Venki Murthy

Text of poem titled Street Food by Daniel Halpern. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/1668158/street-food

Posting poetry has seemed too lightweight - but of course it's not. Anyway, here's something not too heavy - Street Food, after all. By Daniel Halpern, from #Poetry magazine, May 2025 issue.

“Revolutionary Science Comes from Unexpected Angles”

Thoughts from our own Tom Rapoport on the role of basic science in curing disease. magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/rev...

Early Exposure to Anesthesia May Shift Brain Development - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology MCB researchers show GABA-based sedation in newborns speeds up brain development, confirming decades of animal research in a human cohort. A new longitudinal study led by MCB’s Takao […]

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Mount Holyoke College in lovely western Massachusetts is hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist. Amazing students and fantastic faculty support - please share!
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Solvable Model of In-Context Learning Using Linear Attention - Kempner Institute Attention-based architectures are a powerful force in modern AI. In particular, the emergence of in-context learning enables these models to perform tasks far beyond the original next-token prediction...

New in the #DeeperLearningBlog: the #KempnerInstitute's Mary Letey presents work recently published in PNAS that offers generalizable insights into in-context learning (ICL) in an analytically-solvable model architecture.

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#AI @pnas.org

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Agree.

4 shots on goal each so far; what other match stats count? (possession percent is largely uncorrelated with winning)

#Arsenal players Kelly and Russo engineer a goal for #England!! #Euro2025

A thin sliver of land clamped between sea and sky. Sunset in Santa Barbara.

Wong Kar Wai's moving pictures make me ache like nothing else, even at my cynical old age!

Check out the #KempnerInstitute's presentations at #ICML2025 today!

#AI #NeuroAI #LLMs

🧵Here's a thread of abstracts.

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Which one? Transatlanticism? Thank you for today?

Alas, the learning part is the hardest to study (I think) since that likely happens during an ill-defined developmental period in animals...

This is so upsetting. Outsourcing writing does not "free up time to do more science" it's just a step further toward becoming the CSO at the top of a managerial pyramid rather than being a scientist

Impossible to avoid Mbappé schadenfreude. #CWC

New Applications of Neurotechnologies for Neurological Disorders The term “neurotechnology” refers to “gain of function” approaches aiming at using technologies that can interface with surviving neural system structures after a lesion or dis...

Looking for a good place to find a survey of the latest in neurotech to treat neural disorders? I suggest this new book chapter: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Such a pleasure to collab w/ some of the best in the field on this: Elvira Pirondini, Marco Capogrosso, Rob Gaunt & Sergey D. Stavisky🤩

I asked an LLM (through Harvard's AI Sandbox, to be transparent) to write a bit about race and meritocracy in the style of TCW. Not sure if I should laugh or cry.

Coming soon: Spiker:bit — Neurotech Education for Everyone! Spiker:bit is a brain-computer interface built for the micro:bit. Create inventions with brainwaves, muscle signals, and heartbeats!

@backyardbrains.bsky.social is building a small, affordable BCI kit!!!

keep an eye on their kickstarter 👇

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Agree that the Svoboda ALM work is the most rigorous stuff on attractor dynamics, but even they now favor a feedforward amplification model - see www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Assuming that's true, is it possible then to reverse engineer the statistics of the data from the learned network state? (I'm thinking of olfaction, where we are nowhere near vision in terms of understanding the data distribution)

Oh dear, Agyemang is so uncoordinated - how is he a striker for any team?!! #USMNT

I get the sinking feeling that Poch's not the right coach for #USMNT. Sigh.

36% possession for #USMNT - what are we, Cardiff City? (lowest possession in Premier League at ~35%)

Woah!! That was an incredible goal. Go #USMNT #GoldCup

Twilight over Echo Lake in Vermont. A gentle mountain and treeline reflected in the lake.

View from a meadow on Okemo Mountain looking down, with vegetation all the way to the horizon.

A couple of days in Vermont by a lake and a mountain. The land in the US is so spectacular in so many places, and what a shame for us to be heading into a metaphorical abyss.

Mr. Mamdani’s self-identification as both Black or African American and Asian on his application points to the heterogeneity of his background and upbringing as the child of Indian Ugandan and Indian American parents who brought him up in Uganda, South Africa and New York City. Mr. Mamdani was born in Kampala, Uganda, to Mira Nair, an acclaimed film director who grew up in India and later emigrated to the United States, and Mahmood Mamdani, then a college professor at Makerere University. Both his parents are of Indian descent, but his father’s family came to East Africa more than 100 years ago, Mr. Mamdani said. When asked if any of his family had intermarried while in East Africa, he said in the interview on Thursday, “They’re all of Indian origin, from Gujarat.”

Almost beyond belief, but the New York Times appears to be endorsing the Amin-era definition of Africanness.

Congratulations Carl E. Schoonover, Ph.D., recipient of a Klingenstein Fellowship Award in Neuroscience for the project, "Neurobiology of Unreinforced Learning."

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Congratulations Carolyn Elya, Ph.D., recipient of a Klingenstein Fellowship Award in Neuroscience for the project, "Leveraging Nature’s 'Zombies' to Unearth Principles of Animal Nervous Systems."

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Carolyn Elya Receives Prestigious Klingenstein Fellowship in Neuroscience - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology MCB congratulates Carolyn Elya, Assistant Professor of MCB and affiliate of the Center for Brain Science, on receiving a Klingenstein Fellowship Award in Neuroscience. This competitive early-career aw...

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Daniel Cardozo Pinto: Decoding the Neural Circuitry of Reward Learning - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology Daniel Cardozo Pinto, soon to be appointed a Harvard Junior Fellow, represents a compelling new voice in systems neuroscience. His research, grounded in a profound curiosity about the […]

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