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Keiland Cooper

@kwcooper.bsky.social
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Scientist @ UC Irvine; Studying brains, minds, machines and how they learn, remember, and make decisions. kwcooper.xyz

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Keiland Cooper @kwcooper.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Thanks!!!
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Keiland Cooper @kwcooper.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Really enjoy your posts! Any recommendations for camera equipment for folks who want to get started?
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Keiland Cooper @kwcooper.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Which video?
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Keiland Cooper @kwcooper.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Couldn't make a wedding github pages page? 😂
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Keiland Cooper @kwcooper.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Thanks! And of course; if you're thinking about the Macy conference era and beyond, the text seems closely aligned with my interests. And since I have your attention, I really can't believe the title wasn't taken already! It's perfect!
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Keiland Cooper @kwcooper.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Wait, so what did they end up deciding?
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sharonmnoh.bsky.social @sharonmnoh.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
New paper! Multistep inference across the human lifespan can be improved with individualized memory interventions, with co-first @kwcooper.bsky.social @lovecrabmeat.bsky.social @dalezhou.bsky.social, Craig Stark, and @aaronbornstein.bsky.social (🧵): academic.oup.com/psychsocgero...
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MyPet Health by Vetcation @vetcation.com · 20/05/2026
Wow, this is peak bird intelligence. These birds saw someone feeding a wounded bird, so they started pretending they were also injured.
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Keiland Cooper @kwcooper.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Thank you Norbert! It wouldn't even exist without you!
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norbert-fortin.bsky.social @norbert-fortin.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
A massive thank you and congratulations to you, Keiland, for leading this humongous project. We hope this review paper is a fun and useful read to those interested in data analysis of neural activity data.
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Keiland Cooper @kwcooper.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
www.today.com/news/cheetah...
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Cheetah mauling victim says she ‘assumed risk’
Just days after biting Florida conservation center owner Judy Berens on the arms, legs and neck, two cheetahs at a Florida conservation center were back to licking the hands that feed them. And the ow...
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Keiland Cooper @kwcooper.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Importantly, we must balance such massive scale in data, and the benefits of recording large neural yields with strong hypotheses, models, and rigorous statistical approaches to ensure we aren’t just "data-rich" but gaining knowledge.
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Keiland Cooper @kwcooper.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
What’s next? We outline a future defined by "big science" collaborations inspired by fields like Astronomy. We’re approaching terabyte-scale data, and will see more multimodal datasets. We envision a "team science" approach as the path forward.
A plot that illustrates the increasing scale of neural recording yield, which has been proposed to double roughly every 7 years.
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Keiland Cooper @kwcooper.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Today, we’ve moved from single neurons to the ensemble era. Researchers need to bridge brain-activity and behavior by interpreting activity from thousands of neurons simultaneously by leveraging spike sorting, dimensionality reduction, machine learning, and neural decoding.
An illustration of systems neuroscience recording methods and analysis techniques: tetrode hyperdrives, silicon probes, and optical imaging.
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Keiland Cooper @kwcooper.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Early work was often bottlenecked by analysis: E.g., in the 1930s, Fourier transforms were painstakingly calculated by hand until mechanical "automated" devices were invented. This history shows that analytical tools often lag behind recording tech, a gap we’re still facing
A visual schematic of an EEG "analyzing-system", from Grass and Gibbs, which shows a mechanical device to calculate the Fourier transform.
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Keiland Cooper @kwcooper.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
From mechanical gears in the 1930s to deep learning in the 2020s, the way we study the brain has been a race between technology and analysis. How do we close the gap? Our new paper, doi.org/10.1080/2694... traces this journey, offers resources, and notes a plan for the future.
A screenshot of a new scientific paper by Keiland Cooper, Babak Shahbaba, Norbert Fortin, titled Neurodatascience: Past, Present, and Future.
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Keiland Cooper @kwcooper.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
That's awesome! Maybe fabric posters have downsides after all...
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Keiland Cooper @kwcooper.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Can't comment on the model without knowing the details, but seems like you're on the right track with some exciting data. Just be sure to be skeptical. Ya know, doctors notes on x-ray training data and all.
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Keiland Cooper @kwcooper.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Yeah, looks a lot cleaner, no? When / if you write it up, just be sure to discuss how you computed chance. There is more than one way to do so.
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Keiland Cooper @kwcooper.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Depends on the rubric
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Keiland Cooper @kwcooper.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
LLM hype aside, this is a fair point. 50% accuracy is chance for two classes, but say you have a multinomial classifier with 4 equal classes, chance can fall to 25%. Never hurts to draw a thin plt.axhline across the plot to indicate where the chance level is to mitigate such misinterpretations.
