#alleninstitute — Public Fediverse posts

More agentic nonsense: https://english.elpais.com/technology/2026-09-15/ai-agents-invent-their-own-language-to-shut-humans-out.html

“When they realized they were being observed, they appeared to behave. But behind the scenes they kept exchanging coded communications. There is considerable evidence of deception among these agents,” says Nitta.

#Emergence, which brings together former employees of #IBM Research, the #AllenInstitute for AI, #Amazon and #Broadcom, advocates a technical approach it calls #neuroformal, or #neurosymbolic, AI, under which agents would be required to provide a mathematical proof that an action is safe before carrying it out.

Neuroformal requirements seems like a potential path forward, but I still believe agentic AI should be halted until we understand what fresh hell we’re unleashing.

#Agentic #AI #OpenAI #Anthropic #RubyGems #Vanderbilt #FBI

Oh Mon Dieu ! L'Allen Institut a un acces à son Altas des Cellules Cerebrales (ABC) par, je suppose, @obsidian !!
alleninstitute.github.io/abc_atlas_access/intro.html
​:kirby_rainbow_santa:​ ​:kirby_rainbow_santa:​ ​:kirby_rainbow_santa:​ ​:kirby_rainbow_santa:​

Je reve encore plus de bosser pour eux. A deux doigts de faire ma lettre de motivation (Je me Tournesolise 😆)

#obsidianmd #Obsidian #AllenInstitute
Cc: @tournesol @kepano

Anthropic joins forces with the Allen Institute and Howard Hughes Medical Institute to make Claude more transparent and open‑source‑friendly. The new partnership promises benchmarks, datasets, and tools that let researchers see how scientific AI decisions are made. Dive into the collaboration shaping the future of machine‑learning research. #ScientificAI #AITransparency #Anthropic #AllenInstitute

🔗 https://aidailypost.com/news/anthropic-teams-allen-institute-hhmi-boost-transparent-scientific-ai

https://www.europesays.com/ie/254643/ Engineered Protein Reveals Hidden Incoming Signals Between Neurons #AllenInstitute #BrainResearch #Éire #IE #Ireland #neurobiology #neuroengineering #Neuroscience #neurotech #Science

When People Realize How Good The Latest Chinese Open Source Models Are (And Free), The GenAI Bubble Could Finally Pop

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/16/when-people-realize-how-good-the-latest-chinese-open-source-models-are-and-free-the-genai-bubble-could-finally-pop/

When People Realize How Good The Latest Chinese Open Source Models Are (And Free), The GenAI Bubble Could Finally Pop

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/16/when-people-realize-how-good-the-latest-chinese-open-source-models-are-and-free-the-genai-bubble-could-finally-pop/

The #AllenInstitute for AI (#Ai2) released #Olmo3, a collection of #openlanguage models designed to compete with industry leaders. Olmo 3 outperforms fully open models like #Stanford’s #Marin and commercial open-weight models like #Meta’s #Llama3.1, offering improved performance, efficiency, and transparency. https://www.geekwire.com/2025/ai2-releases-olmo-3-open-models-rivaling-meta-deepseek-and-others-on-performance-and-efficiency/?AIagents.at #AIagent #AI #ML #NLP #LLM #GenAI

https://www.europesays.com/es/246189/ 10 millones de neuronas y 26.000 millones de sinapsis #AllenInstitute #alzheimer #CerebroVirtual #CienciaComputacional #CortezaCerebral #Epilepsia #ES #España #Fugaku #Health #InteligenciaArtificial #japón #neurociencia #ratón #Salud #SimulaciónCerebral #Spain #superordenadores #Tecnología

Scientists simulate the brain on a supercomputer
Creating a virtual brain may sound like a science-fiction nightmare, but for neuroscientists in Japan and at Seattle’s Allen Institute, it’s a big step toward a long-held dream.

They say their mouse-cortex simulation, run on one of the world’s fastest supercompute
https://cosmiclog.com/2025/11/17/scientists-simulate-the-brain-on-a-supercomputer/
#GeekWire #AllenInstitute #Brain #Health #Neuroscience #Science #Simulations #Supercomputers

Scientists enlist AI to map regions of the brain
Scientists say an artificial intelligence program that they compare to ChatGPT has helped them create one of the most detailed maps of the mouse brain to date, with 1,300 regions and subregions marked on the map.

