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Vincent Tijms

@vtijms.eurosky.social
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Former beer brewer and cognitive neuroscientist. Above average interest in critical thinking education. Currently educational adviser at UvA. Sifa: sifa.id/p/vtijms.eurosky.social Blog: www.connectingcells.com

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Heleen Slagter @haslagter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🚨 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 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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Vincent Tijms @vtijms.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ik heb de web-app ToetsKaart naar beta gebracht: uva-hva.gitlab.host/V.Tijms/toetska…
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Vincent Tijms / ToetsKaart · GitLab
A tool to review the assessment structure of degree programmes. Demo available at https://toetskaart.duckdns.org.
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Melissa Franch, PhD @mfranch.bsky.social · 21h
Excited to see this work published! We find that the brain codes semantic relationships similar to contextual LLMs (like GPT2) but unlike LLMs, uses contrastive coding to prevent confusion of highly similar words. Many thanks to the reviewers and BCM neurosurgery team! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A population code for semantics in human hippocampus - Nature Neuroscience
Franch et al. show that human hippocampal neurons encode the meanings of the words we hear through distributed, context-sensitive population activity that mirrors some features of large language model...
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 02/10/2026
Friends: take a moment to sign european.social. There's strength in numbers and we can bring some game. This can become more than a letter.
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The European Social Stack · An open declaration
An open declaration: The European Social Stack. Open Social Platforms and Private Messaging.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 02/10/2026
Fascinating new review of what it takes for viruses to go airborne. Open access: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Diagram of the human airway, showing what determines airborne transmission of viruses during inhalation and exhalation.
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Vincent Tijms @vtijms.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
This is something all men should read. I wish I had figured out its message decades ago because yes, we all see and hear dumb shit and we don't speak up or we are unsure where the boundaries are and so we ignore, we de-escalate and we don't do the right thing. www.girlonthenet.com/blog/cornell/
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Cornell | What are you doing to challenge rape culture right now?
Protecting women from rape doesn't mean swooping with a sense of victory, it means starting a conversation that might leave you feeling like shit.
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Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
a student journalist asked me for a comment on “viewpoint diversity.” rather than answer their specific questions, I offered the following comment about one reason I find the terms of the debate to be frustrating and insufficient.
As a sociologist who studies partisanship in the USA, I think the terms of this debate are largely backwards. Yes, universities and campuses are mostly populated by left-of-center individuals. But I do not think it makes a lot of sense to focus this conversation exclusively on how universities have changed without asking the same question about the political parties. The partisan coalitions have transformed significantly over the past several decades, with college graduates increasingly leaving the Republican Party and sorting into the Democratic PartyIt is an empirical question, but my guess is that changes in the partisan coalitions do much more to explain the political lean of university populations today than anything universities have done in particular. Do we really think that people decide if they’re going to go to college based on politics? Or is it more likely that the kinds of people who are more likely to go to college are increasingly the kinds of people who identify as Democrats/liberals? What universities should do about this is a valid question, but we should not treat “liberal” and “conservative” as fixed or sacred identities worthy of equal representation in the academy as such. They are dynamic categories that have become increasingly associated with educational attainment in the first place. I happen to think education polarization produces bad politics (e.g., the current attacks on the public funding for science), but I am less concerned about its direct effects on education and research per se. Disagreement is alive and well in academia, even when it does not line up with the national partisan divide.
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Christoph Strauch @cstrauch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
How much of a risk are LLM-generated bots for online behavioral experiments? We present results of an entirely natural language prompt-generated agent, capable of absolving any of the 26 experiments we tested it on. Most tasks are passed with data that can pass as human osf.io/preprints/ps... (1/)
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is a bit of a parlor trick and is being hyped. The images are not being generated de-novo. They are being matched with a known set of prior images or text, meaning that they reconstruct the signals recorded by brain when shown images during training. Verrrry different than reading thoughts.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Vincent Tijms @vtijms.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026
"The best current evidence supports a narrow claim: AI may already be affecting the hiring margin for junior white-collar roles most exposed to AI, but this attribution is contested, and aggregate labor-market disruption has yet to appear in the data." aleximas.substack.com/p/has-ai-imp...
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Has AI impacted the labor market yet?
Evaluating the state of the evidence
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
In thisa piece for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social I express the wish for a better level of public discourse around AI that doesn't leave us hanging on every word of the alleged tech gurus. www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-...
