Bareesh Bhaduri

Compositional neural dynamics during reaching The complex mechanics of the arm make the neural control of reaching inherently posture dependent. Because previous reaching studies confound reach direction with final posture, it remains unknown how...

Excited to share my latest work with @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social & @andpru.bsky.social!
We asked: How does the motor cortex account for arm posture when generating movement?
Paper 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Please share! Come work with me! The hiring portal is at hr.gatech.edu/careers and the Job Opening ID is 288418.

Georgia Tech just launched the Institute for Neuroscience, Neurotechnology and Society (INNS).

bsky.app/profile/croz...

Of Mice and Machines: A Comparison of Learning Between Real World Mice and RL Agents Recent advances in reinforcement learning (RL) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in complex decision-making tasks. This progress raises a natural question: how do these artificial systems comp...

This is fun - to make RL models more like mice in the paths they select, you gotta give them the fear of death:

arxiv.org/abs/2505.12204

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BCI Engineer | Science Corporation Science Corporation is a clinical-stage medical technology company.

neuroscience and eng friends, I’m hiring for science’s nascent BCI team! come work with me 🧠🧪👩‍🔬

science.xyz/careers/bci-...

Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Can time series (TS) #FoundationModels (FM) like Chronos zero-shot generalize to unseen #DynamicalSystems (DS)?

No, they cannot!

But *DynaMix* can, the first TS/DS FM based on principles of DS reconstruction, capturing the long-term evolution of out-of-domain DS: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.131...
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With nearly all of Harvard Chan School’s direct federal grants terminated, we are relying on philanthropy to power our research and support our educational programs. Every gift, regardless of size, advances our vision of health, dignity, and justice for every human. Support our work: hsph.me/whygive

Motor learning refines thalamic influence on motor cortex - Nature Imaging and optogenetics in mice provide insight into the interplay between the primary motor cortex and the motor thalamus during learning, showing that thalamic inputs have a key role in the executi...

Our paper is out in Nature.

By examining various inputs to the motor cortex during learning, we found that thalamic inputs learn to activate the cortical neurons encoding the movement being learned.

Tour de force by Assaf in collab with Felix and Marcus. Congrats!

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

Cannot emphasize this too strongly.

Interested in motor control or cerebellar function? We have two openings for graduate students for Fall 25. Join the sensorimotor superlab - our interdisciplinary research group Paul Gribble and Andrew Pruszynski. Application instructions at diedrichsenlab.org. Please repost 🙏

Thrilled to share our state-of-the-art method for in vivo cell-type classification and brain region localization, NEMO, which is now now a spotlight at @iclr-conf.bsky.social !

We use NEMO to characterize the electrophysiological diversity of cell-types across the entire mouse brain. 🐭 🧪 🧠

Reviewing PhD Applications: A stream of consciousness — Gonzales Lab A list of notes takes in real-time when reviewing PhD applications and interviews

When reviewing PhD applications this cycle, I made small notes of things that stood out to me. Both good and bad.

I think it could be helpful to those considering applying this Fall.

gonzales.science/resource-blo...

Attn foreign students:

This sounds reasonable. Trump overplayed his hand with his egrigeous demands. If, as I hope, courts strike this down, the administration will have lost their leverage over other universities.

Applications for our 2025–2026 Shenoy Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Neuroscience (SURFiN) program are due in 2 weeks! Students gain hands-on #neuroscience research experience through paid fellowships in cities across the US, Canada and Europe. www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/3/27/ap...

Neural manifolds: more than the sum of their neurons Nature Reviews Neuroscience - In this Journal Club, Juan Gallego discusses a 2014 article that provided a first causal hint that neural manifolds may not only be a convenient way to interpret...

I wrote a little digest + tribute to an article that shaped my career: Sadtler et al Neural constraints on learning! (and also managed to sneak in a shout out to another one)

Read for free here: rdcu.be/eg5To

Thanks to the editors for the invite and input!

Check out our latest paper today in Nature: “Goal specific hippocampal inhibition gates learning” www.nature.com/articles/s41...
By Nuri Jeong, Xiao Zheng, Abby Paulson, Steph Prince and colleagues.

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

Technical Associate I, Kanwisher Lab MIT - Technical Associate I, Kanwisher Lab - Cambridge MA 02139

I’m hiring a full-time lab tech for two years starting May/June. Strong coding skills required, ML a plus. Our research on the human brain uses fMRI, ANNs, intracranial recording, and behavior. A great stepping stone to grad school. Apply here:
careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...
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Here are six examples of how foreign visitors to the US with no criminal record are being treated:

1. Mahmoud Khalil, a green card holding student with no criminal record married to an American is abducted by ICE and is still in detention over a week later.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/n...
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From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

The Clopath Lab has a fully funded PhD position open for Oct in Computational Neuroscience at Imperial College London. If you are interested, just send us an informal e-mail!

Structure of activity in multiregion recurrent neural networks | PNAS Neural circuits comprise multiple interconnected regions, each with complex dynamics. The interplay between local and global activity is thought to...

(1/23) In addition to the new Lady Gaga album "Mayhem," my paper with Manuel Beiran, "Structure of activity in multiregion recurrent neural networks," has been published today.

PNAS link: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

(see dclark.io for PDF)

An explainer thread...

Two faculty positions in comp biology in Cambridge www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50414/

In case you needed more inspiration to stand up for science on Friday (and wear a mask wherever and whenever you want).

We aren’t backing down at UCSD but this does motivate our organizing team to work on rolling back our restrictive interim policies on gathering.

Chicago scientists reel from Trump funding cuts: 'We are just going to abandon all those discoveries' On Friday, scientists will leave their labs to protest cuts to research in Chicago and across the country.

Thanks to the Chicago Sun-Times for this amazing coverage of our Chicago team!

chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...

Map of Stand Up for Science events, with official SUFS events in Red and solidarity events in Blue

WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7TH!?

Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one!

#standupforscience2025

Claude Desktop open on monitor 1, Claude 3.7 GitHub Copilot Chat on monitor 2, Claude Code in terminal on laptop monitor

Claude and I taking on the world (my silly little rotation project) together 🥹🥰🫶🏾

I’m somehow on a Heritage Foundation mailing list (😂) and they sent a survey to see what we think of DOGE.

Who wants to offer some m-fing feedback?!?

secured.heritage.org/the-heritage...

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