Sign in

Danyal Akarca

@danakarca.bsky.social
881 followers 169 following 21 posts

Neuro, AI, chips @ Imperial & Cambridge. www.danakarca.com

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Danyal Akarca
Balázs @mbalazs98.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Happy to share our preprint with @neworderofjamie.bsky.social , @danakarca.bsky.social and @drtnowotny.bsky.social ! We’ve been working on a neuron position learning algorithm by coupling space and time! See manuscript below 👇
1179
Reposted by Danyal Akarca
Kayson Fakhar @kayson.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
🚨new work with the dream team @danakarca.bsky.social @loopyluppi.bsky.social @fatemehhadaeghi.bsky.social @stuartoldham.bsky.social @duncanastle.bsky.social We use game theory and show the brain is not optimally wired for communication and there’s more to its story: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
56930
Reposted by Danyal Akarca
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
13712
Reposted by Danyal Akarca
Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 13/11/2025
Psst - neuromorphic folks. Did you know that you can solve the SHD dataset with 90% accuracy using only 22 kb of parameter memory by quantising weights and delays? Check out our preprint with @pengfei-sun.bsky.social and @danakarca.bsky.social, or read the TLDR below. 👇🤖🧠🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2510.27434
arxiv.org
Exploiting heterogeneous delays for efficient computation in low-bit neural networks
Neural networks rely on learning synaptic weights. However, this overlooks other neural parameters that can also be learned and may be utilized by the brain. One such parameter is the delay: the brain...
34416
Reposted by Danyal Akarca
Marcus Ghosh @marcusghosh.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
How does the structure of a neural circuit shape its function? @neuralreckoning.bsky.social & I explore this in our new preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🤖🧠🧪 🧵1/9
A diagram showing 128 neural network architectures.
711340
Reposted by Danyal Akarca
Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 25/07/2025
We're hiring,, of interest to people in spiking neural networks and neuromorphic particularly. See below. 👇 Note the deadline for applications is very soon! Apologies for this but various admin necessities made it unavoidable.
0167
Danyal Akarca @danakarca.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Hiring a post-doc at Imperial in EEE. Broad in scope + flexible on topics: neural networks & new AI accelerators from a HW/SW co-design perspective! w/ @neuralreckoning.bsky.social @achterbrain.bsky.social in Intelligent Systems and Networks group. Plz share! 🚀: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
imperial.ac.uk
Description
Please note that job descriptions are not exhaustive, and you may be asked to take on additional duties that align with the key responsibilities ment...
2148
Danyal Akarca @danakarca.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
We had an incredible gathering at UK Neural Computation 2025 @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social last week 🇬🇧 Macron missed out... Some of the UK’s very best at the frontier of comp neuro. Thanks to our sponsors ARIA + Crick & UKNC team: @markdhumphries.bsky.social + @neuralreckoning.bsky.social!
0235
Danyal Akarca @danakarca.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Tickets for UKNC25 @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social close tomorrow 5pm BST! Register here: neuralcomputation.uk/registration...
neuralcomputation.uk
Registration |
021
Reposted by Danyal Akarca
Danyal Akarca @danakarca.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Excited for the UK Neural Computation Conference 2025 @ Imperial, 9th - 11th July! 🚀 World leading scientists working in brain computation - from experimental to modelling, mathematics & ML (+ all combinations thereof). Registration closes 1st July! Plz share: neuralcomputation.uk
1126
Reposted by Danyal Akarca
Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 26/06/2025
Almost last call to register for UK neural computation conference in London July 10-11. Registration deadline is July 1st. We have some great talks and posters as well as a session on funding with ARIA. 🤖🧠🧪 Look forward to seeing you all there. Now click here 👇 neuralcomputation.uk
A cartoon-style illustration of a brain and a computer having a conversation. The brain has eyes and a mouth, and is animated to look like it's talking. It says, 'Have you heard about this comp neuro thing happening at Imperial College?'. The computer has a friendly face on its screen and is replying, 'Yeah it's going to be pretty hot'.
1169
Danyal Akarca @danakarca.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Excited for the UK Neural Computation Conference 2025 @ Imperial, 9th - 11th July! 🚀 World leading scientists working in brain computation - from experimental to modelling, mathematics & ML (+ all combinations thereof). Registration closes 1st July! Plz share: neuralcomputation.uk
1126
Reposted by Danyal Akarca
Gabriel Béna 🌻 @solarpunkgabs.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
We propose a novel framework that disentangles the concepts of “hardware” and “state” within the NCA. For us: - Rules = "Physics" dictating state transitions. - Hardware = Immutable + heterogeneous scaffold guiding the CA behaviour. - State = Dynamic physical & computational substrate.