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Apocalyptic AI fantasies are a stupid, annoying distraction from its real problems
The people who work in AI are not gurus and most of their predictions have been wrong. Working in the industry makes them less reliable commentators, not more
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Many Minds podcast @manymindspod.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New episode!! 🎉🎙️ A conversation w/ @samgilbert.bsky.social all about cognitive offloading. We humans have long used tools to help us remember and reason. But as new technologies emerge, it's a good time to take stock: What does offloading do for us—and to us? Listen: disi.org/cognitive-of...
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Vincent Tijms @vtijms.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026
Ik wil wel bijten, hoor. Dat verhaal van Bregman was dom, onder andere omdat hij een rij intellectuelen groepeert als "links" terwijl de grote gemene deler is dat ze cognitiewetenschappers zijn. Zeg maar de tak van sport die al ruim een halve eeuw denken en intelligentie probeert te vatten.
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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 22/09/2026
So… we just found out that GPT sol can complete a complex online behavioral/cognitive study producing nearly indistinguishable behavior and subjective reports… right as we are about to launch. Is this doomsday for online cognitive testing?
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Vincent Tijms @vtijms.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026
This is in my opinion (again) hitting the nail on the head and why I am having trouble with people defending the Dutch prime minister's AI use. Attention for others or work that involves others is supposed to be costly. That's the actual value of it. It provides dignity.
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Laurens Verhagen @laurensvhg.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026
Haha, het 'Klöpping-corvee' is inmiddels een serieuze ingezonden brief geworden met als afzender een hele groep bezorgde (en echte) experts www.vn.nl/klopping-cor... #kloppingcorvee
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AI-specialisten: ‘Wij hebben het gehad met Klöpping-corvee’
In een ingezonden brief waarschuwen AI-specialisten voor De Grote Klöpping Show.
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De Groene Amsterdammer @groene.nl · 19/09/2026
De coolste scène uit Christopher Nolans kaskraker draait om een culinair object dat in Homerus’ Odyssee helemaal niet voorkomt: een stoofpot.
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De Circe van Christopher Nolan maakt een stoofpot, maar in Homerus’ ‘Odyssee’ wordt alleen maar geroosterd
De coolste scène uit Christopher Nolans kaskraker draait om een culinair object dat in Homerus’ Odyssee helemaal niet voorkomt: een stoofpot.
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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Consciousness Needs a Subject" - commentary with @cdj.bsky.social on target article by @anilseth.bsky.social. Now published, along with all (50!) commentaries and Anil's responses! 😊 cup.org/4h0wRmg
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Consciousness needs a subject | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core
Consciousness needs a subject - Volume 49
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Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
5/ My response "The stuff matters: consciousness, computation, and biology" was published just now, and is here: url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/xZqFCN05NT...
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Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
1/6 An extraordinary @nature.com paper has just landed from the lab of @sergiuppasca.bsky.social. They found a way to create "xenocortical mice" which have ~92% of their cortex occupied by a cortical organoid derived from human stem cells.
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Edo van der Goot @emvdg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Nu al verslaafd aan deze tool van @jeroenwollaars.nl gehoord.de/beraadslagin...
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Live transcriptie van debatten in de Tweede Kamer, binnen enkele seconden als tekst, met tijdstip, spreker en fractie.
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Vincent Tijms @vtijms.eurosky.social · 16/09/2026
Here's a wild idea. A proposal to turn research papers into MCP servers to allow for new modes of inquiry and collaboration. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Reimagining research papers as interactive and reliable AI agents - Nature
Paper2Agent converts research papers into interactive artificial intelligence agents by turning manuscripts, code and data into model context protocol-based tool-invoking systems that reproduce origin...
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Vincent Tijms @vtijms.eurosky.social · 16/09/2026
Fantastic talk by Felienne Hermans (and much less about AI than title implies) youtube.com/watch?v=0-6-...
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AI made me doubt everything about programming by Felienne Hermans - DDD Europe 2026
YouTube video by Domain-Driven Design Europe
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Peter Breedveld @frontaalnaakt.nl · 15/09/2026
Alfredo Goeloe, die niks heeft gedaan, werd besprongen door politieagenten, hij was bang, in paniek, schreeuwde om hulp. Nu is hij dood. Dood door politie.
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Wie beschermt ons tegen de politie? - Frontaal Naakt
Peter Breedveld Alfredo Goeloe, die niks heeft gedaan, werd besprongen door politieagenten, hij was bang, in paniek, schreeuwde om hulp. Nu is hij dood. Dood door politie. Peter Breedveld Illustratie:...
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Vincent Tijms @vtijms.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026
Just joined eurosky.social to chatter here via the AT protocol. My other account is still just forwarding my Mastodon posts, while I set up things here for realsies.
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