Kameron Decker Harris
@kamdh.bsky.social
Computational neuroscientist and computer science professor
Western Washington University
Applied mathematics PhD
Fan of Nature
https://glomerul.us
Western Washington University
Applied mathematics PhD
Fan of Nature
https://glomerul.us
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Straight from the horse's mouth:
“These models somehow just generalize dramatically worse than people. It's a very fundamental thing.”
“These models somehow just generalize dramatically worse than people. It's a very fundamental thing.”
November 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Straight from the horse's mouth:
“These models somehow just generalize dramatically worse than people. It's a very fundamental thing.”
“These models somehow just generalize dramatically worse than people. It's a very fundamental thing.”
Good thread about dimensionality here
Y’all are reading this paper in the wrong way.
We love to trash dominant hypothesis, but we need to look for evidence against the manifold hypothesis elsewhere:
This elegant work doesn't show neural dynamics are high D, nor that we should stop using PCA
It’s quite the opposite!
(thread)
We love to trash dominant hypothesis, but we need to look for evidence against the manifold hypothesis elsewhere:
This elegant work doesn't show neural dynamics are high D, nor that we should stop using PCA
It’s quite the opposite!
(thread)
“Our findings challenge the conventional focus on low-dimensional coding subspaces as a sufficient framework for understanding neural computations, demonstrating that dimensions previously considered task-irrelevant and accounting for little variance can have a critical role in driving behavior.”
November 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Good thread about dimensionality here
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📍Excited to share that our paper was selected as a Spotlight at #NeurIPS2025!
arxiv.org/pdf/2410.03972
It started from a question I kept running into:
When do RNNs trained on the same task converge/diverge in their solutions?
🧵⬇️
arxiv.org/pdf/2410.03972
It started from a question I kept running into:
When do RNNs trained on the same task converge/diverge in their solutions?
🧵⬇️
November 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
📍Excited to share that our paper was selected as a Spotlight at #NeurIPS2025!
arxiv.org/pdf/2410.03972
It started from a question I kept running into:
When do RNNs trained on the same task converge/diverge in their solutions?
🧵⬇️
arxiv.org/pdf/2410.03972
It started from a question I kept running into:
When do RNNs trained on the same task converge/diverge in their solutions?
🧵⬇️
Reposted by Kameron Decker Harris
Looking forward to sharing our work at #NeurIPS2025 next week!
Session 6 on Fri 12/5 at 4:30-7:30pm, Poster 2001 ("a space odyssey")
Details on this thread by the brilliant lead author @annhuang42.bsky.social below:
Session 6 on Fri 12/5 at 4:30-7:30pm, Poster 2001 ("a space odyssey")
Details on this thread by the brilliant lead author @annhuang42.bsky.social below:
📍Excited to share that our paper was selected as a Spotlight at #NeurIPS2025!
arxiv.org/pdf/2410.03972
It started from a question I kept running into:
When do RNNs trained on the same task converge/diverge in their solutions?
🧵⬇️
arxiv.org/pdf/2410.03972
It started from a question I kept running into:
When do RNNs trained on the same task converge/diverge in their solutions?
🧵⬇️
November 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Looking forward to sharing our work at #NeurIPS2025 next week!
Session 6 on Fri 12/5 at 4:30-7:30pm, Poster 2001 ("a space odyssey")
Details on this thread by the brilliant lead author @annhuang42.bsky.social below:
Session 6 on Fri 12/5 at 4:30-7:30pm, Poster 2001 ("a space odyssey")
Details on this thread by the brilliant lead author @annhuang42.bsky.social below:
Messing around with number theory. Learning a lot, the problems feel very hard.
November 23, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Messing around with number theory. Learning a lot, the problems feel very hard.
