Il Memming Park

Computational neuroscientist.
Maybe at @[email protected]
Also @memming.bsky.social
Group leader @Neuro_CF
(formerly Associate professor @SBUNeurobiology)

[Il Memming Park @memming]

A new preprint that revives the theory of continous attractors that may be surprising to you! Despite their mathematical fragility, we show that they are functionally *robust*. No wonder we see approximate continuous attractors in neuroscience often. https://t.co/H37rUSpUoE

[Benyamin Abramovich Krasa @BenyaminAK_BCI]

🧠🗣️ Ever stumbled over your words, realizing only after speaking them outloud? Your brain might not have followed the plan. New preprint on the neural ensemble organization of speech motor plans and what it means for speech BCIs https://t.co/f7zpqNDKSc 1/10

[Il Memming Park @memming]

@KordingLab it may be always 10 years ahead; receding goal post problem will be with us forever.

[Il Memming Park @memming]

I've been a happy customer of @TheBrainTech product since 2015 or before, using the free tier which had basic cloud sync function. I finally upgraded to the PRO version and paid $200+ and I can no longer use the basic sync function... am I doing something wrong?

[Il Memming Park @memming]

If you are at #cosyne2026 come see poster [2-152] Dynamical archetype analysis: Autonomous computation. Ábel Ságodi is presenting how you can compare dynamical systems at behaviorally relevant timescale while keeping the interpretability!

[Il Memming Park @memming]

Are you at #cosyne2026 and looking for a postdoc position? We are hiring! Send me a message or find me! https://t.co/8BAU0IVBSX

[Zeinab Mohammadi @Zeinab___M]

Happy to share that our new paper is out in Nature Communications with Zoe Ashwood, @IntlBrainLab, and @jpillowtime!

We study how animals switch between internal decision-making states in non-stationary environments using a GLM-HMM framework.

https://t.co/gZoqFwgcZx

[Il Memming Park @memming]

@paperpile I'm getting "you're offline" state often these days. What could be going on? If I refresh the paperpile page on Chome, it works again.

[Eero Simoncelli @EeroSimoncelli]

Joint junior faculty position in Computational Neuroscience, split between Ctr for Computational Neuroscience at @FlatironInst and the CUNY Graduate Center @GC_CUNY. Application deadline: 16 Jan 2026!

https://t.co/TdmduNJ7uG

[Il Memming Park @memming]

How can I accelerate breakdown of caffeine in my body? I will need to increase CYP1A2 (P450) activity (without smoking). Vigorous exercise over 30 days was shown to increase it up to 70%? https://t.co/cbAvrcMwMw

[Il Memming Park @memming]

Learning a lot while preparing for a lecture on RNNs for neuroscience.

[Il Memming Park @memming]

Gonçalo M. Tavares's poetry book, "Mr. Swedenborg and the Geometrical Investigations" is *not* available on https://t.co/avBjIAbcll... ISBN: 9896419981
https://t.co/8IrTLO8RJI

[Il Memming Park @memming]

@vinyard_m #ICanHazPDF?

[Il Memming Park @memming]

What should the opposite of twisting be called?

[Il Memming Park @memming]

The research labs you can join through INDP range from systems neuroscience, computational neuroscience and clinical neuroscience, to neocybernetics, neuroethology, and natural intelligence.
To learn more about the culture and value, check out: https://t.co/DRgY0duCjz

[Il Memming Park @memming]

Applications are now open for the International Neuroscience Doctoral Programme (INDP) at Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal.

Deadline for application: Jan 31, 2026

https://t.co/OBheiSE8zH

The programme includes an initial year of classes + three lab rotations.

[Il Memming Park @memming]

We seek motivated applicants from all areas of neuroscience, as well as physics, math, computer science, electrical/biomedical engineering, and related quantitative backgrounds. English is the working language. It's an American-style graduate program in Europe.

[Il Memming Park @memming]

One advantage of monosemantic, sharply-tuned, grandmother-cell, axis-aligned, neuron-centric representation as opposed to polysemantic, mixed-selective, oblique population code is that it can benefit from evolution. Genes are good at operating at the cell level. #neuroscience

[Il Memming Park @memming]

Theoretical Insights on Training Instability in Deep Learning TUTORIAL
https://t.co/HbvPvVWuIt

gradient flow-like regime is slow and can overfit while large (but not too large) step size can trasiently go far, converge faster, and find better solutions #optimization #NeurIPS2025

[Il Memming Park @memming]

Some of my favorites from #NeurIPS2025

more neg max Lyapunov exp => faster parallelized RNN convergence
Gonzalez, X., Kozachkov, L., Zoltowski, D. M., Clarkson, K. L., & Linderman, S. Predictability Enables Parallelization of Nonlinear State Space Models. https://t.co/T5rUSHTr7s

[Il Memming Park @memming]

score/flow matching diffusion models only starts memorizing when trained for long enough
Bonnaire, T., Urfin, R., Biroli, G., & Mezard, M. (2025). Why Diffusion Models Don’t Memorize: The Role of Implicit Dynamical Regularization in Training. https://t.co/CXmR8LyEKD