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Very happy to share our new review on visual computation in the cephalopod brain, with @vangeliqueallen.bsky.social, out now! We discuss exciting recent advances in understanding how the radically different brain of cephalopods processes the visual scene. 🐙🔬👀 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hello world! 👋 We’re Minds, Machines, and Brains (MMB) 👤🤖🧠 a new open access journal from @mitpress.bsky.social exploring the principles of intelligence and cognition across natural and artificial minds. Submissions open this Fall! 🔗 direct.mit.edu/mmb

Looks like a cool package!

Annual Reviews@annualreviews.bsky.social · last wk.

Brain network analysis helps scientists uncover the links between brain function, health, and behavior. The next challenge is developing statistical tools to make sense of the data. 🔗 Learn more in this review: arevie.ws/4gqpPY7 📚 Featured in our latest collection: ‘The Brain: A Practical Guide’

Here’s some unsolicited advice to the government on what to do to help boost India’s sovereign model story. 1. Mandate domestic models for all non-critical functions

Applications are open for SFI's 2027 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships. SFI is looking for recent Ph.D. graduates with strong quantitative and computational skills who want to pursue independent, transdisciplinary research. Deadline: September 30, 2026 Apply: santafe.edu/sfifellowship

Highly recommended! Go work with Taylor - he does great work and is super chill 😇

Taylor Webb@taylorwwebb.bsky.social · last wk.

I'm recruiting two postdocs (or potentially PhD students) to work on projects at the intersection of cognition, neuroscience, and AI (with a particular emphasis on mechanistic interpretability). Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... and please share!

How many languages have existed over the Holocene—and what does that reveal about the design space of languages and cultures? Now out in @science.org www.science.org/eprint/QDZNY....

The rise and fall of language diversity through the Holocene

Characterizing the factors that have shaped linguistic diversity is fundamental for understanding human history, culture, and cognition. In this study, we combined statistical and social computational...

science.org

📣 Our paper introducing openretina, a collaborative framework for retina modelling across datasets and species, is now published as an eLife Reviewed Preprint. Paper: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... Code: github.com/open-retina/... Docs: open-retina.org

It's so inspiring to see Gen-Z take a stand for their future in India, and stand united across different parts of the country. After all, with their entire lives ahead of them, they're the ones with most to lose.

Want to teach your undergrad Honors students or early grad students about peer review, but not sure how? 🤔 We'll do it for free! We're offering free peer review workshops for departments, ideal for advanced undergrad/early grad seminars in Psych, Neuro, and related fields. See below for details!

Reviewer Zero@reviewerzero.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Are your students entering research culture without ever learning how peer review actually works? We'd love to help. We're offering free "Peer Review 101" virtual workshops for undergrad/grad seminars, tailored to Psych, Neuro, and related fields. Visit our website to learn more tinyurl.com/2ra56w72

Why, according to Terry Tao, the recent disproof of the Jacobian conjecture in N > 2 dimensions was not mere brute force and required what many mathematicians would characterize as "creative insight" had a human come up with it!

So excited to see you all tomorrow at #CogSci2026! I will be presenting at 11:07 in the Ipanema room. Thanks to the @cogscisociety.bsky.social team for organizing this wonderful conference and for supporting us with the Diversity Award. Without it, I wouldn’t have been able to be here in person.

Victoria Bosch@initself.bsky.social · 3w ago

Excited to share that our paper has been accepted for a talk at #CogSci2026: Path Integration and Object-Location Binding Emerge in an Action-Conditioned Predictive Sequence Network Linda Ariel Ventura, Victoria Bosch, Tim C. Kietzmann, and Sushrut Thorat. Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2602.03490. ⛓️

@ariel-ventura.bsky.social will give a talk summarizing this work at the @cogscisociety.bsky.social meeting's "Oral Talk 3: AI" session tomorrow, 23 July at Ipanema; 10:45. Go check it out to experience process-interpretability in a simple, flexible, world model! 😇 #CogSci2026 #cogsci

Victoria Bosch@initself.bsky.social · 3w ago

Excited to share that our paper has been accepted for a talk at #CogSci2026: Path Integration and Object-Location Binding Emerge in an Action-Conditioned Predictive Sequence Network Linda Ariel Ventura, Victoria Bosch, Tim C. Kietzmann, and Sushrut Thorat. Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2602.03490. ⛓️

There's a LOT to be done in this wide-open space!

