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Aitor Morales-Gregorio

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Computational neuroscientist 🧠🇪🇺 @ Charles Uni (previously @fz-juelich.de) | Catching up on graphic design | Electrical engineer vibes⚡ | he/him 🏳️‍🌈 https://morales-gregorio.github.io

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Aitor Morales-Gregorio @aitormg.bsky.social · Nov 20

If you are interested in neural manifolds, dimensionality, brain states, and/or top-down modulation you are gonna like this one! 🧠🙈💫🧪

"Neural manifolds in V1 change with top-down signals from V4 targeting the foveal region" doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

Also enjoy this animation :) #SciArt #neuroskyence

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 2d

Jane Goodall offers sage advice for the rest of us. #3E

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Ember @ember-energy.org · 6d

NEW | Surging wind and solar power helped make electricity in Spain CHEAPER than in most European countries.

📈 As wind and solar grows…
📉 …The influence of costly fossil fuels on the electricity price shrinks

https://loom.ly/8DEmqVc

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Aitor Morales-Gregorio @aitormg.bsky.social · 7d

Woah! Late to the party, but congrats!! 🥳

If you need some spontaneous spike data, I can send it your way 😆

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Richard Gao @rdgao.bsky.social · 15d

I've been waiting some years to make this joke and now it’s real:

I conned somebody into giving me a faculty job!

I’m starting as a W1 Tenure-Track Professor at Goethe University Frankfurt in a week (lol), in the Faculty of CS and Math

and I'm recruiting PhD students 🤗

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ALT: a man wearing a white shirt and tie smiles in front of a window

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Alessio Quaresima @bluedebris.bsky.social · 8d

So cool to walk from Ising models to recurrent network dynamics at the Braitenberg prize ceremony of Sara Solla! At #bernstein conference #compneurosky

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Aitor Morales-Gregorio @aitormg.bsky.social · 8d

Manifold time 😉

Sara Solla giving the Valentin Braitenberg award lecture at the Bernstein 2025 conference in Frankfurt

Aitor Morales-Gregorio @aitormg.bsky.social · 10d

Undecided which workshop to attend at #BernsteinConference ?

We put together a stellar lineup for a satellite workshop on the effects of top-down signals on neuronal dynamics! 🧠✨📣

Join us tomorrow in room 0.101 !

bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...

With @ackurth.bsky.social

(SW2025) Top-down control of neural dynamics – Bernstein Netzwerk Computational Neuroscience

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Viet Anh Khoa Tran @ktran.de · 20d

Our preprint has been accepted at #NeurIPS2025! 🎉

I will be presenting TMCL in just two weeks at the #BernsteinConference. Hope to see some of you there! @bernsteinneuro.bsky.social

Many thanks to my advisor Willem Wybo, and to Emre Neftci for the great support.

Viet Anh Khoa Tran @ktran.de · Jun 10

New #NeuroAI preprint on #ContinualLearning!

Continual learning methods struggle in mostly unsupervised environments with sparse labels (e.g. parents telling their child the object is an 'apple').
We propose that in the cortex, predictive coding of high-level top-down modulations solves this! (1/6)

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Joao Barbosa @jbarbosa.org · 12d

Very excited for this year Bernstein! @bernsteinneuro.bsky.social

We'll bring a bunch of new work, here's a thread with the summaries.

Please check them out if you are interested in (low rank) RNN and distributed computations.

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Joao Barbosa @jbarbosa.org · 12d

On the first workshop talk (Monday), I'll make the case that everything might be everywhere when you decode, but that is not the end of the story: different regions have very different dynamics and encoding geometries.

This workshop is organized by @aitormg.bsky.social and @ackurth.bsky.social

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Disrupted Science @disruptedscience.bsky.social · 29d

A position paper urging academia to be critical of AI technologies is an excellent wake-up call. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @olivia.science
www.the-geyser.com/are-we-losin...

Are We Losing Our Minds?

A new position paper warns against the uncritical adoption of AI in academia

www.the-geyser.com

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Cian O'Donnell @cianodonnell.bsky.social · Aug 25

gave a short lecture this morning on principles of computational modelling, always try to stress the point made by @romainbrette.bsky.social that adding details to a model does not automatically make it more realistic.

