There seems to be a broad perception across psychology and neuroscience that work shouldn't be "too technical" in order to reach the broadest possible audience. While I think we should strive for accessibility, I feel that this attitude can also be self-defeating: why are we dumbing down?
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Very good article what it would take for AI to have "agency" and self-preservation goals (w/ a few quotes from me).
& I appreciate the reiterated debunking of the "GPT-4 on its own lied to a TaskRabbit worker to solve a captcha" story.
www.quantamagazine.org/why-do-we-te...
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As Giovanni Petri shared with #NGN, sperm whales and humans have more in common than we think. Their coordinated support during a calfโs birth shows survival has driven strong social ties, even beyond kin.
news.northeastern.edu/2026/03/26/s...
@lordgrilo.bsky.social
@projectceti.bsky.social
By: Alaa Maalouf, Joseph DelPreto, @maximelca.bsky.social, @poetz.bsky.social, Jacob Andreas, Antonio Torralba, Shane Gero, @lordgrilo.bsky.social, Daniela Rus, David F. Gruber.
@csail.mit.edu, @northeasternu.bsky.social, @carleton.ca, @baruch.cuny.edu
The ๐๐๐๐๐ฃ๐ฉ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐ค๐ง๐ฉ๐จ study dives into the acoustic side of a sperm whale birth ๐, analyzing clicks and codas to reveal distinct vocal shifts during labor, birth, and early interactions, offering rare evidence of coordinated, non-kin birth assistance in the wild.
tinyurl.com/m3pshz8y
Too kind :)
Interesting piece โ raises important questions about what higher-order formalisms actually buy us. Half-jokingly, it would make great panel material @netsciconf.bsky.social ร la Leipzig dispute :)
(Also, first commentaries are already coming out: lnkd.in/d8_nunck)
Who knows? ๐
Renormalization in the brain?
With @andreasantoro.bsky.social and @jesseba.bsky.social we're organizing a workshop at @cosynemeeting.bsky.social (Lisbon, March 16) on how coarse-graining principles from physics can explain neural computation across scales. nplresearch.github.io/neurorenorm2...
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โช๐ Big news! Giovanni Petri has been selected for the ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฒ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ถ๐๐ฎ๐น ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐บ๐บ๐๐ป๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐ฒ๐น๐น๐ผ๐๐๐ต๐ถ๐ฝ at the Museum of Science. Heโll join 40+ fellows to advance the impact of science through digital storytelling. ๐
tinyurl.com/68skdhdy
@lordgrilo.bsky.social, @museumofscience.bsky.social
Joint modelling of brain and behaviour dynamics with artificial intelligence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I wrote a blog post about the often stated but never explained assumption that communities in graphs should always be connected.
This is inconsistent with statistical significance and null models that underlie the most widely employed methods.
skewed.de/lab/posts/co...
Our review on multilayer network science is out on the arXiv. Thanks to all collaborators of the AccelNet MultiNet project, great working with you all ๐ @alexvespi.bsky.social @ymoreno.bsky.social @lordgrilo.bsky.social @anduviera.bsky.social @baronca.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2511.23371
How do brain areas control each other? ๐ง ๐๏ธ
โจIn our NeurIPS 2025 Spotlight paper, we introduce a data-driven framework to answer this question using deep learning, nonlinear control, and differential geometry.๐งตโฌ๏ธ
Giovanni Petri standing at a lectern
View from the audience of Giovanni Petri delivering their Turing Seminar
Another fantastic Turing Seminar last week! ๐จโ๐ซ
Giovanni Petri @lordgrilo.bsky.social from @northeasternu.bsky.social and @nunetsi.bsky.social delivered a very captivating talk, Tracing the Cultural Fabric of Sperm Whale Societies.
It finally happened. I found a place in London that gives you your espresso within 30secs of ordering it. ๐คฏ๐คฏ
๐จ ๐ก๐ฒ๐๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฒ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ด๐ถ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ถ๐ ๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐ผ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ป!
Secure your spot at the flagship conference of the Network Science Society and take advantage of the early bird registration special - www.netsci2026.com/registration
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June 1โ5, 2026 | Hyatt Regency, Cambridge, MA
Join us as we celebrate 20 years of NetSci!
Turing Seminar series event graphic. Headshot of Giovanni Petri on the right.
The Turing Liaison Team is excited to host @lordgrilo.bsky.social, who will deliver a seminar entitled 'Tracing the Cultural Fabric of Sperm Whale Societies.'
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โฐ 13:00 - 14:00
๐Biomedical Building, C42 at the University of Bristol
Find out more here: tinyurl.com/mrxp5h2n
Lots of higher-order interactions at the joint @beyondtheedge.network and RUNES workshop at AMU in Marseille this week. Thanks to @alainbarrat.bsky.social and @lordgrilo.bsky.social!
Exciting things in Topological Neuroscience! #NetSI_London @lordgrilo.bsky.social co-organized the โTopology of Human and Synthetic Mindsโ workshop at Kingโs College London, launching a new collaboration to advance this field.
#KIHSM ๐ tinyurl.com/4zhs2m83
#NetSI_London ๐ tinyurl.com/25ts6as4
Federico Turkheimer introducing the Kingโs institute for Human and Synthetic minds and opening the workshop
Topological signal processing works! :P
Check out out latest one out!
Latest work at #EUSIPCO25!๐
We bring Topological Signal Processing to the brain ๐ง โ showing that edge-based approaches outperform classical GSP in task decoding.
Great collab with M.Nurisso & @lordgrilo.bsky.social ๐
Paper ๐ eusipco2025.org/wp-content/u...
#Neuroimaging #SignalProcessing #TSP
Next week (on the 15th and 16th), with @yasserroudi.bsky.social and Federico Turkheimer we will organize a workshop on the "The Topology of Human and Synthetic Minds"
Please do join us!
(Registration is free but required for access/catering!)
lordgrilo.github.io/topology-nat...
BeyondTheEdge at the School of Complexity on "Higher-order interactions: mechanisms, behaviors, and networks" by our own @lordgrilo.bsky.social and @gin-bianconi.bsky.social with @aliceschwarze.bsky.social, @danielemarinazzo.bsky.social. Great perspectives! www.beyondtheedge.network/articles/bey...
Matteo Neri addressing one of the differences/links
/implications between higher order effects and non gaussianity.