the #ReflexionLab 's posters at @cogcompneuro.bsky.social #CCN2026!! presented by @aliekhlasi.bsky.social @yuzhengwu2329.bsky.social @rochellekaper.bsky.social and @emilwolsson.bsky.social!

Fantastic @neuromatch.bsky.social MindMatching session at @cogcompneuro.bsky.social #CCN2026!!

Today is the 5th anniversary of the #MetaCogSci meeting! With @dobyrahnev.bsky.social @luciecharlesneuro.bsky.social and @smfleming.bsky.social -- cannot wait! www.metacognitivescience.org

The PhD position in our lab closes 31 July - apply now!

Peter Kok@peterkok.bsky.social · last mo.

And the PhD position is here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Deadline: 31 July. Sadly the PhD position is only available to students eligible for UK home fees. 3/3

that feeling when you submit a massive revision you're super proud of & you excitedly also update PsyArxiv & THEN you see a really embarrassing, obvious typo IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ABSTRACT despite having proof-read eleventy million times & you can't fix for 24 hrs while it undergoes moderation

Mrbean Slams Head on Table

ALT: Mrbean Slams Head on Table

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good morning from london

Yes. I return to a similar rant periodically... www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/a...

At the credit crossroads: Modern neuroscience needs a cultural shift to adopt new authorship practices

Old heuristics to acknowledge contributors—calling out first and last authors, with everyone else in between—don’t work well for large collaborative and interdisciplinary projects, yet they remain the...

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Paul Rainey@paulbrainey.bsky.social · 2w ago

One faculty ad, 200 applicants, 600 papers before the first shortlist. Nobody can read that, so metrics do the reducing — and slowly a committee stops reading at all. An essay on what we lose when judgement is handed to citation counts and h-indices. 🧵 academicrenewal.substack.com/p/when-acade...

I am *thrilled* to share this review in @currentbiology.bsky.social out today, by yours truly, @myoo.bsky.social, @michalk.bsky.social, Taro Toyoizumi, @tyrellturing.bsky.social, @taylorwwebb.bsky.social, & @hakwan.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧵👇

Looking to the brain to improve energy efficiency of AI

Modern artificial intelligence (AI) systems have achieved remarkable capabilities, but at an extraordinary energy cost. Training and running large-sca…

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What a hero of modern science and role model! If you don't know who Brenda Milner is, go look her up right now!

Hugo Spiers@hugospiers.bsky.social · 2w ago

Brenda Milner is a hero and 108!! She did a lot more than discover the hippocampus is linked to declarative memory, but that work is the most famous.

go work with Peter!

Peter Kok@peterkok.bsky.social · 3w ago

The postdoc position in our lab closes 20 July - get applying! :)

thank you so much to all the organizers at BAMB! for hosting me as a keynote speaker! outstanding questions from engaged students, great catch up with science friends. and barcelona is 👩‍🍳😘 chefs kiss wonderful. thanks also to @rochellekaper.bsky.social for playing photographer! www.bambschool.org

So grateful!

UCL Div. of Psychology & Language Sciences (PALS)@uclpals.bsky.social · 3w ago

Congratulations to Dr Megan Peters from UCL PALS who has been named a 2026 FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence Scholar. The honour recognises outstanding early-career neuroscience researchers for their scientific excellence, originality and leadership. 🔗Read more here: www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...

well stated and well worth reading. thank you Ian for writing this.

Ian Phillips@ianbphillips.bsky.social · 4w ago

My reply to @liadmudrik.bsky.social et al.'s proposal that we should reengineer @neddo.bsky.social's famous phenomenal/access distinction.

I am absolutely delighted to have been selected as a FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence Scholar in the 2026 cohort! fenskavlinetwork.org/who-we-are/2... Thank you so much to the FENS-Kavli Network, @fens.org, and @kavlifoundation.org for this honor!

Indicators -- especially theory-derived ones -- of consciousness simply aren't enough. Signatures aren't enough either. We need a whole new evidential and inferential framework. My group is building one. Sneak peak roadmap paper, currently in revision so stay tuned for v2: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Stanislas Dehaene@standehaene.bsky.social · 4w ago

The global neuronal workspace (GNW) is currently the best documented neuroscience mechanism by which conscious processing arises in the human brain — and now Anthropic researchers have discovered a similar workspace inside their large language model ! www.anthropic.com/research/glo...

BRILLIANT!! so, so well deserved and CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!

Brian Odegaard@brianodegaard.bsky.social · last mo.

I am excited to announce that I have received tenure at the University of Florida! Thanks to my current & former lab members, scientific mentors, collaborators, letter writers, and funding sources that have made it all possible. Looking forward to the work ahead. Onwards!

so this exists prof-ping.vercel.app an app to cold email professors in bulk without having to bother with any pesky thinking for yourself, nevermind having to actually read papers or form your own opinions. what a time saver (for you, not them obv). /s (in case unclear: pls pls don't use this.)

