Best Neural Nets Podcasts (2025)

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The First Customer - The Practice of Longevity in Digital Product Work with Mile6 Founder Tim Haak 32:22

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In this episode, I was lucky enough to interview Tim Haak, founder and Vice President of Innovation at Mile6. Tim shares how growing up in a small-town family business shaped his entrepreneurial mindset, and how his curiosity for technology led him to build his first websites as a teenager—before he even had his driver’s license. From those humble …

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This paper changed my life: Dan Goodman on a paper that reignited the field of spiking neural networks 4:43

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Friedemann Zenke's 2019 paper, and its related coding tutorial SpyTorch, made it possible to apply modern machine learning to spiking neural networks. The innovation reinvigorated the field.

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First nerve-net connectome shows how evolutionarily ancient nervous system coordinates movement 5:27

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The map of a comb jelly's aboral nerve net, which helps the animal orient and position itself within the water column, reveals a unique system for sensing the world and coordinating movement.

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Paper by memory institute director garners expression of concern over image integrity 5:44

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The notice, posted last week in Nature, follows a recent string of corrections to at least three other articles by Li-Huei Tsai's lab.

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International scientific collaboration is more necessary-yet more challenging-than ever 6:27

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These partnerships accelerate neuroscience by enabling researchers to share resources and expertise, as well as generate more relevant and reproducible results. But new federal funding restrictions in the United States are putting such collaborations in jeopardy.

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Arc 3: Sitri Center – Episode 4: Gazes Back 27:04

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Gazes Back starts with the soft sell and ends with a hard line. Elle’s “puppet” routine becomes training, stitching mantras into performance. When Meg drops, Z and Tessa step into a room that should have stayed sealed and the protocol writes them in. The fallout is administrative and intimate at once: roles adjusted, edits exposed, and the understa…

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Sensory gatekeeper drives seizures, autism-like behaviors in mouse model 5:03

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The new work, in mice missing the autism-linked gene CNTNAP2, suggests a mechanism to help explain the overlap between epilepsy and autism.

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The First Customer - Turning Wearable Noise Into Boardroom Gold with ROOK Founder Marco Benitez 27:19

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In this episode, I was lucky enough to interview Marco Benitez, CEO and founder of ROOK, a company revolutionizing how wearable health data is integrated and used. Marco opens up about his entrepreneurial journey, from growing up in Mexico to moving his family to the U.S. to pursue bigger opportunities. He reflects on how his first startup shaped h…

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Building the "App Store" for Robots: Hugging Face's Thomas Wolf on Physical AI 43:08

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Thomas Wolf, co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Hugging Face, explains how his company is applying the same community-driven approach that made transformers accessible to everyone to the emerging field of robotics. Thomas discusses LeRobot, Hugging Face's ambitious project to democratize robotics through open-source tools, datasets, and afford…

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Mitochondria set 'ancient' metabolic thermostat for sleep in flies, separate from circadian rhythms 6:44

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During waking hours, a specialized set of sleep neurons in the fly brain accumulates reactive oxygen species, which eventually trigger sleep to clean up and repair the damage they do.

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Building the future of neuroscience at HBCUs 7:34

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Black In Neuro is launching a new program to help historically Black colleges and universities advance neuroscience research and education, focusing on cross-institutional collaboration, joint curriculum development and improved mentoring initiatives.

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Arc 3: Sitri Center – Episode 3: Incubator 22:52

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Incubator ventures into sleep paralysis, succubi, and the blurred line between myth and science. Elle Lawson’s dream locked in the Sitri Center, where research and ritual overlap. Dr. Meg Aerin treats Elle’s immobility as data. Dr. June Lowell demands metrics, not poetry, but Meg presses forward, framing Elle’s surrender as proof of neurocompliance…

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Emotion research has a communication conundrum 36:33

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In 2025, the words we use to describe emotions matter, but their definitions are controversial. Here, I unpack the different positions in this space and the rationales behind them-and I invite 13 experts to chime in.

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Autism-linked copy number variants always boost autism likelihood 7:28

5d ago7:28

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By contrast, varied doses of the same genes decrease or increase the odds of five other conditions, with distinct biological consequences, two new preprints show.

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The First Customer - Redesigning Work to Break the Hiring Game with CEO and Founder Umair Khan 26:12

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In this episode, I was lucky enough to interview Umair Khan, CEO and founder of Techamana. Umair explains that Techamana is a vetted talent marketplace designed to stand apart from traditional freelance platforms. Techamana ensures quality by rigorously evaluating technical skills, communication, and cultural fit before admitting freelancers to the…

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Astrocyte networks span large swaths of brain 5:28

18d ago5:28

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The networks are plastic, connect brain regions that aren't connected by neurons and may enable long-distance communication between astrocytes, a new preprint shows.

