more good content! imagine publishing content that's just nice! reveals a little bit about having fun on the internet! people just doing things because they can and the internet was nice!

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 3d ago

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If an action results in error, each neuron requires an individualized teaching signal that guides change in its output. This is the credit assignment problem of learning. Are there neurons in the brain that can compute such a sophisticated teaching signal? Yes. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Climbing fibers encode the gradient of a loss function for the cerebellum

Neurons in the brain are often many synapses away from motoneurons, yet if a movement results in error, each distant neuron needs a teacher that considers its specific contribution to production of th...

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You think you can(not) multitask? Turns out that the sensorimotor system is flexible and intelligent when perceiving and acting on the environment in parallel. Check out one of the main projects from my @dfg.de funded Walter Benjamin!

SfN Journals@sfnjournals.bsky.social · 3w ago

#JNeurosci: Findings from Fooken et al. reveal how the brain integrates knowledge of sensorimotor demands with predictions about environmental events to flexibly manage competition for gaze between action and monitoring tasks. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2157-25.2026

I resigned from Google DeepMind bc it broke its founding promise by selling AI to the military without restrictions against killer robots or mass spying. For months, I worked to stop this but watched powerful ethicists and institutions choose silence. Here's what happened. 🧵

I'm shocked; shocked I tell you.

Mark Riedl@markriedl.bsky.social · 3w ago

Hack reveals that Suno (AI music generator) was trained on copyrighted music www.404media.co/hack-reveals...

That they're manifestly in completely different baths only, somehow, enhances this.

✨Directed by John Carpenter✨@ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · last yr.

Oh my god there’s a short with him and Hugo Weaving taking a bath??

This is excellent from Sam Neill - good lessons for academics here as well

Daniel Benneworth-Gray@danielgray.com · 3w ago

Sam Neill on tackling depression and imposter syndrome when you’re between jobs.

On June 29th 2026, Fabian Kessler defended his PhD thesis 'Probabilistic path planning as a computational model of human navigation under uncertainty' with distinction. Congratulations! Important and fundamental contributions to understanding human goal-directed navigation in the framework of 1/4

Physicist & chemist Marie Curie was the: + First woman to win a Nobel Prize + First person & only woman to win twice + Only person to ever win a Nobel Prize in 2 different sciences: Physics (1903) & Chemistry (1911) Marie Skłodowska Curie died #OTD in 1934. #WomenInSTEM

Peacock Spider (genus Maratus), a group of tiny Australian jumping spiders famous for their vibrant colours and elaborate courtship dances to attract its mate. They are very tiny in size only between 2-5 millimetres ( the size of a pea)

Can't wait to see everyone tomorrow for the kick off! Tomorrow is workshops during the afternoon then the conference welcome at 17:30 followed by a drinks and canapés reception. If you can keep track of all the letters, the conference hashtag is #APCVEPC2026

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

IT'S CONFERENCE WEEK! 🎉 Welcome to Auckland, NZ for APCV/EPC2026. Whether you're giving a talk, presenting a poster, or simply taking it all in, we're glad to have you here. Tag us with: #APCVEPC26

Podcast alert!!!! Together with Hanna Schraffenberger I am launching the Computer Science Off Course Podcast Today! Computer Science curricula are very very narrow in scope with a lot of math and algorithms, but very little meta science, philosophy or history.

Very proud of my doctoral student Lina Eicke-Kanani and co-authors: Lina's first first-author paper received the Early Career Best Paper Prize from i-Perception! We use the oblique effect to naturally vary sensory uncertainty, finding effects on subjective causality judgments in launching displays.

