Our paper "Neural timescales from a computational perspective" is finally out in @natneuro.nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41... We discuss how computational models and methods can distill empirical observations on neural timescales into quantitative, testable theories of brain computation.

Neural timescales from a computational perspective - Nature Neuroscience

This review integrates computational approaches to provide a unified view on how data analysis methods, biophysical mechanistic models and machine learning approaches can help to uncover the origins a...

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New preprint alert! doi.org/10.64898/202... Throughout life, we are often told to persist in the pursuit of our long term goals. However, the most important factor to consider in the real world for whether to continue pursuit or abandon one's goal is knowing how much progress you are making.

Prefrontal mechanisms of goal progress inference and monitoring in macaque monkeys

Primates pursue goals over extended periods and over multiple steps. The ability to track progress and its rate is critical for such pursuit, yet the neural mechanisms of this tracking are unclear. We...

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A researcher in Europe feels left out of their team and held to different standards from their colleagues. How can they challenge exclusion without risking their position? go.nature.com/4eqGadJ

How should I respond to race-based exclusion in my lab?

A researcher in Europe feels left out of their team and held to different standards from their colleagues. How can they challenge exclusion without risking their position?

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🚨 Tom Griffiths has a podcast where he interviews cognitive scientists podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t... This just went to the top of my list.

The Cognition Project

Science Podcast · How can we study the mind, something we can never see or touch? This podcast tells the story of how psychologists, neuroscientists, computer scientists, linguists, and philosophers w...

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Shahab Bakhtiari@shahabbakht.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I’ve been really enjoying Tom Griffith’s "The Cognition Project" lately. A couple of observations: - Hearing the history of the cognitive revolution directly from the giants who lived it is priceless. - Recent AI advances have sort of robbed us of the joy of being amazed by human cognition. 🧠🤖

Externally driven attention to internal working memory content https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.08.717206v1

If you need a method to infer causality from neural data, even when the signal is short, check our recent paper: Paper: joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21... Code: github.com/CMC-lab/Tran...

TranCIT: Transient Causal Interaction Toolbox

Nouri et al., (2025). TranCIT: Transient Causal Interaction Toolbox. Journal of Open Source Software, 10(116), 9302, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.09302

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Salar Nouri@sanouri.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Wanna infer causal interactions during brief, transient neural events? 🧠⚡ Many methods struggle with such non-stationarities, but we got a robust solution for you! 📦 My recent publication with @cmc-lab.bsky.social 🥳: TranCIT: Transient Causal Interaction Toolbox 📜 JOSS: bsky.app/profile/joss...

How do humans adapt their behavior in natural, uncertain environments? Open PhD position in the collaborative DFG Excellence Cluster “The Adaptive Mind” (theadaptivemind-excellencecluster.de) Apply: www.career.tu-darmstadt.de/tu-darmstadt...

Are you #Coayne2026? Wanna know how we can have a common notion of state in mind and machines and find them in an unsupervised fashion with temporal embeddings based on dynamic similarity check @armanbehrad.bsky.social and @maxschwabe.bsky.social’s poster today, 3-001!

CMC lab@cmc-lab.bsky.social · 5mo ago

3-001, poster session 3 (Sat, Mar. 14, 13:15): @armanbehrad.bsky.social on unsupervised method to find behaviorally relevant internal states from data. We tested it w/ RNN & monkey data doing cognitive tasks & RNN trained with deep RL on a naturalistic plum tracking task.

🚀 Postdoc Alert! Are you passionate about social learning & cultural evolution? @dominikdeffner.bsky.social & I have a 3-year position with freedom to develop your research and work on cutting-edge multiplayer and immersive experiments. Apply by March 30! hmc-lab.com/SocialLearni... Pls share 🙏

Excited to share our new paper in @pnas.org with @bnmorillon.bsky.social & @valentinwyart.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... We study three core inference systems, and how their interaction shapes human learning and decision-making.

🚨Four postdoc positions at the #ReasonableAI excellence cluster @tuda.bsky.social! jobs.rhein-main-universitaeten.de/rmu/job/52370 Please share widely 🙏

🔎Updated preprint "Humans use a dual policy to improve inferences during epistemic information seeking" by Yinan Cao, Clémence Alméras, Junseok Lee, Inès Maye, and Valentin Wyart. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Marseille folks: I’m organizing a one-day workshop on Distributed Computations for Flexible Behavior (Apr 16, Timone Campus) with a great line-up of speakers bridging theory, circuits & whole-brain dynamics! 🧠 Free registration (mandatory, incl. lunch): fannycazettes.limesurvey.net/172448?lang=...

Cognition is not steady state. Rhythmic sampling of multiple decision alternatives in the human brain www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

Rhythmic sampling of multiple decision alternatives in the human brain - Nature Communications

How humans process competing information when making multi-alternative decisions remains unclear. Here, the authors show that the brain resolves the trade-off between “evaluating within” and “comparin...

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New paper on information sampling in multialternative choice, part of the ERC @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant "INFOSAMPLE". One of projects emerging from the first semi-gigantic MEG dataset we collected as the "Irrationality" Lab in Hamburg, around COVID lockdowns.

