In the next session, we will discuss chapter 3 on August 12th, 2026 at 16h CET. @r3rt0.bsky.social @k4tj4.bsky.social www.crowdcast.io/c/brain-in-t...

Reading club: The Brain in Theory by Romain Brette

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Chapter 2 of our reading club for "The Brain, In Theory" starting now! www.crowdcast.io/c/brain-in-t...

Reading club: The Brain in Theory by Romain Brette

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Tomorrow Claudia Gadaleta will present Chapter 2 at 16h CET: www.crowdcast.io/c/brain-in-t... @r3rt0.bsky.social @k4tj4.bsky.social

Reading club: The Brain in Theory by Romain Brette

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Book review 📚 A celebration of Ernst Haeckel’s sketches of life forms, from microscopic to majestic go.nature.com/3RB5Njh

A fever dream of jellies and slugs

A celebration of Ernst Haeckel’s sketches of life forms, from microscopic to majestic.

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📣 Preprint alert! We developed a framework to uncover Coherent Structures in flows on dynamic surfaces—revealing dynamic attractors, repellers and deformation directions in nematic vesicles, pancreatic spheroids, and beating zebrafish hearts. @sreejithsanthosh.bsky.social biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thrilled to post thread re: new single-cell lineage of mouse embryo reconstructed w/ DNA Typewriter. One animal, zygote to late organogenesis (E13.5). Tree has 1,340,794 transcriptionally profiled, annotated tips (cells), 1,142,588 dated internal nodes, rooted at zygote 1/n

Le code de Margaret Hamilton pour Apollo 11 complet est disponible sur @github.com Original Apollo 11 guidance computer (AGC) source code for Command Module (Comanche055) and Lunar Module (Luminary099). github.com/chrislgarry/...

"Ironically, scientists have abandoned the idea that living organisms have been designed by God, only to adopt of model of the living based on artifacts made by an engineer." Ch 1 of "The Brain, in Theory" Romain Brette Princeton U. Press 2026. Ch 1 is a tour de force take down of computationalism.

‼️One week left to register to our 2027 EMBO Developmental Biology course in Quintay: biodesarrollo.unab.cl/how-to-apply We showed you 🪰, we showed you 🐥, now we'll show you some🥚 taken by 1 of our 2026 attendees. We also have 🐟, 🐸, and maybe even 🦑. I guess you'll have to go to find out! 😜

I want to tell you a story, and it begins with this VERY WEIRD animal: Meet Thetys vagina... [a thread 🧵] 📸 m_patton bit.ly/2Mgw8Sf 🌿🧪🦑🐙🌊

1/ The world's songbirds sing in just 8 basic sounds. And where a bird lives decides which ones it uses. My first PhD paper is out now in @science.org (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aee6239) Here is what we found:

Come work on exciting AI for biology projects in Paris!! 🇫🇷 Details and application below, deadline sept 1st!

Antigen Evolution & Design Lab@antigenevo.bsky.social · 2w ago

🚨 JOB ALERT🚨 We are very excited to be hiring the lab's ✨very first postdoc✨! Work on new AI technologies for decoding antigen protein evolution in a fresh research environment, at the heart of Paris 🇫🇷 Details & link to apply: research.pasteur.fr/en/job/postd... Deadline: Sep 1st

Oops, I completely forgot to print my poster for the Q&A session after the SIGGRAPH presentation... Let us try to fix this...

This male pufferfish spends 7 to 9 days carving a perfect geometric circle in the sand, just to impress a mate.

Il existe différents types de projets de reforestation, et certains sont suffisamment anciens pour avoir du recul sur leurs impacts écologiques à long terme. Des scientifiques se sont ainsi penchés sur les vastes monocultures d’Épicéa commun mises en place il y a près d’un siècle dans les Alpes. 🔽

Et on n'oublie pas signer la pétition pour supprimer les pétitions de l'AN qui ne sont jamais prises en compte et ne servent qu'à donner un vernis participatif à l'AN. petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr/initiatives/...

First session of reading group starts today 16h CET

It's World Brain Day! We've all got one. Here's a fine example featured in Kaishi Hen, a 1772 anatomical atlas from the dawn of experimental medicine in Japan. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kaishi-hen-an-18th-century-japanese-anatomical-atlas

We'll be discussing Chapters 1 and 2 today in ~2h. Join us! link: www.crowdcast.io/c/brain-in-t...

Reading club: The Brain in Theory by Romain Brette

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Julio Alcántara@julioalcante.bsky.social · last mo.

Hi, we are organizing a book presentation with Brette on September 23rd, 2026 and a reading club of the book. In case you wanna participate, let me know here or write me: julio.alcantara-carrera@pasteur.fr

1. We—@eduede.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, Kevin Gross, and I—have a new preprint on the arXiv today, based on ideas that emerged during an @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in November 2024: The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science.

The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science

As a labor-augmenting technology, large language models (LLMs) have the potential to accelerate scientific activity across the research pipeline. But even if LLMs perform on par with human experts at ...

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🧠🌎 Join us at WCCM-ECCOMAS 2026! We're excited to announce the minisymposium MS032 - Exploring Brain Mechanics 📅 July 19-24, 2026 📍ICM - International Congress Center Messe München

1/9 Comparison of carnivore brains beyond brain size They compared the brains of 26 carnivore species (including canids, felids, and ursids, among others) using magnetic resonance imaging. (paper) elifesciences.org/articles/100...

Self-organisation on the web browser 🧫🦠

ipsquiggle@ipsquiggle.bsky.social · 2w ago

If you like playing with fluid sims, game-of-life type shenanigans, etc... then hold on to your socks. aphid91.github.io/Fluoddity-Co...

Le chemin a été long et... il l'est encore. 🙂 #IA #ArtistesAuteurs www.paris-normandie.fr/id733394/art...

Une première en France : la Ville de Rouen renonce à l’IA pour ses affiches grâce à un collectif d’auteurs

Des illustrateurs et créatifs se sont unis pour convaincre la Ville de Rouen de privilégier les créations humaines dans ses supports visuels, amorçant un dialogue inédit avec les collectivités.

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Super happy to give this course with @pltc.bsky.social next Sunday at #SIGGRAPH2026 !

pltc@pltc.bsky.social · 3w ago

Packing my bag for #SIGGRAPH2026! @brunolevy01.bsky.social and I will be presenting our course on Optimal Transport for Fluid Simulation on Sunday July 19, 9am-12:15pm, Room 408B! Come say hi if you're around!

Here is the invitation in case anyone is interested in participating in the discussion of the book by Brette on computationalism, the brain, and life in a reading club organized by the Institut Pasteur: www.crowdcast.io/c/brain-in-t... @romainbrette.bsky.social

Reading club: The Brain in Theory by Romain Brette

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Here is the invitation in case anyone is interested in participating in the discussion of the book by Brette on computationalism, the brain, and life in a reading club organized by the Institut Pasteur: www.crowdcast.io/c/brain-in-t...

Presentation of some topics of "The Brain, In Theory" and discussion on the Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV6k...

Romain Brette discusses brains and computations

YouTube video by Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon

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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Alessandra Pizzuti, Omer Faruk Gulban, et al: Multimodal laminar characterization of visual areas along the cortical hierarchy doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

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