Nico Schuck
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Algorithms of the Mind. Cognitive Neuroscience Prof at Uni Hamburg.
http://schucklab.gitlab.io/
pinned post!
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
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.12.693963v2
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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
3 days ago
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
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(((Dr Hannah Wirtshafter))) 🔬
13 days ago
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...
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Super useful and interesting read on generalization, memory and overfitting, highly recommended!
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A simple method to mitigate catastrophic forgetting of academic author names
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Charley Wu | hiring Postdocs
16 days ago
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.
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Katie Mack
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You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
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Sam Gershman
22 days ago
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.
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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.
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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.
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Hugo Spiers
28 days ago
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...
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How the brain's 'memory replay' goes wrong in Alzheimer's disease
Memory dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease may be linked to impairment in how the brain replays our recent experiences while we are resting, according to a new study in mice by UCL scientists.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2026/jan/how-brains-memory-replay-goes-wrong-alzheimers-disease
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PessoaBrain
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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...
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Check out the latest from Sam HallMcMaster on the role of entorhinal cortex in factorizing representations and generalization
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CCN is wonderful, highly recommended!
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CogCompNeuro
about 1 month ago
🚨
#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.
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Jack Gallant
2 months ago
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
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD
about 2 months ago
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.
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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...
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CogCompNeuro
3 months ago
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
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Katja Rewitz
3 months ago
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...
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The explore-exploit trade-off in sports and exercise: a primer on empirical and computational approaches
Sports and exercise require constant on-the-fly decision-making from professional athletes and recreational exercisers alike. In the final minutes of …
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1469029225002353?via%3Dihub
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👏 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/...
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The University of Hamburg Still Germany’s Most Sustainable University
https://www.uni-hamburg.de/en/newsroom/presse/2025/pm51.html
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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.
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Eric Schulz
4 months ago
🚀 We are hiring! 🚀 🔍 Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully-funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.
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Eitan Schechtman
4 months ago
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!
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Martin Hebart
4 months ago
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...
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Ewa Beldzik
4 months ago
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...
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Attentional failures after sleep deprivation are locked to joint neurovascular, pupil and cerebrospinal fluid flow dynamics - Nature Neuroscience
Yang et al. show that moments of failed attention we experience after sleep deprivation reflect brief ‘sleep-like’ episodes in the brain, corresponding to a brain- and body-wide event with altered bra...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-02098-8
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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!
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Nina Rouhani
4 months ago
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
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Interactive Cognition Lab | USC
Interactive Cognition Lab at USC, led by principal investigator, Dr. Nina Rouhani.
https://rouhanilab.com
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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.
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Carl T. Bergstrom
4 months ago
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.
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Wanja Wolff
4 months ago
🚨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...
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Ausschreibung
https://www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangebote/ausschreibung.html?jobID=c34de684ea3a9592e57531202a3b47e097016c3e
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Here is a chance for international undergraduates to come to Hamburg and work with the amazing
@elbersgerd.bsky.social
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Check out Hashim’s intriguing studies that fail to find correlations between internalizing symptoms and adaptive learning rates when learning under uncertainty.
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Muhammad Hashim Satti
5 months ago
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
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Gordon Feld
5 months ago
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
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PUG2026 – PUG 2026: June 4–6, 2026, Heidelberg, Germany
https://pug2026.org/
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Wanja Wolff
5 months ago
📰 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...
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(S+) Radeln und Joggen finden Sie öde? Das hilft gegen Langeweile beim Sport
Kilometersammeln zu Fuß oder per Rad, Hantelwuchten, Kachelzählen beim Schwimmen – das kann zäh und öde sein. Sportpsychologe Wanja Wolff sagt dagegen: Langeweile kann zum Motivationsboost für Hobbysp...
https://www.spiegel.de/fitness/fitness-und-motivation-was-tun-gegen-langeweile-beim-training-a-3d5f7435-8e0e-4d04-bded-a03ad6858572
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Christian Stöcker
5 months ago
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.
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I am gonna take the option where I get more time to read, understand and write. maybe that AI can go to committee meetings for me?
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Great PhD opportunity with a dream team!
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Ondrej is a great scientist and mentor - I highly recommend working with him! Truly proud that Ondrej is the first faculty to come from our lab.
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aaron bornstein
6 months ago
Come work with us! UC Irvine Cognitive Sciences is looking for a new Assistant Professor to join our team:
recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09896
I'm not on the committee, but happy to talk if you're interested.
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Assistant Professor - Cognitive Sciences
University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!
https://recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09896
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New application cycle for graduate students open at the Max Planck School of Cognition, offering fully funded positions, a well structured training programme and lab rotations.
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6 months ago
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International Brain Laboratory
6 months ago
Two flagship papers from the International Brain Laboratory, now out in @Nature.com: 🧠 Brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour:
doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09235-0
🧠 Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making:
doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09226-1
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I want to do a session on principles of designing scientific figures with my lab. Any recommendation for good online material?
#PsychSciSky
#neuroskyence
#Neuroimaging
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Isabelle Hoxha
6 months ago
Ever wondered why you keep going to that restaurant with stale fries? Is it because you went often in the past (perseveration) or because you remember past good experiences better (positivity bias)? Our study out in PNAS investigates the normative basis for these biases
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Evolving choice hysteresis in reinforcement learning: Comparing the adaptive value of positivity bias and gradual perseveration | PNAS
The tendency to repeat past choices more often than expected from the history of outcomes has been repeatedly empirically observed in reinforcement...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2422144122
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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴
6 months ago
👇
#SleepPeeps
Please repost to help me spread the word on this study. This is a very big commitment compared to most "online" studies... but I know there are some good participants out there on the interweb who what to help! 🙂👇
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Deng Pan
6 months ago
🚨We believe this is a major step forward in how we study hippocampus function in healthy humans. Using novel behavioral tasks, fMRI, RL & RNN modeling, and transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS), we demonstrate the causal role of hippocampus in relational structure learning.
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Delighted to share our work on replay and successor representations! We find replay during very short task pauses in human visual cortex that is linked to learning SRs & happens when learning is implicit. Study led by
@lnnrtwttkhn.bsky.social
#compneuro
#neuroskyence
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Replay in the human visual cortex during brief task pauses is linked to implicit learning of successor representations | PNAS
Humans can implicitly learn about multistep sequential relationships between events in the environment from their statistical co-occurrence. Theore...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2507516122
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Erin Grant
7 months ago
I’m recruiting committee members for the Technical Program Committee at
#CCN2026
. Please apply if you want to help make submission, review & selection of contributed work (Extended Abstracts & Proceedings) more useful for everyone! 🌐 Helps to have: programming/communications/editorial experience.
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Harrison Ritz
7 months ago
Not Yet AlphaFold for the Mind: Evaluating Centaur as a Synthetic Participant
arxiv.org/abs/2508.078...
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Not Yet AlphaFold for the Mind: Evaluating Centaur as a Synthetic Participant
Simulators have revolutionized scientific practice across the natural sciences. By generating data that reliably approximate real-world phenomena, they enable scientists to accelerate hypothesis testi...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07887v1
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Sad to miss
#CCN2025
! If you want to hear about we have been up to come check out lab posters generalisation replay
@fabianrenz.bsky.social
deep credit assignment through gradient descent @ShanyGrossman rewards morphing space
@nirmoneta.bsky.social
RL gone rouge
@elbersgerd.bsky.social
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