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Pouya Bashivan 🇮🇷🇨🇦

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Husband, dad, computational neuroscientist, @mcgillu.bsky.social and Mila

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Pouya Bashivan 🇮🇷🇨🇦 @bashivan.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Do you have any fun memories from past CCN conferences? Please share your experiences and any photos you have from previous CCNs! We are organizing an event for #CCN2026 to remember previous years.
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Shahab Bakhtiari @shahabbakht.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
🚀 PhD position in #NeuroAI & neurodevelopment 🚀 Co-supervised by Sarah Lippé and myself, to investigate visual processing & cognition abnormalities in children with neurodevelopmental disorders in a neuroAI framework. Full project details and how to apply here: tinyurl.com/kbuyntpn 🧠🤖 📈
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Kamila Maria Jozwik @kamilajozwik.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
postdoc and PhD positions in visual cognitive computational neuroscience in my lab at the University of Cambridge kamilajozwik.com/join_lab.html
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Kamila Jozwik - Join lab
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Pouya Bashivan 🇮🇷🇨🇦 @bashivan.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Our work on building world models from episodic memories is accepted to #ICLR26! Led by (then undergraduate, now masters student) @herbiehe.bsky.social Check out the tweeprint!
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Pouya Bashivan 🇮🇷🇨🇦 @bashivan.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Super proud of this work co-led by graduate students Ali Saheb Pasand and @johanoosterman.bsky.social and fantastic collaboration with Aaron Courville and @pcastr.bsky.social
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Pouya Bashivan 🇮🇷🇨🇦 @bashivan.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Very proud of this work by @motaharehpr.bsky.social ! Glad to see it accepted as a talk at #Cosyne2026 Tldr; training a neural net to search for objects in natural scenes made it not only behave like humans but also made it converge on similar computations and representations as primates!
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Yoshua Bengio @yoshuabengio.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Today we’re releasing the International AI Safety Report 2026: the most comprehensive evidence-based assessment of AI capabilities, emerging risks, and safety measures to date. 🧵 (1/19)
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Laura Gwilliams @lauragwilliams.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Soon hiring a lab manager! Looking for someone who is really interested in language neuroscience, who is organised, motivated, a great communicator, and who works well in a research team. Express interest by submitting this form: tinyurl.com/glysn-labman... Reposts appreciated!
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Pouya Bashivan 🇮🇷🇨🇦 @bashivan.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Submit your #NeuroAI papers to the full proceedings track of CCN! 8 page papers, ML conference style fast review turnaround
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Taylor Webb @taylorwwebb.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Very much looking forward to this series of workshops on the computational ingredients of reasoning. We have an amazing lineup of speakers from diverse backgrounds, and there will be lots of opportunities for discussion. Please consider attending!
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Pouya Bashivan 🇮🇷🇨🇦 @bashivan.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Interesting essay by Tim Dettmers. Although I don’t fully agree with all the predictions, the contrast between China and North America’s approach to practical AI will potentially be defining in years to come
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Pouya Bashivan 🇮🇷🇨🇦 @bashivan.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Great start at our cognitive benchmarking in large models session at #MontAIN2025 #MAIN2025
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Pouya Bashivan 🇮🇷🇨🇦 @bashivan.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Attending the Montreal AI and Neuroscience (MAIN) Conference this week? #MontAIN2025 We have put together some exciting educational workshops on cognitive benchmarking large models, RL and video games and dynamical systems! More info and registration here: main-educational.github.io/program/
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Program - MAIN educational 2025
Website of the educational workshop organized during the Montreal Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience Conference 2025
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Taylor Webb @taylorwwebb.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
For those attending the #CogInterp workshop at NeurIPS, please check out our work on visual symbolic mechanisms led by @rassouel.bsky.social and @thisisadax.bsky.social. We find that visual feature binding in VLMs is supported by emergent symbolic mechanisms.
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Pouya Bashivan 🇮🇷🇨🇦 @bashivan.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Great to see such efforts curating larger scale neuroimaging datasets! Really important for building foundation models for neuroscience!
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Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis @trackingactions.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Joint modelling of brain and behaviour dynamics with artificial intelligence www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Joint modelling of brain and behaviour dynamics with artificial intelligence - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Artificial intelligence is rapidly advancing our mechanistic understanding of the shared structure between the brain and higher-order behaviours. In this Review, Mathis and Mathis synthesize state-of-...
