Deadline to apply is August 14th. If you are looking for a postdoc on foundation models, open-ended discovery, or general ml-approaches to/in cognitive science, we would like to work with you.

Eric Schulz@ericschulz.bsky.social · 2w ago

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher who wants to innovate at the intersection of cognitive science, neuroscience, and machine learning. 📍Munich 📅Flexible start: 10/2026–03/2027 ⏳Full consideration by 14/08/2026 💼Funded for 2 years, extension possible Discover, grow, collaborate, eat cake.

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher who wants to innovate at the intersection of cognitive science, neuroscience, and machine learning. 📍Munich 📅Flexible start: 10/2026–03/2027 ⏳Full consideration by 14/08/2026 💼Funded for 2 years, extension possible Discover, grow, collaborate, eat cake.

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher who wants to innovate at the intersection of cognitive science, neuroscience, and machine learning. 📍Munich 📅Flexible start: 10/2026–03/2027 ⏳Full consideration by 14/08/2026 💼Funded for 2 years, extension possible Discover, grow, collaborate, eat cake.

How do children’s exploration strategies change across development? New preprint with Azzurra Ruggeri, Silja Kessler, and @ericschulz.bsky.social: “Tiny Alchemists: The Developmental Emergence of Empowerment in Exploration” osf.io/preprints/ps... Paper summary below 1/6

New work led by Franziska on the developmental trajectory of empowerment based exploration.

Franziska Brändle@frabraendle.bsky.social · 3w ago

How do children’s exploration strategies change across development? New preprint with Azzurra Ruggeri, Silja Kessler, and @ericschulz.bsky.social: “Tiny Alchemists: The Developmental Emergence of Empowerment in Exploration” osf.io/preprints/ps... Paper summary below 1/6

Very excited about this. One of the first steps to truly automate the discovery process in the cognitive sciences.

Akshay K. Jagadish@akjagadish.bsky.social · last mo.

1/ 🚨 New preprint: "Closing the Loop to Discover Psychological Theories with an Automated Cognitive Scientist" Introducing AutoCog 🤖 — a fully autonomous AI system that runs the entire scientific discovery cycle in cognitive science to surface novel theories of human behavior 🧵

1/ 🚨 New preprint: "Closing the Loop to Discover Psychological Theories with an Automated Cognitive Scientist" Introducing AutoCog 🤖 — a fully autonomous AI system that runs the entire scientific discovery cycle in cognitive science to surface novel theories of human behavior 🧵

1/ 🚨 New opinion piece: "Can we automatize scientific discovery in the cognitive sciences?" We lay out a vision for a fully automated, in-silico science of the mind, where modern AI systems run every stage of the scientific discovery cycle in cognitive science 🧵 #AutomatedDiscovery #AI4Science

Watch as Akshay is automating the discovery process in the cognitive sciences. Exciting times!

Akshay K. Jagadish@akjagadish.bsky.social · last mo.

1/ 🚨 New opinion piece: "Can we automatize scientific discovery in the cognitive sciences?" We lay out a vision for a fully automated, in-silico science of the mind, where modern AI systems run every stage of the scientific discovery cycle in cognitive science 🧵 #AutomatedDiscovery #AI4Science

Excited to announce that I'll be starting my own lab in Tübingen this October! Hiring at all levels: Postdoc, PhD & RA. Want to work on computational cognitive science at scale? Apply: core-cognition.github.io Reposts and shares much appreciated 🙏

Join us at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig as a fully funded 4-year postdoc position (m/f/d) in Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience (Area: Social Cognition). Excellent infrastructure with a leading scientific network. Apply by 13 July: recruitingapp-5218.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/44...?

To appear in Computational Brain & Behavior soon: the claimed 2024 proof (also in CBB) that AGI via learning is intractable also "proves" that ImageNet is intractable. My reading of the hole: equivocation on the variable D. Preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2411.06498

Barriers to Complexity-Theoretic Proofs that "AGI" Using Machine Learning is Impossible

A recent paper (van Rooij et al. 2024) claims to have proved that achieving human-like intelligence using learning from data is intractable in a complexity-theoretic sense. We point out that the proof...

