Uri Hasson @urihasson.bsky.social · 22/07/2026don't people use anchoring with kids all the time? Also, repeating statements makes them seem as more true; really: repeating statements does make them seem more true. 020
Uri Hasson @urihasson.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Now 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...sciencedirect.com 041
Uri Hasson @urihasson.bsky.social · 03/06/2026For 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. 130
Uri Hasson @urihasson.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Can 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. 010
Uri Hasson @urihasson.bsky.social · 04/04/2026The GEN AI companies and the publishing companies are dueling it out in lobbying and policy. The issue is who will get to mine our research products and sell our profiles. 010
Reposted by Uri HassonPam Davis-Kean, PhD @umpamdk.bsky.social · 03/04/2026The 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... 22552393
Reposted by Uri HassonMatthias 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... 111036
Reposted by Uri HassonRuss Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 24/03/2026Why you should be very careful installing packages from Github: github.com/BerriAI/lite...github.com[Security]: CRITICAL: Malicious litellm_init.pth in litellm 1.82.8 — credential stealer · Issue #24512 · BerriAI/litellm[Security]: CRITICAL: Malicious litellm_init.pth in litellm 1.82.8 PyPI package — credential stealer Summary The litellm==1.82.8 wheel package on PyPI contains a malicious .pth file (litellm_init.p... 2288
Uri Hasson @urihasson.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Hey Joe.. what popped at me beyond the tiny n test fold, is the strange mass/clumping compared to the training distribution. If the left panel is used as a population proxy (plug-in or via a Dirichlet posterior) an 11-person sample with entropy this low occurs ~1% of the time. Maybe not OOD, but ODD 010
Reposted by Uri HassonMaura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Olivia > 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...secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.comSubmit a Claim 11414
Reposted by Uri HassonCIMeC_UniTrento @cimecunitrento.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Applications 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 047
Uri Hasson @urihasson.bsky.social · 26/01/2026www.popsci.com/science/arti...popsci.comNew Study Says Unfairness Really Ruffles Crows' FeathersA new experiment found crows and ravens have a sense of fairness, just like people and dogs. 120
Reposted by Uri HassonMoritz Wurm @moritzwurm.bsky.social · 13/01/2026How 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. 374
Uri Hasson @urihasson.bsky.social · 12/10/2025this shorter version once cost me 4 days of work rm * .txt since then rm is aliased to move files to a trash dir 030
Reposted by Uri HassonShahab Bakhtiari @shahabbakht.bsky.social · 06/10/2025The results challenge the texture-bias hypothesis of Geirhos et al. (2019). This is one of those cases where a deep, careful review can add real value. arxiv.org/abs/2509.20234 🧠🤖 #MLSkyarxiv.orgImageNet-trained CNNs are not biased towards texture: Revisiting feature reliance through controlled suppressionThe hypothesis that Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are inherently texture-biased has shaped much of the discourse on feature use in deep learning. We revisit this hypothesis by examining limitat... 1176
Uri Hasson @urihasson.bsky.social · 22/09/2025@annabavaresco.bsky.social and @tlmnhut.bsky.social show: supervised pruning of a DNN’s feature space better aligns with human category representations, selects distinct subspaces for different categories, and more accurately predicts people’s preferences for GenAI images. doi.org/10.1145/3768...doi.orgModeling Human Concepts with Subspaces in Deep Vision Models | ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent SystemsImproving the modeling of human representations of everyday semantic categories, such as animals or food, can lead to better alignment between AI systems and humans. Humans are thought to represent su... 0114
Reposted by Uri HassonDavid Amadeus Vogelsang @davogelsang.bsky.social · 18/09/2025New preprint out together with @mheilbron.bsky.social We find that a stimulus' representational magnitude—the L2 norm of its DNN representation—predicts intrinsic memorability not just for images, but for words too. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...biorxiv.orgRepresentational magnitude as a geometric signature of image and word memorabilityWhat makes some stimuli more memorable than others? While memory varies across individuals, research shows that some items are intrinsically more memorable, a property quantifiable as “memorability”. ... 4256
Uri Hasson @urihasson.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Very interesting! Does this mean the most memorable images are just those that maximize activation length in the embedding space, or are there boundary conditions (e.g. within-category effects)? 100
Uri Hasson @urihasson.bsky.social · 19/08/2025It is part of a meta joke in the opening scene of Top Secret. Here are 77sec to brighten your day youtu.be/2w_mBnzyVTg?...youtu.betop secret - german lessonsYouTube video by ubershizzles 120
Uri Hasson @urihasson.bsky.social · 07/08/2025New lab preprint, led by @tlmnhut.bsky.social. We show that certain topographic CNNs offer computational advantages, including greater weight matrix robustness, better handling of OOD noisy data, and higher entropy of unit activation. arxiv.org/abs/2508.00043arxiv.orgImproved Robustness and Functional Localization in Topographic CNNs Through Weight SimilarityTopographic neural networks are computational models that can simulate the spatial and functional organization of the brain. Topographic constraints in neural networks can be implemented in multiple w... 1103
Reposted by Uri HassonarXiv cs.LG Machine Learning @cslg-bot.bsky.social · 04/08/2025Nhut 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 022
