Ilenna Jones

The deadline to apply for the Brain Prize Cajal summer course in Computational Neuroscience has been extended to March 9! We’re excited for you to join us in sunny Lisbon! Please do not hesitate to send in an application and learn about computational neuroscience! @gjorjulijana.bsky.social

Thanks for highlighting this interview Ben!

At the Deep Learning Indaba 2025 (Urunana!) I chatted with the EIC of iafrikan.com about the importance of summer schools like Neuromatch Academy for accessing Comp Neuro and NeuroAI training!

@deeplearningindaba.bsky.social
@neuromatch.bsky.social

Dendrites help neuroscientists see the forest for the trees Dendritic arbors provide just the right scale to study how individual neurons reciprocally interact with their broader circuitry—and are our best bet to bridge cellular and systems neuroscience.

Dendritic arbors provide neuroscience with an ideal opportunity to study how individual neurons interact with their broader circuitry and are the field’s best bet to bridge cellular and systems neuroscience, writes @justinkohare.bsky.social.

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/dendrites/de...

Vectorized instructive signals in cortical dendrites - Nature Mice learning a neurofeedback brain–computer interface task show neuron-specific teaching signals in cortical dendrites, consistent with a vectorized solution for credit assignment in the brain.

This paper on how the brain may do gradient descent is very cool: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cosyne Viewing Parties

Visas, costs, care responsibilities, and environmental concerns all limit Cosyne attendance. Luckily, the talks are livestreamed; but watching alone is the high road to an aneurism. Hence: viewing parties! Gather regionally to watch Cosyne talks! More info: shorturl.at/3DHZX.

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

Mentors/TAs are giving their tutorials. Spiros Chavlis introduces Python with the LIF model, Will Dorrell on neural computation, Kira Düsterwald on Probability Theory, Isabel Cornacchia on Dynamical Systems, Colleen Gillon on Reinforcement learning, and Rubén Herzog on information theory applied to neural data.

A massive shoutout to our incredible mentors and TAs! 🙌

They delivered 6 wonderful tutorials. Their energy and dedication make this school special. 💻🧠 🇿🇦

@spiroschav.bsky.social | Will Dorrell | @kiradust.bsky.social | @isabelmaria-c.bsky.social | @colleenjg.bsky.social | @rherzoga.bsky.social

The venue is quiet tonight, but the anticipation is electric. ⚡️

Tomorrow, this space fills with students ready to gather and share knowledge. This is why we are here. We are Imbizo, and we love what we do. #imbizo2026

Come work with us!!!

Today is #GivingTuesday! Join us in helping to make computational science education accessible to everyone, everywhere!

Since, 2021, Neuromatch Academy and Climatematch Academy have supported nearly 14,000 learners from 135 countries.

Your support makes this possible.

neuromatch.io/donate/

Kempner Research Fellowship - Kempner Institute The Kempner brings leading, early-stage postdoctoral scientists to Harvard to work on projects that advance the fundamental understanding of intelligence.

Applications are now open for our #KempnerInstitute Research Fellowships!

Postdocs studying the foundations of #intelligence or applications of #AI are encouraged to apply.

Learn more and apply by Oct. 1:
bit.ly/3UvpSpe

#LLMs #NeuroAI #ML @shamkakade.bsky.social

Finishing my 2 weeks of travel to #CCN2025 in Amsterdam, Netherlands and @deeplearningindaba.bsky.social #DLI2025 in Kigali, Rwanda. I saw tons o stellar research and ideas grounded in urgent real world applications of AI to improve people's lives. Now it's time to recuperate back home in Boston 😌🫠😊

Formulas and numbers from the field of machine learning written in white chalk on a blackboard

Together with #AIMS, the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, we have an exciting position to fill: The AIMS - Tübingen Junior Research Chair in Machine Learning for Science! 1/2

The Harvard @kempnerinstitute.bsky.social spotlights me and my efforts there and at @imbizo.bsky.social in this article! Check it out!

Today, @hhmi.org stopped all competitions supporting ECRs when we needed it most.

As an FGLI undergraduate 2014/2015 HHMI EXROP participant, a 2020 Gilliam Fellow, and applicant for the now paused 2025 HGF program - I was a consistently supported by HHMI throughout my career.

Please reconsider!

I am a proud HHMI Gilliam Fellow alumn. The HHMI funded me at a critical time in my career - a real inflection point that made me realize that I had a place and future in science. I always looked to the HHMI as a safety net to those historically excluded by academia, 1/4

I'm so sad to hear this too - I gave so much time and effort into this application too. At the very least it helped give me the push to solidify ideas that I'm trying to push forward. We'll make it work somehow.

Testing this briefly felt like this gamifies the writing and planning process especially since there's a rating system that comes with the feedback- honestly fun to use to expand on fledgling projects!

I have seen folks waste so much time by not properly planning research. Missed literature, missing controls, ignored hypotheses, etc. Lack of planning also produces bad science (e.g. analysis until significant). So I am writing an app. Looking for feedback. scientific-paper-planner-test.vercel.app

🧠🤖 Computational Neuroscience summer school IMBIZO in Cape Town is open for applications again!
 
💻🧬 3 weeks of intense coursework & projects with support from expert tutors and faculty
 
📈Apply until July 1st!

🔗https://imbizo.africa/

It feels so good to see Imbizo students doing great things! @imbizo.bsky.social #imbizo

While the world burns, we cook up a new preprint! doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Biophysical modeling is a key tool to derive mechanistic insights into the brain. These models are governed by biologically meaningful parameters (unlike artificial neural networks), but the dirty secret ... 1/N

We are thrilled to host a tutorial on biophysical modeling with Jaxley & DendroTweaks at #CNS2025! 📍 Florence, July 5 — looking forward to seeing you there! www.cnsorg.org/cns-2025 @cnsorg.bsky.social

Traveling waves of neural activity are observed all over the brain. Can they be used to augment neural networks?

I am thrilled to share our new work, "Traveling Waves Integrate Spatial Information Through Time" with @andykeller.bsky.social!

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Are you interested in comparing modern AI/RL agents to Humans?

To make it easier for researchers spanning cognitive science, multi-agent RL, and HCI to do this, I've made nicewebrl

github.com/wcarvalho/ni...

INTRODUCTION

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?

Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.

thebullshitmachines.com

Group picture of students, TAs and faculty at the #imbizo2025 course

A bit late, but just to say how lucky I feel that I could spend a week at #Imbizo2025 summer school @imbizo.bsky.social, hanging out w/ this group of absolutely brilliant students, their dedicated TAs & other faculty. Watch out for this pool of talent! & consider applying/contributing next rounds

Dr. Dan Wetmore giving a lecture

Students at Imbizo working hard on their presentation

Student presentation on designing ML solutions to understand cardiac rhythms

Student presentation on designing ML solutions to sleep paralysis

🎉 Exciting day at #Imbizo2025! Dr. Dan Wetmore & Dr. Garrick Orchard from Meta’s Reality Labs shared their industrial insights on designing top-notch AI/ML experiments, including innovative BCI applications 🤖💡 Students showcased creative solutions for EMG, sleep, wind, epilepsy monitoring & more! 🌟

Dendrites endow artificial neural networks with accurate, robust and parameter-efficient learning - Nature Communications Artificial neural networks, central to deep learning, are powerful but energy-consuming and prone to overfitting. The authors propose a network design inspired by biological dendrites, which offe...

Dendrites doing AI problems, so great to see the increased activity! www.nature.com/articles/s41...