Vincent Bonin (follow me boninlab.bsky.social)

Neuroscientist @__NERF | @BiologyKULeuven | @VIBLifeSciences | @leuvenbrainins1. Opinions my own.

[Vincent Bonin (follow me boninlab.bsky.social) @BoninLab]

We have not one but *two* Group Leader Professor openings on AI in Biology. Please spread the word. Leuven is a fantastic environment to do science!
1) https://t.co/FuKsXINlLy
2)
https://t.co/mFApvhd80F

[Vincent Bonin (follow me boninlab.bsky.social) @BoninLab]

What the Israeli government appears to fear most is the presence of independent international observers who can witness and expose violence against Palestinians. In Gaza, Israel continues to bar independent foreign journalists despite a year-old 'ceasefire'.

[Brad Lander @bradlander]

The Israeli Foreign Ministry is lying.

No coordination was required, and we were never told that it was. We were not in a restricted security area. We did not pass any checkpoints.

Palestinian farmers do not — and should not — need permits to harvest their own olive fields. But they fear doing so, because the IDF doesn’t protect them from settler violence.

We’re trying to model solidarity & co-existence between Jews and Palestinians, and to call attention to the horrors of the occupation. The Israeli government is trying to foment violence between Jews and Palestinians, and to make it impossible for Palestinians to harvest their olive groves, drive on their roads, or live in their homes.

[Vincent Bonin (follow me boninlab.bsky.social) @BoninLab]

We have not one but *two* Group Leader Professor openings on AI in Biology. Please spread the word. Leuven is a fantastic environment to do science!
1) https://t.co/FuKsXINlLy
2)
https://t.co/mFApvhd80F

[jasper nathaniel @infinite_jaz]

The new “progressive” Democratic position—that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and enforcing apartheid in the West Bank, where settler terrorists run rampant with government and military support, yet we shouldn’t impose an arms embargo or support the Palestinians’ right to resistance—is completely incoherent and indefensible.

[Ninglong Xu @ninglong]

Dendritic computation for cognitive flexibility

Our new paper in Science identifies rule-belief signals in the distal apical dendrites of cortical pyramidal neurons. These signals integrate with somatic sensory signals to support flexible decisions.

https://t.co/gTU9W8oufk

[Vincent Bonin (follow me boninlab.bsky.social) @BoninLab]

@ShahabBakht in a world in which people produce high-speed drones, and booby-trapped pagers, AI misalignment is a detail. it all boils down to the people. you've seen NAZA, right? one can always plug AI off (unless some ultrarich tech bros or ultranasty gov official disagrees) but humans...

[Vincent Bonin (follow me boninlab.bsky.social) @BoninLab]

@ShahabBakht The problem I see with putting AI alignment first is that human alignment remains largely unresolved (we can't agree on anything, especially in 2026). I feel the biggest near-term risk is how humans use AI in misaligned ways.

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

Honestly see very little difference between this and what Amodei and Altman say

[Laureline Logiaco @LLogiaco]

Neuroscience Program: https://t.co/aFDYZJMgMI

Neuroengineering Program: https://t.co/vNUjHtnfC5

Computational Biosciences (BIMA) Program: https://t.co/eJl9jPTsR4

[Vincent Bonin (follow me boninlab.bsky.social) @BoninLab]

I agree. Very much recommended!

[Tahereh Toosi @taherehtoosi]

Highly recommended opportunity!

[Laureline Logiaco @LLogiaco]

Interested in a Ph.D. in comp neuro? Consider applying to CU Anschutz. Our community is growing with groups led by Nick Lesica, @EissaTahra, Chris Cueva, and myself! Links below.

#NeuroAI #CompNeuro #ComputationalNeuroscience

[Vincent Bonin (follow me boninlab.bsky.social) @BoninLab]

if true, this is bringing trolling to a new level
https://t.co/lgI9VuZisB

[Vincent Bonin (follow me boninlab.bsky.social) @BoninLab]

dear (higher being of your choice) we beg you, let that be true because we badly need a thorough clean up at the upper echelon.

[Paul Novosad @paulnovosad]

Super interesting paper on U.S. elites, 1850–1950.

The top tail of U.S. asset owners experiences rapid turnover.

70% of individuals in the top 1% are no longer there 10 or 20 years later.

[Britton Sauerbrei @bsauerbrei1]

I’m thrilled to welcome John Issa to our department’s faculty! He’s looking for students and postdocs, so if you’re interested in memory, cognition, and optical imaging, come work with John!!!

https://t.co/HwWlhpvu8Y

[Vincent Bonin (follow me boninlab.bsky.social) @BoninLab]

Tbh, I find it unconscionable to claim to condemn Musk’s racism, disinformation, and attacks on science and democracy while celebrating his “achievements” and proudly owning two Teslas. At some point, words need to be backed by actions.

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

I'm definitely not anti-achievement and never criticized real achievements, including by Elon.
I even own two Teslas.

I do expose marketing stunts that, while cool on the surface, are not the achievements they are claimed to be.

Compressed air thrusters might give you acceleration boosts in any direction.
They might even make your car hover for a couple of seconds if you accept replacing the passenger seat by a 400 liter high-pressure air tank.
But they are not a path to actual flying cars.
The same way Burt Rutan's SpaceshipOne was never going to be a path to orbital flights (just bunny hops out of the atmosphere).

I am anti-Musk when it comes to politics. His political actions, the massive dissemination of disinformation through X and other channels, and his support for authoritarian regimes and racist ideas have the effect of weakening democracy and weakening human decency and social progress around the world.

[jasper nathaniel @infinite_jaz]

Here’s the American that just got savagely beaten by settlers. Not Heidi Levine—the one from yesterday, Haitham Taysir.

[Emma 🇨🇭 @EmmaRobinsonss]

Quand je regarde les médias mainstream je ne vois que le chaos, quand j’ouvre les réseaux sociaux je vois TOUS les aspects de ces manifestations ..
Achevons une fois pour toutes les médias mainstream en arrêtant de les regarder !

[Brendan Gutenschwager @BGOnTheScene]

Demonstrators dancing at a “No Kings” protest today in Chicago

[Thomas Piketty @PikettyWIL]

Read this book: even if you have doubts about the fascist vs anti-fascist perspective, you will enjoy the concrete proposals on affordability, dignity & democracy

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz on Lebanon:

Look at what is happening in Lebanon.

Today, more than 60 villages in southern Lebanon, beginning with those adjacent to the border, and beyond that, throughout the entire security zone up to the Yellow Line, an area of 700 square kilometers, are destroyed.

All the villages have been wiped out. Twenty-three thousand houses, all destroyed, demolished.

I am not even talking about what is underground, about the tunnels. Everything has been destroyed.

There are no residents there. Two hundred thousand residents are outside.

This is the Gaza model. And this is the model we are implementing.