Dan Butts

Research group at UMD combining data-driven models with theories of neural and systems-level computation

[Dan Butts @NeuralCodeUMD]

Are you an aspiring graduate student fascinated with neuroscience and enjoy computation? Apply to my lab at UMD for graduate school: we aim to develop a mechanistic understanding of cortical function using novel computational tools and large-scale neurophysiological data.

[Dan Butts @NeuralCodeUMD]

@BevilConway (NIH) and @NeuralCodeUMD (UMD) are seeking a brilliant postdoc to study high-acuity vision combining large-scale electrophys and deep computational modeling. Prior experience (broadly speaking) is recommended: email Dan Butts with CV and brief research statement.

[Dan Butts @NeuralCodeUMD]

Mine was just canceled too (was supposed to be next week). Horrific -- for NIH and especially all the science that depends on it.

[Ann L. Jennerich, MD MS ATSF @aclong111]

NIH study sections are being canceled or postponed at the last minute, wasting countless hours of scientists' time and delaying critical research funding. This instability threatens scientific progress and patient care. @NIH needs to fix this - fast. #NIHStudySection

@theNCI @nih_nhlbi @NIHFunding @NIHDirector

[Dan Butts @NeuralCodeUMD]

https://t.co/3yCBLEcXxV

[Joseph Allen @j_g_allen]

These great research institutions in red states are slated to lose about $1B in NIH research dollars

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

Congratulations to Karolina and the team and thank you to our funders NERF, VIB, and FWO and collaborators @NeuralCodeUMD, Matt Whiteway who have supported us and contributed to this project. URL https://t.co/SitgymUmQs
Official press release: https://t.co/1JTkEjke1R

[Patrick Mineault @patrickmineault]

Excited to release what we’ve been working on at Amaranth Foundation, our latest whitepaper, NeuroAI for AI safety! A detailed, ambitious roadmap for how neuroscience research can help build safer AI systems while accelerating both virtual neuroscience and neurotech. 1/N

[Dan Butts @NeuralCodeUMD]

Super-significant work in NeuroAI!

[Hadi Vafaii @hadivafaii]

How do brains “infer” the world’s state from noisy sensory data—and do so “dynamically?”

Our new theoretical framework bridges these two perspectives in a brain-inspired model👉🧵[1/n]

w/ amazing co-lead @dekelgalor & polymath mentor @jcbyts
📜preprint: https://t.co/xmjFLintZb

[Vikaas Sohal @sohallab]

Looking forward to #sfn2024! I'll talk on Sat PM and the lab will have posters on Mon PM from @APhensy @LenaShindy Lara Hagopian & Teagan Bullock. Thanks to @christineliuart for flyer production!!

[Dan Butts @NeuralCodeUMD]

We are recruiting PhD students for this fall, to work at the interface of visual neurophysiology and machine learning. Are you enthusiastic (and ideally knowledgable :) about both? Send me an email!

[Dan Butts @NeuralCodeUMD]

Come join a fantastic lab (with great collaborators :) to combine cutting edge neurophysiology and computation to answer fundamental questions about vision at the NIH. [pls RT]

[Bevil Conway @BevilConway]

Are you keen on brains, neural circuits, electrophys, modeling, behavior, & fancy tools? Post-doc position @NIH. Come collaborate w/ us & Dan Butts (UMD) @NeuralCodeUMD. Fully funded, collaborative, international team. Pls inquire, pls RT

https://t.co/ft4a1URYU2

[Hadi Vafaii @hadivafaii]

I'm at #NeurIPS23 and I'll be presenting this work on Tue Dec 12, afternoon session (poster #415). Details here: https://t.co/B35OLlohnS

I love chatting about brains, AI, and anything in between.

If you're at #NeurIPS23 and care about #NeuroAI, let’s connect! 🧠🤖

[Phillip Isola @phillip_isola]

This paper is so cool: https://t.co/o3tElnc2gJ

It shows several kinds of illusions that I had never seen before (e.g., color inversion illusion).

It's exciting to see more and more cases like this, where AI opens up new kinds of art, rather than only imitating old forms.

[Hadi Vafaii @hadivafaii]

#SfN23, @SfNtweets: come check out my poster tomorrow (Sunday) morning if you are curious about the relationship between generative modeling and the brain.

Work with @jcbyts and @NeuralCodeUMD.

https://t.co/01E2ihr02A

[Dan Butts @NeuralCodeUMD]

Come see our poster this afternoon (Saturday) at #SfN23 (Z26): suggesting color and form are processed through separate channels in (high-acuity) foveal V1, likely due to the limits of cone sampling. With @BevilConway and presented by Felix Bartsch.

[Bevil Conway @BevilConway]

If you’re interested in a postdoc at the NIH, track me down at SfN. My lab has four posters on Saturday afternoon (row Z: 18/19/25/26), and I’ll chair a session on objects and scenes Wednesday morning, room WC147A.

[Hendrikje Nienborg @nienborglab]

We have a 5-year postdoc position in my lab @NatEyeInstitute, @NIH, details are here:
https://t.co/pKeRzbG3pN

[Dan Butts @NeuralCodeUMD]

@alxecker @KordingLab @peabody124 Lots more to say :), but @alxecker's work on this as well as that of @cris_niell as wel. We have also been working on this recently to resolve foveal V1 (more there). Our earlier work suggests high-res tracking is also necessary outside of fovea too: https://t.co/mnH6JXRDrQ

[Dan Butts @NeuralCodeUMD]

@alxecker @KordingLab @peabody124 Glad to see this discussion! I wanted to highlight some of our recent work headed by @jcbyts that uses neural signals to calibrate eye tracking: https://t.co/lSsvVq7eQt

[Bevil Conway @BevilConway]

We have another open postdoc position! Come join a collaborative community at the Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, NIH. I welcome informal inquiries.