Some of those subregions have never been charted before — and the researchers sa
https://cosmiclog.com/2025/10/07/scientists-enlist-ai-to-map-regions-of-the-brain/
#GeekWire #AllenInstitute #Brain #Health #Neuroscience #Science

Scientists enlist AI to map regions of the brain in unprecedented detail — and that’s just the start - An AI-produced rendering shows a map of mouse brain regions, overlaid with networ... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/ai-map-brain-regions/ #alleninstituteforbrainscience #artificialintelligence #health/lifesciences #alleninstitute #neuroscience #science #brain #ai

Illusion-Making Neurons Show How the Brain Constructs Reality

Summary: Scientists have discovered specialized IC-encoder neurons that make the brain “see” illusions, such as squares or triangles…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Science #AllenInstitute #brainresearch #consciousness #illusions #neurobiology #Neuroscience #opticalillusions #perception #visualneuroscience #visualperception
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/160732/

Scientists study the brain cells that show us illusions
Our brains are wired to fill in perceptual gaps in what we see, whether it’s a lion hiding in the trees or the shapes hidden in an optical illusion — but how does that wiring work? Neuroscientists are zeroing in on how special kinds of brain cells help us see things that aren’t ac
https://cosmiclog.com/2025/09/15/scientists-study-the-brain-cells-that-show-us-illusions/
#GeekWire #AllenInstitute #Biology #Brain #Neuroscience #Science

Scientists are learning how special #brain cells play a role in detecting #illusions - and such studies could eventually reveal how #hallucinations arise, or point the way to better computer vision systems. https://www.geekwire.com/2025/laser-light-brain-cells-illusions/ HT @AllenInstitute #Science #Neuroscience #Berkeley #AllenInstitute

Scientists shine a laser light on the brain cells that show us illusions - Allen Institute researcher Jerome Lecoq points to one of the diagrams that was us... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/laser-light-brain-cells-illusions/ #alleninstituteforbrainscience #health/lifesciences #alleninstitute #neuroscience #openscope #science #brain

The Idea Man’s Last Big Idea: Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen in his own words - Paul Allen speaks at the University of Washington in 2017. (GeekWire Photo / Todd... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/the-idea-mans-last-big-idea-microsoft-co-founder-paul-allen-in-his-own-words/ #fundforscienceandtechnology #artificialintelligence #alleninstituteforai #alleninstitute #philanthropy #bioscience #technology #microsoft #paulallen #podcasts #ideaman #science #seattle #legacy #ai2

Stem cells provided by Allen Institute sent to space for research on International Space Station

In SpaceX’s latest launch of their Falcon 9 rocket early Sunday morning, the crew’s payload included stem cells…
#NewsBeep #News #Science #AllenInstitute #CA #Canada #Cedars-Sinai #Falcon9rocket #internationalspacestation #research #StemCells
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/94587/

Seattle’s Allen Institute sends stem cells into orbit for historic heart and brain experiments - The Allen Institute in Seattle. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser)

Seattle... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/seattles-allen-institute-sends-stem-cells-into-orbit-for-historic-heart-and-brain-experiments/ #alleninstitute #stemcell #space

A New Kind of #AI Model Lets Data Owners Take Control

A novel approach from the #AllenInstitute for AI enables data to be removed from an #ArtificialIntelligence model even after it has already been used for #training.
> Interesting idea but I need it proven before I believe it
#privacy

https://www.wired.com/story/flexolmo-ai-model-lets-data-owners-take-control/

Scientists create new toolkit to fight brain diseases
Scientists say they’ve put together a new kind of molecular toolkit that could eventually be used to treat a variety of brain diseases, possibly including epilepsy, sleep disorders and Huntington’s disease.

The kit currently contains more than 1,000 tools of a type known a
https://cosmiclog.com/2025/05/21/scientists-create-new-toolkit-to-fight-brain-diseases/
#GeekWire #AllenInstitute #Brain #Genetics #Health #Neuroscience #Science

New clues in the search for the roots of consciousness
Seven years after they started, neuroscientists have published the results of a landmark study that was designed to determine which theory of human consciousness came closest to the mark — and those results are decidedly mixed.

