Dominik Straub
@dominikstrb.bsky.social
Computational cognitive scientist. Currently postdoc at @cam.ac.uk. Previously PhD at @tuda.bsky.social. Working on probabilistic models and inverse optimal control to understand perception, action, and learning. https://dominikstrb.github.io
You think you can(not) multitask? Turns out that the sensorimotor system is flexible and intelligent when perceiving and acting on the environment in parallel. Check out one of the main projects from my @dfg.de funded Walter Benjamin!
SfN Journals@sfnjournals.bsky.social · 3w ago#JNeurosci: Findings from Fooken et al. reveal how the brain integrates knowledge of sensorimotor demands with predictions about environmental events to flexibly manage competition for gaze between action and monitoring tasks. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2157-25.2026
"I used an LLM to help me write, but it was just to polish the style and grammar" is something you've probably come across, or done yourself. Many conferences and journals and teachers are ok with this. But does it...? Just focus on the style and grammar...?
I am giving away a free copy of the #BayesianWorkflow book by @statmodeling.bsky.social, @avehtari.bsky.social, @rmcelreath.bsky.social et al!! Please like, repost, and follow to enter. I will randomly draw the winner next Weds July 8. 😀 routledge.com/9780367490140 #RStats #DataScience #Bayesian
At Cosyne, Chris Olah from Anthropic told us that neuroscientists had “3-4 years left to make a contribution” Why was not clear. Perhaps he was hinting at the below graph accompanying today’s Claude Science launch. Apparently we’ll all be obsolete soon.
"... so you can spend time on science." What does Anthropic think "doing science" *is*?? claude.com/product/clau...
Very proud of my doctoral student Lina Eicke-Kanani and co-authors: Lina's first first-author paper received the Early Career Best Paper Prize from i-Perception! We use the oblique effect to naturally vary sensory uncertainty, finding effects on subjective causality judgments in launching displays.
Perception / i-Perception@pec-ipe.bsky.social · 2mo ago🎯 Does uncertainty around object position affect perceived causality? ↗️ Stronger causal impressions were reported for oblique than cardinal motion trajectories 👁️ Sensory uncertainty was higher for oblique trajectories 🏆 Congratulations to Lina et al. on receiving an Early Career Best Paper Prize
As grant money starts drying up, it's more important than ever not to waste it on paying publishers' open access "article processing fees" when we can host PDFs for free. Tom Morgan and I wrote a paper on this, forthcoming at Science and Public Policy. Accepted draft here: osf.io/preprints/os...
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
Erst die Bafög-Absage, nun ein Reförmchen gegen prekäre Arbeitsverhältnisse an Unis. Und wieder steht die Wissenschaftsministerin in der Kritik.
Prekäre Arbeitsbedingungen an Unis: Jetzt verärgert Bär auch noch die Forschenden
Erst die Bafög-Absage, nun ein Reförmchen gegen prekäre Arbeitsverhältnisse an Unis. Und wieder steht die Wissenschaftsministerin in der Kritik.
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To be fair, I probably would have used AI during my PhD if it could calibrate the eye link and run all my participants for me.
Research Professional News@resprofnews.bsky.social · 2mo agoArtificial intelligence systems will allow a single PhD student’s output to match that of a whole laboratory, according to Demis Hassabis, a Nobel laureate for chemistry.
Studierende sollen mehr arbeiten – findet Dorothee Bär. Sie habe schließlich auch gejobbt. Aber wie war das noch mal genau? Ich habe zum Studium der Forschungsministerin recherchiert 👇 taz.de/Studium-und-... @taz.de
Studium und Bafög: Das Studium der Dorothee Mantel
Studierende sollen mehr arbeiten, findet Forschungsministerin Dorothee Bär. Sie habe schließlich auch gejobbt. Aber wie war das noch mal genau?
