"Ding and Li conclude that ChatGPT-4, at least, doesn’t have the necessary creative spark to notice and interpret anomalous results, or to ask surprising and important questions" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Preprint is now published: doi.org/10.1002/hbm.... Special thanks to co-authors @twktan.bsky.social @kimnganngt.bsky.social @csabaorban.bsky.social

In @nytopinion “When your country pursues abhorrent policies, when the face it turns to the world is the face of a monster, what does that say about you?” our columnist M. Gessen writes after speaking with Jewish Israeli dissidents.

I am looking for a post-doc working on behavioral/environmental/urban/energy economics to join my group at the University of Copenhagen. Position is 2 years (possibly 3), good salary, free health insurance, one of the most livable cities in the world. Apply here: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

The big article on data centers in the New Yorker is pretty good, which I wasn’t expecting given the reaction on X. Lots of talk of the good and bad of AI, and it covers both bubble & non-bubble arguments. It also featured the best version of “I spoke to a local farmer about a data center”

If you're a student in need of a personal website (and if you're doing research, yes, you need a website!), I keep a list of nice examples here, most of which are reusable: www.are.na/maria-antoni... For example, I just spotted this beautiful website by Catherine Yeh: github.com/catherinesye...

Pioneering social psychiatry research in the 1950s found that mental health is not affected by whether one lives in a city or in rural settings. But it failed to acknowledge other social contributors to mental illness: buff.ly/X5qXW9k

The Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Authority at the Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Authority is looking for an applied statistician with expertise in Bayesian statistics or causal inference statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/11/03/t...

We’re hiring a technician!! We’re an inclusive team of behavioral neuroscientists trying to discover the brain circuits of learning, decision making, and habit. More info👇 wassumlab.psych.ucla.edu/join-the-lab/ Job posting: jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/8968

"For older people whose brains have begun to show molecular signs of the disease, but who have yet to display any cognitive symptoms, taking as few as 3,000 to 5,000 steps per day can help to stave off mental decline, a study finds1." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“Universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically.”

Looking forward to presenting work on modeling the effects of nudging decisions about where to park your bicycle at the Applied Behavioral Science and Decision Making conference at IIT Mandi this weekend: decisionmaking.org.in/2025conferen...

Beautiful to see this special moment between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Marieke van Vugt at our recent Mind & Life Dialogue, "Minds, Artificial Intelligence, and Ethics" at Dharamsala, India!

1/🧵 Out today in @frontiersin.bsky.social : “Consciousness science: where are we, where are we going, and what if we get there?” By @axc.bsky.social @liadmudrik.bsky.social, & me (a CIFAR & @erc.europa.eu production 🧠). www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

"Artificial intelligence (AI) models are 50% more sycophantic than humans, an analysis published this month has found." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"Religious chatbots might be trained on scripture and dutifully quote verses, but they share the same bizarre hallucinations and shortcomings of other AIs" bbc.com/future/artic...

I'm excited to finally have a preprint of this paper up, a few years in the making. In it we argue that industry-driven manipulation of social media research is well underway and that norms and institutions in the field are ill-prepared to resist tech's influence. arxiv.org/abs/2510.19894

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com For many Americans, there might be a temptation to disbelieve the enormity of what has happened in Gaza, our columnist Lydia Polgreen writes. But, in discovering the true cost of war, “we might find that it’s even worse than we thought.”

“these techno-libertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect.” Yup.

Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.

#PhiMiSci published a new standalone article: In “What active inference still can’t do: The (frame) problem that just won’t go away”, Darius Parvizi-Wayne argues that both new and old attempts to solve the frame problem on the basis of the active inference framework are explanatorily inadequate.

1) that's highly illegal. 2) there's no proof the people in those boats are involved in the drug trade 3) in a bunch of cases those boats are not headed for the US 4) it's murder regardless.

If you're interested I think you can still register up to Monday the 27th on this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The session will be decomposed in a theoretical part and a hands-on session where participants will fit HMP models to simulated and real data and end with step-by-step recipes on how to apply what they learned on experimental data they collected (with some insider knowledge not written up yet)

Next week on Thursday at 2pm CET I will present a workshop at #practicalMEEG2025 @cuttingeeg.bsky.social on our Hidden multivariate pattern method (hmp.readthedocs.io/en/latest/we...). In this online workshop I'll show participants how they can estimate single-trial timing of cognitive events.

