Nothing in neural activity makes sense except in the light of dynamics and cybernetics. #CCN2026 GAC position. sites.google.com/ccneuro.org/...

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Representations or Transformations: What Should Models of Neural Population Activity Explain? Julian Kędys, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center Cezary Mazurek, Poznan Supercomputing and Netwo...

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Jellyfish medusae also grow and change their body shape over their lifespan, in ways that dramatically alter the physics of their body-fluid interactions. So a fun open question is how their nervous system (which is adding new neurons throughout the lifespan) adapts itself to these body changes.

🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨 The Technical University of Munich @tum.de is recruiting a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Implantable Brain–Computer Interfaces! We’re looking for someone to help build the next generation of robust, clinically scalable #implantable #BCIs. portal.mytum.de/jobs/profess... 🧵👇

🚨Postdoc position available in computational/theoretical neuroscience at NIMH! The intramural NIH research community is great (amazing collaborators, no worrying about grants, lots of opportunities for professional development). Please repost! www.training.nih.gov/jobs/pd-0931...

Neuroscientists: Given that most NHP studies are roughly n=2, what is considered best practice for interpreting results that conflict across monkeys? #neuroskyence

Story time friends... Ring attractor networks rely on fine-tuned symmetric connectivity. The fly head direction network has ring attractor dynamics but heterogeneous connectivity. How is this possible? 1/🧵 Link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Our official guide to help you write a public comment on the OMB-2026-0034 is here: zurl.co/XgyzA Submit your comment and take additional actions here: zurl.co/RiDuv #StandUpForScience #OMB #Vought #SaveScience #FundScience

Some incredibly exciting news that still feels a bit surreal: I am starting my research group @mpicybernetics.bsky.social! The best part? We are hiring at all levels! Curious about the science we plan to tackle, read along :) #NeuroSky

𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 Looking forward to diving into this one. By Durstewitz et al. arxiv.org/abs/2602.16864

omg this made me tear up. Anonymous comments from my undergrad students in my course evaluations for the intro to comp neuro class I taught the past semester. The students liked what I did 😭❤️ I really cared about getting them excited about mathematical modeling and designing differential equations!

They really want the ACs to be on schedule! #neurips2026

I tracked every keyword in 22 years of Cosyne abstracts to map how computational neuroscience evolved — from Bayesian brains to neural manifolds to LLMs — and where it's heading next.

22 years of Brain Science: what CoSyNe tells us about the evolution of Neuroscience

Tracking the intellectual DNA of Computational and Systems Neuroscience through its flagship meeting

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(1/n) Presenting our NeurIPS’25 work at #cosyne2026 poster 3-109 We introduce a flexible framework to infer how animals learn new decision-making tasks from scratch without assuming REINFORCE/Q-learning. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2509.04661 Joint w/ @vgeadah.bsky.social and @jpillowtime.bsky.social

Flexible inference for animal learning rules using neural networks

Understanding how animals learn is a central challenge in neuroscience, with growing relevance to the development of animal- or human-aligned artificial intelligence. However, existing approaches tend...

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If you are at #cosyne2026 come see poster [2-152] Dynamical archetype analysis: Autonomous computation. Ábel Ságodi is presenting how you can compare dynamical systems at behaviorally relevant timescale while keeping the interpretability!

Are you at #cosyne2026 and looking for a postdoc position? CATNIP = Neural Dynamics Lab is hiring! catniplab.github.io/postdoc-hiri...

I've been seriously experimenting with AI tools. Claude Code is my current go-to. I treat learning AI tools more like playing an RPG. You level up as you go. You pick up a skill here, you pick up an armor there. There's too much to learn and you need to slowly acquire the skills.

Rejecting another Elsevier review request. Hoping my attempt at a dispassionate tone keeps my contempt for Elsevier from leaking through.

We’re hiring postdocs/research scientists! Your interests can be anywhere on the spectrum from pure theory to empirically testing predictions relevant to AI safety. Our theoretical work relies on dynamical systems and tools from statistical physics. 3

New preprint from the lab! Ábel Ságodi developed a theory of approximating dynamical systems that goes beyond finite time. #theoreticalNeuroscience Follow @neurabel.bsky.social Universal Approximation Theorems for Dynamical Systems with Infinite-Time Horizon Guarantees. . arxiv.org/abs/2602.08640

Universal Approximation Theorems for Dynamical Systems with Infinite-Time Horizon Guarantees

Universal approximation theorems establish the expressive capacity of neural network architectures. For dynamical systems, existing results are limited to finite time horizons or systems with a global...

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Can we guarantee the behavior of an RNN to generalize well for infinite time? 🧠♾️ Similar to universal approximation theorems in deep nets, for systems that forget everything eventually, there are guarantees. We prove it for multistable systems! arxiv.org/abs/2602.08640 w/ @memming.bsky.social (1/6)

📢 Applications open on 19 Jan for the 7-week #Mathematics #SummerSchool in London. You will develop the maths skills and intuition necessary to enter the #TheoreticalNeuroscience / #MachineLearning field. Find out more & register for the information webinar 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...

Back in 2014, I co-organized a #COSYNE workshop on scalable modeling. scalablemodels.wordpress.com #timeflies

Scalable models for high-dimensional neural data

A COSYNE 2014 Workshop

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🚨📜+🧵🚨 Very excited about this work showing that people with no hand function following a spinal cord injury can control the activity of motor units from those muscles to perform 1D, 2D and 3D tasks, play video games, or navigate a virtual wheelchair By a wonderful team co-mentored w Dario Farina

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New preprint! We show that people with tetraplegic spinal cord injury can use their residual motor unit activity to achieve up to three dimensional control using non-invasive high-density surface EMG With my co-first authors Xingchen Yang and Ciara Gibbs www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/13

My department, Duke Neurobiology, is searching for a new chair. Ad below. Come work with me, @jmgrohneuro.bsky.social @ennatsew.bsky.social @jorggrandl.bsky.social @jnklab.bsky.social @sbilbo.bsky.social @neurocircuits.bsky.social and many other amazing folks! @dukemedschool.bsky.social

Department Chair, Duke Neurobiology - Duke University, Durham job with Duke University - School of Medicine | 12852576

The Duke University School of Medicine (SOM) seeks a distinguished neuroscientist to serve as the next Chair of the Department of Neurobiology.

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We have reached a situation where (1) the time/resources spent by people applying for grant X often outweighs (2) the time/resources awarded. For these grants, society loses net time/resources. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How can I accelerate breakdown of caffeine in my body? I will need to increase CYP1A2 (P450) activity (without smoking). Vigorous exercise over 30 days was shown to increase it up to 70%? pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih....

Learning a lot while preparing for a lecture on RNNs for neuroscience.

according to last.fm, my favourite artist of 2025 was #LauraThorn. Scrobbled 493/5728 times (just one song; La poupée monte le son). 0.01% of fans worldwide for the song. Of 2672 unique tracks I listened to. Also #1 on Beatrice Rana's Goldberg Variations album.

Highlights of 2025 Ayesha Vermani defended her PhD thesis this year. She helped jump start a new direction in integrative neuroscience: Vermani et al. (2025), Meta-dynamical state space models for integrative neural data analysis. ICLR 👉 openreview.net/forum?id=SRp... 👉 youtu.be/SiXxPmkpYF8

I admire all who have donated and will donate to OpenReview. Thank you.

Today, the NeurIPS Foundation is proud to announce a $500,000 donation to OpenReview, supporting the infrastructure that makes modern ML research possible. blog.neurips.cc/2025/12/15/s...