Saameh Sanaaee
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Saameh Sanaaee
@saamehsanaaee.bsky.social
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Parallel GNN-LSTM Model Predicting Working Memory Involvement during Language and Emotion Processing
Working memory (WM) is a core cognitive system, strongly associated with the prefrontal cortex (PFC), crucial for task-relevant information storage and processing, serving as the main “relay” for high...
doi.org
Our micropublication from the Impact Scholars Program is finally live on the interwebs!
This wouldn't have been possible without the one and only @barbaramu.bsky.social, the @neuromatch.bsky.social academy, and our amazing team!
Check it out: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
This wouldn't have been possible without the one and only @barbaramu.bsky.social, the @neuromatch.bsky.social academy, and our amazing team!
Check it out: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Reposted by Saameh Sanaaee
Final versions of paper & code:
📜 Paper: openreview.net/forum?id=573...
💻 Code: github.com/hadivafaii/I...
✅ What's new in the code:
We added a stand-alone Colab notebook implementation — a great starting point if you want to understand the iP-VAE model and train your own.
🧵[2/4]
📜 Paper: openreview.net/forum?id=573...
💻 Code: github.com/hadivafaii/I...
✅ What's new in the code:
We added a stand-alone Colab notebook implementation — a great starting point if you want to understand the iP-VAE model and train your own.
🧵[2/4]
GitHub - hadivafaii/IterativeVAE: The Official PyTorch Implementation of "Brain-like Variational Inference" (NeurIPS 2025 Paper)
The Official PyTorch Implementation of "Brain-like Variational Inference" (NeurIPS 2025 Paper) - hadivafaii/IterativeVAE
github.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Final versions of paper & code:
📜 Paper: openreview.net/forum?id=573...
💻 Code: github.com/hadivafaii/I...
✅ What's new in the code:
We added a stand-alone Colab notebook implementation — a great starting point if you want to understand the iP-VAE model and train your own.
🧵[2/4]
📜 Paper: openreview.net/forum?id=573...
💻 Code: github.com/hadivafaii/I...
✅ What's new in the code:
We added a stand-alone Colab notebook implementation — a great starting point if you want to understand the iP-VAE model and train your own.
🧵[2/4]
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My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books.
Lots more here: www.theguardian.com/books/series/tom-gauld-s-cultural-cartoons
Lots more here: www.theguardian.com/books/series/tom-gauld-s-cultural-cartoons
November 29, 2025 at 11:59 AM
My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books.
Lots more here: www.theguardian.com/books/series/tom-gauld-s-cultural-cartoons
Lots more here: www.theguardian.com/books/series/tom-gauld-s-cultural-cartoons
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![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Petition to change neuroskyence feed emoji from 🧠📈 to 🧟🧠 to avoid the BTC/finance bro's posting
November 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Petition to change neuroskyence feed emoji from 🧠📈 to 🧟🧠 to avoid the BTC/finance bro's posting
Reposted by Saameh Sanaaee
![Comic: Typical Geologic core sample. [Cylindrical core sample with labels for difference sections from top to bottom] Topsoil, till, granite bedrock, bottomsoil, roof of subway car, floor of subway car, more granite, municipal water main [gouge in core sample], slightly different granite, piece of screaming spelunker’s forearm, cool crystals with no resale value, mangled fragments of drillbit from previous attempt, some boring intrusive rock that’s basically granite but has a name like “diorite” or “Andalite” that you always have to look up, netherrack, Balrog wing. [break between next chunk of core sample] Granite, topsoil, cement, floorboards, carpet, possessions of a confused and angry homeowner in the other hemisphere.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreicffnydtpbb2x24cfbblv2qtcwbr37zyw44vtqx47ocj2a26b2j2u@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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popEVE is out in Nature Genetics! 🎉
We built a proteome-wide model that combines cross-species and human population variation to rank missense variants by disease severity and help diagnose rare genetic disorders.
