Jenelle Feather
@jfeather.bsky.social
Flatiron Research Fellow #FlatironCCN. PhD from #mitbrainandcog. Incoming Asst Prof #CarnegieMellon in Fall 2025. I study how humans and computers hear and see.
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Elizabeth Lee, a first-year Ph.D. student in Neural Computation, has been awarded CMU’s 2025 Sutherland-Merlino Fellowship. Her work bridges neuroscience and machine learning, and she’s passionate about advancing STEM access for underrepresented groups.
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September 30, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Elizabeth Lee, a first-year Ph.D. student in Neural Computation, has been awarded CMU’s 2025 Sutherland-Merlino Fellowship. Her work bridges neuroscience and machine learning, and she’s passionate about advancing STEM access for underrepresented groups.
www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...
www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...
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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
So excited for CCN2026!!! 🧠🤔🤖🗽
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 6:06 PM
So excited for CCN2026!!! 🧠🤔🤖🗽
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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
Join us at #NeurIPS2025 for our Data on the Brain & Mind workshop! We aim to connect machine learning researchers and neuroscientists/cognitive scientists, with a focus on emerging datasets.
More info: data-brain-mind.github.io
More info: data-brain-mind.github.io
🚨 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 5, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Join us at #NeurIPS2025 for our Data on the Brain & Mind workshop! We aim to connect machine learning researchers and neuroscientists/cognitive scientists, with a focus on emerging datasets.
More info: data-brain-mind.github.io
More info: data-brain-mind.github.io
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New preprint!
tl;dr — We ran around late at night to record wild rats in NYC and figured out how to quantify their behavior and environment. 🧵
w/ Dima Batenkov, @zamakany.bsky.social, Emily Mackevicius
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
tl;dr — We ran around late at night to record wild rats in NYC and figured out how to quantify their behavior and environment. 🧵
w/ Dima Batenkov, @zamakany.bsky.social, Emily Mackevicius
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Computational Urban Ecology of New York City Rats
Urban rats are highly adaptable, thriving in the dynamic and often inhospitable conditions of modern cities. Despite substantial mitigation efforts, they remain an enduring presence in urban environme...
www.biorxiv.org
July 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
New preprint!
tl;dr — We ran around late at night to record wild rats in NYC and figured out how to quantify their behavior and environment. 🧵
w/ Dima Batenkov, @zamakany.bsky.social, Emily Mackevicius
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
tl;dr — We ran around late at night to record wild rats in NYC and figured out how to quantify their behavior and environment. 🧵
w/ Dima Batenkov, @zamakany.bsky.social, Emily Mackevicius
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Announcing the new "Sensorimotor AI" Journal Club — please share/repost!
w/ Kaylene Stocking, Tommaso Salvatori, and @elisennesh.bsky.social
Sign up link: forms.gle/o5DXD4WMdhTg...
More details below 🧵[1/5]
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w/ Kaylene Stocking, Tommaso Salvatori, and @elisennesh.bsky.social
Sign up link: forms.gle/o5DXD4WMdhTg...
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July 9, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Announcing the new "Sensorimotor AI" Journal Club — please share/repost!
w/ Kaylene Stocking, Tommaso Salvatori, and @elisennesh.bsky.social
Sign up link: forms.gle/o5DXD4WMdhTg...
More details below 🧵[1/5]
🧠🤖🧠📈
w/ Kaylene Stocking, Tommaso Salvatori, and @elisennesh.bsky.social
Sign up link: forms.gle/o5DXD4WMdhTg...
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In many brain areas, neuronal tuning is heterogeneous. But how does this diversity help behavior? We show how tuning diversity shapes representational geometry and boosts coding efficiency for perception in our new preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
(w/ @sueyeonchung.bsky.social&Tony Movshon)
(w/ @sueyeonchung.bsky.social&Tony Movshon)
Variations in neuronal selectivity create efficient representational geometries for perception
Our visual capabilities depend on neural response properties in visual areas of our brains. Neurons exhibit a wide variety of selective response properties, but the reasons for this diversity are unkn...
www.biorxiv.org
June 29, 2025 at 12:19 AM
In many brain areas, neuronal tuning is heterogeneous. But how does this diversity help behavior? We show how tuning diversity shapes representational geometry and boosts coding efficiency for perception in our new preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
(w/ @sueyeonchung.bsky.social&Tony Movshon)
(w/ @sueyeonchung.bsky.social&Tony Movshon)
Consider submitting your recent work on stimulus synthesis and selection to our special issue at JOV!
