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Nicolas Skatchkovsky @nskat.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

We're organising a #Cosyne workshop on biologically-inspired AI on Monday 16th with @achterbrain.bsky.social! 🧠 We've got an incredibly exciting array of speakers, and you have the possibility to sign up to present your poster on #NeuroAI! More info below ⬇️ #compneuro #neuroscience #neuroskyence

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Jascha Achterberg @achterbrain.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Going to Cosyne? There will be a "Biologically-inspired Artificial Intelligence: Challenges and Opportunities" workshop on Monday 16th! 🧠 Exciting lineup of speakers alongside the opportunity to present your #NeuroAI poster, more info on program & poster signup below! #compneuro #neuroscience

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Jascha Achterberg @achterbrain.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Enjoyed @giacomoi.bsky.social commentary in PNAS on how #NeuroAI and Neuromorphic Engineering should come together to allow brain circuit motifs to positively influence the design of computing systems: Biological fidelity: The engine driving the neuromorphic renaissance www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

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Jascha Achterberg @achterbrain.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Let me know if you are in San Diego for #Neurips and wanted to chat about #compneuro / #neuroAI and neuroscience-inspired computing!

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Adam J. Eisen @adamjeisen.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

How do brain areas control each other? 🧠🎛️ ✨In our NeurIPS 2025 Spotlight paper, we introduce a data-driven framework to answer this question using deep learning, nonlinear control, and differential geometry.🧵⬇️

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Rui Ponte Costa @somnirons.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

A beautiful summary of our paper! Thank you @neurosock.bsky.social

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Cian O'Donnell @cianodonnell.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

One example of how multiplexing might be implemented in the brain was shown in the great work by Thomas Akam with Dmitri Kullmann, a decade ago. The papers are cited well but the general multiplexing idea never really took the field by storm as much as it deserved www.nature.com/articles/nrn...

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Oscillatory multiplexing of population codes for selective communication in the mammalian brain - Nature Reviews Neuroscience

The function of brain oscillations remains unclear, although a role in controlling the flow of signals among anatomically connected networks has been proposed. In this Opinion article, Akam and Kullma...

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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 21/11/2025

Postdoc fellowship opportunity for ECRs (<3 yrs post-PhD). Note that if you want to apply to work with me as your mentor, our dept has an internal deadline of Dec 4th so please email me asap. Our internal process is shorter than the full application. 🤖🧠🧪 royalcommission1851.org/fellowships/...

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Jascha Achterberg @achterbrain.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Brains have many pathways / subnetworks but which principles underlie their formation? In our #NeurIPS paper lead by Jack Cook we identify biologically relevant inductive biases that create pathways in brain-like Mixture-of-Experts models🧵 #neuroskyence #compneuro #neuroAI arxiv.org/abs/2506.02813

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Pengfei @pengfei-sun.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

With my great advisors and colleagues, @achterbrain.bsky.social @zhe @danakarca.bsky.social @neural-reckoning.org, we show that if heterogeneous axonal delays (imprecise) can capture the essential temporal structure of a task, spiking networks do not need precise synaptic weights to perform well.

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Martin Schrimpf @mschrimpf.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

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...

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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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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

ATTN🚨: I will be looking for PhD students through NYU's Center for Data Science PhD program this year. Applicants should have an interest in either NeuroAI (specifically biological attention or AI interpretability) or ML for Remote Sensing. Visit my lab website for more info: lindsay-lab.github.io

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Jaan Aru @jaanaru.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Could we understand vision as a type of problem-solving? In this new paper, we develop a computational model that iteratively refines the hypothesis about the visual input with evolutionary search. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... work led by @tarunkhajuria.bsky.social #visionscience #neuroAI

The difficult constellation image is solved by generating candidate solutions with a GAN and refined using a genetic search conditioned on best fitting of the solution outline to the dots on the constellation image.

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Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

This is really funny…

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Julian Togelius @togelius.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Can large language models play simple arcade games? Kind of. Sometimes. Slowly, and not as well as a simple search algorithm. And only if you format the input right. Of course, we made a benchmark to investigate this in more detail, because that's what we do. Paper here: arxiv.org/html/2508.08...

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GVGAI-LLM: Evaluating Large Language Model Agents with Infinite Games

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Steven Scholte @neurosteven.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

#CCN2025 is over. Over 5 days there were 6 fantastic keynotes, 550 posters, 3 community events, 3 keynote & tutorials, 3 generative adversarial collaborations, 8 Satellite events, 1 community lunch meeting, 1 cross-conference hackathon, 1 competition, coffee all day, stroopwafels on day 1,

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The Viking (Gunnar Blohm) @gunnarblohm.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

I'm curious if any senior nonhuman primate Neuro-AI researchers would be interested in joining Queen's University if we were to obtain a research chair position (full professor level)? Could you please send me a confidential message to indicate your interest? Gunnar.blohm@queensu.ca

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Joao Barbosa @jbarbosa.org · 10/08/2025

Sad to miss #CCN2025. It will be the 1st conference where a PhD working w/ me will speak 😭 go see Lubna's talk (Friday) about distributed neural correlates of flexible decision making in 🐒, work done in collaboration w/ @scottbrincat.bsky.social @siegellab.bsky.social & @earlkmiller.bsky.social

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CogCompNeuro @cogcompneuro.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

The registration desk for the first day is now open! If you are looking for information to get to the venue, you can find it here: 2025.ccneuro.org/venue-inform... Look out for the CCN banners!

