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Antonia Wüst @toniwuest.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Excited to share that our paper ZendoWorld has been accepted to #NeurIPS2026! 🎉 ZendoWorld tests interactive visual reasoning and demonstrates that current agents (VLM and NeSy) still struggle with both rule induction and informative experimentation 🤖💭

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Constantin Rothkopf @c-rothkopf.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Pouring a cup of coffee looks trivial. It isn’t. Humans effortlessly control nonlinear liquid dynamics across different vessels and speeds—while robots still struggle. In our new preprint, we ask how the human motor system solves this everyday control problem. 1/5

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Lars C. Reining @lreining.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Excited this is finally out! I am happy to have built this together with Rabea Turon, @tsawallis.bsky.social and all the others!🎉

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Constantin Rothkopf @c-rothkopf.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

@lreining.bsky.social presented the talk 'Regularization more than representational capacity drives heuristic discovery in Bounded Meta-Learned Inference' at #cogsci2026. The work, together with Finn Radatz & Nora Cremille came out of a course project in our MSc Cognitive Science program.

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Antonia Wüst @toniwuest.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Can AI agents act like scientists when reasoning about visual scenes? 🔬 Not just label what they see, but form explicit hypotheses, design experiments to test them, and revise their beliefs in light of the evidence. We built ZendoWorld to find out!

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Constantin Rothkopf @c-rothkopf.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

With Fabian Kessler & Julia Frankenstein we presented the talk Probabilistic path planning as a computational model of human sensorimotor navigation behavior and the poster Active shaping of spatial uncertainty through coordinated eye, head, and body movements during navigation at #iNAV2026 1/2

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Constantin Rothkopf @c-rothkopf.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

On June 29th 2026, Fabian Kessler defended his PhD thesis 'Probabilistic path planning as a computational model of human navigation under uncertainty' with distinction. Congratulations! Important and fundamental contributions to understanding human goal-directed navigation in the framework of 1/4

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Constantin Rothkopf @c-rothkopf.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

On May 27th 2026, @ingaibs.bsky.social defended her PhD thesis 'Cognitive strategies and explanations for sequential decision-making: a task-centric approach' with distinction. Congratulations! Beautiful and super careful contributions to computationally categorizing problem-solving tasks in the 1/3

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Constantin Rothkopf @c-rothkopf.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Our group contributed to the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society #VSS2026 with a symposium organized by @ookenfooken.bsky.social: 'What makes a task naturalistic? Towards a theory-inspired approach to studying visually-guided behaviour', and five posters:

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Constantin Rothkopf @c-rothkopf.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Thanks to @agreco.bsky.social and Jannik Reichert for organizing the #NeuroAISymposium2026 and inviting us, this was a lot of fun, hope this series continues in the next years!

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Constantin Rothkopf @c-rothkopf.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I have been inactive, but the group hasn't been! We presented two posters at the great #NCMKobe26: A computational account of tactile suppression during reaching movements & Coordinated head, body & eye movements support active sensing to reduce spatial uncertainty during navigation. Back next year!

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Fabian Tatai @fatatai.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I am presenting our work this week at #NCMKobe26 @ncmsociety.bsky.social Our poster is during the Thursday/Friday session: **P2-G-182** - _A computational account of tactile suppression during reaching movements_ Dimitris Voudouris @dominikstrb.bsky.social Katja Fiehler @c-rothkopf.bsky.social

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Constantin Rothkopf @c-rothkopf.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

How do humans adapt their behavior in natural, uncertain environments? Open PhD position in the collaborative DFG Excellence Cluster “The Adaptive Mind” (theadaptivemind-excellencecluster.de) Apply: www.career.tu-darmstadt.de/tu-darmstadt...