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Keiland Cooper @kwcooper.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I agree. But to answer your question, persistently malleable memories may come at the cost of noise and intererence. In fact, there's pretty good evidence that that's what happens, no?
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Keiland Cooper @kwcooper.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Maybe different animals, but perhaps philosophy asks questions we just don't have the tools to empirically study yet 😉
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Keiland Cooper @kwcooper.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I see. Interesting take and thank you for the reference. I'll take a look.
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Keiland Cooper @kwcooper.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
And in your view, you don't see knowledge as a form of truth? (justified true belief, etc. Or if Truth is ultimately metaphysical, the only attainable form of truth we could hope for?)
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Keiland Cooper @kwcooper.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I'd be really surprised if the answer doesn't involve the enterprise of science in some form or another... How could it not?
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Keiland Cooper @kwcooper.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Congratulations to all the #Artemis team at #NASA!
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Keiland Cooper @kwcooper.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Good arguments, but then where does 'truth' derive from?
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sharonmnoh.bsky.social @sharonmnoh.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
New paper! Out now in Neuropsychologia: “Sparsity and memory constraints interact with training sequence to bias learning of associative maps” with @dalezhou.bsky.social*, @kwcooper.bsky.social, @lovecrabmeat.bsky.social, and @aaronbornstein.bsky.social. authors.elsevier.com/a/1mipv6TBG9... 🧵:
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Keiland Cooper @kwcooper.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
@dieworkwear.bsky.social
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Keiland Cooper @kwcooper.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... Same idea... 1/n scaling in v1 from 10k units
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High-dimensional geometry of population responses in visual cortex
A neuronal population encodes information most efficiently when its stimulus responses are high-dimensional and uncorrelated, and most robustly when they are correlated and lower-dimensional. Here, we analyzed the dimensionality of the encoding of ...
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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 04/11/2025
You know what's urgently needed? Basic software. Reliable database systems, accessible interfaces, privacy oriented design. It's super mundane stuff like asking, "how can software make your life better", not telling people "this is how software is going to solve all your problems." Because it won't.
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Keiland Cooper @kwcooper.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Congratulations!!!
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Keiland Cooper @kwcooper.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Indeed, that has been their strategy for some time... www.heritage.org/education/ev... www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/p... christopherrufo.com/p/how-trump-... and sadly, many many more...
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Reclaiming the Culture of American Higher Education
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Keiland Cooper @kwcooper.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Imagine if all Government data access was that simple...
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Keiland Cooper @kwcooper.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
"[...] This process can be described most appropriately as a memory reorganization process, as it seems likely that consolidation and forgetting of spatial memories never ends."
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/03/2025
13. And anyone who has been part of this grand humanist tradition is someone who will not lie down and cower before these sad bullies. I don't know what happens to science in the US over the next four years, but I have no doubt as to where the arc of history bends. We aren't going anywhere. fin
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Keiland Cooper @kwcooper.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
One week away from our celebration of Continual learning across brains and machines! View our exciting line up of speakers and events here: unconf.continualai.org/program/ Oh, and did I mention it's FREE? Please re-post to get the word out, and share widely with your networks!
A photo of a globe logo, a circle, with an infinity sign in the middle. The text is ContinualAI UnConference October 19th 2023, Free for everyone
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Keiland Cooper @kwcooper.bsky.social · 14/09/2023
💯 🔥
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Keiland Cooper @kwcooper.bsky.social · 10/08/2023
Howdy! I'm Keiland! 🧠🐀 🤖 🖥 ♾️ = 🧑‍🔬 I'm somewhere between a cognitive scientist and a neuroscientist studying learning and memory across humans, animals, and machines. Ephys, engineering, and a lot of computation. I also confounded the ContinualAI non-profit #neuroscience #neuroskyence #AI
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Keiland Cooper @kwcooper.bsky.social · 09/08/2023
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IoT Hacking and Rickrolling My High School District
This is the story of how I created a botnet of IPTVs to rickroll 10,000+ students for my senior prank.
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Keiland Cooper @kwcooper.bsky.social · 07/08/2023
Exactly. We don't read with our eyes, but rather our memories. There is a far wider range of how media is interpreted, based on unique expirences, than folks give credit for.
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Keiland Cooper @kwcooper.bsky.social · 07/08/2023
A photo of the moon
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