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David Sussillo

@sussillodavid.bsky.social
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Neural reverse engineer, Author, Adjunct Prof at Stanford

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David Sussillo @sussillodavid.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Six months on, and Emergence is still Noteworthy at SFO. 😀
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David Sussillo @sussillodavid.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Deeply honored, @blaiseaguera.bsky.social . Thank you for engaging with my story and highlight my work. 🙏
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Blaise Agüera y Arcas @blaiseaguera.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
My 4 book picks this month from some incredible authors 🧵↓ - @sussillodavid.bsky.social - @stewartbrand.bsky.social - @himself.bsky.social and @abenewman.bsky.social - Katalin Karikó
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David Sussillo @sussillodavid.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Want a free copy of my new memoir, Emergence? Of course you do. :) 25 signed hardcovers up for grabs on Goodreads. It takes about ten seconds to enter. Good luck! 🤞 tinyurl.com/EmergenceGiv...
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Book giveaway for Emergence: A Memoir of Boyhood, Computation, and the Mysteries of Mind by David Sussillo May 23-Jun 08, 2026
Enter to win one of 25 free copies available. Giveaway dates from May 23-Jun 08, 2026. From group homes to the frontier of neuroscience and AI: a Nature-...
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David Eagleman @davideagleman.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
What happens when a young person is released from the child welfare system? Join me with David Sussillo (@sussillodavid.bsky.social), a neuroscientist who has just written about his emergence from a difficult childhood to a successful life. eagleman.com/podcast/149
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David Eagleman @davideagleman.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Why do kids need a future to aim for? Join me this week with neuroscientist David Sussillo (@sussillodavid.bsky.social) as we discuss the interaction of childhood trauma and resilience. eagleman.com/podcast/149
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David Sussillo @sussillodavid.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Today was my last day at Meta Reality Labs. As you can see, I handled my departure with dignity and restraint. But really: I’m proud of the team, proud of the groundbreaking EMG work we accomplished, and grateful for the chance to help build something hard and worthwhile with excellent people.
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🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹 @okaydaniellle.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
If you're going to the PSA this year and you want to pre-read David Sussillo's new book and attend the SPAN session, message me to arrange for SPAN to send you a copy of the book! The book is yours to keep, just attend the session and enjoy the conversation.
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David Sussillo @sussillodavid.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Honored to share my story of growing up in group homes, and my work in neuroscience, on Armchair Expert!!
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
In a Q&A about his new book, “Emergence,” @sussillodavid.bsky.social talks candidly about luck, persistence and why he decided to write about his journey into neuroscience. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/computationa...
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SPAN @socphilneuro.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
We're excited to announce a special SPAN at the PSA 'Meet the Author' session with @sussillodavid.bsky.social! Join us as we discuss David's new book. If you are interested in pre-reading and attending, please email us (details below).
A graphic containing an image of David Sussillo, his book cover, and a brief description of the book itself. There is a message from SPAN inviting those interested in a pre-read to email danielle.williams@purdue.edu. SPAN will provide a complimentary book to those interested in attending. 

Caption: David is a research scientist at Google in the Google Brain group and a faculty member in the Electrical Engineering Department at Stanford University. His research focuses on computational modeling of biological neural circuits and the interface of systems neuroscience and deep learning. In this special session, we will be discussing his new book which describes a remarkable journey of resilience and transformation. From the chaotic corridors of group homes to the halls of  Columbia and Stanford, EMERGENCE is a coming-of-age tale where heartbreak and humor meet the scientific wonder of modern artificial intelligence.
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
“I actually got kicked out of my first lab,” @sussillodavid.bsky.social reveals in a Q&A about his new book, “Emergence: A Memoir of Boyhood, Computation, and the Mysteries of Mind.” He talks about his challenging upbringing, his luck to land in Larry Abbott’s lab, and more. bit.ly/4rEu18t
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Happy publication day, @sussillodavid.bsky.social. 🥂 To everyone else: Read.This.Book. I laughed & cried (on repeat). As I read, I developed an urgency to find out: How did Daivd make it through? The words "resilience and transformation" don't even begin to describe this. You will be moved.
