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Mark Iskarous @miskarous.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

I'm very excited to spend the next 10 days in San Diego attending the 12th Annual IEEE EMBS International Conference on Neural Engineering (@embs.org) and then the 2025 Society for Neuroscience (@sfn.org) Meeting! If you are going to be at either conference, let me know, I'd love to see you!

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Mark Iskarous @miskarous.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

I'm very excited to share the workshop "𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐁𝐂𝐈𝐬: 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐅𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬" which will be on November 11 at the IEEE/EMBS International Conference on Neural Engineering in San Diego! #IEEE #NER25 #neurotech #BCI #iBCI

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HHMI @hhmi-science.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

ATTN: #Postdocs - Your opportunity to lead the future of #science starts now! Applications for the 2025 #HannaGrayFellows Program are OPEN. 📢 Take your first step toward joining a community of changemakers in science. Applications are due 2.26.25, @ 3:00 p.m. ET. 💫 Apply today! hhmi.news/48n2lfh 👈

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

#Meta has an #AI for brain typing, but it's stuck in the lab www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/07/1... by @antonioregalado.bsky.social; "The social network company hopes #neuroscience will give it an advantage in the AI race"

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Meta has an AI for brain typing, but it’s stuck in the lab

The social network company hopes neuroscience will give it an advantage in the AI race.

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Mark Iskarous @miskarous.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Just finished a two week sprint to submit an NIH F32 Fellowship application! It was quite intense, but glad it's done 😊 and I actually feel good about the proposal. Hopefully things will he back to normal at the NIH by the time it gets reviewed

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Thomas Nowotny @drtnowotny.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Just out in J Neuromorph Comput & Eng: Loss shaping enhances exact gradient learning with Eventprop in Spiking Neural Networks doi.org/10.1088/2634.... With @neworderofjamie.bsky.social. We report how Eventprop scales to harder learning tasks. TL;DR: It works great but not without extra effort. 🧪🧵

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Loss shaping enhances exact gradient learning with Eventprop in spiking neural networks - IOPscienceSearch

Loss shaping enhances exact gradient learning with Eventprop in spiking neural networks, Nowotny, Thomas, Turner, James P, Knight, James C

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Brad Aimone @jbimaknee.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I've never been directly funded by NIH, but in honor of this amazing organization with great people, here is my talk from last fall when they hosted me. One of the best visits I have had anywhere. oir.nih.gov/wals/2024-20...

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How Neuromorphic Computing Can Help Us Understand the Brain | NIH Office of Intramural Research

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Sander Dieleman @sedielem.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

📢PSA: #NeurIPS2024 recordings are now publicly available! The workshops always have tons of interesting things on at once, so the FOMO is real😵‍💫 Luckily it's all recorded, so I've been catching up on what I missed. Thread below with some personal highlights🧵

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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 23/01/2025

What's the right way to think about modularity in the brain? This devilish 😈 question is a big part of my research now, and it started with this paper with @solarpunkgabs.bsky.social, finally published after the first preprint in 2021! 🤖🧠🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Dynamics of specialization in neural modules under resource constraints - Nature Communications

The extent to which structural modularity in neural networks ensures functional specialization remains unclear. Here the authors show that specialization can emerge in neural modules placed under reso...

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Brad Aimone @jbimaknee.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I'm very excited that this review on scalable neuromorphic hardware, headed up by Dhireesha Kudithipudi, has finally come out in Nature🧪🧠🤖 rdcu.be/d7atq Neuromorphic hardware is ready for prime time. There are things to keep advancing, but I think the bigger opportunities lie in how we use it!

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Neuromorphic computing at scale

Nature - Approaches for the development of future at-scale neuromorphic systems based on principles of biointelligence are described, along with potential applications of scalable neuromorphic...

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Surya Ganguli @suryaganguli.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Congrats again to John Hopfield & Geoff Hinton on the well deserved #NobelPrize in Physics. A couple of weeks ago I gave a colloquium on "The physical origins of artificial intelligence" at the Stanford Linear Accelerator explaining the prize. Video: colloquium.slac.stanford.edu/events/2024-...

