🧵 New preprint led by @bingbrunton.bsky.social, @elliottabe.bsky.social, @lawrencehu.bsky.social

We gave a worm brain control of a fly body and it walked

What did we learn? Nothing, other than deep reinforcement learning is effective

We call it the digital sphinx

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Had an amazing time presenting a recent project with @dvnxmvlhdf5.bsky.social and @tyrellturing.bsky.social at #CCN2025! Grateful for the opportunity to reunite with mentors who’ve shaped my journey and meet so many more who continue to inspire it.

Appreciate @davidpoeppel.bsky.social's reminder to scientists of their role in this time, at #CCN2025 (the reminder may be even more pertinent to non-US colleagues who have a chance to prevent the some of the worst effects before they really arrive)

🚨Excited to share my first preprint from my postdoc with @smfleming.bsky.social! 🚨 We explore how attention shapes simplified mental representations for planning. We show that inductive biases characteristic of attentional selection shape how we plan. Check it out: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧠🔦🤖

Manitokan are images set up where one can bring a gift or receive a gift. 1930s Rocky Boy Reservation, Montana, Montana State University photograph. Colourized with AI

Preprint Alert 🚀

Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) often assumes that agents know when other agents cooperate with them. But for humans, this isn’t always the case. For example, plains indigenous groups used to leave resources for others to use at effigies called Manitokan.
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With 350+ registrations, #CogSURF2025 is making waves as Montréal’s largest student-led cognitive science conference! Get ready for a day packed with cutting-edge interdisciplinary research, fresh perspectives, insightful discussions, and the very best of cognitive science on February 27th!

Excited beyond words to welcome my scientific hero, @nancykanwisher.bsky.social, to Montreal for #CogSURF2025 this upcoming Thursday! As the Founder and Chair of CogSURF, this conference has been my passion project for months, and I can't wait to see it come to life. Register here: www.cogsurf.org!