I'm very excited to spend the next 10 days in San Diego attending the 12th Annual IEEE EMBS International Conference on Neural Engineering (@embs.org) and then the 2025 Society for Neuroscience (@sfn.org) Meeting! If you are going to be at either conference, let me know, I'd love to see you!

I'm very excited to share the workshop "𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐁𝐂𝐈𝐬: 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐅𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬" which will be on November 11 at the IEEE/EMBS International Conference on Neural Engineering in San Diego! #IEEE #NER25 #neurotech #BCI #iBCI

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"The tactile acuity of the breast was even lower than that of the back... touches to different regions of the nipple were largely indistinguishable" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The coarse mental map of the breast is anchored on the nipple

Touch plays a key role in our perception of our body and shapes our interactions with the world, from the objects we manipulate to the people we touch. While the tactile sensibility of the hand has be...

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#Meta has an #AI for brain typing, but it's stuck in the lab www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/07/1... by @antonioregalado.bsky.social; "The social network company hopes #neuroscience will give it an advantage in the AI race"

Meta has an AI for brain typing, but it’s stuck in the lab

The social network company hopes neuroscience will give it an advantage in the AI race.

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Just finished a two week sprint to submit an NIH F32 Fellowship application! It was quite intense, but glad it's done 😊 and I actually feel good about the proposal. Hopefully things will he back to normal at the NIH by the time it gets reviewed

It was a real privilege to interview Daniel Dennett about his five favourite books for @five_books fivebooks.com/best-books/d...

Just out in J Neuromorph Comput & Eng: Loss shaping enhances exact gradient learning with Eventprop in Spiking Neural Networks doi.org/10.1088/2634.... With @neworderofjamie.bsky.social. We report how Eventprop scales to harder learning tasks. TL;DR: It works great but not without extra effort. 🧪🧵

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Dendrites endow artificial neural networks with accurate, robust and parameter-efficient learning - Nature Communications

Artificial neural networks, central to deep learning, are powerful but energy-consuming and prone to overfitting. The authors propose a network design inspired by biological dendrites, which offe...

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I've never been directly funded by NIH, but in honor of this amazing organization with great people, here is my talk from last fall when they hosted me. One of the best visits I have had anywhere. oir.nih.gov/wals/2024-20...

📢PSA: #NeurIPS2024 recordings are now publicly available! The workshops always have tons of interesting things on at once, so the FOMO is real😵‍💫 Luckily it's all recorded, so I've been catching up on what I missed. Thread below with some personal highlights🧵

What's the right way to think about modularity in the brain? This devilish 😈 question is a big part of my research now, and it started with this paper with @solarpunkgabs.bsky.social, finally published after the first preprint in 2021! 🤖🧠🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dynamics of specialization in neural modules under resource constraints - Nature Communications

The extent to which structural modularity in neural networks ensures functional specialization remains unclear. Here the authors show that specialization can emerge in neural modules placed under reso...

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I'm very excited that this review on scalable neuromorphic hardware, headed up by Dhireesha Kudithipudi, has finally come out in Nature🧪🧠🤖 rdcu.be/d7atq Neuromorphic hardware is ready for prime time. There are things to keep advancing, but I think the bigger opportunities lie in how we use it!

Neuromorphic computing at scale

Nature - Approaches for the development of future at-scale neuromorphic systems based on principles of biointelligence are described, along with potential applications of scalable neuromorphic...

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Now published in @elife.bsky.social doi.org/10.7554/eLif... a fun collaboration with @clairemb90.bsky.social and Rainer Friedrich

Geometry and dynamics of representations in a precisely balanced memory network related to olfactory cortex

Computational modeling revealed that balanced assemblies of excitatory and inhibitory neurons shape representational manifolds in olfactory cortex-like recurrent networks, resulting in joint maps of s...

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Congrats again to John Hopfield & Geoff Hinton on the well deserved #NobelPrize in Physics. A couple of weeks ago I gave a colloquium on "The physical origins of artificial intelligence" at the Stanford Linear Accelerator explaining the prize. Video: colloquium.slac.stanford.edu/events/2024-...

New 716 hour EMG dataset just dropped ✨ ai.meta.com/blog/open-so...

Advancing Neuromotor Interfaces by Open Sourcing Surface Electromyography (sEMG) Datasets for Pose Estimation and Surface Typing

We’re releasing emg2qwerty and emg2pose—two large datasets and benchmarks for sEMG-based typing and pose estimation, as part of the NeurIPS 2024 Datasets and Benchmarks track.

