It isn't easy following science as a career path. Our series of personal essays, published on the last page of Science, aim to shed light on the challenges scientists face and, hopefully, help others feel less alone. Here are @science.org's top essays of the year. www.science.org/content/arti...

Multidisciplinary training, over time, produces the highest impact people www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Excited to announce a new book telling the story of mathematical approaches to studying the mind, from the origins of cognitive science to modern AI! The Laws of Thought will be published in February and is available for pre-order now.

If you analyse time-resolved data (M/EEG, iEEG, pupillometry, force recordings…) and feel limited by cluster-based permutation tests (CBPTs); especially when trying to determine when an effect starts or ends; you may want to try our new R package: lnalborczyk.github.io/neurogam/ #rstats #brms #EEG

Prediction: task-based optimization will ultimately prove to have a relatively minor role in DNN models of the ventral stream. Although tasks (including self-supervised ones) are currently crucial, there are signs that a simpler approach is possible. A thread:

“Why AGI Will Not Happen” by Tim Dettmers. timdettmers.com/2025/12/10/w... This essay is worth reading. Discusses diminishing returns (and risks) of scaling. The contrast between West and East: “Winner takes all” approach of building the biggest thing vs a long-term focus on practicality.

Excited to announce our symposium on how AI and humans shape each other “Humans and Artificial Minds: Mutual Influences” 9 Jan at ENS Paris. Talks by @smfleming.bsky.social, Valeria Giardino, Silvia Tulli, @thecharleywu.bsky.social, Laurence Devillers & @summerfieldlab.bsky.social . Program ↓

We recently stumbled upon a surprisingly common misunderstanding in computing noise ceilings that can be quite consequential. So if you care about noise ceilings, please check out Sander’s thread and our preprint! 👇

New today in @Nature: your visual cortex contains touch-based body maps. bit.ly/VisualBodyMaps Your brain transforms what you see into first-person, body-referenced codes: A previously unknown bridge between vision and touch.

New work with @simyciri.bsky.social. Adults make more accurate decisions than adolescents—yet show more intrusion from irrelevant players. We explain this paradox via efficient information compression: adults rely on combinatorial social basis functions that use group structure as a mental scaffold.

Y’all are reading this paper in the wrong way. We love to trash dominant hypothesis, but we need to look for evidence against the manifold hypothesis elsewhere: This elegant work doesn't show neural dynamics are high D, nor that we should stop using PCA It’s quite the opposite! (thread)

Émission frustrante. Soyons clairs: La psychanalyse : - ne fait pas progresser les enfants - s’appuie sur un fatras de chimères théoriques (œdipe, castration, jeux de mots Lacaniens) qu’on a encore entendues ce soir - conduit trop de CMPP à culpabiliser les parents au lieu de les outiller

Numerosity Is Directly Sensed and Dynamically Transformed in the Human Brain: Evidence from MEG-MRI Fusion https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.15.687894v1

Noise ceilings are really useful: You can estimate the reliability of your data and get an index of how well your model can possibly perform given the noise in the data. But, contrary to what you may think, noise ceilings do not provide an absolute index of data quality. Let's dive into why. 🧵

I’m looking for interns to join our lab for a project on foundation models in neuroscience. Funded by @ivado.bsky.social and in collaboration with the IVADO regroupement 1 (AI and Neuroscience: ivado.ca/en/regroupem...). Interested? See the details in the comments. (1/3) 🧠🤖

I think “Academia = papers” vs. “Science = helping society” is too simplistic. Science isn’t always about direct utility; sometimes its value is understanding itself. And academia isn’t defined by papers — that’s just the current incentive system.

An exciting opportunity to work with @martinhebart.bsky.social

Pleased to share new work with @sflippl.bsky.social @eberleoliver.bsky.social @thomasmcgee.bsky.social & undergrad interns at Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, UCLA. Algorithmic Primitives and Compositional Geometry of Reasoning in Language Models www.arxiv.org/pdf/2510.15987 🧵1/n

When does new learning interfere with existing knowledge in people and ANNs? Great to have this out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com Work with @summerfieldlab.bsky.social, @tsonj.bsky.social, Lukas Braun and Jan Grohn www.nature.com/articles/s41...

For your enjoyment (by @jagarikin)

From ancient Greece to the Arabic golden age, scholars have been driven by their curiosity to investigate astronomy, history, philosophy, and sundry other disciplines. Is there a structure to that curiosity? Are astronomers as likely to also be historians or to also be philosophers?

📣 Apply now for the 🌵CaCTüS 3-month fully funded internship in Germany in 2026! Work on ML, theor. neuroscience, computational psychiatry, behavioral experiments or data analysis at a top institution in Tübingen. For students facing barriers in higher education. 👉 cactus-internship.tuebingen.mpg.de

Ten Simple Rules for AI-Assisted Coding in Science arxiv.org/abs/2510.22254 - our latest, led by @ericwbridgeford.bsky.social

🚨Preprint: Semantic Tuning of Single Neurons in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe 1/8: How do human neurons encode meaning? In this work, led by Katharina Karkowski, we recorded hundreds of human MTL neurons to study semantic coding in the human brain: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

I am close to tears; they listened and made an english version apache.be/2025/10/24/b... @apache.be you rule 🖤

How does our brain excel at complex object recognition, yet get fooled by simple illusory contours? What unifying principle governs all Gestalt laws of perceptual organization? We may have an answer: integration of learned priors through feedback. New paper with @kenmiller.bsky.social! 🧵

Please enjoy my series of essays on the subtle distinction between the game-theoretic concepts of tactics and strategies. www.infinitelymore.xyz/t/tactic #InfinitelyMore

Interesting PhD positions in AI & ML with the ELLIS–Max Planck AI Network. Potential opportunities for interdisciplinary projects bridging AI and neuroscience.

