Dirk Gütlin
@gutlin.bsky.social
I post mainly about Neuroscience, Machine Learning, Complex Systems, or Stats papers.
Working on neural learning /w @auksz.bsky.social CCNB/BCCN/Free University Berlin.
I also play bass in a pop punk band:
https://linktr.ee/goodviewsbadnews
Working on neural learning /w @auksz.bsky.social CCNB/BCCN/Free University Berlin.
I also play bass in a pop punk band:
https://linktr.ee/goodviewsbadnews
Reposted by Dirk Gütlin
ICYMI: The Trump revenge tour continues.
Chaos in FL.
Chaos in FL.
November 11, 2025 at 12:05 PM
ICYMI: The Trump revenge tour continues.
Chaos in FL.
Chaos in FL.
Specialized structure of neural population codes in parietal cortex outputs
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Specialized structure of neural population codes in parietal cortex outputs - Nature Neuroscience
Cortical neurons comprising an output pathway form a specialized population code that enhances the propagation of information to a downstream target, potentially improving the accuracy of decision-mak...
www.nature.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Specialized structure of neural population codes in parietal cortex outputs
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Extremely cool project by @initself.bsky.social , querying neural data in order to understand it. 👇
Introducing CorText: a framework that fuses brain data directly into a large language model, allowing for interactive neural readout using natural language.
tl;dr: you can now chat with a brain scan 🧠💬
1/n
tl;dr: you can now chat with a brain scan 🧠💬
1/n
November 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Extremely cool project by @initself.bsky.social , querying neural data in order to understand it. 👇
Reposted by Dirk Gütlin
🚨Preprint: Semantic Tuning of Single Neurons in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe
1/8: How do human neurons encode meaning?
In this work, led by Katharina Karkowski, we recorded hundreds of human MTL neurons to study semantic coding in the human brain:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
1/8: How do human neurons encode meaning?
In this work, led by Katharina Karkowski, we recorded hundreds of human MTL neurons to study semantic coding in the human brain:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Semantic Tuning of Single Neurons in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe
The Medial Temporal Lobe (MTL) is key to human cognition, supporting memory, emotional processing, navigation, and semantic coding. Rare direct human MTL recordings revealed concept cells, which were ...
doi.org
October 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
🚨Preprint: Semantic Tuning of Single Neurons in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe
1/8: How do human neurons encode meaning?
In this work, led by Katharina Karkowski, we recorded hundreds of human MTL neurons to study semantic coding in the human brain:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
1/8: How do human neurons encode meaning?
In this work, led by Katharina Karkowski, we recorded hundreds of human MTL neurons to study semantic coding in the human brain:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Prize question: What exactly was it that made the industry that was supposed to provide us with information, to devolve into providing exactly the opposite - disinformation (/manipulation).
Or was it always this way?
Or was it always this way?
Rupert Murdoch-owned @thetimes.com of London completely fabricates a hit piece on @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social , gets called out by former mayor Deblasio — then deletes it.🤔
October 29, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Prize question: What exactly was it that made the industry that was supposed to provide us with information, to devolve into providing exactly the opposite - disinformation (/manipulation).
Or was it always this way?
Or was it always this way?
Reposted by Dirk Gütlin
Expecting experience, not getting it, the brain adapts
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Developmental alterations in brain network asymmetry in 3- to 9-month infants with congenital sensorineural hearing loss
Early sensorineural hearing loss disrupts lateralization development of the brain network.
www.science.org
October 24, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Expecting experience, not getting it, the brain adapts
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Hi US-Americans, just a reminder from normality:
If in any other working democracy protests would take place and the president would be sharing a video of himself in a war plane with a king's crown dumping shit on them, that guy would be gone SO FAST.
Why do you let this happen? You have the power!
If in any other working democracy protests would take place and the president would be sharing a video of himself in a war plane with a king's crown dumping shit on them, that guy would be gone SO FAST.
Why do you let this happen? You have the power!
October 19, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Hi US-Americans, just a reminder from normality:
If in any other working democracy protests would take place and the president would be sharing a video of himself in a war plane with a king's crown dumping shit on them, that guy would be gone SO FAST.
Why do you let this happen? You have the power!
If in any other working democracy protests would take place and the president would be sharing a video of himself in a war plane with a king's crown dumping shit on them, that guy would be gone SO FAST.
Why do you let this happen? You have the power!
Reposted by Dirk Gütlin
S-Values are much more interpretable than P-values, yet adoption seems near impossible. I wonder what it would take to make the leap? #statssky #episky #rstats #statistics
October 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
S-Values are much more interpretable than P-values, yet adoption seems near impossible. I wonder what it would take to make the leap? #statssky #episky #rstats #statistics
Reposted by Dirk Gütlin
Our spotlight article on Goueytes et al. (2025) study is now online at Trends in Neurosciences: "Pre- and post-decision signals of certainty in changing minds", by P. Barttfeld, @ncomay.bsky.social, I. Embon & @guillermosolovey.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/neuro...