rdcu.be/eRu7K
We built a proteome-wide model that combines cross-species and human population variation to rank missense variants by disease severity and help diagnose rare genetic disorders.
rdcu.be/eRu7K
Proteome-wide model for human disease genetics
Nature Genetics - popEVE is a proteome-wide deep generative model to identify and predict pathogenicity of missense mutations causing genetic disorders.
rdcu.be
November 24, 2025 at 1:35 PM
popEVE is out in Nature Genetics! 🎉
We built a proteome-wide model that combines cross-species and human population variation to rank missense variants by disease severity and help diagnose rare genetic disorders.
rdcu.be/eRu7K
We built a proteome-wide model that combines cross-species and human population variation to rank missense variants by disease severity and help diagnose rare genetic disorders.
rdcu.be/eRu7K
200-page document has a 100-page appendix.
God help us all ...
God help us all ...
November 25, 2025 at 1:17 PM
200-page document has a 100-page appendix.
God help us all ...
God help us all ...
Letting you know, because I live in Tehran.
We have a drought, we have many more problems.
But you know what THE problem is right now?
The Air.
We have a drought, we have many more problems.
But you know what THE problem is right now?
The Air.
November 24, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Letting you know, because I live in Tehran.
We have a drought, we have many more problems.
But you know what THE problem is right now?
The Air.
We have a drought, we have many more problems.
But you know what THE problem is right now?
The Air.
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Hmmm…what USAID wasn’t bad for America…what if getting rid of it only hurt us and everyone else?
What if the richest man in the world being responsible for ending aid to the poorest people in the world will go down as one of the most bizarre and disgusting acts of the 21st century?
What if the richest man in the world being responsible for ending aid to the poorest people in the world will go down as one of the most bizarre and disgusting acts of the 21st century?
November 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Hmmm…what USAID wasn’t bad for America…what if getting rid of it only hurt us and everyone else?
What if the richest man in the world being responsible for ending aid to the poorest people in the world will go down as one of the most bizarre and disgusting acts of the 21st century?
What if the richest man in the world being responsible for ending aid to the poorest people in the world will go down as one of the most bizarre and disgusting acts of the 21st century?
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Tis the season for re-listening to @acollierastro.bsky.social crap on Christmas presents.
a tiny peek at Christmas economics
YouTube video by Angela Collier
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Tis the season for re-listening to @acollierastro.bsky.social crap on Christmas presents.
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The problem isn't that the LLM is magically persuasive. The problem is that every human being's actions are fundamentally oriented toward getting what they want and not getting things they want not to have, and the LLM refines its responses based on the data those actions generate
November 21, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The problem isn't that the LLM is magically persuasive. The problem is that every human being's actions are fundamentally oriented toward getting what they want and not getting things they want not to have, and the LLM refines its responses based on the data those actions generate
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I'm about to do a LIVE Ask Hank Anything, answering questions from fans and surprise guests!!
www.youtube.com/live/NMr8AOT...
www.youtube.com/live/NMr8AOT...
Ask Hank Anything Livestream
YouTube video by Complexly
www.youtube.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I'm about to do a LIVE Ask Hank Anything, answering questions from fans and surprise guests!!
www.youtube.com/live/NMr8AOT...
www.youtube.com/live/NMr8AOT...
Also a good idea to stop complementing artists' works with "AI could never!" Every. Single. Time.
It "never could" and you can remind us once in a while. But why do you put the creator through that every time? Just celebrate their hard work and talent. Write that shit on your own property, dude.
It "never could" and you can remind us once in a while. But why do you put the creator through that every time? Just celebrate their hard work and talent. Write that shit on your own property, dude.
November 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Also a good idea to stop complementing artists' works with "AI could never!" Every. Single. Time.
It "never could" and you can remind us once in a while. But why do you put the creator through that every time? Just celebrate their hard work and talent. Write that shit on your own property, dude.
It "never could" and you can remind us once in a while. But why do you put the creator through that every time? Just celebrate their hard work and talent. Write that shit on your own property, dude.