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Constantin Rothkopf @c-rothkopf.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

New work from the lab led by @fatatai.bsky.social together with Dimitris Voudouris, @dominikstrb.bsky.social, Katja Fiehler as part of 'The Adaptive Mind' cluster

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Constantin Rothkopf @c-rothkopf.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

The Reinforcement Learning workshop at U Mannheim was a lot of fun and highly recommended if you are looking for an engaging exchange of ideas, thanks to the organizers: Leif Döring, @theo-vincent.bsky.social, @claireve.bsky.social, and Simon Weißmann! www.wim.uni-mannheim.de/doering/conf...

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Constantin Rothkopf @c-rothkopf.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Want to model and simulate human behavior in tasks when interacting with liquids? Check out our work Niteesh Midlagajn & Constantin Rothkopf, Learning Particle Dynamics Subject to Rigid Body Manipulations Using Graph Neural Networks, presented at @logconference.bsky.social

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Zuse School ELIZA @zuseschooleliza.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Are you looking for a PhD in machine learning? 🧠 ELIZA is hiring a Doctoral Researcher at TU Darmstadt! Apply by Jan 5: www.career.tu-darmstadt.de/tu-darmstadt... ℹ️ Learn more about ELIZA: eliza.school @tuda.bsky.social, @cs-tudarmstadt.bsky.social, @ellis.eu, @daadworldwide.bsky.social #AI

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Constantin Rothkopf @c-rothkopf.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

🚀🎓We have exciting opportunities at the PhD and Postdoc level, including in the new Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience, a 10-year initiative spanning a powerful international network of labs working across species and disciplines - please reach out if interested bsky.app/profile/simo...

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Constantin Rothkopf @c-rothkopf.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Matthias Schultheis is presenting our latest work on understanding the behavior of bounded agents in more naturalistic tasks at #NeurIPS2025: What do you know? Bayesian knowledge inference for navigating agents with Jana-Sophie Schönfeld and Heinz Koeppl neurips.cc/virtual/2025...

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Constantin Rothkopf @c-rothkopf.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Tobias Niehues @tobnie.bsky.social is presenting our work with @dominikstrb.bsky.social 'Amortized Bayesian decision-making for inferring decision-making parameters from behavior' at the Amortized ProbML Workshop and the @ellis.eu UnConference. Please come by our poster!

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Kristian Kersting @kerstingaiml.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

🚀 Join @tuda.bsky.social and @hessianai.bsky.social as Professor for Ethical & Safe AI to advance the algorithmic foundations of ethical and safe AI and to shape “Reasonable AI." Apply now and make an impact where AI meets society. 👉 buff.ly/bIvq7Mb

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ProLOEWE @proloewe.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

🗞️TIP: ProLOEWE👱🏼🧑🏼‍🦰 with Kristian Kersting+Constantin @c-rothkopf.bsky.social, who bring together modern #AI + #cognitivescience➡️@tuda.bsky.social within LOEWE-WhiteBox. Who, together with their team, have succeeded in obtaining 2 clusters of #excellence with #RAI + #TAM ➡️ proloewe.de/en/proloewe-...

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Tobias Niehues @tobnie.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

I'm presenting our work "Revisiting Cost Functions in Sensorimotor Decision-Making" at #CCN2025! Stop by our poster (@dominikstrb.bsky.social‬, @c-rothkopf.bsky.social‬) and learn more about how to rethink common modeling assumptions. 📅 When: Friday, August 15, 2pm–5pm 📍 Where: De Brug, Poster C1

Upper left sketch shows the problem description the paper tackles, which is the decision-making problem that the subject needs to solve versus the inverse problem about the behavioral parameters that the researcher wants to infer. Bottom left sketch shows probabilistic graphical model of the behavior as formalized in our framework. Right panel shows the results of the paper. From top to bottom it shows example data, results of the model comparison, inferred cost functions and inferred prior beliefs of the subject. Five tasks are organized in columns by which cost function described subjects' behavior in the respective task best. We found three different cost functions, None of which are quadratic.

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Fabian Tatai @fatatai.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Happy to announce that I am presenting a poster today at #CogSci25: Physical reasoning during motor learning aids people at transferring mass, but not motor control mappings. This is joint work with Dominik Ürüm, @mariaeckstein.bsky.social and @c-rothkopf.bsky.social Find out more at P3-T-192!

