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Laura Driscoll

@lndriscoll.bsky.social
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neuro and AI (they/she) Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics, theory lead | UW affiliate asst prof

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Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Two tenure track positions are open in Computer Science @mcgill.ca ! Secure Software mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill... Quantum Computing mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill... Come join our department, and live in the coolest city in North America! (Yeah, I stand by that.)
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Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Computer Science: Secure Software and Computer Systems
Please refer to the How to Apply for a Job (for External Candidates) job aid for instructions on how to apply. If you are an active McGill employee (ie: currently in an active contract or position at ...
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Reza Shadmehr @rezashadmehr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Faculty position opening in computational neuroscience at Duke University. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32697
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Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Preprint time! This is a cool one. Complex systems, be they neural nets, interacting genes, or power grids, can produce diverse dynamics-- things like point attractors, limit cycles, and chaos. The dynamic landscape you get depends on how elements interact. But those interactions can also change!
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shivashriganesh.bsky.social @shivashriganesh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We’re excited to share BrainWideBench, a new benchmark for evaluating how models of neural activity generalize across animals and tasks! 📄 Check out the paper here! arxiv.org/abs/2609.22064 Special shoutout to @alx-adr.bsky.social, who contributed equally as co-first authors!
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Laura Driscoll @lndriscoll.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Confused about all this talk of compositionality in neuroscience? Read our new perspective www.nature.com/articles/s41... with authors Reidar Riveland and Alex Pouget.
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The compositionality continuum as a principle for studying the neural basis of intelligence - Nature Neuroscience
Compositionality exists on a continuum of increasing complexity rather than as a binary trait. Studying its implementation in simpler biological and artificial systems is the most tractable path towar...
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Laura Driscoll @lndriscoll.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
New job posting! If you're interested in working with our group, check it out. 3 year position (with possibility to extend) at >100k. alleninstitute.org/careers/jobs...
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Open Positions | Allen Institute
Build your career at the Allen Institute. Explore current job openings and find your place in a team driving some of the most ambitious open science in the world.
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Roxana Zeraati @roxana-zeraati.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Some incredibly exciting news that still feels a bit surreal: I am starting my research group @mpicybernetics.bsky.social! The best part? We are hiring at all levels! Curious about the science we plan to tackle, read along :) #NeuroSky
An illustration of different species, from worms to humans, foraging, indicating the main topic of our research group.
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David G. Clark @david-g-clark.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
New preprint: "Linear equivalence of nonlinear recurrent neural networks." For large nonlinear (potentially chaotic) RNNs with random connectivity, the full N×N covariance matrix takes the same form as that of a ~linear~ network with the same couplings, driven by independent noise.
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Linear equivalence of nonlinear recurrent neural networks
Large nonlinear recurrent neural networks with random couplings generate high-dimensional, potentially chaotic activity whose structure is of interest in neuroscience, machine learning, ecology, and o...
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Charley Wu @thecharleywu.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
🚨 New preprint w/ Valerio Rubino and Peter Dayan: how do people discover and use compositional structure under constraints? osf.io/preprints/ps... A key factor is a simple heuristic that favors reuse of repeated and symmetric fragments across scales, is robust to time pressure, and sped up RTs 🧵👇
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John Tuthill @tuthill.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
a bright spot in this otherwise dismal year was the journalism and commentary provided by @thetransmitter.bsky.social. i am grateful that this publication exists and i hope @simonsfoundation.org continues to support them.
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Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
"My New Year's Resolution is to find a principled way to think about all those cell types in the brain" Why friend, you are in luck, because @rgast.bsky.social has just the perspective for you: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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How heterogeneity shapes dynamics and computation in the brain
Much effort has been spent clustering neurons into transcriptomic or functional cell types and characterizing the differences between them. Beyond sub…
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DurstewitzLab @durstewitzlab.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Revised version of our #NeurIPS2025 paper with full code base in Julia & Python now online, see arxiv.org/abs/2505.13192
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True Zero-Shot Inference of Dynamical Systems Preserving Long-Term Statistics
Complex, temporally evolving phenomena, from climate to brain activity, are governed by dynamical systems (DS). DS reconstruction (DSR) seeks to infer generative surrogate models of these from observe...