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Alireza Modirshanechi, Benjamin Eysenbach, Peter Dayan, Eric Schulz: Unifying Goal-Conditioned RL and Unsupervised Skill Learning via Control-Maximization https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06145 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.06145 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.06145

Talk to the model here: talkie-lm.com/chat

If you are attending #ICLR2026, please come and say hi to our group members presenting the papers 👇

ExplainableML@eml-munich.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Our EML members are heading for Rio🇧🇷 for #ICLR2026! 🌴We’re excited to share our latest research — three poster presentations. Check out the thread below and come say hi to our authors

I am shocked to see this language from the NSF. “The U.S. National Science Foundation's Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request reflects a strategic alignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment while eliminating woke and weaponized grant programs that previously funded radical DEI projects.”

Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request to Congress

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Attending #Cosyne2026? Come by our poster in the afternoon (#021) to talk about the sense of control, empowerment, and agency. 🧠🤖 We propose a unifying formulation of the sense of control and empirically characterize the human subjective sense of control. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧑‍🔬🧪🔬

📢📢 Announcing this year's conference on the Mathematics of Neuroscience & AI (Rome, 9-12th June). We’ve got a stellar line-up and venue, and invite everyone to join: www.neuromonster.org

One week left to apply!

Eric Schulz@ericschulz.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🚨 Hiring in Munich 🇩🇪: 2 open-topic PhD positions in human & machine learning (TVöD E13 80%). Start ~June 2026 (flexible). Deadline: March 2, 2026. Apply/info: hcai-munich.com/PhD_Job_Ad.pdf Reposts appreciated 🙏

🚨 Hiring in Munich 🇩🇪: 2 open-topic PhD positions in human & machine learning (TVöD E13 80%). Start ~June 2026 (flexible). Deadline: March 2, 2026. Apply/info: hcai-munich.com/PhD_Job_Ad.pdf Reposts appreciated 🙏

🚨 Hiring in Munich 🇩🇪: 2 open-topic PhD positions in human & machine learning (TVöD E13 80%). Start ~June 2026 (flexible). Deadline: March 2, 2026. Apply/info: hcai-munich.com/PhD_Job_Ad.pdf Reposts appreciated 🙏

Do people's internal representations of natural objects differ? We (@ericschulz.bsky.social) show so by incorporating idiosyncrasies into neural nets to create better models of human behavior. We also reliably extract idiosyncrasies and map them to demographics. More: osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/pxt9a

Very happy to see this pre-print out. Our first step towards incorporating individual differences when aligning neural network representations to diverse crowds.

Mirko Thalmann@mirkothm.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Do people's internal representations of natural objects differ? We (@ericschulz.bsky.social) show so by incorporating idiosyncrasies into neural nets to create better models of human behavior. We also reliably extract idiosyncrasies and map them to demographics. More: osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/pxt9a

Honored to have been interviewed about Claude's "soul document" as part of an article for this week's @spiegel.de. www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...

(S+) Künstliche Intelligenz: Wie Chatbots eine Seele bekommen – und von wem

KI-Firmen trainieren ihren Chatbots eine Art Charakter an, nun sind erstmals Informationen aus einem »Soul Document« öffentlich geworden. Es stellt sich die Frage: Wer bestimmt über die Wesenszüge von...

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🔬 We're hiring a Junior Group Leader for Data-Driven Digital Twins/System Models in medicine/life sciences at @uni_goettingen! Perfect opportunity for early-career researchers who want to: - Lead their own research group - Work at the intersection of AI, simulation, and biomedicine

📆 updated for 2026! list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP: 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

various computational neuroscience / MEEG / LFP short courses and summer schools

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🚨 New preprint 🚨 We present the decisions-from-experience database (DfE-DB), including data from 168 studies. The data are currently shared with the original authors and made public upon publication. 🔗 Database: github.com/dwulff/dfe-db 🔗 Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🚀 Excited to announce that I'm looking for people (PhD/Postdoc) to join my Cognitive Modelling group @uniosnabrueck.bsky.social. If you want to join a genuinely curious, welcoming and inclusive community of Coxis, apply here: tinyurl.com/coxijobs Please RT - deadline is Jan 4‼️

Lilian Weber@lilweb.bsky.social · 11mo ago

In other news, I am now a ✨ COXI ✨ (cognitive scientist in Osnabrück, Germany) www.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/campus-li... I'll be looking for PhD students & postdocs later this year, so watch this space if combining cognitive modelling, EEG & tFUS to study flexible cognition sounds exciting to you 🚀

🧵 If you're looking for a fully funded PhD or Postdoc in Computational Psychiatry, please reach out! We are expanding the lab and tackling some big questions. Here is a thread on what we are currently up to: 👇

🚀🎓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 · last yr.

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