Adeel Razi
@adeelrazi.bsky.social
Computational Neuroscientist, NeuroAI, Causality. Monash, UCL, CIFAR. Lab: https://comp-neuro.github.io/
Pinned
Adeel Razi
@adeelrazi.bsky.social
· Mar 17
🧵 How do psychedelics shape brain activity?
Our new paper presents the largest neuroimaging study of psilocybin to date—revealing how context structures psychedelic brain states.
Title: Psychedelics Align Brain Activity with Context
Paper: lnkd.in/gt-kMR6d
A thread 🧵👇 1/n
Our new paper presents the largest neuroimaging study of psilocybin to date—revealing how context structures psychedelic brain states.
Title: Psychedelics Align Brain Activity with Context
Paper: lnkd.in/gt-kMR6d
A thread 🧵👇 1/n
Reposted by Adeel Razi
"The Self-Evidencing Agent" - my new book - is out now with @mitpress.bsky.social
Can be purchased, or just download the whole thing for free, via the 'Open Access' option.
I'm grateful to @anilseth.bsky.social and Karl Friston for the generous endorsements.
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255389...
Can be purchased, or just download the whole thing for free, via the 'Open Access' option.
I'm grateful to @anilseth.bsky.social and Karl Friston for the generous endorsements.
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255389...
The Self-Evidencing Agent
What is it to be a human individual, an agent? According to Jakob Hohwy, it is to “self-evidence,” to actively seek out sensory evidence for one&...
mitpress.mit.edu
February 7, 2026 at 8:21 AM
"The Self-Evidencing Agent" - my new book - is out now with @mitpress.bsky.social
Can be purchased, or just download the whole thing for free, via the 'Open Access' option.
I'm grateful to @anilseth.bsky.social and Karl Friston for the generous endorsements.
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255389...
Can be purchased, or just download the whole thing for free, via the 'Open Access' option.
I'm grateful to @anilseth.bsky.social and Karl Friston for the generous endorsements.
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255389...
Reposted by Adeel Razi
Maths! And Brains! In Melbourne!! Swoon 🧠
ECRs, you only have until 20th Feb to submit your abstracts. Registration is free (but you must attend) & prizes awarded to the highest quality posters and flash talks.
Submit your abstracts here & see 👇 for more lnkd.in/dZtndkH3
ECRs, you only have until 20th Feb to submit your abstracts. Registration is free (but you must attend) & prizes awarded to the highest quality posters and flash talks.
Submit your abstracts here & see 👇 for more lnkd.in/dZtndkH3
📢Maths in the Brain Workshop 2026 in Melbourne.
We will bring together researchers across Australia with a shared interest in understanding the brain from a quantitative perspective.
This year's keynote is delivered by Professor James Cole, University College London.
1/4🧵
We will bring together researchers across Australia with a shared interest in understanding the brain from a quantitative perspective.
This year's keynote is delivered by Professor James Cole, University College London.
1/4🧵
February 16, 2026 at 12:43 PM
Maths! And Brains! In Melbourne!! Swoon 🧠
ECRs, you only have until 20th Feb to submit your abstracts. Registration is free (but you must attend) & prizes awarded to the highest quality posters and flash talks.
Submit your abstracts here & see 👇 for more lnkd.in/dZtndkH3
ECRs, you only have until 20th Feb to submit your abstracts. Registration is free (but you must attend) & prizes awarded to the highest quality posters and flash talks.
Submit your abstracts here & see 👇 for more lnkd.in/dZtndkH3
📢Maths in the Brain Workshop 2026 in Melbourne.
We will bring together researchers across Australia with a shared interest in understanding the brain from a quantitative perspective.
This year's keynote is delivered by Professor James Cole, University College London.
1/4🧵
We will bring together researchers across Australia with a shared interest in understanding the brain from a quantitative perspective.
This year's keynote is delivered by Professor James Cole, University College London.
