... and this is for people who *did* have advanced skills to begin with. It is important for students to realise you should demand an education that teaches *you* how to learn, understand and do things, rather than cheating you out of this opportunity www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Iris van Rooij 💭@irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What a surprise ….. “Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New research assistant position available in our human intracranial EEG lab in NY (hbmlab-nyc.com). DM or email me if you're interested to learn more!

Come join the lab @maynoothuniversity.ie and work with me and stellar collaborators @seanfw.bsky.social and @redmondoconnell.bsky.social! Exciting project at the intersection of multi-task RNNs, compositional cognition and human decision neuroscience. Details and how to apply at shorturl.at/FsTQ0

Neuroscience Ireland@neuroscienceirl.bsky.social · 2mo ago

✅Funded PhD studentship in computational modelling of supra-modal evidence accumulation/decision-making! ⏰ Closing date: 1st July 2026! ➡️ More information: shorturl.at/FsTQ0 @redmondoconnell.bsky.social @seanfw.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @tcdpsychology.bsky.social

No reviewer should have to waste any time trying to make sense of something that was not actually *thought* by someone else. LLMs produce stuff that *looks* sensible, but is an empty shell.

Iris van Rooij 💭@irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 4mo ago

“Feel free to adapt and reuse. No attribution needed (…) If you make an adaption that you also want to share, I’d love to know about it, too.” irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/04/08/r...

Solidarity with Emily Tucker and her open letter to students. Tucker writes, "But the great thing is, you don’t have to go along with this, and I urge you not to. You can refuse to use the chatbot. You can tell your professors that you don’t want them to use it or to require you to use it."

An Open Letter to Georgetown Students, In Response to Recent Announcements about "Generative AI"

Image source: Bibliothèque nationale de France An Open Letter to Georgetown Students, In Response to Recent Announcements by the University about “Generative AI” Dear students, As you know, in …

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Strong agree - doing things faster is not doing them better. Especially if you're not doing them at all. I too refuse to join that ship and agree we should fight to change flawed incentive systems rather than cave to them by slowly surrendering our ability to think for ourselves.

Gabriel Weindel@gweindel.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Pressure to use genAI for #ECR is quite high, I feel it weekly... ethical, ecological, economical, privacy- and cognitive-related worries keeps me from joining that ship. I need more time to research not something that creates the illusion of reasoning, if that costs grants or positions, let it be.

Pressure to use genAI for #ECR is quite high, I feel it weekly... ethical, ecological, economical, privacy- and cognitive-related worries keeps me from joining that ship. I need more time to research not something that creates the illusion of reasoning, if that costs grants or positions, let it be.

This whole thread is a very important insight as to why getting information from an LLM, even if you are dutiful and vigilant, corrodes your ability to ascertain what is true or not ** LLMs do not provide the info you need in order to evaluate truth. **

M.J. Crockett@mjcrockett.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Specifically, the idea of source credibility just doesn't apply straightforwardly to LLM interactions. When I get info from another person I can ask: how does the content relate to their expertise? Their lived experience? Their interests and biases? 8/

Very happy to share this new paper, published in @elife.bsky.social, the last one stemming from a PhD chapter 🥲. In it, @spk3lly.bsky.social and I show that an early V1 signal (the C1) can have direct influence on a perceptual decision. Here's the link: doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Check out our new paper which isolates a human brain signal that specifically tracks the growing urgency to commit to a choice pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41611534/. This one was a long time coming! Sterling work from @harveymccone.bsky.social and a bunch of past lab members!

A Movement-Independent Signature of Urgency During Human Perceptual Decision Making - PubMed

How does the brain adjust its decision processes to ensure timely decision completion? Computational modelling and electrophysiological investigations have pointed to dynamic 'urgency' processes that serve to progressively reduce the quantity of evidence required to reach choice commitment as time e …

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Applications for BAMB! 2026 are officially open! Join us in Barcelona (July 12–23) to master the art of behavioral modeling with our incredible faculty: @meganakpeters.bsky.social @marcelomattar.bsky.social @khamascience.bsky.social @thecharleywu.bsky.social Apply now here: www.bambschool.org

BAMB! 2026 | Barcelona Summer School for Advanced Modeling of Behavior

Intensive training for experienced researchers in cognitive science, computational neuroscience and neuro-AI. Five interconnected modules, expert faculty, hands-on projects. July 12-23, 2026.

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Tired of AI hype posts? You might like my sober assessment of whether AI-generated summaries are suitable for studying and research. Spoiler alert, they are not. The text is primarily aimed at students and researchers, but has much broader relevance. So share freely!: www.tue.nl/en/our-unive...

Are AI-generated summaries suitable for studying and research?

Despite didactic, ethical, and environmental concerns, the use of GenAI is on the rise in academia. For most applications, the jury is still out on whether and how they will benefit education and rese...

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#hiring Come work with us to better understand the neuronal mechanism underlying perceptual consciousness! 18 months postdoctoral position at INSERM in Grenoble, France. ⌛Application deadline 10 March 2026. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/408445

Postdoctoral researcher on single neuron recordings for consciousness

Contract period: 18 monthsExpected date of employment: June 2026Proportion of work: Full timeSalary: according to INSERM scales (~2900 – 3300 € gross / month based on experience)Desired level of educa...

