Sophia Sanborn
@naturecomputes.bsky.social
Searching for principles of neural representation | Neuro + AI @ enigmaproject.ai | Stanford | sophiasanborn.com
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Enigma's at NeurIPS - come find us. New jobs posted on our website for research scientists & engineers in multi-modal modeling & interpretability
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enigmaproject.ai
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Our illustrated guide to non-Euclidian ML is finally published!
Check it out for
⭐️ gorgeous figures (with new additions!) on topology, algebra, and geometry in the field
⭐️ broken down tables for easy reading
⭐️ accessible text, additional refs, and more
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Check it out for
⭐️ gorgeous figures (with new additions!) on topology, algebra, and geometry in the field
⭐️ broken down tables for easy reading
⭐️ accessible text, additional refs, and more
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
August 1, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Our illustrated guide to non-Euclidian ML is finally published!
Check it out for
⭐️ gorgeous figures (with new additions!) on topology, algebra, and geometry in the field
⭐️ broken down tables for easy reading
⭐️ accessible text, additional refs, and more
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Check it out for
⭐️ gorgeous figures (with new additions!) on topology, algebra, and geometry in the field
⭐️ broken down tables for easy reading
⭐️ accessible text, additional refs, and more
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
MICrONS represents a huge step forward for the field. Big-data and AI will drive the next wave of discoveries in neuroscience
After 7 years, thrilled to finally share our #MICrONS functional connectomics results!
We recorded activity from ~75K neurons in the visual cortex of a single mouse, then mapped its wiring using electron microscopy.
nature.com/immersive/d42859-025-00001-w/index.html
We recorded activity from ~75K neurons in the visual cortex of a single mouse, then mapped its wiring using electron microscopy.
nature.com/immersive/d42859-025-00001-w/index.html
The MICrONS Project
An unprecedented dataset of high resolution anatomical images of individual cells in mouse visual cortex, mapped on to their responses. This integrated view of function and structure lays a foundation...
nature.com
April 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
MICrONS represents a huge step forward for the field. Big-data and AI will drive the next wave of discoveries in neuroscience
Reposted by Sophia Sanborn
Francis Crick called it “impossible” in 1979. Now it’s real.
A 1 mm cube of mouse brain, 200k cells, 500M synapses, all mapped alongside neuronal activity.
This new MICrONS dataset maps brain structure and function in a way that we've never seen🧪
🔗 www.microns-explorer.org
📄 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
A 1 mm cube of mouse brain, 200k cells, 500M synapses, all mapped alongside neuronal activity.
This new MICrONS dataset maps brain structure and function in a way that we've never seen🧪
🔗 www.microns-explorer.org
📄 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
April 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Francis Crick called it “impossible” in 1979. Now it’s real.
A 1 mm cube of mouse brain, 200k cells, 500M synapses, all mapped alongside neuronal activity.
This new MICrONS dataset maps brain structure and function in a way that we've never seen🧪
🔗 www.microns-explorer.org
📄 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
A 1 mm cube of mouse brain, 200k cells, 500M synapses, all mapped alongside neuronal activity.
This new MICrONS dataset maps brain structure and function in a way that we've never seen🧪
🔗 www.microns-explorer.org
📄 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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🎉 Good news! The fun doesn’t stop after the first social! Join us for a joint party with @neurreps.bsky.social and NeuroAI. Don’t miss out—scan the QR code to register now! 🚀
December 15, 2024 at 12:05 AM
🎉 Good news! The fun doesn’t stop after the first social! Join us for a joint party with @neurreps.bsky.social and NeuroAI. Don’t miss out—scan the QR code to register now! 🚀
Reposted by Sophia Sanborn
Excited to keep the conversation going at the NeurReps X UniReps X NeuroAI post-workshop social tn! partiful.com/e/0NoaoBepdm... @sharvaree.bsky.social @naturecomputes.bsky.social @christian-shewmake.bsky.social @unireps.bsky.social
RSVP to NEURREPS X UNIREPS X NEUROAI | Partiful
NeurReps and Unireps post workshop social - drinks and pizza social in a secret loft in gastown
Hosted by Enigma and New Theory
https://enigmaproject.ai
https://newtheory.ai
partiful.com
December 14, 2024 at 11:53 PM
Excited to keep the conversation going at the NeurReps X UniReps X NeuroAI post-workshop social tn! partiful.com/e/0NoaoBepdm... @sharvaree.bsky.social @naturecomputes.bsky.social @christian-shewmake.bsky.social @unireps.bsky.social
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NeurReps has begun! Join us today for a program combining geometry/topology, deep learning, neuroscience, and interpretability
December 14, 2024 at 5:18 PM
NeurReps has begun! Join us today for a program combining geometry/topology, deep learning, neuroscience, and interpretability
Reposted by Sophia Sanborn
All I have heard about Sophia's @naturecomputes.bsky.social project at Stanford sounded extremely exciting -- have a look if you are looking for a new opportunity!
