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Tijl Grootswagers

@tgro.bsky.social

Cognitive Neuroscientist 🧠 in Sydney Australia 🇦🇺 https://tijl.github.io/

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Melinda Sabo @sabomelinda.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Super excited to share that our paper, “Multiple Partially Overlapping Neural Modules Orchestrate Conflict Processing,” has been accepted for publication in Imaging Neuroscience! 🎉 1/n w/ @tgro.bsky.social @manuelvarlet.bsky.social Edmund Wascher, Patrick Gajewski direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

Multiple partially overlapping neural modules orchestrate conflict processing

Abstract. Cognitive conflict is a ubiquitous aspect of our daily life, yet its underlying neural mechanisms remain debated. Competing theories propose that conflict processing is governed by either a ...

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Imaging Neuroscience@imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 5mo ago

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Melinda Sabo, Tijl Grootswagers, et al: Multiple partially overlapping neural modules orchestrate conflict processing doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

The MARCS Institute @marcsinstitute.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📢 We're hiring: Charter Hall Senior Research Fellow - #Neuroscience of #Ageing & #Dementia | Help shape healthier futures for older adults. 📆 Closes 24 Mar 2026 💰 $147,138–$169,011 + 17% Super 🌎 Visa sponsorship available 👉 Apply now: lnkd.in/gKX_XR8r @westernsydneyu.bsky.social

Alexander Huth @alexanderhuth.bsky.social · 7mo ago

This paper had a pretty shocking headline result (40% of voxels!), so I dug into it, and I think it is wrong. Essentially: they compare two noisy measures and find that about 40% of voxels have different sign between the two. I think this is just noise!

Eiko Fried@eikofried.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Would love to hear expert views on this paper. It appears to show that the operationalization of brain activity the field has relied on for 3 decades—the BOLD response—is not actually a sensible measure of brain activity. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 12mo ago

An abbreviation (ABB) in a journal article (JA) or Grant Application (GA) is rarely worth the words it saves. Every ABB requires cognitive resources (CR) and at my age by the time I'm halfway through a JA or GA I no longer have the CR to remember what your ABB stood for.

Manuel Varlet @manuelvarlet.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Collaborating minds think alike, processing information in similar ways in a shared task | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release... New publication in PLOS Biology: plos.io/4hBhuPy Denise Moerel, with @tgro.bsky.social, @drquekles.bsky.social, Sophie Smit at @marcsinstitute.bsky.social

Collaborating minds think alike, processing information in similar ways in a shared task

Whether great minds think alike is up for debate, but the collaborating minds of two people working on a shared task process information alike, according to a study published November 25th in the open...

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Tijl Grootswagers @tgro.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Pre conference run - ready for ACNS2025 🧠 @acnsau.bsky.social

The MARCS Institute @marcsinstitute.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Can sight shape our feelings? 👁️‍🗨️🖐🧠 @theconversation.com article co-authored by Dr Sophie Smit & Dr @tgro.bsky.social, uncovers how fast our brain transforms what we see into what we feel. Read it here: theconversation.com/when-we-see-... The Imaging Neuroscience publication: doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

When we see someone being touched, our brains automatically simulate how it feels

Within a fraction of a second of seeing another person being touched, our brains figure out who is involved and how it might feel.

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Dan Feuerriegel @danfeuerriegel.bsky.social · 9mo ago

New preprint from the lab led by @violetchae.bsky.social! We debut an open EEG dataset for research into food cognition and dietary choices. Featuring data from 117 different brains relating to 120 different food stimuli. @tgro.bsky.social @psychunimelb.bsky.social

Violet Chae@violetchae.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Our new preprint on the FOODEEG open dataset is out! EEG recordings and behavioural responses on food cognition tasks for 117 participants will be made publicly available 🧠 @danfeuerriegel.bsky.social @tgro.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Violet Chae @violetchae.bsky.social · 9mo ago

FOODEEG: An open dataset of human electroencephalographic and behavioural responses to food images

Investigating the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying food choices has the potential to advance our understanding of eating behaviour and inform health-targeted interventions and policy. Large, publi...

