New paper that merits a read (Im totally unbiased...not). Simple, straightforward, impactful message. Prediction a la LLM is nice. Constituent-constrained prediction is nicer. @jiajiezou.bsky.social and Nai Ding show brain, behavioral, MEG, ECoG data.
www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroskyence
Zeichnung einiger Schmetterlinge aus wenigen schwarzen Tuschestrichen. Die Schmetterlinge umflattern einen dreizeiligem Text: BETTER THINGS COME WITH SCHMETTERLINGS.
Neuroscientist, speaking publicly: "We know almost nothing about the brain"
Neuroscientist, reviewing a paper: "There is absolutely no way that complicated measurement can mean what they think it means"
These models can partly generalize across species, brain regions and tasks, suggesting that a set of machine-learnable rules govern neural population activity, writes @juangallego.bsky.social. But will we be able to understand them? #neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/why-...
Multiple fully funded PhD/postdoc positions available: experimental evolution of tumour suppression, egalitarian & fraternal ETIs, jumbo phage ecology & genetics. Related EoIs welcome.
Email CV/statement of motivation written in own words. Open until filled.
Grateful for reposting 🙏
The dune meme with “Do not say the brain is or is not a computer; ask it what it wants to be”
I guess we’re doing this
A wildflower superbloom in Death Valley National Park, California
A wildflower superbloom in Death Valley National Park, California
We're at the tail end of an incredibly rare superbloom in Death Valley, and this photographer captured the brilliant blossoms at their peak.
www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/03/dr-e...
Hi Antonio, Thanks for your patience with my snail reply.
It’s just always great to get replies like this.
philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...
Enjoyed writing this with the wonderful philosopher Bill Ramsey
I think we should rebrand Professors as "Natural Intelligence Companions" in the hopes of getting universities to throw a bunch of resources behind getting students to come to class and office hours to use our services.
A screenshot of a tweet of mine from 2021 (transcription in post)
[Cognitive capacity nobody understands] is very important.
However,
the underlying neural mechanisms remain enigmatic.
Here we show that
[stimuli somehow related to the capacity]
can be decoded from
[spatiotemporal description].
Our results show that we can do what we did.
Zeichnung zweier Gerstenhalme. Ein großer und ein kleiner. Der Kleine sagt: EINS, ZWEI, DREI, VIER FUENEF. Text unter dem Bild: AUCH DIE KLEINE GERSTE ZÄHLT.
Das ist jetzt schon legendär!
2 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow opportunity at the University of St Andrews on my project "Aesthetic Values and the Social Dimensions of Science"
www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
#philosophy #philsci
Coming soon: my new book *The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Introduction*. More info - including three very generous blurbs from @davidgunkel.bsky.social, @briandavidearp.bsky.social, & Crystal L'Hote, PhD - here: hackettpublishing.com/new-forthcom...
#aiethics #philosophy
😧
1/2 🚨New paper
In a collab b/w my group + @nathangrubaugh.bsky.social, led by a fabulous doctoral student, we synthesize the data on epistasis across several viral pathogen systems (e.g., influenza, HIV, SARS-CoV-2, tobacco etch virus, etc).
academic.oup.com/ve/article/1...
👏 Congratulations Juan Álvaro Gallego on his project “SELECT” being selected in the ERC Consolidator 2025 Call!
🧠 SELECT will investigate the neural mechanisms underlying the learning, execution and adaptation of skilled movements at multiple brain areas
👉 www.fchampalimaud.org/news/two-lif...
Come work with us! We are looking for a postdoc in #philbio or #philphysics to work on an interdisciplinary project that adopts the lens of self-organization & active matter to explore the boundary between living & nonliving systems www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... #academicsky #philjobs #HPS #evosky
Academic discussions
“… let’s come back to that”
They never come back to that
We are opening a FACULTY POSITION (tenure track, permanent) in the University of Cambridge at the interface of control and biology, interpreted broadly. Theorists and wet lab quantitative biologists with backgrounds in control, EE, applied math, ... apply by Jan 28!
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...
🎥 Watch the Lakatos Award Lecture 2025 by Mazviita Chirimuuta on "Apocalyptic Technology: #AI and the Limits of #Science"
Mazviita Chirimuuta received the award for her book “The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KkX...
youtu.be/DxSrU-rqs7A?...
This Friday, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy Dr Mazviita Chirimuuta will deliver the Lakatos Award Lecture. You can book FREE tickets to attend the lecture (in-person or online. By Following the link below. (1/2)
My spicy take would be that neural manifolds may not be disprovable given how the brains we are aware of are built, and the challenges are: (1) whether they give us understanding beyond single neuron descriptions (2) whether they have "causal power"
A recent attempt at this youtu.be/oxQyKByqDSU?...
this is mesmerizing
It's Friday, and apparently bluesky is ready for this fun revelation:
Dinosaurs lived on the other side the Galaxy.
