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Oğul Can Yurdakul

@ogulyurdakul.bsky.social
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he/him phd student in #cogsci at uci ogulyurdakul.github.io and flickr.com/ogulyurdakul same handle many places

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Sanat Tarihi @sanatintarihi.bsky.social · 8h
Stanisław Masłowski - Moonrise 1884 (National Museum in Kraków)
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David Colaço @davidcolaco.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The complete version of @phaueis.eurosky.social and my BBS target article, "Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling," is now available. It includes 32 commentaries and our response. Please share #philsci #philsky #cogsci
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Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core
Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling - Volume 49
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ari ☀️ @khoudary.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
how does memory support perceptual decisions made under uncertainty? this question has scaffolded my entire PhD, and I'm so excited to share part of it in this ✨new preprint ✨ w/ @meganakpeters.bsky.social and @aaronbornstein.bsky.social! link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Memory retrieval explains dynamic effects of expectations on perceptual decisions
Expectations—prior knowledge of environmental statistics—support adaptive behavior by reducing uncertainty during inference. However, the questions of where expectations come from and how that ought t...
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Oğul Can Yurdakul @ogulyurdakul.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
not a video i know but i swear he rolled his eyes HARD i have a witness
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Rochelle Kaper @rochellekaper.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
PREPRINT UPDATE🥳👇: 🧠learning under uncertainty & metacognitive processes are not as generalizable as previously thought! both evolve differently depending on structure & stimulus set osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Rochelle Kaper @rochellekaper.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
super excited to share my preprint with @meganakpeters.bsky.social stimulus familiarity shapes hierarchical structure learning and metacognitive dynamics🚀😊!! osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 16/09/2026
Also going on a tangent, this applies just as much to so-called anti-AI pundits who talk AS IF they are experts in things they are not too (from the economy to cognition). There's value in NOT saying much, and of course boosting relevant other experts' work, over pretending to speak from authority.
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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I am not a mathematician, so I am not sure if I can formally sign this, but I wholeheartedly concur and would argue that the same is true for all of science. Yes, we want scientific discovery. But -- like flipping to the back of the textbook to look at the answer key --
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Increasingly convinced this is the most important post
Twitter post from January 24, 2019, from @Merman_Melville reading

"Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day."
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Went to a bookshop which, at first, appeared to be overseen solely by a cat. Bought a pile of old books. Can a day technically be any better?
Tilly, the cat who runs the Antique Map And Bookshop in the fabulously named village of Puddletown in Dorset (my non-UK followers will probably think I've made this up - it's really called that, I promise!)
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Oğul Can Yurdakul @ogulyurdakul.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
one of the scariest things I have read "As for the “race-realist” at Ghent, he told Montz, “I’m still waiting for the revolution to happen, and then I’ll get another job.” He added, jokingly, “After the revolution, I’ll be the head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard.""
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The Real Meaning of the Jason Arday Scandal
In a young Black professor’s academic misconduct, a “race-realist” found a “hook for a story.”
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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉So proud of *newly minted DOCTOR ANGELA SHEN @angelashen.bsky.social* who has just defended her brilliant dissertation work on vision, metacognition, and more! Just a gorgeous tour de force, massive datasets, beautiful psychophysics, sophisticated and clever analyses. CONGRATULATIONS!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
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Oğul Can Yurdakul @ogulyurdakul.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
said seeds will be also used to befriend squirrels from now on after my disney princess-esque encounter with this fella, who came DIRECTLY at me and smelled my hand?
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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Congratulations to Dr. Ari @khoudary.bsky.social on a successful PhD defense! @meganakpeters.bsky.social and I are so proud of all you have accomplished and excited for what you will do at @pennmindcore.bsky.social!
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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
the #ReflexionLab 's posters at @cogcompneuro.bsky.social #CCN2026!! presented by @aliekhlasi.bsky.social @yuzhengwu2329.bsky.social @rochellekaper.bsky.social and @emilwolsson.bsky.social!
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Oğul Can Yurdakul @ogulyurdakul.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
after today's @cogcompneuro.bsky.social satellite. tag your favorite theory of #consciousness
pj @pjayevans
cars have windows and can move. houses have windows and can't move. so it's not the windows that make the car go, it's something else entirely
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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I am *thrilled* to share this review in @currentbiology.bsky.social out today, by yours truly, @myoo.bsky.social, @michalk.bsky.social, Taro Toyoizumi, @tyrellturing.bsky.social, @taylorwwebb.bsky.social, & @hakwan.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧵👇
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Looking to the brain to improve energy efficiency of AI
Modern artificial intelligence (AI) systems have achieved remarkable capabilities, but at an extraordinary energy cost. Training and running large-sca…
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ceej @ceej.online · 16/07/2026
gonna start talking like this to my boss
screenshot where claude is saying "Good catch -- I fabricated that figure."
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Oğul Can Yurdakul @ogulyurdakul.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
i'm a simple person: i see "computer metaphor," i think paul cisek: www.ingentaconnect.com/content/imp/...
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Beyond the computer metaphor: behaviour as interaction: Ingenta Connect
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Oğul Can Yurdakul @ogulyurdakul.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
these are all so true you have no idea
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Oğul Can Yurdakul @ogulyurdakul.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
wow mr speilberg really should have journaled instead of writing that movie
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Silvia Pineda-Munoz, PhD - Climate Ages @climateages.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
One of my favorite photos I’ve taken at the Smithsonian. Can you see the bird? A bird built its nest inside the mouth of a Triceratops. An avian dinosaur decided that a dinosaur was the perfect place to raise more dinosaurs. The fossil record comes full circle. 🧪 🦕♻️🕊️
Close-up photograph of a bronze Triceratops head sculpture outdoors at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. A small brown dove sits on a nest built inside the sculpture’s open lower jaw, creating the impression that the bird is nesting inside the dinosaur’s mouth. Trees and a museum building are visible in the background on a sunny spring day.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 13/06/2026
Misophonia, a neurophysiological disorder characterized by a severe aversion to sound, often leaves those who struggle with it ashamed or angry. “One of the problems with the condition is that it overlaps with the human condition,” Sloane Crosley writes. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/BqODfT
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
This is exactly it. The work is the point.
When I assign analysis, I am not trying to extract a polished product; I am trying to put the student’s mind through resistance in order to make it stronger. Offloading the struggle to a chatbot does not “free students up for higher-order work.” It deprives them of building the strength to do any substantial cognitive work at all.
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UC Irvine School of Social Sciences @ucisocsci.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
A global perspective | Award-winning @ucirvine.bsky.social cognitive sciences Ph.D. student Sharanya Bashyam is advancing research on language, culture and children’s social cognition @uofcalifornia.bsky.social @nadiachernyak.bsky.social
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A global perspective
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Oğul Can Yurdakul @ogulyurdakul.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
thanks for everyone who passed by my poster! check out the link below if you'd like to see my poster supplements and (dare i say) some cool animations! #vss2026 ogulyurdakul.github.io/publications...
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A novel approach to characterizing the visual dimensions of mental imagery vividness using Gaussian process regression
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Neuromatch @neuromatch.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Computational Behaviour launches July 2027! 🤓 A fully remote two-week course, open to participants worldwide. ➡️ Learn more and get involved: neuromatch.io/computationa... #ComputationalScience #ComputationalBehaviour #Neuroscience #Neuromatch #ConnectedMinds @connectedminds.bsky.social
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Oğul Can Yurdakul @ogulyurdakul.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
i swear i'm forming coherent english sentences (most of the time), come see me in these last 30 minutes of #vss2026 @vssmtg.bsky.social OR go to my website for the poster and supplementary material! ogulyurdakul.github.io/publications...
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Oğul Can Yurdakul @ogulyurdakul.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
find me on tuesday afternoon at banyan for more killer sentences at #VSS2026 @vssmtg.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/mega...
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Nolan Void @wolter.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
This is the money paragraph for me.
What if we got away from the argument that doing cosmology and particle physics is practical or materially valuable? Then we have to accept that we're like the poets.
What we do is important culturally in the same way poetry is. A piece of this book is me saying there is value in banding with the poets, and fighting for the value of being curious and trying to articulate the world with whatever tools are available to us. Not for the purposes of selling something, but for the purpose of fulfilling our humanity.
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🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹 @okaydaniellle.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
how to find typos in your manuscript: step 1: submit it to a journal
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Oğul Can Yurdakul @ogulyurdakul.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
find me on tuesday afternoon at banyan for more killer sentences at #VSS2026 @vssmtg.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/mega...
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Oğul Can Yurdakul @ogulyurdakul.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
that moment when you finally muster the courage to ask a question at a conference and the very first thing you say at the mic is smt like great you very much for the thanks
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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The #reflexionlab from @ucisocsci.bsky.social @uclpals.bsky.social is at #VSS2026 @vssmtg.bsky.social While *I personally* am not there 😭, you can still see our work!
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
there's just a lot of stuff to know
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Neuromatch @neuromatch.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
🙋 Is there a cost to apply? ➡️ No! No payments are needed to apply. 🤓 Applications for Neuromatch Academy close 15 March! Learn more about our #CompNeuro, #DeepLearning, and #NeuroAI courses and apply now: neuromatch.io/courses/ #SummerSchool #VirtualSummerSchool #ComputationalScience
Is there a cost to apply?
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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
To echo the sentiments of G.K. Chesterton, fairy tales do not tell children that monsters exist — because they know that already. But rather more importantly, fairy tales tell them (and us) that the monster can be killed. And such stories must never ever go out of fashion.
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Letters of Note @lettersofnote.com · 12/02/2026
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
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Neuromatch @neuromatch.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
We’ve kicked off #Python for #ComputationalScience Week,...but it’s not too late to join! Come learn, practice, and build momentum! Catch up on #PythonWeek here: www.reddit.com/r/neuromatch...
Python for Computational Science Week, 7-15 Feb 2026