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Deal Velocity, Not Billable Hours: How Crosby Uses AI to Redefine Legal Contracting 49:59

20d ago49:59

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Ryan Daniels and John Sarihan are reimagining legal services by building Crosby, an AI-powered law firm that focuses on contract negotiations to start. Rather than building legal software, they've structured their company as an actual law firm with lawyers and AI engineers working side-by-side to automate human negotiations. They've eliminated bill…

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From bench to bot: Why AI-powered writing may not deliver on its promise 8:25

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Efficiency isn’t everything. The cognitive work of struggling with prose may be a crucial part of what drives scientific progress.

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Arc 3: Sitri Center – Episode 2: Adapt 25:08

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Adapt picks up where Drill left off. The subjects of the Sitri Center are asked to bend, to change, to let themselves be reshaped. What begins as a calm suggestion becomes a pattern they cannot refuse — each dream folding into the next, each voice reinforcing the same instruction. Adaptation is survival, but it also becomes surrender. Content Warni…

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Worms help untangle brain structure/function mystery 9:09

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The synaptic connectome of most animals bears little resemblance to functional brain maps, but it can still predict neuronal activity, according to two preprints that tackle the puzzle in C. elegans.

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The First Customer - Building The Business of Invisible Chemistry with Founding CEO Melissa Sherman 24:07

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In this episode, I was lucky enough to interview Melissa Sherman, founding CEO of MOBILion Systems, Inc. Melissa shares how her Midwestern upbringing and early career at DuPont shaped her blend of science and business acumen, transforming her from a researcher into a CEO. She talks about discovering her passion for building businesses around comple…

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The Transmitter's reading list: Six upcoming neuroscience books, plus notable titles in 2025 10:07

26d ago10:07

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Dig into an exploration of the fundamental aspects of intelligence, a new textbook about theoretical neuroscience and a memoir about memory research, among other new releases.

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n8n CEO Jan Oberhauser on Building the Universal AI Automation Layer 35:44

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When the AI wave hit, n8n founder Jan Oberhauser faced a critical choice: become irrelevant or become indispensable. He chose the latter, transforming n8n from a simple workflow tool into a comprehensive AI automation platform that lets users connect any LLM to any application. The result? Four times the revenue growth in eight months compared to t…

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Long-standing theoretical neuroscience fellowship program loses financial support 6:23

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Funding from the Swartz and Sloan Foundations helped bring physicists and mathematicians into neuroscience for more than 30 years.

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Should neuroscientists 'vibe code'? 9:19

28d ago9:19

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Researchers are developing software entirely through natural language conversations with advanced large language models. The trend is transforming how research gets done—but it also presents new challenges for evaluating the outcomes.

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Arc 3: Sitri Center – Episode 1: Drill 29:38

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This first episode introduces the high stakes world of the Sitri Center where scientists do more than study subconscious fears. They engineer them. Dr. Tessa Finn, ambitious and eager to prove herself, deploys Construct Thirty Seven on Phoebe Bosworth, whose shame soaked dreams escalate into erotic rehearsals. Dr. Meg Aerin counters with academic r…

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Adult human cortex does not 'reorganize' after amputation 7:38

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The results from a new longitudinal study contradict classic findings in monkeys but may not warrant a rewriting of the textbooks just yet.

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The First Customer - How a 350-Year-Old Chocolate Brand Still Breaks the Rules with Dan Abel Jr. 33:23

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In this episode, I was lucky enough to interview Dan Abel Jr., the Chief Chocolate Officer of Bissinger’s Chocolate. Dan shares how his family grew up immersed in the candy business—starting from a small family-run operation in 1981 to acquiring and leading the iconic Bissinger’s brand today. Dan walks us through their unique family dynamic, how ea…

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Longer fMRI brain scans boost reliability-but only to a point 5:51

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Around 30 minutes of imaging per person seems to be the “sweet spot” for linking functional connectivity differences to traits in an accurate and cost-effective way.

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Scaling the ‘Cursor for Slides’ to $50M ARR: Gamma founder Jon Noronha 30:05

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Before ChatGPT made AI mainstream, John Noronha was building Gamma with a simple insight: everyone hates making slides but needs visual communication for high-stakes ideas. His background at Optimizely proved crucial as Gamma became a testing laboratory for AI models, running hundreds of experiments to discover that Claude excels at creative taste,…

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Hitting city streets to record rat behaviors: Q&A with Emily Mackevicius, Ralph Peterson 7:03

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Capturing the rodents’ vocalizations and movements in the wild offers an opportunity to study naturalistic behaviors in a complex urban environment, Mackevicius and Peterson say.

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Deleting data or stopping its collection will erase years of valuable brain research 9:19

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An explosion in open-neuroscience datasets has created a new generation of researchers with expertise in data science. But new federal restrictions in the United States put their research programs in jeopardy.