Submissions now accepted for a special issue of the Journal of Vision:
Choose your stimuli wisely: Advances in stimulus synthesis and selection
Submission deadline: Dec 12, 2025
Futher details: jov.arvojournals.org/ss/synthetic...
Choose your stimuli wisely: Advances in stimulus synthesis and selection
Submission deadline: Dec 12, 2025
Futher details: jov.arvojournals.org/ss/synthetic...
JOV Special Issue - Choose your stimuli wisely: Advances in stimulus synthesis and selection | JOV | ARVO Journals
jov.arvojournals.org
June 18, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Consider submitting your recent work on stimulus synthesis and selection to our special issue at JOV!
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What is the probability of an image? What do the highest and lowest probability images look like? Do natural images lie on a low-dimensional manifold?
In a new preprint with Zahra Kadkhodaie and @eerosim.bsky.social, we develop a novel energy-based model in order to answer these questions: 🧵
In a new preprint with Zahra Kadkhodaie and @eerosim.bsky.social, we develop a novel energy-based model in order to answer these questions: 🧵
June 6, 2025 at 10:11 PM
What is the probability of an image? What do the highest and lowest probability images look like? Do natural images lie on a low-dimensional manifold?
In a new preprint with Zahra Kadkhodaie and @eerosim.bsky.social, we develop a novel energy-based model in order to answer these questions: 🧵
In a new preprint with Zahra Kadkhodaie and @eerosim.bsky.social, we develop a novel energy-based model in order to answer these questions: 🧵
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Just a few months until Cognitive Computational Neuroscience comes to Amsterdam! Check out our now-complete schedule for #CCN2025, with descriptions of each of the Generative Adversarial Collaborations (GACs), Keynotes-and-Tutorials (K&Ts), Community Events, Keynote Speakers, and social activities!
A detailed schedule for CCN2025 is available on our website now, including the specific keynotes / GACs / community events taking place:
2025.ccneuro.org/schedule-of-...
The early bird registration deadline is coming up this Friday (23rd May)!
2025.ccneuro.org/schedule-of-...
The early bird registration deadline is coming up this Friday (23rd May)!
May 19, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Just a few months until Cognitive Computational Neuroscience comes to Amsterdam! Check out our now-complete schedule for #CCN2025, with descriptions of each of the Generative Adversarial Collaborations (GACs), Keynotes-and-Tutorials (K&Ts), Community Events, Keynote Speakers, and social activities!
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I’m happy to be at #VSS2025 and share what our lab has been up to this year!
I’m also honored to receive this year’s young investigator award and will give a short talk at the awards ceremony Monday
I’m also honored to receive this year’s young investigator award and will give a short talk at the awards ceremony Monday
May 16, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I’m happy to be at #VSS2025 and share what our lab has been up to this year!
I’m also honored to receive this year’s young investigator award and will give a short talk at the awards ceremony Monday
I’m also honored to receive this year’s young investigator award and will give a short talk at the awards ceremony Monday
Super excited for our #VSS2025 symposium tomorrow, "Model-optimized stimuli: more than just pretty pictures".
Join us to talk about designing and using synthetic stimuli for testing properties of visual perception!
May 16th @ 1-3PM in Talk Room #2
More info: www.visionsciences.org/symposia/?sy...
Join us to talk about designing and using synthetic stimuli for testing properties of visual perception!
May 16th @ 1-3PM in Talk Room #2
More info: www.visionsciences.org/symposia/?sy...
VSS SymposiaSymposia – Vision Sciences Society
www.visionsciences.org
May 15, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Super excited for our #VSS2025 symposium tomorrow, "Model-optimized stimuli: more than just pretty pictures".
