Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Check out this more detailed rundown on our adapting networks preprint from @rgast.bsky.social! 080
Reposted by Ann KennedyAnn Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Preprint time! This is a cool one. Complex systems, be they neural nets, interacting genes, or power grids, can produce diverse dynamics-- things like point attractors, limit cycles, and chaos. The dynamic landscape you get depends on how elements interact. But those interactions can also change! 28125
Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 23/09/2026We are recruiting an experienced research programmer to drive the next steps of several exciting generative modeling and biotechy projects! (You will see this ad again soon accompanying preprints of said projects, but here's a chance to apply early 🤓) recruiting2.ultipro.com/SCR1003TSRI/...recruiting2.ultipro.com 071
Reposted by Ann KennedyJAX Genomic Education @jaxeducation.bsky.social · 22/09/2026💥 SPEAKER SPOTLIGHT: Hear from faculty whose work explores AI and computational approaches in #Neuroskyence. 🔹 James Cotton, Ph.D., Northwestern 🔹 Kristin Branson, Ph.D., HHMI Janelia Research Campus @peabody124.bsky.social @kristinmbranson.bsky.social ⏰ Register soon at jax.org/autobehavior! 042
Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Preprint time! This is a cool one. Complex systems, be they neural nets, interacting genes, or power grids, can produce diverse dynamics-- things like point attractors, limit cycles, and chaos. The dynamic landscape you get depends on how elements interact. But those interactions can also change! 28125
Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 21/09/2026There are more submissions to ICLR this year (at least 62,000) than in all previous years of the conference combined. 162
Reposted by Ann KennedyQuanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 18/09/2026Comb jellies are ancient marine predators whose hairlike extensions known as cilia refract light as they swim, giving them an iridescent shimmer. They are the largest animals known to use cilia for movement. www.quantamagazine.org/ctenophores-... 04610
Reposted by Ann KennedyJeremiah Cohen @jeremiahycohen.bsky.social · 13/04/2026First off, these cells are gigantic. This one, for example, has >72 cm of axon! To our knowledge, it’s the longest neuron ever fully reconstructed. I leave it to the reader as an exercise to estimate the length of a human LC neuron. 5 216041
Reposted by Ann Kennedyphysics.soc-ph @arxiv-soc-ph.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The Effective Gravitational Field of the Ball in Association Football arxiv.org/abs/2608.20395 031
Reposted by Ann KennedyMatt Henderson @matthen.com · 13/09/2026Approximating the Lorenz attractor with a chaotic leaky water wheel. The orange dot is the centre of mass of the water. It traces (a projection of) the familiar attractor as the wheel spins seemingly randomly left and right. 14740151
Reposted by Ann KennedyFabrizio Musacchio @fabmusacchio.bsky.social · 08/09/2026New preprint by @shtakasu.bsky.social , Gast & @antihebbiann.bsky.social, showing that local exc/inh connectivity balance can strongly reshape #RecurrentNetwork dynamics, even when the connectivity spectrum remains unchanged. #CompNeuro #TheoreticalNeuroscience #RandomNetworks #PopulationDynamics 182
Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 08/09/2026New preprint on our favorite theme: same connectome + different neurons = different dynamics. @shtakasu.bsky.social looked at detail balance (E+I inputs sum to 0) in RNNs w/different activation functions, finding that it stabilized some networks and destabilized others. arxiv.org/html/2608.30... 1325
Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Nothing like a cozy afternoon of reverse birdwatching 1130
Reposted by Ann KennedyDr. Or M. Bialik |📚|🔬|🌊|⚒️ @obialik.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Fish with electrical senses have unique brain cells specifically to process that information. The real trick they pull is separating the electricity they emit from the ones they sense. 🧪 Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-… 06015
Reposted by Ann Kennedyjonny (leachate composite form) @jo.nny.rip · 05/09/2026Behold the future of research code from the GPT-6 press release: a notebook that writes an accessory script by string concatenation and inspecting code in a notebook, evals the script in place, and then ignores it entirely to write a hardcoded summary. 2184
Reposted by Ann KennedyDrew Schreiner @schreinerdrew.bsky.social · 04/09/2026more evidence that neocortex and hippocampus are just there to act as cushions for the important bits 2252
Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Join me on Zoom tomorrow at 10am PST for a high-level talk on our hypothalamus work, plus a fun preview of our mouse behavior forecasting project. Talk title shamelessly stolen from the most badass Larry Swanson paper pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16254987/ luma.com/pfj56a5vluma.comAnn Kennedy | The anatomy of the soul: neural circuits for flexible and adaptive survival behaviors · Zoom · LumaForesight Institute’s Neurotech Group The anatomy of the soul: neural circuits for flexible and adaptive survival behaviors Abstract: The struggle for survival… 0191
