Harrison gives the state-space modeling tutorial at CNN

𝗡𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗮𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗲𝘅: 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗺𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗺𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 A must read for systems neuroscience. #neuroskyence doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon discussion now online. Lively debate on @romainbrette.bsky.social 's position. #neuroskyence youtu.be/XV6kCsiq0g0?...

Romain Brette discusses brains and computations

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Join the discussion today! #neuroskyence

PessoaBrain@pessoabrain.bsky.social · 2mo ago

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀, 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻?? Biological systems unlike computers, but what does that mean? Join us in the Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon discussion with Romain Brette of his great book. July 9, noon (USA-EST) Open to all; registration required. umd.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #neuroskyence

Don't forget our Salon with Romain Brett discussing 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗱𝗼 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗼 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗱𝗼... July 9. Open to all but you need to register (personal-free/academic zoom account is necessary) #neuroskyence

PessoaBrain@pessoabrain.bsky.social · 2mo ago

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀, 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻?? Biological systems unlike computers, but what does that mean? Join us in the Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon discussion with Romain Brette of his great book. July 9, noon (USA-EST) Open to all; registration required. umd.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #neuroskyence

Both brains and RNNs can re-use components of computation across similar tasks or contexts. But what exactly are those “shared components”? How can they be used to solve several tasks? We address these questions in a new preprint with @avm.bsky.social! Link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Interpretable compositional computation with recurrent neural networks

Flexible cognition utilizes reusable components to enable rapid adaptation of behavior to different contexts or tasks. Analysis of artificial neural networks trained on multiple tasks suggested that t...

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What makes a new kind of mind possible? In this @royalsocietypublishing.org paper, the authors explain why cognitive transitions are not just moments when animals became smarter, but evolutionary shifts that opened new spaces of cognition. @eplantec.bsky.social pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

I wanted to like QED's new 1% preprint ranking. I really did. But the more I looked at the data, the more uncomfortable it made me. Here is my full peer review. open.substack.com/pub/blekhman...

My Peer Review of The 1%

I wanted to like QED's new 1% ranking. I don't.

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NIH grants?? Now counting on wishes...

*Are rodents a good model of the amygdala?* Probably not. Important comparative anatomy findings by Freixes, Medina, Desfilis. At the VI international Congress of Psychobiology, Seville, Spain.

*Hippocampus: action at a distance* Really beautiful talk by Lynn Nadel about the hippocampus and how it supports acting based on past and future information. At the VI international Congress of Psychobiology, Sevilla, Spain.

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀, 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻?? Biological systems unlike computers, but what does that mean? Join us in the Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon discussion with Romain Brette of his great book. July 9, noon (USA-EST) Open to all; registration required. umd.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #neuroskyence

𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝘄𝗵𝘆 𝘄𝗲 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗽𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝘄𝗲 𝗱𝗼 and not just deposit what we think is cool work in an archive and move on? Moving on could/should also include going back and improving the work, adding some notes about problems with previous version(s), etc. #bringfunbacktoscience

𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱 But lots of progress being made; this one looks very interesting. arxiv.org/abs/2604.24662

RE: https://spore.social/@yoginho/115918117109281530 An updated version of my "Re-Engineering Wimsatt for Limited Beings" is available: https://zenodo.org/records/20647108 It includes the revisions that were requested during peer-review. Wimsatt is the most important philosopher of science […]

Yogi Jaeger@yoginho.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 7mo ago

We have a new preprint out! And one that is especially dear to my heart: "Re-Engineering Wimsatt for Limited Beings" https://zenodo.org/records/18293424 Bill Wimsatt is possibly the most underrated philosopher of science of our times. In this paper, I attempt […] [Original post on spore.social]

𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 Does it support a modular and hierarchical organization as the author support? Not really. Highly distributed and multifunctional findings even in the context of a binary task! #neuroskyence doi.org/10.1038/s415...

the original hexagon does not include AI, it includes computer science. the 1978 report explicitly defined the connections. (1) doesn’t work when you swap CS for AI. idk where the AI one came from but it can’t be used interchangeably with the one that came from the Sloan Foundation special report.

𝗜𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝗼𝗳 "𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴" 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻? philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph... #neuroskyence

Intervening in complex complex systems

Ricard Solé@ricardsole.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Can we engineer ecosystems before they collapse? In our new perspective on "emergent bioengineering" we argue that the key challenge is not simply controlling living systems, but designing interventions that can adapt and sustain functional ecological networks. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

𝗖𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗴𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 + 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲-𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗴𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶-𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 Brain dynamics must-reads by Deisseroth team. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #neuroskyence

**How to communicate science to the public?** Angela Potochnik from the Center for Public Engagement with Science leads this workshop. Part of The Society for Philosophy & Neuroscience activities @socphilneuro.bsky.social

So a brain outsider had to say it...

Erika Hall@erikahall.bsky.social · 2mo ago

So, I'm no neuroscientist, but it seems like the "inspired by the brain" part of AI happened back around 1943 and the rest has been advances in materials, electrical engineering and mathematics/computer science resulting in tricky mimicry, and nothing further to do with how the brain actually works.

What is the minimal machinery needed for complex, cognition-like behavior? Very cool.

Linnéa Gyllingberg@gyllingberg.bsky.social · 3mo ago

What is the minimal machinery needed for complex, cognition-like behavior? With @lostintheswarm.bsky.social, we show how self-sustained calcium oscillations, diffusion, and mechanics may be enough to coordinate behavior across a single cell with no nervous system. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/

𝗦𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 I've shared book suggestions on the brain, conceptual foundations of biology, and much more. Check out the collection from past years. (interface not perfect at this point). sparkling-trifle-93b8c9.netlify.app

If you use AI to help you peer review a paper, consider that >10 major concerns might be on the excessive side... In my view the reviewer's job is not to tell the authors what to do, but to evaluate the paper in front of them. If it's problematic, reject it!

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

Finally, today is the day: Josefine Zerbe will present and release our new multi-echo 7T fMRI dataset LAION-fMRI during #VSS2026, with >30 fMRI session per subject and unprecedented stimulus diversity. Come to Talk Room 1 (Scene perception) today at 5:15. Details will follow in a separate thread!

🚨 Ever wanted a simple way to control the activity of thousands of neurons? We introduce an all-optical raster photostimulation method to do just that! w/ @computingnature.bsky.social @marius10p.bsky.social #FluorescenceFriday #neuroskyence www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/n

Amazingly beautiful, let's do one of the brain+body!

Simone Conradi@sconradi.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A stunning visualization born from a collaboration with @manlius.bsky.social : 55,486 galaxies and 29,555 streamlines tracing how matter flows across our local universe, built on data from the CosmicFlows-4 project. Article in the first reply 👇

My grant was almost funded but then rev 2 did something...

Minneapolitan goblin (they/she)@mosscloud.bsky.social · 3mo ago

ARD, holy shit ❤️‍🔥 #PWHL