Marcus Siems@marcussiems.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New paper alert 📣 #Neuroskyence "Rhythmic sampling of multiple decision alternatives in the human brain" @natcomms.nature.com together with @ycaoneuro.bsky.social @maryamtohidi.bsky.social @donnerlab.bsky.social @ktsetsos.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵1/

Glad to see this paper out @natcomms.nature.com! in this work, we investigated neural sampling across multiple choice options (N > 2).

Marcus Siems@marcussiems.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New paper alert 📣 #Neuroskyence "Rhythmic sampling of multiple decision alternatives in the human brain" @natcomms.nature.com together with @ycaoneuro.bsky.social @maryamtohidi.bsky.social @donnerlab.bsky.social @ktsetsos.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵1/

Amazing resources!

Russ Poldrack@russpoldrack.org · 8mo ago

File systems, object stores, and databases - oh my! russpoldrack.substack.com/p/storing-re... The latest in my Better Code, Better Science series

New Preprint alert 🚨 “Inter-areal coupling for cognition through coincident oscillatory transients” together with @ycaoneuro.bsky.social @ktsetsos.bsky.social @donnerlab.bsky.social & Andreas Engel #MEG #neuroscience #bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Inter-areal coupling for cognition through coincident oscillatory transients

How do large-scale brain networks interact to enable cognition? Correlated oscillations, a mechanism for inter-areal interactions, can be expressed as phase coherence or amplitude co-fluctuations. Whi...

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🧠 We’re hiring! Join the Irrationality Lab @ Trinity College Dublin for ERC-funded postdoc positions in Decision Neuroscience. Work with OPM-MEG + computational modeling to uncover how the brain shapes, maintains and revises preferences. Apply & info: www.ktsetsoslab.net/_files/ugd/0... #NeuroJobs

Damn I hope this is true. Can we REALLY trust this?

The Man in Seat 61@seatsixtyone.bsky.social · 9mo ago

BREAKING: European Sleeper will start a Paris-Berlin sleeper train from 26 March 2026, after Nightjet pulls out in December. It'll run via Brussels (with Eurostar connection from London) 3 times a week. This + existing train = Brussels-Berlin 6 times a week. www.europeansleeper.eu/paris

Comment by Prof @icouzin.bsky.social that explores how collective intelligence emerges from local interactions in animal groups, and how these principles inform the design of swarm robotic systems. @natureportfolio.nature.com @natcomms.nature.com #robotics www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Collective intelligence in animals and robots - Nature Communications

This commentary explores how collective intelligence arises from local interactions in animal groups and how these principles inform the design of swarm robotic systems, addressing the challenge of ac...

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🚨🧠🚨 POSTDOC POSITION 🚨🧠🚨 in my lab: www.ru.nl/en/working-a... Connectivity in Working Memory. Deadline 12 Nov! Apply via website; please repost.

Postdoc Position: Neural Circuitry Underlying Working Memory | Radboud University

Do you want to work as a Postdoc Position: Neural Circuitry Underlying Working Memory at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancy!

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🚀Our new chapter is out, “Perspectives on the Mechanistic Underpinnings of Choice Biases,” written with @ktsetsos.bsky.social and published in Decision Making: Mechanisms and Applications (edited by Carsten Murawski, Ulrich Ettinger, and Bert Heinrichs): link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Decision Making

This book offers reports on new findings relating to mechanisms of decisions, modeling of decision making and impaired decision making upon diseases.

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Noise ceilings are really useful: You can estimate the reliability of your data and get an index of how well your model can possibly perform given the noise in the data. But, contrary to what you may think, noise ceilings do not provide an absolute index of data quality. Let's dive into why. 🧵

first paper with valentin wyart.

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 10mo ago

A dual information seeking strategy improves imprecise human inferences outside the explore-exploit tradeoff https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.08.681186v1

1/ New paper by Hame Park, (@AraziAyelet), Bharath Talluri, Marco Celotto, Stefano Panzeri, Alan Stocker & Tobias Donner published in Nature Communications – “Confirmation Bias through Selective Readout of Information Encoded in Human Parietal Cortex”: rdcu.be/etlR7. Here is a summary:

Confirmation bias through selective readout of information encoded in human parietal cortex

Nature Communications - People often discard incoming information when it contradicts their pre-existing beliefs about the world. Here, the authors show that this discarded information is precisely...

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My small tribute to one of my favourite papers ever

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · last yr.

In our latest edition of “This paper changed my life,” @marinopagan.bsky.social reflects on a seminal paper that revealed the complexity of neural population dynamics and the power of recurrent neural networks. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/this-paper-c...

“Legal decisions are not totally arbitrary, like a lottery. However, they still fall short of the expected standards” —often through irrelevant influences, like cognitive biases: buff.ly/o2uruLU

. @kordinglab.bsky.social 's substack is great. Lots of food for thought from one of the most piercing thinkers in NeuroAI. kording.substack.com/p/why-are-we...

Why Are We Professors Doing “Research As Usual” While AI Systems Advance at Breakneck Speed?

Introduction

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Our latest findings showing how internal and external visual selection do not necessarily ‘take turns’ but can run in parallel, led by @baiweiliu.bsky.social. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Concurrent selection of internal goals and external sensations during visual search

Flexible goal-directed behaviour relies on the selective processing of internal goal representations and external sensations. Yet, internal and external selection processes have classically been studi...

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