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Computational neuroscience, Physics of Complex Systems, Bio-Inspired Intelligence, Foundations of Physical Computing https://compneuro.mit.edu/home
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A major blow to worldwide science and health....self-defeating and short-sighted to assume that it is saving us $. Control of infectious diseases and prevention of outbreaks will collapse without sci funds. The cost of the pandemics-to-come will dwarf any "saving" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The level of uncertainty and chaos is just unbelievable...There is only one clear outcome if this pathetic path does not revert: US will lose its edge in science and technology way faster that it would have (lost to China). Disrupted science/projects, talent will leave, no new talent will come here.

1/2 And its out! The @arc-cogitate.bsky.social project publishes its first study today in @nature.com. Many congrats to the entire team, & esp. to Lucia Melloni, @liadmudrik.bsky.social, & @michaelpitts.bsky.social for shepherding the project so well - & over 7 years! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very interesting oral history -- interviews with some top NLP folks on the effects of GenAI on their field: www.quantamagazine.org/when-chatgpt...

I am working on a protocol that recommends using containers to install/execute the software. I remembered that we published a review on packaging and containerisation. Packaging and containerization of computational methods. www.nature.com/articles/s41... (Bronwen@NatureProtocols)

Complex systems often exhibit bi-directional, cross-scale causation. External Professor John Harte's recent seminar explored work on combining top-down statistical approaches with bottom-up process modeling for a new theory of complex systems dynamics. lnkd.in/grY6iRVw

Canadian friends and colleagues! What is wrong with you? Did you not want massive funding cuts in science? ps. You blew the chance of becoming the 51st state. No barrage of executive orders for you then.

A year ago today we lost the wonderful philosopher Daniel Dennett. He is still very greatly missed. Here's some reflections I wrote at time, in @nautil.us nautil.us/i-never-stop...

Does your research involve comparing experimental conditions? Then our latest publication is for you: We developed generalized contrastive PCA (gcPCA), a tool for comparing high-dimensional datasets. 🧠📊 doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012747 This tool was born out of necessity, here is the story. 🧵 1/

Nice link between Distribution, Data and Dynamics Zhixin (Lu) bright this to my attention last week while I was in Seattle www.arxiv.org/abs/2502.17690

Great read. ps. General recommendation: You should check Bactra (Cosma's own blog) if you haven't

With the battle over proposed cuts to "indirect costs," universities have started to discuss alternative funding ideas to come to a compromise. Wyss Director of Research Administration Keleigh Quinn is quoted in this story from @statnews.com's @aniloza.bsky.social.

"A lot of us went into science because it's not bound to one country or one problem. It's really a global, cross-functional, collaborative exchange. And it would be a real shame if you disrupt that," explains Angelika Fretzen. Explore the potential implications of immigration policies on biotech.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Fantastic effort 👇

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.bsky.social

SFI’s Complexity podcast is up for a Webby Award! Nominated in the Science & Education category, Episode 2 of the most recent season explores the relationship between language and thought with guests Evelina Federenko, Steve Piantadosi, and Gary Lupyan. vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...

Chihuly gardens is my "pilgrimage" whenever I come to Seattle. The sacred beauty of colors and forms, this time in the "Chandelier" room resonated w the manuscript that Felipe Yanez & I are working on together: "The universality of form/function of cortical inhibitory neurons"...

@petersenpeter.bsky.social @jakhmack.bsky.social @sejdevries.bsky.social @bingbrunton.bsky.social @jeremymagland.bsky.social @briandepasquale.bsky.social @maryamshanechi.bsky.social +others not on sky: David Kleinfeld , Tim Gardner, Maryam Shanechi, Carlos Ponce, Eli Schlizerman, Edgar Walker,...

Arrived for #ODIN2025 @alleninstitute.bsky.social we have organized a fantastic lineup of speakers & participants: Topics cover High Throughput Acquisitions & Data Integration, Building/Benchmarking AI Models, Multiscale Analyses & AI Models. CompNeuro North Star! alleninstitute.org/odin-symposi...

One can reckon that the landscape of science funding is changing in the United States. Whatever happens, I do hope that we see more targeted focused organizations adding up a new dimension to what the traditional university departments and industry research labs were/are doing.

