eLife

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07 March 2026 23:01

Agent-based modeling reveals how bats navigate dense group emergences

Andrew Lampinen

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07 March 2026 23:01

Short post on what I call the "no-magic approach to understanding intelligent systems" — the philosophy I think of as motivating our work on understanding intelligence without resorting to magical thinking about AI or humans! infinitefaculty.substack.com/p/the-no-mag...

Benjamin Cowley

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07 March 2026 23:00

DNN models of the brain are getting bigger. Are we replacing one complicated system in vivo with another in silico? In new work, we seek the *smallest* DNN models of visual cortex, balancing prediction with parsimony. It turns out these compact models are surprisingly small! rdcu.be/e5H8G

Athena Akrami

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16 February 2026 14:39

Thrilled to finally share this work! 🧠🔊 Using a new reinforcement-free task we show mice (like humans) extract abstract structure from sound (unsupervised) & dCA1 is causally required by building factorised, orthogonal subspaces of abstract rules. Led by Dammy Onih! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Andrew Tan

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16 February 2026 14:38

Papilionanthe Miss Joaquim, the National flower of Singapore 🇸🇬 Usually known as the Vanda Miss Joaquim although it is not a Vanda but a Papilionanthe