They really want the ACs to be on schedule! #neurips2026

22 years of Brain Science: what CoSyNe tells us about the evolution of Neuroscience Tracking the intellectual DNA of Computational and Systems Neuroscience through its flagship meeting

I tracked every keyword in 22 years of Cosyne abstracts to map how computational neuroscience evolved — from Bayesian brains to neural manifolds to LLMs — and where it's heading next.

Flexible inference for animal learning rules using neural networks Understanding how animals learn is a central challenge in neuroscience, with growing relevance to the development of animal- or human-aligned artificial intelligence. However, existing approaches tend...

(1/n) Presenting our NeurIPS’25 work at #cosyne2026 poster 3-109
We introduce a flexible framework to infer how animals learn new decision-making tasks from scratch without assuming REINFORCE/Q-learning.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2509.04661
Joint w/ @vgeadah.bsky.social and @jpillowtime.bsky.social

@neurabel.bsky.social is the best!

If you are at #cosyne2026 come see poster [2-152] Dynamical archetype analysis: Autonomous computation. Ábel Ságodi is presenting how you can compare dynamical systems at behaviorally relevant timescale while keeping the interpretability!

Very cool and fun! Quick feedback: I peaked at your repo and found that some older abstract books had some text extraction issues. Maybe worth double checking. Also, the colors on the histogram are not indicative of the location.

Are you at #cosyne2026 and looking for a postdoc position? CATNIP = Neural Dynamics Lab is hiring! catniplab.github.io/postdoc-hiri...

Externalized consciousness in practice! I lost my subjective experience decades ago. I briefly regained it last year but lost it again recently.

I've been seriously experimenting with AI tools. Claude Code is my current go-to. I treat learning AI tools more like playing an RPG. You level up as you go. You pick up a skill here, you pick up an armor there. There's too much to learn and you need to slowly acquire the skills.

Rejecting another Elsevier review request. Hoping my attempt at a dispassionate tone keeps my contempt for Elsevier from leaking through.

We’re hiring postdocs/research scientists! Your interests can be anywhere on the spectrum from pure theory to empirically testing predictions relevant to AI safety.

Our theoretical work relies on dynamical systems and tools from statistical physics.

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New preprint from the lab! Ábel Ságodi developed a theory of approximating dynamical systems that goes beyond finite time. #theoreticalNeuroscience
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Universal Approximation Theorems for Dynamical Systems with Infinite-Time Horizon Guarantees. . arxiv.org/abs/2602.08640

Applications for 2026 entry to the Gatsby Bridging Programme (7-week maths summer school) will open on 19 Jan and close on 16 Feb. Designed for students who wish to pursue a postgrad research degree in theoretical neuroscience or foundational machine learning but whose degree programme lacks a strong maths focus. Applications from students in underrepresented groups in STEM strongly encouraged. A small number of bursaries available. Register for the information webinar on 23 Jan.

📢 Applications open on 19 Jan for the 7-week #Mathematics #SummerSchool in London. You will develop the maths skills and intuition necessary to enter the #TheoreticalNeuroscience / #MachineLearning field.

Find out more & register for the information webinar 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...

Scalable models for high-dimensional neural data A COSYNE 2014 Workshop

Back in 2014, I co-organized a #COSYNE workshop on scalable modeling. scalablemodels.wordpress.com #timeflies

🚨📜+🧵🚨 Very excited about this work showing that people with no hand function following a spinal cord injury can control the activity of motor units from those muscles to perform 1D, 2D and 3D tasks, play video games, or navigate a virtual wheelchair

By a wonderful team co-mentored w Dario Farina

Department Chair, Duke Neurobiology - Duke University, Durham job with Duke University - School of Medicine | 12852576 The Duke University School of Medicine (SOM) seeks a distinguished neuroscientist to serve as the next Chair of the Department of Neurobiology.

My department, Duke Neurobiology, is searching for a new chair. Ad below. Come work with me, @jmgrohneuro.bsky.social @ennatsew.bsky.social @jorggrandl.bsky.social @jnklab.bsky.social @sbilbo.bsky.social @neurocircuits.bsky.social and many other amazing folks! @dukemedschool.bsky.social

We have reached a situation where (1) the time/resources spent by people applying for grant X often outweighs (2) the time/resources awarded.

For these grants, society loses net time/resources.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How can I accelerate breakdown of caffeine in my body? I will need to increase CYP1A2 (P450) activity (without smoking). Vigorous exercise over 30 days was shown to increase it up to 70%? pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih....

Learning a lot while preparing for a lecture on RNNs for neuroscience.

according to TripIt, I traveled 240Mm (yes, that's mega-meters), 10 countries in 2025. Oh my. I'm definitely going to travel much much less this year.

according to last.fm, my favourite artist of 2025 was #LauraThorn. Scrobbled 493/5728 times (just one song; La poupée monte le son). 0.01% of fans worldwide for the song. Of 2672 unique tracks I listened to. Also #1 on Beatrice Rana's Goldberg Variations album.

A major personal goal for 2025 was extensive networking. I met so many interesting people around the world, which helped enable these meetings and future collaborations.

Not everything worked out. I submitted six major grant applications in 2025; five were rejected, despite substantial time and resources invested (still waiting to hear back on the last one). All 3 of our NeurIPS submissions were rejected.

In Oct, I co-organized Neurocybernetics at Scale, a three-day conference with ~300 participants, aimed at rethinking how neuroscience can scale in the modern era and how we might better integrate across levels, methods, and communities:
👉 neurocybernetics.cc/neurocyberne...

In April, I co-organized Beyond Clarity, a small, closed interdisciplinary meeting focused on how to overcome the gaps in the combinatorial yet discrete limits of language create gaps in meaning across fields (with Sool Park):
👉 beyond-clarity.github.io

Highlights of 2025

Ayesha Vermani defended her PhD thesis this year. She helped jump start a new direction in integrative neuroscience:

Vermani et al. (2025), Meta-dynamical state space models for integrative neural data analysis. ICLR
👉 openreview.net/forum?id=SRp...
👉 youtu.be/SiXxPmkpYF8

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Today, the NeurIPS Foundation is proud to announce a $500,000 donation to OpenReview, supporting the infrastructure that makes modern ML research possible.

blog.neurips.cc/2025/12/15/s...

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