Ignacio Castillejo (ϕ)
@igcastillejo.bsky.social
Psych PhD researcher on Unconscious Working Memory at UAM, visiting student at the MIT 🧠
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Reluctant to ReLU: Uncontrolled Connectivity Pruning Underlying Trainable Excitatory-Inhibitory Recurrent Neural Networks: https://osf.io/9uzhq
My first PhD work is now out as a pre-print! 💫
Reluctant to ReLU: Uncontrolled Connectivity Pruning Underlying Trainable Excitatory-Inhibitory Recurrent Neural Networks (with @mavadillo.bsky.social )
We dive into an issue in a neural circuits framework...
Reluctant to ReLU: Uncontrolled Connectivity Pruning Underlying Trainable Excitatory-Inhibitory Recurrent Neural Networks (with @mavadillo.bsky.social )
We dive into an issue in a neural circuits framework...
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Spiking is not all there is to brain function. Astrocytes propagate electric field influences, like neurons, but do not spike. And they are a large fraction of brain cells.
www.quantamagazine.org/once-thought...
#neuroscience
www.quantamagazine.org/once-thought...
#neuroscience
Once Thought To Support Neurons, Astrocytes Turn Out To Be in Charge | Quanta Magazine
New experiments reveal how astrocytes tune neuronal activity to modulate our mental and emotional states. The results suggest that neuron-only brain models, such as connectomes, leave out a crucial la...
www.quantamagazine.org
January 31, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Spiking is not all there is to brain function. Astrocytes propagate electric field influences, like neurons, but do not spike. And they are a large fraction of brain cells.
www.quantamagazine.org/once-thought...
#neuroscience
www.quantamagazine.org/once-thought...
#neuroscience
Reposted by Ignacio Castillejo (ϕ)
Applications will be opening soon for BAMB! 2026
The summer school will take place from 12 - 23 July 2026
www.bambschool.org
The summer school will take place from 12 - 23 July 2026
www.bambschool.org
BAMB! 2026 | Barcelona Summer School for Advanced Modeling of Behavior
Intensive training for experienced researchers in cognitive science, computational neuroscience and neuro-AI. Five interconnected modules, expert faculty, hands-on projects. July 12-23, 2026.
www.bambschool.org
January 26, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Applications will be opening soon for BAMB! 2026
The summer school will take place from 12 - 23 July 2026
www.bambschool.org
The summer school will take place from 12 - 23 July 2026
www.bambschool.org
My first PhD work is now out as a pre-print! 💫
Reluctant to ReLU: Uncontrolled Connectivity Pruning Underlying Trainable Excitatory-Inhibitory Recurrent Neural Networks (with @mavadillo.bsky.social )
We dive into an issue in a neural circuits framework...
Reluctant to ReLU: Uncontrolled Connectivity Pruning Underlying Trainable Excitatory-Inhibitory Recurrent Neural Networks (with @mavadillo.bsky.social )
We dive into an issue in a neural circuits framework...
Reluctant to ReLU: Uncontrolled Connectivity Pruning Underlying Trainable Excitatory-Inhibitory Recurrent Neural Networks: https://osf.io/9uzhq
January 26, 2026 at 5:25 PM
My first PhD work is now out as a pre-print! 💫
Reluctant to ReLU: Uncontrolled Connectivity Pruning Underlying Trainable Excitatory-Inhibitory Recurrent Neural Networks (with @mavadillo.bsky.social )
We dive into an issue in a neural circuits framework...
Reluctant to ReLU: Uncontrolled Connectivity Pruning Underlying Trainable Excitatory-Inhibitory Recurrent Neural Networks (with @mavadillo.bsky.social )
We dive into an issue in a neural circuits framework...
Reposted by Ignacio Castillejo (ϕ)
Two years ago, I had an idea, one that evolved over time as I kept reading and learning. Today, a major first part of that idea has just become my first PhD preprint, now publicly available on PsyArxiv.
Let me tell you a bit more about the story behind it... while I prepare the submission.
Let me tell you a bit more about the story behind it... while I prepare the submission.
A Unified Framework for Psychometrics in Experimental Psychology: The Standardized Generalized Hierarchical Factor Model: https://osf.io/gv6k7
December 29, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Two years ago, I had an idea, one that evolved over time as I kept reading and learning. Today, a major first part of that idea has just become my first PhD preprint, now publicly available on PsyArxiv.
Let me tell you a bit more about the story behind it... while I prepare the submission.
Let me tell you a bit more about the story behind it... while I prepare the submission.
Reposted by Ignacio Castillejo (ϕ)
Reluctant to ReLU: Uncontrolled Connectivity Pruning Underlying Trainable Excitatory-Inhibitory Recurrent Neural Networks: https://osf.io/9uzhq
January 24, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Reluctant to ReLU: Uncontrolled Connectivity Pruning Underlying Trainable Excitatory-Inhibitory Recurrent Neural Networks: https://osf.io/9uzhq