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sparc.science
🌍 SPARC Codeathon draws global talent to build tools for open science!

In 2024, teams won $50K for innovations like SPARC.RL & oSPARC-Hub.

📍See where participants came from + watch the winners: www.youtube.com/watc...

💰 $20K up for grabs in 2025: sparc.science/news-a...
#NIH_SPARC #DevLife
July 22, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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patrickmineault.bsky.social
New post: things have been moving very fast in AI. But has safety caught up to capabilities? open.substack.com/pub/naix/p/w...
Why I'm more worried about AI safety now than 6 months ago
Exponentials are all you need
open.substack.com
May 9, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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quantamagazine.bsky.social
The brain is a dense, thorny network of neurons, which come in many flavors and whose behaviors are controlled by a menagerie of molecules released on precise timescales. It is staggeringly more complex than an AI algorithm.
AI Is Nothing Like a Brain, and That’s OK | Quanta Magazine
The brain’s astounding cellular diversity and networked complexity could show how to make AI better.
www.quantamagazine.org
May 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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alleninstitute.org
All of our neural dynamics tools, software, protocols, datasets, and even hardware plans are now available in one convenient place!

Check it out and let us know what you'd like to see next: www.allenneuraldynamics.org/tools

🧠📈
Open Tools | Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics
We are doing science in the open. Our data and tools are openly available to the community.
www.allenneuraldynamics.org
May 5, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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thetransmitter.bsky.social
In this episode of “Brain Inspired,” @braininspired.bsky.social talks with @deanbuono.bsky.social about why he thinks integrated information theory is unscientific and how timing is a fundamental computation in brains.

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspir...
Dean Buonomano explores the concept of time in neuroscience and physics
He outlines why he thinks integrated information theory is unscientific and discusses how timing is a fundamental computation in brains.
www.thetransmitter.org
April 23, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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matteosaponati.bsky.social
Take our short 5-min anonymous survey on the Neuromorphic field’s current state & future:

📋 tinyurl.com/3jkszrnr
🗓️ Open until May 12, 2025

Results will be shared openly and submitted for publication. Your input will help us understand how interdisciplinary trends are shaping the field.
Neuromorphic Questionnaire
This form collects valuable information from the Neuromorphic Community as part of a project led by Matteo Saponati, Laura Kriener, Sebastian Billaudelle, Filippo Moro, and Melika Payvand. The goal is...
tinyurl.com
April 16, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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giacomoi.bsky.social
I'm extremely proud of this work, which shows how using the physics of analog electronic circuits helps us understand learning and computational principles of cortical neural networks and build efficient neural processing systems that can complement and outperform AI accelerators in edge computing!
biorxivpreprint.bsky.social bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · Apr 2
A canonical cortical electronic circuit for neuromorphic intelligence https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.28.646019v1
April 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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thetransmitter.bsky.social
In this “Brain Inspired” episode, @anayebi.bsky.social joins Paul Middlebrooks to discuss his reverse-engineering approach to build autonomous artificial-intelligence agents.

www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspir...
Aran Nayebi discusses a NeuroAI update to the Turing test
And he highlights the need to match neural representations across machines and organisms to build better autonomous agents.
www.thetransmitter.org
April 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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neurovium.bsky.social
Arrived for #ODIN2025 @alleninstitute.bsky.social we have organized a fantastic lineup of speakers & participants:
Topics cover High Throughput Acquisitions & Data Integration, Building/Benchmarking AI Models, Multiscale Analyses & AI Models.
CompNeuro North Star!
alleninstitute.org/odin-symposi...
ODIN Symposium 2025 I Speakers
Preview the speakers and workshops below to gain further insight into conference programming.
alleninstitute.org
April 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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neuroamyo.bsky.social
Hot off the presses: big update to our work looking at how adaptive decoders influence neural representations.

We added heroic analyses to show in both experiments & models that the structure of what the brain learns is altered by adaptive decoders. Check it out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
April 3, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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tyrellturing.bsky.social
Eva Dyer and I wrote an opinion piece for @thetransmitter.bsky.social on why neuroscience needs to embrace complexity and accept the "bitter lesson" by using a data-driven regime at scale.

With commentary from several wonderful researchers!

