Kayson Fakhar
@kayson.bsky.social
Post-Doc @camneuro.bsky.social | Computational Neuroscience, Neuro-AI, and a bit more.
https://kaysonfakhar.com
https://kaysonfakhar.com
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Working in theory/data-driven social science/methods for computational social science?
The second Italian Conference on Computational Social Science is coming: follow @cs2italy.bsky.social for updates and visit our website cs2italy.org for details.
🚨 Abstract submission deadline: January 15, 2026
The second Italian Conference on Computational Social Science is coming: follow @cs2italy.bsky.social for updates and visit our website cs2italy.org for details.
🚨 Abstract submission deadline: January 15, 2026
November 25, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Working in theory/data-driven social science/methods for computational social science?
The second Italian Conference on Computational Social Science is coming: follow @cs2italy.bsky.social for updates and visit our website cs2italy.org for details.
🚨 Abstract submission deadline: January 15, 2026
The second Italian Conference on Computational Social Science is coming: follow @cs2italy.bsky.social for updates and visit our website cs2italy.org for details.
🚨 Abstract submission deadline: January 15, 2026
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** Recruiting a postdoc ** We are looking for a postdoc to work on emotion, mental health, and interoception, based in London at @ucl.ac.uk in my lab (Clinical and Affective Neuroscience). Part of a large Wellcome Grant (co-led with the brilliant @camillanord.bsky.social)
November 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
** Recruiting a postdoc ** We are looking for a postdoc to work on emotion, mental health, and interoception, based in London at @ucl.ac.uk in my lab (Clinical and Affective Neuroscience). Part of a large Wellcome Grant (co-led with the brilliant @camillanord.bsky.social)
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Excited to share that the main work of my PhD has been published!
We found that having control over pain makes expectations more precise, and changes pain perception. This is accompanied by activation changes in the PAG, SMA and ACC.
You can read the full version of the paper here: rdcu.be/eQy6X
We found that having control over pain makes expectations more precise, and changes pain perception. This is accompanied by activation changes in the PAG, SMA and ACC.
You can read the full version of the paper here: rdcu.be/eQy6X
Controllability changes pain perception by increasing the precision of expectations
Nature Communications - Control over pain changes how intense it is perceived. Here, the authors show that this effect results from increased expectation precision with control, which changes...
rdcu.be
November 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Excited to share that the main work of my PhD has been published!
We found that having control over pain makes expectations more precise, and changes pain perception. This is accompanied by activation changes in the PAG, SMA and ACC.
You can read the full version of the paper here: rdcu.be/eQy6X
We found that having control over pain makes expectations more precise, and changes pain perception. This is accompanied by activation changes in the PAG, SMA and ACC.
You can read the full version of the paper here: rdcu.be/eQy6X
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We're kicking off #CBUMethodsDay with Clara Pecci Terroba's talk "Graph neural networks for neuroimaging" @mrccbu.bsky.social. The MRI/fMRI session is chaired by Dace Apsvalka @dcdace.bsky.social and Marta Correia.
November 24, 2025 at 9:30 AM
We're kicking off #CBUMethodsDay with Clara Pecci Terroba's talk "Graph neural networks for neuroimaging" @mrccbu.bsky.social. The MRI/fMRI session is chaired by Dace Apsvalka @dcdace.bsky.social and Marta Correia.
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Once again a reminder that so-called "neural representations" and codes are formal constructions of the *observer*, usually built to summarize the observer's measurements. Signatures of neural activity, not internal states of the system.
November 24, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Once again a reminder that so-called "neural representations" and codes are formal constructions of the *observer*, usually built to summarize the observer's measurements. Signatures of neural activity, not internal states of the system.
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Empirically, more extensive project descriptions do not affect the eventual decision anyway:
"We find that withholding proposal texts from panelists did not
detectibly impact their proposal rankings."
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
"We find that withholding proposal texts from panelists did not
detectibly impact their proposal rankings."
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Do grant proposal texts matter for funding decisions? A field experiment - Scientometrics
Scientists and funding agencies invest considerable resources in writing and evaluating grant proposals. But do grant proposal texts noticeably change panel decisions in single blind review? We report...
link.springer.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Empirically, more extensive project descriptions do not affect the eventual decision anyway:
"We find that withholding proposal texts from panelists did not
detectibly impact their proposal rankings."
