Really excited about our new paper! :) Please go say hi to Christian Gumbsch if you are attending #ICLR2024

Why small mindedness is having big consequences Brain
I live under its shadow. I suspect most of you do too. It is the great mountain of small things. The higher it gets, the bigger the shadow it casts: a malignant darkness that pervades our lives.
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Brain Connectivity Workshop x Wellcome 20-21 Sept 2023

Unique BCW format = short talks -> intense discussion

Free to join online tinyurl.com/zhu9fs34

Line-up @JirsaViktor I Rekik martijnvandenheuvel Ginestra Bianconi M Jones J Lerch Pedro A. valdes-Sosa Monica Rosenberg Petra Vertes [1/2]

Rita’s Waltz is now released! Check out the music video below, shot by Bobby Williams. High quality download & sheet music available on my bandcamp, link in bio 🎶

youtu.be/IThaK0W8r18

Very happy to announce that I’ll be releasing a new single next Friday!

I originally wrote “Rita’s Waltz” for a specific scene in The Glass Elephant, a theatre play by Anjali Bhat and I’m excited to share it with you all! Stay tuned!

Meet Nadine Dijkstra!

To celebrate #InternationalWomensDay2023 & #WomensHistoryMonth we have spoken to Nadine Dijkstra 🧠

Find out more about Nadine's current position, how her career began, and her love for dance 💃🪩

#IWD23

Meet Anjali Bhat 👋

To celebrate #InternationalWomensDay & #WomensHistoryMonth we have spoken to Anjali Bhat about their research in to psychosis and psychedelics 🧠

Read about Anjali's current position and how her career began ⬇️

anjalibhat.org

This. Can't wait to dig into the paper.

New preprint showing a reduction of the intentional binding effect while learning when to act. With Patrick Haggard and Elisabeth Parés Pujolràs psyarxiv.com/x9fst/

I didn’t realise, when I started working as a psychologist with children and families, how many stories I would hear about distress relating to school. School-related distress wasn’t really something that came up in my clinical training. 1/

Bernard J. Baars, PhD Stuart Sims I do not (yet) define consciousness or offer a model. I've been busy with other aspects where I think I can move the ball forward a bit, but eventually I hope to get there. I know only one thing for sure: we must take developmental biology seriously - the scaling of mind is 1/n

On the show today: Elaine Burke on stories from the weekend; Bad Bum Lifts; Mario Rosenstock on his podcast; Anjali Bhat on brain cells & games; Holly Cairns TD on redress; Rory Cashin reviews 'Gangs of London 2''The Sound of 007' & 'The Peripheral'; Hatred for Barney...

Who am I?
What is this?
Why is this?
What’s it like to be me?
Karl Friston and Lisa Kairns discuss these four simple questions.

youtube.com/watch?v=nhgyQD…

Brain Cells Playing Pong 🎮🕹️

Researchers Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging have worked as part of a team who have taught brain cells grown in a lab to play the retro video game 🧠

Read more in the article published on BBC News (UK)

bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

#neuroscience

Researchers led by Cortical Labs, including Prof Karl Friston and Dr Anjali Bhat UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, have grown brain cells in a lab that have learned to play the 1970s tennis-like video game, Pong - giving a new perspective on #AI models of how the brain works bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

Neuron Led by Brett J. Kagan. Thank you to our co-authors: Andy Kitchen 🧠🤖 Nhi Thao Tran Forough Habibollahi Moein Khajehnejad Bradyn Parker Anjali Bhat Ben Rollo, Adeel Razi Karl Friston

Excited to announce an opportunity for early career researchers in the Active Inference community!

The Pymdp Fellowship: Short-term positions designed to use and further develop the pymdp package (joss.theoj.org/papers/10.2110…)

More details at brennanklein.com (bottom of page)

🕤Less than 2weeks for the 3rd International Active Inference Workshop (IWAI2022). This time ONSITE 🤯
19th Sept 2022 Grenoble!
info: iwaiworkshop.github.io
With an amazing keynote from Anjali Bhat about the DishBrain!

Authors tag your accepted contrib with IWAI