Laura Driscoll
@lndriscoll.bsky.social
neuro and AI (they/she)
Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics, theory lead | UW affiliate asst prof
Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics, theory lead | UW affiliate asst prof
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Revised version of our #NeurIPS2025 paper with full code base in Julia & Python now online, see arxiv.org/abs/2505.13192
October 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Revised version of our #NeurIPS2025 paper with full code base in Julia & Python now online, see arxiv.org/abs/2505.13192
Reposted by Laura Driscoll
Travel awards are available for undergraduate students looking to attend #Cosyne25! The application is short, and the deadline is Nov 12. @cosynemeeting.bsky.social
Application: shorturl.at/6NEyk
More info: www.cosyne.org/travel-grants
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Application: shorturl.at/6NEyk
More info: www.cosyne.org/travel-grants
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Travel Grants — COSYNE
Apply for COSYNE 2026 Travel Grants to support your participation in Lisbon and Cascais, Portugal. Grants are available for students, postdocs, and PIs, including programs for Childcare, Presenters, N...
www.cosyne.org
October 3, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Travel awards are available for undergraduate students looking to attend #Cosyne25! The application is short, and the deadline is Nov 12. @cosynemeeting.bsky.social
Application: shorturl.at/6NEyk
More info: www.cosyne.org/travel-grants
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Application: shorturl.at/6NEyk
More info: www.cosyne.org/travel-grants
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If you want to do a postdoc w me (or generally do theory at Allen/UW) apply for this!
It’s a pretty independent postdoc position for people with a quantitative background, and pays well (104K)!
Due date is Dec 1st. Here’s the link to apply--> alleninstitute.submittable.com/submit/33511...
It’s a pretty independent postdoc position for people with a quantitative background, and pays well (104K)!
Due date is Dec 1st. Here’s the link to apply--> alleninstitute.submittable.com/submit/33511...
Allen Institute - Shanahan Foundation Fellowship at the Interface of Data and Neuroscience 2025-2026
Thank you for applying for the Shanahan Foundation Fellowship at the Interface of Data and Neuroscience. Applications for the Fall 2026 cohort will close at 11:59pm PT on December 1st, 2025.
Important...
alleninstitute.submittable.com
October 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
If you want to do a postdoc w me (or generally do theory at Allen/UW) apply for this!
It’s a pretty independent postdoc position for people with a quantitative background, and pays well (104K)!
Due date is Dec 1st. Here’s the link to apply--> alleninstitute.submittable.com/submit/33511...
It’s a pretty independent postdoc position for people with a quantitative background, and pays well (104K)!
Due date is Dec 1st. Here’s the link to apply--> alleninstitute.submittable.com/submit/33511...
Reposted by Laura Driscoll
Excited to share new work @icmlconf.bsky.social by Loek van Rossem exploring the development of computational algorithms in recurrent neural networks.
Hear it live tomorrow, Oral 1D, Tues 15 Jul West Exhibition Hall C: icml.cc/virtual/2025...
Paper: openreview.net/forum?id=3go...
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Hear it live tomorrow, Oral 1D, Tues 15 Jul West Exhibition Hall C: icml.cc/virtual/2025...
Paper: openreview.net/forum?id=3go...
(1/11)
ICML Poster Algorithm Development in Neural Networks: Insights from the Streaming Parity TaskICML 2025
icml.cc
July 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Excited to share new work @icmlconf.bsky.social by Loek van Rossem exploring the development of computational algorithms in recurrent neural networks.
Hear it live tomorrow, Oral 1D, Tues 15 Jul West Exhibition Hall C: icml.cc/virtual/2025...
Paper: openreview.net/forum?id=3go...
(1/11)
Hear it live tomorrow, Oral 1D, Tues 15 Jul West Exhibition Hall C: icml.cc/virtual/2025...
Paper: openreview.net/forum?id=3go...
