"So, you have a highly predictive model, now what?" At this #CCN2026 event on Wed, 5 Aug, 4pm at NYU Skirball Theatre I will present work on using ANN brain models for visual prostheses (tinyurl.com/modelguidedm...) and for dyslexia (tinyurl.com/neuroaidysle..., first author: Melika Honarmand).

Come say hi at #CCN2026! Scaling laws for visual cortex, topographic multimodal models, video generation for the lateral stream, model-enabled applications, and a GAC on whether #NeuroAI is asking the right questions

Excited to be at #CCN2026 in NYC! I'll be presenting our spotlight poster, Topo-Omni, with @hannesmehrer.bsky.social 🧠 📍 Poster F14 — Session F 🗓️ Thursday, Aug 6 Come by if you're around, we'd love to talk about how our multimodal model can discover functionally selective brain regions!

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

What a treat to host @dyamins.bsky.social at EPFL this past month to dig into the most impactful future of #NeuroAI. A few conclusions we landed on: 1. Task optimization is a powerful starting point for most (all?) brain systems 2. Brain data is the bottleneck 3. Major opportunities in applications

🚨 NEW PREPRINT Videos strongly shape activity across the visual cortex. But can we design videos that maximally drive specific brain regions? We present NEvo 🧬🧠 — a neural-guided evolutionary framework that synthesizes videos to maximally activate target visual ROIs. (1/10)

Really proud of @akgokce.bsky.social's work, I think this is an important result for #NeuroAI: ML-style pretraining saturates for brain-aligned models, but hybrid task+data optimization keeps scaling. Modalities transfer: fine-tune on EEG and you improve electrophysiology, fMRI & MEG predictions!🧠🤖🧪

Abdulkadir Gokce@akgokce.bsky.social · last mo.

🧠 What's the best way to spend compute & neural data to build brain-aligned models? Our new ICML 2026 paper charts the scaling laws across 8 neural datasets & 600+ vision models. 👇 🌐 multimodal-brain-scaling.epfl.ch w/ @davidtyt.bsky.social & @mschrimpf.bsky.social

A wiring-cost-like loss has been shown to induce brain-like topography in vision (eg www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... and language (e.g. topolm.epfl.ch, toponets.github.io). The same spatial loss yields cognitive clusters in a multimodal model which even discovers new ones! topo-omni.epfl.ch #NeuroAI🤖🧠🧪

A unifying framework for functional organization in early and higher ventral visual cortex

Margalit et al. develop a topographic artificial neural network that predicts both functional responses and spatial organization of multiple cortical areas of the primate visual system. In turn, the m...

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Badr AlKhamissi@bkhmsi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨 New Preprint! 🧠 We gave an AI model one simple rule: rearrange your neurons so that nearby ones respond alike. We never told it what a face, a voice, or a sentence was. It grew brain-like maps for all three anyway. 🧵👇 🌐 Website: topo-omni.epfl.ch

🧠 When you watch a movie, your brain blends sight, sound, and speech into a single experience. Should models of the brain blend them too, or keep the senses separate until the very end? We built MIRAGE to find out. It sets a new SOTA for predicting whole-brain fMRI from movies. 🧵

Two simple ideas for building improved brain encoding models: 1. learn to use representations from all model layers via a gating mechanism + 2. start from natively multimodal features for multimodal predictions. State of the art performance; see mirage-brain.epfl.ch for details #NeuroAI 🧠🤖🧪

Badr AlKhamissi@bkhmsi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🧠 When you watch a movie, your brain blends sight, sound, and speech into a single experience. Should models of the brain blend them too, or keep the senses separate until the very end? We built MIRAGE to find out. It sets a new SOTA for predicting whole-brain fMRI from movies. 🧵

Excited to be in Rio for #ICLR2026 🇧🇷 I'll be presenting our work, Mixture of Cognitive Reasoners (aka MiCRo), on Friday at Pavilion 3, 10:30 AM (#1610). Come say hi :D Happy to chat about NeuroAI, representational & cultural alignment, and/or test-time learning 🧠

I will be at #ICRL2026 in Rio to present our work on model-guided microstimulation. Poster session: Thursday, 23 April, 10.30am - 1pm at pavilion 3, poster nr. 1620 Initial BlueSkyPrint here: tinyurl.com/modelguidedmicrostim

My lab is hiring a software engineer to support our #NeuroAI research: careers.epfl.ch/job/Lausanne.... Please consider applying if you want to build out the infrastructure enabling models of the human brain & mind (e.g., www.Brain-Score.org). We will start screening applications this week 🧠🤖

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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🚀 The Re-Align Challenge is now LIVE! We’re inviting you to explore what properties of vision models and data lead to convergences and divergences in representational alignment. 🔗 Get started: huggingface.co/spaces/repre... 🧵👇

Re-Align Hackathon Leaderboard - a Hugging Face Space by representational-alignment

Submit Blue/Red hackathon JSON and rank by alignment scores.

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Looking forward to presenting at the #AAAI #NeuroAI workshop; including 3 projects that were just accepted to ICLR! arxiv.org/abs/2509.24597, arxiv.org/abs/2510.03684, arxiv.org/abs/2506.13331 🧪🧠🤖

Inducing Dyslexia in Vision Language Models

Dyslexia, a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by persistent reading difficulties, is often linked to reduced activity of the visual word form area in the ventral occipito-temporal cortex. Trad...

