Mattia Rigotti
@matrig.net
Researcher in all things Neuro
Also at mastodon.social/@matrig
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Mattia Rigotti
@matrig.net
· Nov 28
📢 Bad news for my (very few) followers!
I just verified my 🦋Bluesky handle.
So expect shitposting to massively decrease in proportion to the decrease in plausible deniability of my content 😅
I just verified my 🦋Bluesky handle.
So expect shitposting to massively decrease in proportion to the decrease in plausible deniability of my content 😅
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“I will die on the hill that population coding is the relevant level of encoding information in the brain.” In the latest “This paper changed my life,” Nancy Padilla-Coreano discusses a paper on mixed selectivity neurons.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/this-paper-c...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/this-paper-c...
This paper changed my life: Nancy Padilla-Coreano on learning the value of population coding
The 2013 Nature paper by Mattia Rigotti and his colleagues revealed how mixed selectivity neurons—cells that are not selectively tuned to a stimulus—play a key role in cognition.
www.thetransmitter.org
December 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
“I will die on the hill that population coding is the relevant level of encoding information in the brain.” In the latest “This paper changed my life,” Nancy Padilla-Coreano discusses a paper on mixed selectivity neurons.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/this-paper-c...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/this-paper-c...
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Thanks! And check out our new review on mixed selectivity, please and thanks.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
December 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Thanks! And check out our new review on mixed selectivity, please and thanks.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
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Update from OpenReview
November 30, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Update from OpenReview
November 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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OpenReview was breached. The names of authors, reviewers, ACs, etc, for all past and current conferences were visible for a time, making nothing anonymous anymore. These data have been released for this year's ICLR, but I fear it's also the case for the past 10 years of conferences.
November 28, 2025 at 8:11 AM
OpenReview was breached. The names of authors, reviewers, ACs, etc, for all past and current conferences were visible for a time, making nothing anonymous anymore. These data have been released for this year's ICLR, but I fear it's also the case for the past 10 years of conferences.
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I have a PhD project open for application about "Habituation of Paramecium, the “swimming neuron”" on the DIM C-Brains programme, for a PhD in Paris. Open for students with a Master outside France. Get in touch if interested!
dim-cbrains.fr/en/phd-progr...
dim-cbrains.fr/en/phd-progr...
DIM C-BRAINS
Cognition and Brain Revolutions: Artificial Intelligence, Neurogenomics, Society
dim-cbrains.fr
November 28, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I have a PhD project open for application about "Habituation of Paramecium, the “swimming neuron”" on the DIM C-Brains programme, for a PhD in Paris. Open for students with a Master outside France. Get in touch if interested!
dim-cbrains.fr/en/phd-progr...
dim-cbrains.fr/en/phd-progr...
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Just a few days left to apply for a PhD opportunity in the Talbot group!
⏰ Deadline 2nd December 2025
👇👇
⏰ Deadline 2nd December 2025
👇👇
New PhD opportunity in my group @thesainsburylab.bsky.social through the BBSRC NRP DTP Programme - see details of host to apply below
biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/van...
biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/van...
Vanishing Virulence: Investigating pathogenicity loss in a plant pathogenic fungus (TALBOT_T26DTP) | Doctoral Training Partnership
What makes a plant killer lose its edge? This project will investigate why fungal pathogens lose virulence when they are grown in laboratory culture away from their host plant. Use cutting-edge…
biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk
November 28, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Just a few days left to apply for a PhD opportunity in the Talbot group!
⏰ Deadline 2nd December 2025
👇👇
⏰ Deadline 2nd December 2025
👇👇
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Social Media Giants and Payment Services will be held liable for reimbursing victims of financial scams. This basicly means they will be come liable for fraudulent ads published through their services. www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...
Payment services deal: More protection from online fraud and hidden fees | News | European Parliament
Parliament and Council have struck a deal on a more open and competitive EU payment services sector, with strong defences against fraud and data breaches.
www.europarl.europa.eu
November 28, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Social Media Giants and Payment Services will be held liable for reimbursing victims of financial scams. This basicly means they will be come liable for fraudulent ads published through their services. www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...
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🏹 Job alert: Principal Investigators in artificial intelligence and machine learning at @ellisinstitute.fi
📍 Helsinki 🇫🇮
📅 Apply by Jan 12th
🔗 https://www.ellisinstitute.fi/PI-recruit-2026
📍 Helsinki 🇫🇮
📅 Apply by Jan 12th
🔗 https://www.ellisinstitute.fi/PI-recruit-2026
Principal Investigator positions at ELLIS Institute Finland | ELLIS Institute Finland
Call for new PIs in artificial intelligence and machine learning
www.ellisinstitute.fi
November 25, 2025 at 11:05 AM
🏹 Job alert: Principal Investigators in artificial intelligence and machine learning at @ellisinstitute.fi
📍 Helsinki 🇫🇮
📅 Apply by Jan 12th
🔗 https://www.ellisinstitute.fi/PI-recruit-2026
📍 Helsinki 🇫🇮
📅 Apply by Jan 12th
🔗 https://www.ellisinstitute.fi/PI-recruit-2026
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When @natrevneuro.nature.com asked me to highlight a paper that influenced both my field and my own research, I immediately thought of the work on mixed selectivity by @matrig.net, @stefanofusi.bsky.social, and colleagues.