Uri Hasson @urihasson.bsky.social · 17/07/2025Does 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." 030
Uri Hasson @urihasson.bsky.social · 29/05/2025I have a 'prior literature' directory exactly for this. 010
Reposted by Uri HassonNeurophysics 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 031
Reposted by Uri HassonCIMeC_UniTrento @cimecunitrento.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Explore 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 075
Uri Hasson @urihasson.bsky.social · 11/05/2025It's not just CogSci; see this list of conferences and travel awards funded by SBE in the last decade www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...nsf.govAdvanced Search Results - NSF Award SearchLockThe Advanced Search Results page lists awards that match the specific search criteria provided. 040
Uri Hasson @urihasson.bsky.social · 11/05/2025Now 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...sciencedirect.comNeuronal correlates of sleep in honey beesHoney bees Apis mellifera follow the day-night cycle for their foraging activity, entering rest periods during darkness. Despite considerable research… 060
Uri Hasson @urihasson.bsky.social · 09/04/2025if interested in computing distances between domains (measurement-by-channel/feature) then this www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... is an interesting review/application. This arxiv.org/abs/2411.14633 is more specific to ANN embeddings.sciencedirect.comManipulating and measuring variation in deep neural network (DNN) representations of objectsWe explore how DNNs can be used to develop a computational understanding of individual differences in high-level visual cognition given their ability … 020
Uri Hasson @urihasson.bsky.social · 09/04/2025PhD 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 075
Uri Hasson @urihasson.bsky.social · 11/03/2025DNNs 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...link.springer.comExplaining Human Comparisons Using Alignment-Importance Heatmaps - Computational Brain & BehaviorWe 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 ... 093
Reposted by Uri HassonJace D. Flatt, PhD, MPH (They/He) @jaceflatt.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Just received notice that our grant was terminated. 5R24AG066599-03 TheRiseRegistry.org 90496271
Uri Hasson @urihasson.bsky.social · 28/02/2025ICCV has an interesting policy that can be easily adopted by other societies. 130
Uri Hasson @urihasson.bsky.social · 04/02/2025One of the first things to do should be to file a FOIA (Freedom Of Information Act) request to see the reason for the rejection as indicated by the POs internal recommendation (typically reflecting the panel's opinion about intellectual merit/BI) and the DDs decision based on that. 040
Reposted by Uri HassonPaul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Department 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... 1541164836
Uri Hasson @urihasson.bsky.social · 28/01/2025As 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. 2124
Uri Hasson @urihasson.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Interesting 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/... 030
Uri Hasson @urihasson.bsky.social · 09/01/2025New paper with Giuseppe Notaro presenting a method for quantitative measurement of sighting eye dominance link.springer.com/article/10.3...link.springer.comQuantifying sighting dominance using on-display projections of monocular and binocular views - Behavior Research MethodsSighting dominance is an important behavioral property which has been difficult to measure quantitatively with high precision. We developed a measurement method that is grounded in a two-camera model ... 020
Reposted by Uri HassonDan Lametti @daniellametti.com · 07/01/2025The 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...nature.comLanguage is widely distributed throughout the brain - Nature Reviews NeuroscienceNature Reviews Neuroscience - Language is widely distributed throughout the brain 0266
Reposted by Uri HassonGiacomo Bartolucci (he) @gbart.bsky.social · 04/01/20251/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 24496166
Uri Hasson @urihasson.bsky.social · 17/12/2024you can explicitly push in this way by increasing unit variance and decreasing inter-unit covariance arxiv.org/abs/2306.13292arxiv.orgVariance-Covariance Regularization Improves Representation LearningTransfer learning plays a key role in advancing machine learning models, yet conventional supervised pretraining often undermines feature transferability by prioritizing features that minimize the pre... 051
Reposted by Uri HassonShobhita Sundaram @shobsund.bsky.social · 11/12/2024I'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! 061
Reposted by Uri HassonNeurobiology of Language @jneurolang.bsky.social · 03/11/2024Neurobiology 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 #Sciencedirect.mit.eduNeurobiology of Language | MIT Press 03414
Reposted by Uri HassonMicah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 25/11/2024If 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. 914018
Reposted by Uri HassonChristoph Molnar @christophmolnar.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Just 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... 22647101
Reposted by Uri HassonCogCompNeuro @cogcompneuro.bsky.social · 12/11/2024After 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 416583
Uri Hasson @urihasson.bsky.social · 26/09/2024An updated version of our work on using feature maps of pre-trained DNNs to explain human similarity judgments; now on arXiv. arxiv.org/abs/2409.16292arxiv.orgExplaining Human Comparisons using Alignment-Importance HeatmapsWe 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... 081
Uri Hasson @urihasson.bsky.social · 02/08/2024We 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/...onlinelibrary.wiley.comNeural networks associated with eye movements in congenital blindnessWe 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.... 020