Atri Ghosh
@atrighosh.bsky.social
At the junction of rationality and hypocrisy
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For legal purposes, the views expressed here aren't mine.
spatial and abstract navigation @cimecunitrento.bsky.social
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Website: atrighosh.github.io
Mouse Disco:
"the animals showed a reduced occupancy in the chamber playing Mozart, while no consistent differences were observed among EDM, Taylor Swift, and Rock." doi.org/10.3389/fnbe...
"the animals showed a reduced occupancy in the chamber playing Mozart, while no consistent differences were observed among EDM, Taylor Swift, and Rock." doi.org/10.3389/fnbe...
Frontiers | Taylor Swift versus Mozart: music preferences of C57BL/6J mice
IntroductionMusic has become an established complementary element of modern medicine, demonstrating beneficial effects towards various diseases such as demen...
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November 30, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Mouse Disco:
"the animals showed a reduced occupancy in the chamber playing Mozart, while no consistent differences were observed among EDM, Taylor Swift, and Rock." doi.org/10.3389/fnbe...
"the animals showed a reduced occupancy in the chamber playing Mozart, while no consistent differences were observed among EDM, Taylor Swift, and Rock." doi.org/10.3389/fnbe...
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The classical guitar is often praised for its simplicity: a wooden box, six strings, no amplification. Yet that simplicity conceals a near-orchestral range of colour. In today’s essay, a guitarist explores how, in skilled hands, the guitar can create the most complex works of art
How to paint with sound, by a virtuoso classical guitarist | Aeon Essays
In the hands of a great musician, the gloriously simple guitar can create the most complex works of art. Here’s how
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November 28, 2025 at 11:00 AM
The classical guitar is often praised for its simplicity: a wooden box, six strings, no amplification. Yet that simplicity conceals a near-orchestral range of colour. In today’s essay, a guitarist explores how, in skilled hands, the guitar can create the most complex works of art
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Still need to read this in depth but it seems… not great. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Neurodegeneration Associated with Repeated High-Frequency Transcranial Focused Ultrasound
Transcranial Focused Ultrasound (tFUS) is a popular tool for non-invasive neuromodulation which prior testing paradigms have suggested is benign. However, emerging use cases such as clinical therapies...
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November 28, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Still need to read this in depth but it seems… not great. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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AlphaEvolve, an AI system created by Google DeepMind, is helping mathematicians do research at a scale that was previously impossible - even if it does occasionally "cheat" to find a solution
Mathematicians say Google's AI tools are supercharging their research
AlphaEvolve, an AI system created by Google DeepMind, is helping mathematicians do research at a scale that was previously impossible - even if it does occasionally "cheat" to find a solution
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November 27, 2025 at 10:11 PM
AlphaEvolve, an AI system created by Google DeepMind, is helping mathematicians do research at a scale that was previously impossible - even if it does occasionally "cheat" to find a solution
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Nature research paper: Building compositional tasks with shared neural subspaces
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go.nature.com/4ocRj3n
Building compositional tasks with shared neural subspaces - Nature
The brain can flexibly perform multiple tasks by compositionally combining task-relevant neural representations.
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November 27, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Nature research paper: Building compositional tasks with shared neural subspaces
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go.nature.com/4ocRj3n
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New preprint alert!
Cognitive maps are flexible, dynamic, (re)constructed representations
#psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition #philsky 🧪
Cognitive maps are flexible, dynamic, (re)constructed representations
#psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition #philsky 🧪
OSF
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November 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
New preprint alert!
Cognitive maps are flexible, dynamic, (re)constructed representations
#psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition #philsky 🧪
Cognitive maps are flexible, dynamic, (re)constructed representations
#psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition #philsky 🧪
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Yes!! Also, like me, if you thought Science group of journals is for-profit, you'd be wrong! - www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
So you CAN publish fully in non-profit journals EVEN IF you want ultra-high IF! Think about it. Time for a change.
So you CAN publish fully in non-profit journals EVEN IF you want ultra-high IF! Think about it. Time for a change.
November 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Yes!! Also, like me, if you thought Science group of journals is for-profit, you'd be wrong! - www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
So you CAN publish fully in non-profit journals EVEN IF you want ultra-high IF! Think about it. Time for a change.
So you CAN publish fully in non-profit journals EVEN IF you want ultra-high IF! Think about it. Time for a change.
