Research group at UMD combining data-driven models with theories of neural and systems-level computation
Joined September 2019
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16 Nov 2025
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.
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27 Feb 2025
Mine was just canceled too (was supposed to be next week). Horrific -- for NIH and especially all the science that depends on it.
26 Feb 2025
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
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Dan Butts retweeted
8 Feb 2025
These great research institutions in red states are slated to lose about $1B in NIH research dollars
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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 doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.202…
Official press release: x.com/VIBLifeSciences/status…
17 Dec 2024
👀 How does the brain process visual information? New research by @BoninLab and colleagues (@__NERF) suggests it's more complicated than we thought. ➡️ Read more: vibbio.tech/4gfeQO7
The video 👇 shows how visual information is transmitted in the brain.
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Dan Butts retweeted
2 Dec 2024
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
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10 Nov 2024
Super-significant work in NeuroAI!
29 Oct 2024
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: arxiv.org/abs/2410.19315
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Dan Butts retweeted
2 Oct 2024
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!!
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16 Sep 2024
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!
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30 Jan 2024
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]
29 Jan 2024
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
training.nih.gov/jobs/pdf-sn…
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Dan Butts retweeted
10 Dec 2023
I'm at #NeurIPS23 and I'll be presenting this work on Tue Dec 12, afternoon session (poster #415). Details here: nips.cc/virtual/2023/poster/…
I love chatting about brains, AI, and anything in between.
If you're at #NeurIPS23 and care about #NeuroAI, let’s connect! 🧠🤖
29 Sep 2023
Why is the visual cortex organized hierarchically? Because it has to infer the underlying composition of a multi-scale world.
New preprint with @jcbyts and @NeuralCodeUMD (accepted to #NeurIPS2023)
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
ALT Perception as inference
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30 Nov 2023
This paper is so cool: dangeng.github.io/visual_ana…
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.
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Dan Butts retweeted
11 Nov 2023
#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.
abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/1…
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11 Nov 2023
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.
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Dan Butts retweeted
9 Nov 2023
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.
1 Sep 2022
Post-doc position @NIH (near Washington DC). Join our quest to learn how light gets turned into perceptions, thoughts, actions. Great resources, 5 yrs funded, collaborative, fun, international team. Neurophys, fMRI, MEG, behav. #color. Pls inquire, pls RT
nei.nih.gov/grants-and-train…
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Dan Butts retweeted
10 Nov 2023
We have a 5-year postdoc position in my lab @NatEyeInstitute, @NIH, details are here:
nei.nih.gov/grants-and-train…
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Dan Butts retweeted
14 Oct 2023
We have another open postdoc position! Come join a collaborative community at the Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, NIH. I welcome informal inquiries.
1 Sep 2022
Post-doc position @NIH (near Washington DC). Join our quest to learn how light gets turned into perceptions, thoughts, actions. Great resources, 5 yrs funded, collaborative, fun, international team. Neurophys, fMRI, MEG, behav. #color. Pls inquire, pls RT
nei.nih.gov/grants-and-train…
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13 Oct 2023
It's finally out! Great work from the @nienborglab (with @jcbyts) that I enjoyed being a part of.
13 Oct 2023
In primates, activity in visual cortex is minimally driven by spontaneous body movements. These results confirm the functional specialization of primate visual processing and contrast with findings in mice.
nature.com/articles/s41593-0…
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29 Sep 2023
Why is the visual cortex organized hierarchically? Because it has to infer the underlying composition of a multi-scale world.
New preprint with @jcbyts and @NeuralCodeUMD (accepted to #NeurIPS2023)
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
ALT Perception as inference
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Dan Butts retweeted
21 Sep 2023
Sharing new preprint from our lab: @biorxiv_neursci.
Led by @pklafosse, we show neurons in the awake🧠can filter out inputs: attenuation-by-suppression.
Also: real neurons’ activation function share features w/ #ai systems (eg ChatGPT). #neuroscience
Comments welcome!
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ALT biorxiv preprint Single cell optogenetics reveals attenuation-by-suppression in visual cortical neurons Paul K. LaFosse1,2,3, Zhishang Zhou1 , Victoria M. Scott1 , Yanting Deng1 , Mark H. Histed1
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