iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Karl Deisseroth @deisseroth.bsky.social · 4h

Thank you to everyone sharing in this moment! I’m so grateful to all my trainees & collaborators… dlab.stanford.edu/group-members (pic: Peter and I together in 2017) Reading for all those asking: for technical details: dlab.stanford.edu for everyone: deisseroth.org/projections

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Kayson Fakhar @kayson.bsky.social · 3h

I hope this year’s Nobel prize has the same effect on optogenetics and brain manipulation as it had on place and grid cells after the Mosers. I think we need a lot more of these type of research. We should be able to scale it to multiple sites at the same time. Let’s goooooooo the time is now.

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A HON is not strictly required by higher-order dynamics. Today, in this new #ComplexityThoughts we discuss how and whether it is the best scientific representation and under which conditions. This time we ask Newton and Kepler for some help. Read it here 👉 manlius.substack.com/p/when-is-a-...

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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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Çağrı Çevrim @cagricevrim.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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Ted Satterthwaite @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Check out this awesome work by @goliashf.bsky.social -- now out in PLOS Biology -- showing that development of intrinsic neural timescale aligns with the cortical hierarchy defined by the S-A axis in multiple datasets.

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Kayson Fakhar @kayson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Would be interesting to see how many hctsa features a classifier needs to accurately pick the correct underlying model actually 👀

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Kayson Fakhar @kayson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This collection is extremely useful for sure but I think this map specifically is a great reminder that very similar time series can arise from distinct mechanisms. Degeneracy is such a fascinating phenomenon and perhaps unfortunately for us, ubiquitous in nature.

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 30/09/2026

How do intrinsic timescales, which reflect the temporal window of neural processing, mature during development? This study by @goliashf.bsky.social @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social &co identifies a hierarchical trajectory, from sensorimotor to association cortices. 🧪 #NeuroSky plos.io/46RzqRG

Developmental patterns of intrinsic timescale.
(a) Average timescale increases during development in youth (b) Age effects quantified as partial R2 are depicted across the cortex, displaying a heterogeneous spatial distribution. (c) Age effects on intrinsic timescale were compared to the S–A axis, identifying a hierarchical pattern of developmental patterns in intrinsic timescale along the S–A axis. The results demonstrate that intrinsic timescale in association regions increases during development in youth while it remains relatively stable in sensorimotor regions.

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Roxana Zeraati @roxana-zeraati.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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

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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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Bratislav Misic @misicbata.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Spatial organization of AQP4 water channel expression in the human brain | doi.org/10.1126/scia... Aquaporins are a key component of the glymphatic system. How are they distributed + how do they relate to brain function and dysfunction? ⤵️

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Spatial organization of AQP4 water channel expression in the human brain

Aquaporin-4 (AQP4) water channels support the glymphatic system, a brain-wide pathway that clears cerebral waste products. Here, we use AQP4 gene expression to reconstruct a whole-brain glymphatic-rel...

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Arman Behrad @armanbehrad.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

How do internal states shape foraging, decisions, and adaptation in a changing world? 🧠🌍 @clairesturgill.bsky.social and I are organizing a #BernsteinConference satellite workshop bringing together lab and wild perspectives on adaptive behavior. Join us 😉

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Patrick Mineault @patrickmineault.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Are virtual flies playing Beat Saber? SM64? Doom? No. The new fly connectome is an incredible achievement! Less is going on in the sim videos than it seems. I'm stoked to see people engage with neuroscience though. My breakdown: www.neuroai.science/p/are-flies-...

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Are flies playing Beat Saber?

What a time to be alive!

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A while ago I started an interesting discussion with @pessoabrain.bsky.social about the role of networks in modeling and describing biological systems. It triggered a sequence of talks and papers, and it's still ongoing. Science at its best. My latest comment: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Kayson Fakhar @kayson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Well it’s clearly shit it I can also detect it.

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Kayson Fakhar @kayson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Hmmmmmm I wonder why is that. Probably that’s their watermark but in Claude’s case it’s so obvious that we can also distinguish it.

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Kayson Fakhar @kayson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

You see what I mean? I wasn’t sure if I just became sensitive or even paranoid or is this actually happening and AI text now has its own structure. Probably enough to form a separate cluster if you do some dimensionality reduction.

