cybellesmith @neuromatch.social .bsky.social

Excited to release this preprint with @AnnaSchapiro and @stslab! Humans and recurrent neural nets can learn slow temporal statistics in the presence of fast timescale dependencies. tinyurl.com/mseu44un

Celebrating the acceptance of my first middle-author paper in neural tissue engineering with @D_Boufidis!

Excited to announce the 2nd Analytical Connectionism summer school! How can we mathematically understand neural network models of higher level cognition? Where: @FlatironCCN, New York When: Aug 12-23, 2024 Info: events.simonsfoundation.org/event/e070287e… Apply by May 17, travel awards available!

More pictures from the celebration! Congratulations @VictorAcero20 again!!!

Congratulations to @KyndallNicholas (@PennNGG/ @dkcullenlab/ @HHMINEWS) & @Eugenia_South (@UPennEM/ @PennUHL_) on winning @AARCPenn 2024 Women of Color Awards in recognition of their exceptional leadership & service to the community! tinyurl.com/4cp5dzcf

Fellowship opportunity for ECRs <4y post-PhD. Engineering. 5 year funding. Significant advantage given to people from "underrepresented groups" (see below). Internal deadline of May 6. Comp neuro has done well recently in our dept. Email me if interested. raeng.org.uk/research-fello…

1/ Today in Science, we train a neural net from scratch through the eyes and ears of one child. The model learns to map words to visual referents, showing how grounded language learning from just one child's perspective is possible with today's AI tools. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Neuron Beyond hippocampus: Thalamic and prefrontal contributions to an evolving memory cell.com/neuron/fulltex…

Excited to say this is out with minimal adjustments and a more representative title: nature.com/articles/s4159… The short description is in the thread below but in a sentence, we use game theory and multi-site lesioning to show neural activity does not intuitively map to function.

Postdoc funding opportunity! But with a short turnaround. Internal processes in Oxford call for 1-page expressions of interest by next week (Feb 2). get in touch if interested.

📣 Check out our latest episode! Dr. Malin Parmar (@ParmarLab) from @Lund_Stem joins us to talk about her #neuroscience research and developing cell therapies for #ParkinsonsDisease. 🧠 Listen now: bit.ly/3U7Y5MF

New paper out in @PLOSCompBiol. The best deep neural network models of visual cortex do not reduce representations to low-dimensional manifolds—instead, they benefit from high-dimensionality. Led by a fantastic student, @EricElmoznino. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/a…

Very delighted to share our work Deciphering cell states and genealogies of human hematopoiesis online today in @Nature (Accelerated Preview version). It is a really great collaboration of Weissman lab @JswLab and Sankaran lab @bloodgenes doi.org/10.1038/s41586… 🧵(1/n)

The next time something goes wrong, I'm blaming "interdependent percolation theory."

Summer Research Internships in Computational Neuroscience @FlatironCCN Graduate students and advanced undergraduates: Spend a summer doing research at the Flatiron Institute in NYC! Application deadline 2 Feb 2024: apply.interfolio.com/137388

Very interesting results concerning region-specific patterns of laminar gene expression in the context of the neocortical circuit supporting language, by @magsmaggiewong @sha_zhiqiang @ClydeFrancks & colleagues. Good to see the prominent role of SLIT genes biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Hi, thanks to Lynn Nadel & Sarah Aronowitz I wrote a book chapter on multiscale predictive representations that connect the past to the future, memory to planning. There's still time to edit it & I'd love to read your comments! Am I missing citations? arxiv.org/abs/2401.09491

Excited for Broad 2.0 aka the Bell Labs of Biotech!

Throwback to last year’s phenomenal conference at @CSHL on human brain development #organoids #assembloids — a superb gathering for this new field of multi-cellular models of the human nervous system & disease. Thrilled about organizing another edition with Guo-Li Ming @UPenn_SongMing , in early December 2024, which promises to be even more exciting with an amazing lineup of speakers! 👇 meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.aspx?…

Summary: Citations primarily reflect social relationships and who has clout in the field, not necessarily who *intellectually and causally* impacted the work and its interpretation. This is problematic with respect to funding and attentional resource allocation in science.

My viewpoint doesn't so much reflect my own lack of success (which, fair) as it does the huge contrast in attention paid to the work of myself and others at UIUC vs. Penn, despite little or no difference in quality, or in some cases, better quality at UIUC. (13/N)

I'm back on Twitter/X and it's time for a good clean rant on the sociopolitical structure of science. #metascience (1/N)