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Lauren Ross @laurennross.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Dynamic Computation & Explanation in Neuroscience Workshop, @ Stanford.Talks by @engeltatiana.bsky.social @aaronbatista.bsky.social @zoedrayson.bsky.social @bayesianboy.bsky.social @sussillodavid.bsky.social, @lndriscoll.bsky.social Newsome Druckmann Chirimuuta, Barack Cao Burnston Solla & others! 🧠
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David Sussillo @sussillodavid.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Forgot to x-post! Honored to share this Neuron interview in which I discuss my childhood, getting a PhD, and RNN reverse engineering and its application to brain data. I also talked about my industry/academic life. authors.elsevier.com/a/1mjFW3BtfH...
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David Sussillo @sussillodavid.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
The audiobook sample is live on SoundCloud for my memoir, Emergence! A neuroscientist reading his own memoir… I'll let you decide if that was a good idea. m.soundcloud.com/hachetteaudi...
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Elusive Cures is my first book. I was surprised by how much was required to make it happen (beyond writing it). If you're curious, here's the who and how behind it ... 🧵 (My amazing publisher: @princetonupress.bsky.social)
Me holding the first copies of Elusive Cures
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David Sussillo @sussillodavid.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
A remarkable journey of resilience and transformation, from the chaotic corridors of group homes to the halls of Columbia and Stanford, EMERGENCE is a coming-of-age tale where heartbreak and humor meet the scientific wonder of modern artificial intelligence. 🔗 Preorder: tinyurl.com/fzcxb5ea
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David Sussillo @sussillodavid.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
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Meta Ray-Ban Display: The Best Inventions of 2025
Find out why Meta Ray-Ban Display is on TIME's list of 2025's best inventions.
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David Sussillo @sussillodavid.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
2026 Internships at CTRL Labs at Meta Reality Labs It's intern application season for summer 2026 with the CTRL Labs (Electromyogram (EMG)) team at Meta Reality Labs! 🚀 You can see our latest work covered in this Nature article. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A generic non-invasive neuromotor interface for human-computer interaction - Nature
A high-bandwidth neuromotor interface offers performant out-of-the-box generalization across people.
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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Terrifying insanity. What can be done to stop this?
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David G. Clark @david-g-clark.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
(7/26) The most surprising phenomenology happens after input cessation at t≥0: neurons continue oscillating long after stimulation ends, with lifetimes exceeding any intrinsic system timescale, including the plasticity forgetting timescale, by an order of magnitude (panel iii).
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David Sussillo @sussillodavid.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Coming March 17, 2026! Just got my advance copy of Emergence — a memoir about growing up in group homes and somehow ending up in neuroscience and AI. It’s personal, it’s scientific, and it’s been a wild thing to write. Grateful and excited to share it soon.
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Stephanie Naufel @snaufel.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
FUNDING OPPORTUNITY: Motor Learning and Neuromotor Ethics Our Reality Labs EMG Foundational Research team is pleased to announce an RFP! The topic is on motor learning for EMG-based HCI and the related neuromotor ethics. Submissions are due September 1! www.meta.com/blog/reality...
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Request for Proposals: Motor Learning & Neuromotor Ethics | Meta Quest Blog
To foster innovation in this area, and to deepen our collaboration with academia, Reality Labs’ EMG Foundational Research team is pleased to invite faculty to submit their ideas to this request for re...
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David Sussillo @sussillodavid.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
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Request for Proposals: Motor Learning & Neuromotor Ethics | Meta Quest Blog
To foster innovation in this area, and to deepen our collaboration with academia, Reality Labs’ EMG Foundational Research team is pleased to invite faculty to submit their ideas to this request for re...
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David Sussillo @sussillodavid.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Open-sourced EMG data plus training/testing scripts to make contact with our results at 100 users for each three tasks (discrete gestures, 1D wrist navigation, and handwriting). github.com/facebookrese...
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A generic non-invasive neuromotor interface for human-computer interaction - Nature
A high-bandwidth neuromotor interface offers performant out-of-the-box generalization across people.
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David Sussillo @sussillodavid.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Explainer threads 🧵 are generous. They help science be a community, not a contest. Keep 'em coming!
