I won an award! At this year's Dutch Psychonomic Society meeting @brain-cognition-nl.bsky.social I was awarded the dissertation prize for the best PhD thesis from the past two years. It was great fun and a huuuge honor!!

This afternoon at #nvp2025, I'll talk about how universities can retain autonomy in the face of big #AI tech, and why this is important. Join us at 16:00 for the panel on Scientific Responsibility! @anne-urai.bsky.social @brain-cognition-nl.bsky.social #psychology #science

Talking today about whether attention can modulate retinal activity, come join! 👁️ #nvp25

And for anyone looking to recruit a superstar post-doc 👉 @anavili.bsky.social 🏆 has just submitted her thesis and is on the lookout, mainly in the fields of #perception, #attention, #workingmemory, #pupillometry, #eyemovements! #nvp2025 #psychology

This afternoon at #nvp2025, an entire session on cognitive #pupillometry 👁️ with talks by @anavili.bsky.social , @cstrauch.bsky.social and others. See you at 👉 12:00! #psychology

Trots om in een van die stapeltjes te liggen!

On my way to #nvp2025, I see that my interview with BCN magazine is out! 😊 About Een Wereld vol Denkers, a book about cognition in the broadest sense! Full interview 👉 www.rug.nl/research/beh... @brain-cognition-nl.bsky.social @uitgeverijbalans.bsky.social #psychology #biology #AI

Such a wild plant. An agave with an inflorescence (densely packed flowers) of about three meters long (I could walk underneath), flowering one segment at time. In Madeira.

I am very happy to share that I was awarded an #ERCCoG grant to develop, test and share a new computational theory of rhythmic attentional sampling. Stay tuned for job openings! @erc.europa.eu @upcite.bsky.social

🧠🧠🧠 @cimecunitrento.bsky.social will soon open an MEG lab manager position! The ideal candidate is a previous postdoc/phd student with MEG experience and a title in physics, engineering, neuroscience, or psychology. Please spread the word and reach out to me if you are interested!

About cognition being much more than neural activity. And the role of the immune system as a sense of self. (Resonates with much of my own thinking in Een wereld vol denkers.) By @annaciaunica.bsky.social in @aeon.co aeon.co/essays/why-y... #psychology #filosofie #neuroscience

At ZPID we are searching for a tenure track assistant professor for Psychological Metascience in joint appointment with @unitrier.bsky.social preferably someone who has conducted quantitative research in metascience in psychology or related disciplines. Questions? Feel free to contact me personally.

This may be the best thing ive read yet on AI in higher ed, and its written by a Yale undergrad. Highly recommend.

Winkeldraadje van Het Wonderkabinet. Wat heb ik dit najaar te koop? Ik post alles hieronder zolang de webshop nog niet staat. Niet alles is op voorraad maar het meeste kan in opdracht (zolang de voorraad strekt en ik nog tijd heb). Graag een DM als je iets ziet en repost is lief!

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The latest version of Sigmund, the #AI #research assistant, is able to fully control the #OpenSesame interface. This allows you to build #psychology experiments entirely through conversation. This is no AI slop, but real functionality with real benefits! Tutorial 👉 osdoc.cogsci.nl/4.1/tutorial...

Denken is geen alles-of-nietskwestie, benadrukt cognitief neurowetenschapper Sebastiaan Mathôt. Dieren en planten doen het ook; bescheiden, of flexibeler. 'Intelligentie kun je niet in een paar woorden uitputtend definiëren. Het is een omschrijving van gedrag.’ www.filosofie.nl/neurowetensc...

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The latest version of Sigmund, the #AI #research assistant, is able to fully control the #OpenSesame interface. This allows you to build #psychology experiments entirely through conversation. This is no AI slop, but real functionality with real benefits! Tutorial 👉 osdoc.cogsci.nl/4.1/tutorial...

Afgelopen zomer ontmoette ik deze rups. Zou deze rups zich, eenmaal ontpopt tot #vlinder, nog kunnen herinneren dat hij ooit een rups was? 🐛🦋 Een fragment uit Een Wereld vol Denkers. #wetenschap #biologie #psychologie

Most of you know @suryagayet.bsky.social as a successful visual-attention researcher. But he also had an active #music career as a #rap artist. And like Jay-Z before him, he has briefly come out of retirement with a new album. Check it out—it's very good! 🎤🎶 open.spotify.com/album/7HrnAB...

My painting, Electrical Fields, is up for auction at the Bemis Center in Omaha tonight. Are you curious about my inspiration? Read more in the comments :) Preview the art e.givesmart.com/events/IQt/i... #bees #bumblebees #oilpainting #wildlifeart #bugart 🐡 #electromagnetics #magnetics #sunflowers

Hoe zou het zijn om door de ogen van een adelaar te kijken? 👁️🦅 Een fragment over waarneming uit Een Wereld vol Denkers www.suchwasnot.com #boeken #booksky #wetenschap #biologie #psychologie

Een wereld vol denkers getipt door Krant van de aarde 😊 www.krantvandeaarde.nl/boekentips-o... #boeken #wetenschap #biologie #psychologie

aeon.co/essays/scien... #science #philosophy @aeon.co

Een wereld vol denkers + recensie uitgelicht door NEMO! www.nemokennislink.nl/uitgelicht/u... #boeken #booksky #wetenschap #psychohologie #biologie

Is matter conscious? app.thenewworld.co.uk/story/144378...