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Postdoc position in Paris: come help develop new generation human brain computer interfaces ⚡🧠💻 Interested? Contact me if you have experience with machine learning (e.g. simulation-based inference, RL, generative/diffusion models) or dynamical systems. See below for + details and retweet 🙏

New preprint. We show that in addition to reward prediction errors (RPEs), dorsal striatal dopamine signals encode sensory prediction errors (SPEs), the difference between sensory prior & observed stimulus. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Dorsal striatal dopamine integrates sensory and reward prediction errors to guide perceptual decisions

Perceptual decisions are shaped by expectations about sensory stimuli and rewards, learned through sensory and reward prediction errors. Dopamine is known to convey reward prediction errors that shape...

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** Recruiting a postdoc ** We are looking for a postdoc to work on emotion, mental health, and interoception, based in London at @ucl.ac.uk in my lab (Clinical and Affective Neuroscience). Part of a large Wellcome Grant (co-led with the brilliant @camillanord.bsky.social)

Our #sEEG study is now published in Nature Communications: rdcu.be/eIkoG! 🧠 Key finding: We discovered neural evidence accumulation for visual perception that's independent of report preparation—recorded from >3000 channels across 3 experiments! #Neuroscience #Consciousness #OpenAccess

Cortical evidence accumulation for visual perception occurs irrespective of reports

Nature Communications - Perception can occur in the absence of report. Here, the authors use intracranial recordings to show that sequential sampling of sensory evidence in the ventral visual...

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François Stockart@francoisstock.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our new sEEG study is out on BioRxiv: tinyurl.com/4afh3b9n! Using 3 face detection experiments and recording from >3000 channels, we found a neural code that reflected evidence accumulation for conscious perception and perceptual confidence! 👇

Check out our reviewed preprint, now out in eLife! With @spk3lly.bsky.social, @redmondoconnell.bsky.social and Anna Geuzebroek elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... While we work on improving the [solid] paper based on the reviews, here are the key take-home messages:

Common neural choice signals reflect accumulated evidence, not confidence! Now out in @cerebralcortex.bsky.social w @helenevanmarcke.bsky.social @pierreledenmat.bsky.social @yfvisser.bsky.social @denizerdil.bsky.social a.o. Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓

Will you be at #ICON2025 in Porto? Then drop at our symposium on "Decision Signal(s) In The Electro-encephalogram" (SY23, Thursday at 13.45) with @redmondoconnell.bsky.social @nunezanalyzed.bsky.social @tarrynbalsdon.bsky.social @hcp4715.bsky.social organized by Leendert van Maanen and Jelmer Borst

Excited to be in Porto for #ICON2025! I will be at poster session 2 tomorrow (Tuesday) afternoon (P2.20) talking about evidence accumulation and choice-encoding centroparietal signals in the human EEG. Come say hi!

📢Fully Funded PhD position in Barcelona! I'm excited to announce that I’m opening a PhD position at @idibaps.bsky.social, Barcelona! We'll investigate the role of bodily signals in autobiographical memory, using virtual reality, EEG and TMS, in healthy volunteers and patient populations.

Excellent piece. We know how to improve writing ability: it's by doing more, not less of it. "LLMs do not improve one’s writing ability much like taking a taxi does not improve one’s driving ability. Students should hone their writing, thinking, and other academic skills at every opportunity."

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 11mo ago

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Two flagship papers from the International Brain Laboratory, now out in ‪@Nature.com‬: 🧠 Brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09235-0 🧠 Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09226-1 +

New paper from the lab indicates some surprising differences in visual cortical contributions to two popular VEP types. In it, Kieran uses some of his brilliant tricks from last year's paper:

Visual cortical area contributions to the transient, multifocal and steady-state VEP: A forward model-informed analysis

Abstract. Central to our understanding of how visual-evoked potentials (VEPs) contribute to visual processing is the question of where their anatomical sources are. Three well-established measures of ...

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@kiemohr.bsky.social · last yr.

Delighted to share this paper, now published in @arvoinfo.bsky.social. With @spk3lly.bsky.social‬ and Anna Geuzebroek we explored differences in visual cortical responses for pattern pulses and pattern reversals. Here's the link: jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...

Check out our new multisensory decision study! We tackle a decades-old Q: does faster detection of bimodal targets come from a race or co-activation between modalities? And also a vital, orthogonal Q: is it one decision process or two? A1: co-activation A2: two! Read here: rdcu.be/eASYd

Distinct audio and visual accumulators co-activate motor preparation for multisensory detection

Nature Human Behaviour - Egan et al. examine multisensory evidence accumulation and show that auditory and visual evidence is accumulated in distinct processes during multisensory detection, and...

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Nature Human Behaviour@nathumbehav.nature.com · 12mo ago

In this article, Egan et al. examine multisensory evidence accumulation and show that evidence in two modalities sub-additively co-activate a single, thresholded motor process.

A timely reminder that not everything can be outsourced - writing is thinking www.nature.com/articles/s44...

CONVERSATIONS ON CONSCIOUSNESS How the CCN Community Can Contribute #CCN2025 on Wednesday 13th (10am 🇪🇺) Livestream link below ➡️ Exploring the possibility of Computational Consciousness Science ➡️ Discussing three Templeton World Charity Foundation Adversarial Collaborations

Delighted to share this paper, now published in @arvoinfo.bsky.social. With @spk3lly.bsky.social‬ and Anna Geuzebroek we explored differences in visual cortical responses for pattern pulses and pattern reversals. Here's the link: jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...

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Imaging Neuroscience@imagingneurosci.bsky.social · last yr.

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Redmond G. O’Connell, Simon P. Kelly, et al: Regressing away common neural choice signals does not make them artifacts: Comment on Frömer et al. 2024 doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...