Congratulations to @tuda.bsky.social @goetheuni.bsky.social & @unimainz.bsky.social on being named @dfg.de Excellence Universities! 🥳 As @rheinmainunis.bsky.social we're building a global research hub in the heart of Europe 🇪🇺 Thanks to all who made this happen! www.rhein-main-universitaeten.de/en

🎉 WIR HABEN ES GESCHAFFT: Die Allianz der #RheinMainUniversitäten (RMU) aus @goetheuni.bsky.social, @unimainz.bsky.social & @tuda.bsky.social wird ab 2027 im Rahmen der #Exzellenzstrategie als #Exzellenzverbund gefördert: www.rhein-main-universitaeten.de/news/rhein-m... @dfg.de @wissenschaftsrat.de

If you are interested in understanding human behavior in ecological, everyday tasks through computational models, including RL, optimal control, POMDPs, and developing new computational approaches, including inverse modeling and program induction, consider applying to the #ELLISPhD Program.

🚨 Apply now for the #ELLISPhD Program! 🎓 Work with leading AI/ML researchers across Europe, with exchange visits & joint supervision. The application deadline is 31 Oct. Get all info & apply now at ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...

Excited to share that our paper ZendoWorld has been accepted to #NeurIPS2026! 🎉 ZendoWorld tests interactive visual reasoning and demonstrates that current agents (VLM and NeSy) still struggle with both rule induction and informative experimentation 🤖💭

Antonia Wüst@toniwuest.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Can AI agents act like scientists when reasoning about visual scenes? 🔬 Not just label what they see, but form explicit hypotheses, design experiments to test them, and revise their beliefs in light of the evidence. We built ZendoWorld to find out!

Pouring a cup of coffee looks trivial. It isn’t. Humans effortlessly control nonlinear liquid dynamics across different vessels and speeds—while robots still struggle. In our new preprint, we ask how the human motor system solves this everyday control problem. 1/5

Excited this is finally out! I am happy to have built this together with Rabea Turon, @tsawallis.bsky.social and all the others!🎉

Tom Wallis@tsawallis.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New preprint! Have you ever wanted to measure psychometric functions in high-dimensional stimulus spaces, but realised that this is infeasible? We present and validate a technique to adaptively estimate psychometric functions for stimulus spaces up to 50 dimensions. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

@lreining.bsky.social presented the talk 'Regularization more than representational capacity drives heuristic discovery in Bounded Meta-Learned Inference' at #cogsci2026. The work, together with Finn Radatz & Nora Cremille came out of a course project in our MSc Cognitive Science program.

Can AI agents act like scientists when reasoning about visual scenes? 🔬 Not just label what they see, but form explicit hypotheses, design experiments to test them, and revise their beliefs in light of the evidence. We built ZendoWorld to find out!

With Fabian Kessler & Julia Frankenstein we presented the talk Probabilistic path planning as a computational model of human sensorimotor navigation behavior and the poster Active shaping of spatial uncertainty through coordinated eye, head, and body movements during navigation at #iNAV2026 1/2

On June 29th 2026, Fabian Kessler defended his PhD thesis 'Probabilistic path planning as a computational model of human navigation under uncertainty' with distinction. Congratulations! Important and fundamental contributions to understanding human goal-directed navigation in the framework of 1/4

On May 27th 2026, @ingaibs.bsky.social defended her PhD thesis 'Cognitive strategies and explanations for sequential decision-making: a task-centric approach' with distinction. Congratulations! Beautiful and super careful contributions to computationally categorizing problem-solving tasks in the 1/3

Our group contributed to the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society #VSS2026 with a symposium organized by @ookenfooken.bsky.social: 'What makes a task naturalistic? Towards a theory-inspired approach to studying visually-guided behaviour', and five posters:

Thanks to @agreco.bsky.social and Jannik Reichert for organizing the #NeuroAISymposium2026 and inviting us, this was a lot of fun, hope this series continues in the next years!

Antonino Greco@agreco.bsky.social · 6mo ago

⚫️ NeuroAI Symposium 2026 - it was a blast! ⚫️ Groundbreaking talks, lively discussions and inspiring ideas across #NeuroAI topics! 🧠🤖 A huge thank you to all our speakers, organizers, and participants for making #NeuroAISymposium2026 such a success 🙌 📸 Highlights at neuroaisymposium.com

I have been inactive, but the group hasn't been! We presented two posters at the great #NCMKobe26: A computational account of tactile suppression during reaching movements & Coordinated head, body & eye movements support active sensing to reduce spatial uncertainty during navigation. Back next year!

I am presenting our work this week at #NCMKobe26 @ncmsociety.bsky.social Our poster is during the Thursday/Friday session: **P2-G-182** - _A computational account of tactile suppression during reaching movements_ Dimitris Voudouris @dominikstrb.bsky.social Katja Fiehler @c-rothkopf.bsky.social

Fabian Tatai@fatatai.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Why is touch perceived as weaker during movement? In our new preprint 📝, we examine tactile suppression during reaching. Using optimal control theory, we show that tactile suppression reflects dynamic, uncertainty-dependent integration of forward model predictions and sensory feedback.

