Pamela Osuna
@pamelaosuna.bsky.social
PhD student in CompNeuro - 🇲🇽@🇩🇪
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🚨Job alert🚨
The lab has up to *3 postdoc openings* for comp systems neuroscientists interested in describing and manipulating neural population dynamics mediating behaviour
This is part of a collaborative ARIA grant "4D precision control of cortical dynamics"
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/383909
The lab has up to *3 postdoc openings* for comp systems neuroscientists interested in describing and manipulating neural population dynamics mediating behaviour
This is part of a collaborative ARIA grant "4D precision control of cortical dynamics"
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/383909
3 Postdoctoral Research Fellows
Champalimaud Foundation (Fundação D. Anna de Sommer Champalimaud e Dr.
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
November 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
🚨Job alert🚨
The lab has up to *3 postdoc openings* for comp systems neuroscientists interested in describing and manipulating neural population dynamics mediating behaviour
This is part of a collaborative ARIA grant "4D precision control of cortical dynamics"
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/383909
The lab has up to *3 postdoc openings* for comp systems neuroscientists interested in describing and manipulating neural population dynamics mediating behaviour
This is part of a collaborative ARIA grant "4D precision control of cortical dynamics"
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/383909
Reposted by Pamela Osuna
🕳️🐇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
Reposted by Pamela Osuna
The #arXiv computer science category is trying to cut down on AI slop spamming the system. They no longer accept un-published (journal or conference) review papers... Other categories may follow (depending on decisions by the moderators). ⚛️🧪☄️
blog.arxiv.org/2025/10/31/a...
blog.arxiv.org/2025/10/31/a...
Attention Authors: Updated Practice for Review Articles and Position Papers in arXiv CS Category – arXiv blog
blog.arxiv.org
November 2, 2025 at 5:59 PM
The #arXiv computer science category is trying to cut down on AI slop spamming the system. They no longer accept un-published (journal or conference) review papers... Other categories may follow (depending on decisions by the moderators). ⚛️🧪☄️
blog.arxiv.org/2025/10/31/a...
blog.arxiv.org/2025/10/31/a...
Reposted by Pamela Osuna
Are top-down feedback connections enough for robust vision?
We found ConvRNN with top-down feedback exhibiting OOD robustness only when trained with dropout, revealing a dual mechanism for robust sensory coding
with @marco-d.bsky.social, Karl Friston, Giovanni Pezzulo & @siegellab.bsky.social
🧵👇
We found ConvRNN with top-down feedback exhibiting OOD robustness only when trained with dropout, revealing a dual mechanism for robust sensory coding
with @marco-d.bsky.social, Karl Friston, Giovanni Pezzulo & @siegellab.bsky.social
🧵👇
August 18, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Are top-down feedback connections enough for robust vision?
We found ConvRNN with top-down feedback exhibiting OOD robustness only when trained with dropout, revealing a dual mechanism for robust sensory coding
with @marco-d.bsky.social, Karl Friston, Giovanni Pezzulo & @siegellab.bsky.social
🧵👇
We found ConvRNN with top-down feedback exhibiting OOD robustness only when trained with dropout, revealing a dual mechanism for robust sensory coding
with @marco-d.bsky.social, Karl Friston, Giovanni Pezzulo & @siegellab.bsky.social
🧵👇
Reposted by Pamela Osuna
For the past 3 years, I've taught a course on Machine Learning for Climate Change to undergrads. At times, people have asked if the course lectures could be made available online. While I can't offer that, I have decided to start making "5 Minute Papers on AI for the Planet" videos. Hope its useful!
5 Minute Papers on AI for the Planet
AI is more than just chatbots! Learn about how AI can be used to protect biodiversity, fight climate change, and just better understand our planet through 5-minute explainers covering academic papers ...
www.youtube.com
June 20, 2025 at 1:55 AM
For the past 3 years, I've taught a course on Machine Learning for Climate Change to undergrads. At times, people have asked if the course lectures could be made available online. While I can't offer that, I have decided to start making "5 Minute Papers on AI for the Planet" videos. Hope its useful!
