Mattia Rigotti
@matrig.net
Researcher in all things Neuro
Also at mastodon.social/@matrig
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Mattia Rigotti
@matrig.net
· Nov 28
📢 Bad news for my (very few) followers!
I just verified my 🦋Bluesky handle.
So expect shitposting to massively decrease in proportion to the decrease in plausible deniability of my content 😅
I just verified my 🦋Bluesky handle.
So expect shitposting to massively decrease in proportion to the decrease in plausible deniability of my content 😅
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Life Sciences PhD studentships available in amazing Glasgow! Deadline Jan 12
General details here: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...
My project, on cognitive mapping in 3D space in mice and humans, available here: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...
General details here: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...
My project, on cognitive mapping in 3D space in mice and humans, available here: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...
November 16, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Life Sciences PhD studentships available in amazing Glasgow! Deadline Jan 12
General details here: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...
My project, on cognitive mapping in 3D space in mice and humans, available here: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...
General details here: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...
My project, on cognitive mapping in 3D space in mice and humans, available here: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...
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The US government should subsidize Open AI rather than OpenAI
November 7, 2025 at 6:43 AM
The US government should subsidize Open AI rather than OpenAI
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Pleased to share that our survey "Getting aligned on representational alignment" — on representational alignment across cognitive (neuro)science and machine learning — is now published in TMLR! openreview.net/forum?id=Hiq...
Kudos to @sucholutsky.bsky.social @lukasmut.bsky.social for leading this!
Kudos to @sucholutsky.bsky.social @lukasmut.bsky.social for leading this!
October 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Pleased to share that our survey "Getting aligned on representational alignment" — on representational alignment across cognitive (neuro)science and machine learning — is now published in TMLR! openreview.net/forum?id=Hiq...
Kudos to @sucholutsky.bsky.social @lukasmut.bsky.social for leading this!
Kudos to @sucholutsky.bsky.social @lukasmut.bsky.social for leading this!
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The Principles of Diffusion Models
It traces the core ideas that shaped diffusion modeling and explains how today’s models work, why they work, and where they’re heading.
www.arxiv.org/abs/2510.21890
It traces the core ideas that shaped diffusion modeling and explains how today’s models work, why they work, and where they’re heading.
www.arxiv.org/abs/2510.21890
October 29, 2025 at 3:19 AM
The Principles of Diffusion Models
It traces the core ideas that shaped diffusion modeling and explains how today’s models work, why they work, and where they’re heading.
www.arxiv.org/abs/2510.21890
It traces the core ideas that shaped diffusion modeling and explains how today’s models work, why they work, and where they’re heading.
www.arxiv.org/abs/2510.21890
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I’m recruiting a postdoctoral researcher on a fully funded 2-year contract. The topic is developing and implementing new parallel graph algorithms, with applications to data-driven transportation and logistics.
Details and application procedure below ⬇️ Reach out if you have any questions!
Details and application procedure below ⬇️ Reach out if you have any questions!
acme-mobidec.github.io
October 27, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I’m recruiting a postdoctoral researcher on a fully funded 2-year contract. The topic is developing and implementing new parallel graph algorithms, with applications to data-driven transportation and logistics.
Details and application procedure below ⬇️ Reach out if you have any questions!
Details and application procedure below ⬇️ Reach out if you have any questions!
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Still a couple of days to apply to the ELLIS PhD program, DL Oct 31, 2025: ellis.eu/news/ellis-p... I am especially looking for students interested in developing new approaches for distribution shifts in my new ERC AdG www.ellisinstitute.fi/a-revolution... but also other topics, see kaski-lab.com
ELLIS PhD Program: Call for Applications 2025
A virtual info session for prospective PhD candidates will be held on October 1st with information about the whole PhD program, the call for applications, application materials, and timeline.
ellis.eu
October 28, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Still a couple of days to apply to the ELLIS PhD program, DL Oct 31, 2025: ellis.eu/news/ellis-p... I am especially looking for students interested in developing new approaches for distribution shifts in my new ERC AdG www.ellisinstitute.fi/a-revolution... but also other topics, see kaski-lab.com
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#EPFL has an open faculty position - tenure track or tenured!! - in AI driven biophysics. Deadline is Nov 15th. Please spread the word!
www.epfl.ch/about/workin...
www.epfl.ch/about/workin...
Assistant/associate Professor of AI-assisted Biophysics at the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Group Leader at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI)
The School of Basic Sciences (Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics) at EPFL and the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) jointly seek to appoint a Tenure Track Assistant or tenured Associate Professor in AI-As...
www.epfl.ch
October 28, 2025 at 2:56 AM
#EPFL has an open faculty position - tenure track or tenured!! - in AI driven biophysics. Deadline is Nov 15th. Please spread the word!
www.epfl.ch/about/workin...
www.epfl.ch/about/workin...
