More about the quest for interesting 'structure' in neuroscience (neural activity and synaptic weights): sciencedirect.com/science/articl… From many exciting discussions led by srdjan ostojic

Congratulations Larry! Another well deserved recognition of your beautiful work

I'll be speaking at COSYNE 2024 on Mar 04 at 11:20. Great results from the collaboration with 2 amazing labs: Ueli Rutishauser and Daniel Salzman. Thanks to Burk, Rushworth, and Shushruth, the organizers of a great workshop. #Whova tinyurl.com/2dzzorft #cosyne2024 #cosyne24

The deadline for applying to the Methods in Computational Neuroscience course at MBL in Woods Hole has been extended. The new deadline is March 6. Apply here: mbl.edu/education/adva…

Abstract disentangled low D representations are great for generalization but are not efficient for memory storage. The hippocampus seems to increase dimensionality to fix this problem. Published in Neuron, with a wonderful team Dr. Lara Boyle, Lorenzo Posani, S. Siegelbaum

The geometry of neural representations depends on the structure of the inputs and the outputs (semantics). Disentangled/abstract representations are sometimes inherited from the lowD structure of the outputs. Surprisingly, the activation function can make a significant difference

The Grossman Center has several openings for Postdoctoral Fellows in Comp Neuro. Come join us in Chicago! DM or email if you have any questions! University of Chicago Neuroscience Institute

✈️ #SfN23 ! The Dipoppa Lab UCLA is looking for 1-2 postdocs in Computational Neuroscience dipoppalab.com/join-us

We develop theories and models of neural dynamics and computations. Exciting collaborations with experimental labs. DM me or visit poster FF3 on Nov 15 afternoon.

A fantastic course with a great tradition! Honored to direct it together with Roozbeh Kiani. Thanks to Xiao-Jing Wang, Steve Baccus and all the previous directors, and of course, thanks to the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) team. Apply here: mbl.edu/education/adva…

The (brand new!) AI Institute ARNI (ARtificial + Natural Intelligence) is hiring postdocs to work at the intersection of AI+neuro, at Columbia U. Please share!

Info: arni-institute.org
Apply: apply.interfolio.com/125533 (reviewed on rolling basis)

Do you want to know if your mouse is stressed? We can tell with 100% accuracy (yes, it's cross-validated) by looking at spontaneous activity. Great collaboration with Frances Xia, Valeria Fascianelli and Mazen Kheirbek

I'm sure it will be a great lab!

A lot of new exciting results. Training RNNs using RL leads to very diverse networks. We take advantage of this diversity to explain individual differences in experiment

Looking forward to this! Thanks again to Daniel Salzman and Ueli Rutishauser for their exciting experiments

Unveiling the benefits of multitasking in disentangled representation formation

New Spotlight by Jenelle Feather & SueYeon Chung discussing recent work by Jeff Johnston & Stefano Fusi published in Nature Communications

Open access: doi.org/10.1016/j.tics…

Before hitting the dance floor 💃🏽 get your kicks on poster 66🎙️tonight @ #cosyne23 !
I'll present my work on how the hippocampus can use different representational geometries to navigate the memory vs. generalization trade-off for social memory!

The season finale of the mixed 🍝 vs. modular 🧱 selectivity debate will take place this year at #cosyne2023 workshops!
Join us to hear what our stellar lineup thinks about single-neuron interpretability and disentangled representations!
Co-org w Jeff Johnston James Whittington

If you’re at CosyneMeeting, please be sure to check out the workshop organized by Kay M Tye PhD and I titled: “A wrinkle in time: Neuroscience at multiple timescales” on 14th March at Mali II! #cosyne2023 #neuroscience

A really simple and natural way of generating abstract disentangled representations. Now in Nature Communications: nature.com/articles/s4146…

And this is an alternative cover, again from Matteo Farinella, still describing the results of nature.com/articles/s4159…