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but what do we actually *know* about NYC rats? for Hell Gate *subscribe today!* i went on a research ride-along with neuroscientists Ahmed El Hady Ralph Emilio Peterson Emily Mackevicius & their gadgets as they sought to learn more about our urban friends (or foes?) hellgatenyc.com/rat-ride-along…

Neuroscientist Ralph Emilio Peterson told me that NYers-in the street, on the subway-are always asking about the group's research, suggesting rat-infested places & offering to share their rat story. "People seem very excited," he said. "Rats bring people together." hellgatenyc.com/rat-ride-along…

It's true. I never expected New Yorkers' eyes to light up upon being told that we're studying wild rats. "Have I got a story for you!" Thanks for featuring this exciting pilot field study w/ Emily Mackevicius & Ahmed El Hady! Check out Aviva Stahl's piece Hell Gate *subscribe today!*.

🐀🚇Curious what it's like doing fieldwork in NYC? New article by Aviva Stahl describing our recent rat fieldwork with Ahmed El Hady and Ralph Emilio Peterson hellgatenyc.com/rat-ride-along…🚇🐀

New ARC-AGI paper ARC Prize w/ fantastic collaborators Wen-Ding Li @ ICLR'25 Keya Hu Zenna Tavares evanthebouncy Basis For few-shot learning: better to construct a symbolic hypothesis/program, or have a neural net do it all, ala in-context learning? cs.cornell.edu/~ellisk/docume…

We are looking for new PhD / MSc students! Machine learning innovations for tackling climate change - e.g. remote sensing, climate informatics, materials discovery, & biodiversity monitoring. Apply by submitting applications to *both* Mila - Institut québécois d'IA (by Dec 1) & McGill University (Dec 15).

Basis has started a joint project called MARA w/ Kevin Ellis 's lab +others. This is our first output. More details soon. We're sponsoring "Systems 2 Reasoning at Scale" workshop at Neurips & will present MARA there. We're hiring for it now! basis.ai/join-us/#caree…

🎡🦆New Basis paper by Rafal Urbaniak, Marjorie Xie and me! Linking cognitive strategy, neural mechanism, and movement statistics in group foraging behaviors nature.com/articles/s4159… "Behind the paper" blog here: go.nature.com/3YBaVDK Code: github.com/BasisResearch/… 🦆🎡

It was great fun contributing to this whitepaper, and it turned into a great read. A deep dive into a number of important and new research directions in neuroAI.

New whitepaper with contributions from Basis scientists and collaborators

If you have time , read and share our new preprint on modeling social foraging 😁. The first of many studies to come . Any suggestions or comments are welcome. That's the link: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Proud to share that our work with Kevin Ellis and collabs won the 1st prize ARC Paper Award! This is the first work to come out of the MARA project. Much more to come.

🎙️ Emily Mackevicius (Emily Mackevicius) of Basis believes collective intelligence holds the key to solving global problems. Learn how her work connects animals, AI, and human collaboration on episode 28 of #Generationship! hubs.ly/Q033cDNM0

📣 Excited to announce our workshop "Agent-Based Models in Neuroscience: Complex Planning, Embodiment, and Beyond" at the upcoming CosyneMeeting #CoSyNe2025! 🧠🤖 🪱🪰🐟🐝🐭💪 🗓️ Join us in Mont-Tremblant, Canada, on March 31! neuro-agent-models.github.io

Thanks for a really fun conversation on the #Generationship podcast Rachel Chalmers !

Very excited for this new study with my very talented postdoc Lisa Blum Moyse ( Integrative Biophysics Group ) where we develop an analytically tractable model of how social hierarchy shapes foraging decisions, in a patch foraging context. Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour Social hierarchy can be modeled as a

We’re making the Basis organisation document public today. It’s less a charter and more a design doc—our spec for why a new kind of technology and research organisation is needed, and how to build it. (link below)