Confused about all this talk of compositionality in neuroscience? Read our new perspective www.nature.com/articles/s41... with authors Reidar Riveland and Alex Pouget.

The compositionality continuum as a principle for studying the neural basis of intelligence - Nature Neuroscience

Compositionality exists on a continuum of increasing complexity rather than as a binary trait. Studying its implementation in simpler biological and artificial systems is the most tractable path towar...

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Come and join our replication initiative in visual neuroscience! Low bar for entry, ideal for anyone from a Master’s student looking for a thesis to faculty who want to get back to the bench. 🤓 re-vision-initiative.org

re:vision | Replication Initiative for Visual Neuroscience

Test whether published visual-neuroscience findings (NSD, THINGS, etc.) generalize to broadly-sampled natural images using the LAION-fMRI (LfMRI) 7T dataset.

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@re-vision-init.bsky.social · 2w ago

(1/6) Do our visual neuroscience findings actually replicate? And do they generalize beyond the datasets they were found in? We've lauched re:vision, a community-driven initiative to answer these questions, and we are looking for scientistis to participate. re-vision-initiative.org

📢 PhD opening in comp. cog. neuro. in Toulouse: thalamo-frontal model of cognitive control. Modelling/EEG experience is welcome but not required. Application deadline: 8 Sept. 2026 Details: sdrive.cnrs.fr/s/eDrkeXfjdW... #CognitiveScience #Neuroscience #EEG #neuroskyence #compneurosky

🚨 new lab preprint! Research from @gordonfeld.bsky.social during his DFG personal fellowship to my lab many moons ago: Global structure of new relational knowledge networks is represented in retrosplenial complex, and node-distance in hippocampus www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The hippocampus sits at the interface of perception & memory, allowing us to link past, present, & future through its role in generating predictions. Excited to share this theme issue in @royalsociety.org's Philosophical Transactions B, co-edited with @barense.bsky.social & @mariamaly.bsky.social

Volume 381 Issue 1954 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B | The Royal Society

Influential themed journal issues across the life sciences.

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I have always believed that ideas from basic systems neuroscience could eventually help people. But for years that felt more like hope than reality. But look! This is one of the most personally satisfying papers my lab has produced because we’re getting there. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧪🧵 1/

The global neuronal workspace (GNW) is currently the best documented neuroscience mechanism by which conscious processing arises in the human brain — and now Anthropic researchers have discovered a similar workspace inside their large language model ! www.anthropic.com/research/glo...

A global workspace in language models

Interpretability research on Claude's internal thoughts.

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Dimensionality reduction is how the brain acquires knowledge. Cool new paper from the late, great, Mark Stokes. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

Learning shapes neural geometry in the primate prefrontal cortex - Nature Neuroscience

Learning transforms prefrontal cortex activity from flexible, high-dimensional representations into compact, task-relevant and abstract codes, enabling efficient generalization of learned rules to new...

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Can neural representations from different people be translated into a shared space without paired data? In our preprint, "Platonic Representations in the Human Brain: Unsupervised Recovery of Universal Geometry", with Rishi Jha and @fuentemilla.bsky.social, we test this using fMRI 🧵👇

Very pleased to share a new policy brief by CAISA: Governing AI-generated content: Labelling for transparency when AI is the norm. This was a genuine privilege to be part of the team of 9 leading European scholars caisa.dk/forskning/t... 🧵 1/10

Though not without their flaws, Universities they have *already* done more to drive economic development and innovation than pretty much any other human institution, and that's in addition to creating informed citizens and otherwise enriching the human experience. The evidence for this is...

AI produces MORE editorial labor, not less. “[To weed out slop] the journal doubled its deputy editors from 6 to 11 & nearly doubled its sr editors from roughly 30 to 60. All of this is volunteer labor, unpaid academics donating time to maintain scientific quality.“ www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

AI Slop Is Flooding Academic Journals. A Top Journal Measured It

A top management journal measured AI’s impact on submissions and reviews. Submissions rose 42%, writing quality declined and AI reviews proved uninformative to editors.

