danilobzdok @danilobzdok.bsky.social · 16/06/2026www.cbc.ca/news/politic...cbc.caConservatives pitch legalizing some psychedelics with bill to revamp Canada's drug laws | CBC NewsConservative MP Corey Tochor introduced legislation on Tuesday to legalize prescribing psychedelics like psilocybin, which researchers and patients say can effectively treat some mental health disorde... 040
danilobzdok @danilobzdok.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Canada is taking important steps to legalize #psychedelic #drugs for broader treatment of mental health. 151
danilobzdok @danilobzdok.bsky.social · 11/06/2026www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comDanilo BzdokIn this interview with Neuron, Danilo Bzdok argues that artificial intelligence and big data herald a paradigm shift in neuroscience. Leveraging large… 020
danilobzdok @danilobzdok.bsky.social · 11/06/2026In this Neuron interview, I share my latest thoughts on #AI in #neuroscience. Let me know what you think. 160
Reposted by danilobzdokThomas Yeo @bttyeo.bsky.social · 21/05/2026In a meta-analysis of 210 biomedical AI studies that statistically compared models under cross-validation, 97% used invalid statistical tests. Here's our new preprint doi.org/10.64898/202... led by @tianchu.bsky.social @hetuli.bsky.social @shaoshiz.bsky.social @nichols.bsky.social 1/N 412159
Reposted by danilobzdokNature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 07/04/2026A paper in Nature Medicine reports insights into how the human brain reacts to different types of psychedelic drugs. These psychedelics appear to change how key networks in the brain connect, including those involved in higher-level thinking, sight and movement. go.nature.com/4mhgse6 #medsky 🧪 0267
Reposted by danilobzdokJohns Hopkins Psychedelic Research Center @jhpsychedelics.bsky.social · 08/04/2026How do psychedelics alter brain activity? 🍄✨ A landmark study published this week in @NatureMedicine by CPCR researchers @FredBarrettPhD, @winstonian3 and a global team of collaborators analyzes the largest human psychedelic fMRI dataset to-date. 162
Reposted by danilobzdokMila - Institut québécois d'IA @mila-quebec.bsky.social · 07/04/2026How do psychedelics work? AI gives us a glimpse. @danilobzdok.bsky.social and his international team just published the world’s largest study on psychedelics in Nature Medicine, using AI algorithms to analyze 500 brain scans (10 times more than previous efforts).mila.quebecMila’s AI drives world’s largest study on psychedelics | MilaMila researcher, Danilo Bzdok, published a paper in Nature Medecine, found that psilocybin, LSD, mescaline, DMT and ayahuasca all act in a similar way: they flatten functional hierarchies and allow is... 031
Reposted by danilobzdokdanilobzdok @danilobzdok.bsky.social · 29/12/2025Chronotypes of people - natural early risers versus born night owls - could be as big as personality types: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 045
danilobzdok @danilobzdok.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Looks like people love to talk about #chronotype! 2000+ likes and close to 100 comments in <24 hours. www.reddit.com/r/science/co...reddit.comFrom the science community on Reddit: Night owl or early bird: Study finds sleep categories aren’t that simple. Scientists identify 5 biological sleep-wake profiles (2 early birds, 3 night owl groups)...Explore this post and more from the science community 000
danilobzdok @danilobzdok.bsky.social · 29/12/2025Chronotypes of people - natural early risers versus born night owls - could be as big as personality types: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 045
danilobzdok @danilobzdok.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Our paper at #NeurIPS 2025: 1) Pre-trained transformer models impose semantic structure on inputs. 2) More skewing of transformer processing as input uncertainty increases. 3) Spurious concept activations can predict hallucinations. arxiv.org/pdf/2509.069... #large #language #models + #safety 050
danilobzdok @danilobzdok.bsky.social · 28/07/2025📢 job opening: software developer at Mila Quebec AI Institute & McGill As of now, my team is looking to hire a new technical staff member with abackground in a STEM area for running and curating existing AI analysis pipelines, as well as designing GUIs around them. Please DM or email me, with CV 044
Reposted by danilobzdokThomas Yeo @bttyeo.bsky.social · 17/07/20251/11 Excited to share our @Naturestudy led by @leonooi.bsky.social @csabaorban.bsky.social @shaoshiz.bsky.social AI performance is known to scale with logarithm of sample size (Kaplan 2020), but in many domains, sample size can be # participants or # measurements... doi.org/10.1038/s415... 317182
danilobzdok @danilobzdok.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Our Nature paper on the hashtag#scaling hashtag#behavior and economics of hashtag#machine hashtag#learning predictions in high-dimensional brain scans is out ! Congrats to the whole team. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1153
danilobzdok @danilobzdok.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Looking forward to speak at Yale University next friday. impact-mh.org/event/impact... 050
danilobzdok @danilobzdok.bsky.social · 28/05/2025I am impressed by this book I am currently reading: Kissinger's posthumous work on: -strong anthropological views on the current AI evolution -modes in which #AI could take space as a physical and intellectual actor -how modes of decision making of humans and machines can coalesce and completment 010
danilobzdok @danilobzdok.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Great opportunity to get generous postdoc funding to work at a Canadian university 010
danilobzdok @danilobzdok.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Big congrats to our former postdoc Andrea @andrealuppi.bsky.social for earning the Brain Star Award for his work ! can-acn.org/brain-star-a... 160
