bergelsonlab

bergelsonlab.bsky.social

09 September 2026 15:44

and here I am telling my trainees to always watch out for unexpected NAs

Russell Epstein

russellepstein.bsky.social

04 September 2026 18:46

I am please to report that NEI has renewed our R01 "Neural mechanism of landmark-based navigation" for another 4 years. Hooray!!!!! In this era, getting any NIH money at all is a miracle, so I am extremely grateful to NEI for supporting this and to the study section reviewers for seeing its value.

Tom McCoy

rtommccoy.bsky.social

01 September 2026 20:37

🤖🧠NEW PAPER🧠🤖 (The result of an 8-year project!) LLMs seem very different from symbolic systems. Yet LLMs excel in symbolic domains (e.g., language/code/math). How do they do it? Our finding: LLM representations have implicit symbolic structure! Link in thread ⬇️ 1/n

Xavier Job

xavierjob.bsky.social

18 August 2026 12:06

📢 Our paper is now published in Journal of Neuroscience!🧠 How does the brain predict the sensory consequences of our own actions before they happen? We used MEG to investigate what happens in the brain before self-touch. www.jneurosci.org/content/46/3...

Nick Holmes

thehandlab.bsky.social

03 August 2026 12:33

This graph took me 3 years to make. It's perhaps the largest-ever #metaanalysis of #TMS #BrainStim data. It includes my first real scientific discovery 🧵: When you stimulate the hand with a brief electric pulse, your brain and spinal cord are momentarily less excitable: muscle output decreases 1/n