Alex Williams
@ItsNeuronal
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Asst Prof @NYU_CNS + Project Leader @FlatironCCN studying Computational + Statistical Neuroscience.
New York, NY
Joined July 2011
Here is a recording of my talk @CogCompNeuro last week on quantifying similarity in neural recordings. Very much enjoyed the Keynote + Tutorial format for the conference. Links to our tutorial notebook below 👇.
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RT @aminejat: Excited to announce that our paper on "Comparing noisy neural population dynamics using optimal transport distances" has been….
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RT @scott_linderman: Excited to share our JOSS paper ( and code (! Special thanks to our re….
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RT @uawregion6: Thousands of UAW members are international workers who conduct critical research to advance lifesaving treatments for disea….
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RT @UAW: UAW Region 4 CAP mobilization happening TODAY: members across the region are calling key Senators and Congresspeople to demand "No….
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RT @thepynapple: Thank you to everyone who joined us for our first and second Pynapple & @nemos_neuro workshops of the year at @FlatironCC….
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RT @andrewgwils: To save some suspense, industry is not doing a lot of curiosity driven fundamental research.
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RT @jaygirimd: 🧵 Many “hot takes” about the reduction of @NIH indirect grant costs to 15%. Let’s lay out the facts about the university g….
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RT @DrPhiltill: It seems few people know what an “indirect cost” is or why it has to be 40-60%. The reason the government forced universi….
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RT @BrainsExplained: Clearly Ivy Leagues are used here as examples to rile up conservatives, but rates are higher at places like Seattle Ch….
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RT @andrewgwils: Imagine if academia were given 500B for AI research. it would be absolutely revolutionary compared to one company stockp….
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I love assuming things are accurate. It has never made me look foolish even once.
@mike_brooks @NIH I said “assuming this is accurate” and asked for clarification/community notes took care of it. I’m in favor of a detailed audit for sake of directing more funds to actual research… and looks like we’re getting it.
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RT @StephenXZhang: 16/n My lab at @NYU_CNS will combine the systems neuroscience and cell signaling to understand how motivational dynamics….
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RT @StphTphsn1: New Preprint: "On the Ability of Deep Networks to Learn Symmetries from Data: A Neural Kernel Theory" by Andrea Perin and m….
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RT @FlatironInst: Interested in a summer research internship? We are hiring interns for our Initiative for Computational Catalysis: https:/….
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RT @thepynapple: 🍍🍍🍍 Just 1 week left to apply for the Flatiron summer internship! Spend your summer in NYC working on research software d….
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RT @HasselmoMichael: I am pleased to announce the publication of our special issue on scientific histories of hippocampal research in the j….
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RT @GatsbyUCL: 📢 Apply now for the 7-week #Mathematics #SummerSchool in London! You will develop mathematics skills and intuition necessar….
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RT @SuryaGanguli: Really fantastic work by @MasonKamb on an analytic, mechanistically interpretable, and predictive theory of creativity in….
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