@femkehalsema.bsky.social, u zou met afstand de beste kandidaat zijn voor het GroenLinks-PVDA-fractievoorzitterschap!

Een wereld vol denkers is al weken lang het best verkochte biologieboek op Bol! 🌍🐛🌿 ❤️ (En alle lijstjes waarop het veel lager staat doen er niet toe.) #biologie #boeken #booksky #wetenschap #psychologie #ai

Heymans is an #AI tool for #education to (among other things) grade open-ended exams. It also gives feedback on the quality of the exam, which lecturers can use to improve things. When used well, I believe the resulting quality of examination is exceptionally high. 💪

Een wereld vol denkers is al weken lang het best verkochte biologieboek op Bol! 🌍🐛🌿 ❤️ (En alle lijstjes waarop het veel lager staat doen er niet toe.) #biologie #boeken #booksky #wetenschap #psychologie #ai

We staan op het punt om de PVV te verslaan. Winst is binnen handbereik. Het is ontzettend spannend. En één ding is zeker: een stem op GroenLinks-PvdA is de enige garantie op een links en progressief kabinet.

"(...) Mathôt schrijft toegankelijk door herkenbare situaties op te voeren terwijl hij tegelijkertijd de lezer vraagt zijn ‘gewone’ denkkader te verbreden en nieuwe ideeën/inzichten toe te laten." 🤯 Boekenblogger MonalisaLeest over Een wereld vol denkers! monalisaleest.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/e...

Fantastic, beautiful footage of caterpillars 🐛🦋🌿 by Ant Lab youtu.be/aJNaDyHARNw?... HT @aeon.co #biology #insects

Still baffled about this. An #AI about the size of a bumblebee brain is able to reason with language. 🐝 🧠 🗣️

An #AI reasoning model with 135 million parameters. In other words, only 135m values are required to fluently speak and understand English *and* to reason about problems. This says a lot about how compact cognition can be.

NEMO Kennislink schrijft "Een wereld vol denkers van Sebastiaan Mathôt zit vol met fascinerende verhalen die aan elkaar geregen worden in een zoektocht naar bewustzijn." 😍 www.nemokennislink.nl/publicaties/... #wetenschap #boeken #psychologie #biologie #AI

Voor de dieren ❤️🐷🐮🐱

NEMO Kennislink schrijft "Een wereld vol denkers van Sebastiaan Mathôt zit vol met fascinerende verhalen die aan elkaar geregen worden in een zoektocht naar bewustzijn." 😍 www.nemokennislink.nl/publicaties/... #wetenschap #boeken #psychologie #biologie #AI

Onvredesverdrag #netanyahu #israël #genocide #palestijnen #gaza

We always tell students that they can use #AI, but should do so responsibly. Such cheap advice! What the hell does that even mean?! 🙀 Here's one concrete suggestion that I came up with. The idea is that students want two things: 1) good grades, 2) to learn something. (…)🧵1/4 #education

Red de #rechtsstAaat

"Perhaps we evolved to spend most of our lives asleep, in a plant-like vegetal state, waking only when necessary to satisfy essential, vital needs, and then regressing back to our ancestral, primal condition." By Vladyslav Vyazovskiy. aeon.co/essays/two-b... #psychology #sleep #science

This is 💙 Science & Fiction 💙 where scientific results & fictional stories intersect. A space for people who like to a) learn about #science & b) read exciting fictional stories ✨ 🇬🇧 www.scienceandfiction.net 🇩🇪 www.scienceandfiction.net/de Support: ko-fi.com/scienceandfi... #scicomm #wisskomm

Animal research is mostly hidden from view. I had never seen a video of Hubel and Wiesel's Nobel-winning experiments in which you could see the anesthetized cats. Valuable research, but it still feels different when you see what it takes. Source: whatisintelligence.antikythera.org/chapter-03/#...

Very few people make use of existing data as well as @dkoevoet.bsky.social. Here's another example 👇

@garymarcus.bsky.social argues for developing different, specialized AI tools for different domains, rather than hoping that one general artificial intelligence will be able to do everything. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/o... #AI

An interview with @ukrant.bsky.social about Heymans #AI, an #openaccess #AI #education tool that we're developing in-house at @rug.nl. Currently, we're focusing on two types of functionality. 👇https://ukrant.nl/magazine/your-exam-checked-by-a-bot-is-heymans-ai-the-future/?lang=en 🧵1/4

In 2018, Charles Murray challenged me to a bet: "We will understand IQ genetically—I think most of the picture will have been filled in by 2025—there will still be blanks—but we’ll know basically what’s going on." It's now 2025, and I claim a win. I write about it in The Atlantic.

A few chapters into What is Intelligence? by @blaiseaguera.bsky.social. So far a pretty interesting read. I was afraid it would ooze the hubris and lack of knowledge of psychology and neurosci that #AI technologists tend to suffer from. But ... #OpenAccess 👉 whatisintelligence.antikythera.org 1/2