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Join us to push the boundaries of neuromotor interfaces!
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We have two exciting Research Scientist Intern positions open: 1️⃣ Neuromotor Interfaces: Computational Modeling (PhD) - This for AI-centric folks 2️⃣ Neuromotor Interfaces (PhD) - Research scientist catch-all, including signal processing, physics, experimental skills, etc.
2026 Internships at CTRL Labs at Meta Reality Labs It's intern application season for summer 2026 with the CTRL Labs (Electromyogram (EMG)) team at Meta Reality Labs! 🚀 You can see our latest work covered in this Nature article. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Terrifying insanity. What can be done to stop this?
(7/26) The most surprising phenomenology happens after input cessation at t≥0: neurons continue oscillating long after stimulation ends, with lifetimes exceeding any intrinsic system timescale, including the plasticity forgetting timescale, by an order of magnitude (panel iii).
The implication was the latter; that consciousness required biology. Therefore silicon consciousness was not viable. Again, I was picking up an undertone and really hoping @dlbarack.bsky.social can shed light here, as he swims in these waters regularly and I was merely a guest.
On a related (perhaps different?) note, at the SNAP philosophy of neuro meeting, there was an undercurrent of thought that consciousness required biology. This really confused me because it felt a bit like “we need bio-magic” for consciousness. What am I missing?
Oh, wow! You *can* pre-order the book. I had no idea. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/david...
lolz... where???
Finally, a book that combines early childhood trauma with neural networks and AI. Just what the field was missing.
Coming March 17, 2026! Just got my advance copy of Emergence — a memoir about growing up in group homes and somehow ending up in neuroscience and AI. It’s personal, it’s scientific, and it’s been a wild thing to write. Grateful and excited to share it soon.
FUNDING OPPORTUNITY: Motor Learning and Neuromotor Ethics Our Reality Labs EMG Foundational Research team is pleased to announce an RFP! The topic is on motor learning for EMG-based HCI and the related neuromotor ethics. Submissions are due September 1! www.meta.com/blog/reality...
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Open-sourced EMG data plus training/testing scripts to make contact with our results at 100 users for each three tasks (discrete gestures, 1D wrist navigation, and handwriting). github.com/facebookrese...
This is clearly it. 💯
On twitter, we used to call them tweeprints. I think we need a new name for BlueSky. Ideas???
Explainer threads 🧵 are generous. They help science be a community, not a contest. Keep 'em coming!
Maybe. Skeptical of the former and bullish on the latter.
Lovely article, Luiz. :) Thanks for highlighting, Earl.
But what if the murmuration does "compute-like" things, such as temporarily hold static (low-dimensional) state or transition along a temporarily constructed state diagram?
It's been one year since Jim Simons passed away. He remains one of the greatest philanthropists of our time. His commitment to fundamental scientific research was truly extraordinary and remains essential for advancing humanity. www.simonsfoundation.org/2024/05/10/s...
30 days to the launch of Elusive Cures! I learned so much writing it, and I want to share it. For the next 30 days, I'll post brain & mind research breakthroughs on odd days, and highlight unmet needs on even ones. #ElusiveCures30 First breakthrough: /1 press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Calling all science advocates!! Carlos Brody+ are creating a searchable database of tangible science benefits, and they need you. publicusaresearchbenefits.com They are asking for suggestions - from brief to lengthy. The database is state-searchable, so all 50 states. Please spread the word!
Come see Nishal’s poster today at #cosyne2025 (Session 2, 2-051)! We’ve added a per-trial inferred bias to LFADS, boosting interpretability by turning multistable dynamics into contextual ones. Less murky, more meaningful with many practical applications such as denoising data.
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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...
1/7 Our paper on individual variability in decision-making is finally out in @nature.com! Inspired by the classic work by Mante and Sussillo, we trained many rats to solve context-dependent decision-making, and we found that different brains use different neural mechanisms to solve the same task!
Neurocool
Huh???
I’m sure that’s adequate.
... and likely most promising modeling techniques and analysis methods for understanding the resulting models.
Aggregate all the papers over the last decade on task-based and data-based modeling of brains. And ask it to come up with a research program about foundational models, but with the goal being to understand the brain. Have it list the most important hypotheses, best animal models, and experiments.
Explore the details of our work in this bioRxiv paper: biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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We're hiring! Join Meta Reality Lab's EMG Wristband foundational research team! ⚡️ We're seeking research scientists with systems neuro/ML/AI/BCI/EE backgrounds, with skills on a spectrum from modeling to experimental expertise, as well as generalists who excel in both areas.
Grace's critique is spot on. Perhaps one function of dynamics is to switch from representation to representation?
Hey #neuroskyence check out the line-up for the first annual #SPAN2025 meeting. Our neuro representation is strong💪: @russpoldrack.bsky.social ! @sussillodavid.bsky.social ! @theamygdaloid.bsky.social ! Tali Sharot! @jenbussell.bsky.social ! Many more—check it out, be sure to submit your abstracts!
Human-Computer Input via a Wrist-Based sEMG Wearable www.meta.com/blog/quest/s...
I see where your are coming from and point taken about neuroeconomics, but saying I work on/in neuroAI so succinctly and specifically states what I do in a way that “systems neuroscience” does not. There really is a subfield imo.
I went to my first ballet this week and learned that if you want to listen to ballet you don’t need to know any expressions at all! After 10 minutes of ballerinas dancing all over the damned stage, I bent over and quietly whispered into my wife’s ear, “So, uhh, there’s no words in ballet?” 😆
I see your point, but a lot has come together over the last decade+ to enable for the first time what could be called “systems neuroscience” but more precisely is “neuroscience big data meets AI-fueled tools and optimized neural net modeling.” Which I’m happy to call NeuroAI if there is consensus.
Late to the game, but this thread is awesome.
Rather, I agree that some projects would benefit, and I think NeuroAI projects are right up there.
Agree that the NeuroAI space is probably different in that larger projects are likely very valuable to study scale.
Lolz ok
Between the top and the bottom?
What are coordinated dynamics?
I've always been dubious about bringing things back to the circuit and have been content to study the functions at the state-space level. Especially after this pub (below). It appears we can identify an oscillation of the grandfather clock but not the gearing. proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/...
Imagine all the amazing science one could do if these EMG recordings were paired up with multi electrode recordings in motor cortex. (Speaking as an academic neuroscientist, not a Meta scientist).
Glad to be here! ❤️
New 716 hour EMG dataset just dropped ✨ ai.meta.com/blog/open-so...