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16/n My lab at NYU Center for Neural Science will combine the systems neuroscience and cell signaling to understand how motivational dynamics are computed biochemically in intact neural circuits, in real time, and during behavior. If this excites you too, please reach out! stephenzhanglab.org

Really fantastic work by Mason Kamb on an analytic, mechanistically interpretable, and predictive theory of creativity in convolutional diffusion models!

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I am pleased to announce the publication of our special issue on scientific histories of hippocampal research in the journal Hippocampus! This special issue contains articles by many influential contributors to our field. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.100…

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New Preprint: "On the Ability of Deep Networks to Learn Symmetries from Data: A Neural Kernel Theory" by Andrea Perin and myself. Retweets of this post or the thread below are highly appreciated! Follow Andrea for future updates on this line of work.

Bringing it back home

I love assuming things are accurate. It has never made me look foolish even once.

Imagine if academia were given 500B for AI research... it would be absolutely revolutionary compared to one company stockpiling GPUs. That's like 100 CMUs. For 0.01% of that money the right lab could profoundly advance the field.

It seems few people know what an “indirect cost” is or why it has to be 40-60%. The reason the government forced universities to raise their indirect costs up to (typically) 40-60% was to force a huge amount of regulations on the universities while also minimizing the

🧵 Many “hot takes” about the reduction of NIH indirect grant costs to 15%. Let’s lay out the facts about the university grant management process & accounting. And then use this to project likely short and longer term impacts of the policy.

Clearly Ivy Leagues are used here as examples to rile up conservatives, but rates are higher at places like Seattle Children's Hospital (95%) or Dana Farber Cancer Institute (75%) - underscoring how cutting indirect funds will directly impact pediatric and cancer care.

To save some suspense, industry is not doing a lot of curiosity driven fundamental research.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our first and second Pynapple & nemos_neuro workshops of the year at Flatiron CCN , NYC! Stay tuned for future event announcements. #EastCoast

UAW Region 4 CAP mobilization happening TODAY: members across the region are calling key Senators and Congresspeople to demand "No Cuts to NIH Funding!" An attack on one of our members is an attack on all of us!

Thousands of UAW members are international workers who conduct critical research to advance lifesaving treatments for diseases like cancer, Alzheimer’s, and more. Hear from international scholars across the country why they're taking action on 4/8 to #KillTheCuts.

Excited to share our JOSS paper (joss.theoj.org/papers/10.2110…) and code (github.com/probml/dynamax)! Special thanks to our reviewers — Dynamax v1.0 is much improved thanks to their feedback!

Excited to announce that our paper on "Comparing noisy neural population dynamics using optimal transport distances" has been selected for an oral presentation in #ICLR2025 (1.8% top papers). Check the thread for paper details (0/n). Presentation info: iclr.cc/virtual/2025/o….