iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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FrankLab_LNCC @lnccbrown.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Modeling decision dynamics improves ability to distinguish RL from WM - both recovery and out of sample prediction, with clinical differences revealed

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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Excited to be launching our new PhD program in Minds and Machines at UCL with co-Directors Tali Sharot and @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social To apply, find out more here: www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc... Our launch event is on Nov 10th, with a cracking lineup of speakers: luma.com/cikzcth0

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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · 05/10/2026

Huge congratulations to this year's winners of the #NobelPrize in #Physiology or #Medicine! 🎉They are Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann & Georg Nagel, who were honoured for developing #optogenetics - techniques for controlling genes with light.

An illustration of three men under the header "The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2026". The illustration shows Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel, the winning scientists.

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Stefano Palminteri @stepalminteri.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

New preprint! Can LLMs really know when they know? We trained 10 open models to predict their own accuracy and found a striking limit: out of distribution, confidence tracks consistency more than correctness. Led by @nicolasyax.bsky.social with @pyoudeyer.bsky.social arxiv.org/pdf/2609.33886

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Franziska Brändle @frabraendle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Incredibly excited to announce that I’m starting my own research group at Justus-Liebig-Universität in Gießen as part of the excellence cluster “The Adaptive Mind”! 🥳 I'm looking to fill the first PhD position. If you’re interested, apply here: tinyurl.com/38p3h22p Please spread the word! 🙏

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Doctoral student (m/f/d) Computational Motivation – Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen

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Eric Schulz @ericschulz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Incredibly happy and proud to see Franziska starting her own lab in Gießen. Go work with her. You won’t regret it. And she knows better than most just how important a lab’s first PhD student is. 😉

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Eric Schulz @ericschulz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Congratulations, Tobi. Very well deserved.

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Marcel Binz @marcelbinz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

📢 The CORE COGNITION lab (core-cognition.github.io) is looking to hire another PhD student, working on automated scientific discovery and knowledge representation in cognitive science. Starting date: March to September 2027. 🙏 Please share widely!

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CORE COGNITION

CORE COGNITION works towards a unified theory of human cognition, instantiated in models that simulate, predict, and explain human behavior.

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

MIT has put out an "AI and Education" report summarizing what they've found at their own institution. Seems thoughtful. aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/

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Eric Schulz @ericschulz.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Alireza is a great scientist and a wonderful collaborator. I'm sad to see him leave but very happy for him to take this next step. I'm sure his lab will do amazing work. I would seriously consider joining if I could.

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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

If you're in London in Sept and haven't seen our £50M Lab UCL PEARL... ...why not come down in Sept have a look around and pick up £30 as a participant in our next crazy neurocience & architecture study - Minds in Motion: mindsinmotioncrowd.netlify.app

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Minds in Motion | UCL Research Study — September 2026

Minds in Motion: a UCL neuroarchitecture study at UCL PEARL, September 2026. Choose a Crowd session or EEG session and book your place.

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Eric Schulz @ericschulz.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Deadline to apply is August 14th. If you are looking for a postdoc on foundation models, open-ended discovery, or general ml-approaches to/in cognitive science, we would like to work with you.

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Eric Schulz @ericschulz.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher who wants to innovate at the intersection of cognitive science, neuroscience, and machine learning. 📍Munich 📅Flexible start: 10/2026–03/2027 ⏳Full consideration by 14/08/2026 💼Funded for 2 years, extension possible Discover, grow, collaborate, eat cake.

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Franziska Brändle @frabraendle.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

How do children’s exploration strategies change across development? New preprint with Azzurra Ruggeri, Silja Kessler, and @ericschulz.bsky.social: “Tiny Alchemists: The Developmental Emergence of Empowerment in Exploration” osf.io/preprints/ps... Paper summary below 1/6

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Eric Schulz @ericschulz.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

New work led by Franziska on the developmental trajectory of empowerment based exploration.

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Eric Schulz @ericschulz.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Very excited about this. One of the first steps to truly automate the discovery process in the cognitive sciences.

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Akshay K. Jagadish @akjagadish.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

1/ 🚨 New preprint: "Closing the Loop to Discover Psychological Theories with an Automated Cognitive Scientist" Introducing AutoCog 🤖 — a fully autonomous AI system that runs the entire scientific discovery cycle in cognitive science to surface novel theories of human behavior 🧵

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Akshay K. Jagadish @akjagadish.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

1/ 🚨 New opinion piece: "Can we automatize scientific discovery in the cognitive sciences?" We lay out a vision for a fully automated, in-silico science of the mind, where modern AI systems run every stage of the scientific discovery cycle in cognitive science 🧵 #AutomatedDiscovery #AI4Science

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Eric Schulz @ericschulz.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Watch as Akshay is automating the discovery process in the cognitive sciences. Exciting times!

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Marcel Binz @marcelbinz.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Excited to announce that I'll be starting my own lab in Tübingen this October! Hiring at all levels: Postdoc, PhD & RA. Want to work on computational cognitive science at scale? Apply: core-cognition.github.io Reposts and shares much appreciated 🙏

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Doeller Lab @doellerlab.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Join us at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig as a fully funded 4-year postdoc position (m/f/d) in Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience (Area: Social Cognition). Excellent infrastructure with a leading scientific network. Apply by 13 July: recruitingapp-5218.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/44...?

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Mike Guerzhoy @guerzhoy.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

To appear in Computational Brain & Behavior soon: the claimed 2024 proof (also in CBB) that AGI via learning is intractable also "proves" that ImageNet is intractable. My reading of the hole: equivocation on the variable D. Preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2411.06498

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Barriers to Complexity-Theoretic Proofs that "AGI" Using Machine Learning is Impossible

A recent paper (van Rooij et al. 2024) claims to have proved that achieving human-like intelligence using learning from data is intractable in a complexity-theoretic sense. We point out that the proof...

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arXiv cs.LG Machine Learning @cslg-bot.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Alireza Modirshanechi, Benjamin Eysenbach, Peter Dayan, Eric Schulz: Unifying Goal-Conditioned RL and Unsupervised Skill Learning via Control-Maximization arxiv.org/abs/2605.06145 arxiv.org/pdf/2605.06145 arxiv.org/html/2605.06145

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David Duvenaud @davidduvenaud.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Talk to the model here: talkie-lm.com/chat

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Zeynep Akata @zeynepakata.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

If you are attending #ICLR2026, please come and say hi to our group members presenting the papers 👇

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Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I am shocked to see this language from the NSF. “The U.S. National Science Foundation's Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request reflects a strategic alignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment while eliminating woke and weaponized grant programs that previously funded radical DEI projects.”

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Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request to Congress

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Alireza Modirshanechi @modirshanechi.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Attending #Cosyne2026? Come by our poster in the afternoon (#021) to talk about the sense of control, empowerment, and agency. 🧠🤖 We propose a unifying formulation of the sense of control and empirically characterize the human subjective sense of control. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧑‍🔬🧪🔬

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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

📢📢 Announcing this year's conference on the Mathematics of Neuroscience & AI (Rome, 9-12th June). We’ve got a stellar line-up and venue, and invite everyone to join: www.neuromonster.org

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Eric Schulz @ericschulz.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

🚨 Hiring in Munich 🇩🇪: 2 open-topic PhD positions in human & machine learning (TVöD E13 80%). Start ~June 2026 (flexible). Deadline: March 2, 2026. Apply/info: hcai-munich.com/PhD_Job_Ad.pdf Reposts appreciated 🙏

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Eric Schulz @ericschulz.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Deadline reminder: March 2, 2026. If you know a great MSc student looking for a PhD at the human↔ML interface, please share this thread.

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Eric Schulz @ericschulz.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

What you get: interdisciplinary team + lots of compute via Helmholtz HPC, collaborative lab culture, and supportive mentorship. If you’re unsure about fit, err on the side of applying.

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Eric Schulz @ericschulz.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

We’re looking for strong quantitative backgrounds (cog sci / CS / ML / stats / neuroscience). Solid Python + evidence of independent work (thesis/projects/papers/open-source). LLM experience is a plus, not required.

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Eric Schulz @ericschulz.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Possible directions (not limited to): • foundation models of human learning/decision-making • cognitively inspired ML • automated/open-ended discovery of cognitive models • continual learning in humans & machines

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Mirko Thalmann @mirkothm.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Do people's internal representations of natural objects differ? We (@ericschulz.bsky.social) show so by incorporating idiosyncrasies into neural nets to create better models of human behavior. We also reliably extract idiosyncrasies and map them to demographics. More: osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/pxt9a

Our model jointly learns object embeddings and idiosyncratic weightings of psychological dimensions.

The results show improved accuracy on hold-out data as well as reliably measurable dimensional weights (up to ~8 dimensions) and summary stats thereof

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Eric Schulz @ericschulz.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Very happy to see this pre-print out. Our first step towards incorporating individual differences when aligning neural network representations to diverse crowds.

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Eric Schulz @ericschulz.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Thanks for including Centaur. It's not only predictive though, but also, at least in parts, generative. I think that will make a difference.

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Fabian Sinz @sinzlab.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

🔬 We're hiring a Junior Group Leader for Data-Driven Digital Twins/System Models in medicine/life sciences at @uni_goettingen! Perfect opportunity for early-career researchers who want to: - Lead their own research group - Work at the intersection of AI, simulation, and biomedicine

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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

📆 updated for 2026! list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP: 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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various computational neuroscience / MEEG / LFP short courses and summer schools

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Dirk Wulff @dirkwulff.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

🚨 New preprint 🚨 We present the decisions-from-experience database (DfE-DB), including data from 168 studies. The data are currently shared with the original authors and made public upon publication. 🔗 Database: github.com/dwulff/dfe-db 🔗 Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Lilian Weber @lilweb.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

🚀 Excited to announce that I'm looking for people (PhD/Postdoc) to join my Cognitive Modelling group @uniosnabrueck.bsky.social. If you want to join a genuinely curious, welcoming and inclusive community of Coxis, apply here: tinyurl.com/coxijobs Please RT - deadline is Jan 4‼️

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192 FB 8/IKW Research Associate (m/f/d), Institute of Cognitive Science: Uni Osnabrück

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Paul Sharp @paulbsharp.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

🧵 If you're looking for a fully funded PhD or Postdoc in Computational Psychiatry, please reach out! We are expanding the lab and tackling some big questions. Here is a thread on what we are currently up to: 👇

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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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Kou Murayama @koumurayama.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

We are hiring a new Ph. D. student on neuroimaging and/or computational modeling on motivation and emotion. Tübingen is a great place to pursue work on these topics!! uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...

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PhD Position on computational modelling and neuroscience (m/f/d)

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Eric Schulz @ericschulz.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

⚠️ Warning: Joining our team as a postdoc has a known side effect of receiving multiple job offers shortly after. We currently have 3 such cases. If you are willing to take that risk, applications close in 1 week. The upside is you'll be in a supportive and stimulating environment in munich.

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Eric Schulz @ericschulz.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Two weeks left to apply. Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.

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