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Jason da Silva Castanheira @jasondasilvac.bsky.social · 3w ago

is this controversial? -- people don't go to conferences to learn things. they do but that's not the primary purpose. nor is the primary purpose 'networking'. they go there, for *moral support*. becoz science is not a victory march. to endure it, we need conferences.

Interested in how we plan over our imagination? Come to Brazil 🇧🇷 & my poster P1-E-37 at #CogSci2026! Here, @smfleming.bsky.social and I use computational modelling to demonstrate that planning over our imaginations, untethered from perception, relies on mental representations.

Natalie Christie Peluso 🧠@nataliepeluso.com · 3w ago

Diversity of neural responses enables high-dimensional representations #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Rarely categorical, highly separable representations along the cortical hierarchy - Nature

Cortical circuits prioritize diversity over categorical structure, supporting a computational regime geared towards high-dimensional, highly separable neural representations.

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 3w ago

calling all researchers who collect data from humans 🧠🧪 we are running a very brief survey (<1 min) about jsPsych, the software ecosystem for browser-based data collection. if you use jsPsych, or if you collect data with any other software, please fill it out at tinyurl.com/jspsych-census!

I am writing on behalf of the leadership of jsPsych, the software ecosystem for browser-based data collection used in experiments and surveys from many labs worldwide.

It has been difficult for us to figure out how widespread jsPsych usage is, because the software is freely available online and we do not collect any information about downloads, users, experiments posted online, etc. While the software has been cited in thousands of articles, jsPsych usage is likely more widespread than those citations imply, because not every project using jsPsych leads to a citation, and because there are also often substantial delays between actual jsPsych usage and a publication. As such, we are conducting a very brief census of jsPsych users.

If you collect data from humans using jsPsych or any other type of software, we would appreciate your filling out a very brief survey (<1 min) at tinyurl.com/jspsych-census. This will help us to understand how many people, labs, and institutions are current or former users of jsPsych, information that will help support the long-term sustainability of the jsPsych ecosystem.

We would also appreciate it if you could circulate this message to your lab, your department listserv, and your collaborators, to help ensure that it reaches as many members of the research community as possible. The survey is being distributed by Josh de Leeuw, Melissa Kline Struhl, and myself. Please contact me (sam@auckland.ac.nz) off-list if you have any questions about it.

Doby Rahnev @dobyrahnev.bsky.social · 3w ago

this is gonna be a great match. (Argentina vs England)

Serial effects in choice and confidence are typically studied separately. In a new paper just out in Cognition, we show that choice and confidence serial effects strongly interact. This is true for both perceptual and memory tasks across 26 experiments. authors.elsevier.com/a/1nPcy_Ebvv...

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i want to as well www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I want to see a prison-to-PhD pipeline

Ryan Rising creates programmes that help people who have been incarcerated to access academic opportunities.

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i added pumpkin to pork ribs kimchi stew

ask ref letters at the final stage of selection of candidates, not at the beginning. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Why it’s time to bin recommendation letters in science job applications

If hiring organizations must ask for references, they should do so closer to the end of the process, argues Bibek Aryal.

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i bought muscimol.

François Kammerer@lovingautomaton.bsky.social · 3w ago

for the topic, i recommend this book over Chalmers (1996) and Dennett (1991)

My book on consciousness at Oxford University Press is now available! It is titled House of Mirrors: The Illusion of Phenomenal Consciousness. The (open access) pdf can be downloaded for free on Oxford Academic: academic.oup.com/book/62981 Printed copies should be available at the end of July.

osf.io/preprints/ps... Testing Biopsychism: Commentary on Block’s (2025) “Can Only Meat Machines Be Conscious?”

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hakwan lau@hakwan.bsky.social · 4w ago

incidentally, by *STIPULATING* that consciousness needs both access + phenomenology, it favors exactly the kind of higher-order views that i used to push for. it would render 1st order views (including IIT, & possibly GWT) wrong but no, i don't want to win this way. this is not how definitions work

i have often disagreed w/ both Ian Philips & Ned Block. & of coz, Ian has famously debated w/ Ned on various issues too. but here i completely agree w/ this piece by Ian defending Ned. reasonable voices are growing rare these days in this field.

Trends in Cognitive Sciences@cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social · 4w ago

Online Now: In defense of a distinction

Blake Richards@tyrellturing.bsky.social · 4w ago

these days, the best discussions on AI consciousness (to me) are often from NeuroAI / computational neuroscience people, rather than card-carrying consciousness people / philosophers / straight-ahead AI people or may be it is just to say, empirically rigorous people tend to be better theorizers too

1/2) Please let's all remember that GWT is a theoy of access consciousness (what is available for verbal reasoning) and not phenomenal consciousness (subjective experience): philpapers.org/rec/BLOOAC Obviously, in this study access consciousness is literally what they test in the LLMs. #NeuroAI 🧪

Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · 4w ago

are there illusionists (re: philosophy of consciousness) in New Zealand / Australia ?

For a long time I felt like there was a hesitation in neuroscience to ascribe anything like a planning function to the various "replay" events we see in the hippocampus, but I think this is rapidly changing. Here's another new entry in human epilepsy patients: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧠📈 🧪

Human hippocampal ripples coordinate planning sequences and compositional representations in neocortex - Nature Neuroscience

Human hippocampal ripples and replay interact with the prefrontal cortex to update mental representations online, letting the brain compositionally combine familiar elements in new ways for flexible p...

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Nadia Hosseinizaveh @nadiahosseinizaveh.bsky.social · 4w ago

(1/6) My first first-author paper is now out in @nconsc.bsky.social! Part of my PhD work with @mamassian.bsky.social at @lsp-ens.bsky.social. We looked at how confidence behaves during a perceptual learning task with no feedback. academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

Perceptual learning without feedback is accompanied with systematic changes in confidence processing

Abstract. Perceptual learning can occur without external feedback, raising questions about what internal signals might guide this learning. Here, we test t

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www.nature.com/articles/s41... one pays a price to change research fields & directions but it's fun. so that's that.

The pivot penalty in research - Nature

An analysis of millions of scientific papers and patents reveals a ‘pivot penalty’ when researchers shift direction, with the impact of studies decreasing rapidly the further they move from their prev...

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often when people email me to ask for a pdf of my paper, i just go to the internet & look for the pdf online. i then download it, & send it to them. (i don't save the pdfs of my own papers usually.) i feel that telling them they could have looked online is maybe a bit less friendly. but should i?

for undergrads getting their degrees this Fall: if u're computationally savvy & wants to get into cog neuro -- instead of taking up lab manager / RA positions, why not come to Korea & get a master's degree instead? it will be all paid for w/ stipend, of coz. why would u pay for a master's degree??