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CogCompNeuro @cogcompneuro.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
We are excited to announce that the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience meeting (CCN 2026) will be held at New York University from August 3–6, 2026. 2026.ccneuro.org
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Pouya Bashivan 🇮🇷🇨🇦 @bashivan.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
There’s a lot of debate about “superhuman AI” that might end it for us. All this made me think if that AI, presumably conscious-like, would build even better AI superseding itself? Specially if, it has been trained on these debates. If it choses not to, then it might become the smartest AI ever (?)
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Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
PSA for academics involved in designing admissions systems: Setting a specific time-of-day deadline is *ri*dic*ul*ous* and super annoying!!!! Do you really care if I submit this lettter at 6PM rather than 4PM? Were you planning on reviewing my letter that evening? Get real... #academia
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Pouya Bashivan 🇮🇷🇨🇦 @bashivan.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
VLMs are truly caught in the middle! We found that they are great at describing what they see AND great at reasoning from text. But, they fail to connect them without an explicit text bridge. Come talk to us about this and more at #Neurips2025
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Pouya Bashivan 🇮🇷🇨🇦 @bashivan.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
I still see much focus on single factor coding in studies of medial temporal cortex. Although our results in primate hippocampus indicates a more mixed code www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Spatially and non-spatially tuned hippocampal neurons are linear perceptual and nonlinear memory encoders
The hippocampus has long been regarded as a neural map of physical space, with its neurons categorized as spatially or non-spatially tuned according to their response selectivity. However, growing evi...
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Pouya Bashivan 🇮🇷🇨🇦 @bashivan.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Always!
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Shahab Bakhtiari @shahabbakht.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
I’m looking for interns to join our lab for a project on foundation models in neuroscience. Funded by @ivado.bsky.social and in collaboration with the IVADO regroupement 1 (AI and Neuroscience: ivado.ca/en/regroupem...). Interested? See the details in the comments. (1/3) 🧠🤖
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Pouya Bashivan 🇮🇷🇨🇦 @bashivan.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
The future of Canadian research
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a setwin service bus with people getting on it
ALT: a setwin service bus with people getting on it
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Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Great Blueprint from @arnaghosh.bsky.social on our newest paper on representational geometry! tl;dr: we find that during pretraining LLMs undergo consistent cycles of expansion/recuction in the dimensionality of their representations & these cycles correlate with the emergence of new capabilities.
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Pouya Bashivan 🇮🇷🇨🇦 @bashivan.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
This sounds like a foundation model for C elegans. Great idea in principle!
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Pouya Bashivan 🇮🇷🇨🇦 @bashivan.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Great opportunity to do a postdoc in Canada
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Pouya Bashivan 🇮🇷🇨🇦 @bashivan.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
For obvious reasons… congrats @yoshuabengio.bsky.social
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Pouya Bashivan 🇮🇷🇨🇦 @bashivan.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Despite the negative feelings about this, I sense some complementary metric like this that measures leadership vs collaboration would be very informative
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Shahab Bakhtiari @shahabbakht.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Excellent funding opportunity: $100k/year for two years for a postdoc position in Montreal. Apply if you're interested in joining Montreal's thriving #NeuroAI ecosystem.
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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 (thread 👇)
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Pouya Bashivan 🇮🇷🇨🇦 @bashivan.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Consider applying to Mila if you are interested in NeuroAI! There is a great line up of profs working in that area. P.s. I also have an opening for a PhD student in my lab for Fall 2026.
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Brokoslaw Laschowski @drlaschowski.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Come join us at University of Toronto. We're hiring a Professor of computational cognitive neuroscience. #neuroAI #compneuro jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
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Professor - Computational Cognitive Neuroscience
Professor - Computational Cognitive Neuroscience
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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
If you work on artificial or natural intelligence and are finishing your PhD, consider applying for a Kempner research fellowship at Harvard: kempnerinstitute.harvard.edu/kempner-inst...
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Kempner Research Fellowship - Kempner Institute
The Kempner brings leading, early-stage postdoctoral scientists to Harvard to work on projects that advance the fundamental understanding of intelligence.
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Taylor Webb @taylorwwebb.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
New position paper! We argue that symbolic and neural network models are not in opposition to each other, but occupy different levels of analysis, and also outline a new research agenda for better understanding the relationship between them. Please check out the paper / thread for more details!
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Pouya Bashivan 🇮🇷🇨🇦 @bashivan.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
We’ll be at CCN next week with two posters, one contributed talk and one satellite talk! If you are interested in neural coding in primate hippocampus, modeling visual search, or cortical topography come and talk to us! See👇for details:
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Pouya Bashivan 🇮🇷🇨🇦 @bashivan.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Went over the Centaur paper in lab meeting today. I got stuck on this plot, thinking initially the small difference between Llama and Centaur is bothering me. But the real issue hit me an hour later... Each layer's neural similarity is with the **whole** brain! No single layer is expected to sim 🧠
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Pouya Bashivan 🇮🇷🇨🇦 @bashivan.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Grant reviewer on my proposal for using DNNs to model working memory: “The ability to yield new information is very limited because WM circuits have already been abundantly specified in clinical and preclinical studies.” So, it’s entirely solved now, eh? How long did I sleep last night?