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I am really proud that eLife have published this paper. It is a very nice paper, but you need to also read the reviews to understand why! 1/n
"The inevitability and superfluousness of cell types in spatial cognition". Intuitive cell types are found in random artificial networks using the same selection criteria neuroscientists use with actual data. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... 1/2
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November 25, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I am really proud that eLife have published this paper. It is a very nice paper, but you need to also read the reviews to understand why! 1/n
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"The inevitability and superfluousness of cell types in spatial cognition". Intuitive cell types are found in random artificial networks using the same selection criteria neuroscientists use with actual data. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... 1/2
elifesciences.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:29 PM
"The inevitability and superfluousness of cell types in spatial cognition". Intuitive cell types are found in random artificial networks using the same selection criteria neuroscientists use with actual data. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... 1/2
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𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲, 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲, 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻–𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝗿𝗵𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗺𝘀
This looks like a major one!
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#neuroskyence
This looks like a major one!
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#neuroskyence
November 25, 2025 at 5:41 PM
𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲, 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲, 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻–𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝗿𝗵𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗺𝘀
This looks like a major one!
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#neuroskyence
This looks like a major one!
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#neuroskyence
Truly a man of varied interests.
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November 21, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Truly a man of varied interests.
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jmail.world/thread/HOUSE...
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1. New preprint resolving a conundrum in systems neuroscience with an AI scientist, and humans Reilly Tilbury, Dabin Kwon, @haydari.bsky.social, @jacobmratliff.bsky.social, @bio-emergent.bsky.social, @carandinilab.net, @kevinjmiller.bsky.social, @neurokim.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Characterizing neuronal population geometry with AI equation discovery
The visual cortex contains millions of neurons, whose combined activity forms a population code representing visual stimuli. There is, however, a discrepancy between our understanding of this code at ...
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November 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
1. New preprint resolving a conundrum in systems neuroscience with an AI scientist, and humans Reilly Tilbury, Dabin Kwon, @haydari.bsky.social, @jacobmratliff.bsky.social, @bio-emergent.bsky.social, @carandinilab.net, @kevinjmiller.bsky.social, @neurokim.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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U.S. Public Research Benefits is a searchable repository that showcases the value of basic science in an easy and accessible format. @baselesspursuit.bsky.social shares how he and his colleagues developed the resource.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/science-and-...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/science-and-...
Our searchable repository of useful research can restore trust in federally funded basic science
Called U.S. Public Research Benefits, the database showcases the value of basic science in an easy and accessible format.
www.thetransmitter.org
November 5, 2025 at 2:50 PM
U.S. Public Research Benefits is a searchable repository that showcases the value of basic science in an easy and accessible format. @baselesspursuit.bsky.social shares how he and his colleagues developed the resource.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/science-and-...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/science-and-...
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New preprint from the lab and great work by Fei Wang. We show how subiculum trace vector cells can be modeled consistent with known effects in CA1. Traces are driven by a mismatch learning rule to keep associative memories in line with experience.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Dynamic updating of cognitive maps via traces of experience in the subiculum
In the classical view of hippocampal function, the subiculum is assigned the role as the output layer. In spatial paradigms, some subiculum neurons manifest as so-called boundary vector cells (BVCs), ...
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October 3, 2025 at 7:01 AM
New preprint from the lab and great work by Fei Wang. We show how subiculum trace vector cells can be modeled consistent with known effects in CA1. Traces are driven by a mismatch learning rule to keep associative memories in line with experience.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Research in primate brains has been essential for the development of brain-computer interfaces and artificial neural networks. New funding and policy changes put future such advances at risk, write Cory Miller, @movshon.bsky.social and Doris Tsao.
#neuroskyence
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#neuroskyence
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Without monkeys, neuroscience has no future
Research in primate brains has been essential for the development of BCIs, ANNs. New funding and policy changes put future such advances at risk.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Research in primate brains has been essential for the development of brain-computer interfaces and artificial neural networks. New funding and policy changes put future such advances at risk, write Cory Miller, @movshon.bsky.social and Doris Tsao.
#neuroskyence
bit.ly/47MXYLH
#neuroskyence
bit.ly/47MXYLH
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Project structure for scientific coding projects
- the latest in my Better Code, Better Science series open.substack.com/pub/russpold...
- the latest in my Better Code, Better Science series open.substack.com/pub/russpold...
Project structure for scientific coding projects
Better Code, Better Science: Chapter 6, Part 3
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November 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Project structure for scientific coding projects
- the latest in my Better Code, Better Science series open.substack.com/pub/russpold...
- the latest in my Better Code, Better Science series open.substack.com/pub/russpold...
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What distinguishes humanity? The answer has often come back to our language abilities. But some linguists think that eventually, AI will demonstrate an understanding of language that’s better than our own.