More on this journal club: rdcu.be/eRKLk
More on this journal club: rdcu.be/eRKLk
Mixed selectivity: when neurons stopped looking like specialists
Nature Reviews Neuroscience - In this Journal Club, Fanny Cazettes highlights a 2013 paper that demonstrated the importance of mixed selectivity for cortical computations.
rdcu.be
November 26, 2025 at 6:35 AM
When @natrevneuro.nature.com asked me to highlight a paper that influenced both my field and my own research, I immediately thought of the work on mixed selectivity by @matrig.net, @stefanofusi.bsky.social, and colleagues.
More on this journal club: rdcu.be/eRKLk
More on this journal club: rdcu.be/eRKLk
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🚀 Introducing TMLR Beyond PDF!
🎬 This is a new, HTML-based submission format for TMLR, that supports interactive figures and videos, along with the usual LaTeX and images.
🎉 Thanks to TMLR Editors in Chief: Hugo Larochelle, @gautamkamath.com, Naila Murray, Nihar B. Shah, and Laurent Charlin!
🎬 This is a new, HTML-based submission format for TMLR, that supports interactive figures and videos, along with the usual LaTeX and images.
🎉 Thanks to TMLR Editors in Chief: Hugo Larochelle, @gautamkamath.com, Naila Murray, Nihar B. Shah, and Laurent Charlin!
November 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
🚀 Introducing TMLR Beyond PDF!
🎬 This is a new, HTML-based submission format for TMLR, that supports interactive figures and videos, along with the usual LaTeX and images.
🎉 Thanks to TMLR Editors in Chief: Hugo Larochelle, @gautamkamath.com, Naila Murray, Nihar B. Shah, and Laurent Charlin!
🎬 This is a new, HTML-based submission format for TMLR, that supports interactive figures and videos, along with the usual LaTeX and images.
🎉 Thanks to TMLR Editors in Chief: Hugo Larochelle, @gautamkamath.com, Naila Murray, Nihar B. Shah, and Laurent Charlin!
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Olmo 3 is notable as a "fully open" LLM - all of the training data is published, plus complete details on how the training process was run. I tried out the 32B thinking model and the 7B instruct models, + thoughts on why transparent training data is so important simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/22/...
Olmo 3 is a fully open LLM
Olmo is the LLM series from Ai2—the Allen institute for AI. Unlike most open weight models these are notable for including the full training data, training process and checkpoints along …
simonwillison.net
November 23, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Olmo 3 is notable as a "fully open" LLM - all of the training data is published, plus complete details on how the training process was run. I tried out the 32B thinking model and the 7B instruct models, + thoughts on why transparent training data is so important simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/22/...
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This study show that using poems to jailbreak LLMs is... super effective? What the heck.
November 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
This study show that using poems to jailbreak LLMs is... super effective? What the heck.
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Trust in science will increase when we stop all the money being used to fund anti-science political attacks and spread disinformation.
November 19, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Trust in science will increase when we stop all the money being used to fund anti-science political attacks and spread disinformation.
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Excited to announce our book “Neuroevolution: Harnessing Creativity in AI Agent Design” by Sebastian Risi, Yujin Tang, Risto Miikkulainen, and myself. We explore decades of work on evolving intelligent agents and shows how neuroevolution can drive creativity in deep learning, RL, LLMs and AI Agents!
November 20, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Excited to announce our book “Neuroevolution: Harnessing Creativity in AI Agent Design” by Sebastian Risi, Yujin Tang, Risto Miikkulainen, and myself. We explore decades of work on evolving intelligent agents and shows how neuroevolution can drive creativity in deep learning, RL, LLMs and AI Agents!
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Life Sciences PhD studentships available in amazing Glasgow! Deadline Jan 12
General details here: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...
My project, on cognitive mapping in 3D space in mice and humans, available here: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...
General details here: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...
My project, on cognitive mapping in 3D space in mice and humans, available here: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...
November 16, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Life Sciences PhD studentships available in amazing Glasgow! Deadline Jan 12
General details here: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...
My project, on cognitive mapping in 3D space in mice and humans, available here: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...
General details here: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...
My project, on cognitive mapping in 3D space in mice and humans, available here: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...
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The US government should subsidize Open AI rather than OpenAI
November 7, 2025 at 6:43 AM
The US government should subsidize Open AI rather than OpenAI
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Pleased to share that our survey "Getting aligned on representational alignment" — on representational alignment across cognitive (neuro)science and machine learning — is now published in TMLR! openreview.net/forum?id=Hiq...
Kudos to @sucholutsky.bsky.social @lukasmut.bsky.social for leading this!
