Incredible! Scientists receive a rare standing ovation after announcing that a new treatment can double the survival time for pancreatic cancer, the deadliest cancer which was once considered “undruggable.”
When we fund and support science, we can achieve anything!
(Video: Dr. Wish Dhillon)
Now out in Nature Machine Intelligence @NatMachIntell “Adopting a human developmental visual diet yields robust and shape-based AI vision”:
doi.org/10.1038/s422.... A wonderful case where brain inspiration improved AI.
With @martisamuser.bsky.social, Radek Cichy and @timkietzmann.bsky.social .
ALRIGHT EVERYONE HERE IS THE OFFICIAL SUFS GUIDE TO LEAVING PUBLIC COMMENTS ON THE OMB-2026-0034 PROPOSED RULE: www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-advocacy/the-sufs-guide-to-writing-public-comments
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Astrocytes, the most abundant type of glial cell, play a fundamental role in memory.
Despite most hippocampal synapses being contacted by an astroc...
Spontaneous problem-solving in bumble bees.
Amazing work by the bees who were put in these puzzling situations by @akshayebhambore.bsky.social in the lab of @olliloukola.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Excellent and thought-provoking essay by Ted Chiang. [gift link]
www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...
Lucas C Parra
What are the real problems to be solved in continual learning? In my latest post, I tackle this question — reviewing where I think the field went astray in the past, how language models changed things, and where the real challenges remain.
infinitefaculty.substack.com/p/what-are-t...
This paper changed my mind on how visual processing works in the brain. We knew it was dynamic given all the recurrent connections. But I thought it would converge to a fixpoint during a fixation. Not so, it seems ... The dynamic captures different aspects of the stimulus at different times. Nice.
Colette Delawalla, PhD
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Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.
www.theatlantic.com
Reflections on catastrophic interference, plasticity, and learning for the future in the era of large language models
Where, exactly, does learning happen in the brain?
Out today in @nature.com, we identify a synaptic locus of birdsong learning and show that the circuit can be tuned to make birds learn faster - but at a cost. Read on👇 #neuroskyence 🧪 #prattle 💬 #bioacoustics
Shareable link: rdcu.be/fiyrS
Dr. Lucky Tran
🚨🚨New open resource for EEG researchers 🚨🚨
Want to work with neural synchrony and intersubject correlation of EEG?
We released ready-to-use correlated components spatial filters for the 64-channel 10–20 montage.
Lucas C Parra
Combining a computational framework and optogenetic and chemogenetic manipulations within and downstream of the cortico-basal ganglia circuit identifies the specific cortico-basal ganglia synapse...
