Still can not believe that I was so lucky to become part of the Imbizo as a TA! ☺️ 3rd time here, every Imbizo is different but always awesome! 💪👩‍🎓🧑‍🎓👨‍🎓

Excited to launch the new Neuromatch NeuroAI course this summer! This is our first advanced course on the shared principles of intelligence in artificial and natural systems. Applications are open until March 17th (for TAs) and March 24th (for students). neuroai.science/p/unveiling-th…

Larry Abbott, Terrence Sejnowski and Haim Sompolinsky split $1.45 million in recognition of their decades of work uncovering principles of brain structure and function. By Gina Jiménez thetransmitter.org/community/theo…

It's a pity I can't go... If you know Comp Neuro and are passionate about building healthy and diverse scientific communities — do apply!

🚨Student applications for Imbizo 2025 are now open! Apply before 24 July to join us in South Africa🇿🇦for 3 weeks (Jan 12-Feb 2) of Comp Neuro lectures 🧠, coding tutorials💻, meeting new people 🌎, and exploring the wonderful beach of Noordhoek🏖️! More info in the link 👇

Thrilled to announce that I am starting as a Chancellor Fellow next week. It is an honor to be supported by the University of Edinburgh. Exciting times ahead developing new research ideas and growing up as a scientist! 💪

Maybe not everyone realize it yet, but new visa costs effective from February this year will make moving to the UK not just expensive but impossible for many researchers. Student visas are also strongly affected too, becoming impossibly high for students in many countries.

2 days left to apply for Imbizo!

What will a foundation model for the brain look like? We argue that it must be able to solve a diverse set of tasks across multiple brain regions and animals. Check out our preprint where we introduce a multi-region, multi-animal, multi-task model (MtM): arxiv.org/abs/2407.14668

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”

Fully-funded #PhD in #ML at The University of Edinburgh (School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, ANC@Edinburgh), in 𝐠𝐞𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 and 𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐲 𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. Application deadline: 15 Dec '24. Starting Sep '25. Details in the reply. Please RT and share with anyone interested!