Our framework performs matrix operations (translation, multiplication, rotation) through continuous cellular interactions evolving over time (from t=0 to t=60). Core mechanism: cells communicating only with neighbors, and interacting with a local fixed (but learned) heterogeneous substrate, are able to collectively solve mathematical tasks without explicit algorithms.
161
Danyal Akarca @danakarca.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Super awesome work by @solarpunkgabs.bsky.social - training neural cellular automata directly to solve tasks via matrix operations!
081
Danyal Akarca @danakarca.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Registration is open for UK Neural Computation 2025 10th/11th July! We are offering 8 conference fellowships to support attendance. ***Abstract submission deadline is 12th May!*** neuralcomputation.uk/submission.h... Register here: neuralcomputation.uk/registration... Any q's - get in touch!
neuralcomputation.uk
Submission |
045
Reposted by Danyal Akarca
Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 17/04/2025
Come along to the UK neural computation conference! Registration now open. Check out this awesome set of speakers, and even more importantly loads of opportunities to interact with your fellow computationally minded UK neuroscientists (including a mind matching session hopefully).
Speakers include Jennifer Bizley, Rafal Bogacz, Claudia Clopath, Jonathan Cornford, Paul Graham, Flavia Mancini, Simon Schultz, Petra Vertes and Petr Znamenskiy. ARIA will be hosting a session on developing grant proposals.
0153
Reposted by Danyal Akarca
Mark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Registration open for UK Neural Computation 2025 @Imperial neuralcomputation.uk/registration... ECR day: 9 July, ~30 free places Main meeting: 10-11 July Pls share! Sponsors @aria-research.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk Organisers: @danakarca.bsky.social @neuralreckoning.bsky.social & me
neuralcomputation.uk
Registration |
098
Danyal Akarca @danakarca.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Abstract submissions are now open for the UK Neural Computation Conference! (Deadline 12th May). We also have ARIA sponsored travel funds for ECRs! 💥 Submit here: neuralcomputation.uk/submission.html Genreal info: neuralcomputation.uk Registration open May. Any qs get in touch + plz share!
neuralcomputation.uk
Submission |
032
Reposted by Danyal Akarca
Mark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Abstract submission is open for UK Neural Computation 2025 @ Imperial College (9-11 July) neuralcomputation.uk/submission.h... Deadline: 12 May Please share All info: neuralcomputation.uk Sponsors: ARIA; Francis Crick Institute Organisers: @danakarca.bsky.social @neuralreckoning.bsky.social
neuralcomputation.uk
Submission |
11210
Reposted by Danyal Akarca
Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 20/02/2025
I wrote a thing for @thetransmitter.bsky.social. The attack on scientific infrastructure happening in the US shows that relying on any one country is not a good option for science. We need to start supporting and building international, decentralised infrastructure for science.
59336
Reposted by Danyal Akarca
UCL NeuroAI @ucl-neuroai.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
For our next UCL #NeuroAI online seminar, we are happy to be hosting Dr Dan Goodman @neuralreckoning.bsky.social (@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social). 🗓️Wed 12 Feb 2025 ⏰2-3pm GMT Talk title: Neural architectures: what are they good for anyway?
1298
Reposted by Danyal Akarca
Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
New preprint: "The geometry of the neural state space of decisions", work by Mauro Monsalve-Mercado, buff.ly/42wVHD5. Surprising results & predictions! (Thread) We analyze neuropixel population recordings in macaque area LIP during a reaction time, random-dot motion 1/
Picture of neural manifolds for the two choices in a decision-making task, depicted in 3D and in 2D
317367
Reposted by Danyal Akarca
Danyal Akarca @danakarca.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
We are hosting UKNC 2025 @ imperial! 💥 Fantastic set of speakers, see at neuralcomputation.uk Super exciting time to be working at the intersection of comp neuro/AI & applications. Save the dates: 9th July - ECR day 10th & 11th July - Main event Any questions get in touch! Plz share!
neuralcomputation.uk
UKNC25 |
01410
Danyal Akarca @danakarca.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
We are hosting UKNC 2025 @ imperial! 💥 Fantastic set of speakers, see at neuralcomputation.uk Super exciting time to be working at the intersection of comp neuro/AI & applications. Save the dates: 9th July - ECR day 10th & 11th July - Main event Any questions get in touch! Plz share!
neuralcomputation.uk
UKNC25 |
01410
Reposted by Danyal Akarca
Jascha Achterberg @achterbrain.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Rory @rory.bio is working on a large project to accelerate science 🧪 through high-quality & open-source software. To steer the project it would be amazing to hear from scientists across fields about problems in the scientific process *you* want to see solved! Tell Rory here flywhl-ideas.notion.site
flywhl-ideas.notion.site
Notion – The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.