Kudos to @sucholutsky.bsky.social @lukasmut.bsky.social for leading this!
October 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Pleased to share that our survey "Getting aligned on representational alignment" — on representational alignment across cognitive (neuro)science and machine learning — is now published in TMLR! openreview.net/forum?id=Hiq...
Kudos to @sucholutsky.bsky.social @lukasmut.bsky.social for leading this!
Kudos to @sucholutsky.bsky.social @lukasmut.bsky.social for leading this!
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The Principles of Diffusion Models
It traces the core ideas that shaped diffusion modeling and explains how today’s models work, why they work, and where they’re heading.
www.arxiv.org/abs/2510.21890
It traces the core ideas that shaped diffusion modeling and explains how today’s models work, why they work, and where they’re heading.
www.arxiv.org/abs/2510.21890
October 29, 2025 at 3:19 AM
The Principles of Diffusion Models
It traces the core ideas that shaped diffusion modeling and explains how today’s models work, why they work, and where they’re heading.
www.arxiv.org/abs/2510.21890
It traces the core ideas that shaped diffusion modeling and explains how today’s models work, why they work, and where they’re heading.
www.arxiv.org/abs/2510.21890
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I’m recruiting a postdoctoral researcher on a fully funded 2-year contract. The topic is developing and implementing new parallel graph algorithms, with applications to data-driven transportation and logistics.
Details and application procedure below ⬇️ Reach out if you have any questions!
Details and application procedure below ⬇️ Reach out if you have any questions!
acme-mobidec.github.io
October 27, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I’m recruiting a postdoctoral researcher on a fully funded 2-year contract. The topic is developing and implementing new parallel graph algorithms, with applications to data-driven transportation and logistics.
Details and application procedure below ⬇️ Reach out if you have any questions!
Details and application procedure below ⬇️ Reach out if you have any questions!
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Still a couple of days to apply to the ELLIS PhD program, DL Oct 31, 2025: ellis.eu/news/ellis-p... I am especially looking for students interested in developing new approaches for distribution shifts in my new ERC AdG www.ellisinstitute.fi/a-revolution... but also other topics, see kaski-lab.com
ELLIS PhD Program: Call for Applications 2025
A virtual info session for prospective PhD candidates will be held on October 1st with information about the whole PhD program, the call for applications, application materials, and timeline.
ellis.eu
October 28, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Still a couple of days to apply to the ELLIS PhD program, DL Oct 31, 2025: ellis.eu/news/ellis-p... I am especially looking for students interested in developing new approaches for distribution shifts in my new ERC AdG www.ellisinstitute.fi/a-revolution... but also other topics, see kaski-lab.com
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#EPFL has an open faculty position - tenure track or tenured!! - in AI driven biophysics. Deadline is Nov 15th. Please spread the word!
www.epfl.ch/about/workin...
www.epfl.ch/about/workin...
Assistant/associate Professor of AI-assisted Biophysics at the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Group Leader at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI)
The School of Basic Sciences (Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics) at EPFL and the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) jointly seek to appoint a Tenure Track Assistant or tenured Associate Professor in AI-As...
www.epfl.ch
October 28, 2025 at 2:56 AM
#EPFL has an open faculty position - tenure track or tenured!! - in AI driven biophysics. Deadline is Nov 15th. Please spread the word!
www.epfl.ch/about/workin...
www.epfl.ch/about/workin...
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🕳️🐇Into the Rabbit Hull – Part II
Continuing our interpretation of DINOv2, the second part of our study concerns the *geometry of concepts* and the synthesis of our findings toward a new representational *phenomenology*:
the Minkowski Representation Hypothesis
Continuing our interpretation of DINOv2, the second part of our study concerns the *geometry of concepts* and the synthesis of our findings toward a new representational *phenomenology*:
the Minkowski Representation Hypothesis
October 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
🕳️🐇Into the Rabbit Hull – Part II
Continuing our interpretation of DINOv2, the second part of our study concerns the *geometry of concepts* and the synthesis of our findings toward a new representational *phenomenology*:
the Minkowski Representation Hypothesis
Continuing our interpretation of DINOv2, the second part of our study concerns the *geometry of concepts* and the synthesis of our findings toward a new representational *phenomenology*:
the Minkowski Representation Hypothesis
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An oldie, but a goodie.
October 24, 2025 at 6:47 PM
An oldie, but a goodie.
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Two weeks left to apply for an ML #postdoc position with me in @dublincityuni.bsky.social #CompChem #cheminformatics #ChemJobs #chemsky www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
Dublin City University hiring Postdoctoral Researcher - Machine learning in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland | LinkedIn
Posted 7:02:17 PM. Applications are now invited for the position of #003141 Postdoctoral Researcher Machine learning…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
www.linkedin.com
October 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Two weeks left to apply for an ML #postdoc position with me in @dublincityuni.bsky.social #CompChem #cheminformatics #ChemJobs #chemsky www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...