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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 3h

Last chance to vote on what gets promoted to a talk for #SNUFA 2025 spiking neural network conference. I'll finalise in a couple of hours.

Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 6d

Message for participants of the #SNUFA 2025 spiking neural network workshop. We got almost 60 awesome abstract submissions, and we'd now like your help to select which ones should be offered talks. Follow the "abstract voting" link at snufa.net/2025/ to take part. It should take <15m. Thanks! ❤️

SNUFA 2025

Spiking Neural networks as Universal Function Approximators

snufa.net

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Neuromatch @neuromatch.bsky.social · 1d

From notebook sketches to a global movement!
Titipat Achakulvisut helped shape the first Neuromatch logo...and with it, the identity of a worldwide education community in computational neuroscience.

➡️ Read more: www.linkedin.com/posts/neurom...

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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 23h

Beautiful. I'm looking forward to having a moment to do the same.

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Juan Gallego @juangallego.bsky.social · 1d

🚨Big news!🚨
The lab is relocating to Lisbon, joining a great team of experimental and theoretical neuroscientists, and the Neurotechnology Warehouse, a new initiative to bridge basic and translational research.

I'll be sharing postdoc openings soon. Come join us in this new incarnation of the lab!

Champalimaud Research @champalimaudr.bsky.social · 2d

🧠🎼 What does it take to restore movement? Neuroscientist and engineer, @juangallego.bsky.social, joins the new Centre for Restorative Neurotechnology at the Champalimaud Foundation.

🔗 Find out more in this interview: www.fchampalimaud.org/news/juan-al...

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UCL NeuroAI @ucl-neuroai.bsky.social · 1d

Submission deadline extended!

Submit your poster or lightning talk abstract by Wednesday 15th October 2025, 12:00pm

UCL NeuroAI @ucl-neuroai.bsky.social · 12d

📢 We are very happy to announce the 2025 @ucl.ac.uk
#NeuroAI Annual Conference!

Join us on Wed 5 November 2025 at @uclchildhealth.bsky.social

Details and registration: www.ucl.ac.uk/event-ticket...
Poster and lightning talks submissions are now open, up to 8th Oct.

@ucl-neurodomain.bsky.social

UCL Event Ticketing

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · 1d

“Mapping ion channel function” doi.org/10.7554/eLif... isn’t exactly a citation slayer, but it’s still one of my favourites (& my first independent project). Today we push pt 2, where we trace code origin & unite almost all channel models in a common expression. Boom! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

An ion channel omnimodel for standardized biophysical neuron modelling

Biophysical neuron modeling is an indispensable tool in neuroscience research, with the combination of diverse ion channel kinetics and morphologies being used to explain various single-neuron propert...

www.biorxiv.org

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 1d

I get it. Similar thoughts inspired me to write a book. I began pessimistic, like this author, but I came out on the other side with renewed optimism.

As a counterpoint to the blog below, this podcast could be titled, "Why Nicole Rust stayed"

www.fchampalimaud.org/news/episode...

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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 1d

I agree with this article that the secret to success in neuroscience is to furiously spin your wheels, and that as a consequence we're not making much fundamental progress. The reason I'm still in is that it's possible to do good theory work and not be a superstar researcher with loads of grants.

PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 2d

Michael X Cohen on why he left academia/neuroscience.
mikexcohen.substack.com/p/why-i-left...

Why I left academia and neuroscience

Don't worry, this isn't yet another story of rage-quitting.

mikexcohen.substack.com

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Pier Luigi Dragotti @pdragotti.bsky.social · 2d

We are hiring. We have a post-doc position on machine learning for large-scale shared representations of dynamic environments with a focus on
developing novel neural distributed compression algorithms. Please spread the news, opening here: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

Description

Please note that job descriptions are not exhaustive, and you may be asked to take on additional duties that align with the key responsibilities ment...

www.imperial.ac.uk

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Shahab Bakhtiari @shahabbakht.bsky.social · 2d

The results challenge the texture-bias hypothesis of Geirhos et al. (2019).

