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Timothy O'Leary @timothyoleary.bsky.social · 3h

To all collaborators inside and outside academia: faculty at Cambridge *do not have money or resources* I know it's hard to believe and it's not a complaint just a fact. We get a few k startup (enough for a computer) and our salary is equivalent to a US postdoc. No institutional money for research.

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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🚨New paper alert! 🚨 The visual system tunes itself to the statistics of its input. How do individual experiences differently tune vision? In this work, @bjbalas.bsky.social and I examined how one individual difference—height—changes the visual diet and how this affects perception. 1/

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Martin Hebart @martinhebart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What is the nature of universal representations in AI models, and what determines whether they emerge? Our paper accepted at #neurips2026 led by @florianmahner.bsky.social & @rothj.bsky.social addressed these questions comparing 162 vision models, with intriguing results. arxiv.org/abs/2605.13675 🧵

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Characterizing Universal Object Representations Across Vision Models

Deep neural networks trained with different architectures, objectives, and datasets have been reported to converge on similar visual representations. However, what remains unknown is which visual prop...

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Mike Feigin 🥯 @mikefeigin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It’s crazy. I’m reading a Nature Communications paper. I can’t get through it. So much data. So little of it matters. So many conclusions drawn about nothing.

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Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If we have to call them Type 1 / 2 instead of false positive and false negative, use this mnemonic: the boy who cried wolf caused both Type I & Il errors, in that order.

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Rob Mok @robmok.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

CCN 2027 @cogcompneuro.bsky.social Edinburgh (26-29 July) clashing with ICOM @icom-memory.bsky.social Glasgow (26-30). So close, yet...

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Rob Mok @robmok.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Registration is still open but only a few places left (for in person). Online attendance is still open - do join us! ****Poster submission has been extended to 17:00 JST on Friday 18 September!**** Please consider submitting a Poster or tell your friends to! #neuroskyence #psychscisky #mlsky 🧠🤖

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yellowstoneten @yellowstoneten.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

a salmon was even once involved in a mid-air collision with a 737!

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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 17/09/2026

“They found a greasy spot with some scales, but no damage” 🧑‍🍳😘

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Rob Mok @robmok.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Writing/editing an abstract for a paper, is it just me or does everyone write 3 versions with different word limits..? #neuroskyence #psychscisky 🧠🤖

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.

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Rob Mok @robmok.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Poster submission has been extended to 17:00 JST on Friday 18 September! Please consider submitting a Poster :) #neuroskyence #psychscisky #mlsky 🧠🤖

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BrainHelpDesk @brainhelpdesk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

From reptile brains 🦎 to being grumpy after sleeping poorly 😪 the Brain HelpDesk of the @dondersinst.bsky.social is here to answer all the questions you’ve always wanted to ask. Curious about how this works? @samdekater.bsky.social & @fleurzeldenrust.bsky.social will show you in the video below!

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I think it was Rupert Reed (philosopher and green activist) who said we should stop asking what the humanities offer to science and the economy and start asking what science and the economy offer to humanity. (A lot of course, but much damage too.)

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Kate Storrs @katestorrs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Very excited to get to go to Japan for the first time soon for this conference that has an awesome lineup!

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Rob Mok @robmok.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

📢 Announcing the 11th CiNet Conference: "From Biological to General Artificial Intelligence: Computational and Experimental Approaches to Understanding and Modeling the Brain" 5–7 October 2026, CiNet, Osaka, Japan Organized by yours truly & Shinji Nishimoto #neuroskyence #psychscisky #mlsky 🧠🤖 1/

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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #OTD 📊 💀Major André-Louis Cholesky was killed in action during the First World War on 31st August 1918. His Cholesky algorithm iteratively simplified the solution of linear equations for regression coefficients. It served as inspiration for L.L. Thurstone's Factor Analysis

B/W Portrait of André-Louis Cholesky in his military uniform

Diagram showing the Cholesky decomposition of a 3x3 matrix S into its' factors L, l^T

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Daniel Rough @haggistamer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

prepping tor teaching Data Visualisation next semester! also August is now way too low because I ate like 200g of cheddar yesterday just making this thing and I would not recommend doing that.

Column chart cut out of a block of cheddar cheese, sitting on a piece of paper with an x-axis representing months of the year with letters (e.g., J for January, F for February) and the title "Daniel's annual cheese consumption". The highest bar is in December, which drops sharply in January. Around the chart are various chunks of cheddar and a knife.

