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In academia, the pinnacle of achievement is a pdf no one can access and I think that's beautiful

Sidney Pontes-Filho uses critical neural CA for reservoir computing
#DistributedCiphers
#ALIFE2025

Takashi Ikegami and Hiroki Iizuka open the Generative Artificial Life satellite
#ALIFE2025

Distributed neural computation and the evolution of the first brains https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.03.680388v1

Can a single cell learn? Even without a brain, some microbes show simple forms of cognition. Can this basal cognition be engineered? Check our new paper with @jordiplam.bsky.social on the minimal synthetic circuits & their cognitive limits. @drmichaellevin.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Selfishly, I’ll plug our tool LLM agent in system #AmadeusGPT - which lets you vibe code your behavioral analysis ;) and even gives you interpretable and verifiable outputs!

www.mackenziemathislab.org/amadeusgpt

A black and white portrait of a young Werner Heisenberg

One hundred years ago, a 23-year-old postdoc named Werner Heisenberg completed a calculation that would become the heart of quantum mechanics, a radical yet stunningly accurate theory of the atomic and subatomic world.
www.quantamagazine.org/its-a-mess-a...

We were asked to write a commentary on NeuroAI for Nat. Rev. Neuro. with Sadra Sadeh, so here it is: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A diagram showing 128 neural network architectures.

How does the structure of a neural circuit shape its function?

@neuralreckoning.bsky.social & I explore this in our new preprint:

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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What Can a Cell Remember? | Quanta Magazine A small but enthusiastic group of neuroscientists is exhuming overlooked experiments and performing new ones to explore whether cells record past experiences — fundamentally challenging what memory is...

Do memories need embodiment, but not necessarily neurons? Some hints ⬇️

www.quantamagazine.org/what-can-a-c...

GitHub - hsayama/PyCX: PyCX is a Python-based sample code repository for complex systems research and education. PyCX is a Python-based sample code repository for complex systems research and education. - hsayama/PyCX

I finally had time to update PyCX to ver. 1.2! Many new models and bug fixes. Enjoy!!
github.com/hsayama/PyCX

We're hiring,, of interest to people in spiking neural networks and neuromorphic particularly. See below. 👇

Note the deadline for applications is very soon! Apologies for this but various admin necessities made it unavoidable.

Hirnorganoide Die Forschung an Hirnorganoiden verspricht neue Erkenntnisse über das menschliche Gehirn. Wir geben den Überblick über Möglichkeiten und Grenzen.

🧠 Gewebestrukturen aus dem Labor:
#Hirnorganoide sind ein Modellsystem des Gehirns und imitieren Teile der Hirnfunktion. Damit ermöglichen sie einen experimentellen Zugang zu Forschung am Organ. Ein Digitales Dossier gibt einen Überblick: interaktiv.leopoldina.org/hirnorganoide/

Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience: overcoming the clash of research cultures - Nature Reviews Neuroscience As scientists, we want solid answers, but we also want to answer questions that matter. Yet, the brain’s complexity forces trade-offs between these desiderata, bringing about two distinct research app...

Finally published:
“Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience: overcoming the clash of research cultures”
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Looking for ways to better understand different neuroscientific perspectives and enable productive collaborations

P.S.: Your work will be paid according to the standard CAU rates. 💶

Please get in touch if you want to find out more about the position. It will be based at CAU Kiel, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Information Engineering ⛵️⚡️. Looking forward to hearing from you!

Please have a look at my homepage to get an idea of what I‘ve been doing recently. Ideally you also find physics, biology and applied mathematics interesting. We will then find a project that aligns well with our (=yours and mine) individual interests.

Boats on Kieler Förde

Do you like neuronal networks and maybe also programming? 🧮🕸️💻
I am looking for a research assistant to work on the general topic of neuronal network models, either theoretically or with a link to specific model organisms. Please see below for more details. ⬇️
#research #neuronalnetworks #kiel #cau

A gym that you go to but instead of working out you write papers

Episode #30 in #TheoreticalNeurosciencePodcast: On co-dependent excitatory and inhibitory plasticity – with Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social

theoreticalneuroscience.no/thn30

How can excitatory and inhibitory synaptic plasticity, co-exist in spiking neural network models? With co-dependence!

#forest
#sky
#path
#hamburg
#silentsunday

Got prov. approval for 2 major grants in Neuro-AI & Dynamical Systems Reconstruction, on learning & inference in non-stationary environments, out-of-domain generalization, and DS foundation models. To all AI/math/DS enthusiasts: Expect job announcements (PhD/PostDoc) soon! Feel free to get in touch.

How should #multisensory signals be combined when they are structured in time?

To explore this, we:
* Introduce a new multisensory task
* Compare several models

TLDR:
* Prior models perform suboptimally
* Our new model performs ≈ an RNN, while using less than 1/10th the number of parameters.

Expectation violations as an effective alternative to complex mentalizing in novel communication Neuroscience; Systems neuroscience; Social sciences

✨Excited to share that our new paper is now out in iScience!✨

🧠 We show that people can coordinate surprisingly well in novel interactions by violating others' expectations - without requiring deep, recursive reasoning about others’ beliefs.

📄 Read the full paper here: www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Who Does What in Deep Learning? Multidimensional Game-Theoretic Attribution of Function of Neural Units Neural networks now generate text, images, and speech with billions of parameters, producing a need to know how each neural unit contributes to these high-dimensional outputs. Existing explainable-AI ...

🚨Preprint Alert: Who Does What in Deep Learning? Multidimensional Contribution of Neural Units using Game Theory: arxiv.org/abs/2506.19732
The result of my MSc thesis is out with @kayson.bsky.social @fatemehhadaeghi.bsky.social @patrickmineault.bsky.social @kordinglab.bsky.social, Claus C. Hilgetag

Wonderful work by Shrey and Kayson in developing an XAI method for exploring the contribution of any computational unit (e.g., nodes, experts, communities, filters) within neural networks. It enables analysis of both their influence on each other and their overall impact on task performance.

We started the workshop at #OCNS2025 with some very cool presentations by @gzamora-lopez.bsky.social, Mariia Popova, and Douglas Zhou on network structure and dynamics. The door is open (room 101), come by if you’re interested. Here’s the full program:
sites.google.com/view/cns2025...