Reposted by Ann KennedySonya Neal @neal-lab.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Come be my colleague!! 🎉 We’re hiring an Assistant Professor in Developmental Biology at UCSD! If you’re doing exciting work in development or regeneration, come join us!! Please spread the word and apply! apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04591apol-recruit.ucsd.eduAssistant Professor of Developmental BiologyUniversity of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now! 3150129
Reposted by Ann KennedyJAX Genomic Education @jaxeducation.bsky.social · 31/08/2026💡 Learn to design behavioral workflows, apply ML approaches to behavioral modeling, and connect behavior to neural and experimental manipulations. Register: www.jax.org/education-an... Organized by: @vivekdna.bsky.social @antihebbiann.bsky.social @gordonberman.bsky.social @goldenneuron.bsky.social 066
Reposted by Ann KennedyThe Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Check out episode one, where @gauteeinevoll.bsky.social talks with Tatjana Tchumatchenko about her group's mathematical model for exploring how neurons can save energy by optimizing whether proteins are made locally or distally. #TheoreticalNeurosciencePodcast www.thetransmitter.org/theoretical-...thetransmitter.orgHow energy determines where proteins are produced in neuronsTatjana Tchumatchenko explains how mathematical modeling elucidates whether ion-channel proteins are produced locally in the soma or in the dendrites. 072
Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 24/08/2026There's still time to apply for our Short Course on the Application of #MachineLearning for Automated Quantification of Behavior! Join us October 11 – 16 at #JAXBehavior for expert lectures, hands-on workshops, evening sessions & more: www.jax.org/education-an... #Neuroskyencejax.orgShort Course Machine Learning for Automated Quantification of BehaviorThis course covers fundamentals of quantitative behavior analysis, machine learning, and data science for neuroscience, genetics, and biomedical researchers. 064
Reposted by Ann KennedyI-270, Exit 1 @i270exit1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026This plan will make peer review less transparent and more confusing to applicants and program staff. Y'all killed it on the OMB proposal, you know what to do here. Comment deadline is October 13. 14145
Reposted by Ann KennedyChampalimaud Research @champalimaudr.bsky.social · 13/08/2026It's a wrap for this year’s Cajal Advanced Neuroscience Training Programme at @champalimaudf.bsky.social! 👥 We hosted the courses ‘Quantitative Approaches to Behavior and Virtual Reality’ and "The Brain Prize Course – Computational and Theoretical Neuroscience". 294
Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 09/08/2026AgRP neurons are fascinating. They get called "hunger" neurons, but this and work like the Krashes lab's suggest their activity is more like "motivation to forage". Finding food suppresses them; finding food that's far away/scary to access reduces suppression. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comToggling between food-seeking and self-preservation behaviors via hypothalamic response networksMotivated behaviors are often studied in isolation to assess labeled lines of neural connections underlying innate actions. However, in nature, multip… 1172
Reposted by Ann KennedyGrace @gracekind.net · 04/08/2026Today is the day from “There Will Come Soft Rains” users.wpi.edu/~zrbutzke/Docs/Bradbu… 49612
Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 28/07/2026New preprint led by @rgast.bsky.social- part 1 of Richard's ongoing effort to make a better firing rate model: developing mean-field models that can be fit to biological data to capture both the dynamics of neural populations and the underlying physiological heterogeneity that sculpt those dynamics. 1204
Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Happy Monday! Come learn how jellyfish swim. In a review led by fluid dynamics maestro Alex Hoover, we outline how neuromechanical modeling will help us understand how modulation of neural activity allows jellyfish to jet and pirouette through fluids www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 48224
Reposted by Ann KennedyIgor Adameyko @adameykolab.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Two tiny hydrozoan jellies talking to each other (Melicertum octocostatum, 5 mm). Kattegat, The North Sea. 17819
Reposted by Ann KennedyCoral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Push it (get up on this 😤😤) #whitegrunt #gruntfight #pushit #mouthoff #coralcitycamera 325749
Reposted by Ann KennedyDayu Lin @moccalin.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Happy summer! Share my short review on Oxytocin in Social Conflict. Full text link below. urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...urldefense.comOxytocin in social conflictNature Reviews Endocrinology - Although oxytocin is widely known as the ‘love hormone’, it is also released during social conflict, promoting acute social defence and facilitating... 062
