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Wu Tsai Institute | Yale University @wutsaiyale.bsky.social · 5d

📣 WTI is hiring faculty positions! Are you interested in advancing our understanding of the brain + how it gives rise to cognition?

Two calls are open:

Open-rank search, Neurocomputation, deadline: 12.1.25
Senior search, Neurodevelopment, rolling review

🔗 wti.yale.edu/opportunities

#KnowTogether

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Ben Hayden @benhayden.bsky.social · 16d

New manuscript from the lab!

"Mirror manifolds: partially overlapping neural subspaces for speaking and listening"

Led by superstar grad student Anilu Chavez (not on Bluesky)!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Mirror manifolds: partially overlapping neural subspaces for speaking and listening

Participants in conversations need to associate words their speakers but also retain those words general meanings. For example, someone talking about their hand is not referring to the other speakers ...

www.biorxiv.org

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Jay Hennig @jhennig.bsky.social · 28d

Very cool work showing how hippocampal representations could span space, and associative/episodic memories. Thanks for the presentation today Sarthak!

Sarthak Chandra @sarthakc.bsky.social · Jan 17

1/ Super-excited to share our new work “Episodic and associative memory from spatial scaffolds in the hippocampus”, that just appeared in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s41... Key insights and ideas 👇#tweeprint

Episodic and associative memory from spatial scaffolds in the hippocampus - Nature

A neocortical–entorhinal–hippocampal network model based on grid cell states recapitulates experimental results and reconciles the spatial, associative and episodic memory roles of the hippocampus.

www.nature.com

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Allie Sinclair @asinclair.bsky.social · Sep 8

🌟 Excited to share that I'm recruiting PhD students in Psychology for my new lab at Rice University this cycle (Signal boost appreciated!)

To learn more, check out the Learning & Behavior Change Lab website:
www.sinclairlab-rice.com

Applications are due Dec 1st: psychology.rice.edu/graduate/pro...

Sinclair Lab

The Learning & Behavior Change Lab at Rice University, directed by Dr. Sinclair

www.sinclairlab-rice.com

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Jacob Zavatone-Veth @jzv.bsky.social · Sep 4

Since I'm back on BlueSky - with @frostedblakess.bsky.social and @cpehlevan.bsky.social we wrote a brief perspective on how ideas about summary statistics from the statistical physics of learning could potentially help inform neural data analysis... (1/2)

Frontiers | Summary statistics of learning link changing neural representations to behavior

How can we make sense of large-scale recordings of neural activity across learning? Theories of neural network learning with their origins in statistical phy...

www.frontiersin.org

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Jenelle Feather @jfeather.bsky.social · Aug 5

Join us at #NeurIPS2025 for our Data on the Brain & Mind workshop! We aim to connect machine learning researchers and neuroscientists/cognitive scientists, with a focus on emerging datasets.

More info: data-brain-mind.github.io

Data on the Brain & Mind @NeurIPS2025 @dataonbrainmind.bsky.social · Aug 4

🚨 Excited to announce our #NeurIPS2025 Workshop: Data on the Brain & Mind

📣 Call for: Findings (4- or 8-page) + Tutorials tracks

🎙️ Speakers include @dyamins.bsky.social @lauragwilliams.bsky.social @cpehlevan.bsky.social

🌐 Learn more: data-brain-mind.github.io

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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · Jul 17

Efficient coding theories often implicitly or explicitly assume slow changes in tuning (e.g., through synaptic plasticity). Arthur Prat-Carrabin has collected psychophysical data showing that it can be fast, and this can be explained by a gain-adaptive RNN:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Fast efficient coding and sensory adaptation in gain-adaptive recurrent networks

As the statistics of sensory environments often change, neural sensory systems must adapt to maintain useful representations. Efficient coding prescribes that neuronal tuning curves should be optimize...

www.biorxiv.org

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Anirvan Sengupta @anirvansengupta.bsky.social · Jul 16

At #ICML2025, presenting work done at @flatironinstitute.org w Matt Smart and @albertobietti.bsky.social on in-context denoising (arxiv.org/abs/2502.05164). Come to Matt’s oral, Thursday, 4:15-4:30 PM, West Ballroom A, and see us right after at poster #E-3207, 4:30-7:00 PM, East Exhibition Hall A-B.

In-context denoising with one-layer transformers: connections between attention and associative memory retrieval

We introduce in-context denoising, a task that refines the connection between attention-based architectures and dense associative memory (DAM) networks, also known as modern Hopfield networks. Using a...

arxiv.org

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Hadi Vafaii @hadivafaii.bsky.social · Jul 9

Announcing the new "Sensorimotor AI" Journal Club — please share/repost!

w/ Kaylene Stocking, Tommaso Salvatori, and @elisennesh.bsky.social

Sign up link: forms.gle/o5DXD4WMdhTg...

More details below 🧵[1/5]

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Eero Simoncelli @eerosim.bsky.social · Jun 18

Submissions now accepted for a special issue of the Journal of Vision:

Choose your stimuli wisely: Advances in stimulus synthesis and selection

Submission deadline: Dec 12, 2025
Futher details: jov.arvojournals.org/ss/synthetic...

