I wish my inbox summary would stop insisting that "some children in your son's daycare have lice" is my most important email today

We’ve got an exciting new thing to share! We have causal evidence (using TMR) that memory reactivation during sleep promotes abstract understanding of underlying structure, allowing transfer learning in a new domain with zero superficial feature overlap with the learned one.

important work from @skjerns.de !

The Causality in Cognition Lab -- a supportive, bluesky-colored team -- is looking for a predoc to join us! Here are infos about the lab (cicl.stanford.edu) and the position (careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/iriss-p...). The application deadline is May 1st. Please share, thank you 🙏

Some reports say over 500 schools, 55 libraries, & 25 universities hit. You can debate the numbers, but hitting Sharif University & Beheshti is like hitting MIT & Stanford. I keep wondering: How would the scientific community respond differently if it was those universities? What’s the difference?

fully agree with Stefano. I spent years of my training learning to translate scientific thinking into models and code. if that’s no longer a bottleneck, what was the point — and what should replace it?

The Memory Disorders Research Society (www.memorydisorders.org) is now seeking nominations for new members! Self-nominations are welcome. Application is open until April 15 @ 11:59pm PT. Reach out if you have questions about the society or its (amazing) annual meeting! forms.gle/Qn7mchoPpaqL...

📢 Join our team in Hamburg! The Trustworthy AI lab 🤝 is looking for a Research Associate for a novel DFG-funded project on ethical multi-agent systems of LLMs. 🤖 Full-time | EGR. 13 TV-L | Apply by 8 April 2026 🔗 www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan... #TrustworthyAI #LLM #AcademicJobs #Hamburg

New paper from the lab! Luianta’s fabulous project shows that trait anxiety relates to value based aversive generalization. The data also highlights the diversity of generalization forms that occur in a random sample—from gaussian generalisation, linear extrapolation to perceptual confusion.

Die Universität Hamburg bleibt exzellent! 🙌 Dies verkündete der Wissenschaftsrat am Mittwoch in einer Pressekonferenz, die direkt in das Audimax der Universität übertragen wurde. Mit dabei waren 250 Forschende, Mitarbeitende, Studierende und Gäste der Universität Hamburg. Zum Nachbericht:

A new Department of Cognitive Science is being created at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. Here is the call for a cluster hire (for around 10 faculty) in all areas of cognitive science, at both junior and senior levels: www.unibocconi.it/en/faculty-a... Deadline: May 4th, 2026

New review from our group out in Nature Reviews Psychology: Determinants of individual navigation ability with my excellent co-author: @emre-yavuz-21.bsky.social

I think one of the biggest challenges for science education is to make sure people understand, and are transparent about, what they know vs don't know. I see this line crossed often & my fear is it'll get worse. We need to celebrate declarations of not knowing!

Nir gives excellent talks and will present his exciting work on how rewards morph space next week in London

The Max Planck #PostdocProgram offers top emerging talents a range of attractive measures and opportunities. The current call for applications is open from March 1st until April 13th, 2026. Please share or consider applying! 🙏 www.mpg.de/en/max-planc... #careerinscience #sciencecareer

New preprint out 🎉 What happens to the hippocampal “place code” when an animal is actively engaged in a task? The answer surprised us (and might surprise you too!). Let's dive in ⬇️ Link: "Hippocampal trace coding dominates and disrupts place coding" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Super useful and interesting read on generalization, memory and overfitting, highly recommended!

A simple method to mitigate catastrophic forgetting of academic author names

Publicly wondering if your product might be conscious is good hype @anthropic.com, but poor science. Consciousness attribution should integrate prior expectations with public/shareable facts, not by computational equivalence alone or anecdotes. If that makes us "vulgar behaviorists", we are proud.

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

If you work at the intersection of computational neuroscience and machine learning, consider applying for this postdoc position (January 2027 start date): academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15868 An opportunity to work with a great group of people across Harvard, MIT, and UC Berkeley.

The massive surge in #MSCA applications (+60% over last year) is great, but combined with slightly lower funding it has led to a real bloodbath this funding cycle. Hope all the incredibly talented postdocs who didn't get funded this time stay strong.

Google Scholar should have a first and last author filter for profiles so I can stop playing detective looking for that paper from XXX et al.

How the brain's 'memory replay' goes wrong in Alzheimer's disease @ucl press release on @caswell.bsky.social lab new study: www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2026/ja...

𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗮-𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 Giovanni Pezzulo et al introduce hierarchical model of goal attainment in PFC. Looks very impressive. #neuroskyence arxiv.org/abs/2601.189...

Check out the latest from Sam HallMcMaster on the role of entorhinal cortex in factorizing representations and generalization

CCN is wonderful, highly recommended!

