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Uri Hasson @urihasson.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Now online (Neurocomputing), led by Nhut Truong, "Beyond topography: Topographic regularization improves robustness and reshapes representations in convolutional neural networks". Improvements found for image-noise, weight perturbations and adversarial attacks. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Uri Hasson @urihasson.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

For those for whom tomorrow is always the 35th of May rather than 4/6, best wishes for a surreal day where, as Uncle Ringelhuth said, anything is possible.

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Uri Hasson @urihasson.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Can we identify consistent attributions in DNNs trained to predict human authenticity judgments of AI-generated images? We find strong consistency within, but not across architectures. Relatedly, some DNNs seem to learn image-quality cues rather than authenticity-specific information.

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Pam Davis-Kean, PhD @umpamdk.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...

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Matthias Nau @matthiasnau.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

#BIDS has been extended to #EyeTracking data! There is now a standard for organizing and sharing eye tracking, covering gaze position, pupil size, meta data, messages, and more. Great news for #OpenScience! 🎉 Martin Szinte et al: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Uri Hasson @urihasson.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

מהדורה שניה, יוני 1980.

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Olivia > Academics, check if your book is on the list of the Anthropic AI $1.5 billion settlement. Each author will get at least $3,000 per book. Claims must be made by March 30th. Repost to help authors whose works were illegally appropriated. secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup?cultu...

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CIMeC_UniTrento @cimecunitrento.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Applications are open for the 2026/27 MSc in Cognitive Science at @cimecunitrento.bsky.social. First-call deadline for non-EU applicants: 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟰, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. Apply now: corsi.unitn.it/en/cognitive... #cimec_unitrento #neuroscience

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Moritz Wurm @moritzwurm.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

How does the brain generate predictive models of own actions? We will soon open a **Postdoc position** to address this question in my lab. If you are interested, please write to moritz.wurm@unitn.it.

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arXiv cs.LG Machine Learning @cslg-bot.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Nhut Truong, Uri Hasson: Improved Robustness and Functional Localization in Topographic CNNs Through Weight Similarity arxiv.org/abs/2508.00043 arxiv.org/pdf/2508.00043 arxiv.org/html/2508.00043

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Uri Hasson @urihasson.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Does it seem like Spam is just mocking us at this point? "I hope your day is as positive as you are. We are very fortunate to associate with eminent people like you.... If you dont want to receive our email, reply as Terminate."

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Neurophysics Lab, University of Trento @neurophysicstn.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

#Calcium_imaging in sleeping #bees: Antennal lobe neurons synchronise stronger during #sleep, likely due to reduced GABAergic coupling. #SNN simulations show reduced #odour processing, similar to human sleep: doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... Thanks to all collaborators at #CIMeC, e.g. @urihasson.bsky.social

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CIMeC_UniTrento @cimecunitrento.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Explore vision, motor control & predictive processing with a funded PhD @cimecunitrento.bsky.social Project: Predictive neural representations of dynamic events, supervisor Moritz Wurm @moritzwurm.bsky.social 🧠 Apply by June 5, 2025 🔗 Info: phd.unitn.it/drcimec #neuroscience #cognitivescience

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Uri Hasson @urihasson.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Now online: We used two-photon calcium imaging to provide the first demonstration of how topological signatures of bees’ brain connectivity differ between sleep and wakefulness. Project guided by Albrecht Haase; first author: Sebastián Moguilner. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Neuronal correlates of sleep in honey bees

Honey bees Apis mellifera follow the day-night cycle for their foraging activity, entering rest periods during darkness. Despite considerable research…

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Uri Hasson @urihasson.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

PhD opening. We've been working in recent years on human-oriented and explainable AI, studying interpretable DNN models of conceptual knowledge. Looking for a PhD student (4 years, Trento, Italy) to develop that direction. If interested, get in touch by email: my first name at my last name dot org

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Uri Hasson @urihasson.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

DNNs can predict human similarity judgments—but why? In a new #XAI study, we introduce Alignment Importance Scores (AIS), a method that improves AI-human alignment and generates heatmaps highlighting the image features that drive this alignment. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Explaining Human Comparisons Using Alignment-Importance Heatmaps - Computational Brain & Behavior

We present a computational explainability approach for human comparison tasks, using Alignment Importance Score (AIS) heatmaps derived from deep-vision models. The AIS reflects a feature map’s unique ...