Perception / i-Perception@pec-ipe.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🎯 Does uncertainty around object position affect perceived causality? ↗️ Stronger causal impressions were reported for oblique than cardinal motion trajectories 👁️ Sensory uncertainty was higher for oblique trajectories 🏆 Congratulations to Lina et al. on receiving an Early Career Best Paper Prize

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On May 27th 2026, @ingaibs.bsky.social defended her PhD thesis 'Cognitive strategies and explanations for sequential decision-making: a task-centric approach' with distinction. Congratulations! Beautiful and super careful contributions to computationally categorizing problem-solving tasks in the 1/3

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

🧵 Thread: Does the internet threaten democracy? I argue that it does in my latest piece in Science: doi.org/10.1126/scie... Here's the short version. 1/9 1/10

The architecture of the internet creates risks for democracy

Will democracy survive the internet? Do we need to choose between Facebook’s surveillance capitalism or democracy? Layered lines of evidence can inform questions like these. When considered together, the evidence gives rise to a concerning picture, as summarized in a recent report for the European Commission that I co-led.

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8️⃣ So will democracy survive the internet? Maybe — but only with action: debiasing algorithms, transparency under the DSA, & tools to help people recalibrate their perception of what views are actually prevalent. The technology to fix this exists. The political will is lacking 🧵/end 10/10

With profound sadness we announce the sudden and unexpected death of our Editor-in-Chief, Tim Meese. A founding editor of i-Perception, Tim was a pillar of the vision science community and instrumental in shaping the landscape of scientific publishing in our field.

"The results suggest that remote work is not simply a labor market innovation. It is a large-scale removal of an unpriced social good." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The lost social infrastructure of work

Remote work has substantially increased social isolation, with measurable consequences for mental health

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Sci Fi Author: in my book I invented The Cure For Cancer as an aspirational tale MedTech Company: At long last, we have created The Cure for Cancer from classic sci-fi novel Please God Someone Create A Cure for Cancer

LRS-Personen gesucht! www.linkedin.com/posts/janos-... @jnpauli.bsky.social

LRS Betroffene gesucht! Wissenschaftliche Trainingsstudie an der Universität zu Köln - Köln | Janos Nicolas Julien Pauli

📖 🔎 Teilnehmer:innen für eine Lese-Trainingsstudie gesucht ! In der Abteilung für Selbstlernende Systeme der Universität zu Köln führen wir aktuell eine Trainingsstudie durch, mit dem Ziel, die Lesef...

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So glad to finally share work years in the making! What started with fMRI effect size benchmarks ended up showing that conventional study planning detects ~half of expected brain effects, suggesting more distributed processes than the lit shows (+ new methods for mass univ effect/power estimation)

We are grateful to all of the 17,491 reviewers who helped make #CVPR2026 possible. We are especially pleased to recognize the following Outstanding Reviewers, whose high-quality reviews (as judged by their Area Chairs) placed them among the top 5% of reviewers. 1/2

I'm proud to say we are releasing LAION-fMRI, a densely sampled 7T fMRI dataset of natural images, with very broad stimulus sampling for testing countless hypotheses and for deeply exploring brain representations. The dataset is now available at laion-fmri.hebartlab.com What does LAION-fMRI offer? 🧵

LAION-fMRI - a 7T fMRI dataset of human vision

LAION-fMRI (LfMRI / LAION MRI dataset): 5 subjects, 25,052 launch-release natural images, 165 acquired 7T fMRI sessions with single-trial GLMsingle betas, retinotopy, localizers, and diffusion.

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Researching visual imagery? Consider submitting to this new cross-journal special issue on visual imagery at Nature Communications, Communications Psychology, and Scientific Reports! We welcome a broad range of topics and methods - more info below 👇 www.nature.com/collections/...

Can’t wait to see everyone at #VSS2026! We hope you can make it to our lab’s presentations! (see below) Come and visit us at the talks and posters, and make sure you come to our workshop about the community replication initiative re:vision. Low bar for entry! Details on the day of each presentation!

New paper in Nature. The more a government controls its domestic media, the more it dominates AI training data, the more pro-regime outputs we get from AI. By scraping the open web, LLMs are unwittingly laundering state-coordinated narratives into seemingly objective answers.

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The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations

Our most-read piece of 2025.

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