Reposted by Luigi PetruccoLuigi Petrucco @vigji.bsky.social · 26/05/2026On 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 061
Luigi Petrucco @vigji.bsky.social · 26/05/2026On 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 061
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! 030
Reposted by Luigi PetruccoBen Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · 22/03/2026AI 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.artificialbureaucracy.substack.comKill ChainOn the automated bureaucratic machinery that killed 175 children 13411
Luigi Petrucco @vigji.bsky.social · 21/03/2026To expand on the new ways in which LLMs (+ their cybernetic versions) vigji.github.io/blog/xerox-m...vigji.github.ioXerox Machines of Loving GraceOn xerocoding, the new vibecoding. 000
Luigi Petrucco @vigji.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Xerox Machines of Loving Grace: what happens when code cloning is commoditised? Xerocoding is the new vibecoding vigji.github.io/blog/xerox-m...vigji.github.ioXerox Machines of Loving Grace — Luigi PetruccoOn xerocoding, the new vibecoding. 011
Luigi Petrucco @vigji.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Of course it will! And then evolve immunity for it, and then attackers finding more vulnerabilities, and more immunity evolves back! It is the red queen effect, and it has already existed in software evolution, just until now at much longer timescales :) 010
Luigi Petrucco @vigji.bsky.social · 07/03/2026And definitively much more on phenotype testing than on upfront specifications 020
Luigi Petrucco @vigji.bsky.social · 07/03/2026I am no CS so won't have great takes on feasibility. But I do get the feeling that the idea of a whole population of deployments and continuous evolution from each, plus any kind of adversarial selection mechanisms will emerge 110
Luigi Petrucco @vigji.bsky.social · 07/03/2026My two cents: we definitively go toward understand nothing, and we handle complexity the same way we have dealing with biology without understanding it for centuries: vigji.github.io/blog/the-mes...vigji.github.ioThe Messiest Codebase in the Universe (so far) — Luigi PetruccoHow I learned to stop worrying and love vibecoding. 130
Luigi Petrucco @vigji.bsky.social · 06/03/2026After 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...vigji.github.ioThe Messiest Codebase in the Universe (so far) — Luigi PetruccoHow I learned to stop worrying and love vibecoding. 010
Luigi Petrucco @vigji.bsky.social · 26/09/2025It feels like you are almost referring to this and you might know, but since it was not linked in the post arxiv.org/abs/2405.07987arxiv.orgThe Platonic Representation HypothesisWe argue that representations in AI models, particularly deep networks, are converging. First, we survey many examples of convergence in the literature: over time and across multiple domains, the ways... 000
Luigi Petrucco @vigji.bsky.social · 10/08/2025As in you were convinced by other s arguments or you just lost any hope about fighting that battle? 000
Luigi Petrucco @vigji.bsky.social · 22/07/2025I just realised this 10 yo library was a visionary anticipation of coding with LLMs github.com/drathier/sta...github.comGitHub - 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 030
Luigi Petrucco @vigji.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Can'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!!! 141
Reposted by Luigi PetruccoNencki Open Lab @openlab.bsky.social · 05/06/2025And 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! 1101
Luigi Petrucco @vigji.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Anyone 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!nenckiopenlab.orgNencki Open LabDecoding 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 … 060
Luigi Petrucco @vigji.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Meaning that there are sub-populations of neurons sending projections to different combinations of brain regions? 020
Reposted by Luigi PetruccoNencki Open Lab @openlab.bsky.social · 24/04/2025We 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? 24620
Reposted by Luigi PetruccoNencki Open Lab @openlab.bsky.social · 12/03/2025We 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-... 0137
Luigi Petrucco @vigji.bsky.social · 05/03/2025The workshop was actually featured on @thetransmitter.bsky.social in a piece by @shaena.bsky.social! www.thetransmitter.org/animal-behav...thetransmitter.orgWild and free: Understanding animal behavior beyond the labTechnological advancements have made it possible to study animals in more natural settings, but researchers are debating what that really means and whether natural is always better. 020
Luigi Petrucco @vigji.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Check 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? 130
Luigi Petrucco @vigji.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Ignorant about ASMR, I asked GPT for explanation. LOL (it later apologised for the confusion after actual fact checking :D) 040
Reposted by Luigi PetruccoGrace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 05/02/2025good post www.science.org/content/blog...science.orgWhat's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF 05424
Reposted by Luigi PetruccoAitor Morales-Gregorio @aitormg.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Maybe 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...doi.orgThe meso-connectomes of mouse, marmoset, and macaque: network organization and the emergence of higher cognitionAbstract. The recent publications of the inter-areal connectomes for mouse, marmoset, and macaque cortex have allowed deeper comparisons across rodent vs. 28527
Luigi Petrucco @vigji.bsky.social · 08/12/2024After 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 060
Reposted by Luigi PetruccoLuis 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) 2316
Luigi Petrucco @vigji.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Fully 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 120
Reposted by Luigi PetruccoTim Behrens @behrenstimb.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Although 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. 35817
Luigi Petrucco @vigji.bsky.social · 29/11/2024A 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 #OpenAccessedoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de 061
Luigi Petrucco @vigji.bsky.social · 20/11/2024I'm former zebrafishology PhD in Portugues lab - early career, if that still counts to be here (still doing some zebrafish stuff with them) 120
Reposted by Luigi PetruccoAriel 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. 042
Luigi Petrucco @vigji.bsky.social · 20/03/2024A 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! 231
Luigi Petrucco @vigji.bsky.social · 23/02/2024A 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! 000
Reposted by Luigi PetruccoManlio 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/... 151
Luigi Petrucco @vigji.bsky.social · 10/02/2024Got fooled badly by this at the beginning of my PhD, have been looking for detailed explanation of the phenomenon for a long time! Thanks for the article and the collection of references! 010
Reposted by Luigi PetruccoKate Jeffery @katejj.bsky.social · 07/02/2024Happy 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.socialroyalsocietypublishing.org 2125
Reposted by Luigi PetruccoBrainGlobe @brainglobe.info · 14/12/2023Interested 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. 033
Reposted by Luigi PetruccoBrainGlobe @brainglobe.info · 06/11/2023The 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...brainglobe.infoVersion 1: changes to registration and segmentation tools — BrainGlobe 033
Reposted by Luigi PetruccoNencki Open Lab @openlab.bsky.social · 06/11/2023Join us on the next Ideas in Neuroscience JC on Wednesday! This time we start 4:40 PM Polish time. 031
Luigi Petrucco @vigji.bsky.social · 25/09/2023(image about our work from @somedonkey.bsky.social, very fond of it!) 010
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! 1112