Richard Naud
@neuronaud.bsky.social
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Richard Naud
@neuronaud.bsky.social
· Oct 6
How are the fluctuations in electric field organized across the whole brain? We analyzed the 3.4 M samples from the international brain lab using a combination of deep learning and graph theory. We found a surprising structure made of communities and landmarks.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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My book "The Brain, in Theory" on the publisher's website (out in April 2026):
press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
The Brain, In Theory
Why engineering and computational analogies are poorly suited to the study of biological cognition
press.princeton.edu
November 18, 2025 at 8:25 AM
My book "The Brain, in Theory" on the publisher's website (out in April 2026):
press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
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Lineage-resolved atlas of the developing human cortex www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Lineage-resolved atlas of the developing human cortex - Nature
Lineage tracing in human tissue samples from gestational weeks 16 to 24 provides insight into lineage relationships between cortical cell types and shows a switch in progenitor output from glutamaterg...
www.nature.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Lineage-resolved atlas of the developing human cortex www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Thrilled that our paper is out today in Nature!
www.nature.com/articles/s4...
www.nature.com/articles/s4...
Sensory expectations shape neural population dynamics in motor circuits
Nature - Experiments with human volunteers and macaques show that expectations produced by probabilistic cueing of future sensory inputs shape motor circuit dynamics in order to increase the...
www.nature.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Thrilled that our paper is out today in Nature!
www.nature.com/articles/s4...
www.nature.com/articles/s4...
I think I needed this reminder that Gemini thinks that some brain nuclei receive projections from neurons outside the brain.
October 27, 2025 at 10:53 AM
I think I needed this reminder that Gemini thinks that some brain nuclei receive projections from neurons outside the brain.
Nostalgia for neuro paper of the 90s, this is Llinas and Ribary 1992
October 24, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Nostalgia for neuro paper of the 90s, this is Llinas and Ribary 1992
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When I was an undergrad, I saw a talk by Oliver Sacks about music. During the Q&A, someone asked Sacks if he thought science would reveal the deepest mysteries of art. Sacks (a rare humanist among scientists) said that he doubted it, at which Eric Kandel (the host) leaped up and grabbed the mic.
October 15, 2025 at 9:27 AM
When I was an undergrad, I saw a talk by Oliver Sacks about music. During the Q&A, someone asked Sacks if he thought science would reveal the deepest mysteries of art. Sacks (a rare humanist among scientists) said that he doubted it, at which Eric Kandel (the host) leaped up and grabbed the mic.
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🚨Big news!🚨
The lab is relocating to Lisbon, joining a great team of experimental and theoretical neuroscientists, and the Neurotechnology Warehouse, a new initiative to bridge basic and translational research.
I'll be sharing postdoc openings soon. Come join us in this new incarnation of the lab!
The lab is relocating to Lisbon, joining a great team of experimental and theoretical neuroscientists, and the Neurotechnology Warehouse, a new initiative to bridge basic and translational research.
I'll be sharing postdoc openings soon. Come join us in this new incarnation of the lab!
🧠🎼 What does it take to restore movement? Neuroscientist and engineer, @juangallego.bsky.social, joins the new Centre for Restorative Neurotechnology at the Champalimaud Foundation.
🔗 Find out more in this interview: www.fchampalimaud.org/news/juan-al...
🔗 Find out more in this interview: www.fchampalimaud.org/news/juan-al...
October 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
🚨Big news!🚨
The lab is relocating to Lisbon, joining a great team of experimental and theoretical neuroscientists, and the Neurotechnology Warehouse, a new initiative to bridge basic and translational research.
I'll be sharing postdoc openings soon. Come join us in this new incarnation of the lab!
The lab is relocating to Lisbon, joining a great team of experimental and theoretical neuroscientists, and the Neurotechnology Warehouse, a new initiative to bridge basic and translational research.
I'll be sharing postdoc openings soon. Come join us in this new incarnation of the lab!
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We just pushed “Memory by a 1000 rules” onto bioRxiv, where we use clever #ML to find #plasticity quadruplets (EE, EI, IE, II) that learn basic stability in spiking nets. Why is it cool? We find 1000s!! of solutions, and they don’t just stabilise. They #memorise! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Memory by a thousand rules: Automated discovery of functional multi-type plasticity rules reveals variety & degeneracy at the heart of learning
Synaptic plasticity is the basis of learning and memory, but the link between synaptic changes and neural function remains elusive. Here, we used automated search algorithms to obtain thousands of str...
