Vincent Giampietro

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Certainly an interesting thread to go with the beautiful London weather out there...

Goal-directed learning in cortical organoids Robbins et al. demonstrate goal-directed learning in cortical organoids embodied in a virtual pole-balancing task. Adaptive electrical training significantly outperforms random or null paradigms, with...

The little guys are learning now. Come on cortical organoids, we need you strong to fight AI!

A tweet that reads "love finding out someone used to be goth. Cause it means one day they looked in the mirror and said 'know what? I'm really not this spooky'"

We never retire, we just fade away like our treasured t-shirts

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Just received the new book @neilcohn.bsky.social. I am looking forward to delve in it, as ChatGPT would say!

From data to Viz - Find the graphic you need #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78858 Tom Woodward links to three interesting graphing resources in one post.

If you’re going to write a tutorial paper describing a tool or method, it makes a world of difference showing the paper to someone unfamiliar with the tool and asking them to recreate the examples. Some of these papers can be really tricky to follow

Promotional image for the book Speaking in Pictures by Neil Cohn

After taking 7 years to write and draw, my new graphic novel, Speaking in Pictures, about language, cognition, comics, and visual communication is out in less than a week! At long last! www.visuallanguagelab.com/sip

(Early) Congratulations! I am looking forward to it.

A safe and nurturing environment is key to promoting youth mental health. On this #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek we recommit to finding out what promotes resilience in children and young people - find out more about our research here: www.qmul.ac.uk/wiph/centres...

Two beautiful songs in a single post!

Interesting thread to start the day with! I think that I will wait to have breakfast first before looking at the articles...

BNA Members' Meeting 2026 NOW CALLING FOR SUBMISSIONS UNTIL 10TH FEBRUARY. This is a meeting by members for members; an opportunity to get together to discuss your research and your plans for future work.

Abstracts close 10 February!

BNA members are invited to submit abstracts for the BNA Members’ Meeting 2026 (22–23 April, online).

A great chance to share your work, get feedback, and connect with the neuroscience community.

Submit here: www.bna.org.uk/events/ems-e...

Irony alert: Anthropic helps UK.gov to build chatbot for job seekers The jobs that will be eradicated by our AI overlords The UK government will work with supplier Anthropic to build an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant for job seekers, despite its chief executive’s doom-laden views of the job market.…

Irony alert: Anthropic helps UK.gov to build chatbot for job seekers

Chickens Prefer Beautiful Humans. Do Humans Prefer Beautiful Chickens? “Chickens Prefer Beautiful Humans”, according to the title of the research study by Stefano Ghirlanda, Liselotte Jansson, and Magnus Enquist of Stockholm University, honored by the 2003…

This is not something that I ever found myself thinking about, but now I am curious...

Cursor is better at marketing than coding Opinion: Autonomous agents may generate millions of lines of code, but shipping software is another matter

Is anyone really surprised by this? "So I agree this isn't just wiring up of dependencies, and neither is it copied from existing implementations: it's a uniquely bad design that could never support anything resembling a real-world web engine." by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols in @theregister.com

Essential reading these days...

I think we're currently in the "radium skin cream" phase with AI.

When we discovered radioactivity, people tried to cram into everything, and it didn't end well.

AI is a discovery at least as important as radioactivity, and at least as dangerous.

It is great to see the return of the mighty @thevinylvault.bsky.social ! I am looking forward to more banter and fierce musical debates!

A Brief History of Surrealist Art: From the Bible and Ancient Egypt to Salvador Dalí’s Dream Worlds The term surrealism — or rather, surréalisme — originates from the French words for 'beyond reality.' That's a zone, we may assume, reachable by only daring, and possibly unhinged, artistic minds. But...

A Brief History of Surrealist Art: From the Bible and Ancient Egypt to Salvador Dalí’s Dream Worlds

🔬 Beginner-friendly #microscopy training with Dr Adrian Garcia-Burgos from @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social

#Undergrads, #PhD students, #postdocs & #ECRs welcome. Hands-on guidance, imaging & analysis skills.

Secure your spot 👇
www.bna.org.uk/events/ems-e...

#ResearchTraining

With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world:
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.

My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.

Distinct AI Models Seem To Converge On How They Encode Reality | Quanta Magazine Is the inside of a vision model at all like a language model? Researchers argue that as the models grow more powerful, they may be converging toward a singular “Platonic” way to represent the world.

Nice one: "“Anna Karenina scenario” a nod to the opening line of the classic Tolstoy novel: Perhaps successful AI models are all alike, and every unsuccessful model is unsuccessful in its own way."

WARN-D machine learning competition is live » Eiko Fried If you share one single thing of our team in 2026—on social media or per email with your colleagues—please let it be this machine learning competition. It was half a decade of work to get here, especi...

After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data.

If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition.

eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...

Can We Introspectively Test the Global Workspace Theory of Consciousness?

Interesting to see that things haven't moved much since I was a student. We still debate global workspace theory of consciousness despite decades of neuroscience/psychology research on the topic: "Shouldn't the difference be as obvious as peering through a keyhole versus standing in an open field?"

I taught an octopus piano (It took 6 months) YouTube video by Mattias Krantz

Fun way to spend 18 minutes during these liminal days when we don't even know what day of the week it is, and we don't care.

How Word Gaps Transformed Reading and Writing The introduction of spaces between words revolutionized reading and writing, transforming how individuals engage with texts and think. This innovation facilitated silent reading, deep reflection, and personal expression in writing. It reshaped the human brain, fostering complex thought and literary consciousness, ultimately enhancing both comprehension and creativity in communication.

The introduction of spaces between words revolutionized reading and writing, transforming how individuals engage with texts and think. This innovation facilitated silent reading, deep reflection, and personal expression in writing.

BNA in Parliament: A Festive End to a Busy Year BNA Joins Christmas Parliamentary Science Reception at the House of Commons.

Last week, the BNA joined the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee's Christmas Reception to champion UK #neuroscience, celebrate our members’ achievements, and highlight key policy priorities. Read more:
www.bna.org.uk/resource/bna...

What a sad state of affairs...

I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. My all-in AI experiment cost me my confidence

Enough said: "The developers can’t debug code they didn’t write. Product managers can’t explain decisions they didn’t make. Leaders can’t defend strategies they didn’t develop" & "The developers who’ve been using AI since day one won’t have the architectural understanding to teach" by Josh Anderson.