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Lindia Tjuatja @lindiatjuatja.bsky.social · Jun 9

When it comes to text prediction, where does one LM outperform another? If you've ever worked on LM evals, you know this question is a lot more complex than it seems. In our new #acl2025 paper, we developed a method to find fine-grained differences between LMs:

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Janelia Research Campus @hhmijanelia.bsky.social · Jul 23

🪰 A new ‘Eyemap’ developed by a team led by Arthur Zhao & @michaelreiser.bsky.social reveals how visual information detected by the fly’s eye shows up in neurons deep in the brain. Remarkably, the eye’s shape determines how flies see motion.👁️
🔗 hhmi.news/4kSZjou

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Kristin Branson @kristinmbranson.bsky.social · Jul 17

TIL when upgrading your Ubuntu OS, sometimes it will just hang and not tell you what's going on. The solution is just to hold down the Enter key until it starts going again:
www.kubuntuforums.net/forum/curren...

Upgrade from 20.04 to 22.04 hangs; terminal not interactive - Kubuntu Forums

I got tired of always ignoring the popups saying I needed to upgrade 20.04 (my Fossa was now a fossil...) so I clicked on the Upgrade button in the popup itself, which gave me some kind of terminal wi...

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Andrew Gordon Wilson @andrewgwils.bsky.social · Jul 17

Excited to be presenting my paper "Deep Learning is Not So Mysterious or Different" tomorrow at ICML, 11 am - 1:30 pm, East Exhibition Hall A-B, E-500. I made a little video overview as part of the ICML process (viewable from Chrome): recorder-v3.slideslive.com#/share?share...

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Yoshua Bengio @yoshuabengio.bsky.social · May 31

I recently participated in the High-Level Expert Panel on AGI, convened by the Council of Presidents of the UN General Assembly, which has just released its final report on the Governance of the Transition to AGI. Report below ⬇️
uncpga.world/agi-uncpga-r...

AGI UNCPGA Report | Council of Presidents of the United Nations General Assembly

AGI UNCPGA Report

uncpga.world

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Kristin Branson @kristinmbranson.bsky.social · May 12

cute little label at the bottom of a climb that i thought applies to lots of things, including this "5.9"

Tag on a rock that says "Mental as Anything" and has an icon of a brain

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Kristin Branson @kristinmbranson.bsky.social · May 8

Had fun slotting together my new Framework 13 laptop! Look how cute my purple USB port is!

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Kristin Branson @kristinmbranson.bsky.social · Apr 21

I'd really like someone to get AI to solve package management for me. (I convinced myself to try to learn pixi this week and it has not solved all my problems.)

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FGVC Workshop @fgvcworkshop.bsky.social · Apr 9

BirdCLEF25: Audio-based species identification focused on birds, amphibians, mammals, and insects in Colombia.
👉 www.kaggle.com/competitions...
@cvprconference.bsky.social @kaggle.com
#FGVC #CVPR #CVPR2025 #LifeCLEF
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Kristin Branson @kristinmbranson.bsky.social · Apr 7

I think the issue is with his sources of AI experts -- they are exclusively industry executives who are selling the product they are claiming is revolutionary. There's a lot of unknown about the future and even present capabilities of AI, according to this self-proclaimed expert.

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Kristin Branson @kristinmbranson.bsky.social · Apr 3

Highly recommend the tutorial notebook by @briandepasquale.bsky.social for a good intro to GNNs and also working with Drosophila connectomics data!
tinyurl.com/cosyne-gnn-2...

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Kristin Branson @kristinmbranson.bsky.social · Mar 28

It's amazing that, in the visual system, just examining neuron connectivity by eye has led to insights into what is being computed. This paper has all the resources needed for trying to understand these computations, and is exceptional in it's inventive ways for sharing this information

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Kristin Branson @kristinmbranson.bsky.social · Mar 28

Flies are exceptionally good at fast and efficient visual motion processing. I'm fascinated by the heuristics/hacks evolution has come up with for processing motion in a moving animal. What can computer vision for robotics or on the edge learn from this?

Michael Reiser @michaelreiser.bsky.social · Mar 27

I know there's a 𝒍𝒐𝒕 going on right now, but I couldn’t be prouder to share this long-incubated labor of love: the complete connectome of the male 𝐷𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑎 optic lobe 🧠🪰
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Connectome-driven neural inventory of a complete visual system - Nature

A connectome of the right optic lobe from a male fruitfly is presented together with an extensive collection of genetic drivers matched to a comprehensive neuron-type catalogue.

