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Laura Driscoll @lndriscoll.bsky.social · Sep 1

"Overall, our findings resonate with recent computational modeling work by Driscoll and colleagues [23], who propose that recurrent neural networks (RNNs), such as those described in prefrontal cortical circuits, utilize shared dynamical motifs.." cool!

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Andrew Saxe @saxelab.bsky.social · Jul 14

Excited to share new work @icmlconf.bsky.social by Loek van Rossem exploring the development of computational algorithms in recurrent neural networks.

Hear it live tomorrow, Oral 1D, Tues 15 Jul West Exhibition Hall C: icml.cc/virtual/2025...

Paper: openreview.net/forum?id=3go...

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ICML Poster Algorithm Development in Neural Networks: Insights from the Streaming Parity TaskICML 2025

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Ezekiel Williams @ezekielwilliams.bsky.social · Mar 25

1/7: Super excited to share our new paper! This one should be of interest to neuroscientists and deep learning theory folks. This paper was a collaboration with Alexandre Payeur, @averyryoo.bsky.social, Thomas Jiralerspong, @mattperich.bsky.social, Luca Mazzucato, @glajoie.bsky.social

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Harsha Gurnani @harshag.bsky.social · Mar 25

Super excited about our 2-day @cosynemeeting.bsky.social workshop on learning that pays tribute to the diversity of timescales, teaching signals and circuits that work together to shape adaptive behaviors, and where we hope to bridge insights from behavior, dynamics, and learning rules! #cosyne2025

Jake Sacks @jsacks.bsky.social · Mar 25

Excited to share our #cosyne25 workshop on learning across timescales! Check out our awesome line-up of speakers across both days: learning-fast-and-slow.github.io

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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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Marino Pagan @marinopagan.bsky.social · Mar 21

1/7 Our paper on individual variability in decision-making is finally out in @nature.com! Inspired by the classic work by Mante and Sussillo, we trained many rats to solve context-dependent decision-making, and we found that different brains use different neural mechanisms to solve the same task!

Individual variability of neural computations underlying flexible decisions - Nature

Behavioural experiments to study decision-making in response to context-dependent accumulation of evidence provide testable models that are consistent with the heterogeneity in neural signatures among...

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Laura Driscoll @lndriscoll.bsky.social · Feb 18

congrats amy!

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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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Marine Schimel @marineschimel.bsky.social · Jan 31

For my first Bluesky post, I'm very excited to share a thread on our recent work with Mitra Javadzadeh, investigating how connections between cortical areas shape computations in the neocortex! [1/7] www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Dynamic consensus-building between neocortical areas via long-range connections

The neocortex is organized into functionally specialized areas. While the functions and underlying neural circuitry of individual neocortical areas are well studied, it is unclear how these regions op...

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David G. Clark @david-g-clark.bsky.social · Jan 29

(1/30) New preprint! "Symmetries and continuous attractors in disordered neural circuits" with Larry Abbott and Haim Sompolinsky
bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Symmetries and Continuous Attractors in Disordered Neural Circuits

A major challenge in neuroscience is reconciling idealized theoretical models with complex, heterogeneous experimental data. We address this challenge through the lens of continuous-attractor networks...

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