PSA for trainees cold emailing with interest in joining a lab: Be careful about your use of LLMs in writing these emails!! It is now *extremely* common to get emails with a bizarrely-detailed, clearly-LLM take on a paper finding or with specific phrases pulled from the lab website. Don’t do this!

At @theassc.bsky.social on Friday: A talk by @emilwolsson.bsky.social showing cool stuff from the Adversarial Collab on First-Order vs Higher-Order theories (www.arc-foho.org). Joint work w/ Rachel Denison, Michael Epstein, Karen Tian, Brian Maniscalco, @angelashen.bsky.social, & MANY more! Deets👇

ARC-FOHO

Consciousness is one of the most familiar phenomena in nature, but it is also one of the least understood. What is the relationship between consciousness and the brain? Many theories have emerged in...

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SUPER thrilled to be welcoming the newest cohort of Neuromatch Academy students, mentors, and teaching assistants!

Neuromatch@neuromatch.bsky.social · last mo.

We couldn't be more proud to welcome the 2026 Neuromatch Academy and Climatematch Academy cohort! 🎉 Orientations are underway for our first courses, with more to follow! 🤓 If you're joining us as a student this July, drop a comment and let us know which course. We'd love to hear from you! 👋

Come be my colleague! Associate Professor level teaching position available at UCL in Experimental Psychology: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSB720/a... Primary role: lead development of a flexible portfolio of undergraduate modules for non-BSC/MSci Psychology students. Closes 19th July.

Associate Professor (Teaching) at UCL

Recruiting now: Associate Professor (Teaching) on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

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I've been told my discussion with NPR about US academics/scientists moving overseas will be on NPR later today on All Things Considered! Live broadcast 4-6pm Eastern. Don’t know when my segment will be within this, but tune in! Huge thanks to @npr.org for the opportunity to share my perspective.

Speechless. WTF @irishtimes.com? www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

So your daughter wants to study science at university? First, take a reality check

It will be at least 13-18 years after the Leaving Certificate before there is any possibility of her getting a permanent academic position

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check out the inaugural cohort of @neuromatch.bsky.social AI Sentience Scholars! this is a seriously impressive bunch!

Neuromatch@neuromatch.bsky.social · last mo.

🎉 Introducing the 2026 Neuromatch AI Sentience Scholars cohort! Learn more about them, the projects they will be working on, and their mentors! ⬇️ neuromatch.io/ai-sentience... We're just kicking off this 6 month program and already incredibly proud! #AISentience #AIResearch #ConsciousnessStudies

From Neuromatch Academy ➡️ Impact Scholars Program ➡️ published paper 🎉 Just published: Harnessing cortical geometry, wiring, and function as inductive biases for recurrent neural networks 🤓 Full story and paper link: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... #ComputationalNeuroscience #DeepLearning

#impactscholars #computationalneuroscience #deeplearning #neuromatch #neuromatchacademy | Neuromatch

Mo Shakiba, Rana Rokni, Mohammad Mohammadi, PhD, and mentor Nima Dehghani connected through Neuromatch Academy and continued their work through the Impact Scholars Program. They have now published the...

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If you're in London and want to sit in air conditioning (so I am told) tomorrow afternoon, you can also get a free lecture out of it! Come join me to talk about consciousness, neuroscience, & adversarial collaborations tomorrow afternoon at the Crick! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand...

Understanding the brain in theory and practice

A series of interactive workshops on building better experiment-theory collaborations in neuroscience.

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Thank you for the invitation! I will hopefully not be a zombie after coming straight from the airport!

Paul Linton@lintonvision.bsky.social · last mo.

Delighted Megan Peters (@meganakpeters.bsky.social) is able to join us as a speaker! Over 160 people registered so far! Full schedule: computationalconsciousness.github.io

I have had wonderful experiences with Open Mind so far. Fair reviews. Speedy. Thoughtful editorial assessment. No pressure to oversell claims or enhance "narrative" for the sake of splash and sparkle (looking at you, vanity journals). Solid science and solid community. Will keep sending stuff there!

—— Open Mind is MIT Press’s Diamond Open Access Cognitive Science journal. We now have our first Impact Factor: 2.9 as of June 2026 Submit your papers to Open Mind direct.mit.edu/opmi

If you join this committee, your ideas will influence the educations & scientific trajectories of thousands of students. Neuromatch's interactive student body has topped 14,000, estimated 40,000 engaging with Neuromatch activities & materials. One of the most impactful things you can do in science!

Neuromatch@neuromatch.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Neuromatch Academy & @connectedminds.bsky.social are forming a #ComputationalBehaviour Course Creation Committee!. It's a #volunteer role for researchers w a PhD. 🤓 Learn more about the course: neuromatch.io/computationa... 🙋 Full role description and application: neuromatch.io/volunteer/

come talk neuroscience, theory, data, representations, computation, and consciousness/subjective experience! title/abstract below:

Marcus Ghosh@marcusghosh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Our next workshop will be at the @crick.ac.uk -> 25.06 from 16:00 With a talk and discussion hosted by @meganakpeters.bsky.social Registration is free, but required! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand... See you there