David Sussillo
@sussillodavid.bsky.social
Neural reverse engineer, Author, Scientist at Meta Reality Labs, Adjunct Prof at Stanford
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David Sussillo
@sussillodavid.bsky.social
· Nov 17
A remarkable journey of resilience and transformation, from the chaotic corridors of group homes to the halls of Columbia and Stanford, EMERGENCE is a coming-of-age tale where heartbreak and humor meet the scientific wonder of modern artificial intelligence.
🔗 Preorder: tinyurl.com/fzcxb5ea
🔗 Preorder: tinyurl.com/fzcxb5ea
Reposted by David Sussillo
Elusive Cures is my first book. I was surprised by how much was required to make it happen (beyond writing it). If you're curious, here's the who and how behind it ... 🧵
(My amazing publisher: @princetonupress.bsky.social)
(My amazing publisher: @princetonupress.bsky.social)
May 30, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Elusive Cures is my first book. I was surprised by how much was required to make it happen (beyond writing it). If you're curious, here's the who and how behind it ... 🧵
(My amazing publisher: @princetonupress.bsky.social)
(My amazing publisher: @princetonupress.bsky.social)
A remarkable journey of resilience and transformation, from the chaotic corridors of group homes to the halls of Columbia and Stanford, EMERGENCE is a coming-of-age tale where heartbreak and humor meet the scientific wonder of modern artificial intelligence.
🔗 Preorder: tinyurl.com/fzcxb5ea
🔗 Preorder: tinyurl.com/fzcxb5ea
November 17, 2025 at 6:08 PM
A remarkable journey of resilience and transformation, from the chaotic corridors of group homes to the halls of Columbia and Stanford, EMERGENCE is a coming-of-age tale where heartbreak and humor meet the scientific wonder of modern artificial intelligence.
🔗 Preorder: tinyurl.com/fzcxb5ea
🔗 Preorder: tinyurl.com/fzcxb5ea
Join us to push the boundaries of neuromotor interfaces!
September 5, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Join us to push the boundaries of neuromotor interfaces!
We have two exciting Research Scientist Intern positions open:
1️⃣ Neuromotor Interfaces: Computational Modeling (PhD) - This for AI-centric folks
2️⃣ Neuromotor Interfaces (PhD) - Research scientist catch-all, including signal processing, physics, experimental skills, etc.
1️⃣ Neuromotor Interfaces: Computational Modeling (PhD) - This for AI-centric folks
2️⃣ Neuromotor Interfaces (PhD) - Research scientist catch-all, including signal processing, physics, experimental skills, etc.
September 5, 2025 at 8:28 PM
We have two exciting Research Scientist Intern positions open:
1️⃣ Neuromotor Interfaces: Computational Modeling (PhD) - This for AI-centric folks
2️⃣ Neuromotor Interfaces (PhD) - Research scientist catch-all, including signal processing, physics, experimental skills, etc.
1️⃣ Neuromotor Interfaces: Computational Modeling (PhD) - This for AI-centric folks
2️⃣ Neuromotor Interfaces (PhD) - Research scientist catch-all, including signal processing, physics, experimental skills, etc.
2026 Internships at CTRL Labs at Meta Reality Labs
It's intern application season for summer 2026 with the CTRL Labs (Electromyogram (EMG)) team at Meta Reality Labs! 🚀
You can see our latest work covered in this Nature article.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
It's intern application season for summer 2026 with the CTRL Labs (Electromyogram (EMG)) team at Meta Reality Labs! 🚀
You can see our latest work covered in this Nature article.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A generic non-invasive neuromotor interface for human-computer interaction - Nature
A high-bandwidth neuromotor interface offers performant out-of-the-box generalization across people.
www.nature.com
September 5, 2025 at 8:28 PM
2026 Internships at CTRL Labs at Meta Reality Labs
It's intern application season for summer 2026 with the CTRL Labs (Electromyogram (EMG)) team at Meta Reality Labs! 🚀
You can see our latest work covered in this Nature article.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
It's intern application season for summer 2026 with the CTRL Labs (Electromyogram (EMG)) team at Meta Reality Labs! 🚀
You can see our latest work covered in this Nature article.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by David Sussillo
Terrifying insanity. What can be done to stop this?
The Trump administration will move to pull the COVID vaccine off the US market “within months,” one of RFKJr’s closest associates has told the Daily Beast. It will mark the fulfillment of one of RFKJr's passions and will expose thousands to death just as COVID is again surging.
Trump and RFK Jr. to Ban Covid-19 Vaccine ‘Within Months’
A close associate of the HHS secretary claims the U.S. government will soon pull COVID-19 mRNA jabs from the market.
www.thedailybeast.com
August 25, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Terrifying insanity. What can be done to stop this?
Reposted by David Sussillo
(7/26) The most surprising phenomenology happens after input cessation at t≥0: neurons continue oscillating long after stimulation ends, with lifetimes exceeding any intrinsic system timescale, including the plasticity forgetting timescale, by an order of magnitude (panel iii).
August 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM
(7/26) The most surprising phenomenology happens after input cessation at t≥0: neurons continue oscillating long after stimulation ends, with lifetimes exceeding any intrinsic system timescale, including the plasticity forgetting timescale, by an order of magnitude (panel iii).
The implication was the latter; that consciousness required biology. Therefore silicon consciousness was not viable.