🧠📈 #NeuroAI 🧪
thetransmitter.bsky.social The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · Mar 26
How can we make progress in developing a general model of neural computation rather than a series of disjointed models tied to specific experimental circumstances, ask Eva Dyer and @tyrellturing.bsky.social in the latest entry in our NeuroAI series.

www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/acce...
Accepting “bitter lesson” and embracing brain’s complexity
To gain insight into complex neural data, we must move toward a data-driven regime, employing large models trained on vast amounts of data. Experts weigh in.
www.thetransmitter.org
March 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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behrenstimb.bsky.social
Science is under threat in the US. @elife.bsky.social have commissioned a series of articles discussing the implications and what we can do. The first three articles are now live. More to follow:
elifesciences.org/articles/106...
elifesciences.org/articles/106...
elifesciences.org/articles/106...
Science Under Threat in the United States: How scientists and institutions should respond
Individual researchers and university leaders need to make the case for science to their elected representatives and to the public at large.
elifesciences.org
March 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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hugospiers.bsky.social
Theta activity supports landmark-based correction
of naturalistic human path integration

Impressive 128 channel mobileEEG study with hmdVR:

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
March 25, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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patrickmineault.bsky.social
Not to toot my own horn, but Neuromatch's NeuroAI course is one of the best places to learn about this exciting area of neuroscience. Students and postdocs, apply!
neuromatch.bsky.social Neuromatch @neuromatch.bsky.social · Feb 24
🚨 Neuromatch Academy Course Applications are OPEN for 2025!! 🚨

Get your application in early to be a student or teaching assistant for this year’s courses!

Applications are due Sunday, March 23.

Apply & learn more: neuromatch.io/courses/

#mlsky #compneurosky #ai #climatesolutions #ScienceEdu 🧪
Applications are now open! 3-week courses: Comp Neuro and Deep Learning. 2-week courses: NeuroAI and Comp Tools for Climate Science.
March 17, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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barbmcquade.bsky.social
From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
March 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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humbertobasilio.bsky.social
🚨This week, many Columbia scientists lost grants that funded over half their annual income. Others will no longer be able to do research that helps treat thousands of sick patients across the US.

"It hurts," they told me.

My story for @nature.com 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘My career is over’: Columbia University scientists hit hard by Trump team’s cuts
The US government has begun slashing US$400 million in research grants at Columbia University over pro-Palestinian campus protests.
www.nature.com
March 14, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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humbertobasilio.bsky.social
🚨🧪 Are you a researcher affected by the recent cancellation of federal grants and contracts at Columbia University?

I'm working on a story for @Nature.com. If you want to chat, your identity will be kept private.

Signal: humbertobasilio.24
Email: humberto.basilio@us.nature.com

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March 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
jdmonaco.bsky.social
I’ve dismissed IIT as unscientific ever since first reading about it in Anil Seth’s 2006 paper. Can I have an h-index bump too?
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
March 11, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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neural-reckoning.org
The animal doesn't carry around a loss function, that's a mathematical abstraction to help us organise our thoughts and nature is under no obligation to match that. I also agree it's a useful abstraction but it's not reality, just a model.
March 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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neural-reckoning.org
We need to start building international scholar owned and led infrastructure for science as soon as possible. Check out my article on this:

www.thetransmitter.org/policy/scien...
smcgrath.phd Scott McGrath @smcgrath.phd · Mar 4
🧪 PubMed’s brief outage sent researchers into panic, underscoring global reliance on the free biomedical database. While restored, the incident raises concerns about access, resilience, and the need for backups. 🩺💻
'Omg, did Pubmed go dark?' Blackout stokes fears about database’s future
A brief outage has focused attention on scientists’ reliance on the US-government-funded website.
www.nature.com
March 5, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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alt18f.bsky.social
18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people:
18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
18f.org
March 1, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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amandabecker.bsky.social
The Washington Post has lost 75,000 subscribers since Wednesday, when Jeff Bezos reversed course and meddled in editorial operations, mandating what the opinion section can cover: www.npr.org/2025/02/28/n...
Bezos' changes at 'Washington Post' lead to mass subscription cancellations — again
Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos's changes to the opinion pages have led subscribers to cancel in droves. It's the third wave of mass cancellations at the Post in just a few months.
www.npr.org
February 28, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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bwjones.bsky.social
By @katherinejwu.com

"The NIH... supported 99 percent of the drugs approved in the U.S. from 2010 to 2019. The agency has had a hand in “nearly all of our major medical breakthroughs over the past several decades,”

The NIH is in a struggle for its (and our) lives. This is existential to America:
Inside the Collapse at NIH
Administration officials pressured NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.
www.theatlantic.com
February 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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elimerriam.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41... awesome new work out today! From the Lee lab in the intramural research program at NIMH!
Brain-wide presynaptic networks of functionally distinct cortical neurons - Nature
Behavioural-state-dependent pyramidal neurons have a distinct pattern of long-range glutamatergic inputs, with a larger proportion of thalamic versus motor cortex inputs compared with non-behavio...
www.nature.com
February 27, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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sfn.org
SfN joins 600 organizations & more than 3,500 people across the country in @researchamerica.bsky.social's coalition letter urging Congress to protect vital NIH funding.

Read the full letter: bit.ly/3XhgFCJ

#NeuroSky #NeuroAdvocate
February 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM