Danyal Akarca
Neuro, AI, chips @ Imperial & Cambridge.
www.danakarca.com
- Reposted by Danyal AkarcaHappy 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 👇
- Reposted by Danyal Akarca🚨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...
- Reposted by Danyal AkarcaBrains have many pathways / subnetworks but which principles underlie their formation? In our #NeurIPS paper lead by Jack Cook we identify biologically relevant inductive biases that create pathways in brain-like Mixture-of-Experts models🧵 #neuroskyence #compneuro #neuroAI arxiv.org/abs/2506.02813
- Reposted by Danyal AkarcaPsst - 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
- Reposted by Danyal AkarcaHow 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
- Reposted by Danyal AkarcaWe'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-...
- 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-...
- We had an incredible gathering at UK Neural Computation 2025 @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social last week 🇬🇧 Macron missed out... Some of the UK’s very best at the frontier of comp neuro. Thanks to our sponsors ARIA + Crick & UKNC team: @markdhumphries.bsky.social + @neuralreckoning.bsky.social!
- Tickets for UKNC25 @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social close tomorrow 5pm BST! Register here: neuralcomputation.uk/registration...
- Excited for the UK Neural Computation Conference 2025 @ Imperial, 9th - 11th July! 🚀 World leading scientists working in brain computation - from experimental to modelling, mathematics & ML (+ all combinations thereof). Registration closes 1st July! Plz share: neuralcomputation.uk
- Reposted by Danyal AkarcaAlmost last call to register for UK neural computation conference in London July 10-11. Registration deadline is July 1st. We have some great talks and posters as well as a session on funding with ARIA. 🤖🧠🧪 Look forward to seeing you all there. Now click here 👇 neuralcomputation.uk
- Excited for the UK Neural Computation Conference 2025 @ Imperial, 9th - 11th July! 🚀 World leading scientists working in brain computation - from experimental to modelling, mathematics & ML (+ all combinations thereof). Registration closes 1st July! Plz share: neuralcomputation.uk
- Reposted by Danyal AkarcaWe propose a novel framework that disentangles the concepts of “hardware” and “state” within the NCA. For us: - Rules = "Physics" dictating state transitions. - Hardware = Immutable + heterogeneous scaffold guiding the CA behaviour. - State = Dynamic physical & computational substrate.
- Super awesome work by @solarpunkgabs.bsky.social - training neural cellular automata directly to solve tasks via matrix operations!
- New #Preprint Alert!! 🤖 🧠 🧪 What if we could train neural cellular automata to develop continuous universal computation through gradient descent ?! We have started to chart a path toward this goal in our new preprint: arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2505.13058 Blog: gabrielbena.github.io/blog/2025/be... 🧵⬇️
- Registration is open for UK Neural Computation 2025 10th/11th July! We are offering 8 conference fellowships to support attendance. ***Abstract submission deadline is 12th May!*** neuralcomputation.uk/submission.h... Register here: neuralcomputation.uk/registration... Any q's - get in touch!
- Conference Fellowships for the UK Neural Computation meeting are now available, to support presenting authors; sponsored by @aria-research.bsky.social Includes fee waiver and attendance expenses Apply here by May 23rd neuralcomputation.uk/fellowships.... p.s. UKNC abstracts due by May 12th!
- Reposted by Danyal AkarcaCome along to the UK neural computation conference! Registration now open. Check out this awesome set of speakers, and even more importantly loads of opportunities to interact with your fellow computationally minded UK neuroscientists (including a mind matching session hopefully).
- Registration open for UK Neural Computation 2025 @Imperial neuralcomputation.uk/registration... ECR day: 9 July, ~30 free places Main meeting: 10-11 July Pls share! Sponsors @aria-research.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk Organisers: @danakarca.bsky.social @neuralreckoning.bsky.social & me
- Reposted by Danyal AkarcaRegistration open for UK Neural Computation 2025 @Imperial neuralcomputation.uk/registration... ECR day: 9 July, ~30 free places Main meeting: 10-11 July Pls share! Sponsors @aria-research.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk Organisers: @danakarca.bsky.social @neuralreckoning.bsky.social & me
- Abstract submissions are now open for the UK Neural Computation Conference! (Deadline 12th May). We also have ARIA sponsored travel funds for ECRs! 💥 Submit here: neuralcomputation.uk/submission.html Genreal info: neuralcomputation.uk Registration open May. Any qs get in touch + plz share!
