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Luigi Petrucco

@vigji.bsky.social
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Hic sunt neurones! LLM exegete at Afliant (Italy) 💻 | Former neuroscientist and zebrafishologist 🎣🧭 | he/him | vigji.github.io

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Luigi Petrucco @vigji.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
On one side, the ideologues of an otherworldly entity whose form doctrine disputes, omniscient and omnipotent, promising eternal life. On the other, the Catholic Church. What a time to be alive! Sad that Dan Simmons did not get to see it
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Luigi Petrucco @vigji.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
On one side, the ideologues of an otherworldly entity whose form doctrine disputes, omniscient and omnipotent, promising eternal life. On the other, the Catholic Church. What a time to be alive! Sad that Dan Simmons did not get to see it
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Luigi Petrucco @vigji.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
"One nice thing about LLMs is that they show us which parts of our systems of intellect are mechanical traditions. LLMs are a good way to stress-test our systems for organizing experience and expertise. We’ll need to be more creative about what we want to do moving forward." Indeed!
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Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
AI has been inextricably linked to warfare since its inception. @kevinbaker.bsky.social contextualizes this bureaucratization of bombing in the Iran War and explains why we should again be talking about Project Maven. Required reading.
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Kill Chain
On the automated bureaucratic machinery that killed 175 children
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Luigi Petrucco @vigji.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Xerox Machines of Loving Grace: what happens when code cloning is commoditised? Xerocoding is the new vibecoding vigji.github.io/blog/xerox-m...
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Xerox Machines of Loving Grace — Luigi Petrucco
On xerocoding, the new vibecoding.
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Luigi Petrucco @vigji.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
After some months of daily Cursor/Claude usage, I have put in writing my main take home message: with vibecoding, software development will probably start sounding familiar to most evolutionary biologists: vigji.github.io/blog/the-mes...
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The Messiest Codebase in the Universe (so far) — Luigi Petrucco
How I learned to stop worrying and love vibecoding.
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Luigi Petrucco @vigji.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
I just realised this 10 yo library was a visionary anticipation of coding with LLMs github.com/drathier/sta...
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GitHub - drathier/stack-overflow-import: Import arbitrary code from Stack Overflow as Python modules.
Import arbitrary code from Stack Overflow as Python modules. - drathier/stack-overflow-import
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Luigi Petrucco @vigji.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Can't recommend this highly enough! It's the one and only life changing neuroscience school I've attended in my life. Amazing community of organizers, interesting speakers, in depth discussions, incredibly warm vibes. Apply!!!
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Nencki Open Lab @openlab.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
And so our Decoding the Brain workshop is over! Thank you for three days of engaging discussions; we hope that you will come back home with new ideas and new confusions!
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Luigi Petrucco @vigji.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Anyone following the flame sparked by this post might be interested in our upcoming workshop: challenging neuroscience people on their idea of representations: nenckiopenlab.org/decoding/ There will be plenty of time and space to elaborate and exchange ideas beyond 300 chars lim!
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Decoding the brain: from methods to meaning Paris Brain Institute, June 2-4th 2025 Applying machine learning and other models to decode behavioral parameters from neural activity is now a standard …
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Nencki Open Lab @openlab.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
We are super happy to announce the third Workshop of Ideas in Neuroscience! We will once again look critically at assumptions of modern neuroscience: what does it mean that the brain encodes information? Is this a useful approach, or a metaphor that blurs our vision?
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Nencki Open Lab @openlab.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
We are happy to announce a next workshop by @cam-openlab.bsky.social! This time you can learn everything you need to know about electronics to know your equipment better, improve your setup and get a deeper understanding of the processes you are studying! nenckiopenlab.org/electronics-...
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Luigi Petrucco @vigji.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Check out our preprint where we take a deep dive into the super-trendy concept of "naturalistic behavior" and ponder: how much naturalistic do we want our experiments to be?
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Luigi Petrucco @vigji.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
GPT training is soooo 2024
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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
good post www.science.org/content/blog...
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What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF
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Aitor Morales-Gregorio @aitormg.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Maybe a good time to remember that mice have tiny hyperconnected brains. An estimated 97% of all possible connections between brain areas exist in mice, vs ~62% in macaques and marmosets. No wonder everything is everywhere in mice, they have all-to-all connectivity! doi.org/10.1093/cerc...