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Constantin Rothkopf @c-rothkopf.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

We have an open PhD position in an exciting @dfg.de - @ageinves.bsky.social project to further develop continuous psychophysics in collaboration with Joan-Lopez Moliner.

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Antonia Wüst @toniwuest.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Excited to share that our paper got accepted at #ICML2025!! 🎉 We challenge Vision-Language Models like OpenAI’s o1 with Bongard problems, classic visual reasoning challenges and uncover surprising shortcomings. Check out the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2410.19546 & read more below 👇

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Constantin Rothkopf @c-rothkopf.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Happy to contribute to the Natural Environments Tasks and Intelligence (NETI) workshop at UT Austin with a talk on "Computational elements of goal-directed sensorimotor behavior". You can follow the live-stream at the workshop's website liberalarts.utexas.edu/cps/neti-wor...

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Constantin Rothkopf @c-rothkopf.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Very excited to be part of the Simons collaboration on ecological neuroscience @simonsfoundation.org together with this fantastic team! Theory-driven investigation of where representations for perception, cognition, and action in ecological tasks come from. POMDPs FTW. Stay tuned for job openings...

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Tobias Niehues @tobnie.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

If you wanna find out how to overcome Gaussian distribution and quadratic cost assumptions in Bayesian decision-making models AND how to perform inference over their parameters, swing by our poster at #ICLR2025 in Singapore! 📅 When: Friday, April 25, 10am–12:30pm 📍 Where: Halls 3 + 2B, Poster #61

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Constantin Rothkopf @c-rothkopf.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Congratulations to Matthias Schultheis for defending his PhD thesis 'Inverse reinforcement learning for human decision-making under uncertainty' with distinction. Significant contributions to understanding bounded actors with inverse POMDPs for partial observabilities and non-stationary behavior

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Ulrich Ettinger @ulrichettinger.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Very pleased to announce the next talk in the Bonn Melbourne Seminar in Decision Making: "Eye Movements As Sequential Decision-making Under Uncertainty" by @c-rothkopf.bsky.social. DM to join us online! #DecisionMaking #EyeMovements #TheEyesHaveIt www.psychologie.uni-bonn.de/de/institut/...

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Constantin Rothkopf @c-rothkopf.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Congratulations to @dominikstrb.bsky.social for defending his PhD thesis 'Inverse normative modeling of continuous perception and action' with distinction, with significant contributions to understanding bounded actors with inverse models, reconciling normative and descriptive models of behavior

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Jan Drugowitsch @jdrugowitsch.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Please join us at our @cosynemeeting.bsky.social 2025 Workshop on Navigation under Uncertainty, organized by Máté Lengyel (Cambridge & CEU) and myself, and taking place on March 31 in the Fairmont Tremblant, Mont-Tremblant, Canada. #neuroskyence 🧠

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Matthias Stangl @mstangl.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

🧠✨ Save the Date! The third Neuroscience of the Everyday World Conference will take place at Boston University on July 28-29, 2025. Check out our fantastic lineup of speakers featuring cutting-edge brain research in everyday life situations: neuroscienceeverydayworld.org/conference-2...

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Constantin Rothkopf @c-rothkopf.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Our latest work on understanding the behavior of bounded agents in more naturalistic tasks accepted at #ICLR2025: Inverse decision-making using neural amortized Bayesian actors, with @dominikstrb.bsky.social @tobnie.bsky.social and @jan-peters.bsky.social based on @tobnie.bsky.social MSc thesis

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Constantin Rothkopf @c-rothkopf.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Happy to join the Interdisciplinary College this year, the spring school on AI & Cognitive Science with a long tradition since 1982 and its unique energy, to give one of the evening talks: How can cognitive science help understand what artificial intelligence systems cannot yet do?

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Constantin Rothkopf @c-rothkopf.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

New year, new hope for a social media platform ...

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