Data centers are repurposing old jet engines from desert boneyards into fossil gas-burning electricity generators to bypass years-long power grid delays. These converted turbines pollute significantly more, emitting higher levels of carbon monoxide and volatile organic compounds.

Old, Polluting Jet Engines Are Being Scavenged to Power Data Centers (Gift Article)

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Interested in training in advanced cognitive neuroscience at the University of Cambridge? Apply to our Master's in Cognitive Neuroscience - deadline 8 December! www.cmbi.cam.ac.uk/our-courses/...

Postdoc opening soon! ⚠️ Join us at CIMCYC, a great well-equipped center, in Granada. We’ll use EEG and behaviour to study how attention shapes what we hold in visual working memory. Apply 13–26 Nov -> Starting January 27. Get in touch with Fabiano Botta or me for details. Thanks for sharing!

If you are interested in how to model and quantify metacognition within a flexible hierarchical Bayesian framework, @kevingoneill.github.io has developed a fantastic tutorial paper to complement our new R package hmetad. Do check it out!

Kevin O’Neill@kevingoneill.github.io · 7d ago

this halloween, why not read up on the scariest topic of all (hierarchical Bayesian modeling)? 🦇🎃💀 I've got a new tutorial with @smfleming.bsky.social demonstrating the use of our R package hmetad! 📄: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🔗: metacoglab.github.io/hmetad_tutor... 📦: metacoglab.github.io/hmetad/

Does anybody happen to know of any large open dataset with the full Autism Quotient (AQ-50) questionnaire, where all the raw responses are available (not just the totals)?

Looking for a PhD program where you can study computational neuroscience? NYU has a fantastic array of researchers covering the field, and we'd love to consider your application: groups.google.com/g/systems-ne...

Neuromatch is hiring 2 Curriculum Specialists for Computational Behaviour! ➡️ Position description: neuromatch.io/wp-content/u... 🙋 Apply here: airtable.com/appBGDTJHkIq... Please share in your networks! #ComputationalNeuroscience #CollectiveBehaviour #NonprofitJob

Our review of Bayesian efficient coding as a theory of perception is out now in TICS – with @ivntmc.bsky.social and Máté Lengyel. www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Bayesian efficient coding as a theory of perception: progress, controversies, and prospects

Bayesian efficient coding unifies two foundational theories of sensory processing: efficient coding and Bayesian inference. Central to this account is the idea that natural environmental statistics sh...

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Just published open access in 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘔𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘥𝘴: “𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮: 𝗔 𝗧𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗲𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵” 🔗 doi.org/10.1037/met0... 🙎 Co-authors: @bayslab.org, @ivntmc.bsky.social, @cjungerius.bsky.social, Xiaolu Wang, Julie de Falco, Zahara Gironés, Adam Triabhall

Looking for a PhD program where you can study vision from different perspectives (computer vision, visual neuroscience, visual perception, image processing)? Consider applying to NYU! visionscience.com/pipermail/vi...

cloak and dagger navier stokes cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...

T minus 7 hours to this public event on model interpretability for which I agreed to show up at 6:30am. Attendance is free!

Interpretability in Psychological Models | TMM - Theory, Model, Measurement

Four talks and four panel discussions on what it means for a psychological model to be interpretable, and whether the idea still holds in an era of machine-learned cognition.

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Reminder: we're looking for 2 postdocs and 1 PhD student to join us in Barcelona to explore the computational mechanisms of perception 👁️👂🧠. With a flexible blend of theory & experiments. Please spread the word 🙏

Alex Hyafil@alexhyafil.bsky.social · last mo.

📣2 postdoc and 1 phD positions on computational mechanisms of human perception in Barcelona. One postdoc position (2-y) is joint w Chris Summerfield ( @summerfieldlab.bsky.social) on visual scene perception, mixing modelling w ANN and behavioral experiments.

Over 400 academics in 30+ countries signed our open letter calling for immediate changes in AI development and deployment practices to ensure that cybersecurity incidents do not continue to occur, as future incidents will be far more damaging to our critical infrastructure.

They hounded Aaron Swartz to death for downloading papers from jstor but society is now supposed to just accept mass theft because this thing can write that TPS report *for* you. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_S...

Aaron Swartz - Wikipedia

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John Scalzi@scalzi.com · last mo.