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🕳️🐇Into the Rabbit Hull – Part II
Continuing our interpretation of DINOv2, the second part of our study concerns the *geometry of concepts* and the synthesis of our findings toward a new representational *phenomenology*:
the Minkowski Representation Hypothesis
Continuing our interpretation of DINOv2, the second part of our study concerns the *geometry of concepts* and the synthesis of our findings toward a new representational *phenomenology*:
the Minkowski Representation Hypothesis
October 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
🕳️🐇Into the Rabbit Hull – Part II
Continuing our interpretation of DINOv2, the second part of our study concerns the *geometry of concepts* and the synthesis of our findings toward a new representational *phenomenology*:
the Minkowski Representation Hypothesis
Continuing our interpretation of DINOv2, the second part of our study concerns the *geometry of concepts* and the synthesis of our findings toward a new representational *phenomenology*:
the Minkowski Representation Hypothesis
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An oldie, but a goodie.
October 24, 2025 at 6:47 PM
An oldie, but a goodie.
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Two weeks left to apply for an ML #postdoc position with me in @dublincityuni.bsky.social #CompChem #cheminformatics #ChemJobs #chemsky www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
Dublin City University hiring Postdoctoral Researcher - Machine learning in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland | LinkedIn
Posted 7:02:17 PM. Applications are now invited for the position of #003141 Postdoctoral Researcher Machine learning…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
www.linkedin.com
October 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Two weeks left to apply for an ML #postdoc position with me in @dublincityuni.bsky.social #CompChem #cheminformatics #ChemJobs #chemsky www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
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Apply to become a CSHL-Simons Fellow in Neuroscience!
Run your own lab, pursue bold ideas, join a highly collaborative community!
All areas including experimental or computational neuro, including NeuroAI & systems
PhD required; ≤~1 yr postdoc
www.cshl.edu/about-us/car...
Run your own lab, pursue bold ideas, join a highly collaborative community!
All areas including experimental or computational neuro, including NeuroAI & systems
PhD required; ≤~1 yr postdoc
www.cshl.edu/about-us/car...
Fellows Positions | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
CSHL Simons Fellow in NEUROSCIENCE Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) is seeking to fill a Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Fellow position in the area of NEUROSCIENCE (experimental and/or computationa...
www.cshl.edu
October 24, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Apply to become a CSHL-Simons Fellow in Neuroscience!
Run your own lab, pursue bold ideas, join a highly collaborative community!
All areas including experimental or computational neuro, including NeuroAI & systems
PhD required; ≤~1 yr postdoc
www.cshl.edu/about-us/car...
Run your own lab, pursue bold ideas, join a highly collaborative community!
All areas including experimental or computational neuro, including NeuroAI & systems
PhD required; ≤~1 yr postdoc
www.cshl.edu/about-us/car...
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A thought-provoking piece in Nature Neuroscience by many neuroscience colleagues: "Science must break its silence to rebuild public trust". Lots to think about here.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
A thought-provoking piece in Nature Neuroscience by many neuroscience colleagues: "Science must break its silence to rebuild public trust". Lots to think about here.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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(repost welcome) The Generative Model Alignment team at IBM Research is looking for next summer interns! Two candidates for two topics
🍰Reinforcement Learning environments for LLMs
🐎Speculative and non-auto regressive generation for LLMs
interested/curious? DM or email ramon.astudillo@ibm.com
🍰Reinforcement Learning environments for LLMs
🐎Speculative and non-auto regressive generation for LLMs
interested/curious? DM or email ramon.astudillo@ibm.com
October 7, 2025 at 8:19 PM
(repost welcome) The Generative Model Alignment team at IBM Research is looking for next summer interns! Two candidates for two topics
🍰Reinforcement Learning environments for LLMs
🐎Speculative and non-auto regressive generation for LLMs
interested/curious? DM or email ramon.astudillo@ibm.com
🍰Reinforcement Learning environments for LLMs
🐎Speculative and non-auto regressive generation for LLMs
interested/curious? DM or email ramon.astudillo@ibm.com
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This new book sounds interesting
October 6, 2025 at 1:35 AM
This new book sounds interesting
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Tenure-track faculty position in motor neuroscience at Penn State.
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
Open-Rank Faculty Position in Sensorimotor Control and Rehabilitation Neuroscience
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
October 3, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Tenure-track faculty position in motor neuroscience at Penn State.
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
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My department at Emory is a hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist!
Anyone who's talked to me in the last 4 years knows I cannot say enough good things about my dept and the neuroscience community here. My colleagues are so wonderfully supportive. Postdocs, please apply!
apply.interfolio.com/174371
Anyone who's talked to me in the last 4 years knows I cannot say enough good things about my dept and the neuroscience community here. My colleagues are so wonderfully supportive. Postdocs, please apply!
apply.interfolio.com/174371
Apply - Interfolio
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September 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
My department at Emory is a hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist!
Anyone who's talked to me in the last 4 years knows I cannot say enough good things about my dept and the neuroscience community here. My colleagues are so wonderfully supportive. Postdocs, please apply!
apply.interfolio.com/174371
Anyone who's talked to me in the last 4 years knows I cannot say enough good things about my dept and the neuroscience community here. My colleagues are so wonderfully supportive. Postdocs, please apply!
apply.interfolio.com/174371
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Gift 🎁 article. The summary: Flu, Shingles, RSV, and Tdap. Likely mechanism is by reducing severe infections that can accelerate brain atrophy, a cause of dementia.
wapo.st/4gKIPhK
wapo.st/4gKIPhK
4 vaccines linked to a lower risk of dementia
Some vaccine-preventable diseases are linked to accelerated brain atrophy and increased dementia risk years down the line.
wapo.st
September 29, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Gift 🎁 article. The summary: Flu, Shingles, RSV, and Tdap. Likely mechanism is by reducing severe infections that can accelerate brain atrophy, a cause of dementia.
wapo.st/4gKIPhK
wapo.st/4gKIPhK
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Not all scaling laws are nice power laws. This month’s blog post: Zipf’s law in next-token prediction and why Adam (ok, sign descent) scales better to large vocab sizes than gradient descent: francisbach.com/scaling-laws...
September 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Not all scaling laws are nice power laws. This month’s blog post: Zipf’s law in next-token prediction and why Adam (ok, sign descent) scales better to large vocab sizes than gradient descent: francisbach.com/scaling-laws...
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Interested in doing a Ph.D. to work on building models of the brain/behavior? Consider applying to graduate schools at CU Anschutz:
1. Neuroscience www.cuanschutz.edu/graduate-pro...
2. Bioengineering engineering.ucdenver.edu/bioengineeri...
You could work with several comp neuro PIs, including me.
1. Neuroscience www.cuanschutz.edu/graduate-pro...
2. Bioengineering engineering.ucdenver.edu/bioengineeri...
You could work with several comp neuro PIs, including me.
September 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Interested in doing a Ph.D. to work on building models of the brain/behavior? Consider applying to graduate schools at CU Anschutz:
1. Neuroscience www.cuanschutz.edu/graduate-pro...
2. Bioengineering engineering.ucdenver.edu/bioengineeri...
You could work with several comp neuro PIs, including me.
1. Neuroscience www.cuanschutz.edu/graduate-pro...
2. Bioengineering engineering.ucdenver.edu/bioengineeri...
You could work with several comp neuro PIs, including me.
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We're hiring again for AI research engineering roles: Join the team behind the Apertus LLM, if you share our passion to work on impactful AI that's truly open.
careers.epfl.ch/job/Lausanne...
careers.epfl.ch/job/Lausanne...
AI Research Engineers - Swiss AI Initiative
AI Research Engineers - Swiss AI Initiative
careers.epfl.ch
September 25, 2025 at 9:08 PM
We're hiring again for AI research engineering roles: Join the team behind the Apertus LLM, if you share our passion to work on impactful AI that's truly open.
careers.epfl.ch/job/Lausanne...
careers.epfl.ch/job/Lausanne...
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As the Trump administration continues to drastically defund and dismantle basic science in America, the United States is presenting other countries with opportunities to take the lead in seeing farther ahead--Holden Thorpe
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
America is ceding the lead in creating the future
The renowned American management consultant and author Peter Drucker is often credited as saying that “the best way to predict the future is to create it”—a view that applies to science as much as to the business world. It implies that gaining insights ...
www.science.org
September 22, 2025 at 1:26 AM
As the Trump administration continues to drastically defund and dismantle basic science in America, the United States is presenting other countries with opportunities to take the lead in seeing farther ahead--Holden Thorpe
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Why does AI sometimes fail to generalize, and what might help? In a new paper (arxiv.org/abs/2509.16189), we highlight the latent learning gap — which unifies findings from language modeling to agent navigation — and suggest that episodic memory complements parametric learning to bridge it. Thread:
Latent learning: episodic memory complements parametric learning by enabling flexible reuse of experiences
When do machine learning systems fail to generalize, and what mechanisms could improve their generalization? Here, we draw inspiration from cognitive science to argue that one weakness of machine lear...
arxiv.org
September 22, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Why does AI sometimes fail to generalize, and what might help? In a new paper (arxiv.org/abs/2509.16189), we highlight the latent learning gap — which unifies findings from language modeling to agent navigation — and suggest that episodic memory complements parametric learning to bridge it. Thread:
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“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
It costs a lot less to house people.
It costs a lot less to house people.
Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
thebetter.news
September 21, 2025 at 6:24 AM
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
It costs a lot less to house people.
It costs a lot less to house people.
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Human intelligence is overrated and not a useful yardstick for AI - a polemic. markusmeister.com/2025/09/15/w...
September 15, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Human intelligence is overrated and not a useful yardstick for AI - a polemic. markusmeister.com/2025/09/15/w...