This paper finds LLMs' ability to understand that others have different beliefs (Theory of Mind) comes from 0.001% of their parameters. Break those specific weights & the model loses both its ability to track what others know AND language comprehension Interesting implications for models (& minds?)

I'm so excited to help bring this Computational Neuroscience workshop to life! Join a fantastic group of researchers in Denmark this August (11-14). We've designed it for PhDs & postdocs to connect with experts and build new skills. Hope to see you there! Please do share with your colleagues!

Ready to shape the future of #ComputationalScience? We’re inviting researchers like you to mentor student-led projects this July. Just 2-3 hours of commitment and no prep needed! This is your chance to give back and grow! ➡️ Learn more and sign up to #volunteer neuromatch.io/mentoring/

✨Excited to share that our new paper is now out in iScience!✨ 🧠 We show that people can coordinate surprisingly well in novel interactions by violating others' expectations - without requiring deep, recursive reasoning about others’ beliefs. 📄 Read the full paper here: www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

What about the social cerebellum during development we wondered? Here you find some cool insights on this awesome part of the brain! BIG thanks for the great work Katerina Manoli, and support from Charlotte Grosse Wiesmann and Frank van Overwalle 🧠🦋 rdcu.be/epKmZ

Ten simple rules for queer data collection and analysis dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Funded PhD opportunity with @sjblakemore.bsky.social and I, at Cambridge. We are looking for someone interested in developmental science, to start in the coming academic year. Please share it with anyone you think might be interested (see details attached 😁). drive.google.com/file/d/1RIvg...

Dorsomedial and ventromedial prefrontal cortex lesions differentially impact social influence and temporal discounting journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... new lab paper from the fantastic @zhilinsu.bsky.social with wonderful collaborators 🌟

Deadline extended to 28th April!! Summer School in Computational Social Cognition with fantastic keynotes by Matthew Rushworth, @dianatamir.bsky.social and @davidamodio.bsky.social. Come & learn more about computational modelling, make new friends, & explore the UK's 2nd largest city 🙂👇. Please RT!

Comment: "Can a single brain cell be surprised?" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

There is again a model-based neuroscience summer school from Aug 4-8th in Amsterdam! modelbasedneurosci.com

getting this paper published was a bit painful but I am proud of it: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... We use deep RL to find mechanisms that help (real) people sustain the commons. Well done to Raphael Koster and Miruna Pislar (not on BlueSky). non-paywalled version on arxiv.

New paper “Basis functions for complex social decisions in dorsomedial prefrontal cortex” in @nature.com led by @mkwittmann.bsky.social with many others. We show basis functions code relations between people, similar to their role in other perceptual and motor domains www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our paper in Nature (@mkwittmann.bsky.social et al.): the brain does not only process the *identity* of a person but primarily our *relationship* to them. Even on a neural level, who someone is *in relation to others* is key. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PsychSciSky #socialpsyc #neuroskyence

Think about conference location to avoid visa discrimination www.nature.com/articles/d41...

creative ways that students use chatGPT www.nature.com/articles/d41...

✨Excited to share that our paper on how expectation violations shape novel human communication has just been published in Nature Communications! ✨ 📖 read the full paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... 🧵 Detailed breakdown bellow! 👇

New preprint out with @summerfieldlab.bsky.social! When does new learning interfere with existing knowledge? We compare continual learning in humans and artificial neural networks, revealing similar patterns of transfer & catastrophic interference (1/8) osf.io/preprints/ps...

🚨 SUMMER SCHOOL! Announcing the 2nd Birmingham-Leiden Summer School in Computational Social Cognition, Sep 2-5, 2025. Fantastic line-up of keynote: Matthew Rushworth, Diana Tamir @dianatamir.bsky.social, and David Amodio @davidamodio.bsky.social . 👇 Apply by 18 April (compsoccog.com) and RT!

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

A neurocognitive mechanism for increased cooperation during group formation www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Check out this fabulous paper led by @bethfisher.bsky.social with @christopherjwhyte.bsky.social on optimism bias! @monash-m3cs.bsky.social

"It’s not easy to point out errors, especially when they’re attached to the name of someone who holds great power over you." www.science.org/content/arti...

