David Lipshutz
@lipshutz.bsky.social
Studying neural computation • Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine • lipshutzlab.com
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Looking for a PhD program where you can study computational neuroscience? NYU has a fantastic array of researchers covering the field:
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Doctoral studies in Computational/Theoretical Neuroscience at NYU
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October 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Looking for a PhD program where you can study computational neuroscience? NYU has a fantastic array of researchers covering the field:
groups.google.com/g/systems-ne...
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Applying to do a postdoc or PhD in theoretical ML or neuroscience this year? Consider joining my group (starting next Fall) at UT Austin!
POD Postdoc: oden.utexas.edu/programs-and... CSEM PhD: oden.utexas.edu/academics/pr...
POD Postdoc: oden.utexas.edu/programs-and... CSEM PhD: oden.utexas.edu/academics/pr...
October 23, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Applying to do a postdoc or PhD in theoretical ML or neuroscience this year? Consider joining my group (starting next Fall) at UT Austin!
POD Postdoc: oden.utexas.edu/programs-and... CSEM PhD: oden.utexas.edu/academics/pr...
POD Postdoc: oden.utexas.edu/programs-and... CSEM PhD: oden.utexas.edu/academics/pr...
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📣 WTI is hiring faculty positions! Are you interested in advancing our understanding of the brain + how it gives rise to cognition?
Two calls are open:
Open-rank search, Neurocomputation, deadline: 12.1.25
Senior search, Neurodevelopment, rolling review
🔗 wti.yale.edu/opportunities
#KnowTogether
Two calls are open:
Open-rank search, Neurocomputation, deadline: 12.1.25
Senior search, Neurodevelopment, rolling review
🔗 wti.yale.edu/opportunities
#KnowTogether
October 3, 2025 at 4:43 PM
📣 WTI is hiring faculty positions! Are you interested in advancing our understanding of the brain + how it gives rise to cognition?
Two calls are open:
Open-rank search, Neurocomputation, deadline: 12.1.25
Senior search, Neurodevelopment, rolling review
🔗 wti.yale.edu/opportunities
#KnowTogether
Two calls are open:
Open-rank search, Neurocomputation, deadline: 12.1.25
Senior search, Neurodevelopment, rolling review
🔗 wti.yale.edu/opportunities
#KnowTogether
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New manuscript from the lab!
"Mirror manifolds: partially overlapping neural subspaces for speaking and listening"
Led by superstar grad student Anilu Chavez (not on Bluesky)!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
"Mirror manifolds: partially overlapping neural subspaces for speaking and listening"
Led by superstar grad student Anilu Chavez (not on Bluesky)!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Mirror manifolds: partially overlapping neural subspaces for speaking and listening
Participants in conversations need to associate words their speakers but also retain those words general meanings. For example, someone talking about their hand is not referring to the other speakers ...
www.biorxiv.org
September 22, 2025 at 2:15 PM
New manuscript from the lab!
"Mirror manifolds: partially overlapping neural subspaces for speaking and listening"
Led by superstar grad student Anilu Chavez (not on Bluesky)!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
"Mirror manifolds: partially overlapping neural subspaces for speaking and listening"
Led by superstar grad student Anilu Chavez (not on Bluesky)!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Very cool work showing how hippocampal representations could span space, and associative/episodic memories. Thanks for the presentation today Sarthak!
1/ Super-excited to share our new work “Episodic and associative memory from spatial scaffolds in the hippocampus”, that just appeared in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s41... Key insights and ideas 👇#tweeprint
Episodic and associative memory from spatial scaffolds in the hippocampus - Nature
A neocortical–entorhinal–hippocampal network model based on grid cell states recapitulates experimental results and reconciles the spatial, associative and episodic memory roles of the hippocampus.
www.nature.com
September 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Very cool work showing how hippocampal representations could span space, and associative/episodic memories. Thanks for the presentation today Sarthak!
