Aitor Morales-Gregorio

Jane Goodall offers sage advice for the rest of us. #3E

NEW | Surging wind and solar power helped make electricity in Spain CHEAPER than in most European countries.

📈 As wind and solar grows…
📉 …The influence of costly fossil fuels on the electricity price shrinks

https://loom.ly/8DEmqVc

Woah! Late to the party, but congrats!! 🥳

If you need some spontaneous spike data, I can send it your way 😆

a man wearing a white shirt and tie smiles in front of a window ALT: a man wearing a white shirt and tie smiles in front of a window

I've been waiting some years to make this joke and now it’s real:

I conned somebody into giving me a faculty job!

I’m starting as a W1 Tenure-Track Professor at Goethe University Frankfurt in a week (lol), in the Faculty of CS and Math

and I'm recruiting PhD students 🤗

So cool to walk from Ising models to recurrent network dynamics at the Braitenberg prize ceremony of Sara Solla! At #bernstein conference #compneurosky

Sara Solla giving the Valentin Braitenberg award lecture at the Bernstein 2025 conference in Frankfurt

Manifold time 😉

Undecided which workshop to attend at #BernsteinConference ?

We put together a stellar lineup for a satellite workshop on the effects of top-down signals on neuronal dynamics! 🧠✨📣

Join us tomorrow in room 0.101 !

bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...

With @ackurth.bsky.social

Our preprint has been accepted at #NeurIPS2025! 🎉

I will be presenting TMCL in just two weeks at the #BernsteinConference. Hope to see some of you there! @bernsteinneuro.bsky.social

Many thanks to my advisor Willem Wybo, and to Emre Neftci for the great support.

Very excited for this year Bernstein! @bernsteinneuro.bsky.social

We'll bring a bunch of new work, here's a thread with the summaries.

Please check them out if you are interested in (low rank) RNN and distributed computations.

On the first workshop talk (Monday), I'll make the case that everything might be everywhere when you decode, but that is not the end of the story: different regions have very different dynamics and encoding geometries.

This workshop is organized by @aitormg.bsky.social and @ackurth.bsky.social

Are We Losing Our Minds? A new position paper warns against the uncritical adoption of AI in academia

A position paper urging academia to be critical of AI technologies is an excellent wake-up call. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @olivia.science
www.the-geyser.com/are-we-losin...

Slide with title 'Details vs realism' showing a picture of a wooden model airplane on left and a paper airplane on right.

gave a short lecture this morning on principles of computational modelling, always try to stress the point made by @romainbrette.bsky.social that adding details to a model does not automatically make it more realistic.

The wooden airplane model has more 'details' but only the paper model can fly

Left plot shows the Google trends of the term "Fourier transform". The right plot shows the Fourier transform of the google trends with peaks at 6 and 12 months

Fourier transform of Google Trends of Fourier transform 🧪

The shitty first draft is and always will be the number one strategy for writing well.

Editing is a craft you can hone. Writing from scratch is a different dumpster fire every time you put a pen to a blank page.

If you're at/watching #CCN2025, check out work from my lab:

"DynVision: a toolbox for building temporally realistic CNNs" Robin Gutzen, Poster B104 tomorrow

"Reward Prediction Error-based Attention Explains Learning Curves" Mingze Li Leukos, Poster C96 & contributed talk Friday morning.

DynVision: A Toolbox for Biologically Plausible Recurrent Convolutional Networks Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have demonstrated remarkable success in image recognition and exhibit conceptual similarities to the primate ventral visual pathway. Adding recurrence opens the do...

Paper v1 is here (will be updated soon):
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

If you weren't able to catch Robin's poster during the session, check it out here #CCN2025 #neuroskyence #compneuro #neuroai

We went well beyond the abstract for the poster! 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=a...

In collaboration with @neuro-karolina.bsky.social ✨😄

I'll be presenting some of my new work on EEG mental imagery, oscillations and (functional) connectivity! If you are still at #CCN2025 make sure to drop by poster C159 today :)

Appreciate @davidpoeppel.bsky.social's reminder to scientists of their role in this time, at #CCN2025 (the reminder may be even more pertinent to non-US colleagues who have a chance to prevent the some of the worst effects before they really arrive)

Sad to miss #CCN2025. It will be the 1st conference where a PhD working w/ me will speak 😭

go see Lubna's talk (Friday) about distributed neural correlates of flexible decision making in 🐒,

work done in collaboration w/ @scottbrincat.bsky.social @siegellab.bsky.social & @earlkmiller.bsky.social

RNNs making decisions The goal of this CCN workshop is to host a scientific discussion on the study of decision-making using recurrent neural networks. The selected speakers will cover all aspects of decision-making, from ...

We start strong on Monday at 15h, when we organize the Satellite Workshop 'RNNs making decisions' together with @molanomazon.bsky.social. Speakers @summerfieldlab.bsky.social, @veronicachelu.bsky.social, @seanfw.bsky.social and others: sites.google.com/view/rnnsmak...

Didn’t want to believe this was true. It’s true.

‘Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method PARIS—In an effort to modernize the principles and empirical procedures of examining phenomena and advancing humanity’s collective knowledge, the International Council for Science announced Thursday t...

‘Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method

📰 I really enjoyed writing this article with @thetransmitter.bsky.social! In it, I summarize parts of our recent perspective article on neural manifolds (www.nature.com/articles/s41...), with a focus on highlighting just a few cool insights into the brain we've already seen at the population level.

Brain Surfaces of 70 primate species

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To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised!

🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Explosive neural networks via higher-order interactions in curved statistical manifolds - Nature Communications Higher-order interactions shape complex neural dynamics but are hard to model. Here, authors use a generalization of the maximum entropy principle to introduce a family of curved neural networks, reve...

Our paper just out in Nature Communications!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We introduce curved neural networks naturally introducing high-order interactions showing:
• explosive phase transitions
• enhanced memory retrieval via self-annealing
• increased memory capacity through geometric curvature

Wake up, babe. A new mapping stimulus just dropped.

Introducing our new favorite stimulus. A few minutes are enough to map the visual preferences of thousands of neurons.

Mapping the visual cortex with Zebra noise and wavelets
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

By Sophie Skriabine and Max Shinn, with Samuel Picard and
@kenneth-harris.bsky.social

Awesome work!! Can BRISC detect both sources and targets between all the infected neurons? Or is it one-way only?