We are wasting our lives
What are we doing when we publish 5, 10, 20 scientific papers/year
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:
a 🧵 1/n
Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
a 🧵 1/n
Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
November 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
We are wasting our lives
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I looked up who originated the term “throwing shade”, assuming it was like, rupaul, but
November 14, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I looked up who originated the term “throwing shade”, assuming it was like, rupaul, but
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Psst - neuromorphic folks. Did you know that you can solve the SHD dataset with 90% accuracy using only 22 kb of parameter memory by quantising weights and delays? Check out our preprint with @pengfei-sun.bsky.social and @danakarca.bsky.social, or read the TLDR below. 👇🤖🧠🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2510.27434
Exploiting heterogeneous delays for efficient computation in low-bit neural networks
Neural networks rely on learning synaptic weights. However, this overlooks other neural parameters that can also be learned and may be utilized by the brain. One such parameter is the delay: the brain...
arxiv.org
November 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Psst - neuromorphic folks. Did you know that you can solve the SHD dataset with 90% accuracy using only 22 kb of parameter memory by quantising weights and delays? Check out our preprint with @pengfei-sun.bsky.social and @danakarca.bsky.social, or read the TLDR below. 👇🤖🧠🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2510.27434
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Job alert!!! My department (Geology at @wwu.edu ) is searching for a hydrogeologist at the assistant professor level (tenure track). Fabulous colleagues and students (undergrad and master's level), spectacular setting. Ping me with questions.
hr.wwu.edu/careers-facu...
hr.wwu.edu/careers-facu...
November 13, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Job alert!!! My department (Geology at @wwu.edu ) is searching for a hydrogeologist at the assistant professor level (tenure track). Fabulous colleagues and students (undergrad and master's level), spectacular setting. Ping me with questions.
hr.wwu.edu/careers-facu...
hr.wwu.edu/careers-facu...
I'm celebrating lobbing another proposal in the direction of the NSF. Hopeful that this one is positively reviewed. I am pretty excited about a collaborative project with my colleague Josh Kaplan in neuroscience!
November 12, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I'm celebrating lobbing another proposal in the direction of the NSF. Hopeful that this one is positively reviewed. I am pretty excited about a collaborative project with my colleague Josh Kaplan in neuroscience!
Herzog talks skateboarding
youtu.be/EQLInlnfWUc?...
youtu.be/EQLInlnfWUc?...
Discussing Skateboarding with Filmmaker Werner Herzog
YouTube video by jenkemmag
youtu.be
November 12, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Herzog talks skateboarding
youtu.be/EQLInlnfWUc?...
youtu.be/EQLInlnfWUc?...
I don't have that access, so I really am thankful!
I'm thankful for Sci-Hub, even though I have access to most journals through multiple institutions.
November 9, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I don't have that access, so I really am thankful!
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Very proud to have launched our manifesto and report to make Dutch academia more sustainable - a moment to celebrate after two years of hard work with the Green Young Academy, DJA and many inspiring colleagues
dejongeakademie.nl/en/news/3148...
dejongeakademie.nl/en/news/3148...
November 5, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Very proud to have launched our manifesto and report to make Dutch academia more sustainable - a moment to celebrate after two years of hard work with the Green Young Academy, DJA and many inspiring colleagues
dejongeakademie.nl/en/news/3148...
dejongeakademie.nl/en/news/3148...
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NSF makes you say who you got conflicts (coauthored) with. We (really just Jordan Matelsky) just built you a tool for that. Literally one click: bib.experiments.kordinglab.com/nsf-coa
NSF COA | Jordan Matelsky
bib.experiments.kordinglab.com
November 11, 2024 at 8:11 PM
NSF makes you say who you got conflicts (coauthored) with. We (really just Jordan Matelsky) just built you a tool for that. Literally one click: bib.experiments.kordinglab.com/nsf-coa
TSP
November 3, 2025 at 9:44 PM
TSP
Feliz día de los muertos, chiquillos
November 2, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Feliz día de los muertos, chiquillos
Mechanical Turk-botics
Pay $500/month&request on phone app a task to be done-human virtually in your house teleops robot-sometimes succeeds. "In reality, projects like Tesla’s Optimus or 1X’s NEO are less about practical consumer robotics and more about cashing in off of technological hype." futurism.com/future-socie...
$20,000 Robot Servant Comes With a Major Catch
Owners of the NEO butler-bot from 1X will have to schedule a time for remote operators to plug in and complete tasks.
futurism.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Mechanical Turk-botics
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"We must recognize that there are thresholds beyond which we will simply exceed the adaptive capacity that human civilization affords us. This is the real lesson your readers should take away from the unprecedented summer we’re currently experiencing."
@michaelemann.bsky.social nails it again.
@michaelemann.bsky.social nails it again.
"Mann Replies on Wildfires and Climate Change" | My debunking of Bjorn Lomborg as it appears in today's print edition of the Wall Street Journal:
October 31, 2025 at 5:55 PM
"We must recognize that there are thresholds beyond which we will simply exceed the adaptive capacity that human civilization affords us. This is the real lesson your readers should take away from the unprecedented summer we’re currently experiencing."
@michaelemann.bsky.social nails it again.
@michaelemann.bsky.social nails it again.
We had a nice CS & Behavioral Neurosci student workshop yesterday given by @alleninstitute.org scientists and @wwu.edu alums! Thanks to @sejdevries.bsky.social and Su-Yee and Feng for organizing
October 31, 2025 at 5:37 PM
We had a nice CS & Behavioral Neurosci student workshop yesterday given by @alleninstitute.org scientists and @wwu.edu alums! Thanks to @sejdevries.bsky.social and Su-Yee and Feng for organizing
Ummm... I don't see how bifurcations are underexplored! Like look into *most* comp neuron papers and you'll find them
Bifurcations—an underexplored concept in neuroscience—can help explain how small differences in neural circuits give rise to entirely novel functions, writes Xiao-Jing Wang.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/neural-dynam...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/neural-dynam...
The missing half of the neurodynamical systems theory
Bifurcations—an underexplored concept in neuroscience—can help explain how small differences in neural circuits give rise to entirely novel functions.
www.thetransmitter.org
October 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Ummm... I don't see how bifurcations are underexplored! Like look into *most* comp neuron papers and you'll find them
👁️👁️
How does our brain excel at complex object recognition, yet get fooled by simple illusory contours? What unifying principle governs all Gestalt laws of perceptual organization?
We may have an answer: integration of learned priors through feedback. New paper with @kenmiller.bsky.social! 🧵
We may have an answer: integration of learned priors through feedback. New paper with @kenmiller.bsky.social! 🧵
October 26, 2025 at 6:30 AM
👁️👁️
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what Piali said! Looking to recruit a new assistant professor to our fabulous neuroscience group and department at Brandeis. Please circulate far and wide and alert anyone you know who is on the job market!
#neuroscience
#neuroscience
TT faculty job opening in #Neuroscience!
We are looking for a colleague to join us in our fantastic Biology Department and Neuroscience Program at Brandeis. We are a group of *very* collaborative, supportive, and productive scientists (& humans!) so please apply
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30961
We are looking for a colleague to join us in our fantastic Biology Department and Neuroscience Program at Brandeis. We are a group of *very* collaborative, supportive, and productive scientists (& humans!) so please apply
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30961
Brandeis University, Biology Department
Job #AJO30961, Assistant Professor in Biology and Neuroscience Program, Biology Department, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, US
academicjobsonline.org
October 23, 2025 at 12:53 AM
what Piali said! Looking to recruit a new assistant professor to our fabulous neuroscience group and department at Brandeis. Please circulate far and wide and alert anyone you know who is on the job market!
#neuroscience
#neuroscience
No kings allowed!
October 19, 2025 at 1:04 AM
No kings allowed!
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Theory/Computational post-doc position at the Allen Institute. This is a unique opportunity to do theory in a community deeply embedded in data.
alleninstitute.submittable.com/submit/33511...
alleninstitute.submittable.com/submit/33511...
Allen Institute - Shanahan Foundation Fellowship at the Interface of Data and Neuroscience 2025-2026
Thank you for applying for the Shanahan Foundation Fellowship at the Interface of Data and Neuroscience. Applications for the Fall 2026 cohort will close at 11:59pm PT on December 1st, 2025.
Important...
alleninstitute.submittable.com
October 17, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Theory/Computational post-doc position at the Allen Institute. This is a unique opportunity to do theory in a community deeply embedded in data.
alleninstitute.submittable.com/submit/33511...
alleninstitute.submittable.com/submit/33511...
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Hey Microsoft, before you transform humanity with artificial general intelligence, can you just get the search to work on Outlook?
October 9, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Hey Microsoft, before you transform humanity with artificial general intelligence, can you just get the search to work on Outlook?