Enigma's at NeurIPS - come find us. New jobs posted on our website for research scientists & engineers in multi-modal modeling & interpretability
enigmaproject.ai
enigmaproject.ai
December 13, 2024 at 5:46 PM
All I have heard about Sophia's @naturecomputes.bsky.social project at Stanford sounded extremely exciting -- have a look if you are looking for a new opportunity!
Reposted by Sophia Sanborn
I'm calling for a $1B-scale effort to transform our understanding of intelligence as profoundly as astronomical observatories transformed our understanding of the cosmos. We need a new kind of institution focused on scale, impact and financial sustainability. More here 2/14 bsky.app/profile/thet...
“Neuroscience has never been better positioned to make transformative discoveries about how intelligence emerges from neural circuits … But to truly harness them, we need a new research model that can drive systematic breakthroughs,” argues @davidamarkowitz.bsky.social
bit.ly/3ZO2hUa
#neuroskyence
bit.ly/3ZO2hUa
#neuroskyence
Solving intelligence requires new research and funding models
Our research ecosystem isn't built to deliver the breakthroughs needed to understand intelligence at scale. We need a dedicated research institution to take up the task.
www.thetransmitter.org
December 13, 2024 at 2:42 PM
I'm calling for a $1B-scale effort to transform our understanding of intelligence as profoundly as astronomical observatories transformed our understanding of the cosmos. We need a new kind of institution focused on scale, impact and financial sustainability. More here 2/14 bsky.app/profile/thet...
Enigma's at NeurIPS - come find us. New jobs posted on our website for research scientists & engineers in multi-modal modeling & interpretability
enigmaproject.ai
enigmaproject.ai
December 13, 2024 at 4:34 PM
Enigma's at NeurIPS - come find us. New jobs posted on our website for research scientists & engineers in multi-modal modeling & interpretability
enigmaproject.ai
enigmaproject.ai
Reposted by Sophia Sanborn
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark gave a nice shoutout to our roadmap for NeuroAI safety in his newsletter. open.substack.com/pub/importai...
December 11, 2024 at 7:26 AM
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark gave a nice shoutout to our roadmap for NeuroAI safety in his newsletter. open.substack.com/pub/importai...
Reposted by Sophia Sanborn
Ready for #NeurReps2024?
Our schedule at @neuripsconf.bsky.social
is out 📅
neurips.cc/virtual/2024...
Join us this Saturday! 🧠
With @eerosim.bsky.social @taliakonkle.bsky.social Stefanie Jegelka, Srinivas Turaga, Ilker Yildirim and Savannah Thais
Our schedule at @neuripsconf.bsky.social
is out 📅
neurips.cc/virtual/2024...
Join us this Saturday! 🧠
With @eerosim.bsky.social @taliakonkle.bsky.social Stefanie Jegelka, Srinivas Turaga, Ilker Yildirim and Savannah Thais
December 11, 2024 at 2:32 AM
Ready for #NeurReps2024?
Our schedule at @neuripsconf.bsky.social
is out 📅
neurips.cc/virtual/2024...
Join us this Saturday! 🧠
With @eerosim.bsky.social @taliakonkle.bsky.social Stefanie Jegelka, Srinivas Turaga, Ilker Yildirim and Savannah Thais
Our schedule at @neuripsconf.bsky.social
is out 📅
neurips.cc/virtual/2024...
Join us this Saturday! 🧠
With @eerosim.bsky.social @taliakonkle.bsky.social Stefanie Jegelka, Srinivas Turaga, Ilker Yildirim and Savannah Thais
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Definitive white paper on neuroAI inspired AI safety!
Excited to release what we’ve been working on at Amaranth Foundation, our latest whitepaper, NeuroAI for AI safety! A detailed, ambitious roadmap for how neuroscience research can help build safer AI systems while accelerating both virtual neuroscience and neurotech. 1/N
December 2, 2024 at 7:26 PM
Definitive white paper on neuroAI inspired AI safety!
Looking forward to NeurIPS next week. Who will I see there?
December 5, 2024 at 6:05 PM
Looking forward to NeurIPS next week. Who will I see there?
Reposted by Sophia Sanborn
May have shared this before elsewhere. But these are good -- are based off Nathan Carter's 'Visual Group Theory', and more or less cover the entire book: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Visual Group Theory - YouTube
This course contains over 40 videos from my undergraduate Abstract Algebra course (Math 4120) at Clemson University. I first taught it in 2010, using Nathan ...
www.youtube.com
December 3, 2024 at 8:30 PM
May have shared this before elsewhere. But these are good -- are based off Nathan Carter's 'Visual Group Theory', and more or less cover the entire book: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Fun collaboration on program induction and hierarchical planning led by @cgcorrea.bsky.social in @cocoscilab.bsky.social now out in Cognition!