🚨 #CCN2026 Proceedings submissions are open! CCN 2026 again features an 8-page Proceedings track (alongside extended abstracts). Accepted papers will appear in CCN-Proceedings (CCN‑P) with DOIs on OpenReview.

‪Voxelwise Encoding Models (VEMs) are a great framework for modeling fMRI data, but it can be difficult to implement. We've made VEM accessible by providing software, tutorials and reviews that guide its use an implementation. Get it here: gallantlab.org/blog/2025-12... #neuroscience, #neuroimaging

Writing is thinking Outsourcing the entire task of writing to LLMs will deprive us of the essential creative task of interpreting our findings and generating a deeper theoretical understanding of the world.

How do we achieve few-shot generalization? New work led by @fabianrenz.bsky.social dives into the role of replay in learning and using structure to generalize reward. Dream team effort with Shany Grossman @nathanieldaw.bsky.social Peter Dayan & @doellerlab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We are excited to announce that the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience meeting (CCN 2026) will be held at New York University from August 3–6, 2026. 2026.ccneuro.org

Very happy to see this out now in Psychology of Sport & Exercise 🤓 If you’re interested in how the explore–exploit framework helps us study decision-making in sports and exercise, check it out! w/ @nicoschuck.bsky.social & @wanjawolff.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

👏 Congratulations to @uni-hamburg.de for being rated Germanys most sustainable university. Glad to see that UHH has been committed to lead by example in this important area over the past years. www.uni-hamburg.de/en/newsroom/...

One week left to apply to the Max Planck School of Cognition! I have worked with several grad students from the programme and it's an impressive group of people. Deadline Dec 1st.

🚀 We are hiring! 🚀 🔍 Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully-funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.

Registration is open. Please spread the word. The preliminary schedule will be up on the site later this month, and we've got an amazing line up!

Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026. The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social. Please apply here until Nov 25: www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...

Our paper on CSF, BOLD, pupil, and physiological measures in sleep deprivation and recovery sleep is finally out! 🎉 Congrats Zinong! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

great job by @luiantaverra.bsky.social and @fabianrenz.bsky.social writing up this overview of methods and issues in measuring brain plasticity non-invasively in humans!

I will be recruiting 🌟PhD students🌟 for my newish lab! If you're interested in learning & memory mechanisms applied to individual, interactive & collective behavior using computational modeling, real-world experiments and fMRI, email me! RTs much appreciated 🙏 rouhanilab.com

great idea! hope this will spawn some insights and analysis innovations and wish I had the time to take part. but a big bottleneck for the lack of generalizability is still that we are using the wrong localizer tasks. hard to know in MEG whether any signal is non-sensory with such localizers.

Scientists themselves determine what is valued within science. Yet we act as if beholden to external managers, bean-counters who confuse the production of papers with scientific progress. We don't have to find better ways to navigate the prison of metrics-driven scientific assessment.

🚨Job Alert🚨 2 unbefristete Stellen (je 75%, E13) bei uns am Institut für Bewegungswissenschaften - Fokus: Insb. Sozialwissenschaften des Sports/Sportsoziologie & qualitative Methoden Über Verbreitung freue ich mich sehr, Rückfragen gern per DM an mich 🙏 👉 www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...

Here is a chance for international undergraduates to come to Hamburg and work with the amazing @elbersgerd.bsky.social

Check out Hashim’s intriguing studies that fail to find correlations between internalizing symptoms and adaptive learning rates when learning under uncertainty.

Excited to announce that this is now out in eLife as a reviewed preprint 🚀 doi.org/10.7554/eLif... Huge thanks to the eLife editors, reviewers and our fantastic collaborators: Katharina Wille, @nicoschuck.bsky.social, Matt Nassar, Radoslaw Cichy, Peter Dayan and @rasmusbruckner.bsky.social

The official 2026 Psychology and Brain meeting website is now online! Save the date: June 4 – 6, 2026 in Heidelberg, Germany More information to follow shortly on the website. We already have some awesome keynotes lined up. pug2026.org @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @igor-dgps.bsky.social

📰 Mit Anne Paulsen von @spiegel.de habe ich über unser @dhprlab.bsky.social, unsere verschiedenen Messmethoden & insbesondere unsere aktuelle #Forschung zu #Langeweile im #Sport gesprochen. Vielleicht sind ja ein paar hilfreiche Tipps dabei 😁 ⬇️ www.spiegel.de/fitness/fitn...

Ein Hinweis für Hamburgerinnen und Hamburger: Am Sonntag ist #Zukunftsentscheid. Die Universität Hamburg weist darauf hin, dass die Erhitzung der Erde schon bis 2050 drei Grad über der vorindustriellen Zeit landen könnte. Ein heute fünfjähriges Kind wird dann 30 Jahre alt.