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Gautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com · 10/05/2025
It's been one year since Jim Simons passed away. He remains one of the greatest philanthropists of our time. His commitment to fundamental scientific research was truly extraordinary and remains essential for advancing humanity. www.simonsfoundation.org/2024/05/10/s...
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Simons Foundation Co-Founder, Mathematician and Investor Jim Simons Dies at 86
Simons Foundation Co-Founder, Mathematician and Investor Jim Simons Dies at 86 on Simons Foundation
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
30 days to the launch of Elusive Cures! I learned so much writing it, and I want to share it. For the next 30 days, I'll post brain & mind research breakthroughs on odd days, and highlight unmet needs on even ones. #ElusiveCures30 First breakthrough: /1 press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Elusive Cures
A neuroscientist’s bold proposal for tackling one of the greatest challenges of our time—brain and mental illnesses
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Calling all science advocates!! Carlos Brody+ are creating a searchable database of tangible science benefits, and they need you. publicusaresearchbenefits.com They are asking for suggestions - from brief to lengthy. The database is state-searchable, so all 50 states. Please spread the word!
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Searchable database of tangible benefits that federally-funded research gave us.
A crowd-sourced site. Health and Well-being. National Security. Prosperity.
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David Sussillo @sussillodavid.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Come see Nishal’s poster today at #cosyne2025 (Session 2, 2-051)! We’ve added a per-trial inferred bias to LFADS, boosting interpretability by turning multistable dynamics into contextual ones. Less murky, more meaningful with many practical applications such as denoising data.
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Philip Sabes @psabes.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Are you an ambitious scientist or engineer? Do you want to do hard engineering that will transform lives and advance science? Come join us to build next-generation neurotechnology at Integral.
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
How can we make progress in developing a general model of neural computation rather than a series of disjointed models tied to specific experimental circumstances, ask Eva Dyer and @tyrellturing.bsky.social in the latest entry in our NeuroAI series. www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/acce...
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Accepting “bitter lesson” and embracing brain’s complexity
To gain insight into complex neural data, we must move toward a data-driven regime, employing large models trained on vast amounts of data. Experts weigh in.
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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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David Sussillo @sussillodavid.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
We're hiring! Join Meta Reality Lab's EMG Wristband foundational research team! ⚡️ We're seeking research scientists with systems neuro/ML/AI/BCI/EE backgrounds, with skills on a spectrum from modeling to experimental expertise, as well as generalists who excel in both areas.
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David Sussillo @sussillodavid.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Grace's critique is spot on. Perhaps one function of dynamics is to switch from representation to representation?
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David Barack @dlbarack.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Hey #neuroskyence check out the line-up for the first annual #SPAN2025 meeting. Our neuro representation is strong💪: @russpoldrack.bsky.social ! @sussillodavid.bsky.social ! @theamygdaloid.bsky.social ! Tali Sharot! @jenbussell.bsky.social ! Many more—check it out, be sure to submit your abstracts!
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David Sussillo @sussillodavid.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Human-Computer Input via a Wrist-Based sEMG Wearable www.meta.com/blog/quest/s...
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Human-Computer Input via an sEMG Wristband | Meta Quest Blog
Today, we’re releasing a white paper that provides background on sEMG, describes its potential as a new input paradigm for human-computer interaction, and explains how sEMG sensing and its device inpu...
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David Sussillo @sussillodavid.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Imagine all the amazing science one could do if these EMG recordings were paired up with multi electrode recordings in motor cortex. (Speaking as an academic neuroscientist, not a Meta scientist).
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David Sussillo @sussillodavid.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
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a man and a woman are standing in front of a refrigerator that says seinfeld
ALT: a man and a woman are standing in front of a refrigerator that says seinfeld
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Patrick Mineault @patrickmineault.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
New 716 hour EMG dataset just dropped ✨ ai.meta.com/blog/open-so...
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Advancing Neuromotor Interfaces by Open Sourcing Surface Electromyography (sEMG) Datasets for Pose Estimation and Surface Typing
We’re releasing emg2qwerty and emg2pose—two large datasets and benchmarks for sEMG-based typing and pose estimation, as part of the NeurIPS 2024 Datasets and Benchmarks track.
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