How do humans adapt their behavior in natural, uncertain environments? Open PhD position in the collaborative DFG Excellence Cluster “The Adaptive Mind” (theadaptivemind-excellencecluster.de) Apply: www.career.tu-darmstadt.de/tu-darmstadt...

New work from the lab led by @fatatai.bsky.social together with Dimitris Voudouris, @dominikstrb.bsky.social, Katja Fiehler as part of 'The Adaptive Mind' cluster

Fabian Tatai@fatatai.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Why is touch perceived as weaker during movement? In our new preprint 📝, we examine tactile suppression during reaching. Using optimal control theory, we show that tactile suppression reflects dynamic, uncertainty-dependent integration of forward model predictions and sensory feedback.

The Reinforcement Learning workshop at U Mannheim was a lot of fun and highly recommended if you are looking for an engaging exchange of ideas, thanks to the organizers: Leif Döring, @theo-vincent.bsky.social, @claireve.bsky.social, and Simon Weißmann! www.wim.uni-mannheim.de/doering/conf...

Want to model and simulate human behavior in tasks when interacting with liquids? Check out our work Niteesh Midlagajn & Constantin Rothkopf, Learning Particle Dynamics Subject to Rigid Body Manipulations Using Graph Neural Networks, presented at @logconference.bsky.social

Are you looking for a PhD in machine learning? 🧠 ELIZA is hiring a Doctoral Researcher at TU Darmstadt! Apply by Jan 5: www.career.tu-darmstadt.de/tu-darmstadt... ℹ️ Learn more about ELIZA: eliza.school @tuda.bsky.social, @cs-tudarmstadt.bsky.social, @ellis.eu, @daadworldwide.bsky.social #AI

🚀🎓We have exciting opportunities at the PhD and Postdoc level, including in the new Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience, a 10-year initiative spanning a powerful international network of labs working across species and disciplines - please reach out if interested bsky.app/profile/simo...

Simons Foundation@simonsfoundation.org · 2y ago

We are excited to announce our new Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience (SCENE)! This program will unite experts in experimental and computational #neuroscience approaches to investigate how the brain represents sensorimotor interactions. www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/04/24/s... #science

Matthias Schultheis is presenting our latest work on understanding the behavior of bounded agents in more naturalistic tasks at #NeurIPS2025: What do you know? Bayesian knowledge inference for navigating agents with Jana-Sophie Schönfeld and Heinz Koeppl neurips.cc/virtual/2025...

Tobias Niehues @tobnie.bsky.social is presenting our work with @dominikstrb.bsky.social 'Amortized Bayesian decision-making for inferring decision-making parameters from behavior' at the Amortized ProbML Workshop and the @ellis.eu UnConference. Please come by our poster!

🚀 Join @tuda.bsky.social and @hessianai.bsky.social as Professor for Ethical & Safe AI to advance the algorithmic foundations of ethical and safe AI and to shape “Reasonable AI." Apply now and make an impact where AI meets society. 👉 buff.ly/bIvq7Mb

🗞️TIP: ProLOEWE👱🏼🧑🏼‍🦰 with Kristian Kersting+Constantin @c-rothkopf.bsky.social, who bring together modern #AI + #cognitivescience➡️@tuda.bsky.social within LOEWE-WhiteBox. Who, together with their team, have succeeded in obtaining 2 clusters of #excellence with #RAI + #TAM ➡️ proloewe.de/en/proloewe-...

Join our world-class #ClusterOfExcellence on Reasonable AI as a PhD student in one of the four labs. More info, particularly on the Challenging AI with Cognitive Science Lab (CAI) & application 👉 hessian.ai/call-for-app...

Call for Applications: Fully Funded PhD Positions in the Cluster of Excellence “Reasonable Artificial Intelligence (RAI) | hessian.AI

The Cluster of Excellence Reasonable Artificial Intelligence (RAI) invites applications for several fully funded PhD positions starting in early 2026. RAI conducts cutting-edge research on AI systems ...

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Only one day left to apply to the European Laboratory for Learning & Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) and work with us @ellis.eu ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...

ELLIS PhD Program: Call for Applications 2025

A virtual info session for prospective PhD candidates will be held on October 1st with information about the whole PhD program, the call for applications, application materials, and timeline.

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If neuroscience needs behavior, then it also needs control theory ... but that's not the only reason: check out the workshop at #Bernsteinconference bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...

Looking forward to meeting you #ECVP2025 Mainz this week, including collaborative work with @tobnie.bsky.social @dominikstrb.bsky.social @ookenfooken.bsky.social @fatatai.bsky.social @tsawallis.bsky.social @mamassian.bsky.social @guidomaiello.bsky.social @mariaeckstein.bsky.social and many others