Start with what you know, end with what you need. 
Python Week makes it doable.
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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
my lab is in the building on the left. "windows? who needs windows?" -- the architects, for some reason. social science lab building, uc irvine.
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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
"With gentle hands, we will bring all that is lost back into the world. Green shoots uncoil from the darkness."
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Rori! @roricomics.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Lil' comic about hope and longing 💗
comic:

when it happens I hope people ring bells and blow horns.

if I'm asleep I hope to be woken. I won't mind.

if I'm in traffic I hope to see revelers. If it causes a traffic jam I won't mind.

I don't want to exist a moment not knowing that it has happened.
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Neuromatch @neuromatch.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
We are excited to share that Gideon Alex, a Neuromatch Academy alumnus and Ambassador from Nigeria, is attending the Simons Computational Neuroscience Imbizo this week. @imbizo.bsky.social #imbizo2026 #ComNeuro #ComputationalNeuroscience #Imbizo
Attending #Imbizo? Chat with our Neuromatch Ambassador. Picture of Gideon and meeting details.
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Oğul Can Yurdakul @ogulyurdakul.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
i did me some #photography again at the east coast during the holidays, check it out!
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24.12.2025-03.01.2026 New Jersey & New York
Explore this photo album by Oğul Can Yurdakul on Flickr!
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Patrickworld 🌎👋🏾🎸 @patrickworld.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
2026 better contain bug fixes and improvements
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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Have needle. Have thread. Have scraps of paper. Have free will. Have made a notebook.
A small notebook with a red and pink coverThe inside pages of the notebook, made of different coloured paper The edge of the notebook, showing the different colours it's made of and the spine wrapping round the bookThe notebook splayed out
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Ink Radio @inkradio.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Morning.
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Oğul Can Yurdakul @ogulyurdakul.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
here's to more in 2026!
Covers of some books I read in 2025, generated by StoryGraph @ogulyurdakul
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Neuromatch @neuromatch.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Climatematch Academy is at #AGU2025 - the earth and space science conference in New Orleans, USA. ➡️ It's been great to connect with everyone; from past students to potential collaborators! Find us to get a #Climatematch sticker and let's connect! #ClimateEducation #ComputationalClimateScience
Hand holding a Climatematch sticker on a purple background. "Where Science Connects Us' is written on the background on the bottom right.
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