Joao Barbosa

A good time to repost this banger from 'The Responsibility of Intellectuals' by Noam Chomsky in '67 Vance is absolutely correct: universities are - and must be - the enemy. This is why the Right is attacking scholarship globally. They want to end the privilege Chomsky's talking about in 67

A reminder, because it is almost that time of year: More children are killed by cars on Halloween than any other day of the year, by far. www.vox.com/future-perfe... If you're a parent, I hope you'll do what you can to keep kids safe. If you're driving on Saturday, PLEASE exercise extra caution.

Multiple faculty positions in neuro at BU bit.ly/4hP8ya0!

He still got it! The neoliberal apocalypse is delayed for a bit longer 🇧🇷

Happy to announce our project on intracranial ephys artifacts is finally out 🙈 doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0295-26.2026 It all began with an observation, are neurons across an entire array synchronizing at 1/30 ms resolution in cortex? Identical waveforms? Revolutionary if true, but... Blueprint!🧵

i've seen the best minds of my generation destroyed by admin

✨Our article was chosen as an Editors’ Highlight at Nature Communications!✨ Check out our work on how “Redundant prefrontal hemispheres adapt storage strategy to working memory demands,” alongside the other exciting featured articles here: www.nature.com/collections/...

OpenAI Pulls Three AI-Generated Math Papers Over Sign Error aiweekly.co/alerts/opena...

None of this year's science Nobel Prizes have gone to women. The number of these prizes to go to women remains at 27 out of more than 600. See how many you can name in our quiz: www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Link to ads: Postdoc position: nextcloud.tuebingen.mpg.de/index.php/s/... PhD position: nextcloud.tuebingen.mpg.de/index.php/s/... We’re also both at @bernsteinneuro.bsky.social and happy to chat!

✨ #TEDx sur les #psychédéliques -- english below Je suis très heureuse de partager le TEDx talk que j'ai donné en janvier dernier sur les "#Psychédéliques, traitements du futur" à l'école AgroParisTech www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2W-...

This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.

📣 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:

To all collaborators inside and outside academia: faculty at Cambridge *do not have money or resources* I know it's hard to believe and it's not a complaint just a fact. We get a few k startup (enough for a computer) and our salary is equivalent to a US postdoc. No institutional money for research.

📣 Save the date! RLDM 2027, the Multi-disciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making, is coming to Paris, July 6-9, 2027 🎉 Stay tuned for submission deadlines and more updates on our website rldm.org 👀

If you are at Bernstein, come by at poster 60 session IV (Wed 2pm), Charlotte will present our results on compositional and abstract representations of social stimuli in the monkey face patch system. Particularly proud of this as it’s the first poster from the first student of the lab 😊

Students sometimes ask me if it still makes sense, in this accelerating age, to pursue a PhD in AI. Perhaps counterintuitively, I think it's a great time to do so. I wrote up some thoughts on this here: web.mit.edu/phillipi/www...

We are thrilled 🥳 to share that we’re joining forces with @roxana-zeraati.bsky.social to establish a joint research unit, @cmc-unit.bsky.social integrating embodied and natural decision making across species! We also have open PhD and postdoc positions (check below for more info) 🎉

What are the dynamics underlying sequence working memory? To found out, we develop and analyse RNNs fitted to multi-session single-unit data of macaques. See my talk Wed 12:00, at @bernsteinneuro.bsky.social. With @jakhmack.bsky.social @mackelab.bsky.social Data from Chen et al., Neuron 2024.

Train your model on a task, or fit it to biological data? And once it's optimized, what does it tell us about the brain? 🧠 In our #BernsteinConference satellite workshop, we'll discuss these questions through the lenses of different optimization methods. Check it out in Room 3.104! 🤓😉

I started researching ML before I built a synth, but you can get a great intuitive understanding of interaction within a generative system by building a modular analog synthesizer and watching how your components interact, and seeing what surprises emerge and what stays predictable as you scale up.

Happy to have this finally out! TL;DR: The evolution of beliefs over time can be formulated as a dynamical system, and OFC neural activity appears to implement this system with its own dynamics. These emerge without explicit supervision—when animals learn to predict value in simple Pavlovian tasks

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I have a postdoc position open in my NeuroAi lab in Vienna 👌👾🧪🧠 And I will be at Bernstein (workshop only), please reach out if you are interested

1/ Conscious AI and Biological Naturalism. A long time in the making, but the full collection is *out now* in Behavioural and Brain Sciences I deeply thank all my many commentators for their wise, broad, and deep opinions on this critical topic.I also thank them for their saintly patience. 🙏🏽

XJ Wang left ?!? What a loss for the US (and NYU) Everyday I get some news that a prominent scientist is leaving. The chaos of the science budget and downfall of the American science are spiralling down very fast. This is disheartening. www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Neuromatch Impact Scholars are smart, dedicated, motivated, and have also gone thru at least one of our courses! Mentoring them can lead to publications and other important outputs! Apply to mentor today -- fantastic opportunity!

The best thing about having to defend another thesis is the opportunity to feel grateful to all the people who have helped me along the way! Thank you for your advice, feedback, moral support, I hope to pay it forward

📢Have work to share with the computational and systems neuroscience community? Abstract submissions for #COSYNE2027 are now open. Deadline: 18 October 2026, 11:59 p.m. AoE Submit your abstract: www.cosyne.org/abstracts-su... #Neuroscience

@sppin-cnrs.bsky.social @cnrs.fr is organizing #NeuralNet2026 in Paris on Nov. 25–27 ! Join the 15th annual meeting of GDR NeuralNet @upcite.bsky.social , bringing together researchers working across systems neuroscience, neural data, computational modeling, NeuroAI & data science.

Maybe the most practical democratic response to AI is to tax the economic value it creates and give that value back to people before human labor loses "too much" of its economic leverage.

If you thought "everything is everywhere" in the brain: inactivations reveal a clear distinction of labor. Sensory areas sense, colliculus promotes eligible actions (!), and prefrontal cortex integrates. The role of superior colliculus in a logistic decision www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

lab-sniping (v): * want problem Z solved? * tweet about how you are kinda making progress on Z using Lab A's model * wait for Lab B to freak out and throw 10,000 agents at it * problem Z solved!

1/2 Why AI is unlikely to become conscious – my 2026 TED talk is now online. What do you think about the prospects for 'conscious AI'? www.ted.com/talks/anil_s...

📣 We're hiring! The Saez Lab at Mount Sinai is seeking a postdoctoral researcher with experience in intracranial recordings, electrophysiology, BCIs, mood disorders, and/or computational modeling, to explore the neural basis of human cognition. 🗓️ Apply by September 30, 2026. Please share widely!