Pre- and post-decision signals of certainty in changing minds
In a recent study, Goueytes and colleagues combined computational modeling with intracranial
recordings to dissect the neural basis of confidence and changes of mind. They reveal
a temporally organize...
www.cell.com
October 9, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Our spotlight article on Goueytes et al. (2025) study is now online at Trends in Neurosciences: "Pre- and post-decision signals of certainty in changing minds", by P. Barttfeld, @ncomay.bsky.social, I. Embon & @guillermosolovey.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/neuro...
Reposted by Dirk Gütlin
Pick your battle because it’s one or the other. Either we shut everything down with a general strike and protest every day or we let assholes like this terrorize us. Which do you want?
October 8, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Pick your battle because it’s one or the other. Either we shut everything down with a general strike and protest every day or we let assholes like this terrorize us. Which do you want?
Reposted by Dirk Gütlin
This sounds plausible to me. But if it’s true, it means that the age of social media might be over soon, with only the old and wrinkled (like myself) spending any actual time there.
October 7, 2025 at 6:59 AM
This sounds plausible to me. But if it’s true, it means that the age of social media might be over soon, with only the old and wrinkled (like myself) spending any actual time there.
Reposted by Dirk Gütlin
“Utopianism for a Dying Planet asks for a revival of utopian ideas, not as an escape from reality, but as a powerful means of changing it.” press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Utopianism for a Dying Planet
How the utopian tradition offers answers to today’s environmental crises
press.princeton.edu
October 1, 2025 at 12:47 PM
“Utopianism for a Dying Planet asks for a revival of utopian ideas, not as an escape from reality, but as a powerful means of changing it.” press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Reposted by Dirk Gütlin
More than half of Americans get their news regularly from Tiktok. And this has more than doubled in 5 years. Tiktok has become a key gateway to news and politics.
This makes ownership of and content on the platform even more important.
Source: @pewresearch.org
This makes ownership of and content on the platform even more important.
Source: @pewresearch.org
September 30, 2025 at 6:24 AM
More than half of Americans get their news regularly from Tiktok. And this has more than doubled in 5 years. Tiktok has become a key gateway to news and politics.
This makes ownership of and content on the platform even more important.
Source: @pewresearch.org
This makes ownership of and content on the platform even more important.
Source: @pewresearch.org
Reposted by Dirk Gütlin
1/ Why are we so easily distracted? 🧠 In our new EEG preprint w/ Henry Jones, @monicarosenb.bsky.social and @edvogel.bsky.social we show that distractibility is associated w/ reduced neural connectivity — and can be predicted from EEG with ~80% accuracy using machine learning.
September 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM
1/ Why are we so easily distracted? 🧠 In our new EEG preprint w/ Henry Jones, @monicarosenb.bsky.social and @edvogel.bsky.social we show that distractibility is associated w/ reduced neural connectivity — and can be predicted from EEG with ~80% accuracy using machine learning.
Reposted by Dirk Gütlin
👁️🧠 New preprint: We demonstrate the first data-driven neural control framework for a visual cortical implant in a blind human!
TL;DR Deep learning lets us synthesize efficient stimulation patterns that reliably evoke percepts, outperforming conventional calibration.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
TL;DR Deep learning lets us synthesize efficient stimulation patterns that reliably evoke percepts, outperforming conventional calibration.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 27, 2025 at 2:52 AM
👁️🧠 New preprint: We demonstrate the first data-driven neural control framework for a visual cortical implant in a blind human!
TL;DR Deep learning lets us synthesize efficient stimulation patterns that reliably evoke percepts, outperforming conventional calibration.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
TL;DR Deep learning lets us synthesize efficient stimulation patterns that reliably evoke percepts, outperforming conventional calibration.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Dirk Gütlin
trickle down economics
trickle down economic
trickle down economi
trickle down econom
trickle down econo
trickle down econ
trickle down eco
trickle down ec
trickle down e
trickle down
trickle dow
trickle do
trickle d
trickle
trickl
trick
trickle down economic
trickle down economi
trickle down econom
trickle down econo
trickle down econ
trickle down eco
trickle down ec
trickle down e
trickle down
trickle dow
trickle do
trickle d
trickle
trickl
trick
September 17, 2025 at 9:15 PM
trickle down economics
trickle down economic
trickle down economi
trickle down econom
trickle down econo
trickle down econ
trickle down eco
trickle down ec
trickle down e
trickle down
trickle dow
trickle do
trickle d
trickle
trickl
trick
trickle down economic
trickle down economi
trickle down econom
trickle down econo
trickle down econ
trickle down eco
trickle down ec
trickle down e
trickle down
trickle dow
trickle do
trickle d
trickle
trickl
trick
Reposted by Dirk Gütlin
This one looks intriguing. Arousal "embedding" whole-brain dynamics. 🤯
#neuroskyence #compneurosky
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#neuroskyence #compneurosky
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Arousal as a universal embedding for spatiotemporal brain dynamics - Nature
Reframing of arousal as a latent dynamical system can reconstruct multidimensional measurements of large-scale spatiotemporal brain dynamics on the timescale of seconds in mice.
doi.org
September 25, 2025 at 6:03 AM
This one looks intriguing. Arousal "embedding" whole-brain dynamics. 🤯
#neuroskyence #compneurosky
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#neuroskyence #compneurosky
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Reposted by Dirk Gütlin
Facebook data reveal the devastating real-world harms caused by the spread of #misinformation theconversation.com/facebook-dat... by @acarson.bsky.social et al.
