Ciro Randazzo
bme @ columbia
brainard lab @ ucsf
cog sci/mcintyre lab @ utd
- Reposted by Ciro RandazzoWith some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world: gershmanlab.com/textbook.html It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class. My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
- Reposted by Ciro RandazzoHave you ever wondered what you would find if you could keep your eyes on a bee for more than a few meters? Us, too! preprint (with videos!) + thread 🧵 Precise, individualized foraging flights in honey #bees 🐝 revealed by multicopter drone-based tracking www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/9
- Reposted by Ciro RandazzoI agree, we might not. But at least it's not obviously a wrong thing to do to play around on easy mode first. Especially as easy mode is already pretty hard.
- Reposted by Ciro RandazzoMany of our big insights into brain function come from trying to mimic it, writes @timothyoleary.bsky.social. This lesson should guide how we organize research programs. www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur... #neuroskyence
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- Reposted by Ciro RandazzoFirst time holding the Neuralink implant. Our hospital network will be leading the first clinical trials here in Canada. Let’s go! @uhnresearch.ca @uhn.ca #Neuralink #neuroscience #AI #neuroAI #compneuro
- Reposted by Ciro Randazzo“Traits” are central units of biological analysis—but how should they be individuated, and relative to which ontogenetic frame of reference? In my new paper, I argue that answering this isn’t easy—and matters more than it seems. 📃👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #HPBio #evosky #evodevo
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- Reposted by Ciro RandazzoHappy 107th Birthday, Brenda Milner! Her contributions to neuropsychology shaped the way we understand the human brain. From surviving two world wars and two pandemics, to paving the way for future generations of researchers, Milner’s legacy continues. @mcgill.ca @cusm-muhc.bsky.social
- Reposted by Ciro RandazzoThrilled to see our TinyRNN paper in @nature! We show how tiny RNNs predict choices of individual subjects accurately while staying fully interpretable. This approach can transform how we model cognitive processes in both healthy and disordered decisions. doi.org/10.1038/s415...
- Reposted by Ciro RandazzoThe most important thing about science the public needs to remember is that the set of experimental and theoretical methods we refer to as "science" is the best, most reliable way of knowing we currently have. It's rough around the edges but it works way better than anything else.
- Reposted by Ciro Randazzo1/N How do neural dynamics in motor cortex interact with those in subcortical networks to flexibly control movement? I’m beyond thrilled to share our work on this problem, led by Eric Kirk @eric-kirk.bsky.social with help from Kangjia Cai! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Ciro RandazzoVery happy to share the latest from my postdoc! 10 yrs of mouse social networks + 1.25 yrs of acoustic data ➡️ insight into vocalization & sociality in a wild population of your favorite lab model 🐁 paper: bit.ly/4n93yyD data: bit.ly/4lfFBEk code: bit.ly/4kNnMwx #bioacoustics #neuroskyence 1/8
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- Anyone familiar with mechanistic studies concerning neuroprotective effects of exercise, etc? I see headlines like this often and I've heard clinical advice that activity can slow progression of neurodegenerative diseases-not sure how this works. #neuroskyence #neurology bsky.app/profile/deme...
- Aha! I have timed this immensely well, out today www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Ciro RandazzoThe Cognitive Computational Neuroscience conference is in Amsterdam this year, but you don't have to go that far to attend. Local meetups/watch parties are being organized all over, including the one I'm hosting in New York! Check them out and register (free!) here 👇 #neuroskyence #compneurosky
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- Reposted by Ciro RandazzoNew preprint! 🧠🤖 How do we build neural decoders that are: ⚡️ fast enough for real-time use 🎯 accurate across diverse tasks 🌍 generalizable to new sessions, subjects, and even species? We present POSSM, a hybrid SSM architecture that optimizes for all three of these axes! 🧵1/7
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- Reposted by Ciro RandazzoIf you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind. Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!
- Reposted by Ciro RandazzoBig week for astrocyte research: 3 new Science papers link astrocytes to behavior. We're excited to add to the momentum with our new PNAS paper: a theory, grounded in biology, proposing astrocytes as key players in memory storage and recall. w/ JJ Slotine and @krotov.bsky.social (1/6)
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- Reposted by Ciro RandazzoInfo theory offers powerful measures for capturing complexity & interaction among elements of a complex system, like the brain! 🧠 Here's our new unified reference for key info-theoretic time series measures ft. 📊 visuals, ➗equations, & 💬descriptions: arxiv.org/abs/2505.13080
- Reposted by Ciro RandazzoFinally got around to incorporating all Github feedback on my open access textbook, making around 20 minor improvements, and updating some references. 17 chapters of state of the art stats and methods education, freely available for any course you teach. lakens.github.io/statistical_...
- Reposted by Ciro RandazzoBecause we must build good things while we scream about the bad, I have started a "Data for Good" team @data-for-good-team.bsky.social that partners with organizations needing short-term data science help. We have three projects ongoing & will add more as our capacity grows. data-for-good-team.org
- Reposted by Ciro RandazzoHot takes/kind reminders a) “the bitter lesson”’s promise of scale did not deliver wrt AI reasoning & higher cog functions—O3 hallucinates 2x more than O1 b) prediction is not understanding, hallucinating is worse c) gen AI could help neuroAI but following latest AI trends is not a paradigm shift
- How can we make progress in developing a general model of neural computation rather than a series of disjointed models tied to specific experimental circumstances, ask Eva Dyer and @tyrellturing.bsky.social in the latest entry in our NeuroAI series. www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/acce...
- Am I misinterpreting this as different names for the elements of personality according to #Freud ? Sounds like id, ego, superego to me. bsky.app/profile/infi...
- Finally got the first subsystem thread posted, The Reactor! Looking forward to thoughts and questions! The Interpreter is next, but it'll be the afternoon before I can get started on it. Hoping to have all 3 subsystems done by EOD for y'all. #MSC #InfiniteNuanceProject #RIOsystem #neuroskyence
- Reading the #Hamilton biography... striking how prescient some of the man's concerns were. Given some set of principles, he so thoroughly and accurately understands the gist of a system (ahem US gov) and its problems. ... he also had a habit for expecting the worst in people. Don't read into that.
- Also: easy to see how this inspired a musical, what an absolutely crazy life lived by an unreal character.
- "Slopsquatting" - what an inventive name for an industrious way of stealing your data. Who comes up with this stuff? #ai #llm #slopsquatting (?) www.techradar.com/pro/security...
- Having dealt with a lot of old and poorly documented academic code, this article speaks to my heart. bsky.app/profile/tsaw...
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- Reposted by Ciro RandazzoMany apparent disagreements over the utility of neural manifolds come from a lack of clarity on what the term really encompasses, argues @mattperich.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/neural-dynam...
- Reposted by Ciro RandazzoPreview of the talk I'm giving on Friday. 🤖🧠🧪 #neuroscience #compneuro
- Reposted by Ciro RandazzoHow can we make progress in developing a general model of neural computation rather than a series of disjointed models tied to specific experimental circumstances, ask Eva Dyer and @tyrellturing.bsky.social in the latest entry in our NeuroAI series. www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/acce...
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