This pair of articles in Journal of Physiology from Máté Lengyel & Jonathan Pillow stem from a debate organised as part of the Cam Neuroscience meeting 'David Marr, 50 years on' held in 2019...good memories with Elisa Galliano & colleagues

Can you predict the activity of INDIVIDUAL NEURONS without recording them? Hint: the answer is YES Benjamin Cowley Nivedita Rangarajan Elise Ireland @MaxwellHTurner Jonathan Pillow Murthy Lab nature.com/articles/s4158…

Happy to highlight a paper from Benjamin Cowley Jonathan Pillow Murthy Lab showing how one can use artificial neural networks to dissect the mechanisms of complex neural circuits - in this case visual circuits used by the fruit fly to find a mate! Nature News & Views nature.com/articles/d4158…

Congratulations to Benjamin Cowley Adam J Calhoun , Elise Ireland , @MaxwellHTurner and Murthy Lab on a phenomenal paper. So happy to see this one finally in print!

Very excited to announce the first release of NeMoS (NEural MOdelS) a package for neural data analysis that supports GPU acceleration. Check out our tutorials and try it on your data now! Docs nemos.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ Github github.com/flatironinstit… Profile x.com/nemos_neuro

We are looking for a postdoc to work on scientific foundation models! If you are excited about multi-modal #LLM #AI4Science, #Physics-Guided #DeepLearning pls reach out. Appreciate any repost! roseyu.com/postdoc.html

My long preprinted postdoc work with Jonathan Pillow Brody Lab in eLife - the journal! elifesciences.org/articles/84955 We introduce a novel method for inferring latent accumulation dynamics from neural activity and show that different brain regions accumulate evidence in drastically different ways!

We are excited to announce a new tenure-track faculty (open rank) search in computational neuroscience at the NYU Neuroscience Institute (Deadline: Nov 15) apply.interfolio.com/153167 #facultysearch #academicjobs #NYU

Amortized variational inference is neither amortized nor variational nor inference.

Just saw that Murphy Book 2 says it is also known as "inference compilation" [citing Le, Baydin, Wood 2017]. Seems like a much simpler metaphor... sorry this one didn't catch on instead!

From using machine learning to decode 1000 hours of baby videos to understand language development, to employing #AI to better understand the nervous system, this year's PNI Innovator Awards will advance neuroscience in bold, new ways. 📰: pni.princeton.edu/news/2024/pni-…

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🚨🧠🛜 Call for COSYNE workshop proposals is now live! Come join us in beautiful Montréal and help us shape the discussion topics our community will engage on!

As a past reviewer of U.S. National Science Foundation #GRFP I cannot emphasize how on point this advice is for applicants. Worth a listen.

"Nathaniel Daw has never touched a mouse." Fabulous opening sentence to a The Transmitter article on dopamine and reward prediction. thetransmitter.org/dopamine/recon… (Nathaniel Daw — what's stopping you???)