Jenelle Feather
Flatiron Research Fellow #FlatironCCN. PhD from #mitbrainandcog. Incoming Asst Prof #CarnegieMellon in Fall 2025. I study how humans and computers hear and see.
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[This post could not be retrieved] - Reposted by Jenelle FeatherElizabeth Lee, a first-year Ph.D. student in Neural Computation, has been awarded CMU’s 2025 Sutherland-Merlino Fellowship. Her work bridges neuroscience and machine learning, and she’s passionate about advancing STEM access for underrepresented groups. www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...
- Reposted by Jenelle Feather📢 10 days left to submit to the Data on the Brain & Mind Workshop at #NeurIPS2025! 📝 Call for: • Findings (4 or 8 pages) • Tutorials If you’re submitting to ICLR or NeurIPS, consider submitting here too—and highlight how to use a cog neuro dataset in our tutorial track! 🔗 data-brain-mind.github.io
- So excited for CCN2026!!! 🧠🤔🤖🗽
- The rumors are true! #CCN2026 will be held at NYU. @toddgureckis.bsky.social and I will be executive-chairing. Get in touch if you want to be involved!
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- Reposted by Jenelle Featherarguably the most important component of AI for neuroscience: data, and its usability
- 🚨 Excited to announce our #NeurIPS2025 Workshop: Data on the Brain & Mind 📣 Call for: Findings (4- or 8-page) + Tutorials tracks 🎙️ Speakers include @dyamins.bsky.social @lauragwilliams.bsky.social @cpehlevan.bsky.social 🌐 Learn more: data-brain-mind.github.io
- Join us at #NeurIPS2025 for our Data on the Brain & Mind workshop! We aim to connect machine learning researchers and neuroscientists/cognitive scientists, with a focus on emerging datasets. More info: data-brain-mind.github.io
- 🚨 Excited to announce our #NeurIPS2025 Workshop: Data on the Brain & Mind 📣 Call for: Findings (4- or 8-page) + Tutorials tracks 🎙️ Speakers include @dyamins.bsky.social @lauragwilliams.bsky.social @cpehlevan.bsky.social 🌐 Learn more: data-brain-mind.github.io
- Reposted by Jenelle FeatherNew preprint! tl;dr — We ran around late at night to record wild rats in NYC and figured out how to quantify their behavior and environment. 🧵 w/ Dima Batenkov, @zamakany.bsky.social, Emily Mackevicius www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Jenelle FeatherAnnouncing the new "Sensorimotor AI" Journal Club — please share/repost! w/ Kaylene Stocking, Tommaso Salvatori, and @elisennesh.bsky.social Sign up link: forms.gle/o5DXD4WMdhTg... More details below 🧵[1/5] 🧠🤖🧠📈
- Reposted by Jenelle FeatherIn many brain areas, neuronal tuning is heterogeneous. But how does this diversity help behavior? We show how tuning diversity shapes representational geometry and boosts coding efficiency for perception in our new preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (w/ @sueyeonchung.bsky.social&Tony Movshon)
- Consider submitting your recent work on stimulus synthesis and selection to our special issue at JOV!
- Submissions now accepted for a special issue of the Journal of Vision: Choose your stimuli wisely: Advances in stimulus synthesis and selection Submission deadline: Dec 12, 2025 Futher details: jov.arvojournals.org/ss/synthetic...
- Topics include but are not limited to: •Optimal and adaptive stimulus selection for fitting, developing, testing or validating models •Stimulus ensembles for model comparison •Methods to generate stimuli with “naturalistic” properties •Experimental paradigms and results using model-optimized stimuli
- Reposted by Jenelle FeatherWhat is the probability of an image? What do the highest and lowest probability images look like? Do natural images lie on a low-dimensional manifold? In a new preprint with Zahra Kadkhodaie and @eerosim.bsky.social, we develop a novel energy-based model in order to answer these questions: 🧵
- Reposted by Jenelle FeatherJust a few months until Cognitive Computational Neuroscience comes to Amsterdam! Check out our now-complete schedule for #CCN2025, with descriptions of each of the Generative Adversarial Collaborations (GACs), Keynotes-and-Tutorials (K&Ts), Community Events, Keynote Speakers, and social activities!
- Reposted by Jenelle FeatherI’m happy to be at #VSS2025 and share what our lab has been up to this year! I’m also honored to receive this year’s young investigator award and will give a short talk at the awards ceremony Monday
- Super excited for our #VSS2025 symposium tomorrow, "Model-optimized stimuli: more than just pretty pictures". Join us to talk about designing and using synthetic stimuli for testing properties of visual perception! May 16th @ 1-3PM in Talk Room #2 More info: www.visionsciences.org/symposia/?sy...
- The symposium also serves to kick off a special issue of JOV! "Choose your stimuli wisely: Advances in stimulus synthesis and selection" jov.arvojournals.org/ss/synthetic... Paper Deadline: Dec 12th For those not able to attend tomorrow, I will strive to post some of the highlights here 👀 👀 👀
- We are presenting our work “Discriminating image representations with principal distortions” at #ICLR2025 today (4/24) at 3pm! If you are interested in comparing model representations with other models or human perception, stop by poster #63. Highlights in 🧵 openreview.net/forum?id=ugX...
- Recent work suggests that many models are converging to representations that are similar to each other and (maybe) to human perception. However, similarity often focuses on stimuli that are far apart in stimulus space. Even if global geometry is similar, the local geometry can be quite different.
- We propose a framework for comparing a set of image representations in terms of their local geometries. We quantify the local geometry of a representation using the Fisher information matrix (FIM), a standard statistical tool for characterizing the sensitivity to local stimulus distortions.
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View full threadThis is joint work with fantastic co-authors from @flatironinstitute.org Center for Computational Neuroscience: @lipshutz.bsky.social (co-first) @sarah-harvey.bsky.social @itsneuronal.bsky.social @eerosim.bsky.social
- Applications close TODAY (April 14) for the 2025 Flatiron Institute Junior Theoretical Neuroscience Workshop. All you need to apply is a CV and a 1 page abstract. 🧠🗽
- Applications are open for the 2025 Flatiron Institute Junior Theoretical Neuroscience Workshop! A two-day workshop 7/10-7/11 in NYC for PhD students and postdocs. All travel paid. Apply by April 14th.🧠🗽🧑🔬http://jtnworkshop2025.flatironinstitute.org/ @flatironinstitute.org @simonsfoundation.org
- Reposted by Jenelle Feather📣 Grad students and postdocs in computational and theoretical neuroscience: please consider applying for the 2025 Flatiron Institute Junior Theoretical Neuroscience Workshop! All expenses are covered. Apply by April 14. jtnworkshop2025.flatironinstitute.org
- Applications are open for the 2025 Flatiron Institute Junior Theoretical Neuroscience Workshop! A two-day workshop 7/10-7/11 in NYC for PhD students and postdocs. All travel paid. Apply by April 14th.🧠🗽🧑🔬http://jtnworkshop2025.flatironinstitute.org/ @flatironinstitute.org @simonsfoundation.org
- Already feeling #cosyne2025 withdrawal? Apply to the Flatiron Institute Junior Theoretical Neuroscience Workshop! Applications due April 14th jtnworkshop2025.flatironinstitute.org
- Applications are open for the 2025 Flatiron Institute Junior Theoretical Neuroscience Workshop! A two-day workshop 7/10-7/11 in NYC for PhD students and postdocs. All travel paid. Apply by April 14th.🧠🗽🧑🔬http://jtnworkshop2025.flatironinstitute.org/ @flatironinstitute.org @simonsfoundation.org
- Reposted by Jenelle FeatherWe're bringing together leading researchers from top institutions worldwide to Split, Croatia this summer. If you're passionate about brain-inspired AI, computational neuroscience, or fundamental mathematical principles driving intelligence, this conference is the place to be!
- Teddy's project is one of the only clear examples we know of (so far) where modifying the *objective function* used for training a deep neural network systematically improves neural prediction of IT responses. Come chat at his poster this afternoon at #cosyne2025! (Poster 2-036)
- If you are at #cosyne2025 come check out my poster this afternoon! We demonstrate a case where objective function design can systematically improve neural predictivity in deep networks. [2-036] Contrastive-Equivariant Self-Supervised Learning Improves Alignment with Primate Visual Area IT
- Reposted by Jenelle FeatherImage representations are often compared in terms of their global geometry. I'm excited to present work at #cosyne2025 that proposes a method for comparing image representations based on their *local* geometry. Poster: 8p tonight #1-112
- We are presenting two exciting projects tonight at #Cosyne2025! 🧠🧑🔬 [1-032] Changes in tuning curves, not neural population covariance, improve category separability in the primate ventral visual pathway [1-112] Comparing image representations in terms of sensitivities to local distortions
- Both projects are with amazing collaborators [1-032] w/ Long Sha, @gouki-okazawa.bsky.social, Isaac Moran, Nga Yu Lo, @sueyeonchung.bsky.social, and @roozbehkiani.bsky.social [1-112] w/ @lipshutz.bsky.social @sarah-harvey.bsky.social @itsneuronal.bsky.social @eerosim.bsky.social
- Reposted by Jenelle FeatherHello friends! Applications for the CSHL course on Neural Data Science are now open- I will be lecturing and hanging out at the course for a few days this July. meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...
- Applications are open for the 2025 Flatiron Institute Junior Theoretical Neuroscience Workshop! A two-day workshop 7/10-7/11 in NYC for PhD students and postdocs. All travel paid. Apply by April 14th.🧠🗽🧑🔬http://jtnworkshop2025.flatironinstitute.org/ @flatironinstitute.org @simonsfoundation.org
- Reposted by Jenelle FeatherTL;DR: Encouraging transformation equivariance in an otherwise standard self-supervised learning setup systematically improves your ability to predict neural responses in area IT. Paper: openreview.net/pdf?id=AiMs8... Poster: Poster Session 3 #2204, East Exhibit Hall
- Reposted by Jenelle FeatherExcited to present work with @jfeather.bsky.social @eerosim.bsky.social and @sueyeonchung.bsky.social today at Neurips! May do a proper thread later on, but come by or shoot me a message if you are in Vancouver and want to chat :) Brief details in post below
- Reposted by Jenelle FeatherAfter a great conference in Boston, CCN is going to take place in Amsterdam in 2025! To help the exchange of ideas between #neuroscience, cognitive science, and #AI, CCN will for the first time have full length paper submissions (alongside the established 2 pagers)! Info below👇 #NeuroAI #CompNeuro
- Reposted by Jenelle FeatherThe Swartz Prize in Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience goes to one of my very favorite researchers: Eero Simoncelli!!! www.sfn.org/publications...
- Reposted by Jenelle FeatherExcited to share our results on Efficient Coding of Natural Images using Maximum Manifold Capacity Representations, a collaboration with Teddy Yerxa, Yilun Kuang, Eero Simoncelli to be presented at #NeurIPS2023 🧵1/n @tedyerxa.bsky.social @flatironinstitute.org @simonsfoundation.org