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🌟 Excited to share that I'm recruiting PhD students in Psychology for my new lab at Rice University this cycle (Signal boost appreciated!)
To learn more, check out the Learning & Behavior Change Lab website:
www.sinclairlab-rice.com
Applications are due Dec 1st: psychology.rice.edu/graduate/pro...
To learn more, check out the Learning & Behavior Change Lab website:
www.sinclairlab-rice.com
Applications are due Dec 1st: psychology.rice.edu/graduate/pro...
Sinclair Lab
The Learning & Behavior Change Lab at Rice University, directed by Dr. Sinclair
www.sinclairlab-rice.com
September 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
🌟 Excited to share that I'm recruiting PhD students in Psychology for my new lab at Rice University this cycle (Signal boost appreciated!)
To learn more, check out the Learning & Behavior Change Lab website:
www.sinclairlab-rice.com
Applications are due Dec 1st: psychology.rice.edu/graduate/pro...
To learn more, check out the Learning & Behavior Change Lab website:
www.sinclairlab-rice.com
Applications are due Dec 1st: psychology.rice.edu/graduate/pro...
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Since I'm back on BlueSky - with @frostedblakess.bsky.social and @cpehlevan.bsky.social we wrote a brief perspective on how ideas about summary statistics from the statistical physics of learning could potentially help inform neural data analysis... (1/2)
Frontiers | Summary statistics of learning link changing neural representations to behavior
How can we make sense of large-scale recordings of neural activity across learning? Theories of neural network learning with their origins in statistical phy...
www.frontiersin.org
September 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Since I'm back on BlueSky - with @frostedblakess.bsky.social and @cpehlevan.bsky.social we wrote a brief perspective on how ideas about summary statistics from the statistical physics of learning could potentially help inform neural data analysis... (1/2)
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Join us at #NeurIPS2025 for our Data on the Brain & Mind workshop! We aim to connect machine learning researchers and neuroscientists/cognitive scientists, with a focus on emerging datasets.
More info: data-brain-mind.github.io
More info: data-brain-mind.github.io
🚨 Excited to announce our #NeurIPS2025 Workshop: Data on the Brain & Mind
📣 Call for: Findings (4- or 8-page) + Tutorials tracks
🎙️ Speakers include @dyamins.bsky.social @lauragwilliams.bsky.social @cpehlevan.bsky.social
🌐 Learn more: data-brain-mind.github.io
📣 Call for: Findings (4- or 8-page) + Tutorials tracks
🎙️ Speakers include @dyamins.bsky.social @lauragwilliams.bsky.social @cpehlevan.bsky.social
🌐 Learn more: data-brain-mind.github.io
August 5, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Join us at #NeurIPS2025 for our Data on the Brain & Mind workshop! We aim to connect machine learning researchers and neuroscientists/cognitive scientists, with a focus on emerging datasets.
More info: data-brain-mind.github.io
More info: data-brain-mind.github.io
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Efficient coding theories often implicitly or explicitly assume slow changes in tuning (e.g., through synaptic plasticity). Arthur Prat-Carrabin has collected psychophysical data showing that it can be fast, and this can be explained by a gain-adaptive RNN:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Fast efficient coding and sensory adaptation in gain-adaptive recurrent networks
As the statistics of sensory environments often change, neural sensory systems must adapt to maintain useful representations. Efficient coding prescribes that neuronal tuning curves should be optimize...
www.biorxiv.org
July 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Efficient coding theories often implicitly or explicitly assume slow changes in tuning (e.g., through synaptic plasticity). Arthur Prat-Carrabin has collected psychophysical data showing that it can be fast, and this can be explained by a gain-adaptive RNN:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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At #ICML2025, presenting work done at @flatironinstitute.org w Matt Smart and @albertobietti.bsky.social on in-context denoising (arxiv.org/abs/2502.05164). Come to Matt’s oral, Thursday, 4:15-4:30 PM, West Ballroom A, and see us right after at poster #E-3207, 4:30-7:00 PM, East Exhibition Hall A-B.
