Mattia Rigotti

📢 Bad news for my (very few) followers! I just verified my 🦋Bluesky handle. So expect shitposting to massively decrease in proportion to the decrease in plausible deniability of my content 😅

Interested in a Ph.D. in comp neuro? Consider applying to CU Anschutz. Our community is growing with groups led by Nick Lesica, @teissa.bsky.social , Christopher Cueva, and myself! Topics: neural dynamics, circuit & behavioral modeling, neuroAI, closed-loop neurostim. Links below #CompNeuro #NeuroAI

Re-post 🔁 is appreciated! #neurojobs: we’re looking for new team members to join us @cmc-unit.bsky.social!
If you’d like to study decision-making in naturalistic & embodied contexts (integrating RL, RNNs & cross-species data analysis) in a cool & collaborative research environment 😎, check 👇

The backstory: Ukrainian drones struck a Yandex supercomputer facility in Vladimir, taking it out. Suddenly, bot activity in US social media fell by 49%, confirming suspicions that this was the site of a massive Russian influence operation targeting US social media—mostly targeting MAGA.

Michael Jordan (the machine learning one): "Superintelligence is Science Fiction" 🔥🔥🔥 www.di.ens.fr/~fbach/MJord...

Re-post 🔁 is appreciated! #neurojobs: we’re looking for new team members to join us @cmc-unit.bsky.social!
If you’d like to study decision-making in naturalistic & embodied contexts (integrating RL, RNNs & cross-species data analysis) in a cool & collaborative research environment 😎, check 👇

Finally, we can go back to calling it 'machine learning'!

The one and only Michael Jordan was interviewed last week by the French newspaper Libération. Here is an English translation. Enjoy! www.di.ens.fr/~fbach/MJord...

new wolfenstein looks like shit

This is how AI will kill us all

The pope just got... schmidhuber'd

🏹 Job alert: AI/ML Postdoctoral Fellow at the Francis Crick Institute 📍 London 🇬🇧 ⏰ 22 November 🔗 https://bit.ly/47mm6Vv

🏹 Job alert: Postdoc AI/ML methods for target identification for neuropsychiatric diseases at Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) 📍 Leiden 🇳🇱 ⏰ 16 October 🔗 https://bit.ly/4xBKi0U

🏹 Job Alert: 3-years PhD position in probabilistic machine learning and statistics 📍 Oslo 🇳🇴 ⏰ 4 October 🔗 https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/307053/3-years-phd-position-in-probabilistic-machine-learning-and-statistics

We're hiring in Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder! ☀️⛰️ Machine learning and NLP people, please apply!

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...

Advice for new PhD students: choose a mentor who is committed to your training, not just your project. The most important product of your PhD - even more important than the science - is YOU, a newly trained scientist.

Noticing my feelings about LLMs and 'AI' converging on how I feel about Rick & Morty: genuinely interesting, constantly surprising, and full of wild new possibilities... BUT burdened with one of the most exhausting, uncritical and toxic fanbases on the internet 🤷

It's the only global what....?

We are hiring a full professor for "Intelligence in biological and artificial systems". If you don't know about the German system yet, let me tell you a little bit about working as a professor at the institute. Thread 👇

Every time I’m disappointed in claude code, I try to remind myself that no one could be more disappointed than Ray Kurzweil when he realized our best hope for AGI is an AI that closes github issues and knows that if you're going to a car wash, you’d better take your car

Throughout history, persecuting scientists for saving lives is a frightening marker for the collapse of a society.

arXiv now hosts OVER 3 million scientific articles! 🤯 arXiv reached the 2 million article mark back in 2022 - it's only taken 4 years to add another million. Read more on the blog about this milestone and our record-bre... https://blog.arxiv.org/2026/07/09/arxiv-now-hosts-over-3-million-articles/

Hello world! 👋 We’re Minds, Machines, and Brains (MMB) 👤🤖🧠 a new open access journal from @mitpress.bsky.social exploring the principles of intelligence and cognition across natural and artificial minds. Submissions open this Fall! 🔗 direct.mit.edu/mmb

careers.tudelft.nl/job/Delft-As...

Most neurons seem to be generalists, not specialists. Cortical circuits prioritize diversity over categorical structure. Rarely categorical, highly separable representations along the cortical hierarchy www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience www.newscientist.com/article/2581...

Went on X a sec to check who else finds the #NeurIPS2026 multi-phase rebuttal utterly confusing. Didn't find anything useful, but now I know everything about the AfD, Nigel Farage, and apparently everyone is obsessed with Helen of Troy's skin complexion 🤷

Applications for the @sfiscience.bsky.social Santa Fe Institute's amazing Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships, including the Omidyar Fellowships, are now open. The deadline for applications is September 30th.

Admirable clarity @science.org

Part of my reason for being so vehemently opposed to people remaining on Twitter is that I know Elon also understands this and intends to build Grok around this principle

Alfred Nobel established the Nobel Prize after wake up call: newspapers mistakenly published his obituary when his brother died & what he read as his legacy horrified him speaking ill (factually) of the dead is literally the most effective way to curb living racist & Nazi public figures/politicians

“Climate scientists appalled by politicians' refusal to accept responsibility as heatwave hits France… They say that years of warnings issued from scientists about the consequences of global warming have not been taken seriously.” #France #ClimateCrisis #UrbanHeat

In light of the ongoing situation with Ebola in the DRC, I'm sorry to have to remind you that evolutionary biology makes it abundantly clear that ignoring a catastrophic disease outbreak because it's there, not here, is a terrible, terrible idea.

irony is dead futurism.com/artificial-i...

On the left is an Onion headline from March. On the right is Reuters, today.

Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

there is only one correct way to redesign GitHub and this is it

Last year my book The Animal and the Thinker came out. Basic idea – how the operating principles of instinct and reason together answer big human questions. Right and wrong. Culture wars. Family and work. The meaning of life. That sort of thing. Now as an add-on I’m starting a blog…

yeah i bet a car would have won too

Brain-inspired warm-up training with random noise for uncertainty calibration Another article on using noise for calibration in DNN. Love to see this. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

"To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago." If you think it is necessary to be on Twitter to communicate your fact-based worldview, the reality is that worldview is being smothered.

🏹 Job alert: PhD Position in Open-World Robot Learning at University of Freiburg 📍 Freiburg 🇩🇪 ⏰ Apply by 30 June 🔗 https://bit.ly/47DgiYo

Wanna do neuroscience in Paris but can't find interesting lab? Want to come do a sabbatical but don't know who to collaborate? Check this webpage aggregating ~all the neuroscience labs (+200) in Paris. ⚠️only the information of 'verified' profiles is reliable⚠️ Please retweet 🙏 parisneuro.fr

The Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony Is Moving to Europe (after 35 years in the USA) improbable.com/2026/03/10/t...

⚠️ #CCN2026 submissions close soon! → GACs, Keynotes, Tutorials & Community Events: March 31 (AoE) → Extended Abstracts: April 2 (AoE) CCN brings together cognitive science, neuroscience, and AI to discuss the computations underlying complex behavior. Submit your work now!