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joncannon-neuro.bsky.social @joncannon-neuro.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

New paper 1/3 (now out in Communications Psychology): Reinforcement-trained recurrent networks reproduce human beat-synchronization dynamics Bit of a thread:

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Joao Barbosa @jbarbosa.org · 01/04/2026

This resonates with me and I hate it. I always thought France rule of max. 3 PhD students was a good to avoid exploitation by successful labs. Soon, I might be in favor of a minimum. www.science.org/content/arti...

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Why I may ‘hire’ AI instead of a graduate student

“It can competently perform a lot of the work I need immediately,” this professor writes

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 18/01/2026

For all those involved in drafting so-called AI guidelines, but being overwhelmed with nonsense, this is a lifesaver. Great work by Dagmar and Ariel! Resisting Enchantment and Determinism: How to critically engage with AI university guidelines. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

The list of most relevant themes we identified is:
1. Rhetoric of inevitability and technological determinism: presenting the adoption and use of
(generative) AI as a fait accompli.
2. Exaggerated narratives: overstating the general capabilities of the technology, or leaving out that
certain seemingly impressive capabilities can only be achieved under very specific experimental
conditions.
3. Spurious comparison to human intelligence or Anthropomorphism: presenting AI as if it thinks or
reason like a human.
4. Ethics and critical washing: presenting AI as being ethically or critically examined but doing so only
superficially and inconsequentially.
5. Wishful thinking and uncertain feasibility: assuming desired outcomes or functionality despite lacking
realistic evidence they can be achieved.
6. GenAI is presented as indispensable: portraying AI as essential even when simpler or non-AI solutions
are sufficient.
7. Unrealistic and ill-defined conditions: formulating requirements for adoption and use that are
functionally impossible or too demanding to be met, psychologically implausible to follow, or set
unclear boundaries for acceptable and unacceptable behaviour, which could easily create
inconsistencies.
8. Resources as propaganda: resources for students, faculty, and other stakeholders are made available
but only for incentivizing different degrees of use of genAI.
9. AI Overkill: Substitution or replacement of tasks for which the technology was not designed; from
tutoring to teaching to research, everything must be now with AI, even if it is not adequate.
Due to space limitations, rather than discussing all of the themes superficially, this essay addresses only the
first four, which, in our view, are the most critical and the most urgently in need of critical scrutiny. T

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Randy McIntosh @ar0mcintosh.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

I learned a lot from this piece by Cory Doctorow, like "The primary goal [for tech bosses] is to keep the market convinced that your company will continue to grow" (hey, I'm a scientist, I don't know business, eh). www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow

AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

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joncannon-neuro.bsky.social @joncannon-neuro.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Seeking PhD students for research in computational models of rhythm perception at McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada). Work may also include experiments on rhythm production in Parkinson’s patients and/or analysis of intracranial dopamine and LFO data, depending on interests and skills.

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joncannon-neuro.bsky.social @joncannon-neuro.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Seeking students — especially Canadian residents, who are less expensive, but all applicants welcome — to study the computational and neural underpinnings of rhythm perception and production! Reach out with questions or interest at cannoj9@mcmaster.ca.

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joncannon-neuro.bsky.social @joncannon-neuro.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Back home after a fantastic @rppw.bsky.social . A “home conference” is where you don’t have to explain why people should care about what you care about, and having one is such a luxury.

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joncannon-neuro.bsky.social @joncannon-neuro.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Preprint alert: how do we learn to synchronize our movement with rhythmic sounds? And why is it so much fun? We’ve created a reinforcement learning model to explore possible hypotheses, and one hypothesis came out on top! Read on! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Learning Sensorimotor Synchronization Through Reinforcement in Neural Networks

The ability to synchronize movements to auditory rhythms, foundational to music making and dance, develops gradually over the first 10 years of life, likely thr

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Kurt Vonnegut man

Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope:
"Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man.
You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet?
And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope.
I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by.
And I give them the thumbs up. And I'll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is — we're here on Earth to fart around
And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around.
And it's like we're not supposed to dance at all anymore."

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joncannon-neuro.bsky.social @joncannon-neuro.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

SEEKING POSTDOCS AND STUDENTS for computational/experimental collaboration on neuroscience of human rhythm perception! Thread!

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 24/03/2025

Not that anybody would be looking for opportunities outside the states these days, but I'm recruiting a PhD student in auditory stuff (Developmental and/or Cognitive / citizen science etc) here in Auckland, NZ www.themusiclab.org/about#join

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The Music Lab

We do citizen science to learn how the human mind creates and perceives music.

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joncannon-neuro.bsky.social @joncannon-neuro.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

It's a crazy time, but I've been sitting on this for a while and I want to get word out. I've been thinking about the role of sensory feedback in rhythmic behaviour, and I wrote a synthesis/reflection/modeling piece. Accepted by J. Music Perception in August! osf.io/preprints/ps... Thread...

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joncannon-neuro.bsky.social @joncannon-neuro.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Dorsal striatum is a different beast from the ventral reward prediction machine — that’s where dopamine is more involved in movement, but this paper shows it doing a lot of other things too. I’m looking forward to digging into this.

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Timing Research Forum @timingresforum.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Our next #vJC features an incredible team: Amir Jahanian Najafabadi and @bouzy94.bsky.social ✨ Join us for engaging discussions and fresh perspectives. 👉 Sign up now: shorturl.at/8dQnW and don’t miss out – see you there! #JournalClub

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