(1/11)
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1/7: Super excited to share our new paper! This one should be of interest to neuroscientists and deep learning theory folks. This paper was a collaboration with Alexandre Payeur, @averyryoo.bsky.social, Thomas Jiralerspong, @mattperich.bsky.social, Luca Mazzucato, @glajoie.bsky.social
March 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
1/7: Super excited to share our new paper! This one should be of interest to neuroscientists and deep learning theory folks. This paper was a collaboration with Alexandre Payeur, @averyryoo.bsky.social, Thomas Jiralerspong, @mattperich.bsky.social, Luca Mazzucato, @glajoie.bsky.social
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Super excited about our 2-day @cosynemeeting.bsky.social workshop on learning that pays tribute to the diversity of timescales, teaching signals and circuits that work together to shape adaptive behaviors, and where we hope to bridge insights from behavior, dynamics, and learning rules! #cosyne2025
Excited to share our #cosyne25 workshop on learning across timescales! Check out our awesome line-up of speakers across both days: learning-fast-and-slow.github.io
March 25, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Super excited about our 2-day @cosynemeeting.bsky.social workshop on learning that pays tribute to the diversity of timescales, teaching signals and circuits that work together to shape adaptive behaviors, and where we hope to bridge insights from behavior, dynamics, and learning rules! #cosyne2025
After hearing about the ongoing hotel workers strike at the #COSYNE2025 hotel, I cancelled my reservation and booked a room at a hotel a short 10 minute walk from the meeting. It was easy and I encourage others to do the same! #solidarity montreal.citynews.ca/2025/01/14/q...
Montreal’s Queen Elizabeth Hotel reopens after temporarily closing during holidays due to labour dispute
The Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal has reopened after temporarily closing due to an ongoing labour dispute. Quebec’s largest hotel made the announcement on Dec. 12 and shut their doors day...
montreal.citynews.ca
March 24, 2025 at 12:14 AM
After hearing about the ongoing hotel workers strike at the #COSYNE2025 hotel, I cancelled my reservation and booked a room at a hotel a short 10 minute walk from the meeting. It was easy and I encourage others to do the same! #solidarity montreal.citynews.ca/2025/01/14/q...
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1/7 Our paper on individual variability in decision-making is finally out in @nature.com! Inspired by the classic work by Mante and Sussillo, we trained many rats to solve context-dependent decision-making, and we found that different brains use different neural mechanisms to solve the same task!
Individual variability of neural computations underlying flexible decisions - Nature
Behavioural experiments to study decision-making in response to context-dependent accumulation of evidence provide testable models that are consistent with the heterogeneity in neural signatures among...
www.nature.com
March 21, 2025 at 1:29 PM
1/7 Our paper on individual variability in decision-making is finally out in @nature.com! Inspired by the classic work by Mante and Sussillo, we trained many rats to solve context-dependent decision-making, and we found that different brains use different neural mechanisms to solve the same task!
Reposted by Laura Driscoll
The first preprint of my postdoc with @dudman.bsky.social is now online! Here we wanted to understand the algorithms mice use when learning to forage in large environments with many potential resources. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 7, 2024 at 4:24 PM
The first preprint of my postdoc with @dudman.bsky.social is now online! Here we wanted to understand the algorithms mice use when learning to forage in large environments with many potential resources. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Laura Driscoll
For my first Bluesky post, I'm very excited to share a thread on our recent work with Mitra Javadzadeh, investigating how connections between cortical areas shape computations in the neocortex! [1/7] www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Dynamic consensus-building between neocortical areas via long-range connections
The neocortex is organized into functionally specialized areas. While the functions and underlying neural circuitry of individual neocortical areas are well studied, it is unclear how these regions op...
www.biorxiv.org
January 31, 2025 at 2:57 AM
For my first Bluesky post, I'm very excited to share a thread on our recent work with Mitra Javadzadeh, investigating how connections between cortical areas shape computations in the neocortex! [1/7] www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Laura Driscoll
(1/30) New preprint! "Symmetries and continuous attractors in disordered neural circuits" with Larry Abbott and Haim Sompolinsky
bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Symmetries and Continuous Attractors in Disordered Neural Circuits
A major challenge in neuroscience is reconciling idealized theoretical models with complex, heterogeneous experimental data. We address this challenge through the lens of continuous-attractor networks...
www.biorxiv.org
January 29, 2025 at 6:26 PM
(1/30) New preprint! "Symmetries and continuous attractors in disordered neural circuits" with Larry Abbott and Haim Sompolinsky
bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...