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
"We find that withholding proposal texts from panelists did not
detectibly impact their proposal rankings."
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Our team just released a comprehensive and accessible review of Signed Networks — two years in the making! Theory, methods, applications, all in one place. Feedback welcome.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.17247
arxiv.org/abs/2511.17247
Signed Networks: theory, methods, and applications
Signed networks provide a principled framework for representing systems in which interactions are not merely present or absent but qualitatively distinct: friendly or antagonistic, supportive or confl...
arxiv.org
November 24, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Our team just released a comprehensive and accessible review of Signed Networks — two years in the making! Theory, methods, applications, all in one place. Feedback welcome.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.17247
arxiv.org/abs/2511.17247
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One example of how multiplexing might be implemented in the brain was shown in the great work by Thomas Akam with Dmitri Kullmann, a decade ago.
The papers are cited well but the general multiplexing idea never really took the field by storm as much as it deserved
www.nature.com/articles/nrn...
The papers are cited well but the general multiplexing idea never really took the field by storm as much as it deserved
www.nature.com/articles/nrn...
November 24, 2025 at 10:07 AM
One example of how multiplexing might be implemented in the brain was shown in the great work by Thomas Akam with Dmitri Kullmann, a decade ago.
The papers are cited well but the general multiplexing idea never really took the field by storm as much as it deserved
www.nature.com/articles/nrn...
The papers are cited well but the general multiplexing idea never really took the field by storm as much as it deserved
www.nature.com/articles/nrn...
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This kind of stuff is why I say that I worry that the tools of neuroscience are not properly vetted
“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.”
Neural dynamics outside task-coding dimensions drive decision trajectories through transient amplification
Most behaviors involve neural dynamics in high-dimensional activity spaces. A common approach is to extract dimensions that capture task-related variability, such as those separating stimuli or choice...
www.biorxiv.org
November 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
This kind of stuff is why I say that I worry that the tools of neuroscience are not properly vetted
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Network Medicine is entering a new phase: one that demands we rethink how we study, model and ultimately treat complex diseases.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#ComplexSystems #NetworkScience #Medicine #MedSky 🧪🧬🌐
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#ComplexSystems #NetworkScience #Medicine #MedSky 🧪🧬🌐
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November 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Network Medicine is entering a new phase: one that demands we rethink how we study, model and ultimately treat complex diseases.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#ComplexSystems #NetworkScience #Medicine #MedSky 🧪🧬🌐
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#ComplexSystems #NetworkScience #Medicine #MedSky 🧪🧬🌐
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It feels like the converastion about manifold dimensionality is back, so I thought I'd share a paper that explains nicely why measuring the "embedding dimensionality" of a manifold (e.g., counting PCs) can be very different from its actual "intrinsic dimensionality (DoFs)
doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
Redirecting
doi.org
November 24, 2025 at 2:29 AM
It feels like the converastion about manifold dimensionality is back, so I thought I'd share a paper that explains nicely why measuring the "embedding dimensionality" of a manifold (e.g., counting PCs) can be very different from its actual "intrinsic dimensionality (DoFs)
doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
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The developmental trajectories of executive function from adolescence to old age
Heather J. Ferguson, Victoria E. A. Brunsdon & Elisabeth E. F. Bradford
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Heather J. Ferguson, Victoria E. A. Brunsdon & Elisabeth E. F. Bradford
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The developmental trajectories of executive function from adolescence to old age - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - The developmental trajectories of executive function from adolescence to old age
www.nature.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The developmental trajectories of executive function from adolescence to old age
Heather J. Ferguson, Victoria E. A. Brunsdon & Elisabeth E. F. Bradford
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Heather J. Ferguson, Victoria E. A. Brunsdon & Elisabeth E. F. Bradford
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Now that we're all back from SFN, let's chat about @thetransmitter.bsky.social "State of Neuroscience" report. It's huge! So much to discuss!
Let me share what I see. I'd love to hear your thoughts as well.
Let's start with the semantic map /1
www.thetransmitter.org/state-of-neu...
Let me share what I see. I'd love to hear your thoughts as well.
Let's start with the semantic map /1
www.thetransmitter.org/state-of-neu...