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Rob Mok @robmok.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Apologies for not highlighting this, but *online* registration is also possible!

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Katharina Dobs @kathadobs.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I'm really excited to be speaking at CiNet and visiting Japan again after such a long time. What a great line-up! Come and join us! 🌸🧠🤖 #NeuroAI

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Steven Scholte @neurosteven.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

New preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...: brain alignment in DNNs is almost fully complete at 3% of training. Features involved in classification are largely independent of those that predict the brain. With @niklasmuller.bsky.social , @irisgroen.bsky.social. @marcelvangerven.bsky.social

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Victoria Bosch @initself.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Are brains and artificial neural networks converging onto universal representations? There is a seductive idea making the rounds in NeuroAI / machine learning: train systems well enough, and they all converge on the same representation of reality (i.e. a unique world model). We have thoughts™ 1/n

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The Umwelt Representation Hypothesis: rethinking Universality

Recent studies reveal striking representational alignment between artificial neural networks (ANNs) and biological brains, leading to proposals that all sufficiently capable systems converge on univer...

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

@thetransmitter.bsky.social is excited to feature the Theoretical Neuroscience Podcast! Hosted by @gauteeinevoll.bsky.social, each episode features in-depth conversations with scientists using theoretical and computational approaches to understanding the brain. #neuroskyence

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Gaute Einevoll @gauteeinevoll.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I am very happy that the Theoretical Neuroscience Podcast (theoreticalneuroscience.no) is now featured in TheTransmitter. My goal is that everyone in the field should at least know about the podcast, whether they would like to listen to it or not. And being featured here is a big help. Thanks!

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Ahmad Beyh @ahmadbeyh.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

⚠️ Preprint alert ⚠️ How does the brain's fixed anatomy support flexible function? We explore this using recurrent neural networks with increasing levels of brain-like constraints, comparing them to empirical fMRI activity. (1/8) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Geometric constraints and cognitive inputs jointly shape emergent brain dynamics and topology

How the brain's physical geometry gives rise to its flexible functional repertoire remains a central question in neuroscience. Here, we trained three classes of recurrent neural networks (RNNs) on a w...

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Romy Lorenz @romy-lorenz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Please share widely! 🚀 I am recruiting a PhD student for an exciting cross-species collaborative project using layer fMRI to investigate how interoception shapes cognitive control - Application deadline is: 1.10.2026 - Start: Jan 2027 www.mpg.de/26934670/phd...

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PhD Position (m/f/d) | Ultra-High-Field Layer fMRI of Cognitive Control and Interoception

PhD Position in Ultra-High-Field Layer fMRI of Cognitive Control and Interoception

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Adrien Doerig @adriendoerig.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The journal version is out! www.cell.com/trends-open/... AI is turning machine consciousness into a societal issue. Biological Naturalism (BN), the idea that only biological systems can be conscious, is gaining traction. We argue: either BN is untestable, or it is compatible with functionalism.

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What biology can and cannot tell us about conscious AI

Progress in artificial intelligence is turning machine consciousness from a philosophical curiosity into a societal issue, and has led to criticism of the widespread computational functionalist framew...

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Matthias Nau @matthiasnau.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

🚨 Job alert 🚨 Our department @vuamsterdam.bsky.social is hiring an Assistant Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience! Join our lovely community here in beautiful Amsterdam! 🧠🔥 Deadline: October 15 Apply: workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/as...

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Vacancy — Assistant Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience

Join the Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) as Assistant Professor in cognitive neuroscience.

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Heleen Slagter @haslagter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

PhD position (4 years, paid) on an NWO-funded project on the Role of Foveal Processing in Spatial Attention at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, supervised by Dr. Mieke Donk (main PI) and me! For more information: workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph...

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Vacancy — PhD position (4 years) on the Role of Foveal Processing in Spatial Attention

Are you interested in understanding how attention shapes what we see? Would you like to combine behavioural experiments, psychophysics, and eye tracking to uncover how the brain selects and prioritise...

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Rosanne Rademaker @rademaker.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

If you’re a PI who’s written documentation about values, expectations, or practicalities of your lab AND you don’t mind this being referenced in an upcoming article (with Christine Pfund and @weijima.bsky.social), I would ❤️ it if you shared your 📄 with us. Thanks!

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Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

✨Excited to announce a new post-doctoral position in my lab, focussed on the neural capacity limits of language processing using magnetoencephalography! Apply here: wp.nyu.edu/neurolinglab...