In a First, AI Models Analyze Language As Well As a Human Expert | Quanta Magazine
If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?
www.quantamagazine.org
November 7, 2025 at 9:04 PM
What distinguishes humanity? The answer has often come back to our language abilities. But some linguists think that eventually, AI will demonstrate an understanding of language that’s better than our own.
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Are humans really the only rational animals? Our NEW PAPER 🎉 out in @science.org suggests otherwise! In a large collaboration led with my joint first author @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social, we show that “Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs” 🧵
Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs
The selective revision of beliefs in light of new evidence has been considered one of the hallmarks of human-level rationality. However, tests of this ability in other species are lacking. We examined...
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October 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Are humans really the only rational animals? Our NEW PAPER 🎉 out in @science.org suggests otherwise! In a large collaboration led with my joint first author @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social, we show that “Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs” 🧵
Braincraft challenge — 1000 neurons, 100 seconds, 10 runs, 2 choices, no reward
@nicolasrougier.bsky.social
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@nicolasrougier.bsky.social
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GitHub - rougier/braincraft: Braincraft challenge — 1000 neurons, 100 seconds, 10 runs, 2 choices, no reward
Braincraft challenge — 1000 neurons, 100 seconds, 10 runs, 2 choices, no reward - rougier/braincraft
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October 29, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Braincraft challenge — 1000 neurons, 100 seconds, 10 runs, 2 choices, no reward
@nicolasrougier.bsky.social
github.com/rougier/brai...
@nicolasrougier.bsky.social
github.com/rougier/brai...
Takes Two Neurons To Ride a Bicycle
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October 29, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Takes Two Neurons To Ride a Bicycle
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Thrilled that our paper is out today in Nature!
www.nature.com/articles/s4...
www.nature.com/articles/s4...
Sensory expectations shape neural population dynamics in motor circuits
Nature - Experiments with human volunteers and macaques show that expectations produced by probabilistic cueing of future sensory inputs shape motor circuit dynamics in order to increase the...
www.nature.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Thrilled that our paper is out today in Nature!
www.nature.com/articles/s4...
www.nature.com/articles/s4...
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"ANN instances showed consistent variation in their alignment with specific human subjects." www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... This particular network is just like me fr!
Human-like individual differences emerge from random weight initializations in neural networks
Much of AI research targets the behavior of an average human, a focus that traces to Turing’s imitation game. Yet, no two human individuals behave exactly alike. In this study, we show that artificial...
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October 29, 2025 at 6:30 PM
"ANN instances showed consistent variation in their alignment with specific human subjects." www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... This particular network is just like me fr!
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See Fig 3e for an example in neuroscience 🧠😴🦋:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
See Fig 3e for an example in neuroscience 🧠😴🦋:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Butterfly Catastrophe -- from Wolfram MathWorld
A catastrophe which can occur for four control factors and one behavior axis. The butterfly catastrophe is the universal unfolding of the singularity f(x)=x^6 of codimension 4, i.e., with four unfoldi...
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October 29, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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See Fig 3e for an example in neuroscience 🧠😴🦋:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
See Fig 3e for an example in neuroscience 🧠😴🦋:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Bifurcations—an underexplored concept in neuroscience—can help explain how small differences in neural circuits give rise to entirely novel functions, writes Xiao-Jing Wang.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/neural-dynam...
#neuroskyence
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The missing half of the neurodynamical systems theory
Bifurcations—an underexplored concept in neuroscience—can help explain how small differences in neural circuits give rise to entirely novel functions.
www.thetransmitter.org
October 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Bifurcations—an underexplored concept in neuroscience—can help explain how small differences in neural circuits give rise to entirely novel functions, writes Xiao-Jing Wang.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/neural-dynam...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/neural-dynam...
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My co-authors have yet to move to Bluesky, so I'm pleased to announce our latest work has just been published in @nature.com Neuroscience. Amazing work led by Junheng Li, revealing that falling asleep follows a predictable bifurcation pattern #neuroskyence #sleep
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Falling asleep follows a predictable bifurcation dynamic - Nature Neuroscience
Li et al. propose a conceptual framework to study the phenomenon of falling asleep based on electroencephalogram data. They show that a tipping point marks the brain’s nonlinear wake-to-sleep transiti...
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October 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
My co-authors have yet to move to Bluesky, so I'm pleased to announce our latest work has just been published in @nature.com Neuroscience. Amazing work led by Junheng Li, revealing that falling asleep follows a predictable bifurcation pattern #neuroskyence #sleep
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...