Heading home from #COSYNE2025 Montreal. Looking forward to see a bunch of you at #ODIN2025 that I am organizing w colleagues @alleninstitute.bsky.social This year’s theme, “Integrating Scales & Modalities" alleninstitute.org/odin-symposi...

📣 Mar 31st, 11.15AM, I will give a talk at the workshop "Towards an Algorithmic Framework for Studying Compositionality in Biological and Artificial Neural Networks!" Come join me if you're attending #cosyne2025 Reconceptualizing Computation In Neuroscience: A Category-Theoretic Perspective

Come see our poster [3-135] #cosyne2025 Structural organization of inhibitory neurons in cortical areas

Masaki Kashiwara has won the 2025 Abel Prize “for his fundamental contributions to algebraic analysis and representation theory.”

Network renormalization www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Modern science wouldn’t exist without the online research repository known as arXiv. Three decades in, its creator still can’t let it go.

In Montreal for #Cosyne2025 Looking forward to seeing colleagues and friends. Ping me for sci and 🍺 But don't do it on "Signal". ps. If you are coming from the US, don't forget to bring your passport. I almost forgot mine thinking that I am only traveling to the 51st state.

Oh cool....didn't know that XJ Wang has written a book on Theoretical Neuro...Thanks Nicole @nicolecrust.bsky.social to bringing this to attention zone

After #cosyne2025, I will be heading to Seattle for the 2nd ODIN (Open Data In Neurophys) symposium @AllenInstitute that I am co-organizing. This year’s theme, “Integrating Scales & Modalities: The Future of Neurophysiology”, reflects the pressing need to bridge scales. 📢

📢 @CosyneMeeting next week. #cosyne2025 - We have a poster on 'structural organization of inhibitory neurons in cortex'. Come and check it out. - I will also give a talk in workshops "Reconceptualizing Computation in Neuroscience: A Category-Theoretic Perspective"

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Happy Nowruz, happy spring I have been out of social media since Christmas. A nice vacation from social media frenzy, initially started as "let's just not use it for a week", turned to "a good idea to extend it to another week/month". When you pass the FOMO, then it is totally easy. Back 4Sci 🥂

Happy new year folks

Holiday reads... focusing on my idol

As new entry under @bsky.app I will post all my publications open access on 2024, with V. Douchamps, M. Di Volo, D. Battaglia, R. Goutagny, #neuroscience #neuroskyence #compneurosky #sciencesky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

So, is scaling a problem or not the problem at all?

No hardcover for the 4th volume @sfiscience.bsky.social yet? 😱😀 Fantastic initiative, great collection. Thank you for doing this for the sci community

👏 Good move...I think "any" publicly-funded research should be open access after an embargo period by default.

Indeed...traveling waves are an unlocked mystery and need much attention both from the experimental and theoretical sides. I am digging in this direction too and am hopeful about what the future holds See Matteo's @matteocarandini.bsky.social post on Yves' discovery 👇 (+ see prior post about Yves)

This work is a continuation of the @pnas.org paper from Cristos (Papadimitriou). I like the framework but my prob w it is that after setting up all the requisites, it drifts off from Neuro. It is ok if its task was not to explain cortex/brain "but" their aim is so. direct.mit.edu/neco/article...

RIP Yves you're with us in our heart & mind🕊️ Yves created a fantastic vibrant department beautifully named "Unité de Neurosciences Information et Complexité", characteristic of the spirit of interdisciplinary science needed for studying the brain. I was fortunate to spend some formative years there

Look at this cool surprise that I got in the mail today. 🤌 Thanks @thetransmitter.bsky.social for this 🙌 With great essays from @tonyzador.bsky.social @jvoigts.bsky.social @neurograce.bsky.social @nicolecrust.bsky.social ... Thanks to the editors for shaping such a great outlet for sci community 🙏

Great, @kempnerinstitute.bsky.social is here with an exciting event (organized by @kanakarajanphd.bsky.social @shamkakade.bsky.social Bernardo Sabatini ) on the horizon

Great account on Barlow's legacy by @mameister4.bsky.social Horace was a great visionary. Here are some pics from my visit with happy Horace & his puppy (circa 2015). The visit was part of a book "long in brewing" about biological computation that I am writing about. At 95 he was sharp as a hawk! 🧵