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Postdoctoral position – NYU Neurolinguistics Lab

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Thomas Serre @thomasserre.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

We're recruiting postdoc fellows in computational neuroscience for Brown's NIH T32 Training Program — brain & cognitive modeling from biophysics to AI, with connections to mental health & psychiatry. US citizens/PRs. Review begins Sept 1. @carneyinstitute @browncopsy apply.interfolio.com/190111

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Iban Dlank (b↔︎d) @ibandlank.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

New resource: intro workshop on contextual embeddings in Language Models! Free, standalone Google Colab notebook with lots of explanations. Built for psycholing/cogsci folks (and anyone curious about LM internals). No coding required! Just edit-and-run. 🧵 github.com/idanblank/LM...

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LM-embedding-workshop-data/LM_embedding_workshop_notebook_public.ipynb at main · idanblank/LM-embedding-workshop-data

Data for a workshop on using LM contextual embeddings - idanblank/LM-embedding-workshop-data

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Sander van Bree @sandervanbree.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Excited to share our preprint! w/ @martinhebart.bsky.social To understand how primates visually process objects in the world, we rely on both research in human and macaque IT. But what representations of object space are actually shared between them? biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Quick thread 🧵

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Shared and Distinct High-Dimensional Object Spaces in Human and Macaque Inferotemporal Cortex

Human and macaque studies of inferotemporal cortex (IT) have shaped our understanding of object vision, yet the extent of their representational alignment and the precise nature of this correspondence...

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Rob Mok @robmok.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

who decided 150 words is a good amount for an abstract!!?? or 200, for that matter...

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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Yikes “Starting November 16, 2026, no new projects or child components of existing projects can be created on OSF. After February 19, 2027, all public and private OSF projects will become read-only.” www.cos.io/osf-changes

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OSF Changes | Center for Open Science

We are preparing substantial changes to OSF that will reduce its functionality, focus OSF on its unique strengths, and move toward an integrated model with complementary services. As part of that shif...

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Hayoung Song @hayoungsong.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

The Naturalistic Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Lab is launching at UT Austin and is looking for founding members at all levels, including lab manager, PhD students, and postdocs! #NeuroJobs We will study human brain🧠 and memory & attention, using fMRI and modeling. thesonglab.github.io

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Tom Wallis @tsawallis.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

New preprint! Have you ever wanted to measure psychometric functions in high-dimensional stimulus spaces, but realised that this is infeasible? We present and validate a technique to adaptively estimate psychometric functions for stimulus spaces up to 50 dimensions. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Adaptive experiments in high-dimensional feature spaces: A particle filtering approach

Behavioral experiments are often infeasible when stimulus spaces have many dimensions or when testing time is limited. One way to address this challenge is adaptive stimulus selection, where informati...

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Rob Mok @robmok.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Recommendations for a Cogneuro textbook for 3/4 yr BSc/MSc getting into PhD, especially without much psych/neuro background? I liked Cognitive Neuroscience: The Biology of the Mind but are there newer ones? Esp great with some comp cog/neurosci? (or separate book also fine) #neuroskyence 🧠🤖

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Mahveen S Mubarak @mahveenmubarak.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

1/ 🧵 New preprint with @keisukefukuda.bsky.social! Sharing some work from my undergrad thesis 🧠 doi.org/10.31234/osf... Recent work has shown that simply making a prediction can induce a false memory of the predicted event, even when that prediction is left unresolved or directly contradicted.

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Hannes Mehrer @CCN2026 @hannesmehrer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

"So, you have a highly predictive model, now what?" At this #CCN2026 event on Wed, 5 Aug, 4pm at NYU Skirball Theatre I will present work on using ANN brain models for visual prostheses (tinyurl.com/modelguidedm...) and for dyslexia (tinyurl.com/neuroaidysle..., first author: Melika Honarmand).

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Martin Schrimpf @mschrimpf.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Come say hi at #CCN2026! Scaling laws for visual cortex, topographic multimodal models, video generation for the lateral stream, model-enabled applications, and a GAC on whether #NeuroAI is asking the right questions

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Katharina Dobs @kathadobs.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

While I'm sad to miss #CCN2026, you don't have to miss out on the cool work coming out of the lab. 😊 Super proud of the diversity of projects this year—from category and unit specialization to inversion effects, shape bias, and memorability in brains and DNNs! Stop by and check them out! #NeuroAI

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