Vlad Ayzenberg@vayzenb.bsky.social · 2w ago

Excited to share our review in @cp-neuron.bsky.social with @lauriebayet.bsky.social and @mickbonner.bsky.social! We describe how implementing principles from child development can advance the mechanistic plausibility and capacities of AI models We packed A LOT into this review, here's a quick 🧵

📢 We're recruiting! 18-month postdoc in civic science & AI-human interaction @BrownUniversity, hosted by ARIA (NSF AI Institute). Bridge computational brain science with community engagement & public impact. Apply by Aug 1: apply.interfolio.com/188112

I reformatted the CogSci 2026 schedule in a way that works somewhat better for me on my old and slow phone. Sharing in case anyone else might find it helpful… cs.stanford.edu/~kach/cogsci... (Inspired by @keenancrane.bsky.social, who did this for SIGGRAPH this year!)

Writing a series of long blog posts about brain rhythms, fields, and related topics. To work through some ideas & difficult papers, correct some things I said earlier, note disagreements, and so on. Two posts so far. 1. metazoan.net/132-rhythms-1/ 2. metazoan.net/133-rhythms-2/

I WISH this were true. We increasingly demand rapid progress, steady output and cookie cutter research plans. Students now expect this. Countries with long PhD programs can protect exploration and intellectual growth. Not the UK. And from what I can tell, other countries are moving in our direction.

Itai Yanai@itaiyanai.bsky.social · 3w ago

The PhD is the best point in time to try very dangerous ideas or to try things that don't work. – @odedrechavi.bsky.social, on the Night Science Podcast

Now officially published: our paper "Sensory horizons and the functions of conscious vision" w/ @smfleming.bsky.social, with the commentaries, and our response: Article: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Commentaries: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Response: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚨 World models, especially JEPAs, are in the spotlight. But how do predictive systems store and use what they’ve seen? In a minimal visual exploration task, we find emergent path integration and object-location binding supporting scene modelling and next-glimpse prediction! For more insights ⬇️

Victoria Bosch@initself.bsky.social · 3w ago

Excited to share that our paper has been accepted for a talk at #CogSci2026: Path Integration and Object-Location Binding Emerge in an Action-Conditioned Predictive Sequence Network Linda Ariel Ventura, Victoria Bosch, Tim C. Kietzmann, and Sushrut Thorat. Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2602.03490. ⛓️

Important paper: "The response profiles of neurons in different brain regions differ enough that a decoder can determine the region to which a particular neuron belongs." Sounds like the perfect antidote to the "everything is everywhere" view.

@stefanofusi.bsky.social · 3w ago

From a great collaboration with @lorenzoposani.com, @shuqiw.bsky.social, Samuel Muscinelli, Liam Paninski, now in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 World models, especially JEPAs, are in the spotlight. But how do predictive systems store and use what they’ve seen? In a minimal visual exploration task, we find emergent path integration and object-location binding supporting scene modelling and next-glimpse prediction! For more insights ⬇️

Victoria Bosch@initself.bsky.social · 3w ago

Excited to share that our paper has been accepted for a talk at #CogSci2026: Path Integration and Object-Location Binding Emerge in an Action-Conditioned Predictive Sequence Network Linda Ariel Ventura, Victoria Bosch, Tim C. Kietzmann, and Sushrut Thorat. Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2602.03490. ⛓️

The 2026 volume of the Annual Review of Neuroscience is now online 🧠 The most read article is "Planning in the Brain: It's Not What You Think It Is" by @marcelomattar.bsky.social and @nathanieldaw.bsky.social

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

🎉 This is finally out on @natcomms.nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com! Ever wondered what happens to your #brain when you become an expert at something? 🧠 If the answer is “yes” (+bonus points if you like #chess), check out our latest #fMRI work below! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Andrea Costantino@costantinoai.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Super excited to share a new preprint! We asked a simple-but-big question: What changes in the brain when someone becomes an expert? Using chess ♟️ + fMRI 🧠 + representational geometry & dimensionality 📈, we ask: 1️⃣ WHAT information is encoded? 2️⃣ HOW is it structured? 3️⃣ WHERE is it expressed? 1/n

"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 was in the Bay Area over the weekend, and Alyosha Efros twisted my arm to give a talk in his weekly research group meeting and to "keep it entertaining." I took this as an opportunity to think of five philosophy papers everyone working on AI/ML should read. realizable.substack.com/p/five-philo...

Five Philosophy Papers Everyone* Should Read

*in AI/ML

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What is life? Final version is out @blaiseaguera.bsky.social Reed Bender, Karina Kofman link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🧪

What Lives? A Meta-Analysis of Diverse Opinions on the Definition of Life - Biological Theory

The question of "what is life?" has challenged scientists and philosophers for centuries, producing an array of definitions that reflect both the mystery of its emergence and the diversity of discipli...

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A fundamental discovery ! Immanuel Kant would have loved it.

Edvard I Moser@edvardmoser.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Is spatial navigation innate 🧠? Using #NeuroPixels we show that the #torus 🍩 underlying the #GridCell map exists already on day 10 in rats — before pups open eyes and ears and before they start upright walking. 🧵1:4 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...