A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team
1146
Reposted by Danyal Akarca
Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 28/11/2024
@danakarca.bsky.social and I are working on a remaster using modern techniques. 😉
111
Danyal Akarca @danakarca.bsky.social · 21/12/2023
We're just getting started discovering how biology constrains the emergence of intelligence & behaviour + leveraging this w/ AI. Spatially embedded neuromorphic networks nature.com/articles/s42... Thank you Bratislav Misic & Filip Milisav: covering mine and @achterbrain.bsky.social recent work!
nature.com
Spatially embedded neuromorphic networks - Nature Machine Intelligence
A framework for training artificial neural networks in physical space allows neuroscientists to build networks that look and function like real brains.
1156
Reposted by Danyal Akarca
Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
If the field of bio-learning rules leaves you confused as to what is and what is not actually "biologically plausible", we've got the tool here for you: A formalism to clarify what different learning algorithms actually mean when they say they're "local". #NeurIPS2023
1169
Reposted by Danyal Akarca
Jascha Achterberg @achterbrain.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
Two years ago @danakarca.bsky.social & I wondered: Could the features we observe in brains across species be caused by shared functional, structural & energetic constraints?🧠⚡️   With our spatially embedded RNN we show this is true!   www.nature.com/articles/s42... 🧵 #neuroscience #compneuro #NeuroAI
nature.com
Spatially embedded recurrent neural networks reveal widespread links between structural and function...
A fundamental question in neuroscience is what are the constraints that shape the structural and functional organization of the brain. By bringing biological cost constraints into the optimization pro...
23722
Danyal Akarca @danakarca.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
A reminder of these positons! Do share with talented students and colleagues - do get in touch if you have any questions.
000
Danyal Akarca @danakarca.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
We have x4 Postdoc positions @ Cambridge, @ the fantastic MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, working on exciting comp neuro, imaging and NeuroAI projects… w/ @duncanastle.bsky.social, Petra Vertes + others! Link here: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/43796/ If you have any questions, hmu! (Do plz share!)
12229
Reposted by Danyal Akarca
Siddharth Ramanan @sidramanan.bsky.social · 13/10/2023
hello world: excited to share our preprint on low-dimensional architectures of longitudinal graded phenotypic variation in Alzheimer's and frontotemporal lobar degeneration, linked through to pathology and survival. #endFTD W/ @danakarca.bsky.social & others www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
medrxiv.org
Mapping the multidimensional geometric landscape of graded phenotypic variation and progression in n...
medRxiv - The Preprint Server for Health Sciences
041
Reposted by Danyal Akarca
Duncan Astle @duncanastle.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
*New paper* W/ Sofia Carozza (not a twit) & @danakarca.bsky.social, in PNAS The adaptive stochasticity hypothesis shorturl.at/clz02 Bottom line: heightened stochasticity makes brains robust to random/targeted attacks, but more often results in non-normative phenotypes Mini thread below!
11815
Reposted by Danyal Akarca
Stuart Oldham @stuartoldham.bsky.social · 28/09/2023
Hello Bluesky/Twitter refugees! For my first post, I invite you to check out the latest work by @garedaba.bsky.social and myself where we look at thalamocortical gradients in human and mouse brains 🌈🧠🐭🌈 In short, we highlight evidence for a supra-nuclear axis of thalamocortical organisation
nature.com
A phylogenetically-conserved axis of thalamocortical connectivity in the human brain - Nature Commun...
The principles underpinning the projection patterns of the thalamus to the cortex are not well characterised. Here, the authors reveal a medial to lateral thalamic gradient of genetic and co...
0209
Danyal Akarca @danakarca.bsky.social · 26/09/2023
‼️Maths in the Brain 2023 ‼️ I’ll be speaking with some great scientists - my first time in Melbourne (23 Oct '23) 🦘 w/ @anilseth.bsky.social, @drbreaky.bsky.social, Ines Hipolito, Tao Tsuchiya, Reuben Rideaux & Nanda Ribeiro! Registration here, pls share!: www.eventbrite.com/e/workshop-2...
0146
Danyal Akarca @danakarca.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
I have two invites for BlueSky. What’s the best way to share them?
100
Reposted by Danyal Akarca
Jascha Achterberg @achterbrain.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
Interested in associative memory and hopfield networks? Join us for the AMHN workshop at Neurips, linking #neuroscience and machine learning . I am very excited to support the organisers as part of the program committee! General information: amhn.vizhub.ai Call for papers: amhn.vizhub.ai/cfp/
amhn.vizhub.ai
AMHN Workshop @NeurIPS 2023
Associative Memory & Hopfield Network Worshop @NeurIPS 2023. Discuss the latest multidisciplinary developments in Associative Memory and Hopfield Networks. Imagine new tools built around memory as com...