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Reposted by Saameh Sanaaee
proud to share this work, led by the brilliant @ilinabg.bsky.social, now out in Nature! Ilina finds that speech-sound neural processing is VERY similar in a language you know and one you don't. differences only emerge at the level of word boundaries and learnt statistical structure 🧠✨
The human brain responds to the sounds of both familiar and unfamiliar languages in a similar way, according to research in Nature. The findings might guide future approaches to language learning and rehabilitation. go.nature.com/4ppvsHb #Neuroskyence 🧪
November 20, 2025 at 7:11 PM
proud to share this work, led by the brilliant @ilinabg.bsky.social, now out in Nature! Ilina finds that speech-sound neural processing is VERY similar in a language you know and one you don't. differences only emerge at the level of word boundaries and learnt statistical structure 🧠✨
Reposted by Saameh Sanaaee
Call for abstracts for the first ever @rainbowr.org conference is still open! We're looking for talks that either
🦄 Showcase how our diverse community uses #RStats
🏳️🌈 Use LGBTQ+ data
Get in your abstracts before December 1st.
conference.rainbowr.org/abstracts.html
#queerdata #PrideinSTEMDay
🦄 Showcase how our diverse community uses #RStats
🏳️🌈 Use LGBTQ+ data
Get in your abstracts before December 1st.
conference.rainbowr.org/abstracts.html
#queerdata #PrideinSTEMDay
Abstracts – rainbowR conference
conference.rainbowr.org
November 20, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Call for abstracts for the first ever @rainbowr.org conference is still open! We're looking for talks that either
🦄 Showcase how our diverse community uses #RStats
🏳️🌈 Use LGBTQ+ data
Get in your abstracts before December 1st.
conference.rainbowr.org/abstracts.html
#queerdata #PrideinSTEMDay
🦄 Showcase how our diverse community uses #RStats
🏳️🌈 Use LGBTQ+ data
Get in your abstracts before December 1st.
conference.rainbowr.org/abstracts.html
#queerdata #PrideinSTEMDay
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That beautiful surface is a soft cell!
I covered the amazing discovery story of these weird shapes — they fill space like bricks, but lack corners — in a feature for @sciam.bsky.social last year.
It's one of my best stories. And later today, I'm re-posting it on my newsletter without a paywall 👀
I covered the amazing discovery story of these weird shapes — they fill space like bricks, but lack corners — in a feature for @sciam.bsky.social last year.
It's one of my best stories. And later today, I'm re-posting it on my newsletter without a paywall 👀
November 20, 2025 at 9:22 AM
That beautiful surface is a soft cell!
I covered the amazing discovery story of these weird shapes — they fill space like bricks, but lack corners — in a feature for @sciam.bsky.social last year.
It's one of my best stories. And later today, I'm re-posting it on my newsletter without a paywall 👀
I covered the amazing discovery story of these weird shapes — they fill space like bricks, but lack corners — in a feature for @sciam.bsky.social last year.
It's one of my best stories. And later today, I'm re-posting it on my newsletter without a paywall 👀
Reposted by Saameh Sanaaee
quick test with SAM3 - impressed with how well it seems to track long protrusions? prompted for "cell", does not find anything when looking for "fibroblast" or "nucleus"
November 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
quick test with SAM3 - impressed with how well it seems to track long protrusions? prompted for "cell", does not find anything when looking for "fibroblast" or "nucleus"
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Label free, capillary-scale blood flow mapping in vivo reveals that low-intensity focused ultrasound evokes persistent dilation in cortical microvasculature
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Label free, capillary-scale blood flow mapping in vivo reveals that low-intensity focused ultrasound evokes persistent dilation in cortical microvasculature - Communications Biology
Capillary-scale blood flow mapping in vivo reveals that low intensity focused ultrasound evokes persistent dilation in cortical microvasculature
www.nature.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Label free, capillary-scale blood flow mapping in vivo reveals that low-intensity focused ultrasound evokes persistent dilation in cortical microvasculature
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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On Rare Earth this week: can the clothing/fashion industry ever be sustainable? Our 3 fab guests - Patrick Grant (Great British Sewing Bee), Prof Kate Fletcher & Simon Platts - all had LOADS to say. Sneak peak here before you can listen to it all on Friday: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
November 19, 2025 at 12:27 PM
On Rare Earth this week: can the clothing/fashion industry ever be sustainable? Our 3 fab guests - Patrick Grant (Great British Sewing Bee), Prof Kate Fletcher & Simon Platts - all had LOADS to say. Sneak peak here before you can listen to it all on Friday: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Was barely getting over how I missed out on the "MUNDUS SINE CAESARIBUS" T-shirts and now a pile of SfN posts are drowning me in AOMO: The Agony Of Missing Out.