- Abstract submission is open for UK Neural Computation 2025 @ Imperial College (9-11 July) neuralcomputation.uk/submission.h... Deadline: 12 May Please share All info: neuralcomputation.uk Sponsors: ARIA; Francis Crick Institute Organisers: @danakarca.bsky.social @neuralreckoning.bsky.social
- Reposted by Danyal AkarcaAbstract submission is open for UK Neural Computation 2025 @ Imperial College (9-11 July) neuralcomputation.uk/submission.h... Deadline: 12 May Please share All info: neuralcomputation.uk Sponsors: ARIA; Francis Crick Institute Organisers: @danakarca.bsky.social @neuralreckoning.bsky.social
- Reposted by Danyal AkarcaI wrote a thing for @thetransmitter.bsky.social. The attack on scientific infrastructure happening in the US shows that relying on any one country is not a good option for science. We need to start supporting and building international, decentralised infrastructure for science.
- Scientific data and independence are at risk: We need to work with community-driven services and university libraries to create new multi-country organizations that are resilient to political interference. By @neuralreckoning.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/policy/scien...
- Reposted by Danyal AkarcaFor our next UCL #NeuroAI online seminar, we are happy to be hosting Dr Dan Goodman @neuralreckoning.bsky.social (@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social). 🗓️Wed 12 Feb 2025 ⏰2-3pm GMT Talk title: Neural architectures: what are they good for anyway?
- Reposted by Danyal AkarcaNew preprint: "The geometry of the neural state space of decisions", work by Mauro Monsalve-Mercado, buff.ly/42wVHD5. Surprising results & predictions! (Thread) We analyze neuropixel population recordings in macaque area LIP during a reaction time, random-dot motion 1/
- We are hosting UKNC 2025 @ imperial! 💥 Fantastic set of speakers, see at neuralcomputation.uk Super exciting time to be working at the intersection of comp neuro/AI & applications. Save the dates: 9th July - ECR day 10th & 11th July - Main event Any questions get in touch! Plz share!
- Save the date! UK Neural Computation 2025 will be at Imperial College London 9 July: ECR day 10-11 July: main meeting 9 invited speakers, 4 talks from abstracts and many posters Abstract & registration opening soon Pls share! neuralcomputation.uk
- Reposted by Danyal AkarcaRory @rory.bio is working on a large project to accelerate science 🧪 through high-quality & open-source software. To steer the project it would be amazing to hear from scientists across fields about problems in the scientific process *you* want to see solved! Tell Rory here flywhl-ideas.notion.site
- Reposted by Danyal Akarca@danakarca.bsky.social and I are working on a remaster using modern techniques. 😉
- We're just getting started discovering how biology constrains the emergence of intelligence & behaviour + leveraging this w/ AI. Spatially embedded neuromorphic networks nature.com/articles/s42... Thank you Bratislav Misic & Filip Milisav: covering mine and @achterbrain.bsky.social recent work!
- Reposted by Danyal AkarcaIf the field of bio-learning rules leaves you confused as to what is and what is not actually "biologically plausible", we've got the tool here for you: A formalism to clarify what different learning algorithms actually mean when they say they're "local". #NeurIPS2023
- Reposted by Danyal AkarcaTwo years ago @danakarca.bsky.social & I wondered: Could the features we observe in brains across species be caused by shared functional, structural & energetic constraints?🧠⚡️ With our spatially embedded RNN we show this is true! www.nature.com/articles/s42... 🧵 #neuroscience #compneuro #NeuroAI
- A reminder of these positons! Do share with talented students and colleagues - do get in touch if you have any questions.
- We have x4 Postdoc positions @ Cambridge, @ the fantastic MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, working on exciting comp neuro, imaging and NeuroAI projects… w/ @duncanastle.bsky.social, Petra Vertes + others! Link here: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/43796/ If you have any questions, hmu! (Do plz share!)
