Very excited about this. One of the first steps to truly automate the discovery process in the cognitive sciences.

1/ 🚨 New preprint: "Closing the Loop to Discover Psychological Theories with an Automated Cognitive Scientist" Introducing AutoCog 🤖 — a fully autonomous AI system that runs the entire scientific discovery cycle in cognitive science to surface novel theories of human behavior 🧵

1/ 🚨 New opinion piece: "Can we automatize scientific discovery in the cognitive sciences?" We lay out a vision for a fully automated, in-silico science of the mind, where modern AI systems run every stage of the scientific discovery cycle in cognitive science 🧵 #AutomatedDiscovery #AI4Science

Watch as Akshay is automating the discovery process in the cognitive sciences. Exciting times!

Excited to announce that I'll be starting my own lab in Tübingen this October! Hiring at all levels: Postdoc, PhD & RA. Want to work on computational cognitive science at scale? Apply: core-cognition.github.io Reposts and shares much appreciated 🙏

Join us at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig as a fully funded 4-year postdoc position (m/f/d) in Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience (Area: Social Cognition). Excellent infrastructure with a leading scientific network. Apply by 13 July: recruitingapp-5218.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/44...?

To appear in Computational Brain & Behavior soon: the claimed 2024 proof (also in CBB) that AGI via learning is intractable also "proves" that ImageNet is intractable. My reading of the hole: equivocation on the variable D. Preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2411.06498

Alireza Modirshanechi, Benjamin Eysenbach, Peter Dayan, Eric Schulz: Unifying Goal-Conditioned RL and Unsupervised Skill Learning via Control-Maximization https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06145 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.06145 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.06145

Talk to the model here: talkie-lm.com/chat

If you are attending #ICLR2026, please come and say hi to our group members presenting the papers 👇

I am shocked to see this language from the NSF. “The U.S. National Science Foundation's Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request reflects a strategic alignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment while eliminating woke and weaponized grant programs that previously funded radical DEI projects.”

Attending #Cosyne2026? Come by our poster in the afternoon (#021) to talk about the sense of control, empowerment, and agency. 🧠🤖 We propose a unifying formulation of the sense of control and empirically characterize the human subjective sense of control. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧑‍🔬🧪🔬

📢📢 Announcing this year's conference on the Mathematics of Neuroscience & AI (Rome, 9-12th June). We’ve got a stellar line-up and venue, and invite everyone to join: www.neuromonster.org

One week left to apply!

🚨 Hiring in Munich 🇩🇪: 2 open-topic PhD positions in human & machine learning (TVöD E13 80%). Start ~June 2026 (flexible). Deadline: March 2, 2026. Apply/info: hcai-munich.com/PhD_Job_Ad.pdf Reposts appreciated 🙏

🚨 Hiring in Munich 🇩🇪: 2 open-topic PhD positions in human & machine learning (TVöD E13 80%). Start ~June 2026 (flexible). Deadline: March 2, 2026. Apply/info: hcai-munich.com/PhD_Job_Ad.pdf Reposts appreciated 🙏

Do people's internal representations of natural objects differ? We (@ericschulz.bsky.social) show so by incorporating idiosyncrasies into neural nets to create better models of human behavior. We also reliably extract idiosyncrasies and map them to demographics. More: osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/pxt9a

Very happy to see this pre-print out. Our first step towards incorporating individual differences when aligning neural network representations to diverse crowds.

Honored to have been interviewed about Claude's "soul document" as part of an article for this week's @spiegel.de. www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...

🔬 We're hiring a Junior Group Leader for Data-Driven Digital Twins/System Models in medicine/life sciences at @uni_goettingen! Perfect opportunity for early-career researchers who want to: - Lead their own research group - Work at the intersection of AI, simulation, and biomedicine

📆 updated for 2026! list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP: 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

🚨 New preprint 🚨 We present the decisions-from-experience database (DfE-DB), including data from 168 studies. The data are currently shared with the original authors and made public upon publication. 🔗 Database: github.com/dwulff/dfe-db 🔗 Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🚀 Excited to announce that I'm looking for people (PhD/Postdoc) to join my Cognitive Modelling group @uniosnabrueck.bsky.social. If you want to join a genuinely curious, welcoming and inclusive community of Coxis, apply here: tinyurl.com/coxijobs Please RT - deadline is Jan 4‼️

🧵 If you're looking for a fully funded PhD or Postdoc in Computational Psychiatry, please reach out! We are expanding the lab and tackling some big questions. Here is a thread on what we are currently up to: 👇

🚀🎓We have exciting opportunities at the PhD and Postdoc level, including in the new Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience, a 10-year initiative spanning a powerful international network of labs working across species and disciplines - please reach out if interested bsky.app/profile/simo...

