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... 😀

Our paper "Playing repeated games with large language models" just got published in Nature Human Behaviour! We explore how LLMs cooperate, coordinate, and adapt in social dilemmas. Check it out! Work led by @elifakata.bsky.social

yesterday, my postdoc funding (salary and research funds) was cancelled by the National Science Foundation, effective immediately. I received the same generic, vaguely threatening, typo-ridden email as many of my colleagues who have had their awards terminated recently. (1/n)

#AIinScience: Ethical & Practical Challenges 🎤Interview with Dr. Marcel Binz, #HelmholtzMunich, on how Large Language Models are transforming scientific methods & the need of reshaping the scientific mindset: 👉 t1p.de/p82vj @marcelbinz.bsky.social @ericschulz.bsky.social ‬@zeynepakata.bsky.social

At #ICLR2025, #HelmholtzMunich researchers are sharing advancements in #MachineLearning. 👉 t1p.de/8jfgn @fabiantheis.bsky.social @carstenmarr.bsky.social @stes.io @zeynepakata.bsky.social @ericschulz.bsky.social @vincefort.bsky.social @iclr-conf.bsky.social

I had so much fun being a guest on the @behindthescreens.bsky.social podcast! 🤩 If you're curious about how we use games in research (and you understand German), check out their latest episode!

🚨 We're hiring! If you're excited about 🤖 ML/LLMs, 🧠 cognitive science, or 💭 computational psychiatry, come join us in Munich. Two fully funded PhDs @www.helmholtz-munich.de: tailored mentorship, international vibe, lots of room to grow. 📅 May 16th 🔗 hcai-munich.com/PhDHCAI.pdf

🧠 Keeping LLMs factually up to date is a common motivation for knowledge editing. But what would it actually take to support this in practice at the scale and speed the real world demands? We explore this question and really push the limits of lifelong knowledge editing in the wild. 👇

very happy to be presenting this at @cosynemeeting.bsky.social

Very grateful to be part of this.

Check out our review on generalization in humans and machines.

When we built the first cognitive foundation model, people said "it's only doing predictions". Here, we are working towards a foundation model of cognitive modeling. We want a tool that can make a useful guess as to what cognitive model, written in python code, could fit the inputted data.

Check out our new work on assessing the limits of finetuning in improving VLMs reasoning abilities.

BAMB! is happening again in 2025. Learn how to model your behavioural data, next to the beach in Barcelona! keynotes this year from @athenaakrami.bsky.social and Peter Dayan.

I've taken @arkrause.bsky.social's course on Probabilistic AI and @jonhue.bsky.social's script remains the most carefully written set of course notes I've encountered during my studies. Glad to see it released to the public! :)

Excited to see our review paper out in Annual Reviews. This paper nicely summarizes years of collaborative efforts working on Gaussian Process based theories of generalization, from function learning over developmental differences to compositionality.

What tech company will be the first to stand up and say that gutting the NSF is bad actually? The economic argument seems pretty clear Less NSF --> fewer PhD students --> fewer researchers --> smaller AI tech pipeline --> slower progress --> less competitive globally

If I study anxiety via threat-biased attention, the word "biased" gets me flagged. You can't design a study of humans without using at least one of the terms on the banned list, which means that biomedical, brain, social science research is now on ice in the USA

Ever wondered why only some memories 🧠 come easily? Our latest work (osf.io/preprints/ps...) led by S. Haridi, with @ericschulz.bsky.social, shows that targeted memory retrieval speeds up with precise semantic and temporal retrieval cues. Hence, crafting cues can give you instant access to memories⚡