Variance partitioning is used to quantify the overlap of two models. Over the years, I have found that this can be a very confusing and misleading concept. So we finally we decided to write a short blog to explain why. @martinhebart.bsky.social @gallantlab.org diedrichsenlab.org/BrainDataSci...

I wanted to add some thoughts to this excellent blog post, not detailed, maybe wrong, maybe useful: 1. Unique variance is easy to interpret as a lower bound of what a variable explains (the upper bound being either what the variable explains alone or what the other variables cannot explain uniquely)

Dear scientists of BlueSky: Wouldn't it be great to learn how large language models work by running experiments on them and analyzing the data? Yeah, you can do that, and I'll show you how. mikexcohen.substack.com/s/ml-on-llms

I’m recruiting committee members for the Technical Program Committee at #CCN2026. Please apply if you want to help make submission, review & selection of contributed work (Extended Abstracts & Proceedings) more useful for everyone! 🌐 Helps to have: programming/communications/editorial experience.

Thrilled that #CCN2026 will be hosted at NYU! Having experienced an amazing summer school there last year, I know how inspiring the city is. It’s heartbreaking, though, that many brilliant Iranian students and researchers may be excluded due to the new travel restrictions.

Come and check out our poster at #CCN2025, presented by @tlmnhut.bsky.social

New preprint out! We propose that action is a key dimension shaping the topographic organization of object categories in lateral occipitotemporal cortex (LOTC)—and test whether standard and topographic neural networks capture this pattern. A thread: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 1/n

We’re very happy to share 3 highlights of our Brain and AI team for #CCN2025 's week: 1. 🏆1st place for the Algonauts competition: paper, thtread and code below 2.🗣Keynote: Language in the Brain: 2025.ccneuro.org/k-and-t-lang... 3. 🚀Tutorial: Scale your decoding pipeline in the notebook

Missed #CCN2025 this year, but still excited to share two works there! 1️⃣ From my PhD with @manpiazza.bsky.social — accepted in the CCN proceedings. My young collaborator @tlmnhut.bsky.social will be presenting it. It’s about numerosity representation in CNNs. 📄 tinyurl.com/yc2dyhm3

Excited to share our JNeurosci paper- featuring on the cover! The Representational Organization of Static and Dynamic Visual Features in the Human Cortex w/ Jianxin Wang, and Stefano Anzellotti Cover: www.jneurosci.org/content/45/28.cover-expansion Paper: www.jneurosci.org/content/45/28/e1164242025

A computational linguistics colleague needed to join the Center for Mind-Brain Sciences - Italy's leading cognitive neuroscience research unit. @cimecunitrento.bsky.social is located in Trentino, famous for its high quality of life in Italy. www.cimec.unitn.it/en/71/langua...

Looking for a Master internship and interested in timing the interplay between timing and hearing? 🔽 brainthemind.com/openings/

If you are in Paris on October 1-3 : we are organizing a fantastic cognitive neuroscience conference at Collège de France, on topics ranging from language to math, education and consciousness, with many of my favorite scientists ! Full program here: www.unicog.org/seeing-the-m...

New paper out in @commsbio.nature.com! @elicastaldi.bsky.social, Evelyn Eger, @manpiazza.bsky.social 🔢 We reveal how the brain represents numerosity across the entire visual system, from early visual areas to high-level association cortices. 👇 A thread 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s42...

🎉 New Chapter Published! 🧠 Title: Neurobiological underpinnings of developmental dyscalculia 👥 Authors: Paula A. Maldonado Moscoso, @alirezakr.bsky.social , @manpiazza.bsky.social #Neuroscience #CognitiveNeuroscience #LearningDisabilities #Dyscalculia

New article out featuring CIMeC researchers Alireza Karami and Manuela Piazza, in collaboration with Elisa Castaldi and Evelyn Eger! @alirezakr.bsky.social, @manpiazza.bsky.social Read more 👇🏻 www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-08395-z

This study reveals distinct neural codes for visual numerosity across the brain, showing that numerosity is independently represented from early visual areas to higher-level regions along both dorsal and ventral streams. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

🎉 New Chapter Published! 🧠 Title: Neurobiological underpinnings of developmental dyscalculia 👥 Authors: Paula A. Maldonado Moscoso, @alirezakr.bsky.social , @manpiazza.bsky.social #Neuroscience #CognitiveNeuroscience #LearningDisabilities #Dyscalculia

🔍 “Discovery isn’t just spotting patterns—it’s reframing them into new ideas.” In “What Counts as Discovery?”, Nisheeth Vishnoi argues that AI can fit data to existing models, but only humans make the true conceptual leap.

🧠🤖 We’re hiring a Postdoc in NeuroAI! Join CRC1233 "Robust Vision" (Uni Tübingen) to build benchmarks & evaluation methods for vision models, bridging brain & AI. Work with top faculty & shape vision research. Apply: tinyurl.com/3jtb4an6 #NeuroAI #Jobs

Three must read papers for PhD students. #scisky #PhD #science #research #academicsky 1. The importance of stupidity in scientific research Open Access journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...