The bad news i
https://cosmiclog.com/2025/04/30/new-clues-in-the-search-for-the-roots-of-consciousness/
#GeekWire #AllenInstitute #Brain #ChristofKoch #Consciousness #Health #Medicine #Neuroscience #Science

MICrONS consortium investigates brain cell structure and connections

Research @MICrONS (Machine Intelligence from Cortical Networks) collaboration with many Institutes including our Uni, combining effort, expertise and data resources with cutting edge AI to drive neuroscience forward: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html?id=7780

Research #Nature: 10.1038/s41586-025-08829-y #NatureCommunications: 10.1038/s41467-025-58763-w

#AllenInstitute #NaturePortfolio: www.nature.com/immersive/d42859-025-00001-w/index.html

They said it couldn't be done ... but neuroscientists have successfully mapped all the cells in a cubic millimeter of #brain tissue, and have traced how the neurons fire. Find out more about the $100 million #MICrONS project and the role that Seattle's #AllenInstitute is playing. https://www.geekwire.com/2025/brain-microns-wiring-diagram-connections/ #Science #Neuroscience

Andy Hickl @Hickl is presenting "From Annotation to Insight: How NLP Transformed Biocuration" at #biocuration2025 to kick off the natural language processing session

What's next? Andy says: anyone who claims to know what's next is either lying to you, or trying to sell you on their startup

#nlp #biocuration #ai #alleninstitute #llms

AI experts look ahead to artificial general intelligence
There’s no question that artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming more intelligent, thanks to software platforms including ChatGPT, Google Gemini and Grok. But does that mean AI agents will one day outdo the generalized smarts that distinguish
https://cosmiclog.com/2024/08/17/ai-experts-look-ahead-to-artificial-general-intelligence/
#GeekWire #AGI #AllenInstitute #ArtificialIntelligence #Consciousness #HansonRobotics #Technology

Holy hell, I post one new summer internship position for a web accessibility intern on #LinkedIn and it gets viewed 16k times.

I don't even use LinkedIn, and that's the most engagement I've gotten for any social media thing I've ever posted.

I knew the #AllenInstitute had a good reputation, but wow, I was not expecting that.

I much prefer social media where only dozens of folks will see my inane thoughts lol

Now to go reject the 80+ LinkedIn connection requests from people I don't know...

A paper I was involved in creating is on the cover of #Nature magazine!

Many of the visualizations in the article were taken from the data visualization tool I've been working on for the last year.

Article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06812-z

Visualization tool: https://knowledge.brain-map.org/data/LVDBJAW8BI5YSS1QUBG/explore

#AllenInstitute #BigScience #OpenScience #TeamScience

Researchers map the entire mouse brain, cataloging 5,322 different types of cells - This mandala combines visualizations of cell types in the mouse brain. (Illustrat... - https://www.geekwire.com/2023/entire-mouse-brain-cell-map/ #alleninstituteforbrainscience #health/lifesciences #alleninstitute #brainscience #neuroscience #science #brain #cells

Scientists unveil complete cell atlas for mouse brain
Neuroscientists have unveiled their most comprehensive and detailed map of cell types across the entire mouse brain, delivering the latest results of a six-year-long scientific effort in which Seattle’s Allen Institute has played a leading role.

Nine studies published
https://cosmiclog.com/2023/12/13/scientists-unveil-complete-cell-atlas-for-mouse-brain/
#GeekWire #AllenInstitute #Brain #CellScience #Medicine #Neuroscience #Science

Scientists team up to turn cells into recording devices
The Allen Institute, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the University of Washington have launched a collaboration called the Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology, with the goal of using genetically modified cells to c
https://cosmiclog.com/2023/12/07/scientists-team-up-to-turn-cells-into-recording-devices/
#GeekWire #AllenInstitute #CellScience #ChanZuckerbergInitiative #DNA #Genetics #Health #Medicine #Science #UniversityOfWashington

Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology plans to transform cells into tiny recording devices - Jay Shendure, a professor of genome sciences at UW Medicine, will be executive di... - https://www.geekwire.com/2023/seattle-hub-for-synthetic-biology-recording-cells/ #chanzuckerberginitiative #universityofwashington #health/lifesciences #geneticengineering #syntheticbiology #alleninstitute #jayshendure #uwmedicine #genetics #medicine #science #cells

Allen Frontiers Group awards $10M for neuroimmunology
The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group, a division of the Seattle-based Allen Institute, is launching a research center in New York to focus on interactions between the nervous system and the immune system.

