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/...

But to your question about guidelines, this one from NIH could be useful

I'm starting to work on a new library, "clustrix" ( clustrix.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) to ease switching between local vs. remote execution in Python scripts, notebooks, etc. This has been a pain point for my group for a while!

What makes humans similar or different to AI? In a paper out in @natmachintell.nature.com led by @florianmahner.bsky.social & @lukasmut.bsky.social, w/ Umut Güclü, we took a deep look at the factors underlying their representational alignment, with surprising results. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

"Large [language] models should not be viewed primarily as intelligent agents but as a new kind of cultural and social technology, allowing humans to take advantage of information other humans have accumulated." henryfarrell.net/wp-content/u...

My take on Registered Reports in psychology: Without them: 🔹 Theories seem stronger than they are 🔹 Null results vanish 🔹 The replication crisis grows With them: ✅ We see what actually works ✅ Science gets honest ✅ Progress becomes real

New in LayNii v2.9.0: Introducing *LayNii IDA*, a high-performance tool for real-time interaction with ultra–high resolution MRI data. Built for speed, designed for discovery. Still early, but a big step toward the next era of 7T fMRI: higher resolution, larger datasets. github.com/layerfMRI/La...

Neuronal computation in the cerebellum via a vector calculus. Work of Mohammad Amin Fakharian, Alden Shoup, Paul Hage, and Hisham Elseweifi www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Inria is opening a Junior Professor Position (tenure track) at Saclay on the topic of Cognitive Computational Neuroscience. This junior professorship is part of the development of computational cognitive neuroscience within @univparissaclay.bsky.social #Neurospin @neuropsi.bsky.social and #inria

🚨Our Brain & AI team at Meta opens a new contingent worker position in US (or UK). If you have solid Python experience and/or a background in neuroimaging, you can apply at tinyurl.com/58cdam26 (We also have 1 postdoc and 1 research engineer position in Paris here: tinyurl.com/4mxn6ydb)

#neuroskyence people (maybe vision people in particular): how do you think information is "read out" from the visual system? Do downstream areas like PFC get to query anything from V1 to IT? Or just later areas? How plastic are these readouts? Etc. IMO this is always under constrained in modeling.

It is cool! 😄

Re-posting is appreciated: We have a fully funded PhD position in CMC lab @cmc-lab.bsky.social (at @tudresden_de). You can use forms.gle/qiAv5NZ871kv... to send your application and find more information. Deadline is April 30. Find more about CMC lab: cmclab.org and email me if you have questions.

A great position opening at NeuroSpin— with access to the world’s strongest human MRI, the Iseult 11.7 Tesla magnet!

Postdoctoral opening in my lab thanks to @erc.europa.eu SyG Chronology w/ wonderful @bathellierlab.bsky.social S. Ostojic & M. Jazayeri Interested in characterizing temporal cognitive maps in the human brain? 👇 brainthemind.com/wp-content/u... @unicog.bsky.social @cea-joliot.bsky.social

Proud to announce our primer on "Ten principles for reliable, efficient, and adaptable coding in psychology and cognitive neuroscience" www.nature.com/articles/s44... This primer is for beginners to get started, advanced programmers to improve, and PIs. #psychology #psychsci #cogsci #neuroskyence

Sam Clarke and I have been writing a lot about adaptation -- what it is, what it isn't, what it reveals about perception. We've just released a preprint that pushes the boundaries of adaptation even further. We document spatially selective adaptation to arbitrary *value*. philpapers.org/rec/CLACWS

This is an utterly amazing paper.

📢 We have a new #NeuroAI postdoctoral position in the lab! If you have a strong background in #NeuroAI or computational neuroscience, I’d love to hear from you. (Repost please) 🧠📈🤖

Don’t work on: Concentration inequalities (math) Interneuron diversity (neuro) Barrier functions (optimization) Thermodynamic equalities (physics) Community detection (stats) Biased estimators (stats) Marginalization in graphical models (math) Set inclusion (math) Traumatic brain injury (neuro)

Happy to announce that the Analytical Connectionism summer school is back! This year we'll dive into "bias" across ML, Neuroscience, and Psychology. 📆 Aug 25-Sep 5 🗺️ London, UK 🌐 www.analytical-connectionism.net/school/2025/ Applications are open!

Our work on Gender and the Developing Brain is going to be targeted

How do our brains generate predictive models of unfolding events? We're seeking for a *postdoc* to address this question in my lab: sites.google.com/site/moritzf...

🚨Job alert (Please RT) What: masters internship and/or PhD positions Where: Rothschild Foundation Hospital (Paris, France) Topic: AI and Neuroscience Supervised by: Pierre Bourdillon and myself Apply here: forms.gle/KKnea2QAjhAe... Deadline: Feb 5th

We use @godotengine.org to create Kalulu, an #opensource phonics app for kids worldwide! 🎮📚 Godot’s flexibility lets us build engaging games and deploy them globally—no licensing barriers. Passionate about evidence-based education? We’re hiring developers! [email protected] to join us! #EdTech

As academics, we spend much of our time on data analysis, writing code that allows us to analyze complex data patterns. As we are at the brink of AI getting better at programming than us, do you still incentivize your students to learn to write complex code from scratch? Or should the focus shift?

We’re hiring at Excello! Join our team at the Collège de France, working alongside @standehaene.bsky.social, to create education tools and drive research that transforms learning worldwide. Please share 📣 www.college-de-france.fr/en/news/data...

What do text-to-image models know about numbers? Find out in our new paper 🦎 "Evaluating Numerical Reasoning in text-to-image Models" to be presented at #NeurIPS2024 (Wed 4:30-7:30 PM, #5304). Dataset: github.com/google-deepm... (1386 prompts, 52,721 images, 479,570 annotations)

Insightful interview from @numcog.bsky.social: Maths education is deeply cultural, with no universal approach. Global methods like Singapore maths offer lessons, but teachers' autonomy and cultural context are irreplaceable. www.tes.com/magazine/tea...