Marcus Ghosh

Now published @commsaicomp.nature.com with @neural-reckoning.org We: 🤖 Define a taxonomy of neural network architectures (here 128 unique structures) 🦾 Train > 25,000 models on different navigation tasks #RL 🧠 Link each architecture's behaviour to its memory dynamics doi.org/10.1038/s444...

In two 1926 articles, Edgar Douglas Adrian revealed that neurons communicate through trains of spikes. @carandinilab.net describes the remarkable discovery and how it shifted focus from the medium (the nerve) to the message (the neural code). #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/history-of-n...

Registration and abstract submission are now open for UCL's NeuroAI conference @ucl-neuroai.bsky.social. Talks from: 🟠 Wolfgang Maass 🟣 @apalmigiano.bsky.social 🔵 Ellie Pavlik 🟠 Bernardo Sabatini 🟣 @nskat.bsky.social 🔵 Eleni Vasilaki And more! gordonstreetticketing.com/event/2026/1...

Gave a talk at the @crick.ac.uk on "Does heterogeneity help the brain and how could we know if it did?" part of a series we organised with @marcusghosh.bsky.social. It was fun to present work aimed at generating discussion. neural-reckoning.org/talk_2026_cr...

Our final workshop will be @crick.ac.uk 🔜 10.09 from 16:00. With a talk and discussion hosted by @neural-reckoning.org on: 🧠 Does heterogeneity help the brain and how could we know if it did? Registration is free but required: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand...

🤖 🧠 🧪 New paper! I'm presenting it TOMORROW at #ALIFE2026! What if a chip could heal itself the way a brain does: not with a spare part, but by rewiring around the wound? Meet Self-Organising Digital Circuits. 👉 self-organising-circuits.github.io/ (go murder some logic gates, I'll explain) 🧵⬇️

New (and updated) preprint is now out!🔬🧠 We propose a hypothesis regarding how the genome, despite its limited information-carrying capacity, can initialize a brain with billions of neurons that comprise a diverse set of functions. Relevant to: #neuroscience #devleopmental-biology Details 👇

What role does Emergence play in Neural Networks? We find that learning emergent low-dimensional representations is key for out-of-distribution generalisation. New Preprint out with @neural-reckoning.org arxiv.org/abs/2607.10430

New preprint (well, very updated). 🤖🧠🧪 We find that an abstract model of neuromodulation lets spiking neural networks perform much better, particularly in challenging noisy environments, using less energy. Relevant to #neuroscience and #neuromorphic computing. 🧵👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Had a great time teaching on this years @trendcamina.bsky.social summer school in Kenya! With @skuechenhoff.bsky.social, @sejdevries.bsky.social, @tomnotgeorge.bsky.social, @jsoldadomagraner.bsky.social, @akoumoundourou.bsky.social and many more.

Our next workshop will be at @imperial-ix.bsky.social -> 16.07 from 16:00 With a talk and discussion hosted by @sdrsd.bsky.social Registration is free, but required! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand... See you there

If you're in London and want to sit in air conditioning (so I am told) tomorrow afternoon, you can also get a free lecture out of it! Come join me to talk about consciousness, neuroscience, & adversarial collaborations tomorrow afternoon at the Crick! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand...

New neuromorphic/SNN paper with @pengfei-sun.bsky.social Zhe Su, @achterbrain.bsky.social @giacomoi.bsky.social and @danakarca.bsky.social: www.nature.com/articles/s42... Long story short: neat trick to augment SNNs with a tiny memory buffer to improve performance at low energy/param cost. 🤖🧠🧪

Our next workshop will be at the @crick.ac.uk -> 25.06 from 16:00 With a talk and discussion hosted by @meganakpeters.bsky.social Registration is free, but required! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand... See you there

Really enjoyed teaching students as part of the African Computational Neuroscience Educational Initiative (www.acnei.org)! Looking forward to @trendcamina.bsky.social soon too

Excited to be a part of this! If you'll be at OHBM come along @ohbmofficial.bsky.social @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social

Some incredibly exciting news that still feels a bit surreal: I am starting my research group @mpicybernetics.bsky.social! The best part? We are hiring at all levels! Curious about the science we plan to tackle, read along :) #NeuroSky

Our next workshop will be on May 14th - hosted by @flor-iacaruso.bsky.social Come along for some great discussion on building better experiment-theory collaborations in neuroscience! Registration is free, but required

Next meeting in this series is this Thursday 4.30pm at Crick institute with Caswell Barry @caswell.bsky.social presenting work on place and grid cells, and how to integrate theory and experiment better. Free registration, free food and free thinking. 😉

Had great fun discussing some recent work and the value of toy models in neuroscience last night! Our next workshop will be: * 16.04 * 16-20:30 * At the Crick Sign up (for free) and come along! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand...

If you're in London next Thursday afternoon/evening, come along to our seminar/workshop on how to get theory and experiment working together better in neuroscience. There'll be a short talk by @marcusghosh.bsky.social on "A taxonomy of recurrence" (see below) and a long discussion with free food.

