I’m currently looking for full-time roles in Machine Learning, Data Science, or Computational Neuroscience. If you know of any relevant roles or teams hiring, I would greatly appreciate a connection. Portfolio: www.mkvarun.com #MachineLearning #DataScience #AI #JobSearch #NeuroJobs #STEMJobs

An inevitable consequence of AI peer reviewing is becoming reviewer #2, if you don’t use it Now you come off being the a-hole for not jumping on the “great paper, the world is full of beautiful rainbows, look at the amazing bees”* train *example as broad as some of these lame a$$ reviews 🤣🤣

Academia has this way of making you feel utterly unsuccessful even when by any reasonable standard you are doing just fine.

If you have only one thing to read today... "Universities are being retrofitted as fulfillment centers of cognitive convenience." www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

Oli Bridge, Huey Sun, Botond Branyicskai-Nagy, Charles D'Ornano, Shomit Basu Diminishing Returns in Self-Supervised Learning https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.03862

World models are a highly speculative topic in AI as well as in cognitive science. I’m excited to share my manuscript on investigating internal world models using imagination networks in humans and LLMs! 🧵1/n arxiv.org/abs/2510.04391

We know that a consensus of opinions is persuasive, but how reliable is this effect across people and types of consensus, and are there any kinds of claims where people care less about what other people think? This is what we tested in our new(ish) paper in @psychscience.bsky.social

Paper drop, for anyone interested in #metascience, #statistics, or #metaanalysis! @clintin.bsky.social and I show in a new paper in JASA that the P-curve, a popular forensic meta-analysis method, has deeply undesirable statistical properties. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/?

Josh Tenenbaum's inspiring keynote at #cogsci2025 on growing vs scaling AI, the big questions of cognitive science, and the many open questions for the field.

Xiaomin Li, Xupeng Chen, Jingxuan Fan, Eric Hanchen Jiang, Mingye Gao Multi-head Reward Aggregation Guided by Entropy https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.20995

Inspired by my reading this week, I wrote a list of the resources I think every cognitive science researcher should read/listen to about theory development. It's in this google.doc (feel free to add your own suggestions) and in the thread below. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

How does exercise and fitness promote healthy brain aging? An outstanding, comprehensive review @thelancet.bsky.social reduced neuroinflammmation, preserves blood-brain-barrier, neurogenesis, role of exerkines, and much more www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

I'm excited about this new analysis approach because we can now estimate when changes in strategy, goal choice, conflict etc. occur in open state spaces. Providing metrics for studies with patients & sec-sec metrics for upcoming fMRI data and existing iEEG data with Sea Hero Quest #neuroskyence

Nothing helps beat the pseudoscience label like humbly comparing your theory with no empirical support to the theory of general relativity 😂

We had a wonderful time at this workshop w/ @blackinneuro.bsky.social! If you missed seeing me & @shahana-ansari.bsky.social talk about how to give constructive & kind feedback on manuscripts, check out the recording – coming soon! Huge thanks to the @blackinneuro.bsky.social team for having us! ❤️

Funded PhD opportunity for AI-driven early detection of dementia using multimodal data supervised by my colleague and friend Qiang Liu. Cannot recommend him more highly, I co-supervise a PhD student with him and this is an absolute bomb of an opportunity www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Grant agency: "In the end, despite some initial enthusiasm, the panel was not convinced [...], and expected that the impact in the field is likely to be low." Despite evidence to the contrary, funding bodies remain confident they can predict the success of a project. elifesciences.org/articles/13323

I wish that I was able to convince the students in my class that the ultimate goal of science isn't accumulation of facts but the compression of facts into theories. Mel summarizes it well here: www.nature.com/articles/nn1... Unfortunately, I think this is a minority viewpoint within neuroscience.

Announcing the launch of the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: oecs.mit.edu! OECS is a freely-available, growing collection of peer-reviewed articles introducing key topics in cogsci to a broad audience of students and scholars.

How do we make choices when our options change over time? In a new paper with @lazyneuron.bsky.social & Andy Fitch, just accepted at Psych Review, we explore "alternative-general" representations of evidence that allow us to make good decisions even when our options shift. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Hey, let’s become colleagues! Dr. Siobhan Schabrun is looking for 2 postdocs. Join our lab where we study the neural & biological underpinnings of pain. TMS, EEG, fMRI, multiomics, you name it!

I am delighted that I’ll be joining Boston University’s dept. of psychological and brain sciences as an assistant professor in July 2025! I’ll be recruiting Ph.D. students and hiring a lab manager to start alongside me — see here for more info: katenuss.com/lab 🧠👩‍🔬💻

When "tech" meant faster computers and smaller phones, it was exciting, you wanted to know what they were going to come up with next. Now it's a bunch of assholes trying to figure out new ways to charge you a subscription to look at the shittiest ads you can imagine

Biggest ever survey of trans Americans finds 94% happier after transition

modern society is so divorced from our food sources that most people who eat pop tarts have never actually killed one themselves

See: Canada has failed to act on this momentum (best I can tell). Grad student stipends in 🇨🇦 haven't changed for 20 years. Like... literally zero inflation-adjustment. As a 🇨🇦 expat, I can't even dream of returning to run a competitive lab... #AcademicSky #CanadaPoli www.nature.com/articles/d41....

@saurabhr.bsky.social's first paper from my lab is now in press! Using behavior, machine learning, and computational modeling, he found that during a reality monitoring task, subjects have an "externalization bias" to report imagined memories as perceived. tinyurl.com/bdzjwzhn

Hello! Do you like *free* things that are *boring* for most people, but *interesting* for a few? Then maybe you'd like a copy of my book *Modeling Scientific Communities* - downloadable from Cambridge for the next two weeks- www.cambridge.org/core/element...

quick q for universities that require you to sign up to a website to submit your letter of rec: (1) how dare you

Applying to grad school? Our awesome newest member of the social area, Lindsey Rodriguez, is taking grad students! Lindsey studies substance use & close relationships. Check out more of her work here, and spread the word! people.clas.ufl.edu/lmrodriguez/

The talk recordings from the "Causality in Minds and Machines" workshop are live now. sites.google.com/view/causali... Thanks again to all the speakers and to the Society for Mathematical Psychology for sponsoring the workshop!

Latest pre-print from the lab. Rosa Rossi-Goldthorpe dissects paranoia from other delusions, computationally, via Kamin Blocking data osf.io/preprints/ps...

This paper where we develop mathematical & computational models of science, and look at how epistemically homogeneous vs. diverse populations discover, innovate, replicate is a career favorite. I'm delighted every time I read it. Remains massively underappreciated. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

2 assistant professor positions at Maastricht University (The Netherlands) in: 1 fMRI research of human cognition: bit.ly/47bgJ9r 2 data analysis and modeling of cognitive neuroscience data: bit.ly/3QEi2bv Application deadline Nov. 19th

𝗗𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗼-𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗺! How deep is the brain? The shallow brain hypothesis www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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