Nature Neuroscience

Dynamical constraints on neural population activity

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

reminder that you can attend this great symposium on zoom! talks from heavy hitters, just a stellar lineup. grateful to be included. tomorrow & friday, Jan 16-17, pacific time. #neuroskyence #psychscisci #consciousness #neuroscience #philosophy #theory #psychology

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Philosophy & Theory of Neuroscience Conference 🧠 next week @ Chapman & available via zoom.Talks by @drmichaellevin.bsky.social @meganakpeters.bsky.social Newsome, Yassa, Roskies, Carolyn Parkinson, Frederick Eberhardt & many others!

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#philsky #philsci #neuroskyence

Mapping Early Brain Maturation: Anatomical Substrates of Cortical Connectivity Shifts in Neonates
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

How do we approach the complexity of life as a nonequilibrium system? Using physics and, in particular, landscape and flux theory, many systems, from cells to ecology and cancer, can be adequately represented and modelled. Check this paper in Reviews of Modern Physics
@apsphysics.bsky.social

Nature Communications

Cerebellar-driven cortical dynamics can enable task acquisition, switching and consolidation

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

The Strogatz book is great! Some years ago a group of friends and I did a discussion series on dynamical systems in neuroscience that started with Strogatz.

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NeuroTorch: A Python library for neuroscience-oriented machine learning

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I wrote an introduction to RL for neuroscience last year that was just published in NBDT: tinyurl.com/5f58zdy3

This review aims to provide some intuition for and derivations of RL methods commonly used in systems neuroscience, ranging from TD learning through the SR to deep and distributional RL!

And the same for Python is here:
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We are pleased to announce our first ever Kempner Institute Symposium, Frontiers in NeuroAI, a two-day event in Allston, MA. Virtual and in-person options available. Learn more: bit.ly/41wSYJA #KempnerInstitute #NeuroAI

This paper on the usefulness of diversity of neuron types is pretty cool: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

🚨Keynote speakers for the Computational Psychiatry Conference (14-16th July, Tubingen) announced 📢
Very excited to have excellent keynotes across theory-driven CP, machine learning, and clinical psychiatry:
Andreas Heinz
Georgia Koppe
Chandra Sripada
Sophie Valk
Tor Wager
#cpconf25 www.cpconf.org

Panel at #NeurIPS2024, as part of #NeuroAI workshop, with Karl Friston and Yoshua Bengio, moderated by myself.

Recordings available after the event: tinyurl.com/39a9xy8x

Workshop: tinyurl.com/5aysw5v3

Moein Khajehnejad @foroughhas.bsky.social @noorsajidt.bsky.social @tonyzador.bsky.social

Finally published:
“Metastability demystified — the foundational past, the pragmatic present and the promising future”
rdcu.be/d3bh9

All about metastability: what the heck it is, how to measure it in models and data, and how to interpret it in neuroscience!

Excited to share our NeurIPS spotlight paper that develops cell-type dynamical systems to understand the effects of neural perturbations, and roles of distinct cell classes in a neural circuit!

Joint work w/ @dikshagup.bsky.social , Carlos Brody, @jpillowtime.bsky.social .

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Excited to release what we’ve been working on at Amaranth Foundation, our latest whitepaper, NeuroAI for AI safety! A detailed, ambitious roadmap for how neuroscience research can help build safer AI systems while accelerating both virtual neuroscience and neurotech. 1/N

📢 NetSci 2025 Speaker announcement:

Lenka Zdeborová, Associate Professor of Physics and Computer Science at EPFL and Head of the Statistical Physics of Computation Laboratory

Talk title: "Statistical Physics of Computation"
#NetSci2025