If you want to tackle the "biggest problem holding neuroscience back right now" - comparing mechanisms of cognition across species - join us in @ox.ac.uk and @tcddublin.bsky.social . Please share! 3x Job Details below: (fantastic article @suthanalab.bsky.social ) #neuroskyence #neurojobs

Had a great week teaching at The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in Cape Town! With fellows from @schmidtsciences.bsky.social

PhD opportunity in "The role of neural development in multimodal intelligence" with me, @marcusghosh.bsky.social and @flor-iacaruso.bsky.social. Read details below 👇. Note there's a very short window for applying (deadline Feb 27). 🤖🧠🧪 www.imperial.ac.uk/school-of-co...

I’m a bit late to reading this article by @marcusghosh.bsky.social in the @thetransmitter.bsky.social I really enjoyed it. I’m definitely pro toy mathematical models, I believe they can be informative and push research forward.

Happy to share our preprint with @neworderofjamie.bsky.social , @danakarca.bsky.social and @drtnowotny.bsky.social ! We’ve been working on a neuron position learning algorithm by coupling space and time! See manuscript below 👇

Come do your PhD with me and @ktsetsos.bsky.social ! It's such an exciting time for cognitive and computational neuroscience at @tcddublin.bsky.social . And in this PhD you get to do both!

For the first Learning Club @cmc-lab.bsky.social in 2026, @marcusghosh.bsky.social on Jan 15, Thu, 2pm CET, will tell us about his recent paper (👇) [joint work w/ @neural-reckoning.org]. Want to attend, send an empty email to virtual talk-link-request@cmclab.org to get the link!

Just published my review of neuroscience in 2025, on The Spike. The 10th of these, would you believe? This year we have foundation models, breakthroughs in using light to understand the brain, a gene therapy, and more Enjoy! medium.com/the-spike/20...

Adam Kampff prioritized spreading knowledge over publishing flashy papers in prestigious journals, but colleagues say his mark on neuroscience was undeniable. The researcher and educator passed away on 9 December. By Lauren Schneider www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...

Toy models, just in time for Christmas! Excited to share my first article for @thetransmitter.bsky.social #neuroskyence

I'm excited to be teaching with @trendcamina.bsky.social again this summer. Come along!

🚨new work with the dream team @danakarca.bsky.social @loopyluppi.bsky.social @fatemehhadaeghi.bsky.social @stuartoldham.bsky.social @duncanastle.bsky.social We use game theory and show the brain is not optimally wired for communication and there’s more to its story: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Adam was a truly inspiring scientist. He made neuroscience fun and exciting, and made everything seem possible. The Behaviour and Neural Systems course was formative for many of us. The photo below is from my time @champalimaudr.bsky.social in 2016.

Finally got the job ad—looking for 2 PhD students to start spring next year: www.gao-unit.com/join-us/ If comp neuro, ML, and AI4Neuro is your thing, or you just nerd out over brain recordings, apply! I'm at neurips. DM me here / on the conference app or email if you want to meet 🏖️🌮

📍Excited to share that our paper was selected as a Spotlight at #NeurIPS2025! arxiv.org/pdf/2410.03972 It started from a question I kept running into: When do RNNs trained on the same task converge/diverge in their solutions? 🧵⬇️

We're almost at the end of the year, and that means an end-of-year review! Send me your favorite NeuroAI papers of the year (preprints or published, late last year is fine too).

🔥 Big news! #TReNDCaMiNA 2026 is back! Heading to the cool highlands of Nyeri at @DeKUTkenya 🗓️ Appl open: 15 Dec 2025 – 26 Jan 2026 💻 Learn #compneuro & ML in a refreshing environment. 🔗 Details & application in the link 📣 Share & tag friends! trendinafrica.org/trend-camina/

Psst - neuromorphic folks. Did you know that you can solve the SHD dataset with 90% accuracy using only 22 kb of parameter memory by quantising weights and delays? Check out our preprint with @pengfei-sun.bsky.social and @danakarca.bsky.social, or read the TLDR below. 👇🤖🧠🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2510.27434

Interested in #neuroscience + #AI and looking for a PhD position? I can support your application @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social ✅ Check your eligibility (below) ✅ Contact me (DM or email) UK nationals: www.imperial.ac.uk/life-science... Otherwise: www.imperial.ac.uk/study/fees-a...

Are #NeuroAI and #AINeuro equivalent? @rdgao.bsky.social draws a nice distinction between the two. And introduces Gao's second law: “Any state-of-the-art algorithm for analyzing brain signals is, for some time, how the brain works.” Part 1: www.rdgao.com/blog/2024/01...

New preprint! What happens if you add neuromodulation to spiking neural networks and let them go wild with it? TLDR: it can improve performance especially in challenging sensory processing tasks. Explainer thread below. 🤖🧠🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Truly honored (and a little overwhelmed) to see our work featured in The Transmitter's "This Paper Changed My Life." Huge thanks to @neural-reckoning.org for the kind words - and to our amazing community that keeps pushing spiking neural network research forward 🙏