Neuroscientist| Professor at Trinity College Dublin | CIFAR Fellow| P.I. of Ryan Lab at Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience.
@tjryan.bsky.social
Tomás Ryan
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Leading AI labs, executives, and scientists are sending a letter to lawmakers urging them to improve tracking of synthetic DNA sequences that could be used for bioweapons. www.wired.com/story/openai...
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Ireland is putting its international reputation for research at risk – The Irish Times share.google/BTIyrLiXzeJc...
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One month out from @fens.org
Forum 2026 in Barcelona 🇪🇸🇪🇺🧠
We are looking forward to joining our colleagues and collaborators, and sharing our work with the neuroscience community.
#FENS2026
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A fantastic day at the the Royal Irish Academy yesterday! We're raising awareness and encouraging applications to the #ListerPrize which is open to researchers from across the island of Ireland! Application to the 2027 Prize opens in July.
Edited by Mark Sprevak and Francis Fallon as part of the Representations: Past, Present and Future (RPPF) project at @tcddublin.bsky.social
Representation: Past, Present and Future - Trinity College Dublin share.google/KY979IXZ7XWw...
New paper with Dan Burnston at @tulaneu.bsky.social
Part of a special issue on "Representation in the Neurosciences and AI" in Philosophy & the Mind Sciences
An alternative to encoding for thinking about neural representation.
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Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (PhiMiSci) focuses on the interface between philosophy of mind, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. PhiMiSci is a peer-reviewed, not-for-profit open-access journal...
a neural network is not an 'actress,' it is not the type of entity that 'feels' or 'wants'. this fetishisation of ai products, a cause of several deaths and harms – partly due to anthropomorphic design – is not only doing corporate pr, it is also dangerous
this is what consequential journalism looks like
Dr Abeba Birhane
Dr Abeba Birhane
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NEW: One day after we revealed Meta was quietly building face recognition into its smart glasses, the latest version deletes it. Meta execs, who called our reporting "dishonest" and "misleading," continue to dodge our questions.
The code WIRED identified is gone from the latest version of Meta AI, the companion app for the company’s smart glasses. Meta won’t say why or whether it’s coming back.
Leading AI labs, executives, and scientists are sending a letter to lawmakers urging them to improve tracking of synthetic DNA sequences that could be used for bioweapons.
Our writer Taffy Brodesser-Akner interviewed Tilly Norwood, a computer-generated character described as “the world’s first A.I. actress.” She left exhausted. “It was the feeling of being at a computer all day. It was a dehydration of human interaction,” Brodesser-Akner writes.
The A.I. actress on her craft, the future of film and how she definitely does not intend to murder us.