- We have x4 Postdoc positions @ Cambridge, @ the fantastic MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, working on exciting comp neuro, imaging and NeuroAI projects… w/ @duncanastle.bsky.social, Petra Vertes + others! Link here: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/43796/ If you have any questions, hmu! (Do plz share!)
- Reposted by Danyal Akarcahello world: excited to share our preprint on low-dimensional architectures of longitudinal graded phenotypic variation in Alzheimer's and frontotemporal lobar degeneration, linked through to pathology and survival. #endFTD W/ @danakarca.bsky.social & others www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Danyal Akarca*New paper* W/ Sofia Carozza (not a twit) & @danakarca.bsky.social, in PNAS The adaptive stochasticity hypothesis shorturl.at/clz02 Bottom line: heightened stochasticity makes brains robust to random/targeted attacks, but more often results in non-normative phenotypes Mini thread below!
- Reposted by Danyal AkarcaHello Bluesky/Twitter refugees! For my first post, I invite you to check out the latest work by @garedaba.bsky.social and myself where we look at thalamocortical gradients in human and mouse brains 🌈🧠🐭🌈 In short, we highlight evidence for a supra-nuclear axis of thalamocortical organisation
- ‼️Maths in the Brain 2023 ‼️ I’ll be speaking with some great scientists - my first time in Melbourne (23 Oct '23) 🦘 w/ @anilseth.bsky.social, @drbreaky.bsky.social, Ines Hipolito, Tao Tsuchiya, Reuben Rideaux & Nanda Ribeiro! Registration here, pls share!: www.eventbrite.com/e/workshop-2...
- I have two invites for BlueSky. What’s the best way to share them?
- Reposted by Danyal AkarcaInterested in associative memory and hopfield networks? Join us for the AMHN workshop at Neurips, linking #neuroscience and machine learning . I am very excited to support the organisers as part of the program committee! General information: amhn.vizhub.ai Call for papers: amhn.vizhub.ai/cfp/
- Reposted by Danyal AkarcaThrilled to announce that the MRC CBU is offering Cambridge's first Master’s in Cognitive Neuroscience. a An innovative course combining cutting-edge teaching & deep research experience in a cognitive neuroscience lab. www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/study-with-u...
- Reposted by Danyal AkarcaOur view on the feasibility of artificial consciousness. We approach the question mainly from the perspective of biology/neuroscience and conclude that we are still far from conscious machines. w @macshine.bsky.social #neuroscience #PsychSkySci #consciousness arxiv.org/abs/2306.00915
- Reposted by Danyal AkarcaV. excited by this in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, w/ Mark Johnson and @danakarca.bsky.social Can computational models tell us something fundamental about cognitive and brain development? We think so. We term it "computational neuroconstructivism". www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Finally on my way down under! ✈️ 🇦🇺 Extremely excited (an understatement) to be visiting the @macshine.bsky.social group, working closely with @christopherjwhyte.bsky.social on biophysical generative models of spiking networks. A new chapter!
- Reposted by Danyal AkarcaIn lieu of an introductory post, I want to re-share our latest preprint which leverages a novel thalamocortical spiking neural network to bridge the gap between the cellular mechanisms of perception studied in rodents and the behavioural signatures of conscious perception studied in cog neuro.
- Reposted by Danyal AkarcaA key idea behind the brain's ability to flexibly compute is short-term plasticity! Beautifully reviewed by the late Mark Stokes: ‘Activity-silent’ working memory in prefrontal cortex: a dynamic coding framework www.cell.com/fulltext/S13... Great potential to influence ML methods! #neuroscience
- (Porting over some tweets!) Last week @achterbrain.bsky.social and I were at CCN in Oxford, discussing various projects in spatial-embedding in computational neural network models. Here is some recent work on weighted generative models of human connectivity!
- Reposted by Danyal AkarcaThe one and only danakarca.bsky.social arrived on Bluesky! Give him a follow for some seriously cool Computational Neuroscience work - specifically Dan has been pushing to bring theoretical approaches from Computational Neuroscience to be used in Developmental Neuroscience!
- Finally over to bluesky! I’m a computational neuro post-doc, working on neuro-AI and generative models in neuroscience. Looking forward to sharing more here 😎