In-context denoising with one-layer transformers: connections between attention and associative memory retrieval
We introduce in-context denoising, a task that refines the connection between attention-based architectures and dense associative memory (DAM) networks, also known as modern Hopfield networks. Using a...
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July 16, 2025 at 6:37 PM
At #ICML2025, presenting work done at @flatironinstitute.org w Matt Smart and @albertobietti.bsky.social on in-context denoising (arxiv.org/abs/2502.05164). Come to Matt’s oral, Thursday, 4:15-4:30 PM, West Ballroom A, and see us right after at poster #E-3207, 4:30-7:00 PM, East Exhibition Hall A-B.
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Announcing the new "Sensorimotor AI" Journal Club — please share/repost!
w/ Kaylene Stocking, Tommaso Salvatori, and @elisennesh.bsky.social
Sign up link: forms.gle/o5DXD4WMdhTg...
More details below 🧵[1/5]
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w/ Kaylene Stocking, Tommaso Salvatori, and @elisennesh.bsky.social
Sign up link: forms.gle/o5DXD4WMdhTg...
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July 9, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Announcing the new "Sensorimotor AI" Journal Club — please share/repost!
w/ Kaylene Stocking, Tommaso Salvatori, and @elisennesh.bsky.social
Sign up link: forms.gle/o5DXD4WMdhTg...
More details below 🧵[1/5]
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w/ Kaylene Stocking, Tommaso Salvatori, and @elisennesh.bsky.social
Sign up link: forms.gle/o5DXD4WMdhTg...
More details below 🧵[1/5]
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Submissions now accepted for a special issue of the Journal of Vision:
Choose your stimuli wisely: Advances in stimulus synthesis and selection
Submission deadline: Dec 12, 2025
Futher details: jov.arvojournals.org/ss/synthetic...
Choose your stimuli wisely: Advances in stimulus synthesis and selection
Submission deadline: Dec 12, 2025
Futher details: jov.arvojournals.org/ss/synthetic...
JOV Special Issue - Choose your stimuli wisely: Advances in stimulus synthesis and selection | JOV | ARVO Journals
jov.arvojournals.org
June 18, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Submissions now accepted for a special issue of the Journal of Vision:
Choose your stimuli wisely: Advances in stimulus synthesis and selection
Submission deadline: Dec 12, 2025
Futher details: jov.arvojournals.org/ss/synthetic...
Choose your stimuli wisely: Advances in stimulus synthesis and selection
Submission deadline: Dec 12, 2025
Futher details: jov.arvojournals.org/ss/synthetic...
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What is the probability of an image? What do the highest and lowest probability images look like? Do natural images lie on a low-dimensional manifold?
In a new preprint with Zahra Kadkhodaie and @eerosim.bsky.social, we develop a novel energy-based model in order to answer these questions: 🧵
In a new preprint with Zahra Kadkhodaie and @eerosim.bsky.social, we develop a novel energy-based model in order to answer these questions: 🧵
June 6, 2025 at 10:11 PM
What is the probability of an image? What do the highest and lowest probability images look like? Do natural images lie on a low-dimensional manifold?
In a new preprint with Zahra Kadkhodaie and @eerosim.bsky.social, we develop a novel energy-based model in order to answer these questions: 🧵
In a new preprint with Zahra Kadkhodaie and @eerosim.bsky.social, we develop a novel energy-based model in order to answer these questions: 🧵
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1/6 Why does the brain maintain such precise excitatory-inhibitory balance?
Our new preprint explores a provocative idea: Small, targeted deviations from this balance may serve a purpose: to encode local error signals for learning.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
led by @jrbch.bsky.social
Our new preprint explores a provocative idea: Small, targeted deviations from this balance may serve a purpose: to encode local error signals for learning.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
led by @jrbch.bsky.social
May 27, 2025 at 7:49 AM
1/6 Why does the brain maintain such precise excitatory-inhibitory balance?
