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Go Julia Pai, Fatih Sogukpinar et al.
Heavily revised work on astrocytes role in learning. Incredibly grateful for the team's hard work on this. Extended biology and theory now added!
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Heavily revised work on astrocytes role in learning. Incredibly grateful for the team's hard work on this. Extended biology and theory now added!
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
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Friends curious about ….psychedelics in medicine, neural circuits, and computational modelling of mental illness:
Come join us for a robust discussion.
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Come join us for a robust discussion.
eventbrite.com/e/advancing-cr…
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Brute force computation is not enough for intelligence. Clever new methods are needed. The science of AI is far from finished. IMHO
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Neuroscientists from UC Berkeley, UCSF and Stanford ran parallel trials of psilocybin to see what behavioral effects were reproducible in mice. The findings challenge reported results and underscore the importance of reproducibility in psychedelic research and its potential therapeutic applications.
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Obviously a big news day, but here is some more! And maybe very topical since we have spent the last year as a country watching a bunch of knock-down, drag-out fights. nature.com/articles/s4158…
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Maybe my favorite thing we have done yet! Estrogen oscillates network dynamics in the female PFC between rigid and flexible states. Seems like something basic/fundamental we should know already, but somehow we don't 🙃
So excited to share my postdoctoral work!!
How do hormones that fluctuate over hours to days reshape neural computations that guide social decisions? In this study, we investigated how estrogen alters cortical dynamics during social choice in female mice: doi.org/10.64898/2026.…
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Our new paper in Nature Communications reveals an interesting connection between generative diffusion models and Associative Memory.
It identifies 3 phases of generated samples:
👉 Memorization: reproducing training examples verbatim.
👉 Spurious states: discovering new memories, while maintaining a well-defined basin of attraction around those samples.
👉 Generalization: generating genuinely novel samples with flat energy landscape around them.
The surprising twist? What was traditionally considered a flaw in Associative Memory — spurious states — may actually be the first sign of generative capabilities.
It was fun to work on this project with @baophamhq, @gaboraya, Matteo Negri, @mj_zaki, and @LucaAmb, and I am happy to see it published!
Paper: nature.com/articles/s4146…
It identifies 3 phases of generated samples:
👉 Memorization: reproducing training examples verbatim.
👉 Spurious states: discovering new memories, while maintaining a well-defined basin of attraction around those samples.
👉 Generalization: generating genuinely novel samples with flat energy landscape around them.
The surprising twist? What was traditionally considered a flaw in Associative Memory — spurious states — may actually be the first sign of generative capabilities.
It was fun to work on this project with @baophamhq, @gaboraya, Matteo Negri, @mj_zaki, and @LucaAmb, and I am happy to see it published!
Paper: nature.com/articles/s4146…
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Dear @ForeignPolicy : does book actually use the term capitalism or does it rather concentrate on greed and corruption? I ask because the latter evils are products of communism. Thanks for explaining. I still love you guys
A new book explores the capitalist basis of the Kremlin’s aggressive ideology. foreignpolicy.com/2026/10/02/rus…
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We are hiring 🥳🤩👍
We are looking for amazing colleagues from neuroimmune or glia world to join us!
We are looking for amazing colleagues from neuroimmune or glia world to join us!
NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor
Seeking candidates with a focus on basic and/or translational neuroimmunology or glia biology to join the BIG Center at #WashUMedicine in St. Louis.
For more details visit brainimmunologygliacenter.wustl.edu/opportunities/
@jonykipnis
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Super happy to announce that we have got an Oral at #NeurIPS! 🥳
Together with amazing @ben_eysenbach, Peter Dayan, & @cpilab, we proposed a notion of controllability to derive bounds linking unsupervised skill learning to downstream goal-reaching.
arxiv.org/abs/2605.06145
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Together with amazing @ben_eysenbach, Peter Dayan, & @cpilab, we proposed a notion of controllability to derive bounds linking unsupervised skill learning to downstream goal-reaching.
arxiv.org/abs/2605.06145
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Refining a new movement by practicing it upside down dlvr.it/TW0ZfK
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Agreed. Very cool
One of the coolest electrophysiology results ever...
rapidly flickering neural representations reflecting conscious perception
Huge congrats @doristsao & @HesseJanis!
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Excited to share our new preprint:
Parametric neural control differentiates top neural network models of primate visual cortex
biorxiv.org/content/10.648…
with an amazing team: @WangBinxu *, @thomas_fel_ , @akjags , @grez72, @talia_konkle , Parisa Vaziri, and the Livingstone Lab at HMS.
@KempnerInst, @PsychHarvard, @harvardmed (2/14)
Parametric neural control differentiates top neural network models of primate visual cortex
biorxiv.org/content/10.648…
with an amazing team: @WangBinxu *, @thomas_fel_ , @akjags , @grez72, @talia_konkle , Parisa Vaziri, and the Livingstone Lab at HMS.
@KempnerInst, @PsychHarvard, @harvardmed (2/14)
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Looking forward to reading!
Neuron continues its three-part series on neuroscience and AI with “Neuroscience and AI: Emerging Synergies”.
Explore how brains and AI are converging, from language models and scientific discovery to more brain-like AI systems.
The synergy deepens.
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💔May their memories be a blessing. May those who were injured heal completely. May light and love overcome darkness and hate. Am Yisrael Chai.
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I agree. This is a terrible post. This was a horrible pogrom from which I had the great luck to escape when my parents moved me to America. I stand with the victims of this massacre
I stand with Israel and all Jews not only on this day but all others. What Mamdani says is a disgrace, an affront to the victims and a clear example of how antisemitic he is.
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absolutely . congrats @KarlDeisseroth and colleagues
So well deserved recognition! Huge congrats to @KarlDeisseroth and all the winners! 👏👏👏
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Congrats Yao! Not surprised to hear this good news, but happy for you and your team
Grateful for two R01s recently: to develop tools for recording and perturbing biochemical dynamics in the brain (with @jinzhanglab), and to uncover what these dynamics do in vivo. Recruiting postdocs, grad students, and engineers to join our exploration. sites.wustl.edu/yaochenlab/pos…
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1/11 How does the brain make the heart skip a beat?
New preprint: a prefrontal→hypothalamus circuit that controls heart rate
biorxiv.org/content/10.648…
New preprint: a prefrontal→hypothalamus circuit that controls heart rate
biorxiv.org/content/10.648…
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10/11 In sum, we found a manipulable circuit for top-down control of the heart. We think it's a piece of the foundation for understanding how cognition and emotion shape the body, and a possible target for therapies that restore healthy brain–heart coupling.
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11/11 Congrats to Kevin Xu and colleagues, and a big thank you to my senior co-author, collaborator, and friend @ChenUltrasound
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