The Viking (Gunnar Blohm)

📣 Some really cool and interesting positions here. ♥️ Be part of an amazing team and professional network. 👇

We are hiring at @neuromatch.bsky.social ! Come join us to help build the Computational Behaviour course!!

#roses are going strong despite nightly frosts... 🥰 #bloomscrolling

A talk I gave at NYU on my proximity-guided iterative natural kinds strategy for discovering what consciousness is & who has it: a statistical demonstration of why anybody saying they've found reliable indicators/evidence of C in AI is out of their mind #consciousness #AI #noClaudeisntconscious

Three reasons why AI is not conscious and perhaps never will be www.nature.com/articles/d41... - I have to say I find these arguments (by @anilseth.bsky.social, @neddo.bsky.social and G. Tononi) unconvincing... 🧵

📣 I'd encourage all European citizens to sign the "rights for nature" initiative! 🙏 www.rightsfornature.eu Ensure that nature can fight back against corporations and bad actors destroying our most fundamental and important resources.

📣 I'd encourage all European citizens to sign the "rights for nature" initiative! 🙏 www.rightsfornature.eu Ensure that nature can fight back against corporations and bad actors destroying our most fundamental and important resources.

Carnegie Mellon is hiring an Assistant Professor in NeuroAI 🧠🤖 Work across ML/AI, robotics, systems & cognitive neuroscience, and neurotech, with joint and courtesy appointments common at the Neuroscience Institute. Details + apply: apply.interfolio.com/189268 #NeuroAI #AcademicSky #FacultyJobs

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Please consider signing! @arxiv.bsky.social

Fascinating insights into the early history of Zotero, including the fact that the name is the Albanian word for "to learn well or master". Hats off to everyone involved in this project. Also if you're not using Zotero, why not? Dump that closed rubbish you're using now and switch.

Beautiful Fall #roses. I wish y'all could smell their amazing fragrance... 🤤

📣 New preprint from the lab! 🎉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Very extremely proud of @khoudary.bsky.social's beautiful work on this true tour de force! Congratulations on getting it out!

But remember, this is clearly an industry that does not need to be regulated because it can police itself. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/t...

To be honest the distinction between a sham scientific society and a real one feels blurry to me. I was advised to join IEEE hoping that at some point they'll give me an award or title for my CV. But you pay thousands of $ over a career for this. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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The superposition of these two studies — both incredible — reflect a snapshot of "one big thing" systems neuroscience has yet to resolve. In mice: 1. Task-related signals are everywhere. 2. Absent large swaths of "everywhere," suprisingly sophisticated learning & behavior remains.

My #roses like the cooler weather...

𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻’𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴-𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘀 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀? We find evidence of both smooth and sharp transitions; latter sharply altered brain dynamics in as few as 1 time step. Link below -->

More discoveries like this every day... 😡 techcrunch.com/2026/09/17/o...

Over the past few days, I've taken the time to summarize my thoughts on the recent incidents involving agents’ misaligned behavior. We don't know with certainty what comes next, but we know where these issues originate, and this can help us plan the path forward.

As part of the @connectedminds.bsky.social program, we have researched better ways to approach co-creation in transdisciplinary settings. See preprint here: osf.io/preprints/so...

As part of the @connectedminds.bsky.social program, we have researched better ways to approach co-creation in transdisciplinary settings. See preprint here: osf.io/preprints/so...

Social Psychology: US: 23 CA: 2 Cognitive Psychology US: 36 CA: 1 (* no grad program) Same story for the past three years: ~1 Canadian job per year for cognitive psych/neuro. Amazing arbitrage opportunity for Canadian U15 schools to start hiring cog again!

Former Canada Prime Minister Jean Chrétien: "I have message for American friends...never mistake our generosity for weakness. Never mistake our tolerance for lack of determination. And never, never mistake our kindness for softness...We bow to no one."

Such a Powerful Speech, it reflects who We Are. I remember 911 I spent 2 days not even getting dressed watching the news in horror crying at the loss to American lives. How far we have come now, "Lest We Forget" is not for a Single Event but a Shared Journey. youtu.be/a0hi7zuk3wY?...

"SPAIN is leading calls for the EU to tax private jets and the profits of fossil fuel companies to bankroll a Europe-wide climate resilience fund, including extra money to fight wildfires" Excellent idea, and importantly, avoids the Norway problem where widespread fossil $$ makes us ❤️🛢️

www.techradar.com/pro/rare-bac...

You know who actually did show up at Ground Zero? Canadian emergency rescue crews.

This was a fun one to write! Check it out if you want my (not-so-spicy) take on the recurring discussions about dimensionality in neural activity.

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How polarization might form in society: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... TL;Dr - it's about the number of social connections we have. Possible explanation for why social media rise coincides with increased polarization...

I've been pondering this for some time...

In this episode of @braininspired.bsky.social, @dlevenstein.bsky.social explains how internally generated brain activity during sleep shapes our cognition, and why NeuroAI is such a powerful approach to understanding our brains. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspir...

Here is my letter to the MacDonald Laurier Institute on the subject of their appalling research. Use as you will. I recommend sending something of your own, though. And if you know anyone associated with MLI - and Board directors, say - send it to them, too.

I just took a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social survey: Help shape E4D’s submission on AI transparency. Take it here: actionnetwork.org/surveys/help...

🤔 Could AI systems ever be welfare subjects? 🎥 New recording! As part of our AI Sentience Scholars program, Winnie Street and Geoff Keeling (Google Research) explore "Emerging Questions in AI Welfare" youtu.be/9PrjIULcUJs #AISentience #Neuroscience #AI #AIWelfare

Great now fund the scientific enterprise.

I'm serious, this needs to stop. Journal EICs, we need new policies or reviewers will choke to death on 30 page papers that should just be 10.

This is really bad. We need mandatory retirement (maybe with some special, but rare exceptions)

Thread. I have yet to see a proper explanation of how LLMs actually work that is targeted to an informed general audience. So here is an explainer that I put together along with Tim @countzerozzz (inspired by @CIFAR_News LMB discussions).

Before Europeans arrived, these were some of the names for The Great Lakes: Superior: gichi-gami (great sea) Erie: erielhonan (long tail) Michigan: michigami (long body of water) Ontario: Ontarí'io\kanadario (great lake\beautiful water) Huron: karegnondi (fresh water sea)

With agentic AI’s rapid infiltration into science, researchers need to develop AI use policies and practices, writes @nicoschuck.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/artificial-i...

USians making it about themselves: "Half of us didn't vote for this! Be nice to us!" The world: "Half of you did vote for it. Twice. And probably will again. And your institutions and supposed opposition party do nothing to stop it. Sorry not sorry if your feelings are hurt."