Misinformation’s real-world impact: "linked to poor health outcomes, falling public trust, and significant societal harm."
Misinformation’s real-world impact: "linked to poor health outcomes, falling public trust, and significant societal harm."
Facebook data reveal the devastating real-world harms caused by the spread of misinformation
New research reveals misinformation’s real-world impact, including poor health outcomes, falling public trust, and significant societal harm.
theconversation.com
September 24, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Facebook data reveal the devastating real-world harms caused by the spread of #misinformation theconversation.com/facebook-dat... by @acarson.bsky.social et al.
Misinformation’s real-world impact: "linked to poor health outcomes, falling public trust, and significant societal harm."
Misinformation’s real-world impact: "linked to poor health outcomes, falling public trust, and significant societal harm."
Reposted by Dirk Gütlin
On our lawn today. #blueboards #bluelawnsigns
September 24, 2025 at 1:11 PM
On our lawn today. #blueboards #bluelawnsigns
Modeling neuron-astrocyte interactions in neural networks using distributed simulation
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
Modeling neuron-astrocyte interactions in neural networks using distributed simulation
Author summary Astrocytes play an important role in regulating synapses, neuronal networks, and cognitive functions. However, models that include both neurons and astrocytes are underutilized compared...
journals.plos.org
September 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Modeling neuron-astrocyte interactions in neural networks using distributed simulation
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
Reposted by Dirk Gütlin
At LSE Philosophy we have two assistant prof vacancies - one for sustainability-related areas, the other for AI-related areas - and for neither of these will you need a $100,000 visa.
September 22, 2025 at 6:40 AM
At LSE Philosophy we have two assistant prof vacancies - one for sustainability-related areas, the other for AI-related areas - and for neither of these will you need a $100,000 visa.
Reposted by Dirk Gütlin
I have been wondering if there is an underlying capability factor that all the many benchmarks for AI are measuring.
It seems like the answer is yes. Overall correlation is moderate but not bad (median r ≈ 0.51) and there are distinct clusters (eg reasoning, code) with VERY high correlation.
It seems like the answer is yes. Overall correlation is moderate but not bad (median r ≈ 0.51) and there are distinct clusters (eg reasoning, code) with VERY high correlation.
September 22, 2025 at 4:48 AM
I have been wondering if there is an underlying capability factor that all the many benchmarks for AI are measuring.
It seems like the answer is yes. Overall correlation is moderate but not bad (median r ≈ 0.51) and there are distinct clusters (eg reasoning, code) with VERY high correlation.
It seems like the answer is yes. Overall correlation is moderate but not bad (median r ≈ 0.51) and there are distinct clusters (eg reasoning, code) with VERY high correlation.
Perception Encoder: The best visual embeddings are not at the output of the network
This looks like a cool new unsupervised model, and might be interesting for Neuroscientists using DNN models.
#MLSky #compneuro
arxiv.org/abs/2504.13181
This looks like a cool new unsupervised model, and might be interesting for Neuroscientists using DNN models.
#MLSky #compneuro
arxiv.org/abs/2504.13181
Perception Encoder: The best visual embeddings are not at the output of the network
We introduce Perception Encoder (PE), a state-of-the-art vision encoder for image and video understanding trained via simple vision-language learning. Traditionally, vision encoders have relied on a v...
arxiv.org
September 22, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Perception Encoder: The best visual embeddings are not at the output of the network
This looks like a cool new unsupervised model, and might be interesting for Neuroscientists using DNN models.
#MLSky #compneuro
arxiv.org/abs/2504.13181
This looks like a cool new unsupervised model, and might be interesting for Neuroscientists using DNN models.
#MLSky #compneuro
arxiv.org/abs/2504.13181
Structure transfer and consolidation in visual implicit learning
🧠🟦 🧠🤖
elifesciences.org/articles/100...
🧠🟦 🧠🤖
elifesciences.org/articles/100...
Structure transfer and consolidation in visual implicit learning
Sleep is essential for consolidating implicitly acquired perceptual knowledge that enables the knowledge transfer effect via newly learned structured information observed in prior studies of explicit ...
elifesciences.org
September 22, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Structure transfer and consolidation in visual implicit learning
🧠🟦 🧠🤖
elifesciences.org/articles/100...
🧠🟦 🧠🤖
elifesciences.org/articles/100...