Sam Gershman writes beautifully about how theory-free neuroscience prevents the field from reaching its promise. Beautiful and true. Most folks do not test hypotheses. Running a NHST does not a hypothesis make. thetransmitter.org/theoretical-ne…

RIP to the 10th world champion, Boris Spassky, here looking over my shoulder at my match with Hübner in 1985. Boris was never above befriending and mentoring the next generation, especially those of us who, like him, didn’t fit comfortably into the Soviet machine. (He emigrated

Episode #25 in #TheoreticalNeurosciencePodcast: On growing synthetic dendrites – with Hermann Cuntz Hermann Cuntz theoreticalneuroscience.no/thn25 Why are dendritic structures of neurons so different? The guest builds dendrites in a computer to understand and explore.

In a study, Martha Lewis & Melanie Mitchell show that the reasoning abilities of OpenAI’s GPT-4 model fall short when faced with small changes. Recognizing the limitations of these tools is critical to knowing when and to what extent they can be trusted. santafe.edu/news-center/ne…

Consciousness or pseudo-consciousness? A clash of two paradigms nature.com/articles/s4159… Published in Nature Neuroscience today!

Latest column from me in The Transmitter The Transmitter: on the limits of what we can know about the brain thetransmitter.org/systems-neuros…

𝗜𝘀 𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗮 𝗱𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘆 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆? Definitely some thought provoking papers in this collection. It's definitely alive and well in conceptual neuroscience at least! link.springer.com/collections/da…

Adult human brains have between 86-100 billion neurons and every single one is unique - like snowflakes! ❄️ In this 3D rendering by our #ElectronMicroscopy team, we see 3 different shapes. Can you name all of them? #BrainAwarenessWeek

As a cognitive scientist I’ve always been skeptical of the theory that “scale is all you need” (models with more layers, bigger training data) to duplicate or exceed human intelligence. A majority of surveyed AI researchers agree. @garymarcus newscientist.com/article/247175…

There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. -- Enrico Fermi

Please spread the word!! We are accepting applications for the Cold Spring Harbor Asia Computational and Cognitive Summer School in Suzhou, China. Dates: June 29 to July 20 of 2025. Application deadline: March 31. For the top three reasons to attend, see thread below:

"Causal reductionism ... no room for additional causes once we have accounted for all elementary mechanisms... causal reductionism is prevalent in neuroscience: once ... we demonstrate that causal reductionism cannot provide a complete and coherent account of ‘what caused what’."

Great discussion: how to think like a complexity scientist: open.spotify.com/episode/1qwx0k…

New Perspective paper Nature Neuroscience 🔊📢 Integrating multimodal data to understand cortical circuit architecture and function With Saskia de Vries, Nuno da Costa, Christof Koch, Hongkui Zeng and many others Allen Institute nature.com/articles/s4159… 🧵1/8

That the Christmas-&-Easter-were-originally-pagan-festivals nonsense originated in Protestant anti-Catholicism is yet another illustration of a most entertaining paradox: the profoundly Christian character of so many anti-Christian polemics on Christian history

Our first paper on altered states of consciousness induced by #breathwork is officially out now! It addresses four big questions: (1) Can simple breathing alter your consciousness? Most definitely! And in very similar ways to psychedelics! (1/6) nature.com/articles/s4427…

Applications for 𝐂𝐀𝐌𝐏 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 are now open. Apply now at camp.iiserpune.ac.in Deadline for applying- 1st May, 2025. #camp2025 #neurosciencemeetings

"The brain ... becomes an enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern, always a meaningful pattern though never an abiding one; a shifting harmony of subpatterns" Charles Sherrington The tenth CAMP is here! Applications deadline: 1 May 2025

Thank you Prof. Peter Jedlička, for a fascinating talk on neuron modeling. You broke down complex ideas on hyperexcitable circuits and hippocampal neurons in a way that really clicked.