The State of Neuroscience 2025
The Transmitter presents a portrait of the field through four lenses: its focus, its output, its people and its funding.
www.thetransmitter.org
November 20, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Now that we're all back from SFN, let's chat about @thetransmitter.bsky.social "State of Neuroscience" report. It's huge! So much to discuss!
Let me share what I see. I'd love to hear your thoughts as well.
Let's start with the semantic map /1
www.thetransmitter.org/state-of-neu...
Let me share what I see. I'd love to hear your thoughts as well.
Let's start with the semantic map /1
www.thetransmitter.org/state-of-neu...
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ping @r3rt0.bsky.social & @k4tj4.bsky.social
A hierarchical framework for cortical and subcortical gray-matter parcellation across rodents, primates, and humans | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A hierarchical framework for cortical and subcortical gray-matter parcellation across rodents, primates, and humans | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 20, 2025 at 2:22 AM
ping @r3rt0.bsky.social & @k4tj4.bsky.social
A hierarchical framework for cortical and subcortical gray-matter parcellation across rodents, primates, and humans | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A hierarchical framework for cortical and subcortical gray-matter parcellation across rodents, primates, and humans | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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📢 We are organising the Senses in Motion conference for the third time, and we are now accepting abstracts for posters or talks.
Deadline for abstracts: 19 December
Conference dates: 18–21 May 2026
Location: Harnack House, Berlin
Register via this page👇
sensesinmotion.org
#neuroskyence #neurosky
Deadline for abstracts: 19 December
Conference dates: 18–21 May 2026
Location: Harnack House, Berlin
Register via this page👇
sensesinmotion.org
#neuroskyence #neurosky
November 20, 2025 at 6:23 PM
📢 We are organising the Senses in Motion conference for the third time, and we are now accepting abstracts for posters or talks.
Deadline for abstracts: 19 December
Conference dates: 18–21 May 2026
Location: Harnack House, Berlin
Register via this page👇
sensesinmotion.org
#neuroskyence #neurosky
Deadline for abstracts: 19 December
Conference dates: 18–21 May 2026
Location: Harnack House, Berlin
Register via this page👇
sensesinmotion.org
#neuroskyence #neurosky
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Reminder if you missed #SNUFA spiking neural network and neuromorphic workshop earlier this month, all our talks were recorded and are now available to watch. 🤖🧠🧪
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
SNUFA 2025 Workshop - YouTube
Spiking neural networks as universal function approximators (SNUFA) online workshop 2025. For more see http://snufa.net/2025/
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Reminder if you missed #SNUFA spiking neural network and neuromorphic workshop earlier this month, all our talks were recorded and are now available to watch. 🤖🧠🧪
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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I think almost all scientific projects should be planned carefully. And I think an app can dramatically improve that. So I wrote an app for that (free for now, if you can fund this let me know). I tested it quite a bit (>8000 users in beta so far). try it: planyourscience.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I think almost all scientific projects should be planned carefully. And I think an app can dramatically improve that. So I wrote an app for that (free for now, if you can fund this let me know). I tested it quite a bit (>8000 users in beta so far). try it: planyourscience.com
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How do we make sense of scientific literature that is growing explosively to the point where no-one could read all the relevant papers, and is contaminated with fraudulent and LLM-generated papers? I think that science isn't currently equipped to deal with this, and we need to. #science #metascience
November 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
How do we make sense of scientific literature that is growing explosively to the point where no-one could read all the relevant papers, and is contaminated with fraudulent and LLM-generated papers? I think that science isn't currently equipped to deal with this, and we need to. #science #metascience
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𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼 "𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝘅𝗲𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲" (𝗮𝗸𝗮 𝗵𝗼𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘂𝘀)?
Via Decision Formation Through Multi-Area Population Dynamics
Excellent short review.
doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...
#neuroskyence
Via Decision Formation Through Multi-Area Population Dynamics
Excellent short review.
doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...
#neuroskyence
November 20, 2025 at 8:37 PM
𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼 "𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝘅𝗲𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲" (𝗮𝗸𝗮 𝗵𝗼𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘂𝘀)?
Via Decision Formation Through Multi-Area Population Dynamics
Excellent short review.
doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...
#neuroskyence
Via Decision Formation Through Multi-Area Population Dynamics
Excellent short review.
doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...
