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RLDM @rldmparis2027.bsky.social · 21h

📣 Save the date! RLDM 2027, the Multi-disciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making, is coming to Paris, July 6-9, 2027 🎉 Stay tuned for submission deadlines and more updates on our website rldm.org 👀

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Lorenzo Posani @lorenzoposani.com · 18h

If you are at Bernstein, come by at poster 60 session IV (Wed 2pm), Charlotte will present our results on compositional and abstract representations of social stimuli in the monkey face patch system. Particularly proud of this as it’s the first poster from the first student of the lab 😊

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Phillip Isola @phillipisola.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Students sometimes ask me if it still makes sense, in this accelerating age, to pursue a PhD in AI. Perhaps counterintuitively, I think it's a great time to do so. I wrote up some thoughts on this here: web.mit.edu/phillipi/www...

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On the Value of Doing a PhD in the Age of AI

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Shervin Safavi @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We are thrilled 🥳 to share that we’re joining forces with @roxana-zeraati.bsky.social to establish a joint research unit, @cmc-unit.bsky.social integrating embodied and natural decision making across species! We also have open PhD and postdoc positions (check below for more info) 🎉

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Matthijs Pals @matthijspals.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What are the dynamics underlying sequence working memory? To found out, we develop and analyse RNNs fitted to multi-session single-unit data of macaques. See my talk Wed 12:00, at @bernsteinneuro.bsky.social. With @jakhmack.bsky.social @mackelab.bsky.social Data from Chen et al., Neuron 2024.

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Joao Barbosa @jbarbosa.org · 25/09/2026

I am sad to miss @bernsteinneuro.bsky.social conference this year, but please consider checking out the work from our lab and collaborations. We'll bring 7 posters, check the details below if interested and go say hi to the first authors! abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B...

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Maciej Kania @kaniamaciej.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Train your model on a task, or fit it to biological data? And once it's optimized, what does it tell us about the brain? 🧠 In our #BernsteinConference satellite workshop, we'll discuss these questions through the lenses of different optimization methods. Check it out in Room 3.104! 🤓😉

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I started researching ML before I built a synth, but you can get a great intuitive understanding of interaction within a generative system by building a modular analog synthesizer and watching how your components interact, and seeing what surprises emerge and what stays predictable as you scale up.

Steve Porcaro of "Toto" with a wall-sized modular synthesizer - basically a massive nest of tangled wires -- the Polyfusion 'Damius'. Photo by Jim Gardner - https://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesthephotographer/120916737/

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Sandra Romero Pinto @sromeropinto.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy to have this finally out! TL;DR: The evolution of beliefs over time can be formulated as a dynamical system, and OFC neural activity appears to implement this system with its own dynamics. These emerge without explicit supervision—when animals learn to predict value in simple Pavlovian tasks

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Guillaume Bellec @bellecguill.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I have a postdoc position open in my NeuroAi lab in Vienna 👌👾🧪🧠 And I will be at Bernstein (workshop only), please reach out if you are interested

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Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

1/ Conscious AI and Biological Naturalism. A long time in the making, but the full collection is *out now* in Behavioural and Brain Sciences I deeply thank all my many commentators for their wise, broad, and deep opinions on this critical topic.I also thank them for their saintly patience. 🙏🏽

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Nima Dehghani @neurovium.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

XJ Wang left ?!? What a loss for the US (and NYU) Everyday I get some news that a prominent scientist is leaving. The chaos of the science budget and downfall of the American science are spiralling down very fast. This is disheartening. www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

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World-renowned computational neuroscientist professor Xiao-Jing Wang joins HKU as Chair Professor

The University of Hong Kong (HKU) announces the appointment of Professor Xiao-Jing Wang, a pioneer in theoretical and computational neuroscience, to its faculty as a Chair Professor. Professor Wang wi...

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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Neuromatch Impact Scholars are smart, dedicated, motivated, and have also gone thru at least one of our courses! Mentoring them can lead to publications and other important outputs! Apply to mentor today -- fantastic opportunity!