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Mark Iskarous @miskarous.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I'm excited to share my paper "Invariant neuromorphic representations of tactile stimuli improve robustness of a real-time texture classification system", now posted on arXiv! arxiv.org/abs/2411.17060 Go to the end of this thread for an exciting robotics demo😊

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Invariant neuromorphic representations of tactile stimuli improve robustness of a real-time texture classification system

Humans have an exquisite sense of touch which robotic and prosthetic systems aim to recreate. We developed algorithms to create neuron-like (neuromorphic) spiking representations of texture that are i...

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Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

1/ I work in #NeuroAI, a growing field of research, which many people have only the haziest conception of... As way of introduction to this research approach, I'll provide here a very short thread outlining the definition of the field I gave recently at our BRAIN NeuroAI workshop at the NIH. 🧠📈

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Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @mushtaqbilalphd.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Finding relevant papers for literature review takes a lot of time. So, MIT researchers built Undermind, an AI-powered search engine. It can generate well-researched overviews on any topic and is 10-50 times better than Google Scholar. Here's how to use it:

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Bionic Skins @bionicskins.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

We are excited to share an inspiring feature on our founder, Dr. #HughHerr, in the latest article from Amplitude! Dr. Herr is leading the way in #prosthetic innovation with brain-controlled prosthetic limbs and setting a new standard for #amputee care. livingwithamplitude.com/article/ampu...

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Brain-controlled Prosthetic Limbs Advance

Agonist-antagonist myoneural interface (AMI) surgery—which restores broken nerve circuits in the residual limb—gives amputees unprecedented ability to control prosthetic legs with their thoughts.

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INCF @incforg.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

In addition to co-authoring this article with John Van Horn, INCF co-director Mathew Abrams was a guest editor for this Springer Nature's Neuroinformatics special issue 🧠📗 Check it out here: bit.ly/4eq4xoI #neuroskyence #neuroscience #neuroinformatics #OpenScience #FAIR

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Namnezia 🥑 @namnezia.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Do you teach neuroscience? Here’s a list I’ve compiled of mostly free online neuroscience textbooks, simulations and datasets you can use for your course! If I’m missing something, let me know so I can add it! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Free Neuroscience Textbooks and Online Tutorials

Free Neuroscience Textbooks and Online Tutorials (Compiled by Carlos Aizenman, Brown University, Dept. of Neuroscience) Maintaining a current list of digital educational resources is tricky. Softwar...

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

The strain on scientific publishing: we set out to characterise the remarkable growth of the scientific literature in the last few years, in spite of declining growth in total scientists. What is going on? direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... A 🧵 1/n #AcademicSky #PhDchat #ScientificPublishing #SciPub

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Michael Beyeler @mbeyeler.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Starting your #PhD journey? Crafting a standout Statement of Purpose is key. Here's a guide with tips & common pitfalls to help you succeed (tailored to #CompSky at #UCSB, but much of it should apply to most depts): docs.google.com/document/d/1... #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #FirstGen #CSforALL

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The Road to a Successful PhD Application

The Road to a Successful PhD Application Disclaimer: This guide was written by Prof. Michael Beyeler, with input from faculty colleagues. It does not necessarily reflect the views of all CS faculty me...

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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 12/11/2024

I made a starter pack of researchers working on spiking neural networks, neuromorphic hardware and all that jazz. At the moment, this community doesn't seem to be very present on Bluesky (more on Mastodon), but let me know if I've missed anyone! 🧠🧪 go.bsky.app/46Eu9GG

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Matthijs Dorst @mattneuro.dorst-lab.org · 18/11/2024

Didn't see one for Neuroscience yet; allow me to oblige

A list of made-up scientific papers, mocking the field of Neuroscience. Based on this XKCD comic: https://xkcd.com/2456/

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Alex Williams @itsneuronal.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

My lab has been working on comparing neural representations for the past few years - methods like RSA, CKA, CCA, Procrustes distance We are often asked: What do these things tell us about the system's function? How do they relate to decoding? Our new paper has some answers arxiv.org/abs/2411.08197

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John Downey @johndowney.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

There's a great new story out today in Nature about the state of sensory neuroprosthetic research. It features one of our participants from the University of Chicago and glimpses of exciting research from around the world. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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The quest to build bionic limbs that feel like the real thing

Through brain implants, neural interfaces and skin grafts, researchers are starting to restore sensation for paralysed or amputated limbs.

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