"you can't version-lock intelligence that doesn't actually **understand** what it is doing". LLM s don't *understand* the world like we do. What are the real ingredients of understanding? blog.dileeplearning.com/p/in…

Fun collaboration with @andpru @AntoineComite @hariteja11 on the merits of infinite horizon control model: how does the brain select a movement time? Infinite horizon control captures modulation of movement duration in reaching movements biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

What creates sustained economic growth? This year’s laureates used different methods to answer this question. Through his research in economic history, Joel Mokyr – awarded the 2025 prize in economic sciences – has demonstrated that a continual flow of useful knowledge is necessary. This useful knowledge has two parts: the first is what Mokyr refers to as propositional knowledge, a systematic description of regularities in the natural world that demonstrate why something works; the second is prescriptive knowledge, such as practical instructions, drawings or recipes that describe what is necessary for something to work. Mokyr used historical sources as one means to uncover the causes of sustained growth becoming the new normal. He demonstrated that if innovations are to succeed one another in a self-generating process, we not only need to know that something works, but we also need to have scientific explanations for why. The latter was often lacking prior to the industrial revolution, which made it difficult to build upon new discoveries and inventions. He also emphasised the importance of society being open to new ideas and allowing change. #NobelPrize

Excited to share my latest work with @JonAMichaels @DiedrichsenJorn & @andpru! We asked: How does the motor cortex account for arm posture when generating movement? Paper 👉 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

We recently published a predictive theory of locomotor adaptation to novel environments, capturing learning and generalization phenomena in >10 experiments: nature.com/articles/s41467-0… I'm honored to be on the 2025 Innovators Under 35 list for this work. ter.li/7c0jek

Random neural tuning curves yield hyper-accurate coding: sciencedirect.com/science/ar… With Simone Blano Malerba @SimoneBlanco6, Mirko Pieropan, and Yoram Burak @yoramburak.

There's a trend on TikTok where people are telling their cat adoption stories through slideshows and it flattens me every time with the sweetness and kindness and empathy and love. One girl adopted a 22-year old cat thinking he would live a few months (figuring she would make his last months beautiful) and the cat lived four more years to be her soulmate. Then when he died, a kitten showed up in the garden WITH THE SAME MARKINGS. My heart heart cannot take this trend 🥹😭

A Bayesian Interpretation of the Internal Model Principle arxiv.org/abs/2503.00511

A homeless man has captured the attention of thousands, not for begging, but for the way he rocks his dog to sleep every night. When asked why, he explained that life hadn’t always been this way. “When I first got him, we had an apartment,” he said softly. “Living on the street has been a hard adjustment for him. The honking, the sirens, the people, it keeps him up. So every night, I make sure he’s asleep before I close my eyes.” #dog #wholesome #dogs #doglover

My favorite kinds of scientists are 1) Crazy enough to publish a paper where you give ecstasy to octopuses and study their social behavior 2) Detail-oriented enough to specify in the figure that 30 minutes is exactly 1800 seconds cell.com/current-biology/ful…

A very cool new finding from our lab! During a cooperative sensorimotor task, we show that involuntary visuomotor feedback responses reflect a representation of a partner. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… Led by the extremely talented, @SethSullivan_

How do animals stay precise when their whole brain heats up or cools down? Larval zebrafish hunt accurately across a 10°C range. What enables such stability? What mechanism might support it? #zebrafish #neuroscience #temperature @STishbyTamari @ELSCbrain doi.org/10.1101/2025.07.20.6…

What's the relationship between our feeling of motion (vection) and our perception of motion (distance traveled)? Are they related? Find out in our latest paper! @royalsociety doi.org/10.1098/rsos.250364

Check out my colleague, Meaghan McManus’ latest paper with Katja Fiehler! 👇

Excellent example of the core issue I was trying to get at wrt "virtual cells" - optimizing a prediction objective will not necessarily provide an accurate representation of physical or biological phenomena. It's extremely important to be very clear about this. 1/

In Maastricht for @ISPGR, come check our work this afternoon ! P02-M-100 by Clémence Vandamme

Interference between flexible and adaptive reaching control biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… #biorxiv_neursci

We successfully hosted the Tamagawa Brain Science Training Course! Participants engaged in a wide range of hands-on sessions, exploring both basic and advanced topics in neuroscience research. We’re already looking forward to next year!👉 Course Info (tamagawa.brainsci.net/Traini…)

Find out why it's so hard to make decisions during time limits in this @UDelaware #ArticleinPress, #Indecision under time pressure arises from suboptimal switching behaviour (Seth R. Sullivan et al.): ow.ly/UsOG50WbA64

BBC Wildlife Crew Broke the "No-Intervention" Rule to Save Trapped Penguins