Memming Park

Memming Park

@memming.bsky.social

Computational Neuroscientist & Neurotechnologist

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Memming Park
@memming.bsky.social

AI is amplifying many defects of dysfunctional social systems including the academic evaluation system. I will try my best to rely even less on impact factors and pay more attention to high quality science when evaluating other academics. (but I'll have to decline more requests for evaluations.)

Sam Barrett, PhD@ai4geo.bsky.social

In my view a lot of the problems with the flood of papers in academia right now are ultimately downstream of publish or perish and publication counting in academia which has long since been causing problems in academia before AI came along.

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Casper Kerrén
@ckerren.bsky.social

Imagine two people standing in the same spot, looking at the same Goya. They inspect exactly the same parts of the painting, but in a different order. Later, they talk about what they saw. Ignoring all other differences: are the memories they formed identical?

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CMC Unit
@cmc-unit.bsky.social

Re-post 🔁 is appreciated! #neurojobs: we’re looking for new team members to join us @cmc-unit.bsky.social!
If you’d like to study decision-making in naturalistic & embodied contexts (integrating RL, RNNs & cross-species data analysis) in a cool & collaborative research environment 😎, check 👇

CMC Unit@cmc-unit.bsky.social

PhD: nextcloud.tuebingen.mpg.de/index.php/s/... Postdoc: nextcloud.tuebingen.mpg.de/index.php/s/...

Memming Park
@memming.bsky.social

Still one of my favorite conferences!

COSYNE@cosynemeeting.bsky.social

📢Have work to share with the computational and systems neuroscience community? Abstract submissions for #COSYNE2027 are now open. Deadline: 18 October 2026, 11:59 p.m. AoE Submit your abstract: www.cosyne.org/abstracts-su... #Neuroscience

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Ariel Levine
@ariellevine.bsky.social

We have 2 postdoc positions available to study spinal mechanisms of motor control. Postdoc 1 will focus on how specific spinal cell types shape neural activity www.levine-lab.org jobs.smartrecruiters.com/UniversityHe...

jobs.smartrecruiters.comPostdoctoral Researcher, Spinal Mechanisms of Motor Control - Neural ActivityCompany Description: The University Health Network, where “above all else the needs of patients come first”, encompasses Toronto General Hospital, Toronto Western Hospital, Princess Margaret Canc...

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BWJones
@bwjones.bsky.social

Just had my daily reminder of how wonderful the NIH peeps are who handle all of the work involved in managing grants for those of us out here in extramural land. The NIH staff really are the best humans, working so hard to ensure that the science can continue in incredibly challenging times.

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Mark Histed
@markhisted.org

Replying to @markhisted.org

Also NIH has over 10,000 employees and last I checked there are about 1000 labs in the in-house program, and the reason you’re not hearing from more NIH people in public is not because they don’t care or aren’t worried, it’s because they are afraid of retaliation. Bhattacharya censorship is real

Memming Park
@memming.bsky.social

Park, I. M., Vermani, A., de Polavieja, G. G., Gallego, J. Á., Esfahany, K., Saxena, S., Orger, M., Ijspeert, A., Dowling, M., McNamee, D., Turaga, S. C., Mainen, Z., Paton, J. J. and Renart, A. (2026). Integrative Neurocybernetic Modeling in the Era of Large-Scale Neuroscience. arXiv 2604.23903

arxiv.orgIntegrative neurocybernetic modeling in the era of large-scale neuroscienceLarge-scale neuroscience is generating rich datasets across animals, brain areas and behavioral contexts, yet our modeling efforts remains fragmented across isolated experiments. We argue that underst...

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Ann Kennedy
@antihebbiann.bsky.social

Replying to @antihebbiann.bsky.social

Jellyfish medusae also grow and change their body shape over their lifespan, in ways that dramatically alter the physics of their body-fluid interactions. So a fun open question is how their nervous system (which is adding new neurons throughout the lifespan) adapts itself to these body changes.

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Jacob Lab
@jacob-lab.bsky.social

🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨 The Technical University of Munich @tum.de is recruiting a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Implantable Brain–Computer Interfaces! We’re looking for someone to help build the next generation of robust, clinically scalable #implantable #BCIs. portal.mytum.de/jobs/profess... 🧵👇

portal.mytum.deTUM - Tenure Track Assistant Professor in » Implantable Brain-Computer Interfaces «Studierenden- und Mitarbeiterportal der Technische Universität München

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Arula Ratnakar
@arula-ratnakar.bsky.social

omg this made me tear up. Anonymous comments from my undergrad students in my course evaluations for the intro to comp neuro class I taught the past semester. The students liked what I did 😭❤️ I really cared about getting them excited about mathematical modeling and designing differential equations!