Reposted by Ann KennedyThe Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Researchers turned a friendly mouse into a bully to study how the brain updates an animal’s emotions about a social interaction. #neuroskyence By @natmesanash.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/social-behav...thetransmitter.orgFriend to foe: How the brain updates feelings toward othersA specific pathway reassigns emotional valence to a known mouse, while the hippocampus’s own representation of that animal’s identity remains stable. 1249
Reposted by Ann KennedyScripps Research @scripps.edu · 07/07/2026We’re excited to welcome Joan Pulupa to Scripps Research as an assistant professor! Using smell-sensing neurons and advanced microscopy, including MINFLUX, Pulupa’s lab will explore how genome organization shapes brain cells and what it may reveal about neurodegenerative conditions.ow.lyJoan Pulupa joins Scripps Research faculty to study the organization of DNA in brain cells and its links to neurodegenerationUsing smell-sensing neurons and advanced microscopy, Pulupa’s lab will explore how genome organization affects brain cells, and what it may reveal about neurodegenerative conditions. 0101
Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Freeman Dyson writes about having Hans Bethe as a thesis advisor. Uncovering the nature of the universe is impressive and all, but being the platonic ideal of a mentor on top of that? Good lord 1192
Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 02/07/2026This is an extremely cool finding by our neighbors in the Ye lab: learning reduces the glucose consumption of neurons, even without changes in firing rates. Really want to try to model this! 1211
Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 02/07/2026a figure comparing the scale of two videos in our Kaggle dataset 030
Reposted by Ann KennedyYe Lab @liye-tsri.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Using in vivo glucose sensors in behaving mice, we asked: what is the neuronal fuel cost of performing a learned task? Key finding: After learning, the same task required less fuel, suggesting learning may not only improve performance—it may lower the energy cost of computation. 2/3 0133
Reposted by Ann KennedyYe Lab @liye-tsri.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Our new preprint is out!! The human brain runs on ~20 watts. Computers and modern AI systems require vastly higher energy. This gap raises a fundamental question: how does the brain compute so efficiently? In our new study, we take a critical step toward measuring and understanding this directly 1/3 56621
Reposted by Ann KennedyScott Rich, Ph.D. @richcompneuro.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Going to be in Nova Scotia for #CNS2026? Make sure you swing by the workshop I've organized with @rgast.bsky.social entitled "Neuronal heterogeneity's role in network dynamics and computation." The preliminary schedule and talk abstracts are now available! richlab.pnb.uconn.edu/cns2026/ 183
Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 26/06/2026And 11 months after getting our scores, an NOA has arrived!!! 2461
Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Cajal Behavior summer course presentation day! After 5 days of hard work, we'll see data from student-designed projects on grooming and freezing flies, RL-learning and foraging robots, human VR exploration, and closed-loop loom escape in fish. An amazing group :) 1121
Reposted by Ann KennedyGrantham Research Institute at LSE @granthamlse.bsky.social · 23/06/2026We regret that our event on Extreme Heat: Improving governance and strengthening action around the world has been cancelled due to the red extreme heat warning issued by the UK Met Office. Our apologies to everyone who was planning to attend the event. 7719981152
Reposted by Ann KennedyMatthew @mapoochoo.bsky.social · 07/06/2026The Met put its entire collection online for free so I made a game out of it! 10 artifacts a day, and you guess where and when each one's from. Anthropeum.com if anyone wants to give it a shot and leave feedback :) #history #archeology #arthistory #museums 841223601
Reposted by Ann KennedyMichael Baym @baym.lol · 11/06/2026I love being too dangerous for an AI to even talk to 1027334
Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Braitenberg Vehicle day with Hugo Marques at QABVR: wire light, touch, and distance sensors to a pair of motors, then tune the sensor gains and motor outputs to play follow the leader 3295
Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 03/06/2026In Montreal for ICMNS! Come hear me talk about neuronal heterogeneity on Friday. www.crmath.ca/en/activitie... 050
Reposted by Ann KennedyMartin Humphries @martinhumphries.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Hear, hear! Far too many paper titles now with "mapping", "profiling" and "landscape" in them. An abundance of data doesn't equate to a discovery. 1257