JOV Special Issue - Choose your stimuli wisely: Advances in stimulus synthesis and selection | JOV | ARVO Journals

jov.arvojournals.org

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Florentin Guth @florentinguth.bsky.social · Jun 6

What is the probability of an image? What do the highest and lowest probability images look like? Do natural images lie on a low-dimensional manifold?
In a new preprint with Zahra Kadkhodaie and @eerosim.bsky.social, we develop a novel energy-based model in order to answer these questions: 🧵

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Friedemann Zenke @fzenke.bsky.social · May 27

1/6 Why does the brain maintain such precise excitatory-inhibitory balance?
Our new preprint explores a provocative idea: Small, targeted deviations from this balance may serve a purpose: to encode local error signals for learning.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
led by @jrbch.bsky.social

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Aaron Milstein @neurosutras.bsky.social · May 27

New #NeuroAI #compneurosky preprint! To better understand how target-directed learning works in the brain, we sought to engineer an artificial neural network capable of solving complex image classification tasks that comprises only experimentally-supported biological building blocks. (1/15)

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Jenelle Feather @jfeather.bsky.social · May 15

Super excited for our #VSS2025 symposium tomorrow, "Model-optimized stimuli: more than just pretty pictures".
Join us to talk about designing and using synthetic stimuli for testing properties of visual perception!

May 16th @ 1-3PM in Talk Room #2

More info: www.visionsciences.org/symposia/?sy...

VSS SymposiaSymposia – Vision Sciences Society

www.visionsciences.org

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Lisa Schmors @lisaschmors.bsky.social · May 8

🧠🤖 Computational Neuroscience summer school IMBIZO in Cape Town is open for applications again!

💻🧬 3 weeks of intense coursework & projects with support from expert tutors and faculty

📈Apply until July 1st!

🔗https://imbizo.africa/

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Kara Marshall @karalmarshall.bsky.social · May 3

Gave a talk at my parents’ retirement community to describe how science is done, and what is at stake. There was a ton of interest, and anyone can do this. Get the word out about how science affects everyone. I’m happy to share slides with anyone who asks- just get in touch! youtu.be/BY_SFgi-Cig

Kara Marshall PHD-History of Science in America - Trilogy at Tehaleh 04/27/25

YouTube video by Steve Lawson

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David Lipshutz @lipshutz.bsky.social · Apr 26

Congrats!!!

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Mari Sosa @marisosa.bsky.social · Apr 25

Exciting news!! I’m joining the tenure-track faculty at University of Colorado Boulder this fall as an Assistant Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience!

The Sosa Lab will study how memory is shaped by cognitive and physiological demands, including during pregnancy and the postpartum period. 🧵

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Jenelle Feather @jfeather.bsky.social · Apr 24

We are presenting our work “Discriminating image representations with principal distortions” at #ICLR2025 today (4/24) at 3pm! If you are interested in comparing model representations with other models or human perception, stop by poster #63. Highlights in 🧵
openreview.net/forum?id=ugX...

Discriminating image representations with principal distortions

Image representations (artificial or biological) are often compared in terms of their global geometric structure; however, representations with similar global structure can have strikingly...

openreview.net

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Eero Simoncelli @eerosim.bsky.social · Apr 23

Symposium at the annual VSS meeting on generative models for vision science

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Amin Nejatbakhsh @aminejat.bsky.social · Apr 22

Excited to announce that our paper on "Comparing noisy neural population dynamics using optimal transport distances" has been selected for an oral presentation in #ICLR2025 (1.8% top papers). Check the thread for paper details (0/n).

Presentation info: iclr.cc/virtual/2025....

ICLR 2025 Comparing noisy neural population dynamics using optimal transport distances OralICLR 2025

iclr.cc

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · Apr 20

This paper is the result of >20 yrs of hard work by talented students, postdocs and collaborators, but none more than my co-author Ren Ng and his team in EECS.
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Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale

Image display by cell-by-cell retina stimulation, enabling colors impossible to see under natural viewing.

www.science.org

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Jenelle Feather @jfeather.bsky.social · Apr 14

Applications close TODAY (April 14) for the 2025 Flatiron Institute Junior Theoretical Neuroscience Workshop.

All you need to apply is a CV and a 1 page abstract. 🧠🗽

Jenelle Feather @jfeather.bsky.social · Mar 6

Applications are open for the 2025 Flatiron Institute Junior Theoretical Neuroscience Workshop! A two-day workshop 7/10-7/11 in NYC for PhD students and postdocs. All travel paid. Apply by April 14th.🧠🗽🧑‍🔬http://jtnworkshop2025.flatironinstitute.org/
@flatironinstitute.org @simonsfoundation.org

JTN - 2025

jtnworkshop2025.flatironinstitute.org

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Simons Foundation @simonsfoundation.org · Apr 11

Our short film about our co-founder Jim Simons was nominated for the @Telly Awards. Help amplify the story of his incredible life and contributions to math and basic science by voting for our film here: peoples.tellyawards.com/PublicVoting... #science #philanthropy

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Harrison Ritz @hritz.bsky.social · Apr 11

Cool project led by Victor Geadah, fitting smoothly time-varying (and condition-varying) linear dynamical systems to neural activity.

arxiv.org/abs/2502.18347

screenshot of a figure from the paper. a linear dynamical system with time-varying inputs and dynamics reproduces mouse foraging behavior

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