Reposted by danilobzdokNature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com · 17/04/2025Using multi-modal data from the UK Biobank, Zhou et al. delineate the phenotyping and brain basis of early risers and night owls at a population scale, showing links to habit formation and emotional regulation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comMultimodal population study reveals the neurobiological underpinnings of chronotype - Nature Human BehaviourCapitalizing on multimodel data from the UK Biobank, Bzdok and colleagues delineate the deep phenotyping and brain basis of early risers and night owls at a population scale, showing links to habit fo... 041
danilobzdok @danilobzdok.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Everything you always wanted to know about how #night #owls and #early #risers are different. Out today ! www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/eh8ix @pessoabrain.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social @sfn.org @nature.com @mcgilluniversity.bsky.socialnature.comMultimodal population study reveals the neurobiological underpinnings of chronotype - Nature Human BehaviourCapitalizing on multimodel data from the UK Biobank, Bzdok and colleagues delineate the deep phenotyping and brain basis of early risers and night owls at a population scale, showing links to habit fo... 040
danilobzdok @danilobzdok.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Just finished my slides for World AI Summit Headliner talk this week. 030
Reposted by danilobzdokLucina Uddin @lucinauddin.bsky.social · 31/03/2025FYI, if you want to be prepared to apply for the next ABCD Study data release, prepare for these new NIST security requirements 🧠: @ohbmofficial.bsky.social abcdstudy.org/scientists/d...abcdstudy.orgData Sharing - ABCD Study 14528
Reposted by danilobzdokUniversité de Montréal - News @umontreal-en.bsky.social · 26/03/2025#AUTISM “A data-driven revision of criteria ... grounded on clinical certainty, would complement what has historically been done by expert panels and ... humans, who can be wrong." @danilobzdok.bsky.social @mila-quebec.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social #AI nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2...nouvelles.umontreal.caUsing LLMs to understand how autism gets diagnosedIn a study that used large language models to analyze healthcare records of Quebec francophone children, scientists argue that current criteria for diagnosing autism are in need of revision. 021
danilobzdok @danilobzdok.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Jack Stanley shows how to tailor #LLMs for single-sentence prediction in #autism: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... Great collabo with Eugene Belilovsky + Siva Reddy from @mila-quebec.bsky.social, and Laurent Mottron + Emmett Rabot 021
Reposted by danilobzdokCell Press @cellpress.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Trained language model finds repetitive behaviors and special interests are more indicative of an autism diagnosis than a lack of social skills. www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-86… @mila-quebec.bsky.social @Danilo Bzdo 164
Reposted by danilobzdokMila - Institut québécois d'IA @mila-quebec.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Mila researchers Jack Stanley and Danilo Bzdok published a paper in the journal @cellpress.bsky.social. Their work uses LLMs to analyse data from written reports by medical professionals in order to better understand and improve how autism diagnosis is performed. mila.quebec/en/article/u...youtu.beUsing LLMs to better understand autism diagnosisYouTube video by Mila - Institut québécois d'IA 031
Reposted by danilobzdokJakub Kopal @jakubkopal.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Understanding #Parkinsons subtypes is key to more targeted RCTs & better therapeutics! 🧠 Our new study finds that LRRK2 PD patients show milder cortical atrophy, with preserved temporal & occipital regions compared to sporadic PD. #LRRK2 #dataviz www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 163
danilobzdok @danilobzdok.bsky.social · 10/03/2025@oprah-winfrey.bsky.social and @michaelpollan.bsky.social make unmistakably clear: there is widespread interest in #psychedelics >1M views in less than a week, bravo ! 000
Reposted by danilobzdokSurya Ganguli @suryaganguli.bsky.social · 07/03/2025My talk on “Neuroscience and AI: a symbiosis” @SimonsInstitute I start with a whirlwind history of metaphors for intelligence, spanning Hippocratic hydraulics, Hobbesian clocks, Cartesian dualism to Turing, telegraphs, Hopfield, and deep learning. simons.berkeley.edu/talks/surya-...simons.berkeley.eduNeuroscience and AI: a symbiosisAbstract not available. 0306
danilobzdok @danilobzdok.bsky.social · 06/02/2025@evfedorenko.bsky.social at Berkley LLM workshop gave insightful talk today: -Broca / Wernicke s are speech areas, not language areas per se -language networks similar across 50 languages -most language voxel are INsensitive to semantics -lesion studies suggest thought intact but speech impaired 3121
danilobzdok @danilobzdok.bsky.social · 03/02/2025@suryaganguli.bsky.social gives great talk at LLM workshop at Berkley -LLM<->brain is still a new topic, less progress so far than LLM<->vision -lets train LLM foundation models of specific brain systems and then reverse engineer them -emerging paradigm: read-write experiments in brains+machines 0165
danilobzdok @danilobzdok.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Now accepted at Nature Computational Science: Nicole shows how #Bayesian #hierarchical #models can explicitly model major #source of #population #stratification in 10,000 ABCD subjects. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... 0182
danilobzdok @danilobzdok.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Will be in San Francisco beginning february for the @IVADO_Qc workshop on large language models and #transformers at Berkley’s Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing. simons.berkeley.edu/programs/spe... Please DM if you want to chat.simons.berkeley.eduSpecial Year on Large Language Models and Transformers, Part 2This is the second part in a special year-long program on large language models and transformers that spans the 2024–2025 academic year. This program's overarching goal is to try to understand the ong... 0173