📖 New review out today in @natrevneuro.nature.com: Towards an integrative neuroscience of metacognition 🧠🧪 Full-text link to the paper is here: rdcu.be/9YK3mF7dYhFa

Version 2.0 of #OpenNeuro multi-subject, multi-modal (sMRI+fMRI+MEG+EEG) face-processing dataset now available, thanks to @dcdace.bsky.social, with changes listed here: openneuro.org/datasets/ds0...

Best rendition of Teen Town out there. youtu.be/mJkKKnhVeTU?...

Jaco Pastorius - Teen Town (live in NYC)

YouTube video by Dalexarte - Diego Alexander

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"Did these AI models “go rogue”? Not exactly. the models were tasked with finding solutions to a hacking challenge, and this is what they attempted to do, though in an unintended and surprising manner." aiguide.substack.com/p/misleading...

Misleading Metaphors, Real Risks

What To Fear from AI Agents and How to Reclaim Our Human Agency

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If you thought "everything is everywhere" in the brain: inactivations reveal a clear distinction of labor. Sensory areas sense, colliculus promotes eligible actions (!), and prefrontal cortex integrates. The role of superior colliculus in a logistic decision www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

1/7 Excited to share our new @elife.bsky.social Reviewed Preprint! 🧠 How do higher-order cognitive processes like abstraction & metacognition map onto transdiagnostic mental health dimensions? We combined computational modeling of a RL task with symptom profiling 🔗 doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Science Twitch Stream: What about grinding Kerbal Space Program in a career mode on level hard, while ranting about claims of localising signals from subcortical structures with 64 channel EEG.

Michel Nivard@michelnivard.bsky.social · 2w ago

Should I start a twitch stream where I play Sim City 2000, crack open a beer, and spit unfiltered "truth" about the latest psychological sciences?

Does the new shingles vaccine (Shingrix) protect against cardiovascular disease (CVD)? Yes, according to a new 'natural experiment' study in @natmed.nature.com. But the truth is sadly far less convincing! Pull up a chair and let's examine another peer review failure in a Nature journal. 1/10 🧵

Yeah, that is a piece of science for you today.

Two posters and a symposium on laminar MEG at #BIOMAG2026! Matteo Maspoli and @jan-sch.bsky.social present their posters today, and tomorrow at 1pm they will give talks along with myself and @studenova.bsky.social at the symposium: Inferring laminar dynamics of human neurocog processes with MEG

Here's @jan-sch.bksy.social and Matteo in action!

Decision, Action, and Neural Computation (DANC) lab@danclab.bsky.social · 4w ago

Two posters and a symposium on laminar MEG at #BIOMAG2026! Matteo Maspoli and @jan-sch.bsky.social present their posters today, and tomorrow at 1pm they will give talks along with myself and @studenova.bsky.social at the symposium: Inferring laminar dynamics of human neurocog processes with MEG

Greatly enjoyed the Symposium on laminar MEG at #BIOMAG2026 in 北京. 🧲🧠📝 Talks: @danclab.bsky.social @jan-sch.bsky.social Matteo Maspoldi @studenova.bsky.social

New PNAS paper from our lab! 🪰🐭👩‍🦰 We developed a toolbox AutoGaitA to compare locomotion across species, revealing conserved velocity gradients and aging effects despite divergent strategies for propulsion. A step toward understanding conserved principles of motor control. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

We broke Weber's law. By manipulating the prior (ie the frequencies of small and large magnitudes), we changed how people's accuracy depended on magnitude. When large magnitudes were more frequent, subjects became more precise about them. This points to efficient coding, dynamically implemented.

Sam Gershman@gershbrain.bsky.social · last mo.

@arthurpr4t.bsky.social has a new preprint with important results on a famous psychophysical law (Weber's law). It isn't, in fact, a law, because it can be broken. A more fundamental principle (efficient coding) shows when and why Weber's law holds true. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

You cannot produce knowledge while outsourcing your thinking to software. thecybernetician.substack.com/p/being-in-t...

Being in the business of thinking

Software cannot think for you.

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You do question the sanity of a person who rides a fully appointed 80s triathlon bike as a commuter in a very hilly city.

Difficult decisions take time, but can we keep all accumulated evidence in mind long enough to make better choices? We find that working-memory limitations constrain decision-making, and these effects are modulated by dopamine. biorxiv.org/content/10.6... bioRxiv out with Cina Aghamohammadi et al.

Working memory limitations and dopamine modulation in probabilistic reasoning

Difficult decisions require gathering evidence over extended periods, placing demands on working memory. Yet, how working memory limitations affect decision-making remains largely unknown. We trained ...

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Julian Alaphilippe (34) has decided to retire. 🇫🇷 2026 Tour de France was his last race as pro. 2014-2024 Quick Step (and its different names) 2025-2026 Tudor 45x🏆, incl. 2x 🌈RR 🥇, MSR, GT stage wins 1x 🇮🇹, 6x🇫🇷, 1x🇪🇸. www.lequipe.fr/Cyclisme-sur...

Julian Alaphilippe prend sa retraite

Julian Alaphilippe (34 ans) a décidé de mettre un terme à sa carrière et renonce à sa dernière année de contrat chez Tudor. Le Tour de France était sa dernière course.

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📣Algorithmic Grammar of Flexible Cognition: A Walk through Latent Operations osf.io/preprints/ps... Flexible behavior moves adaptively btwn cognitive modes. But units of analysis remain representations & few operations. Proposal: formalize open-ended cognition as walk over latent operations 1/n

If you are producing scholarship with AI and your work could plausibly be accessed in the EU, you are now legally compelled to disclose the nature and extent of your AI use. A tremendous win for scholarly integrity. www.lexacademic.com/blog/the-sta...

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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Happy to have contributed to this nice and balanced piece on what sleep trackers can and cannot do. @maynoothuniversity.ie @mupsychology.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/health/your-...

What is quality sleep? Don’t ask your ‘smart’ watch

With millions of people now using wearables, there is a market for improved accuracy

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Hi, historian of eugenics here. There’s actually not much difference between this and midcentury eugenics because midcentury eugenics was much more than just murderous coercion by the Nazis!

The Economist@economist.com · last mo.

Progress in embryo screening will raise difficult ethical questions. But there is a big difference between the murderous coercion of early-20th-century eugenics programmes and parents seeking as much knowledge as possible when picking an embryo

There are innumerable issues with Pinker (e.g. his association with Epstein), but I want to highlight how all the experts on history of violence wrote a special issue in Historical Reflections specifically because Pinker was perpetuating numerous falsehoods www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...

Jonathon Booth@jboothhistory.bsky.social · last mo.

yikes

New preprint! We investigate the role of language in the transmission of mental models in cultural evolution. Using a transmission chain design with over 2000 participants, we show that only language allows for the transmission and refinement of mental models. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Brain charts for neuroanatomical sex differences across the human lifespan | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

What if we could detect ahead of time when MH symptoms will escalate? In our newest paper led by @aleyamarzuki.bsky.social we show that drops in confidence precede #OCD symptoms! Our findings suggest: Momentary cognitive task assessments could change when and how we deliver interventions! Details 👇🏼👇🏼

Leya@aleyamarzuki.bsky.social · last mo.

📢 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/

📢 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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A welcome opportunity to revive this one

vincentholst.bsky.social@vincentholst.bsky.social · last mo.

The study is based on the CD index, a citation-based measure of how much the successors of a work still rely on its predecessors, running from -1 (consolidating) to +1 (disruptive). Key detail: a paper with zero references automatically gets CD = +1 as soon as it is cited once.