Again, I was picking up an undertone and really hoping @dlbarack.bsky.social can shed light here, as he swims in these waters regularly and I was merely a guest.
Again, I was picking up an undertone and really hoping @dlbarack.bsky.social can shed light here, as he swims in these waters regularly and I was merely a guest.
August 17, 2025 at 1:32 AM
The implication was the latter; that consciousness required biology. Therefore silicon consciousness was not viable.
Again, I was picking up an undertone and really hoping @dlbarack.bsky.social can shed light here, as he swims in these waters regularly and I was merely a guest.
Again, I was picking up an undertone and really hoping @dlbarack.bsky.social can shed light here, as he swims in these waters regularly and I was merely a guest.
On a related (perhaps different?) note, at the SNAP philosophy of neuro meeting, there was an undercurrent of thought that consciousness required biology. This really confused me because it felt a bit like “we need bio-magic” for consciousness.
What am I missing?
What am I missing?
August 17, 2025 at 12:26 AM
On a related (perhaps different?) note, at the SNAP philosophy of neuro meeting, there was an undercurrent of thought that consciousness required biology. This really confused me because it felt a bit like “we need bio-magic” for consciousness.
What am I missing?
What am I missing?
lolz... where???
August 4, 2025 at 6:04 PM
lolz... where???
Finally, a book that combines early childhood trauma with neural networks and AI. Just what the field was missing.
August 4, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Finally, a book that combines early childhood trauma with neural networks and AI. Just what the field was missing.
Coming March 17, 2026!
Just got my advance copy of Emergence — a memoir about growing up in group homes and somehow ending up in neuroscience and AI. It’s personal, it’s scientific, and it’s been a wild thing to write. Grateful and excited to share it soon.
Just got my advance copy of Emergence — a memoir about growing up in group homes and somehow ending up in neuroscience and AI. It’s personal, it’s scientific, and it’s been a wild thing to write. Grateful and excited to share it soon.
August 4, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Coming March 17, 2026!
Just got my advance copy of Emergence — a memoir about growing up in group homes and somehow ending up in neuroscience and AI. It’s personal, it’s scientific, and it’s been a wild thing to write. Grateful and excited to share it soon.
Just got my advance copy of Emergence — a memoir about growing up in group homes and somehow ending up in neuroscience and AI. It’s personal, it’s scientific, and it’s been a wild thing to write. Grateful and excited to share it soon.
Reposted by David Sussillo
FUNDING OPPORTUNITY: Motor Learning and Neuromotor Ethics
Our Reality Labs EMG Foundational Research team is pleased to announce an RFP! The topic is on motor learning for EMG-based HCI and the related neuromotor ethics. Submissions are due September 1!
www.meta.com/blog/reality...
Our Reality Labs EMG Foundational Research team is pleased to announce an RFP! The topic is on motor learning for EMG-based HCI and the related neuromotor ethics. Submissions are due September 1!
www.meta.com/blog/reality...
Request for Proposals: Motor Learning & Neuromotor Ethics | Meta Quest Blog
To foster innovation in this area, and to deepen our collaboration with academia, Reality Labs’ EMG Foundational Research team is pleased to invite faculty to submit their ideas to this request for re...
www.meta.com
July 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
FUNDING OPPORTUNITY: Motor Learning and Neuromotor Ethics
Our Reality Labs EMG Foundational Research team is pleased to announce an RFP! The topic is on motor learning for EMG-based HCI and the related neuromotor ethics. Submissions are due September 1!
www.meta.com/blog/reality...
Our Reality Labs EMG Foundational Research team is pleased to announce an RFP! The topic is on motor learning for EMG-based HCI and the related neuromotor ethics. Submissions are due September 1!
www.meta.com/blog/reality...
Open-sourced EMG data plus training/testing scripts to make contact with our results at 100 users for each three tasks (discrete gestures, 1D wrist navigation, and handwriting).
github.com/facebookrese...
github.com/facebookrese...
July 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Open-sourced EMG data plus training/testing scripts to make contact with our results at 100 users for each three tasks (discrete gestures, 1D wrist navigation, and handwriting).
github.com/facebookrese...
github.com/facebookrese...
This is clearly it. 💯
May 20, 2025 at 8:59 PM
This is clearly it. 💯
On twitter, we used to call them tweeprints. I think we need a new name for BlueSky.
Ideas???
Ideas???
May 20, 2025 at 6:38 PM
On twitter, we used to call them tweeprints. I think we need a new name for BlueSky.
Ideas???
Ideas???
Explainer threads 🧵 are generous. They help science be a community, not a contest. Keep 'em coming!
Why I don't like explainer threads, a 🧵:
May 20, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Explainer threads 🧵 are generous. They help science be a community, not a contest. Keep 'em coming!
Maybe. Skeptical of the former and bullish on the latter.
May 19, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Maybe. Skeptical of the former and bullish on the latter.
Lovely article, Luiz. :)
Thanks for highlighting, Earl.
Thanks for highlighting, Earl.
May 19, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Lovely article, Luiz. :)
Thanks for highlighting, Earl.
Thanks for highlighting, Earl.
But what if the murmuration does "compute-like" things, such as temporarily hold static (low-dimensional) state or transition along a temporarily constructed state diagram?
May 19, 2025 at 7:39 PM
But what if the murmuration does "compute-like" things, such as temporarily hold static (low-dimensional) state or transition along a temporarily constructed state diagram?