RT @QuantaMagazine: Martin Schrimpf (@martin_schrimpf) trained an AI model to generate sentences which can activate or suppress neural acti….

RT @aran_nayebi: Our first NeuroAgent! 🐟🧠. Excited to share new work led by the talented @rdkeller, showing how autonomous behavior and who….

Personal note: as @aran_nayebi pointed out, this project started back at MIT during our faculty job search. This was. not an easy time. There were months when, to quote another scientist, I used to come into the office just to have the privilege of walking home with Aran 😘.

An awesome collaboration with @aran_nayebi, led by the amazing @rdkeller! The neural-glial circuit underlying futility integration in larval zebrafish naturally emerges in intrinsically motivated, embodied agents. See their excellent threads (and the preprint) for the details!.

RT @DimaKrotov: I am very excited about our new paper just published in PNAS. Dense Associative Memory is a versatile family of models th….

P.S., the first image in this thread shows a single astrocyte in the mouse visual cortex (accessed via MICrONS: , with an overlaid network of astrocyte processes and the governing energy equation for our network shown below.

Paper: (6/6).

Takeaway: Memory may not live solely in synaptic weights. Our work suggests it could also reside in the molecular machinery of astrocytes. This reframes our understanding of memory—and opens new directions in neuroscience, ML, and neuromorphic computing. (5/6).

By tuning astrocyte connectivity, the model spans a spectrum: from Hopfield-like Dense Associative Memory to Transformer-like architectures. This flexibility gives rise to a continuum of highly performant systems. (4/6).

Core idea: astrocytes store information in internal calcium dynamics and inter-process communication. This astrocytic “hardware” enables many-neuron interactions and supports a superior memory scaling law—outperforming all known biologically plausible models. (3/6).

One astrocyte can interact with millions of synapses—detecting neurotransmitters, modulating synaptic strength, and signaling back to neurons. Our theory shows how these dynamics can support powerful associative memory functions. (2/6).

Big week for astrocyte research: 3 new Science papers link astrocytes to behavior. We're excited to add to the momentum with our new PNAS paper: a theory, grounded in biology, proposing astrocytes as key players in memory storage and recall. w/ JJ Slotine and @DimaKrotov (1/6)

RT @neuroprinciples: If you are around for the @CosyneMeeting conference and interested in how neural computations happen in the brain with….

RT @wredman4: Our paper "Identifying Equivalent Training Dynamics" was accepted as a spotlight (top ~5%) 💡 to NeurIPS! A real dream team (b….

RT @DimaKrotov: I have been thinking about boundaries between the disciplines in the last couple of days. What is Physics and what is not?….

Did you know there is a video of Warren McCulloch (yes, that McCulloch) talking about neural networks while shirtless and smoking a bogie? I didn't.

RT @tfburns: I'm on the job market! Looking for positions where I can leverage my background in AI/ML and computational neuroscience. Below….

RT @adamjeisen: Our paper is out today in Neuron! Huge thanks to my co-first author @Leokoz8, co-advisors @MillerLabMIT and @FieteGroup, an….

RT @MillerLabMIT: "The brain has to operate on a knife's edge between excitability and chaos". He's right, you know. .

RT @MillerLabMIT: New paper! Propofol anesthesia causes unconsciousness by making your brain more chaotic. It does this *increasing* inhib….