1/4🧵
February 2, 2026 at 4:57 AM
📢Maths in the Brain Workshop 2026 in Melbourne.
We will bring together researchers across Australia with a shared interest in understanding the brain from a quantitative perspective.
This year's keynote is delivered by Professor James Cole, University College London.
1/4🧵
We will bring together researchers across Australia with a shared interest in understanding the brain from a quantitative perspective.
This year's keynote is delivered by Professor James Cole, University College London.
1/4🧵
Reposted by Adeel Razi
Thread 2:
A way to see a stochastic differential equation is the equation below representing how X evolves in time. dW is a "stochastic increment" -- it is introducing "randomness". But a LOT changes because of that, and it is the reason the below representation is not actually a good one! (1/n)
A way to see a stochastic differential equation is the equation below representing how X evolves in time. dW is a "stochastic increment" -- it is introducing "randomness". But a LOT changes because of that, and it is the reason the below representation is not actually a good one! (1/n)
January 23, 2026 at 4:40 AM
Thread 2:
A way to see a stochastic differential equation is the equation below representing how X evolves in time. dW is a "stochastic increment" -- it is introducing "randomness". But a LOT changes because of that, and it is the reason the below representation is not actually a good one! (1/n)
A way to see a stochastic differential equation is the equation below representing how X evolves in time. dW is a "stochastic increment" -- it is introducing "randomness". But a LOT changes because of that, and it is the reason the below representation is not actually a good one! (1/n)
What do we actually mean when we say “generative model” in neuroimaging?
The term is everywhere, in neuroscience and AI, but its meaning is often assumed rather than stated. In a new bioRxiv perspective, we asked how researchers really use and understand it.
🧵
The term is everywhere, in neuroscience and AI, but its meaning is often assumed rather than stated. In a new bioRxiv perspective, we asked how researchers really use and understand it.
🧵
January 15, 2026 at 5:40 AM
What do we actually mean when we say “generative model” in neuroimaging?
The term is everywhere, in neuroscience and AI, but its meaning is often assumed rather than stated. In a new bioRxiv perspective, we asked how researchers really use and understand it.
🧵
The term is everywhere, in neuroscience and AI, but its meaning is often assumed rather than stated. In a new bioRxiv perspective, we asked how researchers really use and understand it.
🧵
Our new paper, led by Brett Kagan and Valentina Baccetti, proposes a quantifiable, substrate-independent hierarchy of information processing to identify necessary conditions for agency, grounding agency in measurable dynamics rather than vague labels.
arxiv.org/abs/2601.03498
arxiv.org/abs/2601.03498
A Quantifiable Information-Processing Hierarchy Provides a Necessary Condition for Detecting Agency
As intelligent systems are developed across diverse substrates - from machine learning models and neuromorphic hardware to in vitro neural cultures - understanding what gives a system agency has becom...
arxiv.org
January 9, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Our new paper, led by Brett Kagan and Valentina Baccetti, proposes a quantifiable, substrate-independent hierarchy of information processing to identify necessary conditions for agency, grounding agency in measurable dynamics rather than vague labels.
arxiv.org/abs/2601.03498
arxiv.org/abs/2601.03498
I am in Karachi. Let’s meet if you like to talk about brains, models, and machines!
December 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I am in Karachi. Let’s meet if you like to talk about brains, models, and machines!
Reposted by Adeel Razi
1/ Why does RL struggle with social dilemmas? How can we ensure that AI learns to cooperate rather than compete?
Introducing our new framework: MUPI (Embedded Universal Predictive Intelligence) which provides a theoretical basis for new cooperative solutions in RL.
Preprint🧵👇
(Paper link below.)
Introducing our new framework: MUPI (Embedded Universal Predictive Intelligence) which provides a theoretical basis for new cooperative solutions in RL.
Preprint🧵👇
(Paper link below.)
December 3, 2025 at 7:19 PM
1/ Why does RL struggle with social dilemmas? How can we ensure that AI learns to cooperate rather than compete?
