Unbelievably honoured to read Tatiana Engel's (@engeltatiana.bsky.social) wonderfully written Preview on our work "Linking neural manifolds to circtuit structure in recurrent networks" (with @lpezon.bsky.social & @gerstnerlab.bsky.social) in this issue of Neuron
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
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I am looking for a theory/computational POSTDOC position in EU or east coast US. I am interested in how learning and plasticity shape population dynamics & representational geometries & how these changes are reflected in behavior.
If you are at #COSYNE2026 & interested, hit me up in Whova, not here
NEW PAPER. Why do larger networks train better?
"Because they contain more candidate *sub*networks that can learn the task" → lottery tickets
This popular explanation uses an appealing but misleading metaphor🧵
We propose an intuitive alternative grounded in theory: escape dimensions
Presenting a poster tomorrow at Cosyne 26:
[3-033] Compositional computation via shared latent dynamics in low-rank RNNs.
With @avm.bsky.social, we explore how RNNs can re-use the same dynamics across different tasks, and what it implies for their connectivity and neural activity.
Travelling to COSYNE seems to be the perfect opportunity to announce that I started my own lab at RWTH Aachen University earlier this year, funded by NRW's Ministry of Culture and Science through its Return Program. If you are at COSYNE and want to chat please reach out!
If you're at #cosyne2026 in Lisbon, come check out Juan Carlos Fernández del Castillo's poster 1-007 tonight, based on our paper on efficient coding in olfaction (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...)!