0103
Reposted by Danyal Akarca
Duncan Astle @duncanastle.bsky.social · 18/09/2023
Thrilled to announce that the MRC CBU is offering Cambridge's first Master’s in Cognitive Neuroscience. a An innovative course combining cutting-edge teaching & deep research experience in a cognitive neuroscience lab. www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/study-with-u...
mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
Master’s in Cognitive Neuroscience
0108
Reposted by Danyal Akarca
Jaan Aru @jaanaru.bsky.social · 15/09/2023
Our view on the feasibility of artificial consciousness. We approach the question mainly from the perspective of biology/neuroscience and conclude that we are still far from conscious machines. w @macshine.bsky.social #neuroscience #PsychSkySci #consciousness arxiv.org/abs/2306.00915
0219
Reposted by Danyal Akarca
Duncan Astle @duncanastle.bsky.social · 13/09/2023
V. excited by this in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, w/ Mark Johnson and @danakarca.bsky.social Can computational models tell us something fundamental about cognitive and brain development? We think so. We term it "computational neuroconstructivism". www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
sciencedirect.com
Toward computational neuroconstructivism: a framework for developmental systems neuroscience
Brain development is underpinned by complex interactions between neural assemblies, driving structural and functional change. This neuroconstructivism…
02214
Danyal Akarca @danakarca.bsky.social · 13/09/2023
Finally on my way down under! ✈️ 🇦🇺 Extremely excited (an understatement) to be visiting the @macshine.bsky.social group, working closely with @christopherjwhyte.bsky.social on biophysical generative models of spiking networks. A new chapter!
181
Reposted by Danyal Akarca
Christopher Whyte @christopherjwhyte.bsky.social · 21/08/2023
In lieu of an introductory post, I want to re-share our latest preprint which leverages a novel thalamocortical spiking neural network to bridge the gap between the cellular mechanisms of perception studied in rodents and the behavioural signatures of conscious perception studied in cog neuro.
biorxiv.org
A Biophysical Model of Visual Rivalry Links Cellular Mechanisms to Signatures of Conscious Perceptio...
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
31811
Reposted by Danyal Akarca
Jascha Achterberg @achterbrain.bsky.social · 28/08/2023
A key idea behind the brain's ability to flexibly compute is short-term plasticity! Beautifully reviewed by the late Mark Stokes: ‘Activity-silent’ working memory in prefrontal cortex: a dynamic coding framework www.cell.com/fulltext/S13... Great potential to influence ML methods! #neuroscience
cell.com
‘Activity-silent’ working memory in prefrontal cortex: a dynamic coding framework
There is little doubt that the PFC is important for WM [1]. Some of the earliest studies in nonhuman primates demonstrated that the structural [2] and functional [3] integrity of the PFC is necessary ...
0111
Danyal Akarca @danakarca.bsky.social · 31/08/2023
(Porting over some tweets!) Last week @achterbrain.bsky.social and I were at CCN in Oxford, discussing various projects in spatial-embedding in computational neural network models. Here is some recent work on weighted generative models of human connectivity!
031
Reposted by Danyal Akarca
Jascha Achterberg @achterbrain.bsky.social · 31/08/2023
The one and only danakarca.bsky.social arrived on Bluesky! Give him a follow for some seriously cool Computational Neuroscience work - specifically Dan has been pushing to bring theoretical approaches from Computational Neuroscience to be used in Developmental Neuroscience!
danakarca.bsky.social
Bluesky Social
See what's next.
122
Danyal Akarca @danakarca.bsky.social · 31/08/2023
Finally over to bluesky! I’m a computational neuro post-doc, working on neuro-AI and generative models in neuroscience. Looking forward to sharing more here 😎
0111
Reposted by Danyal Akarca
Jascha Achterberg @achterbrain.bsky.social · 31/08/2023
At CCN23, Jonathan Cornford presented a super cool new preprint: Synaptic Weight Distributions Depend on the Geometry of Plasticity arxiv.org/abs/2305.19394 Jointly lead with Roman Pogodin, they develop a theory of cost of weight changes. Work done in Blake Richards group at Mila. #neuroskyence
arxiv.org
Synaptic Weight Distributions Depend on the Geometry of Plasticity
Most learning algorithms in machine learning rely on gradient descent to adjust model parameters, and a growing literature in computational neuroscience leverages these ideas to study synaptic...
054