Tim Vogels

@lateinteraction What’s wrong with Walter? Asking for a friend.

everyone accepts Claude being called Claude, but there would be outrage if OpenAI was like “hey ChatGPT 5.5 is now called Walter”

Historically, the instructions for @CosyneMeeting abstracts have been a bit vague/. As they involved a fair bit of "soft skill" -as the numbers became more competitive- the process favoured those on the *in*. We tried to change that w/ more detailed tips cosyne.org/abstracts-subm…

For this special occasion also on Twitter: tomorrow is the deadline for the 2026 imbizo.africa. Come to the most special place in the world to the most special computational neuroscience. @isiCNI #neuro in #africa.

@Rainmaker1973 ...at the equator this is gonna be real nice. Everywhere else though, I see some disappointment in your future. Yes, I am fun at parties.

Variations in duality. [📹 damienbeneteau]

All that beautiful work...and along comes Foucault to mux it all up... science really does suck and we should not teach it anymore. No-one needs physics.

SgH @bundeskanzler @_FriedrichMerz, wieder mal in Schengen-verachtende Grenzkontrollen geraten. Solch unehrliche, pseudo-nationale "Alternativen" untergraben Europäische Zusammengehörigkeit. Bitte echte Lösungen, starke Aussengrenzen & schnelle Asyl- & Immigrationsprozesse! #EU

Feeling too lazy to read our paper on ion channels? Watch @Bill_P_ and @flinz explain in a new video! #icgenealogy vimeo.com/208345107

bsky.app/profile/tpvoge… is my post about a new collab with Daniela Vallentin.

Maybe this time it's gonna stick? #Neuro, #neuroAI #Neurotheory are seeing waves of migration to @bluesky. "Starter packs" for particular fields help you grow your feed, follow e.g. #compneuro: bsky.app/starter-pack-s… and of course tpvogels.bsky.social Tell everyone.

I believe that the vast majority of people in this country are good and generous and honest and fair – and whether they are Democrats or Republicans or independents, they want those values reflected in their politics. That’s what we’ll get with @KamalaHarris and @Tim_Walz – two leaders who will work every day to make your lives better.

Happy Halloween everyone! 🎃

This award is very hard to respond to. I have received many hundred congratulatory notes, from former students, post-docs, Princeton University juniors and seniors, funding agencies and foundations, authors, signature collectors, amateurs, elementary school neural network followers, and on and on. An astonishing fraction of them has found their way into useful and interesting Neural Network careers by a casual interaction in class, at a meeting, hearing what I had to say about their ideas, learning from thinking about how I worked with a class, or from being my teaching assistants... There are some whom I remember well, and others for whom my reaction is “are they certain that our interaction sparked a single usable thought?” Yet they go on and comment “you changed my life” and follow on to explain that they heard me lecture when they were 15, and have been a member of the Neural Network brigade of the research army ever afterward. I cannot make detailed comments to most of my letter writers. In sum I can only say that I tremendously enjoyed the interactions that the Neural Network community provided me with; that the mutual interactions have given me much pleasure over the years; that the community interested both in brain and in artificial brain has proved a good way for science to develop even if institutions have not always been sympathetic. Often these institutions found the enthusiasm infectious, after a period of doubt. In short, we often have won--. No, perhaps all we know is that we have not yet lost. I still believe that finding mind lodged in biological matter is the most profound question that physics can pose. And that the breadth of physics is a good base from which to begin.

1/3 Brain-machine interfaces could improve the lives of locked-in patients. Yet, to minimize the risk of infection, we need fully implanted systems that are accurate and energy efficient. We show that spiking neural networks are ideal: arxiv.org/abs/2409.01762 (accepted at BioCAS)

We grieve the passing of Dr. Yves Frégnac. Yves has shaped the study of cortical processing and plasticity. He heralded interdisciplinarity and was one of the founding fathers of our institute. Our thoughts go to his family and to his friends in the community and beyond. pic.twitter.com/BGE4QGcg8g

Here are 10 Worst Things About the Trump Presidency — in no particular order.

Help. I am keeping a running list of #neurotheory / #comp_neuro / #neuroAI / #quant_neuro groups that currently has 222 names; def. incomplete, especially re: younger groups. If you started a group since COVID, or if you want to know if you made my list, give me a ping. RT@ H'sD

@TPVogels 'sup

@JAlGallego It's a bit of a mess with lots of inconsistent info, some have emails others don't etc., and there is a privacy issue in making this kinda thing fully available; but we're working on maybe making this all a bit more wholesome. Stay tuned. In the meantime, I can be your phonebook?

@TPVogels Relatively new at Imperial College London is the list public, Tim? would be a useful resource to have