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I'm excited to share my paper "Invariant neuromorphic representations of tactile stimuli improve robustness of a real-time texture classification system", now posted on arXiv! arxiv.org/abs/2411.17060 Go to the end of this thread for an exciting robotics demo😊

Invariant neuromorphic representations of tactile stimuli improve robustness of a real-time texture classification system

Humans have an exquisite sense of touch which robotic and prosthetic systems aim to recreate. We developed algorithms to create neuron-like (neuromorphic) spiking representations of texture that are i...

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1/ I work in #NeuroAI, a growing field of research, which many people have only the haziest conception of... As way of introduction to this research approach, I'll provide here a very short thread outlining the definition of the field I gave recently at our BRAIN NeuroAI workshop at the NIH. 🧠📈

Finding relevant papers for literature review takes a lot of time. So, MIT researchers built Undermind, an AI-powered search engine. It can generate well-researched overviews on any topic and is 10-50 times better than Google Scholar. Here's how to use it:

We are excited to share an inspiring feature on our founder, Dr. #HughHerr, in the latest article from Amplitude! Dr. Herr is leading the way in #prosthetic innovation with brain-controlled prosthetic limbs and setting a new standard for #amputee care. livingwithamplitude.com/article/ampu...

Brain-controlled Prosthetic Limbs Advance

Agonist-antagonist myoneural interface (AMI) surgery—which restores broken nerve circuits in the residual limb—gives amputees unprecedented ability to control prosthetic legs with their thoughts.

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In addition to co-authoring this article with John Van Horn, INCF co-director Mathew Abrams was a guest editor for this Springer Nature's Neuroinformatics special issue 🧠📗 Check it out here: bit.ly/4eq4xoI #neuroskyence #neuroscience #neuroinformatics #OpenScience #FAIR

Do you teach neuroscience? Here’s a list I’ve compiled of mostly free online neuroscience textbooks, simulations and datasets you can use for your course! If I’m missing something, let me know so I can add it! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Free Neuroscience Textbooks and Online Tutorials

Free Neuroscience Textbooks and Online Tutorials (Compiled by Carlos Aizenman, Brown University, Dept. of Neuroscience) Maintaining a current list of digital educational resources is tricky. Softwar...

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The strain on scientific publishing: we set out to characterise the remarkable growth of the scientific literature in the last few years, in spite of declining growth in total scientists. What is going on? direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... A 🧵 1/n #AcademicSky #PhDchat #ScientificPublishing #SciPub

Starting your #PhD journey? Crafting a standout Statement of Purpose is key. Here's a guide with tips & common pitfalls to help you succeed (tailored to #CompSky at #UCSB, but much of it should apply to most depts): docs.google.com/document/d/1... #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #FirstGen #CSforALL

The Road to a Successful PhD Application

The Road to a Successful PhD Application Disclaimer: This guide was written by Prof. Michael Beyeler, with input from faculty colleagues. It does not necessarily reflect the views of all CS faculty me...

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We recently held a workshop on the philosophy of #neuromorphic #AI. The talks are now available on YouTube! Speakers: Paul Thagard, @gualtiero.bsky.social, @wanjawiese.bsky.social, Chiara Bartolozzi, Pascal Nieters, Herbert Jaeger 📽️ Watch here: www.youtube.com/@institutfur...

Institut für Philosophie Osnabrück

Das Institut für Philosophie an der Universität Osnabrück verfügt über zwei Professuren: eine für Theoretische Philosophie (Nikola Kompa) und eine für Praktische Philosophie (Susanne Boshammer). Gemei...

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From Brain to Machine: The Unexpected Journey of Neural Networks #DL #AI #ML #DeepLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #ComputerVision #AutonomousVehicles #NeuroMorphic #Robotics https://buff.ly/3YSEOQ1

From Brain to Machine: The Unexpected Journey of Neural Networks

How early cognitive research funded by the NSF paved the way for today’s AI breakthroughs—and how AI is now inspiring new understandings of the human mind.

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Terrific piece summarizing a recent report: Every dollar of NIH research funding doubles in economic returns www.fiercebiotech.com/research/rep...

Report: Every dollar of NIH research funding doubles in economic returns

Research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) generated $2.46 in economic activity for every $1 of funding in 2023, a total of $92.9 billion, according to an

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I made a starter pack of researchers working on spiking neural networks, neuromorphic hardware and all that jazz. At the moment, this community doesn't seem to be very present on Bluesky (more on Mastodon), but let me know if I've missed anyone! 🧠🧪 go.bsky.app/46Eu9GG

Didn't see one for Neuroscience yet; allow me to oblige

Gabriel S. Jacobs@gsjphd.bsky.social · 3y ago

Oh, we're doing the "Types of [Field] Paper" meme again?

My lab has been working on comparing neural representations for the past few years - methods like RSA, CKA, CCA, Procrustes distance We are often asked: What do these things tell us about the system's function? How do they relate to decoding? Our new paper has some answers arxiv.org/abs/2411.08197