Friedemann Zenke

fzenke.bsky.social

08 October 2026 20:33

1/ Why does predicting in latent space (JEPA, CPC, SimCLR...) work so well on messy data, with changing lighting, camera angles, and busy backgrounds? The usual answer: it can ignore nuisance. But that answer holds a conundrum.

Ivy Chan

ivychanchiwai.bsky.social

02 October 2026 15:49

Our paper on odour categorization in the Drosophila mushroom body is now out in Cell Reports! 🎉 We found that αβ and α′β′ Kenyon cells—but not γ KCs—distinguish food-related from non-food odours at the population level. Very happy to see this work published! 🪰🧠 doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

David G. Clark

david-g-clark.bsky.social

01 October 2026 13:52

📣 Multiple Flatiron Research Fellow (FRF) postdoc positions are available in my @flatironinstitute.org group! We've never been better positioned to understand how high-dimensional nonlinear dynamical systems (neural circuits!) compute. If this is as exciting to you as it is to me, consider applying:

Louis Pezon

lpezon.bsky.social

29 September 2026 06:01

How can RNNs re-use the same dynamics across different tasks to implement compositional computation? What are the consequences for network connectivity & activity? If you're interested, come and find out at the Bernstein Conference, poster session III-#48!

gtavosanis.bsky.social

27 September 2026 22:07

Very excited to see @ivychanchiwai.bsky.social PhD work out in Cell Reports @cellreports.bsky.social ! Together with Felipe Kalle Kossio, she reveals the functional consequences of non-random connections in our favorite circuit, the mushroom body calyx of #Drosophila www.cell.com/cell-reports...