Still hiring for PhD candidates who are *specifically* excited in building and deploying RL systems for self-driving vehicles and other multi-agent planning settings. Shoot me an email if you think this is you and please help spread the word!
A McDonald’s where the sign has been reduced to McDo.
There is no McTry.
We have the keynote speakers for RLC2026 now!
Thrilled to welcome Rika Antonova, Sheila McIlraith, Marc G. Bellemare, Danijar Hafner, Balaraman Ravindran!
Details: rl-conference.cc/index.html
The RL community is coming together this August in Montréal, Québec, Canada. Hope you make it!
Speakers: Omri Barak, Cristina Savin,
@lilweb.bsky.social
@reecedkeller.bsky.social
Caroline Haimerl, Hannah Choi,
@xaqlab.bsky.social
Srini Turaga, Yanan Sui,
@trackingskills.bsky.social
Virtual: Eva A Naumann, Justin N Wood
Big thanks to our speakers, panelists, and everyone who participated in the discussions. We hope these talks are useful to the broader NeuroAI community!
Talk recordings from our CoSyNe 2026 workshop on Agent-based Models in Neuroscience are now online!
Playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
RL agents and theory, interoception, biomechanical models connectome-constrained models, and more.
#CoSyNe #NeuroAI #CompNeuro #RL #EmbodiedAI
My memory sucks. Note-taking is my superpower.
I decided to upgrade this superpower by making a living knowledge base for research, powered by Claude Code (or any context agent).
Here's a github template so you can do the same too. 🧵
github.com/ilennaj/obsidian-scientist-knowledge-template
Steve is an engineering VP at Microsoft and I find a similar pattern is showing up for product managers.
I see lots of PMs who were already good now multiplying their impact with AI while weaker PMs are now using AI to generate work slop which is a waste of everyone’s time.
Experimental neurobiology informs better designs for animal-like AI systems, while advances in physics simulation, robotics, and NeuroAI help validate hypotheses of brain functioning.
🧠💪🤖 Check out our new review article on how neuromechanical "digital twins" are used to study the neuroscience of embodied control, and how they may contribute to future #NeuroAI!
arxiv.org/abs/2601.08056
A white bust sculpture is used as a knife holder, with multiple knives and a pair of scissors stuck into it, placed on a kitchen island.
🧠🤖 Are you at #COSYNE2026?
Check out the #KempnerInstitute's presentations! 👇
#neuroscience #NeuroAI
Thank you for sharing and the kind words!
Don't miss @maxschwabe.bsky.social's poster this evening (our master's student and presenter awardee 🎉) on decomposing RNN dynamics during naturalistic decision-making! It was a joint work with @armanbehrad.bsky.social and @roxana-zeraati.bsky.social!
Rajan Lab at Cosyne Thurs., March 12 20:30-23:30 Pavilion 1 Poster Session 1 #1-059: Active electrosensing and communication in MARL-trained weakly electric fish foraging agents Sonja Johnson-Yu*, Satpreet Singh*, Zhouyang Lu, Aaron Walsman, Federico Pedraja, Denis Turcu, Pratyusha Sharma, Naomi Saphra, Nathaniel Sawtell, Kanaka Rajan *co-first authors Sat., March 14 11:45-12:00 Auditorium I Session 7: Dynamical Inference InputDSA: Demixing then comparing recurrent and externally driven dynamics Ann Huang*, Mitchell Ostrow*, Satpreet Singh, Leo Kozachkov, Ila Fiete, Kanaka Rajan *co-first authors
📍 #Cosyne26 bound?
Thrilled to have PhD students @annhuang42.bsky.social and Sonja Johnson-Yu representing the Rajan Lab this year. Shout out to co-first authors @satpreetsingh.bsky.social and @neurostrow.bsky.social.
Catch their sessions to learn about our newest work 🧠🤖
#NeuroAI #CompSci
Mostly just a scale/compute issue. See my previous work without a full body model: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Tweeprint:
x.com/tweetsatpree...
We're doing a workshop on such models soon: bsky.app/profile/satp...
We’re looking forward to your talk!
Looking at the program again 👀 I can't wait for this! Stoked to contribute a talk on ✨the interoceptive basis of reinforcement learning✨
Speakers: Omri Barak, Cristina Savin,
@lilweb.bsky.social
@reecedkeller.bsky.social
Caroline Haimerl, Hannah Choi
@xaqlab.bsky.social
Srini Turaga, Yanan Sui,
@trackingskills.bsky.social
Meet Satpreet (Sat) Singh on #HumansofHBI
brain.harvard.edu/hbi_humans/s...
Organizers:
@satpreetsingh.bsky.social @anayebi.bsky.social Elliott Abe
Watch recordings from last year:
bsky.app/profile/satp...
Topics include:
• Cognitive and Embodied RL agents modeling natural behavior, brains and ecology
• Learning dynamics, internal goals and interoception
• Bridging experiments, theory, and NeuroAI
• “Digital twin” musculoskeletal models for flies, fish, rodents & humans
📣 Excited to announce the 2nd edition of our workshop
“Agent-Based Models in Neuroscience: Theory, Autonomy, Embodiment & Environment”
at @cosynemeeting.bsky.social #CoSyNe2026!!
🧠🤖🌍🪰🐟🐭💪🧘🏃
🗓️ March 17, 2026
📍 Cascais, Portugal
🔗 Speaker lineup and schedule: neuro-agent-models.github.io
On negative social ties.
The number of "hasslers" in your life—people who create problems or make life difficult, especially family members (not spouse)—and the link to promoting accelerated aging, inflammation, and adverse health outcomes
@pnas.org
pnas.org/doi/full/10....
🤖📊 NEW in the Deeper Learning blog: @annhuang42.bsky.social & @kanakarajanphd.bsky.social break down their recent work examining how #RNNs solve the same task in different ways, and why that matters. Joint work with @satpreetsingh.bsky.social & @flavioh.bsky.social bit.ly/4kj4fVd #NeuroAI
What if you could train agents on a 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲 of driving experience in 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗿, on a single GPU?
Excited to share 𝙋𝙪𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙧𝘿𝙧𝙞𝙫𝙚 2.0: A fast, friendly driving simulator with RL training via PufferLib at 𝟯𝟬𝟬𝗞 𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗽𝘀/𝘀𝗲𝗰 🐡 + 🚗
youtu.be/LfQ324R-cbE?...
Just published my review of neuroscience in 2025, on The Spike.
The 10th of these, would you believe?
This year we have foundation models, breakthroughs in using light to understand the brain, a gene therapy, and more
Enjoy!
medium.com/the-spike/20...
Congratulations!!
Thrilled to start 2026 as faculty in Psych & CS
@ualberta.bsky.social + Amii.ca Fellow! 🥳 Recruiting students to develop theories of cognition in natural & artificial systems 🤖💭🧠. Find me at #NeurIPS2025 workshops (speaking coginterp.github.io/neurips2025 & organising @dataonbrainmind.bsky.social)
#NeurIPS2025 workshops are underway!
Today’s workshop presentations from the #KempnerInstitute cover a range topics, including the use of #AI in linguistics and the study of communication & sensing in electric fish.
#NeuroAI