Nicolas Skatchkovsky

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Quand Anne Le Strat a été recrutée par l’OFB à l’issue d’un processus rigoureux et normal, Sébastien Lecornu a demandé une enquête pour complaire à la droite et à l’extrême droite.

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Postdoc position in Paris: come help develop new generation human brain computer interfaces ⚡🧠💻

Interested? Contact me if you have experience with machine learning (e.g. simulation-based inference, RL, generative/diffusion models) or dynamical systems.

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Tiens c'est marrant, c'est l'homonyme d'une candidate des Traîtres qui assumait pouvoir balancer que tout ce qu'elle avait fait pendant sa carrière politique c'était mentir parce qu'elle n'était plus candidate à rien

I’m going to halve my publication output. You should consider slow science, too If we don’t slow down, the research enterprise is going to crash, argues Adrian Barnett.

Great piece on prioritizing quality over quantity in scientific publication.

For those of us with labs, this necessarily involves shrinking our group size. After I got tenure I started to downsize my lab and have not regretted it one iota. More time for each student & more time to think & write.

SCIENTISTS QUARREL OVER MARTIAN WOMEN One Says Ladies Have Two Thumbs and X-Ray Eyes ANOTHER SAYS BIG EARS --The Commercial Appeal, 22 Oct 1928

We used to do real science

RIP Claudia Cardinale. Much like Robert Redford, she was a rare case of a beautiful performer with a filmography full of bangers who did NOT become right-wing later in life. Here she is punching fascist Brigitte Bardot in the face in Les Pétroleuses (1971).

Not playing around: Why neuroscience needs toy models Amid the rise of billion-parameter models, I argue that toy models, with just a few neurons, remain essential—and may be all neuroscience needs.

Amid the rise of billion-parameter models, I argue that toy models, with just a few neurons, remain essential—and may be all neuroscience needs, writes @marcusghosh.bsky.social.

#neuroskyence

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Lindsay Lab - Postdoc Position Artificial neural networks applied to psychology, neuroscience, and climate change

Spread the word: I'm looking to hire a postdoc to explore the concept of attention (as studied in psych/neuro, not the transformer mechanism) in large Vision-Language Models. More details here: lindsay-lab.github.io/2025/12/08/p...
#MLSky #neurojobs #compneuro

I've spent all day struggling to write a single page of a popular science article. I bang away at a word processor; give up; start diagramming on paper. Take some notes; draft a few sentences in pen; return to the computer...and very slowly I figure out what I was trying to say in the first place.

Congratulations Jure!

Worlds richest families have never been richer - Walton's lead with net worth of $513bn

This is obscene. Why can't other politicians say that?

The 25 richest families are collectively $358.7 billion richer than a year ago, with a combined fortune totaling $2.9 trillion.

can you imagine having even a fraction of the money pumped into ai bullshit but instead you get to R&D something actually fucking useful and which doesn't exist exclusively to extract wealth from creatives and those who enjoy creative works.

Edwy de gauche version Jospin

Edwy plurielle

Je reprends, et ensuite n'y reviendrai pas.
Une pub mignonne où un loup devient végétarien se met à tourner, et ça y est, "les écolos devraient s'en inspirer au lieu du punitivisme, car ça marche".
Xième épisode "le problème c'est que vous êtes des casse couille peine à jouir contre productifs". 1/

je sens que le call du 2 janvier à 3h04 va piquer

I would tend to agree if the wealth created by replacing humans with AIs was redistributed to satisfy everyone's basic needs. In practice, I'm afraid those replaced will struggle to just survive. Also, I just don't know how to enforce the 'harmlessly' part

But even in these terms, it may be detrimental in the mid-long term - if in 20 years AIs become terrible because their training data is too corrupted by poor quality AI-generated data after we outsourced all the thinking to them, we'd lose decades rebuilding these skills in humans

Not sure it is always desirable though - that simple analysis / code that you don't want to spend time on can be a valuable learning experience for an undergrad. If we automate all the low-level tasks for them, how will the next generation of scientists know how to evaluate the outputs of AIs?

Exploring how the 3D world is encoded in the brain In a new five-year project supported by the European Research Council, researchers are working to understand the brain’s built-in capacity to perceive the world in 3D.

@petrznam.bsky.social is working to understand how the three-dimensional world is encoded in the brain, in a new project supported by a Consolidator Grant from the @erc.europa.eu

www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-12...

je crois que quand le gouvernement travailliste a vu à quel point macron était efficace pour promouvoir l'ED ils ont décidé de faire un speedrun de la même stratégie 🫠

Que j'aime (non) ces braves gens se déclarant de gauche de vraie qui ce matin ont tous sorti le canot et les rames pour venir faire la morale sur l'air "désolé l'oeuf de Bardella c'est une violence in-to-lé-rable vous ne pouvez pas cautionner débat d'idées."
Déjà, les mecs, un oeuf.
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By mimicking Reform to win back support, the Labour government is making a serious mistake. This race to the bottom emboldens Farage, punishes vulnerable people, amplifies racism, and undermines those working to hold communities together.

So if AI succeeds loads of people lose their jobs as they're replaced by AI, and if AI fails, loads of people lose their jobs as the economy crashes?

Join us at Crick - amazing team and great colleagues to collaborate on exciting design and development projects

View from your office onto Giessen and surrounding villages.

Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026.

The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.

Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...

A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control

New awareness campaign

Ah oui parce que la bière chez Five Guys ça fait aussi partie de notre culture pour les chantres de la France éternelle

A figure showing a range of neural network architectures. From Ghosh & Goodman, 2025, bioRxiv.

Interested in #neuroscience + #AI and looking for a PhD position?

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