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Tarryn Balsdon @tarrynbalsdon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The best thing about having to defend another thesis is the opportunity to feel grateful to all the people who have helped me along the way! Thank you for your advice, feedback, moral support, I hope to pay it forward

Picture of me and the final slide of my HDR defence - a long list of names of people who have helped me along the way

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COSYNE @cosynemeeting.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

📢Have work to share with the computational and systems neuroscience community? Abstract submissions for #COSYNE2027 are now open. Deadline: 18 October 2026, 11:59 p.m. AoE Submit your abstract: www.cosyne.org/abstracts-su... #Neuroscience

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Saints-Pères Paris Institute for the Neurosciences @sppin-cnrs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

@sppin-cnrs.bsky.social @cnrs.fr is organizing #NeuralNet2026 in Paris on Nov. 25–27 ! Join the 15th annual meeting of GDR NeuralNet @upcite.bsky.social , bringing together researchers working across systems neuroscience, neural data, computational modeling, NeuroAI & data science.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I feel so confident saying the native intelligence of this generation is not the problem. The looting & wholesale sabotage of their educational infrastructure is.

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Ali Shiravand @alishiravand.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Maybe the most practical democratic response to AI is to tax the economic value it creates and give that value back to people before human labor loses "too much" of its economic leverage.

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Matteo Carandini @carandinilab.net · 09/09/2026

If you thought "everything is everywhere" in the brain: inactivations reveal a clear distinction of labor. Sensory areas sense, colliculus promotes eligible actions (!), and prefrontal cortex integrates. The role of superior colliculus in a logistic decision www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 08/09/2026

lab-sniping (v): * want problem Z solved? * tweet about how you are kinda making progress on Z using Lab A's model * wait for Lab B to freak out and throw 10,000 agents at it * problem Z solved!

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Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

1/2 Why AI is unlikely to become conscious – my 2026 TED talk is now online. What do you think about the prospects for 'conscious AI'? www.ted.com/talks/anil_s...

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Ignacio Saez, PhD @ignaciosaezphd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

📣 We're hiring! The Saez Lab at Mount Sinai is seeking a postdoctoral researcher with experience in intracranial recordings, electrophysiology, BCIs, mood disorders, and/or computational modeling, to explore the neural basis of human cognition. 🗓️ Apply by September 30, 2026. Please share widely!

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Joao Barbosa @jbarbosa.org · 04/09/2026

Looking for a (neuroscience) PI position in France? You still have time to do it this year, but you need to act fast. If you have no idea how to do it, start by reading this! l1nk.dev/hk1mx6e 1/

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"*you* will get kicked out of the university if you commit fraud, but a professor won't"

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Princeton Neuroscience Institute @princetonneuro.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

We're hiring! PNI is recruiting an assistant professor of neuroscience working with non-human primates in any area. Review begins Oct 19: apply.interfolio.com/192521 #NeuroJobs #Neuroskyence

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Maxime Maheu @maheump.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Thrilled to share we've been awarded an ERC Starting Grant! We'll work across mice and humans to ask how the brain decides which evidence to trust. Thank you @erc.europa.eu, the panel, and everyone who helped train me. Hiring from September 2027 — maheulab.org/openings #ERCStG

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Openings · Maheu Lab

Research group at NeuroPSI (CNRS / Université Paris-Saclay) studying the circuit mechanisms and brain computations supporting cognition in humans and rodents.

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Laura Dugué @lauradugue.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The french network on computational neuroscience, #RTNeuroComp, had its first conference today! 2 great keynotes by Nancy Kopell & @timkietzmann.bsky.social. 4 round tables to discuss the current research challenges in computational neuroscience and the contour of the discipline + many posters.

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Joao Barbosa @jbarbosa.org · 03/09/2026

I can finally tell the world that i was selected for an ERC stg 🤯 Maybe this what people mean when they say they are "humbled by" but I am at peak imposter syndrome, and I really mean it: 1/

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

In this episode of @braininspired.bsky.social, @dlevenstein.bsky.social explains how internally generated brain activity during sleep shapes our cognition, and why NeuroAI is such a powerful approach to understanding our brains. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspir...

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What’s the role of spontaneous neural activity during sleep?

Daniel Levenstein explains how internally generated brain activity during sleep shapes our cognition, and why NeuroAI is such a powerful approach.

