Regardless what happens next, a generation of scientists are learning that the US government is not a reliable institution to have a contract with.

With friends like us who needs enemies?

Sequential predictive learning may explain how hippocampal replay emerges and supports offline memory processing. Dan Levenstein, from Mila - Institut québécois d'IA / McGill University and an SWC ENSS winner, discusses new insights into hippocampal function. Read the Q&A: sainsburywellcome.org/web/qa/replayi…

I know there exists a Far Side comic with a farmer teaching cows about physics, and the caption is something like "imagine a spherical cow". It seems to be impossible to find on the internet. Does anyone happen to have or know where I can find an image of this comic? 😂

Does anyone else find it perpetually annoying that what most folks would consider neural "computation" is Marr's "algorithmic" level, while his *computational* level is really just "what's the goal of this thing anyway?" AKA function.

En route to OCNS #CNS2025! ✈️ Talking Wednesdsy at the workshop on NeuroAI, and looking for postdocs - if you’re interested in studying sleep, navigation, or offline learning using a neuroAI approach, come say hi!

So, #AcademicTwitter PIs, a few completely random questions for you: What’s something you wish you had known/did when you started your own lab? -or- What’s something you did when you started your lab that worked out well? Asking for a friend...