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The MARCS Institute @marcsinstitute.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Dr Denise Moerel and colleagues' article on how our brains make decisions in competitive settings is out now! Read the full Conversation article here: theconversation.com/even-in-a-si... The article published in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience: academic.oup.com/scan/advance...

Even in a simple game, our brains keep score – and those scores shape every choice we make

Humans are surprisingly bad at being unpredictable.

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Tijl Grootswagers @tgro.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🌏 Come spend some time with us in Sydney! 🇦🇺 @marcsinstitute.bsky.social is offering International Visiting Scholarships for PhD students + postdocs. Spend 1–3 months collaborating, exploring ideas, and building connections. 📅 Apply by 4 Dec 📍 Sydney, Australia Curious or keen? DM or email me

Dan Feuerriegel @danfeuerriegel.bsky.social · 10mo ago

New article in @theconversation.com - featuring some exciting new findings on how our brains rapidly encode a wide range of food properties when we see a food item. Your brain is doing a lot of work when you scroll through food delivery apps! Led by @violetchae.bsky.social w/ @tgro.bsky.social

Violet Chae@violetchae.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Using EEG 🧠⚡ and representational similarity analysis, we mapped how the neural representations of food attributes (e.g., taste & health) unfold over time when viewing foods🍎🍰🥗 @danfeuerriegel.bsky.social @tgro.bsky.social theconversation.com/our-brains-e... doi.org/10.1016/j.ap...

Violet Chae @violetchae.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Redirecting

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 11mo ago

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology @expsyanz.bsky.social · last yr.

We're looking forward to seeing you this week at the joint meeting of the 𝘈𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘌𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 and the 𝘈𝘴𝘪𝘢-𝘗𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘝𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯! Don't forget to tag us on your conference-related Bluesky posts, so we can help you share with our wonderful community! 😀

Floris de Lange @predictivebrain.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨PhD position alert!🚨 Joint PhD position with @fedemar.bsky.social @predictivebrain.bsky.social and Sonja Kotz, to investigate the neurobiological underpinnings of perceptual decisions vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric... Please share and if you have questions, send me a message!

PhD position in biological foundations of neural control

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Dan Feuerriegel @danfeuerriegel.bsky.social · last yr.

New preprint from the lab! We used EEG⚡🧠 to map how 12 different food attributes are represented in the brain. 🍎🥦🥪🍙🍮 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Led by Violet Chae in collaboration with @tgro.bsky.social

Characterising the neural time-courses of food attribute representations

Dietary decisions involve the consideration of multiple, often conflicting, food attributes that precede the computation of an overall value for a food. The differences in the speed at which attribute...

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Sebastiaan Mathôt @cogsci.nl · last yr.

Interested in pupillometry, eye movements, visual attention, visual working memory, or related topics? Apply with our group in in beautiful, livable, and friendly Groningen! Reach out to @elkanakyurek.bsky.social, @van-rijn.org, @olaf.dimigen.de, @miles2708.bsky.social or myself to explore options!

European Commission@ec.europa.eu · last yr.

Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · last yr.

Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

Tijl Grootswagers @tgro.bsky.social · last yr.

Check out this preprint led by @sabomelinda.bsky.social which presents the outcomes of her @marcsinstitute.bsky.social visiting scholarship! We analysed EEG data from 500+ participants to investigate how the brain processes cognitive conflict. #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Multiple Neural Modules Orchestrate Conflict Processing

Cognitive conflict is a ubiquitous aspect of our daily life, yet its underlying neural mechanisms remain debated. Competing theories propose that conflict processing is governed by either a domain–gen...

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Melinda Sabo@sabomelinda.bsky.social · last yr.

