🧵 New preprint led by @bingbrunton.bsky.social, @elliottabe.bsky.social, @lawrencehu.bsky.social
We gave a worm brain control of a fly body and it walked
What did we learn? Nothing, other than deep reinforcement learning is effective
We call it the digital sphinx
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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John Tuthill
~2 weeks til the #FITNG2026 submission deadline! We're taking both individual abstracts and symposia again this year. And we have an exciting lineup of invited speakers, including Drs. Takao Hensch (keynote), Koraly Pérez-Edgar, Victoria Southgate, and Jonathan O'Muircheartaigh.
Join us in Panama!
It was thrilling to host BOTH @marinv.bsky.social and @lukasvogelsang.bsky.social! They combine one-of-a-kind empirical data (kids with recovered sight) with developmentally-motivated computational modeling! I will be citing their AID theory many times in the future. Don't miss it!
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...
Reflections on catastrophic interference, plasticity, and learning for the future in the era of large language models
With so many eyes on Pittsburgh during the NFL Draft this weekend, it feels like a fitting moment to share some personal news — I'm excited to be joining the Department of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University in Fall 2027!
This is so so cool
We were dazzled by Jucha Willers Moore's research on ultra-high field fMRI in neonates. Combining bleeding-edge technology and analysis, her work has revealed the surprising specificity of function in the infant brain. I have such envy for the precision of her signal!
Excited to be on our way to VSS! Don’t miss Sarah Tung’s talk on Sunday afternoon in the development session. She will be presenting exciting results using awake infant fMRI to elucidate how and why we have category selective visual cortex!
(Sitting together on the plane was a happy accident)
Excited to present with these stars at my first OHBM! Come check out my talk on precision mapping to study infant anatomical and functional development. We find striking evidence of both continuous AND discontinuous development
