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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Come and see Karl and James discuss computational theories about the brain tonight in our seminar series! Link in comments below. @thoughtchannel.bsky.social

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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

It looks as though we are going to have a full house at neuroMONSTER this year! Last week we hit our full capacity. It's inspiring to see so many people fascinated by the mystery of the brain and the computations underlying intelligence. @thoughtchannel.bsky.social

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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

One day left to submit an abstract to our #Neuroscience and #AI conference in #Rome: www.neuromosnter.org We have been exceptionally fortunate to get this lineup of speakers, at the most fast-paced and interesting time in both of these fields. @thoughtchannel.bsky.social

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jcrwhittington.bsky.social @jcrwhittington.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

An amazing lineup spanning Neuro, Cog Sci, and AI. Held in a Roman villa with an ancient aqueduct through it! It’s a unique setting to understand the latest and greatest from the three disciplines of intelligence. Come!

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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Venue & Abstracts 7/7: The conference will be held in the Villa Wolkonsky, 10 minutes walk from the Colosseum. Abstract submissions and early bird registration are open.

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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Organizers 6/7: Dr Ruairidh Battleday Dr James Whittington (Oxford, thought_channel) Dr Giovanni Pezzulo (@GiovanniPezzulo)

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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Session chairs 5/7: Prof. Lucy Lai (UCSD; @drlucylai; CogSci) Prof. William Thompson (Berkeley; CogSci) Dr Chen Sun (DeepMind; @ChenSun92; AI) Dr Ivana Kajic (DeepMind; AI)

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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Session chairs 4/7: Dr Hannah Haberkern (Wuerzburg; TBC; Neural Data) Dr Kris Jensen (UCL; @@kristorpjensen.bsky.social; Neural Data) Jesseba Fernando (Northeastern; @jesseba.bsky.social; Neural Theory) Dr Sebastian Musslick (Osnabrück; @musslick; Neural Theory)

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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Speakers 3/7: Dr Andy Keller (Harvard) Will Dorrell (UCL) Dr Kiah Hardcastle (Harvard; TBC) Jin Hwa Lee (UCL)

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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Speakers 2/7: Dr Sophia Sanborn (Stanford) Dr Joel Lehman (Lila; TBC) Dr Blaise Agūera y Arcas (Google) Prof. Irina Rish (Mila & Montreal) Dr Asma Ghandeharioun (DeepMind) Dr Clare Lyle (DeepMind) Dr Felix Sosa (Stealth) Dr Zeb Kurth-Nelson (Independent)

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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Speakers 1/7: Prof. Tatiana Engel (Princeton; @engeltatiana.bsky.social) Prof. Xiao Jing Wang (NYU) Prof. Marcella Noorman (Chicago) Prof. Marius Pachitariu (Janelia; @marius10p.bsky.social) Prof. Gyorgy Buzsaki (NYU) Prof. Eric Schulz (Helmholtz Munich) Prof. Noah Goodman (Stanford)

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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

📢📢 Announcing this year's conference on the Mathematics of Neuroscience & AI (Rome, 9-12th June). We’ve got a stellar line-up and venue, and invite everyone to join: www.neuromonster.org

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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Last handful of seats left, if that tickles your fancy: www.neuromonster.org

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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Just checked into the main venue in Croatia, to start setting up for next week's conference on the Mathematics of #Neuroscience and #AI. Everything looking great!

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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Thanks a lot to our local partners University of Rijeka, CroAI (Croatian AI Association), and Fifth Quarter Ventures Come along and join us, present some work, or just enjoy the sun and talks! ✅ www.neuromonster.org

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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

🌊 I can't believe it's only 10 days away! Our 6th Conference on the Mathematics of #Neuroscience and #AI in #Split, #Croatia! The team has put together a quite unheard of line-up, with many of the original and emerging pioneers in these two influential disciplines.

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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

We hope that by offering the world leader's research perspectives on AI, as well as recent breakthroughs, we can contribute back to this vibrant community. Registration and abstract submission still open: www.neuromonster.org

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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

It's a great pleasure to announce @croai.bsky.social as our official local partner for this year's conference on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and AI in Split! CroAI have done a tremendous job collecting and cultivating the #AI community in #Croatia via talks, workshops, & global representation

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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Ida is an inspiration to many, and we’re truly honored to have her at the conference. Follow the link below to learn more, submit something, and come and join the fun: 🏝️ www.neuromonster.org @thoughtchannel.bsky.social

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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

This broad engagement reflects Ida’s truly multi-disciplinary background: Electrophysiology, Memory, and Navigation at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social, neuroscience at PNI, psychology at BCCN Berlin, philosophy of science at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social and software engineering at Tehran.