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Interested in using more of your precious experiment time? ⌛ And giving your participants a good time? 🥳 Join us tomorrow at 8:30 am in HS7 for an exciting symposium on continuous tasks with @lilweb.bsky.social @dominikstrb.bsky.social @ookenfooken.bsky.social at @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social #PUG2026!
"Science is not simply a sequence of tasks that can be optimized....The scientific system thrives on inefficiency: redundant efforts, failed attempts, and divergent paths. These are not costs to be eliminated but sources of discovery." Excellent essay! ⬇️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Progression without progress
Progress in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to advance scientific discovery has made it increasingly realistic to envision automated “end-to-end science” (ETES) systems: integrated pipelines t...
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I‘m looking for postdoc candidates in computer vision and control theory (2 positions). Get in touch if you’re interested.
LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate (Laban et al., 2026) arxiv.org/pdf/2604.15597 "[E]ven frontier models (Gemini 3.1 Pro, Claude 4.6 Opus, GPT 5.4) corrupt an average of 25% of document content by the end of long workflows, with other models failing more severely"
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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 · 5mo agoWhy 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.
„Der meiste Schaden, den der Computer potenziell zur Folge haben könnte, hängt weniger davon ab, was der Computer tatsächlich kann oder nicht kann, als vielmehr von den Eigenschaften, die das Publikum dem Computer zuschreibt.“ - Weizenbaum, "Albtraum Computer"
For those attending @ncmsociety.bsky.social this week, come check out posters and talks from the Physical Intelligence Lab! #NCM #MotorLearning #CognitiveNeuroscience
Happy to share my first PhD preprint! We show that magnitude estimation measures the perceptual noise distribution (it's Poisson-like!), resolving the sources of Weber's law & the pedestal effect. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Thanks to @linaresdani.bsky.social @jlmoliner.bsky.social !
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We are hiring a tenure track (!) senior researcher in political economy! This is obviously a great job (permanent without teaching obligation) and I hope you all apply. However, I would like to take a moment to share just how significant this is in the German academic context ⬇️
Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG)@mpifg.bsky.social · 4mo ago📢 Call: Tenure Track Position The MPIfG Political Economy Research Area led by Lucio Baccaro is seeking a Senior Researcher. Open to candidates with at least two years’ postdoc experience. Please share widely! 🗓️ Apply by April 20, 2026 s.gwdg.de/WPMPp1
“In our culture, preferring an algorithm to a trainee feels like a betrayal of the academic mission.” That’s because it is. www.science.org/content/arti...
Why I may ‘hire’ AI instead of a graduate student
“It can competently perform a lot of the work I need immediately,” this professor writes
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I tracked every keyword in 22 years of Cosyne abstracts to map how computational neuroscience evolved — from Bayesian brains to neural manifolds to LLMs — and where it's heading next.
22 years of Brain Science: what CoSyNe tells us about the evolution of Neuroscience
Tracking the intellectual DNA of Computational and Systems Neuroscience through its flagship meeting
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I'm looking for a skilled PhD student who doesn't want to work too hard but still do great science: unisc-cp.enquire.cloud/round/RND-00...
I will be at #cosyne2026 next week presenting some new work on "Simultaneous sensorimotor and contextual inference" www.cosyne.org/poster-sessi... Looking forward to seeing many familiar and new faces in Lisbon!
I'm not gonna touch most of this but two things: 1. The apprenticeship model of science was never supposed to be about the PI's workflow. The point isn't to have research assistants to help to publish stuff faster. Training the next generation researcher *is* the point. Because we care. Allegedly.
Academics Need to Wake Up on AI
Ten theses for folks who haven't noticed the ground shifting under their feet
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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.
It’s time to turn towards the motor control side of interoception!
Micah G. Allen@micahgallen.com · 5mo agoToday I am excited to introduce respyra - an open-source Python toolbox for respiratory tracking experiments in interoception research! Now on PyPI (pip install respyra) with a preprint on PsyArXiv: osf.io/preprints/ps... GitHub: github.com/embodied-com...