❗️Preprint alert ❗️ When I was a college student in my neuroscience classes, I was always told that neuroimaging research involves a trade-off between statistical power and available resources. But what if you could have both? 1/n

Lina Teichmann @linateichmann.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨PhD opportunity Fall/Winter 2025🚨 Join me in Geneva Switzerland #unige to learn more about colour perception. Using neuroimaging & computational modelling, you'll be working with an international & interdisciplinary team to understand how we transform light into a colourful world!🧠👁️🌈 #neurojobs

Genevieve Quek @drquekles.bsky.social · 2y ago

👀 🚨 New scholarship available! We're hiring a PhD student to work on the neural basis of face perception, part of a collaboration between @marcsinstitute.bsky.social and #UNSW. DMs open if you want more info 🧠 #neurojobs

The MARCS Institute@marcsinstitute.bsky.social · 2y ago

#PhD #Scholarship Opportunity: Unlocking Person Identity Codes in the Human Brain 🧠 | Explore the extraordinary abilities of Super-Recognisers & contribute to the advancement of person identification technologies worldwide. #Neuroscience | Applications close 31 Jan 2025. | tinyurl.com/45c4m3kk

Bria Long @brialong.bsky.social · 2y ago

I’m still recruiting for this position — please get in touch if you’re interested in working together!

Bria Long@brialong.bsky.social · 2y ago

The Visual Learning Lab at UC San Diego is looking for a postdoctoral research fellow to join our lab! Read more about our lab at www.vislearnlab.org

The MARCS Institute @marcsinstitute.bsky.social · 2y ago

Unlocking person identity codes in the human brain | Western Sydney University

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Fernanda Ribeiro @felenitaribeiro.bsky.social · 2y ago

#MRITogether 'Transferable open MRI skills: from academia to industry' will be on in 30 minutes! You can still register for that!

Fernanda Ribeiro@felenitaribeiro.bsky.social · 2y ago

#MRITogether Day 2 (1/2) program is now out! There are so many amazing talks, but I'm especially looking forward to hearing more about transferable skills and career transitions from these amazing speakers! Register here: mritogether.esmrmb.org/24m/registra...

Tijl Grootswagers @tgro.bsky.social · 2y ago

Congrats @aramirezharo3.bsky.social ! Fantastic first conference talk 🎉 at @acnsau.bsky.social

The MARCS Institute@marcsinstitute.bsky.social · 2y ago

🎉 Congrats to PhD Candidate, Almudena, for winning the Outstanding Presentation Award at the 2024 #ACNS conference! Topic: #ObjectRecognition Under Occlusion During Rapid Serial Visual Presentations. 👏 #Neuroscience #MARCSHDR tinyurl.com/AlmudenaRami...

Natalie Christie Peluso 🧠@nataliepeluso.com · 2y ago

Are you an Australian cognitive neuroscientist 🧠 affiliated with the Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society? This Starter Pack is a fast way to connect with your ACNS colleagues - reply here to be added! And don't forget to follow @acnsau.bsky.social Only 5 more sleeps! 🤩 #ACNS2024

The MARCS Institute @marcsinstitute.bsky.social · 2y ago

Newly funded ARC Discovery Project will unlock the secrets of how children learn and provide parents & educators with insights to support #childdevelopment. Looking forward to transforming #education in Australia, one discovery at a time! @drquekles.bsky.social

Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 2y ago

I just looked at a highly circulated starter pack for top science and science communicators and there are 58 men, 27 women, the rest orgs based in the US, and 95% white. Maybe, just maybe, do a bit of curation and check your biases and show some care with what you put out into the wild.

Genevieve Quek @drquekles.bsky.social · 2y ago

Very excited to kick this project off in 2025! If you like brains, face perception, neural decoding, EEG, or some combination of the above then we want to hear from you 🧠👀📈

The MARCS Institute@marcsinstitute.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨Join us! We're hiring a 3yr Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience with @drquekles.bsky.social @manuelvarlet.bsky.social @tgro.bsky.social & David White to investigate decoding in super-recognisers. Applications close 14 Jan #postdoc #cogneuro #ACNS2024 tinyurl.com/SuperRecogni...