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Kayson Fakhar @kayson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Three points; No examples. The plot reveals itself. Read a sentence and you know it all…

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Kayson Fakhar @kayson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I don’t know how to say but what comes out of these models are not human-like. I watch some videos and even though the person is talking I feel the script is written by Claude. There’s some weirdness to it that gives it away immediately. The sentences are constructed differently whyyy

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Kayson Fakhar @kayson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I feel like over the past few months (even before the watermarking) AI models have degraded quite a lot when it comes to writing. It’s so much that I stopped using them to fix grammatical errors and all. Am I the only one? Claude specifically is the worst you can identify it in like 3 sentences.

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Marc L Seal @parkvillegeek.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Heterogeneity of Brain Dynamics in Genetic and Psychiatric Conditions | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Kayson Fakhar @kayson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

First person in my bloodline to read this combination of words “Slop Jihad”. I think it’s actually a perfect name for a post-rock band.

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Juan Gallego @juangallego.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Recommended reading for all neuroscientists (Also, Amen to this!)

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Kayson Fakhar @kayson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Solve causality. Let’s gooooo

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Kayson Fakhar @kayson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Yeaaaaaassssss congratulations 😍 🎉

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Kayson Fakhar @kayson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Precisely. That’s why we wrote this one: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Kayson Fakhar @kayson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Thanks, looking forward to hearing your thoughts 👀

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Kayson Fakhar @kayson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

🚨 8 months after, this paper found its home at Science Advances. We came up with a generative brain network model based on game theory and found that the human brain is suboptimal both in terms of wiring cost and communication efficiency. Here's why: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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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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Kayson Fakhar @kayson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Yesterday I got into the deep rabbit hole of Encephalitis Lethargica and now I feel like I’ve wasted my life (as Von Economo said) not knowing about the link between neuropsychiatric issues and infectious diseases. Like, how the hell a girl caught a flu and two days later took all her teeth out????

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Kayson Fakhar @kayson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

“Every psychologist who in the future attempts to deal with phenomena such as […] fundamentals of character and who is not acquainted with the observations on encephalitis patients will build on sand.” - Von Economo

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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Not sure how to visualise your connectome data? Check our latest led by @m-gajwani.bsky.social & C Adamson on NeuroMarvl: an open source web-based platform for visualising and sharing connectomes! Paper: tinyurl.com/2t7ftu9d Software: tinyurl.com/yrv3xja3 @nsb-lab.bsky.social

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Mehmet Mars Seven ♞ @mehmetmars7.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

🧵1/ How damaging is zero-sum thinking? Shaun Hargreaves Heap and I revisit the Nash vs maximin discussion We show that for every Nash equilibrium, there is a strategically equivalent game in which each player’s maximin strategy guarantees their Nash-equilibrium payoff

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Recurrence Plots @recurrence-plot.tk · 19/08/2026

"A synergetic perspective of analysing phase space dynamics: the crucial role of recurrence" – links Haken's synergetics with #recurrence_plot analysis, revealing order-chaos transitions in phase-space dynamics and ties to machine learning for predictive modelling. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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A synergetic perspective of analysing phase space dynamics: the crucial role of recurrence - The European Physical Journal Special Topics

Hermann Haken’s synergetics provides a fundamental theoretical framework for understanding the emergence of macroscopic order from microscopic interactions in complex dynamical systems. In this paper,...

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Liron Rozenkrantz @lironrozenkrantz.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

🔥🔥New paper alert! Super excited to share our paper, out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com, led by the wonderful Dr. Nofar Mizrachi! nature.com/articles/s41... To me, this finding fundamentally changes how we should think about the relationship between cognition and immune regulation:

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Voluntary attention regulates acute immune responses in humans - Nature Human Behaviour

Mizrachi et al. show that directing attention to bodily sensations, rather than away, promotes more regulated acute inflammatory responses in healthy volunteers, revealing sensory and vagal pathways l...

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Ida Momennejad @neuroai.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

📣Algorithmic Grammar of Flexible Cognition: A Walk through Latent Operations osf.io/preprints/ps... Flexible behavior moves adaptively btwn cognitive modes. But units of analysis remain representations & few operations. Proposal: formalize open-ended cognition as walk over latent operations 1/n

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Tony Zador @tonyzador.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

A companion piece to @kordinglab.bsky.social provocative "Could a neuroscientist understand a microprocessor? "

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Gregory Kohn @kohngregory.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

In the wake of Arday's death, Nathan Cofnas (who led the X mob against him) states his motivation. Beyond whistleblowing, he states that after a 'revolution' removes professors like Arday, it will open opportunities for him to become 'head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard'.

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