuttal utterly confusing. Didn't find anything useful, but now I know everything about the AfD, Nigel Farage, and apparently everyone is obsessed with Helen of Troy's skin complexion 🤷
Applications for the @sfiscience.bsky.social Santa Fe Institute's amazing Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships, including the Omidyar Fellowships, are now open. The deadline for applications is September 30th.
Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowship - Santa Fe Institute
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Part of my reason for being so vehemently opposed to people remaining on Twitter is that I know Elon also understands this and intends to build Grok around this principle
Alfred Nobel established the Nobel Prize after wake up call: newspapers mistakenly published his obituary when his brother died & what he read as his legacy horrified him speaking ill (factually) of the dead is literally the most effective way to curb living racist & Nazi public figures/politicians
![There is a well-known story about the origin of the Nobel Prize, although historians have been unable to verify it, and some dismiss the story as a myth.[26] In 1888, the death of his brother Ludvig supposedly caused several newspapers to publish obituaries of Alfred in error. One French newspaper[which?] condemned him for his invention of military explosives—in many versions of the story, dynamite is quoted, although this was mainly used for civilian applications—and this is said to have brought about his decision to leave a better legacy after his death.[6] The obituary supposedly stated, Le marchand de la mort est mort ("The merchant of death is dead"),[6] and according to the myth went on to say, "Dr. Alfred Nobel, who became rich by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before, died yesterday."[27] Nobel read the obituary and was appalled at the idea that he would be remembered in this way. His decision to posthumously donate the majority of his wealth to found the Nobel Prize has been credited to him wanting to leave behind a better legacy.[28][6] However, it has been questioned whether or not the obituary in question actually existed.[28] An actual obituary (pictured) stated "A man who can only with the utmost difficulty be considered a benefactor of mankind has died yesterday at Cannes. It is Mr. Nobel, inventor of dynamite. Mr. Nobel was Swedish." It was published on the first page of the Figaro on the 15th of April 1888 and retracted the next day.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:26hkfmtr7jrchexamh7hk6rz/bafkreiamxbpof2omcdylzhjqx5jvddya4qtd2rranqhfr3hqz7m5v7croe)
Thomas Fuchs @thomasfuchs.at · 3y agoIf we’d speak more ill of the dead, maybe it would remind the living not to be assholes.
“Climate scientists appalled by politicians' refusal to accept responsibility as heatwave hits France… They say that years of warnings issued from scientists about the consequences of global warming have not been taken seriously.” #France #ClimateCrisis #UrbanHeat
Climate scientists appalled by politicians' refusal to accept responsibility as heatwave hits France
Valérie Masson-Delmotte, Jean Jouzel and Christophe Cassou say that years of warnings issued from scientists about the consequences of global warming have not been taken more seriously.
lemonde.fr
In light of the ongoing situation with Ebola in the DRC, I'm sorry to have to remind you that evolutionary biology makes it abundantly clear that ignoring a catastrophic disease outbreak because it's there, not here, is a terrible, terrible idea.
Evolutionary consequences of delaying intervention for monkeypox
Since May, 2022, clusters of monkeypox infections have caused global concern. At present, this concern has been tempered by the fact that, even when uncontrolled, the number of infections is growing s...
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TMZ reporting on the pope’s encyclical was not on my bingo card.
Pope Leo Warns Artificial Intelligence Could Threaten Humanity
Pope Leo XIV is throwing up a major warning flag about artificial intelligence ... saying the technology could become dangerous if nobody keeps it in check.
tmz.com
On the left is an Onion headline from March. On the right is Reuters, today.
Last year my book The Animal and the Thinker came out. Basic idea – how the operating principles of instinct and reason together answer big human questions. Right and wrong. Culture wars. Family and work. The meaning of life. That sort of thing. Now as an add-on I’m starting a blog…
"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."
Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial
Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.
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Brain-inspired warm-up training with random noise for uncertainty calibration Another article on using noise for calibration in DNN. Love to see this. www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Brain-inspired warm-up training with random noise for uncertainty calibration - Nature Machine Intelligence
Cheon and Paik show that overconfidence in deep neural networks arises from standard initialization practices, and that brief warm-up training with random noise improves uncertainty calibration and meta-cognitive recognition of unknown inputs.
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"To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago." If you think it is necessary to be on Twitter to communicate your fact-based worldview, the reality is that worldview is being smothered.
Electronic Frontier Foundation@eff.org · 4mo agoAfter almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵 (1/5) www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
🏹 Job alert: PhD Position in Open-World Robot Learning at University of Freiburg 📍 Freiburg 🇩🇪 ⏰ Apply by 30 June 🔗 https://bit.ly/47DgiYo
Open Positions — Robot Learning Lab
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Wanna do neuroscience in Paris but can't find interesting lab? Want to come do a sabbatical but don't know who to collaborate? Check this webpage aggregating ~all the neuroscience labs (+200) in Paris. ⚠️only the information of 'verified' profiles is reliable⚠️ Please retweet 🙏 parisneuro.fr
The Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony Is Moving to Europe (after 35 years in the USA) improbable.com/2026/03/10/t...
The Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony Is Moving to Europe (after 35 years in the USA)
After 35 years in the USA, the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony is moving to Europe. This coming September 3, the 36th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony will take place in Zurich, Switzerland. TICKETS wi…
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⚠️ #CCN2026 submissions close soon! → GACs, Keynotes, Tutorials & Community Events: March 31 (AoE) → Extended Abstracts: April 2 (AoE) CCN brings together cognitive science, neuroscience, and AI to discuss the computations underlying complex behavior. Submit your work now!
Neuroscience has become increasingly concerned with prediction, and machine learning with causal explanation, with each field adopting methods from the other, writes @gershbrain.bsky.social. Will this bring us closer to understanding neural systems? www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...
Trading places: What happens when neuroscience turns into machine learning, and machine learning turns into neuroscience?
Neuroscience has become increasingly concerned with prediction, and machine learning with causal explanation, with each field adopting methods from the other. I asked eight experts to weigh in on what...
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Today NeurIPS is announcing our official satellite event in Paris. After responding to the call from Ellis following the success of EurIPS in December, we are pleased to reach a new milestone by joining forces with the NeurIPS organizing committee for the 2026 edition.