"the use of automated methods can at best be thought of as facilitating the systematic evaluation of the construct landscape and supporting transparent negotiation among stakeholders through structured dialogue."

We’re better than fear. We’re braver than billionaires. We’re bigger than ever. And we’re gonna win. #NoKings

Als het aan de BBB en VVD ligt, woont die jongen uit Aarle Rixtel over 20 jaar nog bij z’n ouders op zolder

I also had a very special meeting last week at the @mindandlife.bsky.social @mindandlifeeu.bsky.social dialogue on AI

So much fun hanging around these characters every day!

[PhD track in Cognitive Science at Département d'Études Cognitives, ENS-PSL] Applications are now open for the PSL PhD Track 2026–2027 in Cognitive Science! This 5-year integrated program is aimed at talented students eager to tackle the scientific challenges of the future and to start shaping 1/2

We (I and @willenjoy.bsky.social) created a toolbox for simulations of EEG/MEG because we needed to simulate data. Our initial aim was to simulate connectivity. For this short clip, I simulated two sources with phase connectivity using our toolbox. #brainmovie meegsim.readthedocs.io/en/stable/in...

OPEN PHD POSITION - Come join our group! The IMPRS at @mpi-nl.bsky.social is offering an PhD position on modelling structured meaning in the brain, supervised by me and Helen De Hoop at the Centre for Language Studies in the @dondersinst.bsky.social - www.mpi.nl/imprs-phd-fe... #NeuroJobs #cogsci

Looking for a PhD? Interested in cognitive computational neuroscience, motivation and decision-making? See our project listed in the BBSRC MIBTP competition for funding for a 4-year PhD in the @msnlab.bsky.social in the @thechbh.bsky.social. Deadline 27/11. More info: tinyurl.com/5d5vz8m7

Great points by @emilymbender.bsky.social on our meeting last week. It was also sad to hear the push for speed by quite a number of people present at the meeting. This trope that there is no time to lose and "we're missing the boat" only contributes more to the sloppy thinking about the tech

Public health is under attack by a deluge of misinformation. We offer a consensus report from the American Psychological Association summarizing what we know & what interventions are effective in countering it. We provide 8 concrete recommendations. Open-access - awspntest.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Can AI simulations of human research participants advance cognitive science? In @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social, @lmesseri.bsky.social & I analyze this vision. We show how “AI Surrogates” entrench practices that limit the generalizability of cognitive science while aspiring to do the opposite. 1/

I wrote an op-ed for the Washington Square News about the government's attempt to extort universities. nyunews.com/opinion/gues...

We built the openESM database: ▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place ▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software ▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python Find out more: 🌐 openesmdata.org 📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

TT faculty job opening in #Neuroscience! We are looking for a colleague to join us in our fantastic Biology Department and Neuroscience Program at Brandeis. We are a group of *very* collaborative, supportive, and productive scientists (& humans!) so please apply academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30961

Terrifying. An Associated Press investigation found more than 420 bills attacking longstanding public health protections such as vaccines, milk safety and fluoride have been introduced in statehouses across the US so far this year. Around 30 bills in 12 states have already been enacted or adopted.

"Along with subject knowledge, good supervision requires curiosity, empathy and reliability — being there for a student when needed. ...Time spent with the next generation of scientists is an investment." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"Siemens says that “the university sector has an unbelievably heavy responsibility to society to be a counter voice that shapes the way that AI is deployed in social and learning-related processes.”" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Sorry for the rather late notice, but if you can get to Amsterdam for Thursday/Friday this week I **strongly** recommend this one #AIEthics #philosophyOfAI

A measles outbreak along the border of Utah and Arizona has sickened more than 100 people. A majority of the cases are in unvaccinated people.

Good piece in @nature.com by Elizabeth Gibney on the @royalsociety.org Turing Test anniversary event. How did I not clock that Laurence Fishburne was in the crowd?? @garymarcus.bsky.social clear did :-) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I said it before and I'll say it again: Cognition is rhythmic Contents of visual predictions oscillate at alpha frequencies www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... #neuroscience

More journalists have been killed in Gaza than in any other conflict in history. The EIC at Reuters, Alessandra Galloni, joins us to reflect on the last two years of covering the war on Gaza. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/med...

There is a link between dreaming and memory consolidation. In this experiment, researchers put this theory to the test by recording dreams after #REM and #NREM sleep. academic.oup.com/sleep/articl...