Introducing our new framework: MUPI (Embedded Universal Predictive Intelligence) which provides a theoretical basis for new cooperative solutions in RL.
Preprint🧵👇
(Paper link below.)
Introducing our new framework: MUPI (Embedded Universal Predictive Intelligence) which provides a theoretical basis for new cooperative solutions in RL.
Preprint🧵👇
(Paper link below.)
Reposted by Adeel Razi
Joint modelling of brain and behaviour dynamics with artificial intelligence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Joint modelling of brain and behaviour dynamics with artificial intelligence - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Artificial intelligence is rapidly advancing our mechanistic understanding of the shared structure between the brain and higher-order behaviours. In this Review, Mathis and Mathis synthesize state-of-...
www.nature.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Joint modelling of brain and behaviour dynamics with artificial intelligence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📢Generative Models in Neuroimaging Survey
We’re running a short survey on how neuroimaging (aka #OHBM) community defines, uses & evaluates generative models, from biophysical simulations to ML-based approaches
👉 t.co/lRQj4qmknO
@ohbmofficial.bsky.social @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social
We’re running a short survey on how neuroimaging (aka #OHBM) community defines, uses & evaluates generative models, from biophysical simulations to ML-based approaches
👉 t.co/lRQj4qmknO
@ohbmofficial.bsky.social @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 9:12 AM
📢Generative Models in Neuroimaging Survey
We’re running a short survey on how neuroimaging (aka #OHBM) community defines, uses & evaluates generative models, from biophysical simulations to ML-based approaches
👉 t.co/lRQj4qmknO
@ohbmofficial.bsky.social @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social
We’re running a short survey on how neuroimaging (aka #OHBM) community defines, uses & evaluates generative models, from biophysical simulations to ML-based approaches
👉 t.co/lRQj4qmknO
@ohbmofficial.bsky.social @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social
Reposted by Adeel Razi
Jonny Smallwood @themindwanders.bsky.social was a beloved friend and mentor. He was taken from us too soon. His was a beautiful mind who understood the beauty of minds. As ever before, his kind voice guides me and his work will continue. We miss you Jonny. www.cbs.mpg.de/news/obituar...
Obituary – Jonathan Smallwood
www.cbs.mpg.de
November 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Jonny Smallwood @themindwanders.bsky.social was a beloved friend and mentor. He was taken from us too soon. His was a beautiful mind who understood the beauty of minds. As ever before, his kind voice guides me and his work will continue. We miss you Jonny. www.cbs.mpg.de/news/obituar...
Reposted by Adeel Razi
What is consciousness, and could AI have it? It's an honour to be giving the 2025 Voltaire Lecture, this Hallowe'en (Fri 31/10), for @humanists.uk, at @conwayhall.bsky.social in London, 19:30-21:00 (also livestreamed) humanists.uk/events/volta... 👻
What is consciousness, and could AI have it? | The Voltaire Lecture 2025, with Professor Anil Seth
Professor Anil Seth is a neuroscientist, author, and public speaker who has pioneered research into the brain basis of consciousness for more than 20 years
humanists.uk
October 28, 2025 at 10:48 AM
What is consciousness, and could AI have it? It's an honour to be giving the 2025 Voltaire Lecture, this Hallowe'en (Fri 31/10), for @humanists.uk, at @conwayhall.bsky.social in London, 19:30-21:00 (also livestreamed) humanists.uk/events/volta... 👻
Now accepting paper submissions for the “Neuro for AI & AI for Neuro: Towards Multi-Modal Natural Intelligence” workshop at #AAAI2026!
🔗 https://neuroai-multimodal-workshop.github.io/
@aaai.org
🔗 https://neuroai-multimodal-workshop.github.io/
@aaai.org
October 28, 2025 at 1:25 PM
This is BIG. Nobody was expecting this cure to work or even if it was possible ever to treat HD!
September 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
This is BIG. Nobody was expecting this cure to work or even if it was possible ever to treat HD!
