Even just having a controlled difficulty scale for 'cognitive' tasks would be nice. If brains look wildly different across a scale we assume to be continuous, it begs the question if animals interpret it the way we do (or use different strats for each level)

Slack is indeed awful, especially if you don't pay and your messages disappear after a while 😕

Discord is much better with letting you create threads within channels. And then you can search for keywords with many kinds of filters to find something

From movement to cognitive maps: recurrent neural networks reveal how locomotor development shapes hippocampal spatial coding www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12...

Meta-learning

Neural similarity predicts whether strangers become friends - Nature Human Behaviour Shen et al. show that pre-existing neural similarity in strangers predicts future friendship and changes in social distance over time in an emerging social network of MBA students.

Pre-existing friendship dynamics! 😊🧠 What a lovely paper

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hi #canadian researchers - please sign this petition to help ensure funding isn’t cut to tri council agencies (NSERC, SSHRC, and CIHR). We’re looking at potential 15% cuts to ALL federal spending including grants win.newmode.net/canadianasso...

Reminder that even mice are not simple stimulus-response black boxes and will find a way to "cheat" your task 🐁

What kinds of support do early-career researchers need? Help The Transmitter and Neuromatch bolster the next generation of neuroscientists.

We want to hear from you! @thetransmitter.bsky.social and @neuromatch.bsky.social are teaming up to better understand how to support early-career researchers. Make sure your voice is heard.

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...

Breaking the jar: Why NeuroAI needs embodiment Brain function is inexorably shaped by the body. Embracing this will benefit computational models of real brain function and the design of ANNs.

Embodiment is the concept that the function of the brain is inexorably shaped by the body, a lens that is often neglected when neuroscientists study specific brain subsystems, write @bingbrunton.bsky.social and @tuthill.bsky.social.

#neuroskyence #neuroai

www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/brea...

Variations in neuronal selectivity create efficient representational geometries for perception Our visual capabilities depend on neural response properties in visual areas of our brains. Neurons exhibit a wide variety of selective response properties, but the reasons for this diversity are unkn...

In many brain areas, neuronal tuning is heterogeneous. But how does this diversity help behavior? We show how tuning diversity shapes representational geometry and boosts coding efficiency for perception in our new preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
(w/ @sueyeonchung.bsky.social&Tony Movshon)

Expanded view of hippocampal function comes into focus After decades of debate, the region’s role is being rewritten. Rather than using sensory input to simply log key points in time and space, the hippocampus may serve to contextualize our experiences…

Several new lines of evidence are beginning to reconcile long-standing debates about hippocampal function, prompting neuroscientists to rethink how the region carries out its diverse tasks.

By Natalia Mesa

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/memory/expan...

This reminds of this preprint tackling the "splitter cell" phenomena in the hippocampus using a simple RNN, showing these cells can emerge and reemerge spontaneously simply due to the random recurrent structure of the model, only acquiring meaning when we correlate it with the task behaviour

Met some really wonderful people doing really incredible science at this meeting. It was a pleasure to attend and share my PhD work with everyone. Thank you CIAN for organizing!