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Jace D. Flatt, PhD, MPH (They/He) @jaceflatt.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Just received notice that our grant was terminated. 5R24AG066599-03 TheRiseRegistry.org

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Uri Hasson @urihasson.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

ICCV has an interesting policy that can be easily adopted by other societies.

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Department of Transportation orders all personnel to "identify and eliminate" every order, directive, rule, regulation, policy, notice, guidance document, funding arrangement, or program that even mentions climate change, diversity, or environmental justice www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.go...

Dept of Transportation memo ordering all personnel to "identify and eliminate" every order, policy, funding arrangement, or program that even mentions climate change, diversity, or environmental justice

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Uri Hasson @urihasson.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

As a former NSF program director, I find it difficult to put into words the extent to which the content and tone of this memo go against the grain of anything and everything that defines merit-based review at NSF.

Former NSF insider cannot articulate just how completely this memo tramples over the concept of merit-based review

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Uri Hasson @urihasson.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Interesting analyses from Hanson et al., the strain on scientific publishing. Many more articles, more special issues (namely Frontiers, MDPI), but stagnation in number of PHDs granted. "in 2022 the article total was ∼47% higher than in 2016". direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

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Dan Lametti @daniellametti.com · 07/01/2025

The neurobiology of language does not operate in a vat. An important perspective from the @thelablab.bsky.social and colleagues: "Language is widely distributed throughout the brain" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Language is widely distributed throughout the brain - Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Language is widely distributed throughout the brain

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Giacomo Bartolucci (he) @gbart.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

1/n Some time ago my colleague, excellent cook, and friend Ivan told me: "Cacio e pepe is the recipe that I screw up more often. Let's make a project studying systematically the physics of that sauce". Prepare to get cheesy, I'm glad to share the Cacio e paper preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2501.00536

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Shobhita Sundaram @shobsund.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I'm at #NeurIPS2024 this week! Excited to present our work on perceptual alignment with Stephanie Fu on Thursday morning (poster #1302). Please reach out if you want to chat about synthetic data, alignment, data-centric AI, representation learning, or anything else!

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Neurobiology of Language @jneurolang.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

Neurobiology of Language is now on Blue Sky! We'll continue exploring the intersections of the brain, speech and language while sharing cutting-edge research and real-world clinical insights. Follow us and join the conversation. direct.mit.edu/nol #Neurobiology #Language #Brain #Science

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Neurobiology of Language | MIT Press

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 25/11/2024

If you think Bluesky is cool now, just wait until we start getting sophisticated feeds that curate cool papers, data, or code based on intelligent custom algorithms. This will become a second layer of scholarly communication.

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Christoph Molnar @christophmolnar.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Just realized BlueSky allows sharing valuable stuff cause it doesn't punish links. 🤩 Let's start with "What are embeddings" by @vickiboykis.com The book is a great summary of embeddings, from history to modern approaches. The best part: it's free. Link: vickiboykis.com/what_are_emb...

Over the past decade, embeddings — numerical representations of
machine learning features used as input to deep learning models — have
become a foundational data structure in industrial machine learning
systems. TF-IDF, PCA, and one-hot encoding have always been key tools
in machine learning systems as ways to compress and make sense of
large amounts of textual data. However, traditional approaches were
limited in the amount of context they could reason about with increasing
amounts of data. As the volume, velocity, and variety of data captured
by modern applications has exploded, creating approaches specifically
tailored to scale has become increasingly important.
Google’s Word2Vec paper made an important step in moving from
simple statistical representations to semantic meaning of words. The
subsequent rise of the Transformer architecture and transfer learning, as
well as the latest surge in generative methods has enabled the growth
of embeddings as a foundational machine learning data structure. This
survey paper aims to provide a deep dive into what embeddings are,
their history, and usage patterns in industry.

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CogCompNeuro @cogcompneuro.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

After a great conference in Boston, CCN is going to take place in Amsterdam in 2025! To help the exchange of ideas between #neuroscience, cognitive science, and #AI, CCN will for the first time have full length paper submissions (alongside the established 2 pagers)! Info below👇 #NeuroAI #CompNeuro

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Uri Hasson @urihasson.bsky.social · 02/08/2024

We used EPI from eye orbit area in congenitally blind to identify correlated brain networks. Image below shows example of blind individual where eye movements of each eye coordinated with different networks. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Neural networks associated with eye movements in congenital blindness

We studied the relationship between eye movements and resting-state connectivity of the brain in case of congenital blindness. Our findings suggest a retained circuitry between motor cortex and eye m....