We are hiring for our psilocybin clinical trial.
1. Research Officer (testing and screening), 2 positions
careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
2. Research Officer (Peer Navigator)
careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
DM if you have questions.
@wellcomeleap.bsky.social
1. Research Officer (testing and screening), 2 positions
careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
2. Research Officer (Peer Navigator)
careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
DM if you have questions.
@wellcomeleap.bsky.social
LinkedIn
This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn
lnkd.in
September 17, 2025 at 12:53 PM
We are hiring for our psilocybin clinical trial.
1. Research Officer (testing and screening), 2 positions
careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
2. Research Officer (Peer Navigator)
careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
DM if you have questions.
@wellcomeleap.bsky.social
1. Research Officer (testing and screening), 2 positions
careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
2. Research Officer (Peer Navigator)
careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
DM if you have questions.
@wellcomeleap.bsky.social
Thank you very much @prelights.bsky.social and uMontreal Neuro team for coosing and covering our preprint.
Psilocybin restructures brain activity depending on the sensory context in which it is taken
Read this new #preLight by uMontreal Neuro preLighters Loïk Holdrinet, Nour Eltaani and Emma Clini talking about the #preprint of Devon Stoliker, @adeelrazi.bsky.social and the team.
Read this new #preLight by uMontreal Neuro preLighters Loïk Holdrinet, Nour Eltaani and Emma Clini talking about the #preprint of Devon Stoliker, @adeelrazi.bsky.social and the team.
Psychedelics Align Brain Activity with Context - preLights
Psilocybin restructures brain activity depending on the sensory context in which it is taken.
prelights.biologists.com
September 2, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Thank you very much @prelights.bsky.social and uMontreal Neuro team for coosing and covering our preprint.
Reposted by Adeel Razi
Integrating and interpreting brain maps | doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
Imaging and recording technologies make it possible to map multiple biological features of the brain. How can these features be conceptually integrated into a coherent understanding of brain structure and function? ⤵️
Imaging and recording technologies make it possible to map multiple biological features of the brain. How can these features be conceptually integrated into a coherent understanding of brain structure and function? ⤵️
August 4, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Integrating and interpreting brain maps | doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
Imaging and recording technologies make it possible to map multiple biological features of the brain. How can these features be conceptually integrated into a coherent understanding of brain structure and function? ⤵️
Imaging and recording technologies make it possible to map multiple biological features of the brain. How can these features be conceptually integrated into a coherent understanding of brain structure and function? ⤵️
We are hiring for our brand new psilocybin clinical trial. Please DM if you have questions!
1. Senior Research Fellow (Clinical Trial Lead)
careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
2. Senior Clinical Psychotherapist
careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
1. Senior Research Fellow (Clinical Trial Lead)
careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
2. Senior Clinical Psychotherapist
careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
July 30, 2025 at 10:46 PM
We are hiring for our brand new psilocybin clinical trial. Please DM if you have questions!
1. Senior Research Fellow (Clinical Trial Lead)
careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
2. Senior Clinical Psychotherapist
careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
1. Senior Research Fellow (Clinical Trial Lead)
careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
2. Senior Clinical Psychotherapist
careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
Very much forward to this @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
⭐ Speaker Spotlight: Adeel Razi
🗓️ June 25 | 🕥 10:30 – 11:15
We’re excited to feature Adeel Razi at OHBM 2025.
More information about Adeel in comments!
#OHBM2025
🗓️ June 25 | 🕥 10:30 – 11:15
We’re excited to feature Adeel Razi at OHBM 2025.
More information about Adeel in comments!