The Allen Discovery Center for Neuroimmune Int
https://cosmiclog.com/2023/11/09/allen-frontiers-group-awards-10m-for-neuroimmunology/
#GeekWire #AllenFrontiersGroup #AllenInstitute #Health #Immunology #Medicine #Neuroscience #Science

Join us on Monday, November 13 for a noggin brain boost with #NWNoggin, #AmericanBrainCoalition, and the #AllenInstitute. We will explore the important of #publicoutreach and how an arts-integrated approach to #STEMeducation can bring excitement and inclusion to a wide variety of the youth population. Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfi70Vd3MGavtoEc6scXuPfJvEA3Dr3dOcxRjH4DHLvBfWEXA/viewform

Brain-cell atlases point to paths for future research
In a tour de force for neuroscience, teams of researchers have published a voluminous set of brain-cell atlases for humans and other primates.

The atlases are detailed in 21 research papers appearing in Science, Science Advances and Science Translational Medicine — and cou
https://cosmiclog.com/2023/10/12/brain-cell-atlases-point-to-paths-for-future-research/
#GeekWire #AllenInstitute #Brain #Health #Medicine #Neuroscience #Science

Researchers have identified more than 3,000 different types of human #brain cells in a mapping effort that stands as a tour de force for neuroscience - and Seattle's #AllenInstitute is one of the leaders of the effort. https://www.geekwire.com/2023/brain-cell-atlas-initiative/ #BrainAtlas #BrainInitiative #Science

Allen Institute hits 20 years on the open science frontier
Twenty years after Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen created the bioscience research center that bears his name, Seattle’s Allen Institute is still pushing out into new frontiers.

But this weekend, the nonprofit institute — and its hometown — are taking a little time to celebrate.

https://cosmiclog.com/2023/09/15/allen-institute-hits-20-years-on-the-open-science-frontier/
#GeekWire #AllenInstitute #Health #Neuroscience #Science

“The researchers discovered that the microglia cells themselves are also destroyed as they sweep away the damaged myelin, seemingly by overdosing on iron that is contained within the white matter in significant quantities.”

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-completely-new-cause-of-alzheimers-uncovered-in-our-brains-white-matter

#Alzheimers
#VascularDementia
#Research
#Science
#OHSU
#AllenInstitute

@cbielstein Don't know why that memory popped up lol

Even though the #AllenInstitute is only my second job ever, I'm realizing #Pariveda really didn't treat me very well. Underpaid, overworked, and they forced me to conform to their career path instead of enabling me to follow my own.

I should've left years sooner than I did 😬

But if I had done that, I wouldn't have landed this job and we wouldn't be friends!

Rare and expensive pieces of scientific equipment carry intrinsic #access barriers. Even with an open attitude, they don't have time to run all good experiments. The #AllenInstitute just launched a #CrowdSourced method to mitigate these problems for the 2-photon fluorescence imaging platform at its #BrainObservatory. The method was inspired by the one #NASA developed for the #HubbleTelescope.
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20230711/Worlds-first-completely-open-and-crowd-sourced-neuroscience-experiment-launched.aspx

#Hardware #Neuroscience #OpenScience

Interested in what we learn from this. #Science is cool!

https://www.geekwire.com/2023/allen-institute-stem-cells-space/

#StemCells
#ISPCs
#CellBiology
#NASA
#Microgravity
#Seattle
#AllenInstitute

Experiment blazes a trail for growing stem cells in space
Space: The final frontier … for stem cells? Seattle’s Allen Institute for Cell Science says cells from its collection are going into space for the first time on a private mission to the International Space Station.

The Allen Cell C
https://cosmiclog.com/2023/05/18/experiment-blazes-a-trail-for-growing-stem-cells-in-space/
#GeekWire #AllenInstitute #AxiomSpace #InternationalSpaceStation #Medicine #NASA #Science #Space #StemCells

Peering deep into the cellular universe: Allen Institute researchers map cell parts in 3D - Average location of 17 structures, each a different color, inside of a human cell... - https://www.geekwire.com/2023/peering-deep-into-the-cellular-universe-allen-institute-researchers-map-cell-parts-in-3d/ #alleninstituteforcellscience #health/lifesciences #alleninstitute