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CogCompNeuro @cogcompneuro.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Less than 2 weeks until CCN 2025 in Amsterdam! Here's everything you need to know to prepare for the 8th Cognitive Computational Neuroscience conference, August 12-15 at University of Amsterdam 🧠

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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 29/05/2025

I wrote an article earlier in the week arguing that we need to give junior researchers more independence earlier, and this should be our focus, not moonshot mega projects led by senior researchers. I was surprised how much agreement I'm seeing. So next question: how do we do this?

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Dan Levenstein @dlevenstein.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

#NeuroAI finds itself facing an interesting question these days: 1) which of these now-many schemes for bio-plausible credit assignment actually operate in the brain? -and if more than one- 2) how the hell do they operate when they, inevitably, interact?

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Jascha Achterberg @achterbrain.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Now out 🚨 🧪 : our preprint describing dynamics of an extended frontal lobe network (4 cortical regions) in monkeys solving complex multi-step spatial problems! We observe distributed codes for goals, states, and planned moves across PFC! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroscience #compneuro 🧵👇

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Neural dynamics of an extended frontal lobe network in goal-subgoal problem solving

Complex behavior calls for hierarchical representation of current state, goal, and component moves. In the human brain, a network of “multiple-demand” (MD) regions underpins cognitive control. We reco...

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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Screen shots from BBC Click during the experiment. Now to reveal some of that that mad experiment is telling us:

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Iris Groen @irisgroen.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Just a few months until Cognitive Computational Neuroscience comes to Amsterdam! Check out our now-complete schedule for #CCN2025, with descriptions of each of the Generative Adversarial Collaborations (GACs), Keynotes-and-Tutorials (K&Ts), Community Events, Keynote Speakers, and social activities!

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Steven Scholte @neurosteven.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

🧠 #CCN2025 (August 12-15, Amsterdam) Update: Early registration deadline approaching! ⏰ Register by May 23 for early pricing ($375 student/$495 regular) ➡️ 2025.ccneuro.org/meeting-regi... Full schedule now available: 2025.ccneuro.org/schedule-of-...

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Dan Levenstein @dlevenstein.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

🧵how to: figures that fit

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Davi Bock @dddavi.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

something strange just happened on the internet...

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Patrick Mineault @patrickmineault.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

I think we're overdue for a rollup of the best papers of the past year in NeuroAI. Candidates?

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Hafez Ghaemi @hafezghm.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Preprint Alert 🚀 Can we simultaneously learn transformation-invariant and transformation-equivariant representations with self-supervised learning? TL;DR Yes! This is possible via simple predictive learning & architectural inductive biases – without extra loss terms and predictors! 🧵 (1/10)

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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Impressive study from Richard Morris's group: Hippocampal reactivation of planned trajectories is required for effective goal choice in an allocentric memory task #hippocampus #neuroskyence #navigation #memory #planning www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

#neuroskyence people (maybe vision people in particular): how do you think information is "read out" from the visual system? Do downstream areas like PFC get to query anything from V1 to IT? Or just later areas? How plastic are these readouts? Etc. IMO this is always under constrained in modeling.

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Because we must build good things while we scream about the bad, I have started a "Data for Good" team @data-for-good-team.bsky.social that partners with organizations needing short-term data science help. We have three projects ongoing & will add more as our capacity grows. data-for-good-team.org

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Mohamady El-Gaby @melgaby.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

How do cognitive maps fail? And how can this help us understand/treat psychosis? My lab at @oxexppsy.bsky.social is hiring a Postdoc tinyurl.com/2p935hhz and RA tinyurl.com/3myfpb78 to answer these questions in mouse models. Here's why you might want to join: 🧵

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Prof Rick Adams @drrickadams.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

📢 Fantastic post doc job opportunity in my group and co-supervised by DeepMind's @mariaeckstein.bsky.social - now live! Ad here: tinyurl.com/26rafzdc - deadline May 29th. This is part of a very exciting collaboration with @melgaby.bsky.social and Matt Nour, funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social.

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CogCompNeuro @cogcompneuro.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Joining us for CCN2025 in Amsterdam? Early registration discount is still available until the 23rd May! 2025.ccneuro.org/meeting-regi... Need financial support? We got travel awards & caregiver grants available: 2025.ccneuro.org/travel-awards/ 2025.ccneuro.org/caregiver-aw...

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Laurence Hunt @lhuntneuro.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Attending CCN in Amsterdam this August? Come and join our workshop! Details/sign-up info below.

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Ida Momennejad @neuroai.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Hot takes/kind reminders a) “the bitter lesson”’s promise of scale did not deliver wrt AI reasoning & higher cog functions—O3 hallucinates 2x more than O1 b) prediction is not understanding, hallucinating is worse c) gen AI could help neuroAI but following latest AI trends is not a paradigm shift

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Carlos G. Correa @cgcorrea.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

My paper on hierarchical plans is out in Cognition!🎉 tldr: We ask participants to generate hierarchical plans in a programming game. People prefer to reuse beyond what standard accounts predict, which we formalize as induction of a grammar over actions. authors.elsevier.com/a/1kBQr2Hx2x...

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Neural dynamics of an extended frontal lobe network in goal-subgoal problem solving www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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