The wooden airplane model has more 'details' but only the paper model can fly

Slide with title 'Details vs realism' showing a picture of a wooden model airplane on left and a paper airplane on right.

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Kresten Lindorff-Larsen @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social · Oct 27

Fourier transform of Google Trends of Fourier transform 🧪

Left plot shows the Google trends of the term "Fourier transform". The right plot shows the Fourier transform of the google trends with peaks at 6 and 12 months

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Dan Levenstein @dlevenstein.bsky.social · Aug 17

The shitty first draft is and always will be the number one strategy for writing well.

Editing is a craft you can hone. Writing from scratch is a different dumpster fire every time you put a pen to a blank page.

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · Aug 12

If you're at/watching #CCN2025, check out work from my lab:

"DynVision: a toolbox for building temporally realistic CNNs" Robin Gutzen, Poster B104 tomorrow

"Reward Prediction Error-based Attention Explains Learning Curves" Mingze Li Leukos, Poster C96 & contributed talk Friday morning.

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · Aug 15

Paper v1 is here (will be updated soon):
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

DynVision: A Toolbox for Biologically Plausible Recurrent Convolutional Networks

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have demonstrated remarkable success in image recognition and exhibit conceptual similarities to the primate ventral visual pathway. Adding recurrence opens the do...

www.biorxiv.org

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · Aug 13

If you weren't able to catch Robin's poster during the session, check it out here #CCN2025 #neuroskyence #compneuro #neuroai

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Aitor Morales-Gregorio @aitormg.bsky.social · Aug 15

We went well beyond the abstract for the poster! 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=a...

In collaboration with @neuro-karolina.bsky.social ✨😄

Poster Presentation

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Aitor Morales-Gregorio @aitormg.bsky.social · Aug 15

I'll be presenting some of my new work on EEG mental imagery, oscillations and (functional) connectivity! If you are still at #CCN2025 make sure to drop by poster C159 today :)

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · Aug 14

Appreciate @davidpoeppel.bsky.social's reminder to scientists of their role in this time, at #CCN2025 (the reminder may be even more pertinent to non-US colleagues who have a chance to prevent the some of the worst effects before they really arrive)

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Joao Barbosa @jbarbosa.org · Aug 10

Sad to miss #CCN2025. It will be the 1st conference where a PhD working w/ me will speak 😭

go see Lubna's talk (Friday) about distributed neural correlates of flexible decision making in 🐒,

work done in collaboration w/ @scottbrincat.bsky.social @siegellab.bsky.social & @earlkmiller.bsky.social

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Jorge Mejias @jorgefmejias.bsky.social · Aug 10

We start strong on Monday at 15h, when we organize the Satellite Workshop 'RNNs making decisions' together with @molanomazon.bsky.social. Speakers @summerfieldlab.bsky.social, @veronicachelu.bsky.social, @seanfw.bsky.social and others: sites.google.com/view/rnnsmak...

RNNs making decisions

The goal of this CCN workshop is to host a scientific discussion on the study of decision-making using recurrent neural networks. The selected speakers will cover all aspects of decision-making, from ...

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Jack Bailey @jack-bailey.co.uk · Aug 7

Didn’t want to believe this was true. It’s true.

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The Onion @theonion.com · Aug 5

‘Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method

PARIS—In an effort to modernize the principles and empirical procedures of examining phenomena and advancing humanity’s collective knowledge, the International Council for Science announced Thursday t...

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Matt Perich @mattperich.bsky.social · Aug 4

📰 I really enjoyed writing this article with @thetransmitter.bsky.social! In it, I summarize parts of our recent perspective article on neural manifolds (www.nature.com/articles/s41...), with a focus on highlighting just a few cool insights into the brain we've already seen at the population level.

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · Aug 4

Neural manifold properties can help us understand how animal brains deal with competing and multifaceted information, execute flexible behaviors and reuse common computations, writes @mattperich.bsky.social.

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/neural-dynam...

Neural population-based approaches have opened new windows into neural computations and behavior

Neural manifold properties can help us understand how animal brains deal with complex information, execute flexible behaviors and reuse common computations.

www.thetransmitter.org

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