Alessandro Torcini's Avatar

Alessandro Torcini

@torcini

theoretical physicist #complexsystems #computationalneuroscience #Neuroscience #statisticalphysics #synchronization #neuroskyence #compneurosky #complexity CY Cergy Paris University (France) @cy-univ.bsky.social web: https://perso.u-cergy.fr/~atorcini/

263
Followers
321
Following
36
Posts
24.11.2024
Joined
Posts Following

Latest posts by Alessandro Torcini @torcini

Preview
David Colon - Soirée #HelloQuitteX Nouvelle ère Numérique Soirée organisée le 25 Janvier 2025 par l'Institut des Systèmes Complexes de Paris Île-de-France avec le soutien d'Escape-X…

Après la soirée "Résilience numérique européenne et géopolitique en 2026" , l'ISC-PIF rediffuse #HelloQuitteX du #20Janvier 2025
Aujourd'hui : David Colon 👉 vimeo.com/1154067680

#20janvier 26 👉 iscpif.fr/20janvier2026

27.02.2026 15:03 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Post image

The "publish or perish" culture must perish. Scientists need time to think.

We just published our Slow Science Manifesto, where we argue that huge changes are needed in the way we fund, publish, and evaluate science.

Read more and sign here: www.slow-science.com

20.02.2026 16:11 👍 110 🔁 52 💬 2 📌 8

I recommend this school to anyone interested in computation in the brain - it receives excellent reviews year after year, it is highly interactive and social, and the setting is remarkable.

18.02.2026 09:51 👍 32 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 1
Post image

#neuroskyence #compneurosky
Finally published with David Angulo Garcia:

A theory for self-sustained balanced states in absence of strong external currents
@plos.org

doi.org/10.1371/jour...

@alleninstitute.org @kenmiller.bsky.social @bernsteinneuro.bsky.social @incn.bsky.social

13.02.2026 20:40 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
The church at the center of Don Lemon’s arrest has ties to Christian nationalism And the "TheoBros."

One detail getting lost in the coverage of Don Lemon's arrest?

The church at the center of the case has ties to the Christian nationalist movement, including the “TheoBros," a loose network of mostly millennial, extremely online Christian nationalist pastors, podcasters, and shitposters.

31.01.2026 17:07 👍 635 🔁 309 💬 39 📌 18
Preview
Federal agents just arrested an Army veteran—after he protested ICE outside a church Ian Austin was part of the group that interrupted a St. Paul church service.

Breaking: Days after declaring, "I'm not going to live in fear" in a now-viral video, Army veteran Ian Austin was arrested by federal agents on Friday. Austin was part of a group, including journalist Don Lemon, that interrupted a St. Paul church service.

31.01.2026 03:58 👍 1088 🔁 504 💬 45 📌 20

Behind the paywall: archive.is/ClhQ0

31.01.2026 09:29 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
À Minneapolis, l’arrestation de deux journalistes amplifie les colères La « petite désescalade » promise en début de semaine par le président Trump n’a pas duré longtemps à Minneapolis. L’arrestation de deux journalistes et celle de plusieurs militants ayant manifesté il y a quelques jours dans une église ont ravivé les tensions, vendredi 30 janvier.

À Minneapolis, l’arrestation de deux journalistes amplifie les colères

Par Patricia Neves

31.01.2026 10:11 👍 64 🔁 26 💬 1 📌 1

The arrests of Don Lemon, Georgia Fort, and Jamael Lundy are unacceptable and a clear violation of the Constitution.

This is a dangerous abuse of power that threatens the rights of every single American.

They must be released immediately.

30.01.2026 16:54 👍 15188 🔁 3964 💬 258 📌 89
Preview
How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

30.01.2026 11:55 👍 16417 🔁 10008 💬 838 📌 1354

Deadline is approaching

30.01.2026 14:56 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

ICE's decision to just leave cars abandoned in the roads is one of those dystopian things that makes you recoil in shock when you encounter it.

29.01.2026 16:58 👍 8646 🔁 2836 💬 152 📌 90
Post image Post image

Postdoc position in Paris: come help develop new generation human brain computer interfaces ⚡🧠💻

Interested? Contact me if you have experience with machine learning (e.g. simulation-based inference, RL, generative/diffusion models) or dynamical systems.

See below for + details and retweet 🙏

27.01.2026 22:12 👍 75 🔁 56 💬 3 📌 5

I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work.

I don’t let bullies win.

Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.

28.01.2026 02:26 👍 84703 🔁 11602 💬 2467 📌 618
Video thumbnail

Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him.

“When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."

27.01.2026 17:30 👍 23694 🔁 9514 💬 657 📌 705
Post image

#neuroskyence #compneurosky

Join us to the 4th International Workshop On
Neurodynamics (NDy'26) to be held in Castro-Urdiales, Spain, May 26-29,2026

cody.unizar.es/events/neuro...

25.01.2026 14:55 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
Incorporating open connectomics data into teaching neuroscience Learn to analyze open neuroscience data and introduce dry lab modules into your existing classes at the Incorporating Open Connectomics data into...

Teach neuroscience to undergraduates? Learn how to incorporate our connectomics data into your courses!

🧠 "Incorporating open connectomics data into teaching neuroscience"
🗓️ July 23-24
🛫 Travel funds available
⏳ Apply by Feb. 2: https://bit.ly/3LAfOdy

#neuroskyence

14.01.2026 23:52 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 2
Video thumbnail

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

05.10.2025 17:24 👍 44026 🔁 15623 💬 3415 📌 2976
Preview
2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

04.10.2025 09:00 👍 12316 🔁 4200 💬 247 📌 583
Preview
Home Italian Network of Computational Neuroscience

@incn.bsky.social Ready to participate to the INCNT Conference 2025 in Padua, with my new work on Dynamical balance for WEAK external currents with D. Angulo Garcia and A. Politi

www.incn.it

20.09.2025 13:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
Attention, US Citizens: Yes, You Can Now Be Deported The Justice Department last month issued a memo outlining priorities for deportation, including naturalized citizens.

“Unlike birthright citizens, naturalized citizens can now be stripped of their status through a ‘civil process’ — which doesn’t guarantee a lawyer and uses lower standards of evidence.”

indiacurrents.com/attention-us...

13.09.2025 04:15 👍 46 🔁 36 💬 2 📌 8
Post image

#neuroskyence #compneurosky

Finally published the entire story

D. S. Goldobin, M.V. Ageeva M. di Volo F. Tixidre, A. Torcini, "Synaptic shot-noise triggers fast and slow global oscillations in balanced neural networks", Physical Review E 112, 034301 (2025)

perso.u-cergy.fr/~atorcini/AR...

09.09.2025 13:09 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
Simons Foundation Launches Collaboration on the Physics of Learning and Neural Computation Simons Foundation Launches Collaboration on the Physics of Learning and Neural Computation on Simons Foundation

Led by @stanford.edu's @suryaganguli.bsky.social, our Simons Collaboration on the Physics of Learning & Neural Computation will study AI's fundamental scientific principles: www.simonsfoundation.org/simons-foundation-launches-collaboration-on-the-physics-of-learning-and-neural-computation/ #science

06.09.2025 20:48 👍 32 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
Post image

The unemployment rate rose to 4.3%, it's highest level since 2021.

05.09.2025 12:39 👍 422 🔁 147 💬 28 📌 15
Post image

@simonsfoundation.org

Preprint in #neuroskyence #compneurosky strong external currents are not needed to get dynamical E/I #balance short term depression suffices, results for rate and spiking networks via dynamical mean field theory with David Angulo Garcia

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

02.09.2025 07:02 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A theory for self-sustained balanced states in absence of strong external currents https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.26.672268v1

31.08.2025 10:15 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
A theory for self-sustained balanced states in absence of strong external currents Recurrent neural networks with balanced excitation and inhibition exhibit irregular asynchronous dynamics, which is fundamental for cortical computations. Classical balance mechanisms require strong e...

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

31.08.2025 14:00 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Post image

Last preprint in #neuroskyence #compneurosky strong external currents are not required to get dynamical #balance in rate chaos, results obtained via dynamical mean field theory

@alleninstitute.org @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social @bernsteinneuro.bsky.social @incn.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

31.08.2025 13:57 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Preview
Research posts on Bluesky are more original — and get better engagement Bluesky posts about science garner more likes and reposts than similar ones on X.

@nature.com I love this article - but WHY are the only share options to X and Facebook when the whole point of the article is that science-based posts get more shares here?

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

29.08.2025 16:49 👍 1662 🔁 338 💬 37 📌 17

Is the cortical dynamics ergodic? A numerical study in partially symmetric networks of spiking neurons https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.28.666831v1

31.07.2025 19:15 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0