Thrilled to share my perspective in "The Transmitter" @thetransmitter.bsky.social on how to study the influence of "sex" and "gender" in the brain in a scientifically accurate and socially responsible manner: "Revisiting sex and gender in the brain" www.thetransmitter.org/sex-differen...

We are hosting UKNC 2025 @ imperial! 💥 Fantastic set of speakers, see at neuralcomputation.uk Super exciting time to be working at the intersection of comp neuro/AI & applications. Save the dates: 9th July - ECR day 10th & 11th July - Main event Any questions get in touch! Plz share!

𝟴𝘁𝗵 Cam Neuro 𝗦𝘆𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘂𝗺 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 & 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 |𝟭𝟬-𝟭𝟭 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁 ➡️ 𝘄𝗲𝗯𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲: lnkd.in/ehZmFqST ➡️ 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗢𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀: lnkd.in/gBhnrXYj #CamNeuro2025

𝗖𝗡𝗦𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱: 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 |𝟴 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 ➡️ 𝘄𝗲𝗯𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲: lnkd.in/gR9SBnwP ➡️ 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽: lnkd.in/gmw6Fs9n #CamNeuro2025

📢 We are delighted to launch the 8th Cambridge Neuroscience Symposium – Interventions & Recovery - an international meeting, which will take place on September 10-11th 2025 at the West Road Concert Hall at the University of Cambridge. neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/camneuro-eve...

I am beyond excited to announce the imminent arrival of my book. Operationism in Psychology. An Epistemology of Exploration: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... Brief chapter summaries below (1/10)

🚨 Job Alert 🚨 I am looking for a postdoc for my new lab @uni-hamburg.de, we will closely collaborate with the CRC TRR 393 Trajectories of affective disorders. www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb... DM me if you have questions! Please share ✨

Do "disorders of thought" result from errors in perceptual processing? This intriguing paper suggests paranoid and (erroneous) teleological thinking may result from aberrations in lower-level visual processing than commonly believed. 🧪 #PsychSciSky

Intracranial electrophysiological signals from human pairs engaged in a cooperation game show that teammate coordination and goal pursuit make distinct contributions to the behavioral cooperation dynamics www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 New Paper! Can neuroscience localizers uncover brain-like functional specializations in LLMs? 🧠🤖 Yes! We analyzed 18 LLMs and found units mirroring the brain's language, theory of mind, and multiple demand networks! w/ @gretatuckute.bsky.social, @abosselut.bsky.social, @mschrimpf.bsky.social 🧵👇

Come join us! www.emotionalmemory.de

Three must read papers for PhD students. #scisky #PhD #science #research #academicsky 1. The importance of stupidity in scientific research Open Access journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

The graduate programme on emotional memories at @uni-hamburg.de is looking for the next cohort of PhD students (11 positions). Great programme with lots of interesting projects. Join us! Deadline: 31.01.2025 The ad: www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb... Graduate Programme: www.emotionalmemory.de

Using second-person neuroscience to elucidate the mechanisms of social interaction www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy to share my second paper with Peter Dayan on our decision-theoretic approach to perceptual multistability (see the tweeprint of the first paper here x.com/neuroprincip...). Paper: A decision-theoretic model of multistability biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗲𝘂𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 If you are a statistician, teach statistics, or even just use statistics, this is a highly recommended read. What a horror story which probably most of us know little about. nautil.us/how-eugenics...

We are extremely excited to announce Anna Schapiro from the University of Pennsylvania as the first keynote speaker of CCN2025! Join us next August for the 8th CCN conference, on cognitive science, neuroscience, and AI. Details on paper submissions (both short & full) below!

𝗛𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲: 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝗳 𝘄𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 "𝗯𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗼𝗺-𝘂𝗽" 𝗮𝗻𝗱 "𝘁𝗼𝗽-𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻" 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀? Why? Suppose "coordinated dynamics" would provide a better framework. #neuroscience