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

The rich get richer in visual processing: latest study with @ivntmc.bsky.social shows that we allocate resources preferentially to stimuli that we feel confident in estimating, which makes us better at estimating them...even if the initial confidence was misplaced. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Do the contents of visual #WorkingMemory deteriorate more quickly when more items are being remembered? Seems a straightforward question but we had to bring together 13 studies and >120,000 trials to get definitive answers... doi.org/10.1037/rev0... @ivntmc.bsky.social

Intrinsic rewards guide visual resource allocation via reinforcement learning

Intrinsic rewards guide visual resource allocation via reinforcement learning

Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 01 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02573-7Tangible rewards are known to sharpen visual processing of associated objects. Tomić et al. show that an internal sense of confidence—acting as an intrinsic reward—similarly biases attention, revealing how the brain prioritizes limited resources.

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📣2 postdoc and 1 phD positions on computational mechanisms of human perception in Barcelona. One postdoc position (2-y) is joint w Chris Summerfield ( @summerfieldlab.bsky.social) on visual scene perception, mixing modelling w ANN and behavioral experiments.

📣 Save the date! RLDM 2027, the Multi-disciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making, is coming to Paris, July 6-9, 2027 🎉 Stay tuned for submission deadlines and more updates on our website rldm.org 👀

Open Postdoc (80%) in our Lab @uzh-ch.bsky.social (PI: Klaus Oberauer) Topics are: Working memory, long-term memory, attention; experiments, individual differences, computational modeling. Start Dec 2026 to Feb 2027, until June 2030. Apply by Oct 15; Questions to: k.oberauer@psychologie.uzh.ch

My fourth thesis paper is out in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review! 🎉 #psynomPBR (w/ @mavadillo.bsky.social, @jthee.bsky.social, #DirkVanMoorselar and @jlupiane.bsky.social). Here, we show that learning to prioritize signals of value depends on selective attention 👇🧵 doi.org/10.3758/s134... 1/7

The role of selective attention in value-modulated attentional capture

Stimuli that reliably predict reward can increase their capacity to capture attention. This Value-Modulated Attentional Capture (VMAC) is typically viewed…

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I made an interactive demo with different visual illusions to replace the old videos we used before. Feel free to play with it here illusions.andreychetverikov.org and to use it yourself (the code is on my Github; if I missed to include somebody in the credits - please let me know).

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...

Rochelle Kaper@rochellekaper.bsky.social · 10mo ago

super excited to share my preprint with @meganakpeters.bsky.social stimulus familiarity shapes hierarchical structure learning and metacognitive dynamics🚀😊!! osf.io/preprints/ps...

We derived six laws of psychophysics from a single efficient-coding equation. The laws include Weber's law; scaling laws in visual working memory (which had been noted before, but with unclear theoretical justification); Wei & Stocker's law of human perception; arthurprat.com/pdfs/Prat-Ca...

Look at us, just three peas in a pod!

🎉 TODAY’S THE DAY! 🎉 #ECVP2026 begins today in Bournemouth! 👁️🧠 We’re ready for a fantastic week of vision science, workshops, talks, symposia, posters and plenty of opportunities to connect with the ECVP community. Welcome to ECVP 2026 — let’s get started! 🚀 #VisionScience #Perception

Our lab is at @ecvp.bsky.social this week, giving one talk and presenting three posters. Come and say hi!

📢 Our paper is now out in @natcomms.nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s41... We know that symptoms of OCD fluctuate substantially. But what are the exact conditions that precede symptom escalations? We found evidence for metacognitive processes being a key antecedent. 1/

Drops in confidence precede symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder - Nature Communications

To devise effective interventions for obsessive-compulsive disorder, it is crucial to understand antecedents to symptom emergence. Here, the authors show evidence for self- and decision making underco...

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Weird, how reality is more alarming than ostensibly "alarmist" climate scientists were not too long ago. And this is still just at the beginning of a warming trend that will continue for several decades at least (unless human beings suddenly become much smarter than ever before. I have my doubts.)

Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · 3mo ago

The rise in Niño 3.4 region sea surface temperatures over the past few weeks has been nothing short of astonishing. We are now hotter than any days during the 1997/1998 super El Niño event, and we are still many months from the peak.