#OHBM2025
June 1, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Very much forward to this @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
Reposted by Adeel Razi
Do you like brain network hubs?🧠🌐✳️Do you like genes?🧬What about neurodevelopment?👶What if I told you the latest work by @garedaba.bsky.social and myself combined all of these?🤯🤯🤯
See Gareth's thread for a primer of our findings, then read the paper for the details!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
See Gareth's thread for a primer of our findings, then read the paper for the details!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
May 28, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Do you like brain network hubs?🧠🌐✳️Do you like genes?🧬What about neurodevelopment?👶What if I told you the latest work by @garedaba.bsky.social and myself combined all of these?🤯🤯🤯
See Gareth's thread for a primer of our findings, then read the paper for the details!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
See Gareth's thread for a primer of our findings, then read the paper for the details!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Adeel Razi
Can a Universal Basic Income (UBI) become feasible—even if AI fully automates existing jobs and creates no new ones?
We derive a closed-form UBI threshold tied to AI capabilities that suggests it's potentially achievable by mid-century even under moderate AI growth assumptions:
We derive a closed-form UBI threshold tied to AI capabilities that suggests it's potentially achievable by mid-century even under moderate AI growth assumptions:
May 27, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Can a Universal Basic Income (UBI) become feasible—even if AI fully automates existing jobs and creates no new ones?
We derive a closed-form UBI threshold tied to AI capabilities that suggests it's potentially achievable by mid-century even under moderate AI growth assumptions:
We derive a closed-form UBI threshold tied to AI capabilities that suggests it's potentially achievable by mid-century even under moderate AI growth assumptions:
🧵Training binary or spiking neural networks is hard.
Gradients vanish, surrogates are noisy, batchnorm is brittle.
We propose a Bayesian approach based on KL divergence minimization—and it works.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.17962
Work by James Walker & Moein Khajehnejad
@neuro-ai.bsky.social
1/6
Gradients vanish, surrogates are noisy, batchnorm is brittle.
We propose a Bayesian approach based on KL divergence minimization—and it works.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.17962
Work by James Walker & Moein Khajehnejad
@neuro-ai.bsky.social
1/6
A Principled Bayesian Framework for Training Binary and Spiking Neural Networks
We propose a Bayesian framework for training binary and spiking neural networks that achieves state-of-the-art performance without normalisation layers. Unlike commonly used surrogate gradient methods...
arxiv.org
May 26, 2025 at 4:04 AM
🧵Training binary or spiking neural networks is hard.
Gradients vanish, surrogates are noisy, batchnorm is brittle.
We propose a Bayesian approach based on KL divergence minimization—and it works.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.17962
Work by James Walker & Moein Khajehnejad
@neuro-ai.bsky.social
1/6
Gradients vanish, surrogates are noisy, batchnorm is brittle.
We propose a Bayesian approach based on KL divergence minimization—and it works.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.17962
Work by James Walker & Moein Khajehnejad
@neuro-ai.bsky.social
1/6
Why do brains rely on inference, uncertainty, and structure…
while AI systems chase rewards in unstructured worlds?
Are we missing something fundamental about how intelligence emerges?
#NeuroAI #InferenceOverOptimization
while AI systems chase rewards in unstructured worlds?
Are we missing something fundamental about how intelligence emerges?
#NeuroAI #InferenceOverOptimization
May 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Why do brains rely on inference, uncertainty, and structure…
while AI systems chase rewards in unstructured worlds?
Are we missing something fundamental about how intelligence emerges?
#NeuroAI #InferenceOverOptimization
while AI systems chase rewards in unstructured worlds?
Are we missing something fundamental about how intelligence emerges?
#NeuroAI #InferenceOverOptimization
Reposted by Adeel Razi
Re-posting is appreciated: We have a fully funded PhD position in CMC lab @cmc-lab.bsky.social (at @tudresden_de). You can use forms.gle/qiAv5NZ871kv... to send your application and find more information. Deadline is April 30. Find more about CMC lab: cmclab.org and email me if you have questions.
forms.gle
February 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Re-posting is appreciated: We have a fully funded PhD position in CMC lab @cmc-lab.bsky.social (at @tudresden_de). You can use forms.gle/qiAv5NZ871kv... to send your application and find more information. Deadline is April 30. Find more about CMC lab: cmclab.org and email me if you have questions.