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arxiv cs.CL @arxiv-cs-cl.bsky.social · 12/03/2024

Wanqian Bao, Uri Hasson Identifying and interpreting non-aligned human conceptual representations using language modeling arxiv.org/abs/2403.06204

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Uri Hasson @urihasson.bsky.social · 03/03/2024

(1/2) We'll be presenting two recent projects in the ICLR 2024 Re-Align Workshop. PHD students Nhut Truong and Dario Pesenti introduce an explainability technique indicating what image information is relevant when it is compared to a target image cohort. openreview.net/forum?id=bWe... #cogsci

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Explaining Human Comparisons using Alignment-Importance Heatmaps

We present a computational explainability approach for human comparison tasks, using Alignment Importance Score (AIS) heatmaps derived from deep-vision models. The AIS reflects a feature-map's...

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Uri Hasson @urihasson.bsky.social · 03/03/2024

We've sent some recent work to venues with double-blind reviews. I find it's difficult to describe advances over our own prior work without breaking anonymization, and it produces Introductions that are vaguer than one would want for follow-up work. What strategies do you use?

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Uri Hasson @urihasson.bsky.social · 17/02/2024

The MIT press is making new funds available to help communities switch from greedy publishers to a valid Open Access model. Previously flipped: NeuroBio of Lang, Network Neuro, and Imaging Neuroscience. www.linkedin.com/posts/the-mi... #CogSci

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The MIT Press on LinkedIn: We are proud to announce that applications are now open for shift+OPEN, an…

We are proud to announce that applications are now open for shift+OPEN, an initiative designed to flip existing subscription-based journals to a diamond open…

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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 16/02/2024

Deeply disturbed and saddened by news of the death of Alexei Navalny. Putin fears nothing more than dissent from his own people. A grim reminder of what Putin and his regime are all about. Let's unite in our fight to safeguard the freedom and safety of those who dare to stand up against autocracy

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Uri Hasson @urihasson.bsky.social · 01/02/2024

Google Sheets is highly efficient for documents with thousands of records; viz: this running list of 11K retractions from Hindawi. The latest only a few days ago. www.linkedin.com/posts/curtis...

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Curtis Brundy on LinkedIn: Hindawi retractions

A solution to the paper mill dumpster fire is still not at hand. Retractions continue. David Crotty pointed me to this running list of Hindawi retractions, up…

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Uri Hasson @urihasson.bsky.social · 26/01/2024

This. It's also an opportunity to reconnect with the apacite LaTeX package, which requires a support group more than technical support. #CogSci

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Jascha Achterberg @achterbrain.bsky.social · 06/01/2024

🚨Call for Papers 🚨 The Re-Align Workshop is coming to #ICLR2024 Our Call for Papers is finally up! Come share your representational alignment work at our interdisciplinary workshop at ICLR in beautiful Vienna! representational-alignment.github.io #compneuro #MLSky #neuroscience #NeuroAI 1/4

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Re-Align Workshop @ ICLR 2024

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Uri Hasson @urihasson.bsky.social · 30/12/2023

[edited&link card] Kudos to NSF for this recent well thought out Notice on the use of AI chatbots in grant reviews. I think there are some relevant lessons here for journal reviews as well. new.nsf.gov/news/notice-...?

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Notice to research community: Use of generative artificial intelligence technology in the NSF merit ...

Generative artificial intelligence1 (GAI) systems have great potential to support the U.S. National Science Foundation's mission to promote the progress of…

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Randy McIntosh @ar0mcintosh.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

And a second position at #SFU. A postdoc in computational #neuroscience is available with an immediate start date. You'll join the cross- disciplinary team of researchers my lab at the SFU Inst for Neuroscience and Neurotechnology. www.sfu.ca/content/dam/...

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Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social · 10/12/2023

We're on the lookout for passionate minds to join us as reviewers for #CogSci2024. This is your chance to be among the first to check out groundbreaking research while playing a crucial role in shaping the future of #CogSci Visit cognitivesciencesociety.org/submissions/ and fill out the form today!

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Uri Hasson @urihasson.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

Registered for EMNLP2023? Consider chatting with Natalia Flechas Manrique (11am Dec7 gathertown/blackboxnlp). She'll be talking about this work 👇 #PsychSciSky #CogSci #CogPsyc #NLP #AI #neuroskyence #NeuroAI #compneuro #PsychSciSky

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