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Michael D. Nunez

@nunezanalyzed.bsky.social

Asst. Prof. University of Amsterdam, rock climber, husband, father. Model-based (Mathematical) Cognitive Neuroscientist. I study decision-making, EEG, 🧠, statistical methods, etc. 🇺🇦🇪🇺

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Johannes Fahrenfort@fahrenfort.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Not much you can do in Europe, but if you happen to have a Disney+ subscription: now is the time to cancel it (ABC that pulled Jimmy Kimmel owns the Walt Disney company). Trump's words, after Kimmel and Stephen Colbert were pulled: "That leaves Jimmy [Fallon] and Seth [Meyers]". Free speech no more.

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Michael D. Nunez@nunezanalyzed.bsky.social · 12mo ago

In this preprint, @chris-pinier.bsky.social shows that open-source LLMs can perform abstract reasoning tasks, that LLMs have representations of pattern type in intermediate layers, and that LLM activations correspond to Fixation Related Potentials from participants' EEG. arxiv.org/abs/2508.10057

Large Language Models Show Signs of Alignment with Human Neurocognition During Abstract Reasoning

This study investigates whether large language models (LLMs) mirror human neurocognition during abstract reasoning. We compared the performance and neural representations of human participants with th...

arxiv.org

Jie Sun@jie-sun.bsky.social · last yr.

🧠 New preprint alert! In this study, using a joint modelling method with the Diffusion Decision Model, we offer a mechanistic reinterpretation of the Late Positive event-related potential Component (LPC) as a neural signature of mnemonic strength during evidence accumulation in recognition memory.

bioRxivpreprint@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · last yr.

A Parietal Memory Strength Signal Linked to Evidence Accumulation in Recognition Decisions https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.20.665783v1

Ellie@TheConciseQuill@ellieb65.bsky.social · last yr.

I don't agree with everything in this article, but I do agree with this: "The act of writing the thing is the same thing as the thinking of it. If you can’t write it, you haven’t actually thought it." And AI allows us to 'not' think. engelsbergideas.com/essays/a-war... #academicsky #ai #teaching

A warning to the young: just say no to AI

The substitution of Large Language Models for genuine thinking is a generational threat. At stake is no less than the life of the mind.

engelsbergideas.com

The New York Times@nytimes.com · last yr.

The NIH has terminated hundreds of diversity grants awarded to young researchers, many of whom come from the very places that supported Trump. “People on the right, they don’t realize they’re limiting the opportunity of their own kids by supporting this.” nyti.ms/4lMDXtN

A grid of portraits of four scientists. A headline reads: "The Surprising Scientists Hit by Trump's DEI Cuts"
Lucina Uddin@lucinauddin.bsky.social · last yr.

When I first started working with resting state fMRI as a postdoc, there was a lot of skepticism about what we could learn from it. 20 years later, it's hard to imagine where the field of neuroscience would be without it. Here's a summary 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The history and future of resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging - Nature

This Review provides an overview of the history of resting-state functional MRI research, which has helped to reveal the spatiotemporal organization of the brain, and discusses how it can contribute f...

nature.com

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · last yr.

The Republican administration has halted all student (and postdoc etc) VISA interviews. I've written a lot about soft power here. The attacks on foreign students in the US not only undercuts the funding stream for US universities; they hemorrhage US soft power.

Trump team pauses new student visa interviews as it weighs expanding social media vetting

It’s the latest salvo against universities, many of whom rely heavily on foreign students for funds.

politico.com

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · last yr.

The Republican administration is also ordering all current international students (and postdocs, I believe) at Harvard to transfer or leave the country. www.dhs.gov/news/2025/05...

WASHINGTON – Today, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem ordered DHS to terminate the Harvard University’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) certification. This means Harvard can no longer enroll foreign students and existing foreign students must transfer or lose their legal status.
Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · last yr.

Harvard today, your institution tomorrow. It's all part of the Project 2025 plan to destroy high education in America. All leading US universities depend on federal funding and tuition dollars from international students. They severely curtailed the former. Now they're eliminating the latter.

Iris Groen@irisgroen.bsky.social · last yr.

Just a few months until Cognitive Computational Neuroscience comes to Amsterdam! Check out our now-complete schedule for #CCN2025, with descriptions of each of the Generative Adversarial Collaborations (GACs), Keynotes-and-Tutorials (K&Ts), Community Events, Keynote Speakers, and social activities!

CogCompNeuro@cogcompneuro.bsky.social · last yr.

A detailed schedule for CCN2025 is available on our website now, including the specific keynotes / GACs / community events taking place: 2025.ccneuro.org/schedule-of-... The early bird registration deadline is coming up this Friday (23rd May)!

Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · last yr.

One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.

Wilmer only found out his son had been detained after receiving a phone call on March 15 from his nephew, Luis, who lives with them. That morning was their last time together; they had gone around the corner to do their laundry. Later that day, Wilmer said that his son met with a friend to get help with some errands at the American Red Cross. He learned this from Luis, who looked at the situation from inside the apartment: when his son was on his way back, just steps from his home when ICE agents stopped him. “The officers grabbed him and two other boys right at the entrance to our building. One said, ‘No, he’s not the one,’ like they were looking for someone else. But the other said, ‘Take him anyway.'” That moment marked the beginning of Wilmer’s search for answers — answers he’s still waiting for.
Michael D. Nunez@nunezanalyzed.bsky.social · last yr.

The @uva.nl has decided to make the Department of Psychology the sacrificial lamb in order to capitulate to the right-wing Dutch government and minster of education in their suicidal de-internationalization (Dutch language requirement in education) policy. What a comparison to Harvard.