www.biorxiv.org
June 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM
We just pushed “Memory by a 1000 rules” onto bioRxiv, where we use clever #ML to find #plasticity quadruplets (EE, EI, IE, II) that learn basic stability in spiking nets. Why is it cool? We find 1000s!! of solutions, and they don’t just stabilise. They #memorise! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
How are the fluctuations in electric field organized across the whole brain? We analyzed the 3.4 M samples from the international brain lab using a combination of deep learning and graph theory. We found a surprising structure made of communities and landmarks.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
October 6, 2025 at 2:31 PM
How are the fluctuations in electric field organized across the whole brain? We analyzed the 3.4 M samples from the international brain lab using a combination of deep learning and graph theory. We found a surprising structure made of communities and landmarks.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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I'd never heard Richard Sutton speak before. He's sharp! And I think this discussion has changed how I think about the bitter lesson.
youtu.be/21EYKqUsPfg?... #AI #ML #RL
youtu.be/21EYKqUsPfg?... #AI #ML #RL
Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end
YouTube video by Dwarkesh Patel
youtu.be
October 2, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I'd never heard Richard Sutton speak before. He's sharp! And I think this discussion has changed how I think about the bitter lesson.
youtu.be/21EYKqUsPfg?... #AI #ML #RL
youtu.be/21EYKqUsPfg?... #AI #ML #RL
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Electrospectrometry of the Mouse Brain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.01.679820v1
October 3, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Electrospectrometry of the Mouse Brain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.01.679820v1
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It's officially been 75 years since the proposal of the Turing Test, a good time bring up 'The Minimal Turing Test':
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 2, 2025 at 3:37 PM
It's officially been 75 years since the proposal of the Turing Test, a good time bring up 'The Minimal Turing Test':
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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In honor of the 75th anniversary of the Turing test, I'm re-upping my short essay, "The Turing Test and our shifting conceptions of intelligence".
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The Turing Test and our shifting conceptions of intelligence
“Can machines think?” So asked Alan Turing in his 1950 paper, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence.” Turing quickly noted that, given the difficulty of defining thinking, the question is “too meaning...
www.science.org
October 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
In honor of the 75th anniversary of the Turing test, I'm re-upping my short essay, "The Turing Test and our shifting conceptions of intelligence".
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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I’m pleased to share our new paper, “Hippocampal ripple diversity organizes neuronal reactivation dynamics in the offline brain”, out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social !
With @vitorlds.bsky.social and David Dupret, we show that diversity in ripple current profiles shapes reactivation dynamics
With @vitorlds.bsky.social and David Dupret, we show that diversity in ripple current profiles shapes reactivation dynamics
October 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I’m pleased to share our new paper, “Hippocampal ripple diversity organizes neuronal reactivation dynamics in the offline brain”, out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social !
With @vitorlds.bsky.social and David Dupret, we show that diversity in ripple current profiles shapes reactivation dynamics
With @vitorlds.bsky.social and David Dupret, we show that diversity in ripple current profiles shapes reactivation dynamics
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Interesting new data on BTSP mechanisms from my old Janelia colleague @hiallen72.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Ca2+ Plateau Potentials Reflect Cross-Theta Cortico-Hippocampal Input Dynamics and Acetylcholine for Rapid Formation of Efficient Place-Cell Code
A central tenet of Systems Neuroscience lies in an understanding of memory and behavior through learning rules, but synaptic plasticity has rarely been shown to create functional single-neuron code in...
www.biorxiv.org
October 3, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Interesting new data on BTSP mechanisms from my old Janelia colleague @hiallen72.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Message for participants of the #SNUFA 2025 spiking neural network workshop. We got almost 60 awesome abstract submissions, and we'd now like your help to select which ones should be offered talks. Follow the "abstract voting" link at snufa.net/2025/ to take part. It should take <15m. Thanks! ❤️
SNUFA 2025
Spiking Neural networks as Universal Function Approximators
snufa.net
October 1, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Message for participants of the #SNUFA 2025 spiking neural network workshop. We got almost 60 awesome abstract submissions, and we'd now like your help to select which ones should be offered talks. Follow the "abstract voting" link at snufa.net/2025/ to take part. It should take <15m. Thanks! ❤️
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1/4) I’m excited to announce that I have joined the Paradigms of Intelligence team at Google (github.com/paradigms-of...)! Our team, led by @blaiseaguera.bsky.social, is bringing forward the next stage of AI by pushing on some of the assumptions that underpin current ML.
#MLSky #AI #neuroscience
#MLSky #AI #neuroscience
Paradigms of Intelligence Team
Advance our understanding of how intelligence evolves to develop new technologies for the benefit of humanity and other sentient life - Paradigms of Intelligence Team
github.com
September 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
1/4) I’m excited to announce that I have joined the Paradigms of Intelligence team at Google (github.com/paradigms-of...)! Our team, led by @blaiseaguera.bsky.social, is bringing forward the next stage of AI by pushing on some of the assumptions that underpin current ML.
#MLSky #AI #neuroscience
#MLSky #AI #neuroscience
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Dear Editor,
Thank you for submitting your review request to Tomer Ullman.
As you may know, we decline a substantial proportion of reviews requests without sending them out for further evaluation. After careful consideration, we regret to say we cannot offer to take on this review.
Thank you for submitting your review request to Tomer Ullman.
As you may know, we decline a substantial proportion of reviews requests without sending them out for further evaluation. After careful consideration, we regret to say we cannot offer to take on this review.
September 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Dear Editor,
Thank you for submitting your review request to Tomer Ullman.
As you may know, we decline a substantial proportion of reviews requests without sending them out for further evaluation. After careful consideration, we regret to say we cannot offer to take on this review.
Thank you for submitting your review request to Tomer Ullman.
As you may know, we decline a substantial proportion of reviews requests without sending them out for further evaluation. After careful consideration, we regret to say we cannot offer to take on this review.
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Excellent list of speakers! Come join the symposium at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown. Register now. #neurocybernetics #computationalNeuroscience
September 23, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Excellent list of speakers! Come join the symposium at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown. Register now. #neurocybernetics #computationalNeuroscience
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The CTRL-Labs decoding model paper is out! Saw this presented at Cosyne this year, very cool to see it out.
I would say this is the clearest demonstration of scaling laws in neural decoding to-date.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧠📈 🧪
I would say this is the clearest demonstration of scaling laws in neural decoding to-date.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧠📈 🧪
A generic non-invasive neuromotor interface for human-computer interaction - Nature
A high-bandwidth neuromotor interface offers performant out-of-the-box generalization across people.
www.nature.com
September 18, 2025 at 1:34 PM
The CTRL-Labs decoding model paper is out! Saw this presented at Cosyne this year, very cool to see it out.
I would say this is the clearest demonstration of scaling laws in neural decoding to-date.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧠📈 🧪
I would say this is the clearest demonstration of scaling laws in neural decoding to-date.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧠📈 🧪
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For those interested in open neuroscience learning tools, check out the preprint for “RetINaBox: A hands-on tool for experimental neuroscience" that a couple students in my lab worked on in collaboration with the Trenholm lab:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🧠📈 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🧠📈 🧪
RetINaBox: A hands-on learning tool for experimental neuroscience
An exciting aspect of neuroscience research is developing and testing hypotheses via experimentation. However, due to logistical and financial hurdles, this compelling part of neuroscience research is...
www.biorxiv.org
September 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
For those interested in open neuroscience learning tools, check out the preprint for “RetINaBox: A hands-on tool for experimental neuroscience" that a couple students in my lab worked on in collaboration with the Trenholm lab:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🧠📈 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🧠📈 🧪
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- you clean up that banksy?
- sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked
- sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked
They erased the new Banksy mural in London. But the stain remains.
September 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
- you clean up that banksy?
- sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked
- sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked
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M1, not so low-d after all:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 8, 2025 at 8:51 PM
M1, not so low-d after all:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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🚨 We're hiring, please share! The FMI seeks a tenure-track Group Leader (Assistant Prof) in Structural Biology 🔬
Innovative scientists in genome regulation, RNA metabolism, or protein homeostasis—especially using cutting-edge approaches—apply now at www.fmi.ch/education-ca...
Innovative scientists in genome regulation, RNA metabolism, or protein homeostasis—especially using cutting-edge approaches—apply now at www.fmi.ch/education-ca...
September 8, 2025 at 8:15 AM
🚨 We're hiring, please share! The FMI seeks a tenure-track Group Leader (Assistant Prof) in Structural Biology 🔬
Innovative scientists in genome regulation, RNA metabolism, or protein homeostasis—especially using cutting-edge approaches—apply now at www.fmi.ch/education-ca...
Innovative scientists in genome regulation, RNA metabolism, or protein homeostasis—especially using cutting-edge approaches—apply now at www.fmi.ch/education-ca...
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🚨Very happy that my PhD work is now out in @nature.com!
We discovered that evolution, by acting in the midbrain, shifted the threshold to escape in Peromyscus mice, to fine-tune defensive strategies in different environments
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This was a truly collaborative effort! 🧵⬇️
We discovered that evolution, by acting in the midbrain, shifted the threshold to escape in Peromyscus mice, to fine-tune defensive strategies in different environments
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This was a truly collaborative effort! 🧵⬇️
July 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
🚨Very happy that my PhD work is now out in @nature.com!
We discovered that evolution, by acting in the midbrain, shifted the threshold to escape in Peromyscus mice, to fine-tune defensive strategies in different environments
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This was a truly collaborative effort! 🧵⬇️
We discovered that evolution, by acting in the midbrain, shifted the threshold to escape in Peromyscus mice, to fine-tune defensive strategies in different environments
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This was a truly collaborative effort! 🧵⬇️