Memming Park
@memming.bsky.social

They really want the ACs to be on schedule! #neurips2026

NeurIPS Blog – NeurIPS conference blog [Unofficial]@blog.neurips.cc.web.brid.gy

blog.neurips.ccRefining the Review Cycle: NeurIPS 2026 Area Chair PilotAs NeurIPS continues to grow, we recognize that Area Chairs (ACs) are, in many senses, the most essential people in the NeurIPS program creation process. Your judgment about how to synthesize reviews towards an accept or reject decision largely determines our program. Recognizing the pivotal role that ACs play, we are introducing three synergistic initiatives […]

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Helena (Yuhan) Liu
@helenaliu24.bsky.social

(1/n) Presenting our NeurIPS’25 work at #cosyne2026 poster 3-109 We introduce a flexible framework to infer how animals learn new decision-making tasks from scratch without assuming REINFORCE/Q-learning. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2509.04661 Joint w/ @vgeadah.bsky.social and @jpillowtime.bsky.social

arxiv.orgFlexible inference for animal learning rules using neural networksUnderstanding how animals learn is a central challenge in neuroscience, with growing relevance to the development of animal- or human-aligned artificial intelligence. However, existing approaches tend...
Memming Park
@memming.bsky.social

If you are at #cosyne2026 come see poster [2-152] Dynamical archetype analysis: Autonomous computation. Ábel Ságodi is presenting how you can compare dynamical systems at behaviorally relevant timescale while keeping the interpretability!

Memming Park
@memming.bsky.social

I've been seriously experimenting with AI tools. Claude Code is my current go-to. I treat learning AI tools more like playing an RPG. You level up as you go. You pick up a skill here, you pick up an armor there. There's too much to learn and you need to slowly acquire the skills.

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Andrew Saxe
@saxelab.bsky.social

Replying to @saxelab.bsky.social

We’re hiring postdocs/research scientists! Your interests can be anywhere on the spectrum from pure theory to empirically testing predictions relevant to AI safety. Our theoretical work relies on dynamical systems and tools from statistical physics. 3

Memming Park
@memming.bsky.social

New preprint from the lab! Ábel Ságodi developed a theory of approximating dynamical systems that goes beyond finite time. #theoreticalNeuroscience Follow @neurabel.bsky.social Universal Approximation Theorems for Dynamical Systems with Infinite-Time Horizon Guarantees. . arxiv.org/abs/2602.08640

arxiv.orgUniversal Approximation Theorems for Dynamical Systems with Infinite-Time Horizon GuaranteesUniversal approximation theorems establish the expressive capacity of neural network architectures. For dynamical systems, existing results are limited to finite time horizons or systems with a global...
Ábel Ságodi@neurabel.bsky.social

Can we guarantee the behavior of an RNN to generalize well for infinite time? 🧠♾️ Similar to universal approximation theorems in deep nets, for systems that forget everything eventually, there are guarantees. We prove it for multistable systems! arxiv.org/abs/2602.08640 w/ @memming.bsky.social (1/6)

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Juan Gallego
@juangallego.bsky.social

🚨📜+🧵🚨 Very excited about this work showing that people with no hand function following a spinal cord injury can control the activity of motor units from those muscles to perform 1D, 2D and 3D tasks, play video games, or navigate a virtual wheelchair By a wonderful team co-mentored w Dario Farina

Vishal Rawji@vishrawji.bsky.social

New preprint! We show that people with tetraplegic spinal cord injury can use their residual motor unit activity to achieve up to three dimensional control using non-invasive high-density surface EMG With my co-first authors Xingchen Yang and Ciara Gibbs www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/13

medrxiv.orgIntuitive, multidimensional motor unit control after paralysing spinal cord injury using non-invasive recordingsSpinal cord injury (SCI) results in profound motor impairment for approximately 20 million people worldwide. Regaining hand use is one of their highest priorities. Interestingly, even severely affecte...

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John Pearson
@jmxpearson.bsky.social

My department, Duke Neurobiology, is searching for a new chair. Ad below. Come work with me, @jmgrohneuro.bsky.social @ennatsew.bsky.social @jorggrandl.bsky.social @jnklab.bsky.social @sbilbo.bsky.social @neurocircuits.bsky.social and many other amazing folks! @dukemedschool.bsky.social

nature.comDepartment Chair, Duke Neurobiology - Duke University, Durham job with Duke University - School of Medicine | 12852576The Duke University School of Medicine (SOM) seeks a distinguished neuroscientist to serve as the next Chair of the Department of Neurobiology.
Memming Park
@memming.bsky.social

according to last.fm, my favourite artist of 2025 was #LauraThorn. Scrobbled 493/5728 times (just one song; La poupée monte le son). 0.01% of fans worldwide for the song. Of 2672 unique tracks I listened to. Also #1 on Beatrice Rana's Goldberg Variations album.

Memming Park
@memming.bsky.social

according to TripIt, I traveled 240Mm (yes, that's mega-meters), 10 countries in 2025. Oh my. I'm definitely going to travel much much less this year.

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Memming Park
@memming.bsky.social

Not everything worked out. I submitted six major grant applications in 2025; five were rejected, despite substantial time and resources invested (still waiting to hear back on the last one). All 3 of our NeurIPS submissions were rejected.