I was a bit frustrated that Iranian regime’s role in this war is being minimized and people’s historical struggle is ignored so I made a game for you to be the people and see where your decisions take you instead: kuffmode.github.io/mirage/

This paper finds LLMs' ability to understand that others have different beliefs (Theory of Mind) comes from 0.001% of their parameters. Break those specific weights & the model loses both its ability to track what others know AND language comprehension Interesting implications for models (& minds?)

I'm so excited to help bring this Computational Neuroscience workshop to life! Join a fantastic group of researchers in Denmark this August (11-14). We've designed it for PhDs & postdocs to connect with experts and build new skills. Hope to see you there! Please do share with your colleagues!

Neuroscience Academy Denmark@naddenmark.bsky.social · last yr.

Register for Computational Neuroscience - NAD Workshop 🖥️ 📅 WHEN: August 11-14 🧑‍🦰 WHO: Neuroscientists affiliated with a Danish research institution 🌍 WHERE: Gl. Avernæs Sinatur Hotel & Konference ⏰ DEADLINE: June 26 Read more and register 👉 bit.ly/3G7hIQ8

Ready to shape the future of #ComputationalScience? We’re inviting researchers like you to mentor student-led projects this July. Just 2-3 hours of commitment and no prep needed! This is your chance to give back and grow! ➡️ Learn more and sign up to #volunteer neuromatch.io/mentoring/

✨Excited to share that our new paper is now out in iScience!✨ 🧠 We show that people can coordinate surprisingly well in novel interactions by violating others' expectations - without requiring deep, recursive reasoning about others’ beliefs. 📄 Read the full paper here: www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Expectation violations as an effective alternative to complex mentalizing in novel communication

Neuroscience; Systems neuroscience; Social sciences

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What about the social cerebellum during development we wondered? Here you find some cool insights on this awesome part of the brain! BIG thanks for the great work Katerina Manoli, and support from Charlotte Grosse Wiesmann and Frank van Overwalle 🧠🦋 rdcu.be/epKmZ

Functional recruitment and connectivity of the cerebellum is associated with the emergence of Theory of Mind in early childhood

Nature Communications - The cerebellum is heavily implicated in adult social cognition, but its role in Theory of Mind development remains unclear. Here, the authors show that children’s...

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Ten simple rules for queer data collection and analysis dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Ten simple rules for queer data collection and analysis by STEM researchers

Queer people are still underrepresented both as STEM researchers and participants, partially due to a dearth of accurate data on this demographic. The lack of consideration for queer identities in dat...

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Funded PhD opportunity with @sjblakemore.bsky.social and I, at Cambridge. We are looking for someone interested in developmental science, to start in the coming academic year. Please share it with anyone you think might be interested (see details attached 😁). drive.google.com/file/d/1RIvg...

Dorsomedial and ventromedial prefrontal cortex lesions differentially impact social influence and temporal discounting journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... new lab paper from the fantastic @zhilinsu.bsky.social with wonderful collaborators 🌟

Dorsomedial and ventromedial prefrontal cortex lesions differentially impact social influence and temporal discounting

The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) is involved in economic and social decision-making in humans but the specific functions of its subregions are not clear. This study shows that the dorsal mPFC is ca...

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Deadline extended to 28th April!! Summer School in Computational Social Cognition with fantastic keynotes by Matthew Rushworth, @dianatamir.bsky.social and @davidamodio.bsky.social. Come & learn more about computational modelling, make new friends, & explore the UK's 2nd largest city 🙂👇. Please RT!

Patricia Lockwood@thepsychologist.bsky.social · last yr.

🌟 Join us for the 2nd Birmingham-Leiden Summer School in Computational Social Cognition! Amazing line-up of keynote speakers and instructors, new topics, and only £480 with 4 nights accommodation, social events and meals included! 🌟 www.compsoccog.com

Comment: "Can a single brain cell be surprised?" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

There is again a model-based neuroscience summer school from Aug 4-8th in Amsterdam! modelbasedneurosci.com

Model-Based Neuroscience and Cognition Summer School

Visit the post for more.

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getting this paper published was a bit painful but I am proud of it: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... We use deep RL to find mechanisms that help (real) people sustain the commons. Well done to Raphael Koster and Miruna Pislar (not on BlueSky). non-paywalled version on arxiv.

Deep reinforcement learning can promote sustainable human behaviour in a common-pool resource problem - Nature Communications

Koster et al introduce a deep reinforcement learning (RL) mechanism designed to manage common-pool resources successfully encourages sustainable cooperation among human participants by dynamically adj...

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New paper “Basis functions for complex social decisions in dorsomedial prefrontal cortex” in @nature.com led by @mkwittmann.bsky.social with many others. We show basis functions code relations between people, similar to their role in other perceptual and motor domains www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Basis functions for complex social decisions in dorsomedial frontal cortex - Nature

A study combining group decision-making tasks with fMRI shows that the brain’s dorsomedial prefrontal cortex uses basis functions, similar to those in the visual, motor and spatial domains, to re...