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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Their recent areas of focus include many of AI's frontier problems: #multimodal generative models, #collective innovation by groups of LLMs, human-AI #alignment (in games), and multiscale #memory!

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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Now let’s give a round of applause to @neuroai.bsky.social, who will give an eagerly awaited keynote talk at our upcoming conference on #neuroscience and #AI. Ida is Principle Researcher at @msftresearch.bsky.social, where they develop novel and innovative #generative AI algorithms!

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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

He continues to contribute, not only through provoking talks at conferences but also active research on deep learning at @stanfordhai.bsky.social and DeepMind. Come and join us to hear from Jay and many others in #Croatia this year:

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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

This was a catalyst for a decade of research and discovery in the computational aspects of intelligence, even bringing #shepherds down from the hills to study #AI. Over his storied career, Jay has supervised many great thinkers, including @saxelab.bsky.social and @annaschapiro.bsky.social...

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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Today we honor one of computational #neuroscience’s founding parents, Professor Jay McClelland. Jay, along with Rumelhart, and Hinton @nobelprize.bsky.social, is broadly thought to be responsible for ushering in the second wave of connectionism with their Parallel Distributed Processing book...

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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Come and join us to hear more! Submissions and registration are still open: www.neuromonster.org

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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Their work has appeared in The Atlantic, Quanta, Nautilus, and MIT Technology Review, and in 2019, they were named an MIT Tech Review Innovator Under 35. Kim will give a keynote talk on neural theory day of our upcoming conference on the Mathematics of #Neuroscience and #AI in Split, Croatia.

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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Kim completed their PhD at @princetonneuro.bsky.social under Matthew Botvinick, focusing on the computational role of predictive representations in the hippocampus. Since then she has published widely, on successor representations, physical simulations and graph NNs, symbolic models, and more!

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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

This afternoon’s focus is on @neurokim.bsky.social, research scientist at Google DeepMind and affiliate faculty at Columbia—someone that has done tremendously creative work applying computational thinking to both neuroscience and deep learning.

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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

🏆 We are thrilled to announce that @wolframresearch.bsky.social has just generously agreed to sponsor the student poster prizes at our Conference on the Mathematics of Neuroscience & AI in Croatia 🏝️ The top student submissions will receive a prize of a year of Wolfram|One Professional worth $1660

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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Come and join us to hear more! Submissions are still open: www.neuromonster.org

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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

His work on neural codes continues to be of great inspiration for work relating brain learning dynamics to higher cognitive functions, and we enjoyed his presence last year and look forward to hearing about the work since then!

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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

🎵 It’s a great pleasure to have the distinguished Prof Wolfgang Maass give the second keynote of our Neuro x AI conference. Prof Maass, at @tugraz.bsky.social, has been a driving force at the intersection of theoretical neuroscience, computational complexity, and machine learning.

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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Interested in hearing more? Come and join us! ✅ www.neuromonster.org

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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Along with Larry Abbott she developed the dynamic patch clamp, allowing an experimenter to test how different currents affected the dynamics of neuronal circuits, before scaling up enough further to give the first theory of neuronal homeostatic regulation.

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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Eve's work challenged the dogma that neural circuits were hardwired-that circuits could be understood solely by their connectivity and the excitatory or inhibitory neurotransmitters passed in between them. In fact, neuromodulators could reconfigure circuits to produce a range of different outputs.

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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

We’re most fortunate to have Professor Eve Marder, one of the great pioneers in systems neuroscience, give the opening keynote at our conference later this month in Split, Croatia. Recipient of both the @kavliprize.bsky.social and Brain prize, faculty @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social.

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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

💥 Over the next five days I’ll be posting about a set of early and emerging pioneers in #neuroscience and #AI research! With over 500,000 citations between them, their stories neatly track the intertwined development of two of the most influential fields for the 21st century. Link below:

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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Dr Kim Stachenfeld (@neurokim.bsky.social) Christine Constantinople (NYU) @kanakarajanphd.bsky.social .bsky.social (@kempnerinstitute.bsky.social) @neuroai.bsky.social (Microsoft) and one mystery keynote! Come and join the conference! 3/3

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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Talks, panels, spotlights, and posters on the most recent experimental and theoretical breakthroughs in #neuroscience and #AI, including talks from Jay McClelland (@stanfordhai.bsky.social), Eve Marder (@brandeisuniversity.bsky.social) Wolfgang Maass (Graz) Jakob Foerster (Oxford, Meta AI) 2/3

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