Asim H. Dar
@asimhdar.bsky.social
Just wrapped up my PhD in Neuroscience. Next: trying to figure out how brains interface with the body, and the environment.
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Just a few days left to sign up for the OMEGAS symposium in Dundee. Link in original post ⬇️ Poster submission closes very soon - 25 Nov, registration open until 2 Dec. Looking forward to hearing from our expert speakers! #neurokyence #opm #meg
November 21, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Just a few days left to sign up for the OMEGAS symposium in Dundee. Link in original post ⬇️ Poster submission closes very soon - 25 Nov, registration open until 2 Dec. Looking forward to hearing from our expert speakers! #neurokyence #opm #meg
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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
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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
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Let Music Be Your Medicine | Exploring ways to deliver rhythmic frequencies to improve memory. Thanks
@psychologytoday.com for this writeup of our lab’s #musicscience for Alzheimer’s Disease @northeasternu.bsky.social @nuglobalnews.bsky.social www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/musi...
@psychologytoday.com for this writeup of our lab’s #musicscience for Alzheimer’s Disease @northeasternu.bsky.social @nuglobalnews.bsky.social www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/musi...
Let Music Be Your Medicine
Exploring ways to deliver rhythmic frequencies to improve memory.
www.psychologytoday.com
October 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Let Music Be Your Medicine | Exploring ways to deliver rhythmic frequencies to improve memory. Thanks
@psychologytoday.com for this writeup of our lab’s #musicscience for Alzheimer’s Disease @northeasternu.bsky.social @nuglobalnews.bsky.social www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/musi...
@psychologytoday.com for this writeup of our lab’s #musicscience for Alzheimer’s Disease @northeasternu.bsky.social @nuglobalnews.bsky.social www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/musi...
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I've been talking about ecological neuroscience and other topics with @braininspired.bsky.social on the Brain Inspired podcast. You can check it out here 👇
youtu.be/Aj3LyStBgpg
youtu.be/Aj3LyStBgpg
BI 223 Vicente Raja: Ecological Psychology Motifs in Neuroscience
YouTube video by Brain Inspired
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October 22, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I've been talking about ecological neuroscience and other topics with @braininspired.bsky.social on the Brain Inspired podcast. You can check it out here 👇
youtu.be/Aj3LyStBgpg
youtu.be/Aj3LyStBgpg
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Watch Randall Beer (Indiana University) give his talk titled 'Dynamical Systems for the Philosopher of Neuroscience' at DSPN this past week!
Special thank you to Marica Bernstein for recording! 🧠 🌀 Follow the link to our website to watch 👀
www.philandneuro.com/gulf
Special thank you to Marica Bernstein for recording! 🧠 🌀 Follow the link to our website to watch 👀
www.philandneuro.com/gulf
DSPN at the Gulf | SPAN
www.philandneuro.com
September 29, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Watch Randall Beer (Indiana University) give his talk titled 'Dynamical Systems for the Philosopher of Neuroscience' at DSPN this past week!
Special thank you to Marica Bernstein for recording! 🧠 🌀 Follow the link to our website to watch 👀
www.philandneuro.com/gulf
Special thank you to Marica Bernstein for recording! 🧠 🌀 Follow the link to our website to watch 👀
www.philandneuro.com/gulf
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Massively shameful, decidedly uncool, pathetically pandering to OpenAI. Reconsider, @ox.ac.uk
Oxford staff and students will access OpenAI’s flagship GPT-5 model through ChatGPT Edu, a university-focused version with enterprise-level security and controls.
Find out more ⬇️
Find out more ⬇️
Oxford becomes first UK university to offer ChatGPT Edu to all staff
OpenAI’s flagship GPT-5 model will be provided across the University and Oxford Colleges through ChatGPT Edu, a version of ChatGPT built for universities that includes enterprise-level security and
www.ox.ac.uk
September 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Massively shameful, decidedly uncool, pathetically pandering to OpenAI. Reconsider, @ox.ac.uk
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I wrote a Comment on neurotheory, and now you can read it!
Some thoughts on where neurotheory has and has not taken root within the neuroscience community, how it has shaped those subfields, and where we theorists might look next for fresh adventures.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Some thoughts on where neurotheory has and has not taken root within the neuroscience community, how it has shaped those subfields, and where we theorists might look next for fresh adventures.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Theoretical neuroscience has room to grow
Nature Reviews Neuroscience - The goal of theoretical neuroscience is to uncover principles of neural computation through careful design and interpretation of mathematical models. Here, I examine...
www.nature.com
August 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I wrote a Comment on neurotheory, and now you can read it!
Some thoughts on where neurotheory has and has not taken root within the neuroscience community, how it has shaped those subfields, and where we theorists might look next for fresh adventures.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Some thoughts on where neurotheory has and has not taken root within the neuroscience community, how it has shaped those subfields, and where we theorists might look next for fresh adventures.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Here's the next part of my series on neuroscience and hyperreality.
open.substack.com/pub/yohanjoh...
#neuroscience
open.substack.com/pub/yohanjoh...
#neuroscience
Neuroscience should not blur the distinction between "forward" and "reverse" modeling
Part 2 of a series on neuroscience and the hyperreal
open.substack.com
July 31, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Here's the next part of my series on neuroscience and hyperreality.
open.substack.com/pub/yohanjoh...
#neuroscience
open.substack.com/pub/yohanjoh...
#neuroscience
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Finally published:
“Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience: overcoming the clash of research cultures”
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Looking for ways to better understand different neuroscientific perspectives and enable productive collaborations
“Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience: overcoming the clash of research cultures”
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Looking for ways to better understand different neuroscientific perspectives and enable productive collaborations
Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience: overcoming the clash of research cultures - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
As scientists, we want solid answers, but we also want to answer questions that matter. Yet, the brain’s complexity forces trade-offs between these desiderata, bringing about two distinct research app...
www.nature.com
July 22, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Finally published:
“Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience: overcoming the clash of research cultures”
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Looking for ways to better understand different neuroscientific perspectives and enable productive collaborations
“Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience: overcoming the clash of research cultures”
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Looking for ways to better understand different neuroscientific perspectives and enable productive collaborations
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Do you study neural systems with feedback at different temporal-, spatial-, hierarchical-, data-, or computational- scales? Have you submitted your abstract to the "Neurocybernetics at Scale" symposium?
Due to multiple requests, new abstract submission deadline is 18 July! #AI4Science #cybernetics
Due to multiple requests, new abstract submission deadline is 18 July! #AI4Science #cybernetics
July 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Do you study neural systems with feedback at different temporal-, spatial-, hierarchical-, data-, or computational- scales? Have you submitted your abstract to the "Neurocybernetics at Scale" symposium?
Due to multiple requests, new abstract submission deadline is 18 July! #AI4Science #cybernetics
Due to multiple requests, new abstract submission deadline is 18 July! #AI4Science #cybernetics
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We are super happy to announce the fourth edition of School of Ideas in Neuroscience! Come to Warsaw in September for in-depth talks, discussions and workshops that will help you to make sense of your data! The deadline for registration is July 21, 2025.
July 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
We are super happy to announce the fourth edition of School of Ideas in Neuroscience! Come to Warsaw in September for in-depth talks, discussions and workshops that will help you to make sense of your data! The deadline for registration is July 21, 2025.
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Heck yes!
Toy models in Neuroscience!!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
(Currently reading Strogatz's classic book "Sync" - and love it!!)
Toy models in Neuroscience!!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
(Currently reading Strogatz's classic book "Sync" - and love it!!)
April 29, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Heck yes!
Toy models in Neuroscience!!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
(Currently reading Strogatz's classic book "Sync" - and love it!!)
Toy models in Neuroscience!!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
(Currently reading Strogatz's classic book "Sync" - and love it!!)
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Hmmm. Why is this ecological, if it’s about how brains represent things?
We are excited to announce our new Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience (SCENE)! This program will unite experts in experimental and computational #neuroscience approaches to investigate how the brain represents sensorimotor interactions. www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/04/24/s... #science
Simons Foundation Launches Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience
Simons Foundation Launches Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience on Simons Foundation
www.simonsfoundation.org
April 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Hmmm. Why is this ecological, if it’s about how brains represent things?
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I'm happy & sad.
Happy part: the word "ecological" becomes usual in neuroscience.
Sad part: "affordances", yes, but the aim is to find how they are encoded in the brain.
Some eco. psychs. in the project would've made it radical but perhaps more interesting? Something like: doi.org/10.1111/ejn....
Happy part: the word "ecological" becomes usual in neuroscience.
Sad part: "affordances", yes, but the aim is to find how they are encoded in the brain.
Some eco. psychs. in the project would've made it radical but perhaps more interesting? Something like: doi.org/10.1111/ejn....
April 24, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I'm happy & sad.
Happy part: the word "ecological" becomes usual in neuroscience.
Sad part: "affordances", yes, but the aim is to find how they are encoded in the brain.
Some eco. psychs. in the project would've made it radical but perhaps more interesting? Something like: doi.org/10.1111/ejn....
Happy part: the word "ecological" becomes usual in neuroscience.
Sad part: "affordances", yes, but the aim is to find how they are encoded in the brain.
Some eco. psychs. in the project would've made it radical but perhaps more interesting? Something like: doi.org/10.1111/ejn....
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Delighted to see our new collaboration on ecological neuroscience 🧩🌿🧠 announced today! A huge ❤️🙏🏼 to @simonsfoundation.org
I’m so excited by this theory-driven question. It’s core to our research on adaptive intelligence & sensorimotor systems 🙌 #SCENE
www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/04/24/s...
I’m so excited by this theory-driven question. It’s core to our research on adaptive intelligence & sensorimotor systems 🙌 #SCENE
www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/04/24/s...
Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience
The mission of the Simons Collaboration on Ecological NEuroscience (SCENE) is to understand how affordances offered by the world shape representations in the mind and the brain.
www.simonsfoundation.org
April 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Delighted to see our new collaboration on ecological neuroscience 🧩🌿🧠 announced today! A huge ❤️🙏🏼 to @simonsfoundation.org
I’m so excited by this theory-driven question. It’s core to our research on adaptive intelligence & sensorimotor systems 🙌 #SCENE
www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/04/24/s...
I’m so excited by this theory-driven question. It’s core to our research on adaptive intelligence & sensorimotor systems 🙌 #SCENE
www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/04/24/s...
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📆 updated for 2025: list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP:
google sheet 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
google sheet 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
various computational neuroscience / MEEG / LFP short courses and summer schools
docs.google.com
March 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
📆 updated for 2025: list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP:
google sheet 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
google sheet 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Boosting my essay on #metamodern #science once more on here: how to reconstruct after postmodern deconstruction
https://www.whatisemerging.com/opinions/toward-a-metamodern-science
#beyondtheageofmachines
https://www.whatisemerging.com/opinions/toward-a-metamodern-science
#beyondtheageofmachines
March 8, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Boosting my essay on #metamodern #science once more on here: how to reconstruct after postmodern deconstruction
https://www.whatisemerging.com/opinions/toward-a-metamodern-science
#beyondtheageofmachines
https://www.whatisemerging.com/opinions/toward-a-metamodern-science
#beyondtheageofmachines
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"Can a book be ahead of its time by 50 years?! The answer is a definitive ‘yes’ in the case of this phenomenal book by Francisco Varela. A real gem of a book about the philosophical foundations of biology and so much more." - Luiz Pessoa @pessoabrain.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026255140...
Principles of Biological Autonomy
Francisco Varela’s Principles of Biological Autonomy was a groundbreaking text when it was first published in 1979, putting forth a novel theory of how...
mitpress.mit.edu
February 12, 2025 at 7:27 PM
"Can a book be ahead of its time by 50 years?! The answer is a definitive ‘yes’ in the case of this phenomenal book by Francisco Varela. A real gem of a book about the philosophical foundations of biology and so much more." - Luiz Pessoa @pessoabrain.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026255140...