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The meso-connectomes of mouse, marmoset, and macaque: network organization and the emergence of higher cognition
Abstract. The recent publications of the inter-areal connectomes for mouse, marmoset, and macaque cortex have allowed deeper comparisons across rodent vs.
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Luigi Petrucco @vigji.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
After a horrible parenting night, I dreamed this morning that I was keeping track of my son's wake-ups and night feedings using xarrays in #Python. Somehow, this gave me a reassuring sense of structure amidst the unstructured chaos - I knew how to access data easily 😅 @xarray.bsky.social
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Luis Pedro Coelho @luispedrocoelho.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
"I published my paper on biorxiv and now I'm hoping to get it advertised in Nature" This may seem like a diss, but 'is the exposure you get from Nature worth 10k?' has a different answer than 'is it worth paying 10k to publish a PDF online?' (which was always a strawman)
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Luigi Petrucco @vigji.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Fully agree. Too bad Italy officially relies on it for any kind of public evaluation-calls for post-graduate positions at universities, habilitation to professorship, etc. This (Italian system) is incredibly frustrating, but seemingly not enough for a critical mass of scientists to protest the rules
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Tim Behrens @behrenstimb.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Although we don’t want this fight now, if we have to have it we will. We have all the funders/unis/institutes on our side. Elife papers will be treated just the same as before. And maybe we can collectively put a dent in Clarivate’s business model.
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Luigi Petrucco @vigji.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
A writeup of my thesis on heading direction circuits in the #zebrafish #brain! If you want to read more: edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de/31211/1/Petr... #neuroscience #OpenAccess
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Ariel K. Frame @arielframe.bsky.social · 23/03/2024
““naturalistic behavior” isn’t necessarily an ideal to strive for in all situations. Researchers need to be using the best methods for their specific research questions and not just get distracted by fancy new technology” says @vigji.bsky.social in this insightful article. Well said.
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Luigi Petrucco @vigji.bsky.social · 20/03/2024
A beautiful piece featuring the unconventional "Rethinking Naturalistic Behavior" workshop we organised in the Dolomites with the @openlab.bsky.social. We need more such occasions for this kind of debates! Thanks @thetransmitter.bsky.social @shaena.bsky.social for giving it space!
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Luigi Petrucco @vigji.bsky.social · 23/02/2024
A mind-boggling opportunity for everyone who want to think deeper and broader about neuroscience! Apply to this wonderful school and enter the multi level marketing scheme of the Nencki Open Lab!
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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · 10/02/2024
🚨#ComplexityThoughts short essay: Phantom oscillations in your data? Relevant for data science in general, emerged from a discussion about #Neuroscience applications. Not yet subscribed? It's never too late, and it's 100% free. #ComplexSystems open.substack.com/pub/manlius/...
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Kate Jeffery @katejj.bsky.social · 07/02/2024
Happy that this is now finally out! A framework for comparing navigation mechanisms across diverse species - the 'navigation toolbox' royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @noranewcombe.bsky.social
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BrainGlobe @brainglobe.info · 14/12/2023
Interested in making high-quality 2D & 3D neuroanatomical visualisations across multiple species? New versions of brainrender (github.com/brainglobe/b...) and brainglobe-heatmap (github.com/brainglobe/b...) have been released.
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BrainGlobe @brainglobe.info · 06/11/2023
The first part of BrainGlobe restructuring is complete. If you use any of the BrainGlobe registration tools (brainreg, brainreg-napari or brainreg-segment) please read this changelog - brainglobe.info/community/re...
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Version 1: changes to registration and segmentation tools — BrainGlobe
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Nencki Open Lab @openlab.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
Join us on the next Ideas in Neuroscience JC on Wednesday! This time we start 4:40 PM Polish time.
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Luigi Petrucco @vigji.bsky.social · 25/09/2023
#HiSciSky! I learned systems ##neuroskyence in the Portugues lab imaging zebrafish brains and their head direction network (doi.org/10.1101/2022...) I moved to Iurilli lab at IIT (Italy), following up onsubcortical circuits for naturalistic behavior. Fan of #openscience and unconventional paradigms!
Fish in a compass over neurons drawings
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