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Our paper in Nature (@mkwittmann.bsky.social et al.): the brain does not only process the *identity* of a person but primarily our *relationship* to them. Even on a neural level, who someone is *in relation to others* is key. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PsychSciSky #socialpsyc #neuroskyence

Think about conference location to avoid visa discrimination www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We moved a conference halfway around the globe to avoid visa discrimination

Event organizers often overlook the visa-related difficulties that researchers in low- and middle-income countries face. This must change.

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creative ways that students use chatGPT www.nature.com/articles/d41...

ChatGPT for students: learners find creative new uses for chatbots

The utility of generative AI tools is expanding far beyond simple summarisation and grammar support towards more sophisticated, pedagogical applications.

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✨Excited to share that our paper on how expectation violations shape novel human communication has just been published in Nature Communications! ✨ 📖 read the full paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... 🧵 Detailed breakdown bellow! 👇

Expectation violations signal goals in novel human communication - Nature Communications

In the absence of language, there is a lack of common knowledge necessary for efficient communication. Here, the authors show that people solve this problem by reverting to commonly accepted physical ...

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New preprint out with @summerfieldlab.bsky.social! When does new learning interfere with existing knowledge? We compare continual learning in humans and artificial neural networks, revealing similar patterns of transfer & catastrophic interference (1/8) osf.io/preprints/ps...

🚨 SUMMER SCHOOL! Announcing the 2nd Birmingham-Leiden Summer School in Computational Social Cognition, Sep 2-5, 2025. Fantastic line-up of keynote: Matthew Rushworth, Diana Tamir @dianatamir.bsky.social, and David Amodio @davidamodio.bsky.social . 👇 Apply by 18 April (compsoccog.com) and RT!

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

A neurocognitive mechanism for increased cooperation during group formation www.nature.com/articles/s44...

A neurocognitive mechanism for increased cooperation during group formation - Communications Psychology

When group size in a dynamic group-based prisoner's dilemma grows, cooperative choices increase. Increased memory demands in larger groups explain this prosocial tendency.

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Check out this fabulous paper led by @bethfisher.bsky.social with @christopherjwhyte.bsky.social on optimism bias! @monash-m3cs.bsky.social

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Excited to have our new paper out in @cpsyjournal.bsky.social 🎉✨ with my amazing co-authors @christopherjwhyte.bsky.social @hohwy.bsky.social We develop an active inference model of the optimism bias to model development, belief updating and optimistic action. cpsyjournal.org/articles/10....

"It’s not easy to point out errors, especially when they’re attached to the name of someone who holds great power over you." www.science.org/content/arti...

Investigating scientific misconduct is hard—especially when your supervisor is an author

“The paper was riddled with serious problems,” this Ph.D. student writes

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Thrilled to share my perspective in "The Transmitter" @thetransmitter.bsky.social on how to study the influence of "sex" and "gender" in the brain in a scientifically accurate and socially responsible manner: "Revisiting sex and gender in the brain" www.thetransmitter.org/sex-differen...

Revisiting sex and gender in the brain

To conduct scientifically accurate and socially responsible research, think of “sex” as a complex, multifactorial and context-dependent variable.

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We are hosting UKNC 2025 @ imperial! 💥 Fantastic set of speakers, see at neuralcomputation.uk Super exciting time to be working at the intersection of comp neuro/AI & applications. Save the dates: 9th July - ECR day 10th & 11th July - Main event Any questions get in touch! Plz share!

Mark D Humphries@markdhumphries.bsky.social · 2y ago

Save the date! UK Neural Computation 2025 will be at Imperial College London 9 July: ECR day 10-11 July: main meeting 9 invited speakers, 4 talks from abstracts and many posters Abstract & registration opening soon Pls share! neuralcomputation.uk

𝟴𝘁𝗵 Cam Neuro 𝗦𝘆𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘂𝗺 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 & 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 |𝟭𝟬-𝟭𝟭 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁 ➡️ 𝘄𝗲𝗯𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲: lnkd.in/ehZmFqST ➡️ 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗢𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀: lnkd.in/gBhnrXYj #CamNeuro2025

𝗖𝗡𝗦𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱: 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 |𝟴 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 ➡️ 𝘄𝗲𝗯𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲: lnkd.in/gR9SBnwP ➡️ 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽: lnkd.in/gmw6Fs9n #CamNeuro2025

📢 We are delighted to launch the 8th Cambridge Neuroscience Symposium – Interventions & Recovery - an international meeting, which will take place on September 10-11th 2025 at the West Road Concert Hall at the University of Cambridge. neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/camneuro-eve...