Rainer Engelken

rainerengelken.bsky.social

15 March 2026 16:41

Belated update: I joined UIUC ECE as an Assistant Professor. Our lab works at the intersection of theoretical neuroscience, machine learning, and dynamical systems, with a focus on learning and spiking networks. I had to miss #COSYNE2026 for visa reasons. 1/2

David G. Clark

david-g-clark.bsky.social

05 March 2026 06:52

I am totally pumped about this new work . "Task-trained RNNs" are a powerful and influential framework in neuroscience, but have lacked a firm theoretical footing. This work provides one, and makes direct contact with the classical theory of random RNNs: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Tiago Peixoto

tiago.skewed.de

23 February 2026 13:56

I just signed this. The rat race will end one way or another (and it needs to), let's make sure the outcome is appropriate.

Dave Bacon

dabacon.tachyon.institute

23 February 2026 13:54

I wrote about slow science many years ago dabacon.org/pontiff/2009... and what I remember most about that post was @preskill.bsky.social s comment which was “Kitaev”. May we all do science as slowly as Kitaev :)

Alexander van Meegen

avm.bsky.social

05 November 2025 13:00

This was a lot of fun! From my side, it started with a technical Q: what's the relation between two-side cavity and path integrals? Turns out it's a fluctuation correction - and amazingly, this also enable the "O(N) rank" theory by @david-g-clark.bsky.social and @omarschall.bsky.social. 🤯