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Samuel Eckmann

@samueleckmann.bsky.social

770 followers 354 following 90 posts

Computational neuroscientist, currently at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre/Gatsby Unit in London. Interested in neural circuits, E-I balance, and biological learning → samueleckmann.github.io

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Samuel Eckmann @samueleckmann.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

M1, not so low-d after all: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Samuel Eckmann @samueleckmann.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

"Can an AI model predict perfectly and still have a terrible world model? [...] A transformer trained on 10M solar systems nails planetary orbits. But it botches gravitational laws" Twitter thread: x.com/keyonV/statu... Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.06952

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Samuel Eckmann @samueleckmann.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Flow fields never get old

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Samuel Eckmann @samueleckmann.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Julia Gorman @jcgorman.bsky.social highlighting that sensory processing is not static but exhibits temporal dynamics that is shaped by expectation and behaviour. www.youtube.com/live/f7cm6CU... 4/4

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Samuel Eckmann @samueleckmann.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Lucas Tian arguing for the invariance, categorical structure, and recombination of motor primitives in macaque prefrontal cortex. www.youtube.com/live/Y8Ke6HC... 3/4

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Samuel Eckmann @samueleckmann.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Bill Podlaski @billpod.bsky.social showing a principled way to construct E-I manifolds with spiking neurons. www.youtube.com/live/CHc4IDI... 2/4

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Samuel Eckmann @samueleckmann.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

This online symposium on dendritic integration looks interesting: ntc.columbia.edu/dendritic-in...

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Samuel Eckmann @samueleckmann.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

"NMDA receptors regulate the firing rate set point of hippocampal circuits without altering single-cell dynamics" doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

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Samuel Eckmann @samueleckmann.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

I guess we are all doing physics now

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Samuel Eckmann @samueleckmann.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

Good reminder that visual acuity and binocular eye movements are very limited in newborns. Optic flow is one of the few remaining depth cues (lozierinstitute.org/dive-deeper/...).

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Samuel Eckmann @samueleckmann.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

You mean the one in the center? :^)

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Samuel Eckmann @samueleckmann.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

Are rotational dynamics just traveling waves? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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