Reposted by Pamela Osuna
New era for brain mapping, latest from Johann Danzl lab in @nature.com. Light-microscopy connectomics is at single-synapse resolution. Engineered hydrogel embedding + expansion, deep learning-based segmentation, and molecularly resolved reconstructions: axons, spines, connectivity, all visible.
May 7, 2025 at 6:49 PM
New era for brain mapping, latest from Johann Danzl lab in @nature.com. Light-microscopy connectomics is at single-synapse resolution. Engineered hydrogel embedding + expansion, deep learning-based segmentation, and molecularly resolved reconstructions: axons, spines, connectivity, all visible.
Reposted by Pamela Osuna
🌌🛰️🔭Wanna know which features are universal vs unique in your models and how to find them? Excited to share our preprint: "Universal Sparse Autoencoders: Interpretable Cross-Model Concept Alignment"!
arxiv.org/abs/2502.03714
(1/9)
arxiv.org/abs/2502.03714
(1/9)
February 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
🌌🛰️🔭Wanna know which features are universal vs unique in your models and how to find them? Excited to share our preprint: "Universal Sparse Autoencoders: Interpretable Cross-Model Concept Alignment"!
arxiv.org/abs/2502.03714
(1/9)
arxiv.org/abs/2502.03714
(1/9)
Reposted by Pamela Osuna
⚡️ Excited to introduce ZAPBench, our #ICLR2025 spotlight: The Zebrafish Activity Prediction Benchmark measures progress in predicting neural activity within an entire vertebrate brain (70k+ neurons!)
Explore interactive visualizations, datasets, code + paper: google-research.github.io/zapbench
🧠🧪
Explore interactive visualizations, datasets, code + paper: google-research.github.io/zapbench
🧠🧪
ZAPBench
ZAPBench evaluates how well different models can predict the activity of over 70,000 neurons in a novel larval zebrafish dataset.
google-research.github.io
March 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
⚡️ Excited to introduce ZAPBench, our #ICLR2025 spotlight: The Zebrafish Activity Prediction Benchmark measures progress in predicting neural activity within an entire vertebrate brain (70k+ neurons!)
Explore interactive visualizations, datasets, code + paper: google-research.github.io/zapbench
🧠🧪
Explore interactive visualizations, datasets, code + paper: google-research.github.io/zapbench
🧠🧪
Reposted by Pamela Osuna
🧠 Meet LAMINR: Where neurons meet their match—finding common patterns that keep them excited 🔥💘
LAMINR learns & aligns invariance manifolds of sensory neurons to reveal shared properties.
🌟 #ICLR2025 Oral
📝 Paper: shorturl.at/08968
💻 Code: github.com/sinzlab/laminr
LAMINR learns & aligns invariance manifolds of sensory neurons to reveal shared properties.
🌟 #ICLR2025 Oral
📝 Paper: shorturl.at/08968
💻 Code: github.com/sinzlab/laminr
February 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
🧠 Meet LAMINR: Where neurons meet their match—finding common patterns that keep them excited 🔥💘
LAMINR learns & aligns invariance manifolds of sensory neurons to reveal shared properties.
🌟 #ICLR2025 Oral
📝 Paper: shorturl.at/08968
💻 Code: github.com/sinzlab/laminr
LAMINR learns & aligns invariance manifolds of sensory neurons to reveal shared properties.
🌟 #ICLR2025 Oral
📝 Paper: shorturl.at/08968
💻 Code: github.com/sinzlab/laminr
Reposted by Pamela Osuna
Hyperbolic surfaces are impossible to imagine, but aspects of their geometry are still mathematically accessible. To study these mysterious shapes, mathematicians measure how connected they are. Here’s what that means: buff.ly/ZWqJ1uU
March 5, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Hyperbolic surfaces are impossible to imagine, but aspects of their geometry are still mathematically accessible. To study these mysterious shapes, mathematicians measure how connected they are. Here’s what that means: buff.ly/ZWqJ1uU
Computer vision conferences are a unique opportunity to ✨ not queue in the bathroom because it’s still sadly such a male-dominated field ✨
February 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Computer vision conferences are a unique opportunity to ✨ not queue in the bathroom because it’s still sadly such a male-dominated field ✨
Reposted by Pamela Osuna
🚨 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 🧪
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 🧪
February 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
🚨 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 🧪
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 🧪
You are still on time to join! :)
I will be presenting in the Worldwide Theoretical Neuroscience Seminar on Wednesday, February 19, at 11 AM ET / 5 PM CET. My talk is titled "Representational drift reflects ongoing balancing of stochastic changes by Hebbian learning."
More information and register for the link at www.wwtns.online.
More information and register for the link at www.wwtns.online.
Home | Neuroscience | World Wide Theoretical Neuroscience Seminar
WWTNS is a weekly digital seminar on Zoom targeting the theoretical neuroscience community. Its aim is to be a platform to exchange ideas among theoreticians.
www.wwtns.online
February 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
You are still on time to join! :)
Reposted by Pamela Osuna
This excellent interactive tutorial on misleading data visualizations explores the idea of a "counter chart" — the graph you draw in response to refute a misleading claims
flowingdata.com/projects/dis...
flowingdata.com/projects/dis...
Defense Against Dishonest Charts
This is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things.
flowingdata.com
February 15, 2025 at 6:48 AM
This excellent interactive tutorial on misleading data visualizations explores the idea of a "counter chart" — the graph you draw in response to refute a misleading claims
flowingdata.com/projects/dis...
flowingdata.com/projects/dis...
Reposted by Pamela Osuna
Trials abandoned due to the stop-work order on USAID-funded research:
February 6, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Trials abandoned due to the stop-work order on USAID-funded research:
Reposted by Pamela Osuna
📢 Summer school 📢
@johankwisthout.bsky.social, Barbara Müller, and I are organising a Summer School at Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, about "Critical AI Literacy: Navigating Sustainability Challenges"
www.ru.nl/en/education...
@johankwisthout.bsky.social, Barbara Müller, and I are organising a Summer School at Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, about "Critical AI Literacy: Navigating Sustainability Challenges"
www.ru.nl/en/education...
Critical AI Literacy: Navigating Sustainability Challenges | Radboud University
In this summer school we critically reflect on the the potential impact of AI on sustainability.
www.ru.nl
January 21, 2025 at 11:53 PM
📢 Summer school 📢
@johankwisthout.bsky.social, Barbara Müller, and I are organising a Summer School at Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, about "Critical AI Literacy: Navigating Sustainability Challenges"
www.ru.nl/en/education...
@johankwisthout.bsky.social, Barbara Müller, and I are organising a Summer School at Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, about "Critical AI Literacy: Navigating Sustainability Challenges"
www.ru.nl/en/education...
Reposted by Pamela Osuna
Interesting paper showing how LLMs change their representational geometry in-context to match a task structure: arxiv.org/abs/2501.00070
Here, the model’s latent representations show a grid structure matching the task.
#MLSKy #NeuroAI
Here, the model’s latent representations show a grid structure matching the task.
#MLSKy #NeuroAI
January 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Interesting paper showing how LLMs change their representational geometry in-context to match a task structure: arxiv.org/abs/2501.00070
Here, the model’s latent representations show a grid structure matching the task.
#MLSKy #NeuroAI
Here, the model’s latent representations show a grid structure matching the task.
#MLSKy #NeuroAI
Reposted by Pamela Osuna
I see the talks from Montreal AI and Neuroscience (MAIN) 2024 are now online:
www.youtube.com/@MAINConfere...
#neuroai #neuroskyence
www.youtube.com/@MAINConfere...
#neuroai #neuroskyence
MAIN Conference
Montreal AI and Neuroscience (MAIN) is an international conference organized by the UNIQUE Centre in collaboration with the Centre de Recherches Mathématiques (CRM) at the University of Montreal since...
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January 6, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I see the talks from Montreal AI and Neuroscience (MAIN) 2024 are now online:
www.youtube.com/@MAINConfere...
#neuroai #neuroskyence
www.youtube.com/@MAINConfere...
#neuroai #neuroskyence
Reposted by Pamela Osuna
Fantastic list of great science books from the past year, compiled by @ferrisjabr.bsky.social (a terrific writer himself!)
I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own!
Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚
Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!
Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚
Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!
December 24, 2024 at 1:15 PM
Fantastic list of great science books from the past year, compiled by @ferrisjabr.bsky.social (a terrific writer himself!)
Reposted by Pamela Osuna
Excited to release what we’ve been working on at Amaranth Foundation, our latest whitepaper, NeuroAI for AI safety! A detailed, ambitious roadmap for how neuroscience research can help build safer AI systems while accelerating both virtual neuroscience and neurotech. 1/N
December 2, 2024 at 4:17 PM
Excited to release what we’ve been working on at Amaranth Foundation, our latest whitepaper, NeuroAI for AI safety! A detailed, ambitious roadmap for how neuroscience research can help build safer AI systems while accelerating both virtual neuroscience and neurotech. 1/N
Reposted by Pamela Osuna
What's the difference between explainability and interpretability? Does the machine learning community have an agreed-upon definition?
No.
There's a great overview, which is from this paper: arxiv.org/abs/2211.08943
My take: I prefer interpretability since the term explainability is too strong.
No.
There's a great overview, which is from this paper: arxiv.org/abs/2211.08943
My take: I prefer interpretability since the term explainability is too strong.
November 26, 2024 at 3:41 PM
What's the difference between explainability and interpretability? Does the machine learning community have an agreed-upon definition?
No.
There's a great overview, which is from this paper: arxiv.org/abs/2211.08943
My take: I prefer interpretability since the term explainability is too strong.
No.
There's a great overview, which is from this paper: arxiv.org/abs/2211.08943
My take: I prefer interpretability since the term explainability is too strong.
Reposted by Pamela Osuna
🎉 Presenting a Creativity Science Starter Pack for researchers exploring biological and artificial systems 🧠🤖! If I missed anyone, drop a comment below—I’ll gladly add you to the list. Let’s grow this together! 🙌✨
November 20, 2024 at 8:34 AM
🎉 Presenting a Creativity Science Starter Pack for researchers exploring biological and artificial systems 🧠🤖! If I missed anyone, drop a comment below—I’ll gladly add you to the list. Let’s grow this together! 🙌✨
Reposted by Pamela Osuna
Here’s my women in AI starter pack, to help bring some diversity to your feed go.bsky.app/LaGDpqg
November 10, 2024 at 7:56 PM
Here’s my women in AI starter pack, to help bring some diversity to your feed go.bsky.app/LaGDpqg
Reposted by Pamela Osuna
Super excited to introduce Halo: A beginner's guide to DIY health tracking with wearables! 🤗✨
Using an $11 smart ring, I'll show you how to build your own private health monitoring app. From basic metrics to advanced features like:
- Activity tracking
- HR monitoring
- Sleep analysis
and more!
Using an $11 smart ring, I'll show you how to build your own private health monitoring app. From basic metrics to advanced features like:
- Activity tracking
- HR monitoring
- Sleep analysis
and more!
November 19, 2024 at 6:59 PM
Super excited to introduce Halo: A beginner's guide to DIY health tracking with wearables! 🤗✨
Using an $11 smart ring, I'll show you how to build your own private health monitoring app. From basic metrics to advanced features like:
- Activity tracking
- HR monitoring
- Sleep analysis
and more!
Using an $11 smart ring, I'll show you how to build your own private health monitoring app. From basic metrics to advanced features like:
- Activity tracking
- HR monitoring
- Sleep analysis
and more!