We are hiring a new Ph. D. student on neuroimaging and/or computational modeling on motivation and emotion. Tübingen is a great place to pursue work on these topics!! uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...

⚠️ Warning: Joining our team as a postdoc has a known side effect of receiving multiple job offers shortly after. We currently have 3 such cases. ​If you are willing to take that risk, applications close in 1 week. The upside is you'll be in a supportive and stimulating environment in munich.

Two weeks left to apply. Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.

Join us for an insightful discussion with @elifakata.bsky.social, a PhD researcher at @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social. She will discuss her recent paper, “Playing Repeated Games with Large Language Models.” 📅 17 November ⏲️ 2-3 PM CET 📍 @hertieschool.bsky.social 👉 www.hertie-school.org/en/datascien...

Join us in beautiful Munich! If you have any questions about the city, the group or your application, feel free to reach out! ✨

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

Looking for a #postdoc position? 🧠🔬🤖 Join our amazing lab in Munich! 🇩🇪👩‍🔬 We have a friendly, collaborative, and inclusive environment, where scientific rigour and curiosity are truly valued and celebrated. 🎉 #Jobs #ScienceJobs #cogsci #neuroskyence

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A great opportunity to work at the cutting edge of AI and cognitive science!

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

2/ Concept-Guided Interpretability via Neural Chunking Shuchen Wu , Stephan Alaniz, @shyamgopal.bsky.social , Peter Dayan, @ericschulz.bsky.social , @zeynepakata.bsky.social [Paper]: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.11576 [Code]: github.com/swu32/Chunk-...

What influences whether people have fun with a task? Our paper “Leveling up fun: learning progress, expectations and success influence enjoyment in video games” with @thecharleywu.bsky.social and @ericschulz.bsky.social now in Scientific Reports! rdcu.be/eI069 Paper summary below 1/4

I am hiring PhD students and/or Postdocs, to work on the theory of explainable machine learning. Please apply through Ellis or IMPRS, deadlines end october/mid november. In particular: Women, where are you? Our community needs you!!! imprs.is.mpg.de/application ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...

JOB ALERT: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Postdoc position in Osaka, Japan! Possible start in October 2025 (contact me ASAP), or from April 2026. PLEASE REPOST! #postdocjobs #neuroskyence #neuroscience #psychscisky #compneurosky #neurojobs 1/

🤖 AI that thinks like us Researchers at @www.helmholtz-munich.de have developed Centaur, an artificial intelligence model that can simulate human decision-making with remarkable accuracy. @bethgelab.bsky.social @modirshanechi.bsky.social Read the whole story 👉 bit.ly/4kCi280

An AI model (Llama 3.1 70B) fine-tuned on the results of 60,000 people in psychology experiments shows some real promise in using LLMs for studying and predicting human behavior. It predicts actual human behavior in held-out data & it generalizes to out-of-distribution tasks and experiments.

What an exciting day for cognitive science with a double feature @nature.com including tiny models (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) and less tiny ones (www.nature.com/articles/s41...).

What a day. Our foundation model of cognitive science is out in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @marcelbinz.bsky.social's thread: bsky.app/profile/marc... Centaur is featured by the NYT: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/s... We got featured in a Nature views: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Check out our new work on testing the limits of finetuning in improving vlms intuitive physics abilities.

Check out our new preprint in which we propose to use LLMs to generate new cognitive models that minimize scientific regret. This could be a viable approach to query foundation models to advance science more generally.

Preprint update, co-led with @akjagadish.bsky.social, with @marvinmathony.bsky.social, Tobias Ludwig and @ericschulz.bsky.social!

What a sad day for academia all over the world. I was a postdoc at Harvard on a J1 visa. One of my students was going to start his postdoc there in a week. I can only imagine how awful the current situation and uncertainties around it must feel.

🔬 Foundation Models at #HelmholtzMunich drive advances in diagnostics, personalized medicine & cancer research. 👉 Read the full Highlight Story: t1p.de/d209f ✨ Discover more on our Foundation Models page: t1p.de/sx49u #FoundationModels #AI

Our review with @ericschulz.bsky.social about generalization in humans and machines is out now in Current Directions in Psychological Science: doi.org/10.1177/0963... Check it out!

One week left to apply, so please do... 😀