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Congratulations to Adrienne Fairhall on being elected to @theNAsciences! Dr. Fairhall is a Professor at University of Washington, Director of the UW Computational Neuroscience Center, and a member of the Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics Scientific Advisory Council.

At a recent recital with my son, at the piano. I'm playing balalaika.

A beautiful ADVERSARIAL COLLABORATION testing GNW and IIT theories of consciousness. Data challenge both theories (though I don't agree IIT predicts that posterior cortex is somehow special - we don't know enough to claim so). More work remains to be done! doi.org/10.1038/s41586…

A junco bird decided to raise some chicks on my porch. It made a nest on a little fir tree that we keep in a pot and use as a Christmas tree every winter.

Episode #28 in #TheoreticalNeurosciencePodcast: On whole-cell modeling of bacteria – with Markus Covert Markus Covert Lab theoreticalneuroscience.no/thn28 In 2020 a model of E. coli with 10000 equations and 19000 parameters was presented by the guest. How are such models made?

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Apply for the 2025-2026 Shanahan Postbac/Undergraduate fellowship Allen Institute UW Computational Neuroscience Center! Interested in simulating the brain? Apply for the project with Maria Maria Tikhanovskaya, leveraging cool data and deep learning with bio-realistic brain simulations. compneuro.washington.edu/training-progr…

Thanks to 中江　健/Ken Nakae, Kenji Doya, Aki Funamizu for the kind invitation to speak at the Digital Brain Seminar. My talk covered our models and simulation tools shared with the community, as well as some recent things we are cooking Allen Institute: youtube.com/watch?v=CtPOaA…

Our neural dynamics team is hiring for a research associate and scientific project manager! learn more about the open positions: alleninstitute.org/careers/jobs/?…

Productive weekend

Nice update Neuralink. Unsurprisingly, it resonates. Re. Elon Musk's point about consciousness from physics, see doi.org/10.3390/e24111… And generally it all looks like Age of Cindy chapters 1-2. Maybe soon it will get into chapter 3, hope in a good way. amazon.com/Age-Cindy-Brai…

Cool updates in our newsletter: 📺 3D neuronal visualization in VND linked to Python notebooks via zmq 🧠 Stabilized Supralinear Networks implemented in BMTK 📢 Upcoming presentations at CNS*2025 and JNS by Beatriz Herrera and Shinya Ito See more and subscribe: t.e2ma.net/message/3njjhi…

Does anyone know what this is? Some kind of a gastropod? Found it at a beach on Puget Sound (the photo shows views from the top and from the bottom).

Blueberries time.

An exciting opportunity to make your voice heard. Submit your ideas (<= 2pages, by 8/29) to Amaranth Foundation about how neuroscience can shape the trajectory of AGI development toward equitable, beneficial outcomes. blog.amaranth.foundation/p/rfi-neurosci…