Richard Gao

free energy tho

I think this by definition makes it the best workshop at neurips

Thrilled to start 2026 as faculty in Psych & CS
@ualberta.bsky.social + Amii.ca Fellow! 🥳 Recruiting students to develop theories of cognition in natural & artificial systems 🤖💭🧠. Find me at #NeurIPS2025 workshops (speaking coginterp.github.io/neurips2025 & organising @dataonbrainmind.bsky.social)

Thanks Monika! 🤩

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I'd take you in a heartbeat no interviews

that's too kind Shervin

Finally got the job ad—looking for 2 PhD students to start spring next year:

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If comp neuro, ML, and AI4Neuro is your thing, or you just nerd out over brain recordings, apply!

I'm at neurips. DM me here / on the conference app or email if you want to meet 🏖️🌮

LOL

free startup idea:

AI to lubricate the university administrative procedural system

but the nice colorful plots tho...

Processes and measurements: a framework for understanding neural oscillations in field potentials Various neuroscientific theories maintain that brain oscillations are important for neuronal computation, but opposing views claim that these macroscale dynamics are ‘exhaust fumes’ of more relevant p...

hey I'm reposting this for no reason at all today...

www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

are you inside my head or computer

Jaxley: differentiable simulation enables large-scale training of detailed biophysical models of neural dynamics - Nature Methods Jaxley is a versatile platform for biophysical modeling in neuroscience. It allows efficiently simulating large-scale biophysical models on CPUs, GPUs and TPUs. Model parameters can be optimized with ...

Our work on training biophysical models with Jaxley is now out in @natmethods.nature.com. Led by @deismic.bsky.social, with @philipp.hertie.ai, @ppjgoncalves.bsky.social & @jakhmack.bsky.social et al.

Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

yeah that's true, I suppose maybe I'm the naive / idealistic one here at the end of the day, because the message was not really intended for us

I think these are all real and serious issues worth discussing, and that we're mostly all in agreement.

my only point was just you can write a good and balanced article arguing for continuing NHP research (absolutely critical!) without stooping to "monkey powers AI. oh and China's doing it better"

yeah I have zero doubt NHP researchers (and any animal researcher for that matter) care about their animals.

But tbf I don't think "China might be housing their monkeys poorly so don't defund ours in the US" is the argument they were going for...

wtf are we even talking about at this point?

mice are not monkeys are not humans, none of them are RNNs. There are 1000 things each can/not do bc they have different bodies and live in different environments.

nvm how wild it is that the article manages to go from NHP neuro to AI & anti-China lol??

this is dope

^ teaching college courses in 2026

Just 1 week to apply! 4 year @erc.europa.eu funded PhD position working in an interdisciplinary team to study #culturalEvolution as a process of reuse, recombination, and creative re-engineering of past solutions. Details 👉 hmc-lab.com/ERCPhDCultur... 🙏Please share!

what will we achieve first:

1. world peace
2. off-ball screens in pickup basketball

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oh god

was the answer "whether you live in North America or Europe"?

this is the kind of stuff one could only dream of in primates

🔥 good luck!!

hahaha oh no you will have plenty of opportunities I'm sure of it!