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Michael Reiser @michaelreiser.bsky.social · Mar 27

I know there's a 𝒍𝒐𝒕 going on right now, but I couldn’t be prouder to share this long-incubated labor of love: the complete connectome of the male 𝐷𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑎 optic lobe 🧠🪰
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Connectome-driven neural inventory of a complete visual system - Nature

A connectome of the right optic lobe from a male fruitfly is presented together with an extensive collection of genetic drivers matched to a comprehensive neuron-type catalogue.

www.nature.com

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Kristin Branson @kristinmbranson.bsky.social · Mar 28

Excited to participate in the Graph Neural Networks workshop at Cosyne on Monday March 31 (day 1):
IT’S ALL CONNECTED!
Graph approaches to geometric complexity in neuroscience
sites.google.com/bu.edu/gnnwo...
Hope to see you there!

gnnworkshop cosyne2025

It's All Connected!

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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · Mar 25

Oh I'm very into open science approaches that deploy Jupyter Notebooks. I really like what @arcadiascience.com is doing with their new publication efforts & team - research.arcadiascience.com/pub/perspect...

Closing the divide between analysis and publication: The notebook pub

We're experimenting with treating our computational notebooks as publications themselves. This approach reduces publication burden, encourages faster publishing, and builds in reproducibility. Scienti...

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Dr. Allyson Sgro @allysonsgro.bsky.social · Mar 25

This piece is evergreen: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-u...

A University President Responds to Those Who Have Suggested the School Should Dip Into the Endowment

To the esteemed members of our faculty and staff, As president of this University, there is nothing more important to me than the health and safety...

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Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social · Mar 25

Please share broadly to your networks so this can reach its intended audience! And we are also looking for volunteers to help instruct/mentor. Details here: cv4ecology.caltech.edu/ai-upskillin...

AI upskilling workshop for former US/state conservation scientists

cv4ecology.caltech.edu

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Brian DePasquale @briandepasquale.bsky.social · Mar 24

@cosynemeeting.bsky.social GNN workshop speaker profile 3 is Ashok Litwin-Kumar, of @columbiauniversity.bsky.social! Ashok has been a driving force in connectomics-based modeling.

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Laura Grima @lauragrima.bsky.social · Mar 24

Excited to be presenting this work at #cosyne2025 this week - as a poster (session 3, no. 3-017) and as part of the “Reimagining RL in the Brain” workshop organised by Alison Comrie and @nathanieldaw.bsky.social. My first in-person cosyne, so looking forward to it!

Laura Grima @lauragrima.bsky.social · Nov 7

The first preprint of my postdoc with @dudman.bsky.social is now online! Here we wanted to understand the algorithms mice use when learning to forage in large environments with many potential resources. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Laura Driscoll @lndriscoll.bsky.social · Mar 24

After hearing about the ongoing hotel workers strike at the #COSYNE2025 hotel, I cancelled my reservation and booked a room at a hotel a short 10 minute walk from the meeting. It was easy and I encourage others to do the same! #solidarity montreal.citynews.ca/2025/01/14/q...

Montreal’s Queen Elizabeth Hotel reopens after temporarily closing during holidays due to labour dispute

The Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal has reopened after temporarily closing due to an ongoing labour dispute. Quebec’s largest hotel made the announcement on Dec. 12 and shut their doors day...

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · Mar 23

I'm organizing a "Data for Good Rapid Response Team", i.e. a set of people who can be mobilized to work on short data science projects to help various groups and organizations. Sign up here if this is of interest to you, and please share with others with data science skills.

Data-for-good rapid response team

I'm collecting people with data science skills who may want to hear about sporadic opportunities to use their skills for good on short projects. Project themes will center on topics I am connected wit...

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Kristin Branson @kristinmbranson.bsky.social · Mar 23

Looking forward to learning all about the newest in graph neural nets at Cosyne next week!

Brian DePasquale @briandepasquale.bsky.social · Mar 21

Just over a week to #cosyne2025 workshops! Speaker profile number 2 for GNN workshop w/ @neurokim.bsky.social and Sam Lewallen is @kristinmbranson.bsky.social of @hhmijanelia.bsky.social!

Kristin’s lab develops cutting edge machine vision approaches for quantitatively studying animal behavior.

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jp flores (he/him) @jpflores.rbind.io · Mar 19

I sat down with Jaida Elcock (@sofishtication.bsky.social), a marine biologist studying basking sharks, and Danny (@ecoevodanny.bsky.social), a coral researcher & HHMI (@hhmi.org) Gilliam Fellow, to talk all things ocean! 🦈🌿🌊

We explored their journeys, research, and more!

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Kim Stachenfeld, PhD @neurokim.bsky.social · Mar 18

Want to procedurally generate large-scale relational reasoning experiments in natural language, to study human psychology 🧠 or eval LLMs 🤖?

We have a tool for you! Our latest #ICLR work on long-context/relational reasoning evaluation for LLMs ReCogLab!
github.com/google-deepm...

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