#neuroskyence
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🚨New paper! 🚨
"The topology of synergy: Linking topological and information-theoretic approaches to higher-order interactions in complex systems"
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journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
"The topology of synergy: Linking topological and information-theoretic approaches to higher-order interactions in complex systems"
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journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
The topology of synergy: Linking topological and information-theoretic approaches to higher-order interactions in complex systems
Author summary The problem of understanding when a set of interacting components of a complex systems produce behavior that is “greater than the sum of their parts" is foundational in many areas of mo...
journals.plos.org
November 20, 2025 at 8:46 PM
🚨New paper! 🚨
"The topology of synergy: Linking topological and information-theoretic approaches to higher-order interactions in complex systems"
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journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
"The topology of synergy: Linking topological and information-theoretic approaches to higher-order interactions in complex systems"
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journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
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We are excited to announce #COGNESTIC 2026 @mrccbu.bsky.social in Cambridge, between 14-25 Sep 2026. Our 2-week summer school provides training in state-of-the-art methods for open neuroimaging analysis and great opportunities for professional networking:
www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/events/cogne...
www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/events/cogne...
November 17, 2025 at 10:18 AM
We are excited to announce #COGNESTIC 2026 @mrccbu.bsky.social in Cambridge, between 14-25 Sep 2026. Our 2-week summer school provides training in state-of-the-art methods for open neuroimaging analysis and great opportunities for professional networking:
www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/events/cogne...
www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/events/cogne...
Distributors be like “upload your cover in 5000x5000 pixel” then compress it like there’s no tomorrow. Anyway, here’s my new album.
open.spotify.com/album/3wtNe4...
open.spotify.com/album/3wtNe4...
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
open.spotify.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Distributors be like “upload your cover in 5000x5000 pixel” then compress it like there’s no tomorrow. Anyway, here’s my new album.
open.spotify.com/album/3wtNe4...
open.spotify.com/album/3wtNe4...
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🗓️ Mark your calendars: the next #BernsteinConference will take place September 28 to October 1, 2026, in Frankfurt am Main!
Follow the link below to meet the first confirmed speakers. More to come!
👉 bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...
#BernsteinNetwork #CompNeuro
Follow the link below to meet the first confirmed speakers. More to come!
👉 bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...
#BernsteinNetwork #CompNeuro
November 13, 2025 at 8:00 AM
🗓️ Mark your calendars: the next #BernsteinConference will take place September 28 to October 1, 2026, in Frankfurt am Main!
Follow the link below to meet the first confirmed speakers. More to come!
👉 bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...
#BernsteinNetwork #CompNeuro
Follow the link below to meet the first confirmed speakers. More to come!
👉 bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...
#BernsteinNetwork #CompNeuro
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How “intelligent” is a slime mold? When it solves mazes, it might not be thinking:it’s obeying physics. Our new paper with
@jordiplam.bsky.social shows how it follows a least action principle,letting physics do the job arxiv.org/pdf/2511.08531
@drmichaellevin.bsky.social @docteur-drey.bsky.social
@jordiplam.bsky.social shows how it follows a least action principle,letting physics do the job arxiv.org/pdf/2511.08531
@drmichaellevin.bsky.social @docteur-drey.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 4:17 AM
How “intelligent” is a slime mold? When it solves mazes, it might not be thinking:it’s obeying physics. Our new paper with
@jordiplam.bsky.social shows how it follows a least action principle,letting physics do the job arxiv.org/pdf/2511.08531
@drmichaellevin.bsky.social @docteur-drey.bsky.social
@jordiplam.bsky.social shows how it follows a least action principle,letting physics do the job arxiv.org/pdf/2511.08531
@drmichaellevin.bsky.social @docteur-drey.bsky.social
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After years of development and testing, we are happy to present our work in "Diffusion MRI Processing in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study: Innovations and Applications"! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... A thread:
Diffusion MRI Processing in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study: Innovations and Applications
The landmark ongoing HEALthy Brain and Cognitive Development (HBCD) study will longitudinally chart brain development in a large sample (projected n=7,200) of infants through age 10 years with multimo...
www.biorxiv.org
November 11, 2025 at 10:03 PM
After years of development and testing, we are happy to present our work in "Diffusion MRI Processing in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study: Innovations and Applications"! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... A thread: