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It’s alarming how harassment in academia is impacting the well-being of many doctoral researchers. Jana Lasser’s talk exposes the scale of the problem. What can we do to create better environments? Possible ideas in this presentation: janalasser.at/talks/power_ab… 1/7

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Preprint for "Consolidation of Sequential Planning" with Evan Russek and Neil Burgess. We demonstrate the neural representations supporting sequential planning and the effect of memory consolidation upon them: biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…. As talk, see also: youtube.com/watch?v=0QcNtz…

Dear friends, my MIT colleague, Fan Wang, and I, are starting a new collaborative project on the brain's internal models of the body. We are building a team to tackle this research. Please distribute and RT the job ad below. dropbox.com/scl/fi/nvm0bch…

Conspiratorial thinking appears to be based on a specific cognitive phenotype, finds Kluen Dr. Caroline Charpentier Tessa Rusch Sneha Aenugu Yimeng Li R. Michael Alvarez et al. doi.org/10.31234/osf.i…

After a great conference in Boston, CCN is going to take place in Amsterdam in 2025! To help the exchange of ideas between neuroscience, cognitive science, and AI, CCN will for the first time have full length paper submissions (alongside the established 2 pagers)! Info below👇

I'm excited to announce that this work has been accepted at NeurIPS Conference 🥳 We hope to spark cross-disciplinary conversations on goal selection in biological and artificial agents. Check it out at openreview.net/forum?id=GbqzN… Cédric Pierre-Yves Oudeyer Anne Collins Inria Flowers team Collins Lab

New paper out in @NeuronCellPress: A general theory of sequential working memory in prefrontal cortex and RNN/SSMs with their exact neural mechanism. Plus unifying this new mechanism with the alternate mechanism of hippocampal cognitive maps! (1/9) cell.com/neuron/fulltex…

📢📢Announcing this year's conference on the Mathematics of Neuroscience & AI (Split, Croatia, 27-30th May): neuromonster.org Abstract submissions and early bird registration are open. The first 100 tickets can get an extra 20% off using discount code SUPEREARLYNM25.

127 8-page submissions for #CCN2025 in progress. Abstracts look great. We had hoped for 80. CCN Proceedings appears to have launched successfully. So happy. Will yield 30-35 great papers. 🙏 to the Debbie Yee, Sneha Aenugu, and especially Jasper van den Bosch and Erin Grant

Students + postdocs in theoretical biophysics 👉 Join us HHMI | Janelia in October to present your research, engage in lively discussions, and network with peers. ✈️ Hotel, meals, & travel covered Learn more + apply by June 10 @ janelia.news/THB25 @HHMINews Ahmed El Hady

Out today in Nature Machine Intelligence! From childhood on, people can create novel, playful, and creative goals. Models have yet to capture this ability. We propose a new way to represent goals and report a model that can generate human-like goals in a playful setting... 1/N

New in the Kempner Seminar Series: Konrad Kording of Penn discusses his new visual attention model that brings together decades of cognitive and neurophysiological data in a unified architecture. youtube.com/watch?v=DUBiAj… Kording Lab 🦖 Penn Arts & Sciences #AI #NeuroAI #neuroscience

Frozen stabilization enables small unstructured neural networks to form robust continuous memories and exhibit separation of timescales without fine-tuning or symmetries. 🔗 go.aps.org/3GHtEbu

Just out in PLOS Comp Biol! journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/a…

I am joining University of Alberta as a faculty member and Amii this June! Excited to build my research group, working at the intersection of inverse problems, representation learning, generative models, interpretability, and neuroAI for emergent intelligence. 1/

We’ve been fascinated by brain attractor dynamics lately. Thrilled to share a new preprint on their link to orthogonal neural representations - a collaboration with Karl Friston: arxiv.org/abs/2505.22749 With implications for neuroscience & AI. First in a series - stay tuned!

In this article, Trach and Sam McDougle show that motor responses can form part of structured, graph-like memory representations. nature.com/articles/s4156…

Super excited about 🥋judo🥋, our new open-source sampling-based MPC toolbox! 🖥️Try in under 30s: pip install judo-rai judo <click link> 🧵thread below👇

At any one time, most people are pursuing multiple goals: answering email, doing the laundry, choosing how to invest retirement savings, helping a child with their math homework. How do we choose which goals we will attend to at any given time? caltech.edu/about/news/wha…