Computational / Theoretical / Statistical Neuroscientist. Also @memming.bsky.social Group leader @Neuro_CF (formerly Associate professor @SBUNeurobiology)
Lisbon, Portugal
Joined August 2008
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A new preprint that revives the theory of continous attractors that may be surprising to you! Despite their mathematical fragility, we show that they are functionally *robust*. No wonder we see approximate continuous attractors in neuroscience often. arxiv.org/abs/2408.00109
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Human Self Model for Embodied Intelligence.
Open-source Project-Papers-Code:
lnsgroup.cc/research/MS-Huma…
MS-Human-700: Whole-body Human Musculoskeletal Modeling and Control.
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Hi all, I have a new result I'm excited to share. It turns out that *all existing implementations* of softmax and cross-entropy (that's JAX, PyTorch, textbooks, etc) have a subtle bug --- two bugs, actually. A simple rewrite fixes both, and eliminates "slingshots" when grokking:
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Looking for a PhD program where you can study vision from different perspectives (computer vision, visual neuroscience, visual perception, image processing)? Consider applying to NYU!
visionscience.com/pipermail/…
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Congratulations to @lab_plotkin on the great paper in Neuron! In it, they investigate the connectivity between the amygdala and dorsolateral striatum in a mouse model of OCD. Read more about the work in this @sbunewsdesk feature: news.stonybrook.edu/newsroom…
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1/14 🧠 Our paper is out in Science Advances!
S. Amin Moosavi, Sai Sumedh R. Hindupur, Hideaki Shimazaki
Population coding under the scale invariance of high-dimensional noise
Science Advances 12, eadz9632, 2026
doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adz96…
🎨 Robin Hoshino
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Interested in a #PhD in machine learning & theoretical neuroscience?
Applications for 2027 entry to the Gatsby Unit PhD programme now open!
💰 Fully-funded 4-year programme
🤝 Close links to Sainsbury Wellcome Centre & the ELLIS Unit @ UCL (@uclcsml)
ℹ️ ucl.ac.uk/life-sciences/gats…
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Skirball Theater events will again be streamed live 🖥️: 2026.ccneuro.org/skirball-th…
We aim to provide recordings of all parallel events after the conference.
Full event schedule: 2026.ccneuro.org/schedule-of…
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At 3:45pm we introduce this year's parallel GAC Debates:
Is NeuroAI adopting the right methods & frameworks? 🖥️
Representations or Transformations: What Should Models of Neural Population Activity Explain?
Do World Models emerge in networks trained for prediction?
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1/7 Stop by our #ICML2026 spotlight poster next week!
icml.cc/virtual/2026/poster/…
We unify self-supervised learning (SSL) algorithms: contrastive, VICReg, stopgrad and more, under a single principle: latent distribution matching (LDM).
Paper: openreview.net/forum?id=schX…
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Astera Neuro is hiring! Come join our effort to decipher how activity across billions of neurons becomes the conscious experience of the world and ourselves.
Senior software engineer: jobs.ashbyhq.com/astera/ab15…
Senior mechanical engineer:
jobs.ashbyhq.com/astera/e5d4…
@JedMcCaleb @seemaychou @AsteraInstitute
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🧠🗣️ Ever stumbled over your words, realizing only after speaking them outloud? Your brain might not have followed the plan. New preprint on the neural ensemble organization of speech motor plans and what it means for speech BCIs doi.org/10.64898/2026.04.27.… 1/10
I've been a happy customer of @TheBrainTech product since 2015 or before, using the free tier which had basic cloud sync function. I finally upgraded to the PRO version and paid $200+ and I can no longer use the basic sync function... am I doing something wrong?
If you are at #cosyne2026 come see poster [2-152] Dynamical archetype analysis: Autonomous computation. Ábel Ságodi is presenting how you can compare dynamical systems at behaviorally relevant timescale while keeping the interpretability!
Are you at #cosyne2026 and looking for a postdoc position? We are hiring! Send me a message or find me! catniplab.github.io/postdoc-…
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Happy to share that our new paper is out in Nature Communications with Zoe Ashwood, @IntlBrainLab, and @jpillowtime!
We study how animals switch between internal decision-making states in non-stationary environments using a GLM-HMM framework.
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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Joint junior faculty position in Computational Neuroscience, split between Ctr for Computational Neuroscience at @FlatironInst and the CUNY Graduate Center @GC_CUNY. Application deadline: 16 Jan 2026!
simonsfoundation.org/flatiro…
How can I accelerate breakdown of caffeine in my body? I will need to increase CYP1A2 (P450) activity (without smoking). Vigorous exercise over 30 days was shown to increase it up to 70%? pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1394…
Gonçalo M. Tavares's poetry book, "Mr. Swedenborg and the Geometrical Investigations" is *not* available on amazon.com... ISBN: 9896419981
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