Nico Schuck
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Algorithms of the Mind. Cognitive Neuroscience Prof at Uni Hamburg.
http://schucklab.gitlab.io/
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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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How fast agentic AI has changed our work is head-spinning and there's been a lot of debate in our lab. So we drafted guidelines to help navigate this new reality. Sharing here in the hope it’s useful for others & curious to hear thoughts
schucklab.gitlab.io/ai-policy.html
#AcademicSky
#compneurosky
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Schuck Lab — AI Policy
Schuck Lab policy on generative and agentic AI
https://schucklab.gitlab.io/ai-policy.html
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megan peters 🧠
about 1 month ago
Neuromatch has been denied our Office of Foreign Assets Control "Iran license" renewal. We had renewed successfully before, but now our request is “inconsistent with current U.S. foreign policy.” I am absolutely gutted by this denial.
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Happy to share this wonderful work spearheaded by Luianta about the viscous cycle between avoiding something and believing it is bad for you. See preprint belo and also check out the link to the cute dog island task.
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trying to play peekaboo with my child but he’s reviewer 2: me: where’d daddy go? baby: the disappearance is interesting but I am not convinced it is technically sound me: peekaboo! baby: while the reappearance is technically sound, the novelty over prior work remains unclear
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Charley Wu
about 1 month ago
🚨 Permanent position!
theadaptivemind-excellencecluster.de
is looking for a managing director of our new outreach hub. This is an unlimited time position at an E13 paygrade (~postdoc level) Apply by May 31st 👉
www.career.tu-darmstadt.de/tu-darmstadt...
Please share widely 🙏
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this is welcome news! funding decision are too noisy to make them so consequential, especially in a system already under so much strain. i hope there’ll be a different way to adapt to the increase in applications.
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I do this too! externalized replay :)
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Tim Behrens
about 1 month ago
I do this all the time. With recent grants, sometimes old grants. With papers. With talks that I think went well. I don't think it's time wasted. It's about learning what good looks like, and reminding yourself that sometimes you can be good. 2 of the most important things for an academic.
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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
about 2 months ago
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Anna Schapiro
about 2 months 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
2 months 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
2 months 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
2 months 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
3 months 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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Job advertisement
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
3 months 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
3 months 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
3 months 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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3 months ago
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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
3 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))) 🔬
4 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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4 months ago
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A simple method to mitigate catastrophic forgetting of academic author names
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Charley Wu
4 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
4 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
4 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
4 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
4 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
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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
4 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
6 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
5 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
6 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
6 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
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@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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7 months ago
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Eric Schulz
7 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
7 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
7 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
7 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
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@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
8 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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