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Shahab Bakhtiari @shahabbakht.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Huge congratulations to @silicolabs.bsky.social on this achievement. Excited about this collaboration on visuomotor learning in VR. We also have some funding available for graduate students interested in doing research in this area. Reach out if you're interested. 🧠📈 🧠🤖 #VisionScience
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Pouya Bashivan 🇮🇷🇨🇦 @bashivan.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Self supervised learning of spatial representations from episodic memories. Led by undergraduate student in my lab. Very proud!
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Hannes Mehrer @CCN2026 @hannesmehrer.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Announcement: Workshop at #CCN2025 🧠 Modeling the Physical Brain: Spatial Organization & Biophysical Constraints 🗓️ Monday, Aug 11 | 🕦 11:30–18:00 CET | 📍 Room A2.07 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/CCN-physical... #NeuroAI @cogcompneuro.bsky.social
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Pouya Bashivan 🇮🇷🇨🇦 @bashivan.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
If you are at #ICLR2025 and interested in topographic neural networks, come by @amirozhan.bsky.social 's poster. See the info below!
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Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
A point of pride for me was publishing a paper with a meme as a graphical abstract in a journal that dates back to 1878: physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... This is apparently a #TopViewedArticle, so the achievement got the recognition it deserves! 😅 CC @kordinglab.bsky.social
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The study of plasticity has always been about gradients
Abstract figure legend This figure illustrates our central point in this paper using a well-known meme. That central point is that the physiological study of synaptic plasticity and learning has alwa...
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Save the CBC 🇨🇦✌️ @savethecbc.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Don’t let Poilievre crush your CBC crush! From Paul Gross to Peter Mansbridge, Catherine O’Hara to the Levys—CBC has brought us icons we’ve loved for decades. Lose CBC, lose the crushes. #SaveTheCBC #CBCrushed #OurVoiceOurCBC #CdnPoli #PublicBroadcasting
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University of Toronto @utoronto.ca · 27/03/2025
Renowned neuroscientist Melanie Woodin has been named #UofT’s 17th president — and asks the community to join in her in “dreaming big.” #UofT alumna Woodin starts her five-year term July 1st. ➡️ uoft.me/uoftpres17
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Pouya Bashivan 🇮🇷🇨🇦 @bashivan.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
At #COSYNE2025? Come by Motahareh's poster at 1pm [2-089] if you like to know about how cool her NN model of visual search is! Trained de novo on visual search, its fast, efficient, mimics human behaviour, and has a beautiful neural geometry.
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Pouya Bashivan 🇮🇷🇨🇦 @bashivan.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Check out our new paper on making deep networks topographical with a new variant of SOMs! Very proud of @amirozhan.bsky.social who did this work as an undergrad!
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COSYNE @cosynemeeting.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Recruiting phd/postdocs to mentor Undergrad Awardees!! This program brings UGs from across the 🌎 considering a career in neuro research Duties: meet students on 1st day, take them to a poster session, help them feel welcome. Apply: (very short!) form forms.gle/9hCniCA29ky5...
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Cosyne 2025 undergraduate mentor applications
The Cosyne Undergraduate Travel Grant, is a program that brings ~12 undergraduates from across the world to Cosyne. As part of the program, we aim to pair the students with a “conference mentor”, a P...
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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
If you are a neuroscientist, please use SFN's site to write to your reps about the importance of funding for science (they have letters ready to go, you can just use theirs or write/edit as you see fit): www.sfn.org/advocacy/adv...
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Healthy Brains, Healthy Lives @hbhlmcgill.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
🌟 Sign up for the Neurogenesis Speaker Series! Join us on Feb 5 at @theneuro.bsky.social for talks featuring two HBHL-supported faculty, @paulmasset.bsky.social & @bashivan.bsky.social, as they share their groundbreaking research in brain health at @mcgill.ca. 🎙️ 🔗 Register today: mcgill.ca/x/wHe
Neurogenesis event visual:
Speakers Paul Masset, PhD, and Pouya Bashivan, PhD
February 5, 2025, from 4:30-5:30 p.m. (with post-event reception)Headshot of Paul Masset and Pouya Bashivan
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