Wilhelm
Applied Mathematician and Theoretical Neuroscientist
Junior Research Group Leader, CAU Kiel, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Information Engineering ⛵️
I mainly post about papers that I read or write.
Homepage: wilhelmbraun.github.io
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- Reposted by WilhelmThis Thursday at 3PM (UTC), we'll host @barabasi.bsky.social at the Making Connections seminar series. I'm sure it'll be a very stimulating and inspiring talk, so if you'd like to join, register via the link below: sites.google.com/view/makingc...
- Reposted by WilhelmThe sleep patterns of jellyfish and sea anemones share similarities with those of humans, according to research published in Nature Communications. The findings support the hypothesis that sleep evolved across a range of species to protect against DNA damage. 🧪
- Teaching linear network analysis without solving a ten-variable system on the blackboard feels incomplete… But saves a lot of chalk.
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- Reposted by WilhelmEvery academic has one superpower: the ability to turn a five-minute task into a three-month digression
- Reposted by WilhelmIf you're interested in dynamical systems analysis for neuroscience, definitely check out @oliviercodol.bsky.social 's revised version of our RL paper! Very cool results in the new Fig 6, worth it regardless of if you saw our previous version or if it's all new. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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- Reposted by WilhelmHaving a PhD means you can find the word “unfortunately” in an email faster that the search function
- Talk announcement (on site/ hybrid): Tuesday, October 28 at 10:00 am. The talk will be given by our guest from Zurich, Prof. Dr. Melika Payvand. The title of the talk is: Physical Computation: From Neural Morphology to Silicon (and beyond) Substrates More details in the attached PDF.
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- Reposted by WilhelmDistributed neural computation and the evolution of the first brains biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
- Reposted by WilhelmCan a single cell learn? Even without a brain, some microbes show simple forms of cognition. Can this basal cognition be engineered? Check our new paper with @jordiplam.bsky.social on the minimal synthetic circuits & their cognitive limits. @drmichaellevin.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by WilhelmSelfishly, I’ll plug our tool LLM agent in system #AmadeusGPT - which lets you vibe code your behavioral analysis ;) and even gives you interpretable and verifiable outputs! www.mackenziemathislab.org/amadeusgpt
- With LLMs, researchers can develop software entirely through natural language conversations. This shift is transforming how research gets done, offering new opportunities and new challenges, writes Benjamin Dichter. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...
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- Reposted by WilhelmWe were asked to write a commentary on NeuroAI for Nat. Rev. Neuro. with Sadra Sadeh, so here it is: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by WilhelmHow does the structure of a neural circuit shape its function? @neuralreckoning.bsky.social & I explore this in our new preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🤖🧠🧪 🧵1/9
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- Do memories need embodiment, but not necessarily neurons? Some hints ⬇️ www.quantamagazine.org/what-can-a-c...
- Reposted by WilhelmI finally had time to update PyCX to ver. 1.2! Many new models and bug fixes. Enjoy!! github.com/hsayama/PyCX
- Reposted by WilhelmWe're hiring,, of interest to people in spiking neural networks and neuromorphic particularly. See below. 👇 Note the deadline for applications is very soon! Apologies for this but various admin necessities made it unavoidable.
- Hiring a post-doc at Imperial in EEE. Broad in scope + flexible on topics: neural networks & new AI accelerators from a HW/SW co-design perspective! w/ @neuralreckoning.bsky.social @achterbrain.bsky.social in Intelligent Systems and Networks group. Plz share! 🚀: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
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- Reposted by WilhelmFinally published: “Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience: overcoming the clash of research cultures” www.nature.com/articles/s41... Looking for ways to better understand different neuroscientific perspectives and enable productive collaborations
- Do you like neuronal networks and maybe also programming? 🧮🕸️💻 I am looking for a research assistant to work on the general topic of neuronal network models, either theoretically or with a link to specific model organisms. Please see below for more details. ⬇️ #research #neuronalnetworks #kiel #cau
- Reposted by WilhelmA gym that you go to but instead of working out you write papers
- Reposted by WilhelmEpisode #30 in #TheoreticalNeurosciencePodcast: On co-dependent excitatory and inhibitory plasticity – with Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social theoreticalneuroscience.no/thn30 How can excitatory and inhibitory synaptic plasticity, co-exist in spiking neural network models? With co-dependence!
- Reposted by WilhelmGot prov. approval for 2 major grants in Neuro-AI & Dynamical Systems Reconstruction, on learning & inference in non-stationary environments, out-of-domain generalization, and DS foundation models. To all AI/math/DS enthusiasts: Expect job announcements (PhD/PostDoc) soon! Feel free to get in touch.
- Reposted by WilhelmHow should #multisensory signals be combined when they are structured in time? To explore this, we: * Introduce a new multisensory task * Compare several models TLDR: * Prior models perform suboptimally * Our new model performs ≈ an RNN, while using less than 1/10th the number of parameters.
- Fusing multisensory signals across channels and time. Now published at PLOS Comp Biol! 🎉 With @swathianil.bsky.social and @marcusghosh.bsky.social. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... TLDR, when multisensory signals vary over time, neural architecture becomes important. Biggest not always best.
- Reposted by Wilhelm✨Excited to share that our new paper is now out in iScience!✨ 🧠 We show that people can coordinate surprisingly well in novel interactions by violating others' expectations - without requiring deep, recursive reasoning about others’ beliefs. 📄 Read the full paper here: www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
- Reposted by Wilhelm🚨Preprint Alert: Who Does What in Deep Learning? Multidimensional Contribution of Neural Units using Game Theory: arxiv.org/abs/2506.19732 The result of my MSc thesis is out with @kayson.bsky.social @fatemehhadaeghi.bsky.social @patrickmineault.bsky.social @kordinglab.bsky.social, Claus C. Hilgetag
- Reposted by WilhelmWonderful work by Shrey and Kayson in developing an XAI method for exploring the contribution of any computational unit (e.g., nodes, experts, communities, filters) within neural networks. It enables analysis of both their influence on each other and their overall impact on task performance.
- 🚨Preprint Alert: Who Does What in Deep Learning? Multidimensional Contribution of Neural Units using Game Theory: arxiv.org/abs/2506.19732 The result of my MSc thesis is out with @kayson.bsky.social @fatemehhadaeghi.bsky.social @patrickmineault.bsky.social @kordinglab.bsky.social, Claus C. Hilgetag
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- Reminder: our workshop at CNS*2025 next week about structure, dynamics and function in neuronal networks- please come along when you are in Florence. sites.google.com/view/cns2025...
- Reposted by Wilhelm90% of doing science is being open to new ideas.
- Reposted by WilhelmPhD/Postdoc position in Computational Neuroscience at the Institute of Neuroinformatics (UZH and ETH Zürich): we are investigating the neural circuits underlying perception and learning in uncertain environments: www.ini.uzh.ch/en/research/... #PhD #ComputationalNeuroscience #UZHZurich #ETHZurich
- We are organizing a workshop at CNS*2025 in Florence, Italy. It will be about structure, dynamics and function in neural networks. Please see the homepage for more details. sites.google.com/view/cns2025...
- What's going on here? www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5nE...
- New paper out today! 🤓
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