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allen institute@alleninstitute.org · 8mo ago

Going to #AAAI2026? Join us at the “Neuro for AI & AI for Neuro: Towards Multi-Modal Natural Intelligence” workshop! Co-organized by our own Anton Arkhipov and @shixnya.bsky.social 🔗 https://neuroai-multimodal-workshop.github.io/ @aaai.org

🎉 Re-Align is back for its 4th edition at ICLR 2026! 📣 We invite submissions on representational alignment, spanning ML, Neuroscience, CogSci, and related fields. 📝 Tracks: Short (≤5p), Long (≤10p), Challenge (blog) ⏰ Deadline: Feb 5, 2026 for papers 🔗 representational-alignment.github.io/2026/

One week left to apply to the EPFL computer science PhD program www.epfl.ch/education/ph.... It's an amazing environment to do impactful research 🧪 (with unparalleled compute)! My NeuroAI group is hiring 🧠🤖. Consider this review service by our fantastic PhD students: www.linkedin.com/posts/spnesh...

For our next UCL #NeuroAI online seminar, we are happy to welcome Dr Martin Schrimpf @mschrimpf.bsky.social (EPFL) 🗓️Wed 19 Nov 2025 ⏰2-3pm GMT Neuro -> AI and Back Again: Integrative Models of the Human Brain in Health and Disease ℹ️ Details / registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ucl-neuroa...

UCL NeuroAI Talk Series

A series of NeuroAI themed talks organised by the UCL NeuroAI community. Talks will continue on a monthly basis.

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Thrilled to be among this fantastic cohort of AI2050 Fellows. This is a great recognition of the transformative potential of #NeuroAI and our lab’s work in this space 🧪🧠🤖. Many thanks to @schmidtsciences.bsky.social for the support!

Schmidt Sciences@schmidtsciences.bsky.social · 9mo ago

We're excited to welcome 28 new AI2050 Fellows! This 4th cohort of researchers are pursuing projects that include building AI scientists, designing trustworthy models, and improving biological and medical research, among other areas.

Researchers are using LLMs to analyze the literature, brainstorm hypotheses, build models and interact with complex datasets. Hear from @mschrimpf.bsky.social, @neurokim.bsky.social, @jeremymagland.bsky.social, @profdata.bsky.social and others. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/machine-lear...

How neuroscientists are using AI

Eight researchers explain how they are using large language models to analyze the literature, brainstorm hypotheses and interact with complex datasets.

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Applications open for postdoc fellowships at the @epfl-ai-center.bsky.social, deadline Nov 3. www.epfl.ch/research/fun.... Great opportunity to work with our world class faculty; the fellowship is set up for collaboration between multiple labs, including my #NeuroAI group 🤖🧠🧪

EPFL AI Center and Swiss AI Initiative Postdoctoral Fellowships

The 2nd call is now open with a deadline for submissions of 3 November (17.00 CET)!Applications are encouraged from researchers at the postdoctoral level with a keen interest in collaborative, interdi...

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A glimpse at what #NeuroAI brain models might enable: a topographic vision model predicts stimulation patterns that steer complex object recognition behavior in primates. This could be a key 'software' component for visual prosthetic hardware 🧠🤖🧪

Hannes Mehrer @CCN2026@hannesmehrer.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🧠 New preprint: we show that model-guided microstimulation can steer monkey visual behavior. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2510.03684 🧵

🧠 New preprint: we show that model-guided microstimulation can steer monkey visual behavior. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2510.03684 🧵

Very happy to be part of this project: Melika Honarmand has done a great job of using vision-language-models to predict the behavior of people with dyslexia. A first step toward modeling various disease states using artificial neural networks.

Martin Schrimpf @ CCN2026@mschrimpf.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I've been arguing that #NeuroAI should model the brain in health *and* in disease -- very excited to share a first step from Melika Honarmand: inducing dyslexia in vision-language-models via targeted perturbations of visual-word-form units (analogous to human VWFA) 🧠🤖🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2509.24597

I've been arguing that #NeuroAI should model the brain in health *and* in disease -- very excited to share a first step from Melika Honarmand: inducing dyslexia in vision-language-models via targeted perturbations of visual-word-form units (analogous to human VWFA) 🧠🤖🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2509.24597

Come be our colleague at EPFL! Several open calls for positions 🧪🧠🤖 * Neuroscience www.epfl.ch/about/workin... (deadline Oct 1) * Life Science Engineering www.epfl.ch/about/workin... * CS general call www.epfl.ch/about/workin... * Learning Sciences www.epfl.ch/about/workin...

Faculty Position in Neuroscience

The School of Life Sciences at EPFL invites applications for a Tenure Track Assistant Professor position in Neuroscience. At EPFL researchers develop and apply innovative technologies to understand br...

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👁️🧠 New preprint: We demonstrate the first data-driven neural control framework for a visual cortical implant in a blind human! TL;DR Deep learning lets us synthesize efficient stimulation patterns that reliably evoke percepts, outperforming conventional calibration. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

EPFL, ETH Zurich & CSCS just released Apertus, Switzerland’s first fully open-source large language model. Trained on 15T tokens in 1,000+ languages, it’s built for transparency, responsibility & the public good. Read more: actu.epfl.ch/news/apertus...

Action potential 👉 3 faculty opportunities to join EPFL neuroscience 1. Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Neuroscience go.epfl.ch/neurofaculty, 2. Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Life Sciences Engineering, or 3. Associate Professor (tenured) in Life Sciences Engineering go.epfl.ch/LSEfaculty