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Gabriel Béna 🌻
@solarpunkgabs.bsky.social
PhD Student at Imperial College with Dan Goodman. Pretending to be a neuro guy. Modularity, structure-function, resource-constrained ANNs/SNNs, neuromorphic + fun stuff like Neural Cellular Automatas 😎 Also working w/ SpiNNCloud on SpiNNaker2.
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January 21, 2026 at 12:29 PM
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Just published my review of neuroscience in 2025, on The Spike.

The 10th of these, would you believe?

This year we have foundation models, breakthroughs in using light to understand the brain, a gene therapy, and more

Enjoy!

medium.com/the-spike/20...
2025: A Review of the Year in Neuroscience
Enlightening the brain
medium.com
December 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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For the first Learning Club @cmc-lab.bsky.social in 2026, @marcusghosh.bsky.social on Jan 15, Thu, 2pm CET, will tell us about his recent paper (👇) [joint work w/ @neural-reckoning.org]. Want to attend, send an empty email to virtual [email protected] to get the link!
How does the structure of a neural circuit shape its function?

@neuralreckoning.bsky.social & I explore this in our new preprint:

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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January 14, 2026 at 9:42 PM
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How does the structure of a neural circuit shape its function?

@neuralreckoning.bsky.social & I explore this in our new preprint:

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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August 1, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Our first ad of 2026! Because politics stuck in 2006 won't meet the moment.

It's time to stand up to ICE, white supremacists, and the billionaire oligarchy.
January 7, 2026 at 3:59 PM
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Democrats need to grow a f*cking spine.

No more strongly worded letters. It’s time to draft articles of impeachment.

Impeach. Convict. Remove.
January 4, 2026 at 6:51 PM
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La transition à venir doit être pacifique, démocratique et respectueuse de la volonté du peuple français. Nous souhaitons que le Nouveau Front populaire, victorieux en 2024, puisse assurer au plus vite cette transition.
January 3, 2026 at 11:57 PM
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I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?
December 23, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas.

It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...
CANCELLED 60 MINUTES CECOT DOC
YouTube video by eoin higgins
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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PBS FRONTLINE's "Surviving CECOT" is incredible, disturbing, moving, and they didn't self censor.
Surviving CECOT | FRONTLINE | PBS | Official Site | Documentary Series
The story of three Venezuelan men branded as gang members and deported to CECOT.
www.pbs.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Toy models, just in time for Christmas!

Excited to share my first article for @thetransmitter.bsky.social

#neuroskyence
December 22, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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La guerre, c'est la paix.
La liberté, c'est l’esclavage.
L'ignorance, c'est la force.
L’opposition au macronisme c’est le vote du budget macroniste.
December 8, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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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
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« Il n’y a pas de violences policières », nous dit Gérald Darmanin.

Voici une vidéo avec des extraits des gendarmes à Sainte Soline grâce à Mediapart

Des mensonges d’Etat. Ce gouvernement doit rendre des comptes.
November 10, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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"Sale chien"
"Ta mère la pute"
"il l'a prise en pleine gueule, cheh"
"Des merdes comme ça, il faut les brûler"
"Faut qu'on les tue"

Cette vidéo des gendarmes à Sainte-Soline est à partager un maximum. Darmanin et tout le gouvernement Macron doivent rendre des comptes
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT8j...
November 9, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Bonjour, @philharmonie.bsky.social. À quelle heure est-il prévu que tu portes plainte contre les sbires néofascistes qui ont lynché un défenseur des droits humains et du droit international durant la soirée où tu as fait acclamer l’hymne d’un État génocidaire?
November 8, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Laurent Nuñez refuse que les vidéos révélées par Mediapart « permettent de critiquer de manière générale l'institution », alors qu'elles montrent précisément le caractère systémique des violences : dans + de 50% des escadrons, des gradés encouragent les tirs tendus www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...
« Faut leur tirer dans la gueule ! » : la manifestation de Sainte-Soline vue par les gendarmes
Mediapart et « Libération » révèlent des images inédites du 25 mars 2023, filmées par les caméras-piétons des gendarmes. Elles montrent des consignes prohibées et dangereuses données par la hiérarchi…
www.mediapart.fr
November 6, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Bizarrement, alors que ces images traînent dans les fonds de tiroirs poussiéreux de l’IGGN, ils ont attendu que Mediapart et Libé les en sortent pour ouvrir une enquête.
Il faudra juger Darmanin et ses petits copains pour ce qu’ils ont fait à Sainte-Soline.
Mediapart et « Libération » révèlent des images inédites du 25 mars 2023. Elles montrent des consignes prohibées et dangereuses données par la hiérarchie.

Enquête vidéo de @camillepolloni.bsky.social et @laurawoj1.bsky.social 👉‍ www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...
November 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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La gauche radicale est « l’antidote à Trump » à New York, mais « le péril populiste » à Paris. Zohran Mamdani est la solution là-bas, ici ce serait le problème.

Même gauche, deux traitements médiatiques. Sur place aussi les ralliés de la 25ème heure adorent ce qu'ils ont d'abord brûlé.
November 3, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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Introducing CorText: a framework that fuses brain data directly into a large language model, allowing for interactive neural readout using natural language.

tl;dr: you can now chat with a brain scan 🧠💬

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November 3, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Reminder this is happening this Wed/Thu. Free spiking neural network conference - registration required (see below).
Spiking NN fans - the #SNUFA workshop (Nov 5-6) agenda is finalised and online now. Make sure to register (free) soon. (Note you can register for either day and come to both.)

Agenda: snufa.net/2025/
Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/snufa-2025...

Thanks to all who voted on abstracts!

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SNUFA 2025
Spiking Neural networks as Universal Function Approximators
snufa.net
November 3, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Tu poses ici une excellente question, @lemonde.fr.
Et l'une des réponses les plus évidentes est que tu as (avec tant d'autres) très activement participé à la «dédiabolisation» et à la «normalisation» du RN en l'amalgamant obsessivement avec LFI sous cette unique appellation: «Les extrêmes.»
October 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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My 1st PhD student Anindya Ghosh has a great new paper out in PLOS comp bio. We combine hoverfly recordings with modelling to show how target motion and optic-flow sensitive neuron outputs are combined together to generate behaviourally relevant sensorimotor responses.

doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Understanding the mechanism of facilitation in hoverfly TSDNs
Author summary Many human sports, including tennis, football, and basketball, rely on the ability to visually detect and respond to the motion of a small, rapidly moving object. Indeed, some sports st...
doi.org
October 22, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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One of my “progressive” opponents took thousands of dollars from a gas executive. Call me crazy, but so-called “progressives” shouldn’t be taking money from the fossil fuel industry.

That’s why I’m not taking any money from fossil fuel executives, and asking my opponents to make the same pledge.
October 16, 2025 at 9:10 PM