I think we finally made really significant progress on the biggest unsolved "developmental AI" problem: learning from human-scale data. Key idea: zero-shot world models that support concept extraction via approximate causal inference. amazing collab w/ @mcxfrank.bsky.social @khaiaw.bsky.social

Why Correlation Isn’t Causation in Brain Data Why do correlations between brain signals not suggest causal relations?

this was super fun ... I'm looking forward to part 2! Here is some useful background:

Konrad's essay on causality: tinyurl.com/bd78ztyk

My paper on learning causal models: x.com/dyamins/stat...

Hear @dyamins.bsky.social and yours truly discuss causality and ml: x.com/kordinglab/s..., www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-54...

Here is our best thinking about how to make world models. I would apologize for it being a massive 40-page behemoth, but it's worth reading. arxiv.org/pdf/2509.09737

Lots of people are pinging me re PhD applications lately, here is what I tell them. I accept PhD students
through: (1) CS (tinyurl.com/4azymrbu Comp Cog Neuro track), (2) Psychology tinyurl.com/4v7793tz and (3) Neuro tinyurl.com/ycx658h9. Good luck!

Hey come to our workshop if you're at CCN this year! neuroailab.github.io/modeling-the...

This looks like it will be fun data-brain-mind.github.io Neurips '25

It was a steep climb in the "early days" (~2012) up the ImageNet gradient towards better visual system models. That tapped out ~2015 after resnet ...

But now w/ video models starting to perform, we can push forward again. Task-driven brain models ftw. amazing...

@mschrimpf.bsky.social

🚀 New Open-Source Release! PyTorchTNN 🚀
A PyTorch library for biologically-inspired temporal neural nets: unrolling computation through time. Integrates with our recent Encoder-Attender-Decoder, which flexibly combines models (Transformer, SSM, RNN) since no single one fits all sequence tasks.
🧵👇

Do science folks basically post the same thing here as on Twitter?? Is that the best practice? (I feel very underpowered/ underprepared) when it comes to science social media.

Going to #Cosyne2025?

Join us (w/ @mdiamantaki.bsky.social) for our exciting workshop

Object-centric Neuronal Representations

toliaslab.org/workshop/cos...

Featuring diverse species💁‍♀️🐒🐁🐝🕷️🤖

Our goal: Discuss universal & species-specific principles of object-centric vision

See you in Montreal🥳

Only 4 days to go until our workshop!! 🪰🐁🤖
If you're at COSYNE, don't miss out on incredible talks and inspiring panel discussions at "Agent-Based Models in Neuroscience: Complex Planning, Embodiment, and Beyond" on March 31 :)

Check out the latest schedule: neuro-agent-models.github.io