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Tal Golan @talgolanneuro.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

How can we design experiments that make computational models disagree? One section of our new @natrevneuro.nature.com Review with @kriegeskorte.bsky.social and @heikoschuett.bsky.social examines studies that used stimulus sets designed to elicit distinct predictions from competing models. 1/16

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Joao Barbosa @jbarbosa.org · 24/08/2026

Happy to see this out! @mtschiersch.bsky.social shows PFC hemispheres can flexiblely switch between two different WM storage strategies: redundant vs specialized storage systems👇🏻

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Nikolas Karalis @nikolaskaralis.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Last week to apply for the Neuromodulation of Neuronal Circuits Conference & Workshop! Sept. 14 - 17, 2026, Paris Brain Institute Before the conference, we are hosting a two-day theoretical and hands-on workshop for selected early career researchers. Deadline: September 1 www.paris-circuits.eu

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Patrick Mineault @patrickmineault.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

How has neuroscience changed in the past 10 years? I reread The Future of the Brain, a 2014 compilation of essays from neuroscientists, to see if we accomplished what we said we would. Atlases! Connectomes! Whole brain simulations! TL;DR: we did pretty well! www.neuroai.science/p/the-future...

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The Future of the Brain, past and present

Reflecting on a decade of neuroscience advancements

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Tim Kietzmann @timkietzmann.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

📢 We are hiring a full professor in "Intelligence in Biological and Artificial Systems". Come join us at Germany's first and largest cognitive science program. Please share far and wide, and get in touch with any questions. www.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/universit...

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129 FB 8 W3 Professorship Intelligence in Biological and Artificial Systems, Institute of Cognitive Science: Uni Osnabrück

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Lucas Gil Nadolskis @lnadolskis.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I've been blind since I was five. My job: building the brain implants that could one day restore my own sight. Engineer and end-user, same person. I post about bionic vision, doing science with a screen reader, and tech that includes us — or doesn't. More: braillemind.com

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Dan Levenstein @dlevenstein.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Yale Neuroscience is hiring another computational neuroscience position this year! Please share with anyone who might be interested, and feel free to reach out if you have any questions about the position, or growing neuro-AI community at Yale/WTI!

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Rosanne Rademaker @rademaker.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

If you’re a PI who’s written documentation about values, expectations, or practicalities of your lab AND you don’t mind this being referenced in an upcoming article (with Christine Pfund and @weijima.bsky.social), I would ❤️ it if you shared your 📄 with us. Thanks!

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Being able to record from large neuron populations has led to myriad methods to compare them, writes @itsneuronal.bsky.social. But we still grapple with how to convert measures of likeness into better mechanistic understanding. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/neural-dynam...

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Mind over metrics: How can we tell if two brains (or AI models) are alike?

The ability to record from large populations of neurons has triggered the development of myriad methods for comparing them. But we’re still grappling with how to convert measures of likeness into a…

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Dan Levenstein @dlevenstein.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Super excited to be teaching a lecture on computational models of memory at this @neurosas.bsky.social course this Fall. It's not too late to apply to join us in Venice!

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Alireza Modirshanechi @modirshanechi.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Excited to share that I'll be starting as a junior professor and Emmy Noether awardee at the University of Göttingen this October! 🥳 🚀 I'll be hiring #phd students and #postdoc across #machinelearning, #neuroscience and #cogsci: modirlab.github.io/open-positio... Please spread the word! 🙏

Information about Göttingen and equal opportunities

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Joao Barbosa @jbarbosa.org · 13/08/2026

Wtf is working memory extremely limited and long term memory virtually infinite, despite the belief that the network mechanisms of either memories are essentially the same (ie attractors)

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Dan Levenstein @dlevenstein.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

If you’re interested to do an interdisciplinary co-mentored, field transition, or open ended theory/computation postdoc at WTI, please get in touch!

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

"The central challenge is no longer building models that reproduce biological behavior, but building models from which causal structure can be inferred." Very sensible paper about not just throwing everything into your simulation or model. arxiv.org/abs/2608.06998

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Simulating is not always understanding: When model complexity obscures biology

In cell biology, computational models of biological systems range from minimal representations with a handful of parameters to whole-cell simulations tracking thousands of molecular species across a c...

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