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Lea Duncker @leaduncker.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Travel awards are available for undergraduate students looking to attend #Cosyne25! The application is short, and the deadline is Nov 12. @cosynemeeting.bsky.social Application: shorturl.at/6NEyk More info: www.cosyne.org/travel-grants (1/2)
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Travel Grants — COSYNE
Apply for COSYNE 2026 Travel Grants to support your participation in Lisbon and Cascais, Portugal. Grants are available for students, postdocs, and PIs, including programs for Childcare, Presenters, N...
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Laura Driscoll @lndriscoll.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
If you want to do a postdoc w me (or generally do theory at Allen/UW) apply for this! It’s a pretty independent postdoc position for people with a quantitative background, and pays well (104K)! Due date is Dec 1st. Here’s the link to apply--> alleninstitute.submittable.com/submit/33511...
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Allen Institute - Shanahan Foundation Fellowship at the Interface of Data and Neuroscience 2025-2026
Thank you for applying for the Shanahan Foundation Fellowship at the Interface of Data and Neuroscience. Applications for the Fall 2026 cohort will close at 11:59pm PT on December 1st, 2025. Important...
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Andrew Saxe @saxelab.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Excited to share new work @icmlconf.bsky.social by Loek van Rossem exploring the development of computational algorithms in recurrent neural networks. Hear it live tomorrow, Oral 1D, Tues 15 Jul West Exhibition Hall C: icml.cc/virtual/2025... Paper: openreview.net/forum?id=3go... (1/11)
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ICML Poster Algorithm Development in Neural Networks: Insights from the Streaming Parity TaskICML 2025
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Ezekiel Williams @ezekielwilliams.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
1/7: Super excited to share our new paper! This one should be of interest to neuroscientists and deep learning theory folks. This paper was a collaboration with Alexandre Payeur, @averyryoo.bsky.social, Thomas Jiralerspong, @mattperich.bsky.social, Luca Mazzucato, @glajoie.bsky.social
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Harsha Gurnani @harshag.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Super excited about our 2-day @cosynemeeting.bsky.social workshop on learning that pays tribute to the diversity of timescales, teaching signals and circuits that work together to shape adaptive behaviors, and where we hope to bridge insights from behavior, dynamics, and learning rules! #cosyne2025
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Laura Driscoll @lndriscoll.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
After hearing about the ongoing hotel workers strike at the #COSYNE2025 hotel, I cancelled my reservation and booked a room at a hotel a short 10 minute walk from the meeting. It was easy and I encourage others to do the same! #solidarity montreal.citynews.ca/2025/01/14/q...
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Montreal’s Queen Elizabeth Hotel reopens after temporarily closing during holidays due to labour dispute
The Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal has reopened after temporarily closing due to an ongoing labour dispute. Quebec’s largest hotel made the announcement on Dec. 12 and shut their doors day...
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Marino Pagan @marinopagan.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
1/7 Our paper on individual variability in decision-making is finally out in @nature.com! Inspired by the classic work by Mante and Sussillo, we trained many rats to solve context-dependent decision-making, and we found that different brains use different neural mechanisms to solve the same task!
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Individual variability of neural computations underlying flexible decisions - Nature
Behavioural experiments to study decision-making in response to context-dependent accumulation of evidence provide testable models that are consistent with the heterogeneity in neural signatures among...
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Laura Grima @lauragrima.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
The first preprint of my postdoc with @dudman.bsky.social is now online! Here we wanted to understand the algorithms mice use when learning to forage in large environments with many potential resources. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Marine Schimel @marineschimel.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
For my first Bluesky post, I'm very excited to share a thread on our recent work with Mitra Javadzadeh, investigating how connections between cortical areas shape computations in the neocortex! [1/7] www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Dynamic consensus-building between neocortical areas via long-range connections
The neocortex is organized into functionally specialized areas. While the functions and underlying neural circuitry of individual neocortical areas are well studied, it is unclear how these regions op...
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David G. Clark @david-g-clark.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
(1/30) New preprint! "Symmetries and continuous attractors in disordered neural circuits" with Larry Abbott and Haim Sompolinsky bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Symmetries and Continuous Attractors in Disordered Neural Circuits
A major challenge in neuroscience is reconciling idealized theoretical models with complex, heterogeneous experimental data. We address this challenge through the lens of continuous-attractor networks...
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