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I'd be interested in a decent analysis of what is driving this increase, but I suspect a decent proportion of it is driven by increased use of LLMs. If it is, please just stop. I get we are all under pressure but at some point we have to take a step back and ask what we're doing all this for

Benjamin Braun@benbraun.eurosky.social · 4mo ago

Since ChatGPT came online in late 2022, grant application numbers across 12 UK and EU funding bodies have increased by *57%*. For MSCA fellowships the number is *+142%*. I do believe that what we’re doing is insane and that we need to stop doing it IMMEDIATELY. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Spend your July doing research in Granada! The CIMCYC is calling for talented undergraduate students (non-UGR) to join our Summer Research Stays 2026. 📍 9 Placements available 💶 €1,600 scholarship 🔬 8 specialized Research Groups (see next post!) 🏡 Housing support included Apply by May 11

i know several people who consistently argue that the issue of misinformation is overblown. But this paper reveals the devastating harm to society in terms of health, mortality and economic costs linked to widespread misinformation:

Timothy Caulfield@caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"Misinformation was estimated to contribute to nearly 2.3 million cases & 66 000 hospitalizations in 2021. Misinformation resulted in $2 billion in extra costs of hospitalization & 45 000 avertable deaths." Misinformation about COVID vaccines cost the US $2 billion academic.oup.com/healthaffair...

I always assumed that brain function had to line up with cytoarchitectonics. It turns out I was wrong. Human cortex, especially PFC, is tiled by chains of functional patches that subdivide and interlink architectonic areas into parallel processing streams. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The brain has two neural populations with opposite effects on brain state and blood supply that account for brainwide fluctuations in blood volume. Studied by simultaneous awake functional ultrasound imaging (CBV changes) & neuropixels www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Brainwide blood volume reflects opposing neural populations - Nature

Combined functional ultrasound imaging and Neuropixels recording of mouse brains identify two neuronal populations with opposing arousal-related activity and distinct haemodynamic response functi...

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***4-year Career Development Research Fellowship in Psychology now available at Oxford!*** Open to all areas of Psychology, including Cognitive/Behavioural Neuroscience. PhD in last three years, or be about to submit (some exceptions apply). Deadline: 21st May. www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/vac...

Career Development Research Fellowship

Career Development Research Fellowship in Psychology for full-time research offered by St John’s College to early career researchers who have recently completed or are close to completion of a doctora...

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🚨Anuncio importante: ¿Quieres investigar sobre la desinformación? En @cimcyc.bsky.social estamos montando un curso de verano para estudiantes de doctorado/postdocs y no es porque lo diga yo, pero pinta estupendo. 😬 📍 Granada 🗓️ 15-18 Septiembre 2026 ℹ️ Información: sites.google.com/view/misinfo...

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Misinformation is a topic of high relevance, generating great concern due to its multiple negative effects on our society. The discipline of Psychology advances the understanding of how and why people...

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📢 We are thrilled to announce the CIMCYC International Doctoral Summer School: "Psychological Approaches to Misinformation in Minds and Society," taking place in Granada from September 15–18, 2026. 💡Full program and applications: sites.google.com/view/misinfo...

#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...

You have 10 minutes of task fMRI to map functional brain regions in an individual. Three decisions matter: How do you localize regions? Which tasks do you include? How do you arrange tasks in your experiment? Here, we tackle all three! Preprint👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Are you a female or gender-diverse #psychology student interested in learning #coding? 🤔 ✨ Join the workshop "SheCodesPsy 2026 Reprogramming stereotypes!" 📅 13–15 May | 💰 Free 📍CIMCYC - UGR 📝 Application deadline: 16 March

Europe’s future is built on knowledge. For 30 years, the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) has supported over 150,000 researchers, including 23 Nobel Prize winners. This programme is built on curiosity, openness and excellence. Happy birthday MSCA!

Neural replay is connected to latent cause inference and supports fast generalization https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.12.693963v1

@cimcyc.bsky.social is hiring! SIX postdoc positions are coming up to dive into collaborative projects bridging together psychological science. Amazing opportunity to boost a postdoc career in a cutting-edge research center with outstanding human teams! 👇🏽 cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati...

Bridging Fields in Psychology and Neuroscience with Multidisciplinary Collaboration

Strengthening collaboration to encourage novel research connections between scientific areas is central to the CIMCYC - María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence strategy . To encourage this, the CIMCYC has ...

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Interdisciplinary collaboration is essential for addressing complex scientific challenges, resulting in novel approaches, innovative methodologies and a more holistic understanding of complex phenomena. 🔹To encourage this, the CIMCYC has launched six novel multidisciplinary collaborative projects.

Bridging Fields in Psychology and Neuroscience with Multidisciplinary Collaboration

Strengthening collaboration to encourage novel research connections between scientific areas is central to the CIMCYC - María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence strategy . To encourage this, the CIMCYC has ...

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**How distributed is the brain-wide network that is recruited for cognition?** That goes to the top of the list! #neuroskyence doi.org/10.1038/s415...

High-level visual surprise is rapidly integrated during perceptual inference! 🚨 New paper 🚨 out now in @cp-iscience.bsky.social with @paulapena.bsky.social and @mruz.bsky.social www.cell.com/iscience/ful... Summary 🧵 below 👇

Rapid computation of high-level visual surprise

Health sciences

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