Our new preprint explores a provocative idea: Small, targeted deviations from this balance may serve a purpose: to encode local error signals for learning.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
led by @jrbch.bsky.social
Our new preprint explores a provocative idea: Small, targeted deviations from this balance may serve a purpose: to encode local error signals for learning.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
led by @jrbch.bsky.social
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New #NeuroAI #compneurosky preprint! To better understand how target-directed learning works in the brain, we sought to engineer an artificial neural network capable of solving complex image classification tasks that comprises only experimentally-supported biological building blocks. (1/15)
May 27, 2025 at 6:40 PM
New #NeuroAI #compneurosky preprint! To better understand how target-directed learning works in the brain, we sought to engineer an artificial neural network capable of solving complex image classification tasks that comprises only experimentally-supported biological building blocks. (1/15)
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Super excited for our #VSS2025 symposium tomorrow, "Model-optimized stimuli: more than just pretty pictures".
Join us to talk about designing and using synthetic stimuli for testing properties of visual perception!
May 16th @ 1-3PM in Talk Room #2
More info: www.visionsciences.org/symposia/?sy...
Join us to talk about designing and using synthetic stimuli for testing properties of visual perception!
May 16th @ 1-3PM in Talk Room #2
More info: www.visionsciences.org/symposia/?sy...
VSS SymposiaSymposia – Vision Sciences Society
www.visionsciences.org
May 15, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Super excited for our #VSS2025 symposium tomorrow, "Model-optimized stimuli: more than just pretty pictures".
Join us to talk about designing and using synthetic stimuli for testing properties of visual perception!
May 16th @ 1-3PM in Talk Room #2
More info: www.visionsciences.org/symposia/?sy...
Join us to talk about designing and using synthetic stimuli for testing properties of visual perception!
May 16th @ 1-3PM in Talk Room #2
More info: www.visionsciences.org/symposia/?sy...
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🧠🤖 Computational Neuroscience summer school IMBIZO in Cape Town is open for applications again!
💻🧬 3 weeks of intense coursework & projects with support from expert tutors and faculty
📈Apply until July 1st!
🔗https://imbizo.africa/
💻🧬 3 weeks of intense coursework & projects with support from expert tutors and faculty
📈Apply until July 1st!
🔗https://imbizo.africa/
May 8, 2025 at 8:19 AM
🧠🤖 Computational Neuroscience summer school IMBIZO in Cape Town is open for applications again!
💻🧬 3 weeks of intense coursework & projects with support from expert tutors and faculty
📈Apply until July 1st!
🔗https://imbizo.africa/
💻🧬 3 weeks of intense coursework & projects with support from expert tutors and faculty
📈Apply until July 1st!
🔗https://imbizo.africa/
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Gave a talk at my parents’ retirement community to describe how science is done, and what is at stake. There was a ton of interest, and anyone can do this. Get the word out about how science affects everyone. I’m happy to share slides with anyone who asks- just get in touch! youtu.be/BY_SFgi-Cig
Kara Marshall PHD-History of Science in America - Trilogy at Tehaleh 04/27/25
YouTube video by Steve Lawson
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May 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Gave a talk at my parents’ retirement community to describe how science is done, and what is at stake. There was a ton of interest, and anyone can do this. Get the word out about how science affects everyone. I’m happy to share slides with anyone who asks- just get in touch! youtu.be/BY_SFgi-Cig
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Exciting news!! I’m joining the tenure-track faculty at University of Colorado Boulder this fall as an Assistant Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience!
The Sosa Lab will study how memory is shaped by cognitive and physiological demands, including during pregnancy and the postpartum period. 🧵
The Sosa Lab will study how memory is shaped by cognitive and physiological demands, including during pregnancy and the postpartum period. 🧵
April 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Exciting news!! I’m joining the tenure-track faculty at University of Colorado Boulder this fall as an Assistant Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience!