This is one of those cases where a deep, careful review can add real value.

arxiv.org/abs/2509.20234

🧠🤖 #MLSky

ImageNet-trained CNNs are not biased towards texture: Revisiting feature reliance through controlled suppression

The hypothesis that Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are inherently texture-biased has shaped much of the discourse on feature use in deep learning. We revisit this hypothesis by examining limitat...

arxiv.org

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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 2d

And he does both without underwear. Key part of the tradition.

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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 3d

At least now when the Tories say it you don't have to worry about it actually happening. Much more worrying what Farage says given he's likely the next PM. 😞

Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 4d

Great article by @pracheeac.bsky.social : "Stop solving for a slightly less terrible version of what we have." Yes!

Prachee Avasthi @pracheeac.bsky.social · 4d

New Blog Post:
Scholarly Communication Is a Research Problem. This Means You.

pracheeac.substack.com/p/scholarly-...

Scholarly Communication Is a Research Problem. This Means You.

Scholarly Communication Is a Research Problem.

pracheeac.substack.com

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Prof Rick Adams @drrickadams.bsky.social · 8d

Post doc job alert 📢! Announcing a v exciting job on a Wellcome-funded project in my group at UCL, looking at auditory hallucinations... Advert here 👀: rb.gy/230w8l - deadline is end of Oct. Please apply! 1/5

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

rb.gy

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Dawei Bai @daweibai.bsky.social · 5d

New paper: the ‘Double Ring Illusion’!
Does the visual system integrate *intuitive physics*? This new illusion developed by Brent Strickland and I offers a straightforward demonstration – one that you can experience yourselves!
Demos in thread👇
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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 5d

Site looks broken right now? On both chrome and Firefox on Android.

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Laurent Perrinet @laurentperrinet.bsky.social · 6d

Glad to share the publication of our #newpaper (aka #blueprint) :

> A Predictive Approach to Enhance Time-Series Forecasting

By Skye Gunasekaran, Assel Kembay, Hugo Ladret, Rui-Jie Zhu, myself, Omid Kavehei and Jason Eshraghian

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#neuroscience #AI #prediction #time

Just published in Nature Communications! Skye Gunasekaran has raised my expectations of UCSC undergraduate students impossibly high. You can direct all grading complaints to her. | Jason Eshraghian

Just published in Nature Communications! Skye Gunasekaran has raised my expectations of UCSC undergraduate students impossibly high. You can direct all grading complaints to her.

www.linkedin.com

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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 6d

Message for participants of the #SNUFA 2025 spiking neural network workshop. We got almost 60 awesome abstract submissions, and we'd now like your help to select which ones should be offered talks. Follow the "abstract voting" link at snufa.net/2025/ to take part. It should take <15m. Thanks! ❤️

SNUFA 2025

Spiking Neural networks as Universal Function Approximators

snufa.net

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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 6d

Message for participants of the #SNUFA 2025 spiking neural network workshop. We got almost 60 awesome abstract submissions, and we'd now like your help to select which ones should be offered talks. Follow the "abstract voting" link at snufa.net/2025/ to take part. It should take <15m. Thanks! ❤️

SNUFA 2025

Spiking Neural networks as Universal Function Approximators

snufa.net

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 7d

Deeply disappointing. Once again the @royalsociety.org has avoided explaining how *actions* by Elon Musk that clearly repudiate the Society's values are consistent with the code of conduct that Fellows must adhere to. royalsociety.org/news/2025/10...

A statement from the President of the Royal Society | Royal Society

A statement from Adrian Smith, President of the Royal Society, regarding threats to the values that allow science to flourish.

royalsociety.org

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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 6d

I think the official policy is 🙈

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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 7d

Has Hegseth made himself so unpopular with generals that he's ruined his own future attempt at a military coup?

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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 8d

We had a company come in and optimise our university's websites to make it easier to find information. I still can't find anything without using Google to search for it.

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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 8d

Probably someone didn't know how to disable the default setting and they don't actually use them for anything. 😉

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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 9d

It's capitalism. It's always capitalism.

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