Rude.
Rude.
November 19, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Was barely getting over how I missed out on the "MUNDUS SINE CAESARIBUS" T-shirts and now a pile of SfN posts are drowning me in AOMO: The Agony Of Missing Out.
Rude.
Rude.
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Happy LGBTQ+STEM Day! To mark the occasion, LGBTQ+ and ally scientists alike introduced our new pride flag to the @mrccbu.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Happy LGBTQ+STEM Day! To mark the occasion, LGBTQ+ and ally scientists alike introduced our new pride flag to the @mrccbu.bsky.social
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gooood morning #SfN2025! i’m presenting this poster at board CC11 *today* from 8am-noon
stop by to chat learning, memory, (perceptual) decision making, and normative modeling that bridges cross-species and cross-task findings 🧠🐒
w/ @meganakpeters.bsky.social and @aaronbornstein.bsky.social
stop by to chat learning, memory, (perceptual) decision making, and normative modeling that bridges cross-species and cross-task findings 🧠🐒
w/ @meganakpeters.bsky.social and @aaronbornstein.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
gooood morning #SfN2025! i’m presenting this poster at board CC11 *today* from 8am-noon
stop by to chat learning, memory, (perceptual) decision making, and normative modeling that bridges cross-species and cross-task findings 🧠🐒
w/ @meganakpeters.bsky.social and @aaronbornstein.bsky.social
stop by to chat learning, memory, (perceptual) decision making, and normative modeling that bridges cross-species and cross-task findings 🧠🐒
w/ @meganakpeters.bsky.social and @aaronbornstein.bsky.social
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Today is #LGBTQinSTEMDay 🌈
ESA proudly joins the STEM community in celebrating the unique contributions of LGBTQ+ individuals.
The Pride Flag will fly across ESA sites as a reminder of how far we’ve come, and how much more there is to do.
#SpaceForAll
ESA proudly joins the STEM community in celebrating the unique contributions of LGBTQ+ individuals.
The Pride Flag will fly across ESA sites as a reminder of how far we’ve come, and how much more there is to do.
#SpaceForAll
November 18, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Today is #LGBTQinSTEMDay 🌈
ESA proudly joins the STEM community in celebrating the unique contributions of LGBTQ+ individuals.
The Pride Flag will fly across ESA sites as a reminder of how far we’ve come, and how much more there is to do.
#SpaceForAll
ESA proudly joins the STEM community in celebrating the unique contributions of LGBTQ+ individuals.
The Pride Flag will fly across ESA sites as a reminder of how far we’ve come, and how much more there is to do.
#SpaceForAll
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Our new biosignatures paper is out in @pnas.org! This time we're using machine learning trained on organic chemical data to identify signs of life—including photosynthetic life—in ancient rocks.
Organic geochemical evidence for life in Archean rocks identified by pyrolysis–GC–MS and supervised machine learning | PNAS
Throughout Earth’s history, organic molecules from both abiogenic and biogenic sources
have been buried in sedimentary rocks. Most of these organic...
www.pnas.org
November 17, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Our new biosignatures paper is out in @pnas.org! This time we're using machine learning trained on organic chemical data to identify signs of life—including photosynthetic life—in ancient rocks.