Associate Professor of (Systems & Computational) Neuroscience @UniofNottingham. Interested in cortical dynamics.
United Kingdom
Joined August 2017
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Michael Okun retweeted
The research community is in uproar after OpenAI released a trove of more than 700 mathematical preprints entirely generated by AI on 6 October
go.nature.com/4rUx91I
Michael Okun retweeted
I wanted to screenshot this for those historians of AI and technology in the future. The day after OpenAI's mathplosion, it was nowhere to be found on the front page of the New York Times.
A project that I've been working on for the last couple of years (on & off), dealing with the question of how firing rates of neuronal populations change (1/6).
doi.org/10.64898/2026.09.26.…
You might suspect that this is purely a statistical bias due to the low number of spikes from the slow-firing neurons (noisy estimate). While such a bias exists, most of the heteroskedasticity is absolutely real and physiological (5/6).
Michael Okun retweeted
I have signed a letter from 42 fellows and foreign members of the Royal Society to Paul Nurse, the president of the society, concerning the need to treat the serious risks of AI as an emergency.
docs.google.com/document/d/1…
Michael Okun retweeted
We're hiring!
Join us as a postdoc to study how the brain is optimised for sensory coding and memory
Please spread the word!
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Deadline: 5 October 2026
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Thanks, but your description contradicts my experience. In practice your system heavily interferes with meaningful editorial control over reviewer invitations, which goes to the core of peer-review integrity. This isn't a 'communication shortfall'—it's a systemic choice you made.
I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience (part of @FrontNeurosci). It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇
I emailed and met with the editorial office to ask for the AI assistant to be turned off. This is not possible. Instead, I was treated to some vague promises of potential future improvements and a dose of gaslighting.
Michael Okun retweeted
But the tl;dr version is that the model proved a result that in my assessment would have made a perfectly reasonable chapter in a PhD thesis. It did this in a total of a couple of hours, with a few prompts from me that contained no mathematical input whatsoever.
Thanks to all the attendees and presenters at our annual Neuroscience@Nottingham event, joint to @UniofNottingham and @NottmTrentUni !
A special thanks to our external speakers: @SeriesPeggy and @VVyazovskiy
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