Chief opinion editor at The Transmitter. Views expressed are my own.
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Computational neuroscientist @SussilloDavid maps the divergent paths of AI and neuroscience, and where they might still meet.
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Many of the design choices present in the current generation of AI tools parallel purported properties of the brain, writes @neurokim. Read Stachenfeld’s analysis of Duarte’s essay: thetransmitter.org/neuroai/c…
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An alternative, albeit less quantitative, way to trace this history is through the people who carried ideas between the fields, writes @TonyZador. Read his commentary on Duarte’s essay: thetransmitter.org/neuroai/c…
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A citation analysis reveals that the connection between the two fields is real and gaining momentum. But it’s also narrow and tool-heavy; we need to find ways to widen it, writes @Renatocfduarte.
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One path toward AI safety, then, is to take a page from evolution and find a way to install caring so that it retains leverage over knowing.
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A 1985 study showed that monkeys could focus their attention on different stimuli without shifting their gaze. In “This paper changed my life, @MillerLabMIT describes how the work marked a key milestone in the emergence of cognitive neuroscience.
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In some settings, neural circuits may calculate confidence in a decision simultaneously with the choice itself, writes @azylb. That changes the types of questions researchers should ask.
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I fear that placing too much emphasis on a specific interpretation of dimensionality, or treating dimensionality as an end-all quantification of some aspect of neural computation, may lead us down the wrong path, writes @mattperich.
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Kevin Mitchell @WiringTheBrain talks to Timothy Behrens @behrenstimb about which neural systems the field has genuinely cracked.
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The Transmitter @_TheTransmitter is honored to have won gold in the How-to Article category of the 2026 TABPI Awards. Explore our award-winning piece by @analog_ashley, thetransmitter.org/how-to-te…
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Thanks @emilysinger at @_TheTransmitter for talking to me about this show and my vision of using #planetarium domes for #neuroscience outreach. We have the passionate volunteers, they have the #scicomm infrastructure, let's make collaborations easier.
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Over the past few years, Tyler Sloan @quorumetrix has been working on bringing neuroscience to the dome. His new planetarium film, more than a decade in the making, takes viewers on an immersive journey into the brain.
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Over the past few years, Tyler Sloan @quorumetrix has been working on bringing neuroscience to the dome. His new planetarium film, more than a decade in the making, takes viewers on an immersive journey into the brain.
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I talked with Tyler Sloan @quorumetrix about his new planetarium film, more than a decade in the making, which takes viewers on an immersive journey into the brain. thetransmitter.org/art-in-sc…
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At #FENS2026 and interested in learning more about @_TheTransmitter? I'll be at the FENS booth this afternoon from 2:30-3:15pm-come say hi!
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This week, @_TheTransmitter will be at #FENS2026 @FENSorg, where we will host the panel “The modern neuroscience lab in the age of AI” on 8 July. Here’s a roundup of essays written by the panelists who will be part of the conversation.
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If you're at #FENS2026, come check out our panel on neuroscience and AI on Wed, 8 July, 9:45am, Hall B, with @r4chelp, @mtoneva1, @wake_sleep and Satra Ghosh. Hear more from our panelists in this excellent series of essays.
This week, @_TheTransmitter will be at #FENS2026 @FENSorg, where we will host the panel “The modern neuroscience lab in the age of AI” on 8 July. Here’s a roundup of essays written by the panelists who will be part of the conversation.
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As AI-driven systems are integrated into all aspects of science, we need to make sure that they read and write to a shared data and knowledge space, writes Satrajit Ghosh.
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The brain's first foundation models exist because some areas of neuroscience did the slow work of developing and adopting standards to help integrate data. AI cannot do that work for us, writes @wake_sleep.
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NEW! Explore @_thetransmitter’s newest tool, Neuro Funding Finder. Discover grants, fellowships and funding opportunities for neuroscience research at all career stages. Find your next funding source and apply, all in one place: thetransmitter.org/neuroscie…
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Applications are now open for our fall science reporting internship! This is an excellent opportunity for a beginning science journalist to report and write about the fast-moving field of neuroscience. Apply now: simonsfoundation.wd1.myworkd…
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