Gonzalo de Polavieja
Scientist at Champalimaud Foundation (polaviejalab.org) and co-founder of Algebraic AI (algebraic.ai). #Maths4AI #AI4Science, #BehaviorAI #NeuroAI #CognitionAI #CollectiveBehavior
- Reposted by Gonzalo de PolaviejaExcited to return to Lisbon this June for the epic 3-week Cajal course on Quantitative Approaches to Behavior and VR! 🐀🐟🪰🏃♀️🎥🖥📈🧪 Applications are open through Feb 13! Come join us. cajal-training.org/on-site/quan...
- Reposted by Gonzalo de Polaviejawww.cell.com/cell/fulltex... We had a lot of fun working on this project (led by Itzel Ishida, not on bluesky). Some interesting highlights from the paper -
- Call is out for Champalimaud International Neuroscience Doctoral Programme 2026! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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- Reposted by Gonzalo de PolaviejaSad to hear that Margaret Boden, pioneer in cognitive science and artificial intelligence, has passed away. Just a few days ago, someone reactivated the post below. I warmly recommend watching the video. Thank you Margaret for founding and shaping our field. www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...
- Did you all know that Margaret Boden founded the first School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences in 1987. No? Well, now you do 😌 Btw, listen to this great talk by her. I'll be adding this to the resources from our 1st year students in Intro to AI. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPRA...
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- Reposted by Gonzalo de PolaviejaURGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯 Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below. This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.
- My lab studies bacterial infections. We spend a lot of time looking at (or for) species-specific genetic and genomic databases for hosts and microbes. FlyBase is the best of all—there is literally no comparison. Its existence is under threat. Please donate. www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
- It took us many years to improve idtracker.ai in both accuracy and tracking time. Here it is.
- Reposted by Gonzalo de PolaviejaChoose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF
- Reposted by Gonzalo de PolaviejaWe (mostly @adammarblestone.bsky.social and Mary with the help of the amazing scientists in our network) made a map of “fundamental development” gaps in science and technology. Go explore gap-map.org.
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- Had to happen at some point: today, the o1 model solved in one go the PhD thesis of one of the students in the lab. Shall we add the model as a coauthor? Shall I stop having students or shall we work on more complex problems?
- Just found this. You pin this post below and you get a feed of only papers from your following. Worth a try.
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- Reposted by Gonzalo de PolaviejaInterested in understanding how things work? In particular the tools you use to study the brain? Join us at TENSS 2025 where we brainstorm ideas, build and debug microscopes, electrophysiology and behavior rigs amidst the picturesque Transylvanian hills! tenss.ro Apply by: February 16th!
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- Reposted by Gonzalo de PolaviejaOur new paper! "Analytic theory of creativity in convolutional diffusion models" lead expertly by @masonkamb.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2412.20292 Our closed-form theory needs no training, is mechanistically interpretable & accurately predicts diffusion model outputs with high median r^2~0.9
- Human Frontier Science Program for small consortia working on interdisciplinary biological problems. Letter of intent by 18th March 2025. www.hfsp.org/funding/hfsp...
- Reposted by Gonzalo de PolaviejaLet us start 2025 in a positive mood: here are 10 methods things researchers can worry *less* about in 2025

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- Sign up to come to the Alternative Mathematics for AI Meeting, sites.google.com/view/altai25
- Last day to apply!!!: postdoctoral position available with us and David Rios (www.davidriosinsua.es at ICMAT, bsky.app/profile/icma...) on collective behavior and frontier AI techniques, more info and application: aihub.csic.es/en/allies-co...
- Genesis: high quality generative Physics engine, genesis-embodied-ai.github.io
- Large concept models is a very interesting idea, ai.meta.com/research/pub...
- Applications still open for the International Neuroscience Doctoral Programme at Champalimaud in Lisbon fchampalimaud.org/champalimaud...
- Reposted by Gonzalo de PolaviejaHow can randomness be a source of living order? Can physics explain how an embryo emerges out of chaos? In this new paper in Science, Bernat Corominas-Murtra, @ehannezo.bsky.social & cols. show how embryos solve their own Rubik’s cube ist.ac.at/en/news/from...
- Reposted by Gonzalo de PolaviejaToday we report that an engineered skin bacterium, swabbed gently on the head of a mouse, can unleash a potent antibody response against a pathogen. Could lead to topical vaccines that are applied in a cream. @djenetbousbaine.bsky.social led the charge... @natureportfolio.bsky.social 1/55
- Reposted by Gonzalo de PolaviejaI wrote an article about my dad's death, and how it affected my views on assisted dying Free version of the article in the next post Views are my own, not those of the institutions or academies I'm associated with www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...
- Great scientist and great person. Great coffee. I tried to learn all I could from him.
- A background in physics, and his own curiosity, have helped Dmitry Rinberg tackle the complexities of the neuroscience of smell. More on Rinberg sniffing out the mysteries of olfaction. By Lina Zeldovich www.thetransmitter.org/olfaction/sn...
- Reposted by Gonzalo de PolaviejaInterested in diffusion models, behavior forecasting, internal states, neuromechanical modeling, reservoir computing, joint neural/behavioral datasets? Missing the sunshine? We have multiple fully funded postdoc positions, come join us!
- Want to do a PhD in Neuroscience? Applications are open until January 31st for the Champalimaud International Neuroscience Doctoral Programme (INDP) in beautiful Lisbon Portugal. fchampalimaud.org/champalimaud...
- Reposted by Gonzalo de PolaviejaNew paper out in #Neuron: A general theory of sequential working memory in prefrontal cortex and RNN/SSMs with their exact neural mechanism. Plus unifying this new mechanism with the alternate mechanism of hippocampal cognitive maps! (1/9) www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
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