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the title of LeCun's slide says it all.

"The purpose of neuronal spikes is not to represent but to act upon something" From a visionary blog post by Peter Rupprecht: gcamp6f.com/2019/12/31/ann… where related ideas of @Romainbrette, Kording Lab 🦖 are discussed. Thanks Peter Rupprecht for reviewing our work on your blog!

RIP Jim. An incredible mathematician, leader and human being. I was very fortunate to have him as my boss and mentor.

My recent talk at UC Berkeley: Neurons as feedback controllers. Thanks Bruno Olshausen for inviting me to the terrific Redwood Institute for Computational Neuroscience archive.org/details/Redwoo… via Internet Archive

A new computational model of real neurons developed by #FlatironCCN's Dmitri Chklovskii (Dmitri "Mitya") and colleagues could lead to better #AI tools. #neuroscience Flatiron Institute simonsfoundation.org/2024/06/24/new…

The Smart Neuron: Towards the New Foundational Building Block for Biological and Artificial Neural Networks. A 10 minute overview of my research program from the Foresight Institute's Workshop on Whole Brain Emulation: youtube.com/watch?v=VMiivj…

We are looking for a postdoc to lead a new project in olfactory diagnostics: can we detect human diseases using the mammalian olfactory system as supersensitive, broadband chemical detector? A lot of imaging, data analysis and gas chromatography…. rinberglab.com/positions

Congratulations, Eero! So well deserved!

“I can say with certainty that brains work on completely different principles than deep learning, and these differences matter.” writes Jeff Hawkins in a new essay featured in Fast Company. Read the article here: fastcompany.com/91228937/for-t…

Neurons are smarter than you think! Our work on conceptualizing the neuron as a controller as well as connectomics are discussed in the latest installment of the Brain Inspired podcast: braininspired.co/podcast/205/ Thanks Paul Middlebrooks for hosting and great questions!

From logical gates to grandmother cells, neuroscientists have employed many metaphors to explain single neuron function. Dmitri "Mitya" makes the case that neurons are actually trying to control how their outputs affect the rest of the brain. By Paul Middlebrooks thetransmitter.org/brain-inspired…

This is another result of our collaboration with Mitya Dmitri "Mitya"’ s group from Flatiron Institute and Harald Hess’s lab from Janelia. The work is based on fantastic vEM made by Harald Hess's team and infinity manual segmentation done by Anastasia Makarova.

Dmitri "Mitya" Despite the extremely small size of the body, the eye of Megaphragma viggianiconsists of 478 cells and all of them contain nuclei, unlike the majority of CNS neurons, which are anucleate.

Dmitri "Mitya" The eye of Megaphragma, like most other insects, has a dorsal rim area (DRA), a zone of specialized ommatidia that differ from the rest in structure and function.

Dmitri "Mitya" We found in the eye of Megaphragma there are three blind cells without their own dioptric apparatus, but with their own rhabdomere, mitochondria, outgrowths into the brain with active synapses and everything that receptors should have.

Dmitri "Mitya" One of our illustrations became Biomedical Picture of the Day bpod.org.uk/archive/2025/1…

Our latest work on the longstanding problem of learning a (normalized) energy model from data…

The neuron as a controller and a few other thoughts. Thanks to the GreyMatters podcast for hosting me: open.spotify.com/episode/1ox99I…

Our survival depends on predicting the future. If the environment is a stochastic dynamical system, neurons may do this by clustering trajectories with likely shared futures. Here is a data-driven prediction algorithm that aligns with neurophysiology: online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/neurose…