Join us to talk about designing and using synthetic stimuli for testing properties of visual perception!
May 16th @ 1-3PM in Talk Room #2
More info: www.visionsciences.org/symposia/?sy...
Join us to talk about designing and using synthetic stimuli for testing properties of visual perception!
May 16th @ 1-3PM in Talk Room #2
More info: www.visionsciences.org/symposia/?sy...
We are presenting our work “Discriminating image representations with principal distortions” at #ICLR2025 today (4/24) at 3pm! If you are interested in comparing model representations with other models or human perception, stop by poster #63. Highlights in 🧵
openreview.net/forum?id=ugX...
openreview.net/forum?id=ugX...
Discriminating image representations with principal distortions
Image representations (artificial or biological) are often compared in terms of their global geometric structure; however, representations with similar global structure can have strikingly...
openreview.net
April 24, 2025 at 5:13 AM
We are presenting our work “Discriminating image representations with principal distortions” at #ICLR2025 today (4/24) at 3pm! If you are interested in comparing model representations with other models or human perception, stop by poster #63. Highlights in 🧵
openreview.net/forum?id=ugX...
openreview.net/forum?id=ugX...
Applications close TODAY (April 14) for the 2025 Flatiron Institute Junior Theoretical Neuroscience Workshop.
All you need to apply is a CV and a 1 page abstract. 🧠🗽
All you need to apply is a CV and a 1 page abstract. 🧠🗽
Applications are open for the 2025 Flatiron Institute Junior Theoretical Neuroscience Workshop! A two-day workshop 7/10-7/11 in NYC for PhD students and postdocs. All travel paid. Apply by April 14th.🧠🗽🧑🔬http://jtnworkshop2025.flatironinstitute.org/
@flatironinstitute.org @simonsfoundation.org
@flatironinstitute.org @simonsfoundation.org
JTN - 2025
JTN - 2025
jtnworkshop2025.flatironinstitute.org
April 14, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Applications close TODAY (April 14) for the 2025 Flatiron Institute Junior Theoretical Neuroscience Workshop.
All you need to apply is a CV and a 1 page abstract. 🧠🗽
All you need to apply is a CV and a 1 page abstract. 🧠🗽
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📣 Grad students and postdocs in computational and theoretical neuroscience: please consider applying for the 2025 Flatiron Institute Junior Theoretical Neuroscience Workshop! All expenses are covered. Apply by April 14. jtnworkshop2025.flatironinstitute.org
April 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
📣 Grad students and postdocs in computational and theoretical neuroscience: please consider applying for the 2025 Flatiron Institute Junior Theoretical Neuroscience Workshop! All expenses are covered. Apply by April 14. jtnworkshop2025.flatironinstitute.org
Already feeling #cosyne2025 withdrawal? Apply to the Flatiron Institute Junior Theoretical Neuroscience Workshop! Applications due April 14th
jtnworkshop2025.flatironinstitute.org
jtnworkshop2025.flatironinstitute.org
April 2, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Already feeling #cosyne2025 withdrawal? Apply to the Flatiron Institute Junior Theoretical Neuroscience Workshop! Applications due April 14th
jtnworkshop2025.flatironinstitute.org
jtnworkshop2025.flatironinstitute.org
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We're bringing together leading researchers from top institutions worldwide to Split, Croatia this summer. If you're passionate about brain-inspired AI, computational neuroscience, or fundamental mathematical principles driving intelligence, this conference is the place to be!
April 1, 2025 at 1:23 PM
We're bringing together leading researchers from top institutions worldwide to Split, Croatia this summer. If you're passionate about brain-inspired AI, computational neuroscience, or fundamental mathematical principles driving intelligence, this conference is the place to be!
Teddy's project is one of the only clear examples we know of (so far) where modifying the *objective function* used for training a deep neural network systematically improves neural prediction of IT responses. Come chat at his poster this afternoon at #cosyne2025! (Poster 2-036)
If you are at #cosyne2025 come check out my poster this afternoon! We demonstrate a case where objective function design can systematically improve neural predictivity in deep networks.
