Fernando Rosas

Is the the neuroimaging community (broadly conceived) submitting to 𝗡𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲 again?????

Not to be publication police but the shift had seemed major 1-2 years ago.
Looking at the editorial board it seems to have serious scientists once more.
Curious about thoughts of the community.

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Awesome news, congrats!!!

I deeply sympathise with every word in this post 👇🏽

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Möbius transforms and Shapley values for vector-valued functions on weighted directed acyclic multigraphs We generalize the concept of Möbius inversion and Shapley values to directed acyclic multigraphs and weighted versions thereof. We further allow value functions (games) and thus their Möbius transform...

🚨New paper: arxiv.org/abs/2510.05786

*Shapley values beyond game theory*
We show that Shapley values aren’t just about dividing payoffs--they are the right way to project down any higher-order structure.

We generalise them, and Möbius inversions, in important ways: 🧵

After a long time in the making, my paper on nonequilibrium thermodynamics of Darwinian evolution has been published in Philosophical Transactions B. Updated version: arxiv.org/abs/2112.02809

The usual explanation for great music is that it's predictable but not too predictable. But there's more to it, said @frosas.bsky.social at #ALIFE2025. We prefer music when we perceive agency behind it. Improvisation trumps a prepared performance. See paper at www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy.... ⚙️🧫

It’s not the method that makes you causal it’s the assumptions

Bifurcations and phase transitions in the origins of life | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences The path towards the emergence of life in our biosphere involved several key events allowing for the persistence, reproduction and evolution of molecular systems. All these processes took place in a given environmental context and required both molecular ...

It is often argued that the origin of life must be related to "phase transitions"

This concept is often misused, or even abused.

In a new paper with @ricardsole.bsky.social we discuss which types of transitions might be involved and some relevant models.

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

Nearly 4,000 y ago, Egyptians finished their pyramids

Meanwhile, across the ocean, termites in NE Brazil were building something even larger: a hidden empire of 200M mounds, over an area the size of UK 🌍🐜

Still active today, a masterpiece of non-human engineering!
🧪🌐 HT @ricardsole.bsky.social

Thanks Johannes! Looking forward to see you in Sapporo next week :)

This paper is the result of a long journey, starting with a first preprint put forward in 2019 and followed by a winding road of progressive refinement and polishing! I’m very happy to finally see it out in its final form!

Toward a unified taxonomy of information dynamics via Integrated Information Decomposition | PNAS Our ability to understand and control complex systems of many interacting parts remains limited. A key challenge is that we still do not know how b...

Finally published:
“Toward a unified taxonomy of information dynamics via Integrated Information Decomposition”
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

An information-theoretic framework to analyse complex multivariate dynamical processes ✨

Postdoc job! I expect to have an opening at Johns Hopkins for a postdoctoral researcher working somewhere in the broad realms of physics, philosophy, and complexity. Apply at Academic Jobs Online:

academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30496

Emergence Workshop This workshop will explore the relationship between the emergent properties of conscious subjects and the material structures and interactions from...

Emergence has been used to avoid explanations, but it is possible to use it in much more productive ways.

This event later this week may be a place to hear about that:
www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘁 𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁?
Don't miss the Neuroscience and Philosophy Salon.
Earl Miller and team will discuss recent paper and we'll have plenty of discussion. Open to all.
Sept 12, noon EST-US
umd.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#neuroskyence
@earlkmiller.bsky.social

Characterising high-order interdependence via entropic conjugation Communications Physics - This paper introduces entropic conjugation as a new framework to analyse high-order interdependencies in complex systems, clarifying existing information-theoretic measures...

Finally published:
“Characterising high-order interdependence via entropic conjugation”
rdcu.be/eB3k3

On how a “conjugation” of information illuminates the space possible information-theoretic metrics of high-order phenomena!

Our department is seeking applicants for an Assistant Professor position with a focus on affective science. Please apply and/or pass this along to anyone who might be interested! facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

Response to @anilseth.bsky.social
great piece “Conscious artificial intelligence and biological naturalism”
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Thanks to the great team lead by the awesome @rhizoqualia.bsky.social!

Preprint time:
“Compatibilist emergence for the science of consciousness”
osf.io/preprints/ps...

On how a multifaceted understanding of emergence can illuminate the link between consciousness and life!

Extracellular vesicles aid in the transfer of long-term associative memory between Caenorhabditis elegans Memory formation is necessary for the survival of animals across phyla. Here, we elucidate the mechanism underlying the formation of long-term associative memory (LTAM) formed by treating Caenorhabdit...

The first one is some crazy work by @monmitabhar.bsky.social, Tanumoy, @hari-flies.bsky.social and Kamal Kishore. They eavesdropped on worm conversations and found the exciting phenomenon of movement of memory from one worm to another 2/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Third edition of the emergence workshop is almost here!

You can register using the QR code on the poster

Any questions, you can message me here or send an email!

What is emergence? This is one of the most central ingredients of complexity, and a challenging one to formalize. Here's a paper by @seanmcarroll.bsky.social & Achyth Parola that attempts to classify different forms of emergence. @manlius.bsky.social @sfiscience.bsky.social arxiv.org/pdf/2410.15468

Pathfinding: a neurodynamical account of intuition - Communications Biology This Perspective article proposes a neurodynamical model of intuition as a fast, embodied pathfinding mechanism shaped by evolution. Drawing on the free-energy principle and metastability, it explores...

🗺️ Pathfinding: a neurodynamical account of intuition

📔 We #review the neuroscience of #intuition, and present it as a predictive embodied process, emergent from hippocampal replay & brain metastability

🤝 with S. Kotler, M. Mannino, K. Friston, G. Buzsáki & J.A.S Kelso

🔗 nature.com/articles/s42...

Amazing opportunity 👇🏽

Postdoctoral Research Associate (Physics) Full time, 2-year fixed term position with potential to extend. Located on the Camperdown Campus at the School of Physics. Exciting opportunity to conduct research in a world-leading interdisciplinary...

Are you interested in our work on complex physical systems and applications (to neural systems)?

Wanna join us in Sydney? 🐨 🦘

We have two open positions:

1. Postdoc position: usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...

2. Fully-funded PhD position: www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗰𝘁, 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻?
What are the most developed frameworks of the brain basis of motivation?
Older ideas, new ideas, etc.
#neuroskyence

Application Guidelines — Guggenheim Fellowship — Guggenheim Fellowships: Supporting Artists, Scholars, & Scientists Find detailed information on the application process for the Guggenheim Fellowship and learn how to submit your application for a grant.

Applications for next year’s Guggenheim Fellowships are now open! @guggfellows.bsky.social

www.gf.org/program/how-...

Genie 3: A New Frontier for World Models Today we are announcing Genie 3, a general purpose world model that can generate an unprecedented diversity of interactive environments. Given a text prompt, Genie 3 can generate dynamic worlds...

And if you don’t think world models are a big deal, please check yesterday’s release of DeepMind of Genie 3:
deepmind.google/discover/blo...

… and this awesome coverage by MLST:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekgv...