Erin Grant
@eringrant.me
Senior Research Fellow @ ucl.ac.uk/gatsby & sainsburywellcome.org
{learning, representations, structure} in 🧠💭🤖
my work 🤓: eringrant.github.io
not active: sigmoid.social/@eringrant @eringrant@sigmoid.social, twitter.com/ermgrant @ermgrant
{learning, representations, structure} in 🧠💭🤖
my work 🤓: eringrant.github.io
not active: sigmoid.social/@eringrant @eringrant@sigmoid.social, twitter.com/ermgrant @ermgrant
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I'm on the academic job market!
I design and analyze probabilistic machine-learning methods---motivated by real-world scientific constraints, and developed in collaboration with scientists in biology, chemistry, and physics.
A few highlights of my research areas are:
I design and analyze probabilistic machine-learning methods---motivated by real-world scientific constraints, and developed in collaboration with scientists in biology, chemistry, and physics.
A few highlights of my research areas are:
November 7, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I'm on the academic job market!
I design and analyze probabilistic machine-learning methods---motivated by real-world scientific constraints, and developed in collaboration with scientists in biology, chemistry, and physics.
A few highlights of my research areas are:
I design and analyze probabilistic machine-learning methods---motivated by real-world scientific constraints, and developed in collaboration with scientists in biology, chemistry, and physics.
A few highlights of my research areas are:
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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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I'm hiring (another) post doc, this time in collaboration with Natalie Brito @nataliebrito.bsky.social at Columbia! We will be exploring some of the characteristics of human development using deep learning models. Email with questions!
iaejup.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
iaejup.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Postdoctoral Fellow - Large Language Models as Models for Human Development
This position is part of the Post Doctoral Fellows Association and has an initial appointment of two years. This position has a comprehensive benefits package. Location - This role is in-person at Nor...
iaejup.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I'm hiring (another) post doc, this time in collaboration with Natalie Brito @nataliebrito.bsky.social at Columbia! We will be exploring some of the characteristics of human development using deep learning models. Email with questions!
iaejup.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
iaejup.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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I am hiring a post doc at UAlberta, affiliated with Amii! We study language processing in the brain using LLMs and neuroimaging. Looking for someone with experience with ideally both neuroimaging and LLMs, or a willingness to learn. Email me with Qs
apps.ualberta.ca/careers/post...
apps.ualberta.ca/careers/post...
Postdoctoral Fellow - Language Models and Neuroscience - Careers@UAlberta.ca
University of Alberta: Careers@UAlberta.ca
apps.ualberta.ca
September 15, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I am hiring a post doc at UAlberta, affiliated with Amii! We study language processing in the brain using LLMs and neuroimaging. Looking for someone with experience with ideally both neuroimaging and LLMs, or a willingness to learn. Email me with Qs
apps.ualberta.ca/careers/post...
apps.ualberta.ca/careers/post...
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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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📢 10 days left to submit to the Data on the Brain & Mind Workshop at #NeurIPS2025!
📝 Call for:
• Findings (4 or 8 pages)
• Tutorials
If you’re submitting to ICLR or NeurIPS, consider submitting here too—and highlight how to use a cog neuro dataset in our tutorial track!
🔗 data-brain-mind.github.io
📝 Call for:
• Findings (4 or 8 pages)
• Tutorials
If you’re submitting to ICLR or NeurIPS, consider submitting here too—and highlight how to use a cog neuro dataset in our tutorial track!
🔗 data-brain-mind.github.io
Data on the Brain & Mind
data-brain-mind.github.io
August 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
📢 10 days left to submit to the Data on the Brain & Mind Workshop at #NeurIPS2025!
📝 Call for:
• Findings (4 or 8 pages)
• Tutorials
If you’re submitting to ICLR or NeurIPS, consider submitting here too—and highlight how to use a cog neuro dataset in our tutorial track!
🔗 data-brain-mind.github.io
📝 Call for:
• Findings (4 or 8 pages)
• Tutorials
If you’re submitting to ICLR or NeurIPS, consider submitting here too—and highlight how to use a cog neuro dataset in our tutorial track!
🔗 data-brain-mind.github.io
I’m recruiting committee members for the Technical Program Committee at #CCN2026.
Please apply if you want to help make submission, review & selection of contributed work (Extended Abstracts & Proceedings) more useful for everyone! 🌐
Helps to have: programming/communications/editorial experience.
Please apply if you want to help make submission, review & selection of contributed work (Extended Abstracts & Proceedings) more useful for everyone! 🌐
Helps to have: programming/communications/editorial experience.
Fill out the form here to be involved in #CCN2026
tinyurl.com/ccn26committee
And definitely fill out the #CCN2025 feedback form!
tinyurl.com/ccn25partici...
tinyurl.com/ccn26committee
And definitely fill out the #CCN2025 feedback form!
tinyurl.com/ccn25partici...
CCN 2025 Participant Survey
❗ This is the general CCN post-conference survey. For the application form for positions on the committees at CCN 2026, please see the CCN 2026 Committee Application.
Thank you for participating in C...
tinyurl.com
August 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I’m recruiting committee members for the Technical Program Committee at #CCN2026.
Please apply if you want to help make submission, review & selection of contributed work (Extended Abstracts & Proceedings) more useful for everyone! 🌐
Helps to have: programming/communications/editorial experience.
Please apply if you want to help make submission, review & selection of contributed work (Extended Abstracts & Proceedings) more useful for everyone! 🌐
Helps to have: programming/communications/editorial experience.
Reposted by Erin Grant
arguably the most important component of AI for neuroscience:
data, and its usability
data, and its usability
🚨 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 11, 2025 at 11:28 AM
arguably the most important component of AI for neuroscience:
data, and its usability
data, and its usability
Reposted by Erin Grant
The rumors are true! #CCN2026 will be held at NYU. @toddgureckis.bsky.social and I will be executive-chairing. Get in touch if you want to be involved!
August 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The rumors are true! #CCN2026 will be held at NYU. @toddgureckis.bsky.social and I will be executive-chairing. Get in touch if you want to be involved!
Are similar representations in neural nets evidence of shared computation? In new theory work w/ Lukas Braun (lukasbraun.com) & @saxelab.bsky.social, we prove that representational comparisons are ill-posed in general, unless networks are efficient.
@icmlconf.bsky.social @cogcompneuro.bsky.social
@icmlconf.bsky.social @cogcompneuro.bsky.social
August 13, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Are similar representations in neural nets evidence of shared computation? In new theory work w/ Lukas Braun (lukasbraun.com) & @saxelab.bsky.social, we prove that representational comparisons are ill-posed in general, unless networks are efficient.
@icmlconf.bsky.social @cogcompneuro.bsky.social
@icmlconf.bsky.social @cogcompneuro.bsky.social
Our #CCN2025 GAC debate w/ @gretatuckute.bsky.social, Gemma Roig (www.cvai.cs.uni-frankfurt.de), Jacqueline Gottlieb (gottlieblab.com), Klaus Oberauer, @mschrimpf.bsky.social & @brittawestner.bsky.social asks:
📊 What benchmarks are useful for cognitive science? 💭
2025.ccneuro.org/gac
📊 What benchmarks are useful for cognitive science? 💭
2025.ccneuro.org/gac
August 13, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Our #CCN2025 GAC debate w/ @gretatuckute.bsky.social, Gemma Roig (www.cvai.cs.uni-frankfurt.de), Jacqueline Gottlieb (gottlieblab.com), Klaus Oberauer, @mschrimpf.bsky.social & @brittawestner.bsky.social asks:
📊 What benchmarks are useful for cognitive science? 💭
2025.ccneuro.org/gac
📊 What benchmarks are useful for cognitive science? 💭
2025.ccneuro.org/gac
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How do task dynamics impact learning in networks with internal dynamics?
Excited to share our ICML Oral paper on learning dynamics in linear RNNs!
with @clementinedomine.bsky.social @mpshanahan.bsky.social and Pedro Mediano
openreview.net/forum?id=KGO...
Excited to share our ICML Oral paper on learning dynamics in linear RNNs!
with @clementinedomine.bsky.social @mpshanahan.bsky.social and Pedro Mediano
openreview.net/forum?id=KGO...
Learning dynamics in linear recurrent neural networks
Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are powerful models used widely in both machine learning and neuroscience to learn tasks with temporal dependencies and to model neural dynamics. However, despite...
openreview.net
June 20, 2025 at 5:29 PM
How do task dynamics impact learning in networks with internal dynamics?
Excited to share our ICML Oral paper on learning dynamics in linear RNNs!
with @clementinedomine.bsky.social @mpshanahan.bsky.social and Pedro Mediano
openreview.net/forum?id=KGO...
Excited to share our ICML Oral paper on learning dynamics in linear RNNs!
with @clementinedomine.bsky.social @mpshanahan.bsky.social and Pedro Mediano
openreview.net/forum?id=KGO...
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"our society selects for the affordances of a medium—speed, ease, efficiency—not for its effects. And it is the effects of literacy that hold its civilizational value. [Those] deep cognitive and ethical capacities are not being selected for. They are not easily monetized or optimized."
How To Do Soul-Craft With State Tools
On Literacy and AI
jacmullen.substack.com
June 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
"our society selects for the affordances of a medium—speed, ease, efficiency—not for its effects. And it is the effects of literacy that hold its civilizational value. [Those] deep cognitive and ethical capacities are not being selected for. They are not easily monetized or optimized."
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Phew decisions are out..!! Congratulations to the authors of the 26 papers selected for the first edition of the CCN Proceedings 📜 @eringrant.bsky.social @neurosteven.bsky.social @cogcompneuro.bsky.social 1/2
May 16, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Phew decisions are out..!! Congratulations to the authors of the 26 papers selected for the first edition of the CCN Proceedings 📜 @eringrant.bsky.social @neurosteven.bsky.social @cogcompneuro.bsky.social 1/2
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Because we must build good things while we scream about the bad, I have started a "Data for Good" team @data-for-good-team.bsky.social that partners with organizations needing short-term data science help. We have three projects ongoing & will add more as our capacity grows.
data-for-good-team.org
data-for-good-team.org
May 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Because we must build good things while we scream about the bad, I have started a "Data for Good" team @data-for-good-team.bsky.social that partners with organizations needing short-term data science help. We have three projects ongoing & will add more as our capacity grows.
data-for-good-team.org
data-for-good-team.org
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That’s a wrap for Re²-Align 🤖 🧠👤 at #ICLR2025 🦁🥳— thanks for being part of it! We’re probably just getting started… see you all at Re³-Align🌷😉
April 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
That’s a wrap for Re²-Align 🤖 🧠👤 at #ICLR2025 🦁🥳— thanks for being part of it! We’re probably just getting started… see you all at Re³-Align🌷😉
Reposted by Erin Grant
🌟 Don't miss our EXCITING lineup of speakers (@irisgroen.bsky.social,
Dianbo Liu, @mschrimpf.bsky.social
, Janet Wiles, @itsneuronal.bsky.social) and our 🌶️ panel discussion moderated by @thisismyhat.bsky.social which will also include @noahdgoodman.bsky.social! 🔥
Dianbo Liu, @mschrimpf.bsky.social
, Janet Wiles, @itsneuronal.bsky.social) and our 🌶️ panel discussion moderated by @thisismyhat.bsky.social which will also include @noahdgoodman.bsky.social! 🔥
April 28, 2025 at 1:22 AM
🌟 Don't miss our EXCITING lineup of speakers (@irisgroen.bsky.social,
Dianbo Liu, @mschrimpf.bsky.social
, Janet Wiles, @itsneuronal.bsky.social) and our 🌶️ panel discussion moderated by @thisismyhat.bsky.social which will also include @noahdgoodman.bsky.social! 🔥
Dianbo Liu, @mschrimpf.bsky.social
, Janet Wiles, @itsneuronal.bsky.social) and our 🌶️ panel discussion moderated by @thisismyhat.bsky.social which will also include @noahdgoodman.bsky.social! 🔥
The afternoon session is continuing now! @iclr-conf.bsky.social
April 28, 2025 at 6:14 AM
The afternoon session is continuing now! @iclr-conf.bsky.social
Deadline extended till Feb. 5th!
Our representational alignment workshop returns to #ICLR2025! Submit your work on how ML/cogsci/neuro systems represent the world & what shapes these representations 💭🧠🤖
w/ @thisismyhat.bsky.social @dotadotadota.bsky.social, @sucholutsky.bsky.social @lukasmut.bsky.social @siddsuresh97.bsky.social
w/ @thisismyhat.bsky.social @dotadotadota.bsky.social, @sucholutsky.bsky.social @lukasmut.bsky.social @siddsuresh97.bsky.social
🚨Call for Papers🚨
The Re-Align Workshop is coming back to #ICLR2025
Our CfP is up! Come share your representational alignment work at our interdisciplinary workshop at
@iclr-conf.bsky.social
Deadline is 11:59 pm AOE on Feb 3rd
representational-alignment.github.io
The Re-Align Workshop is coming back to #ICLR2025
Our CfP is up! Come share your representational alignment work at our interdisciplinary workshop at
@iclr-conf.bsky.social
Deadline is 11:59 pm AOE on Feb 3rd
representational-alignment.github.io
February 3, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Deadline extended till Feb. 5th!
Last year, we funded 250 authors and other contributors to attend #ICLR2024 in Vienna as part of this program. If you or your organization want to directly support contributors this year, please get in touch! Hope to see you in Singapore at #ICLR2025!
Financial Assistance applications are now open! If you face financial barriers to attending ICLR 2025, we encourage you to apply. The program offers prepay and reimbursement options. Applications are due March 2nd with decisions announced March 9th. iclr.cc/Conferences/...
ICLR 2024 Financial Assistance
iclr.cc
January 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Our representational alignment workshop returns to #ICLR2025! Submit your work on how ML/cogsci/neuro systems represent the world & what shapes these representations 💭🧠🤖
w/ @thisismyhat.bsky.social @dotadotadota.bsky.social, @sucholutsky.bsky.social @lukasmut.bsky.social @siddsuresh97.bsky.social
w/ @thisismyhat.bsky.social @dotadotadota.bsky.social, @sucholutsky.bsky.social @lukasmut.bsky.social @siddsuresh97.bsky.social
🚨Call for Papers🚨
The Re-Align Workshop is coming back to #ICLR2025
Our CfP is up! Come share your representational alignment work at our interdisciplinary workshop at
@iclr-conf.bsky.social
Deadline is 11:59 pm AOE on Feb 3rd
representational-alignment.github.io
The Re-Align Workshop is coming back to #ICLR2025
Our CfP is up! Come share your representational alignment work at our interdisciplinary workshop at
@iclr-conf.bsky.social
Deadline is 11:59 pm AOE on Feb 3rd
representational-alignment.github.io
January 16, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Our representational alignment workshop returns to #ICLR2025! Submit your work on how ML/cogsci/neuro systems represent the world & what shapes these representations 💭🧠🤖
w/ @thisismyhat.bsky.social @dotadotadota.bsky.social, @sucholutsky.bsky.social @lukasmut.bsky.social @siddsuresh97.bsky.social
w/ @thisismyhat.bsky.social @dotadotadota.bsky.social, @sucholutsky.bsky.social @lukasmut.bsky.social @siddsuresh97.bsky.social
If you missed it at the #NeurIPS2024 posters! Work led by @leonlufkin.bsky.social on analytical dynamics of localization in simple neural nets, as seen in real+artificial nets and distilled by @aingrosso.bsky.social @sebgoldt.bsky.social.
Leon is a fantastic collaborator + looking for PhD positions!
Leon is a fantastic collaborator + looking for PhD positions!
December 13, 2024 at 4:20 AM
If you missed it at the #NeurIPS2024 posters! Work led by @leonlufkin.bsky.social on analytical dynamics of localization in simple neural nets, as seen in real+artificial nets and distilled by @aingrosso.bsky.social @sebgoldt.bsky.social.
Leon is a fantastic collaborator + looking for PhD positions!
Leon is a fantastic collaborator + looking for PhD positions!
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🚨 We just updated our perspective on representational alignment. The most recent version is both more crisp and more comprehensive. We try to find common language across research disciplines for aligning the representations from different info processing systems!
arxiv.org/abs/2310.13018
arxiv.org/abs/2310.13018
Getting aligned on representational alignment
Biological and artificial information processing systems form representations of the world that they can use to categorize, reason, plan, navigate, and make decisions. How can we measure the similarit...
arxiv.org
November 27, 2024 at 8:57 AM
🚨 We just updated our perspective on representational alignment. The most recent version is both more crisp and more comprehensive. We try to find common language across research disciplines for aligning the representations from different info processing systems!
arxiv.org/abs/2310.13018
arxiv.org/abs/2310.13018
Lightweight poster submissions for this stellar RS program end tomorrow (Sept. 17th)! I hear from Marta Kwiatkowska that Rich Sutton coined the title, so expect: bitter lessons alongside the longstanding debate between top-down vs. bottom-up approaches in CogSci :)
royalsociety.org/science-even...
royalsociety.org/science-even...
Beyond the symbols vs signals debate | Royal Society
Discussion meeting organised by Professor Marta Kwiatkowska FRS, Professor Peter Dayan FRS, Professor Tom Griffiths and Professor Doina Precup
royalsociety.org
September 16, 2024 at 4:10 PM
Lightweight poster submissions for this stellar RS program end tomorrow (Sept. 17th)! I hear from Marta Kwiatkowska that Rich Sutton coined the title, so expect: bitter lessons alongside the longstanding debate between top-down vs. bottom-up approaches in CogSci :)
royalsociety.org/science-even...
royalsociety.org/science-even...