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
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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I wish my inbox summary would stop insisting that "some children in your son's daycare have lice" is my most important email today
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Anna Schapiro
7 days ago
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.
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important work from
@skjerns.de
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Tobias Gerstenberg
17 days ago
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 🙏
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Ida Momennejad
15 days ago
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?
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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?
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Mariam Aly
18 days ago
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...
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MDRS
MDRS is a professional society dedicated to the study of memory. Members engage in basic and clinical research into how memory works and why it fails.
https://www.memorydisorders.org/
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Anne Lauscher
about 1 month ago
📢 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
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Faculties
https://www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenangebote/ausschreibung.html?jobID=3c545d86ea43a0b325b9fe2d0b2a5a2a2a166c60
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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.
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Universität Hamburg
about 1 month ago
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:
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„Lasst uns diesen Moment genießen“
https://www.uni-hamburg.de/newsroom/exzellenzstrategie/2026/0312-nachbericht-exzellenz.html
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Pascal Mamassian
about 1 month ago
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
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Open Rank Faculty Cluster Hire Search for the New Department of Cognitive Science at Bocconi - Bocconi University
https://www.unibocconi.it/en/faculty-and-research/faculty/faculty-recruiting/open-rank-faculty-cluster-hire-search-new-department-cognitive-science-bocconi
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Hugo Spiers
about 1 month ago
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
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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!
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Nir gives excellent talks and will present his exciting work on how rewards morph space next week in London
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about 2 months ago
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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
about 2 months 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))) 🔬
2 months 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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about 2 months ago
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A simple method to mitigate catastrophic forgetting of academic author names
2 months ago
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Charley Wu
2 months 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
2 months ago
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
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Sam Gershman
2 months 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
3 months 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
3 months ago
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
3 months 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
4 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
3 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
5 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
5 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
6 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
5 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
6 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
6 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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6 months ago
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Nina Rouhani
6 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
6 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
6 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
6 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
6 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
6 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
6 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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