My paper on hierarchical plans is out in Cognition!🎉
tldr: We ask participants to generate hierarchical plans in a programming game. People prefer to reuse beyond what standard accounts predict, which we formalize as induction of a grammar over actions.
authors.elsevier.com/a/1kBQr2Hx2x...
tldr: We ask participants to generate hierarchical plans in a programming game. People prefer to reuse beyond what standard accounts predict, which we formalize as induction of a grammar over actions.
authors.elsevier.com/a/1kBQr2Hx2x...
December 3, 2024 at 6:56 PM
Fun collaboration on program induction and hierarchical planning led by @cgcorrea.bsky.social in @cocoscilab.bsky.social now out in Cognition!
Reposted by Sophia Sanborn
My paper on hierarchical plans is out in Cognition!🎉
tldr: We ask participants to generate hierarchical plans in a programming game. People prefer to reuse beyond what standard accounts predict, which we formalize as induction of a grammar over actions.
authors.elsevier.com/a/1kBQr2Hx2x...
tldr: We ask participants to generate hierarchical plans in a programming game. People prefer to reuse beyond what standard accounts predict, which we formalize as induction of a grammar over actions.
authors.elsevier.com/a/1kBQr2Hx2x...
December 3, 2024 at 3:37 PM
My paper on hierarchical plans is out in Cognition!🎉
tldr: We ask participants to generate hierarchical plans in a programming game. People prefer to reuse beyond what standard accounts predict, which we formalize as induction of a grammar over actions.
authors.elsevier.com/a/1kBQr2Hx2x...
tldr: We ask participants to generate hierarchical plans in a programming game. People prefer to reuse beyond what standard accounts predict, which we formalize as induction of a grammar over actions.
authors.elsevier.com/a/1kBQr2Hx2x...
A differential path towards AI safety, leveraging a new era of large-scale neuroscience research. New white paper from @patrickmineault.bsky.social and the Amaranth Foundation, with contributions from Enigma.
Excited to release what we’ve been working on at Amaranth Foundation, our latest whitepaper, NeuroAI for AI safety! A detailed, ambitious roadmap for how neuroscience research can help build safer AI systems while accelerating both virtual neuroscience and neurotech. 1/N
December 2, 2024 at 7:54 PM
A differential path towards AI safety, leveraging a new era of large-scale neuroscience research. New white paper from @patrickmineault.bsky.social and the Amaranth Foundation, with contributions from Enigma.
Reposted by Sophia Sanborn
Excited to release what we’ve been working on at Amaranth Foundation, our latest whitepaper, NeuroAI for AI safety! A detailed, ambitious roadmap for how neuroscience research can help build safer AI systems while accelerating both virtual neuroscience and neurotech. 1/N
December 2, 2024 at 4:17 PM
Excited to release what we’ve been working on at Amaranth Foundation, our latest whitepaper, NeuroAI for AI safety! A detailed, ambitious roadmap for how neuroscience research can help build safer AI systems while accelerating both virtual neuroscience and neurotech. 1/N
Reposted by Sophia Sanborn
This should be fun! I'll be sharing our recent literature review on all things geometric/topological/algebraic ML✨🍩
With @naturecomputes.bsky.social Johan Mathe, D. Buracas, H. Lillemark, C. Shewmake, @abbybertics.bsky.social , X. Pennec, and @ninamiolane.bsky.social
With @naturecomputes.bsky.social Johan Mathe, D. Buracas, H. Lillemark, C. Shewmake, @abbybertics.bsky.social , X. Pennec, and @ninamiolane.bsky.social
December 5th our ML theory group at Cohere For AI is hosting @mathildepapillon.bsky.social to discuss their recent review arxiv.org/abs/2407.09468 on geometric/topological/algebraic ML.
Join us online 💫
Join us online 💫
December 2, 2024 at 5:15 PM
This should be fun! I'll be sharing our recent literature review on all things geometric/topological/algebraic ML✨🍩
With @naturecomputes.bsky.social Johan Mathe, D. Buracas, H. Lillemark, C. Shewmake, @abbybertics.bsky.social , X. Pennec, and @ninamiolane.bsky.social
With @naturecomputes.bsky.social Johan Mathe, D. Buracas, H. Lillemark, C. Shewmake, @abbybertics.bsky.social , X. Pennec, and @ninamiolane.bsky.social
Reposted by Sophia Sanborn
OK If we are moving to Bluesky I am rescuing my favourite ever twitter thread (Jan 2019).
The renamed:
Bluesky-sized history of neuroscience (biased by my interests)
The renamed:
Bluesky-sized history of neuroscience (biased by my interests)
December 1, 2024 at 8:29 PM
OK If we are moving to Bluesky I am rescuing my favourite ever twitter thread (Jan 2019).
The renamed:
Bluesky-sized history of neuroscience (biased by my interests)
The renamed:
Bluesky-sized history of neuroscience (biased by my interests)