[2-036] Contrastive-Equivariant Self-Supervised Learning Improves Alignment with Primate Visual Area IT
[2-036] Contrastive-Equivariant Self-Supervised Learning Improves Alignment with Primate Visual Area IT
March 28, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Teddy's project is one of the only clear examples we know of (so far) where modifying the *objective function* used for training a deep neural network systematically improves neural prediction of IT responses. Come chat at his poster this afternoon at #cosyne2025! (Poster 2-036)
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Image representations are often compared in terms of their global geometry. I'm excited to present work at #cosyne2025 that proposes a method for comparing image representations based on their *local* geometry.
Poster: 8p tonight #1-112
Poster: 8p tonight #1-112
March 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Image representations are often compared in terms of their global geometry. I'm excited to present work at #cosyne2025 that proposes a method for comparing image representations based on their *local* geometry.
Poster: 8p tonight #1-112
Poster: 8p tonight #1-112
We are presenting two exciting projects tonight at #Cosyne2025! 🧠🧑🔬
[1-032] Changes in tuning curves, not neural population covariance, improve category separability in the primate ventral visual pathway
[1-112] Comparing image representations in terms of sensitivities to local distortions
[1-032] Changes in tuning curves, not neural population covariance, improve category separability in the primate ventral visual pathway
[1-112] Comparing image representations in terms of sensitivities to local distortions
March 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
We are presenting two exciting projects tonight at #Cosyne2025! 🧠🧑🔬
[1-032] Changes in tuning curves, not neural population covariance, improve category separability in the primate ventral visual pathway
[1-112] Comparing image representations in terms of sensitivities to local distortions
[1-032] Changes in tuning curves, not neural population covariance, improve category separability in the primate ventral visual pathway
[1-112] Comparing image representations in terms of sensitivities to local distortions
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Hello friends! Applications for the CSHL course on Neural Data Science are now open- I will be lecturing and hanging out at the course for a few days this July.
meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...
meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...
Neural Data Science
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meetings & Courses -- a private, non-profit institution with research programs in cancer, neuroscience, plant biology, genomics, bioinformatics.
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March 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Hello friends! Applications for the CSHL course on Neural Data Science are now open- I will be lecturing and hanging out at the course for a few days this July.
meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...
meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...
Applications are open for the 2025 Flatiron Institute Junior Theoretical Neuroscience Workshop! A two-day workshop 7/10-7/11 in NYC for PhD students and postdocs. All travel paid. Apply by April 14th.🧠🗽🧑🔬http://jtnworkshop2025.flatironinstitute.org/
@flatironinstitute.org @simonsfoundation.org
@flatironinstitute.org @simonsfoundation.org
JTN - 2025
JTN - 2025
jtnworkshop2025.flatironinstitute.org
March 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Applications are open for the 2025 Flatiron Institute Junior Theoretical Neuroscience Workshop! A two-day workshop 7/10-7/11 in NYC for PhD students and postdocs. All travel paid. Apply by April 14th.🧠🗽🧑🔬http://jtnworkshop2025.flatironinstitute.org/
@flatironinstitute.org @simonsfoundation.org
@flatironinstitute.org @simonsfoundation.org
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TL;DR: Encouraging transformation equivariance in an otherwise standard self-supervised learning setup systematically improves your ability to predict neural responses in area IT.
Paper: openreview.net/pdf?id=AiMs8...
Poster: Poster Session 3 #2204, East Exhibit Hall
Paper: openreview.net/pdf?id=AiMs8...
Poster: Poster Session 3 #2204, East Exhibit Hall
openreview.net
December 12, 2024 at 4:13 PM
TL;DR: Encouraging transformation equivariance in an otherwise standard self-supervised learning setup systematically improves your ability to predict neural responses in area IT.
Paper: openreview.net/pdf?id=AiMs8...
Poster: Poster Session 3 #2204, East Exhibit Hall
Paper: openreview.net/pdf?id=AiMs8...
Poster: Poster Session 3 #2204, East Exhibit Hall