Gabriel Béna 🌻
PhD Student at Imperial College with Dan Goodman. Pretending to be a neuro guy. Modularity, structure-function, resource-constrained ANNs/SNNs, neuromorphic + fun stuff like Neural Cellular Automatas 😎 Also working w/ SpiNNCloud on SpiNNaker2.
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- Reposted by Gabriel Béna 🌻Just published my review of neuroscience in 2025, on The Spike. The 10th of these, would you believe? This year we have foundation models, breakthroughs in using light to understand the brain, a gene therapy, and more Enjoy! medium.com/the-spike/20...
- Reposted by Gabriel Béna 🌻For the first Learning Club @cmc-lab.bsky.social in 2026, @marcusghosh.bsky.social on Jan 15, Thu, 2pm CET, will tell us about his recent paper (👇) [joint work w/ @neural-reckoning.org]. Want to attend, send an empty email to virtual talk-link-request@cmclab.org to get the link!
- How 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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- Reposted by Gabriel Béna 🌻Our first ad of 2026! Because politics stuck in 2006 won't meet the moment. It's time to stand up to ICE, white supremacists, and the billionaire oligarchy.
- Reposted by Gabriel Béna 🌻Democrats need to grow a f*cking spine. No more strongly worded letters. It’s time to draft articles of impeachment. Impeach. Convict. Remove.
- Reposted by Gabriel Béna 🌻La transition à venir doit être pacifique, démocratique et respectueuse de la volonté du peuple français. Nous souhaitons que le Nouveau Front populaire, victorieux en 2024, puisse assurer au plus vite cette transition.
- Reposted by Gabriel Béna 🌻I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?
- Reposted by Gabriel Béna 🌻The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas. It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...
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- Reposted by Gabriel Béna 🌻Toy models, just in time for Christmas! Excited to share my first article for @thetransmitter.bsky.social #neuroskyence
- Amid the rise of billion-parameter models, I argue that toy models, with just a few neurons, remain essential—and may be all neuroscience needs, writes @marcusghosh.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/theoretical-...
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- Reposted by Gabriel Béna 🌻Psst - 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
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- Reposted by Gabriel Béna 🌻A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
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- Reposted by Gabriel Béna 🌻Introducing CorText: a framework that fuses brain data directly into a large language model, allowing for interactive neural readout using natural language. tl;dr: you can now chat with a brain scan 🧠💬 1/n
- Reposted by Gabriel Béna 🌻Reminder this is happening this Wed/Thu. Free spiking neural network conference - registration required (see below).
- Spiking NN fans - the #SNUFA workshop (Nov 5-6) agenda is finalised and online now. Make sure to register (free) soon. (Note you can register for either day and come to both.) Agenda: snufa.net/2025/ Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/snufa-2025... Thanks to all who voted on abstracts! 🤖🧠🧪
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- Reposted by Gabriel Béna 🌻My 1st PhD student Anindya Ghosh has a great new paper out in PLOS comp bio. We combine hoverfly recordings with modelling to show how target motion and optic-flow sensitive neuron outputs are combined together to generate behaviourally relevant sensorimotor responses. doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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- Reposted by Gabriel Béna 🌻Is anarchist science possible? As an experiment, we got together a large group of computational neuroscientists from around the world to work on a single project without top down direction. Read on to find out what happened. 🤖🧠🧪
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- We'll be presenting this at #GECCO2025!! Come say hi if you're around ☀️
- 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... 🧵⬇️
- Reposted by Gabriel Béna 🌻Almost 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
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- Reposted by Gabriel Béna 🌻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.
- New preprint 🤖🧠🧪! With @swathianil.bsky.social and @marcusghosh.bsky.social. If you want to get the most out of a multisensory signal, you should take it's temporal structure into account. But which neural architectures do this best? 🧵👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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- The REAL question on everyone's lips though... Blog: gabrielbena.github.io/blog/2025/be... Thread: bsky.app/profile/sola...
- 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... 🧵⬇️
- 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... 🧵⬇️
- Here's the gist: Traditional CAs (think Conway's Game of Life) have been mathematically proven Turing-complete... but designing them is HARD. You have to hand-craft rules, at the cost of arduous efforts. What if instead we could just... train them to compute, offloading the burden? Enter #NCA !
- Reposted by Gabriel Béna 🌻Large-scale projects run the risk of stifling scientific independence. Instead, let’s explore alternative mechanisms of collaboration, writes @neuralreckoning.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/funding/neur...
- Reposted by Gabriel Béna 🌻En France, la police peut tuer une innocente sans la moindre sanction. Alors oui, la police tue. C'est factuel.
- Just discovered King Gizzard at Capocaccia 2025 #neuromorphic workshop and it's freaking awesomene
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- Really cool work by Dan and Yang !! Thinking of algorithms is as important as new architectures 🔊👂
- How do babies and blind people learn to localise sound without labelled data? We propose that innate mechanisms can provide coarse-grained error signals to boostrap learning. New preprint from @yang-chu.bsky.social. 🤖🧠🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2001.10605
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- Reposted by Gabriel Béna 🌻⚡️FIGHT THE OLIGARCHY RALLY ⚡️ STARTING TOMORROW. Nevada. Arizona. Colorado. You, me, and Bernie. Dem and GOP districts. ❤️💙 See you there 💪🏽🌞
- Very timely post by Dan! Decentralisation is key
- 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...
