Sara A Solla
Professor, Northwestern University
Computational neuroscience | Neural manifolds
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- Reposted by Sara A SollaFull survey results show American public have high levels of confidence in scientists while revealing some partisan differences (including on how to fund science), but statements asserting lost trust should be read instead as intentional efforts to degrade trust. www.pewresearch.org/science/2026...
- Reposted by Sara A SollaWow! Yay! The Senate just rejected Trump’s proposed science cuts, voting 82–15 to boost funding for NOAA, NASA, and the NSF. The bill already passed the House 397–28. Strong bipartisan support for science still exists.
- Reposted by Sara A SollaThank you Vishal Mathur for choosing “What Is Intelligence?” as your favorite read from 2025! I really enjoyed our conversation for @hindustan-times.bsky.social last October on how prediction is fundamental to intelligence.
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- Reposted by Sara A SollaAre you a journalist looking to deepen your understanding of complex systems? Join the 2026 CSSS Journalism Fellowship at SFI, offering a space to study complexity alongside researchers and reflect on science communication from within the field. Apply by Feb. 4, 2026 santafe.edu/journalism-f...
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- Reposted by Sara A SollaMove over ReLU 🚀 Meet **ReSU** (Rectified Spectral Unit): a biologically inspired, self-supervised unit for learning from dynamical data. A backprop-free multilayer ReSU network learns predictive features and recapitulates *Drosophila* vision. To appear at AAAI: arxiv.org/abs/2512.23146
- Reposted by Sara A SollaEpisode #36 in #TheoreticalNeurosciencePodcast: On low-dimensional manifolds in motor cortex – with Sara Solla @sasolla.bsky.social theoreticalneuroscience.no/thn36 Manifold analysis has changed our thinking on how cortex works. One of the pioneers of this modelling approach explains.
- Reposted by Sara A SollaApplications open for SFI’s 2026 GWCSS program, a 2-week workshop for Ph.D. students and early-career scholars to explore complex systems and computation, collaborate on challenges, and advance their research with support from SFI faculty. Apply by Feb 4, 2026 www.santafe.edu/gwcss
- Reposted by Sara A SollaThe @nytimes.com Lost Science series continues. Here's my Q&A with a scientist who was studying how wildfire smoke threatens human health when the EPA decided that her research was no longer a funding priority. Gift link: nyti.ms/4jhpw14
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- Reposted by Sara A SollaDelighted to talk at Brown about our self-supervised neuronal algorithm for modeling biological circuits—and challenging backprop along the way. Thanks to @leokoz8 for the kind invitation! youtu.be/AF3Uhrm__U4?...
- Reposted by Sara A SollaBiological neurons cluster dynamical stimulus trajectories to predict what’s coming and infer what just happened. If you’re at NeurIPS, stop by our poster #2107 — on display now until 2pm
- Reposted by Sara A SollaInterested in algorithmic neuron models and learning rules at the intersection of neuroscience, AI, dynamical systems, and control theory? Have a PhD in neuroscience, physics, EE, or math? Consider joining us: apply.interfolio.com/173400 If you’re at NeurIPS, feel free to DM me.
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- Reposted by Sara A Solla🚨Job alert🚨 The lab has up to *3 postdoc openings* for comp systems neuroscientists interested in describing and manipulating neural population dynamics mediating behaviour This is part of a collaborative ARIA grant "4D precision control of cortical dynamics" euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/383909
- Reposted by Sara A SollaFor children and teens, heart and blood vessel complications of Covid overshadow the very rare and short-term risk of vaccinations, a new report from nearly 14 million kids www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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- So my reviewers were bots before we knew bots existed?
