Apply for an IBRO/Dana #BrainAwarenessWeek Grant to support your 2024 #neuroscience #outreach activity and inspire the world about the brain! 🧠 Don’t miss your chance - apply here: ibro.org/baw-grants/ Dana Foundation🧠 Dr. Tracy Bale 🟧🧠 👉🏼Adrian Palacios 👈🏽 Pike See Cheah desiretshala

I'm happy to announce the start of a new free and open online course on neuroscience for people with a machine learning or similar background, co-developed by Marcus Ghosh. YouTube Videos and Jupyter-based exercises will be released weekly. There is a Discord for discussions.

How Japan smells like now.

📢R U A NEUROSCIENCE POSTDOC IN 🇨🇦 (or a 🇨🇦 POSTDOC INTERNATIONALLY)? We're excited for the 2nd year of the Canadian Neuroscience Seminars: Postdoctoral Series for 2024. Interested in presenting your work virtually? CAN ACN #neuroscience ‼APPLY HERE➡️tinyurl.com/a2bf76hy

There's an idea that LLMs encode high-level concepts linearly in representation space, and that these can be understood using geometric operations (e.g., cosine similarity) But: What does "linear" even mean? And, why would (Euclidean) geometry encode meaning?

We found Spider-Man in Osaka.

Before you take off for Thanksgiving, be sure to apply for the NeuroTech Course Virtual Workshop, February 1-2, 2024. Participation is free and supported by the NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research. Application: neurotechcourse.org/annual-workshop

We are currently preparing the call for papers for Re-Align: The First Workshop on Representational Alignment at #ICLR2024! You can shoot me a DM (or fill out the form below👇) if you want to be on the reviewing committee.

If you want to learn more about hyperbolic representation learning this is your starter pack! 👇👇

🧠 Announcing the 2024 Brain-Score Benchmarking Competition 📣 This year — we have turned the table! We invite experimentalists and the community at large to expose the explanatory gaps between current models of primate vision and the biological brain. brain-score.org/competition/ 1/

If you're planning a visit to Japan in early May, make sure to journey up to Namerikawa in Toyama Prefecture, where you can witness the mesmerizing spectacle of the firefly squid. These tiny creatures emerge from the depths of Toyama Bay to lay their eggs and emit a haunting

A supplementary page for our recent work on reconstructing images imagined in the mind from brain activity has now been released. It includes demo code on Google Colab and FAQ for those interested in our research. Please take a look if you are interested. sites.google.com/view/mentalima…

A systematic review, “Effects of publicly available NIBS on attentional functions in healthy adults,” is now online as a preprint! We analyzed 58 RCTs and found that anodal tDCS to the prefrontal cortex slightly but significantly improves attention. osf.io/preprints/psya…

Just published! 🎉 Our new paper shows how aligning internal representations of the brain and AI can improve decoding accuracy in BMI systems. 🚀 nature.com/articles/s4200…

Esfahan isn’t just another target on a map, it’s home to centuries of human history: Naqsh e Jahan Square, Jame Mosque, Khaju and Si o se Pol bridges and more, many recognized by UNESCO as world heritage sites. As the conflict with Iran escalates, we must demand that President Donald J. Trump , PM

IRGC does not care about the people of Iran. Attacking a power plant only hurts the people of Iran, not IRGC.

Everyone is talking about uranium enrichment, oil prices, and the Strait of Hormuz. No one is talking about the Iranian people

90 million people in Iran are trapped in the world's largest hostage crisis