Our work on a one-to-one mapping between deep network units and neurons in the fruit fly visual system is published! dynamic stimuli, interesting behavior, a full connectome, deep networks---it's an exciting time to be fruit fly modeling! nature.com/articles/s4158… nature

Join Rebeca Ianov (not on X) at #CCN2024 poster session A (today!), to see her cool project on using multi-level RNNs to explain mechanism of genetic developmental disease on auditory processing! 2024.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=231 Paper: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Danyal Duncan Astle

CogCompNeuro Additionally, Maros Rovny will present his new investigations based on the spatially-embedded RNN framework -- poster B106! 2024.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=557 Danyal Duncan Astle

What do road & rail maps tell us about political culture?  Why are you being stealthily robbed, every day of your life, if you live outside the capital in most countries? How can new roads short-circuit this, and bring prosperity? A transport nerd thread!

Spatially embedded recurrent neural networks reveal widespread links between structural and functional neuroscience findings nature.com/articles/s4225… #Neuroscience

Very nice modeling + data analysis paper suggesting that rotational dynamics in neural populations (jPCA type stuff) can be explained largely by traveling waves. nature.com/articles/s4159…

Look how much of UK wealth is wrapped up in property and the tiny percentage compared to US equity. This is not a good thing, for the UK’s wealth in society and economic growth to be driven by property markets.

Three-dimensional shape and connectivity of physical networks arxiv.org/abs/2403.19333

Thalamocortical architectures for flexible cognition and efficient learning doi.org/10.1016/j.tics… #neuroscience

What if I told you that I co-founded a startup in 1987 that obtained world-wide rights to GLP1 as a metabolic Rx, collaborated with Pfizer to show key activities, & abandoned it in 1990 when Pfizer lost interest? I tell the previously untold tale in an open access paper now up

Nat. Comput. Sci.: Network model with internal complexity bridges artificial intelligence and neuroscience nature.com/articles/s4358…

Aaron Milstein Worth also reading this paper as a counterpoint of all the things that can go wrong when you have interacting plastic systems from Pierre Yger and Mathieu Gilson: frontiersin.org/journals/compu…

Ramanan et al. examine the evolution of clinical phenotypes in patients diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease or FTLD, and show that behavioural and cognitive profiles of individuals with the same initial diagnosis can converge or diverge over time. tinyurl.com/4c6ymf2x

💥I’m hiring! 💥🚀 Funded by ARIA, we’re massively ramping our work on spatially-embedded efficient computation in neural networks. 18m first instance, great London location, competitive postdoc salary. Any Qs, my DMs are open! (please RT). imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-jo…

Job alert! Come and work with Danyal Jascha Achterberg and me on SNNs, delays, etc! 👇

1. Synaptic weight scaling in O(1/N) self-induces a form of (implicit) spatial structure in networks of spiking neurons, as the number of neurons N tends to infinity. This is what D.T. Zhou, P.-E. Jabin and I prove in arxiv.org/abs/2409.06325.

Attention is awesome! So we (Jordan Lei Ari Benjamin ML Group, TU Berlin Kording Lab 🦖 and #NeuroAi) built a biologically inspired model of visual attention and binding that can simultaneously learn and perform multiple attention tasks 🧠 Pre-print: doi.org/10.1101/2024.0… A 🧵...

I recently gave a talk on: Nonlinearity and network topology in multimodal circuits. Which you can watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=duzTIn…