The Sosa Lab will study how memory is shaped by cognitive and physiological demands, including during pregnancy and the postpartum period. 🧵
The Sosa Lab will study how memory is shaped by cognitive and physiological demands, including during pregnancy and the postpartum period. 🧵
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We are presenting our work “Discriminating image representations with principal distortions” at #ICLR2025 today (4/24) at 3pm! If you are interested in comparing model representations with other models or human perception, stop by poster #63. Highlights in 🧵
openreview.net/forum?id=ugX...
openreview.net/forum?id=ugX...
Discriminating image representations with principal distortions
Image representations (artificial or biological) are often compared in terms of their global geometric structure; however, representations with similar global structure can have strikingly...
openreview.net
April 24, 2025 at 5:13 AM
We are presenting our work “Discriminating image representations with principal distortions” at #ICLR2025 today (4/24) at 3pm! If you are interested in comparing model representations with other models or human perception, stop by poster #63. Highlights in 🧵
openreview.net/forum?id=ugX...
openreview.net/forum?id=ugX...
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Symposium at the annual VSS meeting on generative models for vision science
April 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Symposium at the annual VSS meeting on generative models for vision science
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Excited to announce that our paper on "Comparing noisy neural population dynamics using optimal transport distances" has been selected for an oral presentation in #ICLR2025 (1.8% top papers). Check the thread for paper details (0/n).
Presentation info: iclr.cc/virtual/2025....
Presentation info: iclr.cc/virtual/2025....
ICLR 2025 Comparing noisy neural population dynamics using optimal transport distances OralICLR 2025
iclr.cc
April 22, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Excited to announce that our paper on "Comparing noisy neural population dynamics using optimal transport distances" has been selected for an oral presentation in #ICLR2025 (1.8% top papers). Check the thread for paper details (0/n).
Presentation info: iclr.cc/virtual/2025....
Presentation info: iclr.cc/virtual/2025....
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This paper is the result of >20 yrs of hard work by talented students, postdocs and collaborators, but none more than my co-author Ren Ng and his team in EECS.
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Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale
Image display by cell-by-cell retina stimulation, enabling colors impossible to see under natural viewing.
www.science.org
April 20, 2025 at 7:39 PM
This paper is the result of >20 yrs of hard work by talented students, postdocs and collaborators, but none more than my co-author Ren Ng and his team in EECS.
1/n
Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
1/n
Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Applications close TODAY (April 14) for the 2025 Flatiron Institute Junior Theoretical Neuroscience Workshop.
All you need to apply is a CV and a 1 page abstract. 🧠🗽
All you need to apply is a CV and a 1 page abstract. 🧠🗽
Applications are open for the 2025 Flatiron Institute Junior Theoretical Neuroscience Workshop! A two-day workshop 7/10-7/11 in NYC for PhD students and postdocs. All travel paid. Apply by April 14th.🧠🗽🧑🔬http://jtnworkshop2025.flatironinstitute.org/
@flatironinstitute.org @simonsfoundation.org
@flatironinstitute.org @simonsfoundation.org
JTN - 2025
JTN - 2025
jtnworkshop2025.flatironinstitute.org
April 14, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Applications close TODAY (April 14) for the 2025 Flatiron Institute Junior Theoretical Neuroscience Workshop.
All you need to apply is a CV and a 1 page abstract. 🧠🗽
All you need to apply is a CV and a 1 page abstract. 🧠🗽
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Our short film about our co-founder Jim Simons was nominated for the @Telly Awards. Help amplify the story of his incredible life and contributions to math and basic science by voting for our film here: peoples.tellyawards.com/PublicVoting... #science #philanthropy
April 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Our short film about our co-founder Jim Simons was nominated for the @Telly Awards. Help amplify the story of his incredible life and contributions to math and basic science by voting for our film here: peoples.tellyawards.com/PublicVoting... #science #philanthropy